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These are my undigested internests for April 15th through April 21st:

• Sense of smell makes flies’ time fly – health – 20 April 2010 – New Scientist – Could smells affect your lifespan? Female fruit flies deprived of the ability to smell food outlive their peers. The sense of smell may be linked to the cellular ageing process in many other organisms – even people.
• Canada’s military chief in Afghanistan ‘fired rifle in air base’ – Telegraph – Canada's senior military commander in Afghanistan has ordered an investigation into himself after he accidentally fired his rifle while loading it at an air base.
• The World’s Ugliest Statues – By Joshua Keating | Foreign Policy – They are ugly.
• The False Religion of Mideast Peace: And Why I’m No Longer a Believer – By Aaron David Miller | Foreign Policy – Etymologists tell us that the word "religion" may come from the Latin root religare, meaning to adhere or bind. It's a wonderful derivation. In both its secular and religious manifestations, faith is alluring and seductive precisely because it's driven by propositions that bind or adhere the believer to a compelling set of ideas that satisfy rationally or spiritually, but always obligate.
• When Situations Not Personality Dictate Our Behaviour | PsyBlog – A fundamental mistake we often make when judging other people is assuming that their behaviour mainly reflects their personality. Unfortunately this ignores another major influence on how people behave staring us right in the face: the situation.
• Tim Wise rips apart racist Neo-Confederate mythology « The Marxist-Leninist – I really like Tim Wise.
• Man Unable To Wear Nice Clothes Without Everyone Asking Questions | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source – Tell me about it.

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These are my undigested internests for April 13th through April 15th:

• Steve Jobs’ iPad Pays Homage To Gutenberg’s Printing Press – It's a bit premature to draw any parallels if you ask me.
• Palin sets rules of engagement for Hamilton fundraiser – thestar.com – No jeans . . . no cameras . . . no recording devices . . . no questions . . . a rumoured $100,000 speaking fee
• Check the Hype — There’s No Such Thing As ‘Cyber’ | Threat Level | Wired.com – How can you tell the difference between a real report about online vulnerabilities and someone who is trying to scare you about the security of the internet because they have an agenda, such as landing lucrative, secret contracts from the government?
• final fashion » just a thought – fashionabubble – I'm in agreement here.
• Reporters Sans Frontières – Reporters Without Borders is making a new version of its Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents available to bloggers today to mark Online Free Expression Day.

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These are my undigested internests for April 9th through April 12th:

• McLaren & Meyer & Rotten & Vicious & me – Roger Ebert’s Journal – "I need you out here," Russ Meyer told me on the phone in 1977. It was 6 a.m. He could not conceive that I might still be asleep. "Have you ever heard of the Sex Pistols?"
• Chimps reject unfairness to their fellows – life – 12 April 2010 – New Scientist – CHIMPS recognise unfairness, even when it involves individuals other than themselves. This sense of unfairness towards others may be a rudimentary form of the social justice that characterises human societies.
• The New Despotism – Robert A. Nisbet – Mises Institute – We may have in mind the ideal of equality that the monastery or family represents, but what we will get in actual fact in the modern state is the kind of equality that goes with uniformity and homogeneity — above all, with war society.
• iPranged a submarine | The Sun |News – Multitasking might be a bit overrated. "A US nuclear sub rammed another ship causing nearly £60MILLION damage – while its navigator was listening to his iPod."
• Why are anarchists in favour of equality? – Infoshop News – Anarchists are dedicated to social equality because it is the only context in which individual liberty can flourish. However, there has been much nonsense written about "equality," and much of what is commonly believed about it is very strange indeed. Before discussing what anarchist do mean by equality, we have to indicate what we do not mean by it.
• Futility Infielder • AROUND THE BASES – I'd say this piece about Malcolm McLaren is about right.

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These are my undigested internests for April 5th through April 8th:

• Up from Slavery – Reason Magazine – "Has there ever been a golden age of liberty? No, and there never will be. There will always be people who want to live their lives in peace, and there will always be people who want to exploit them or impose their own ideas on others"
• What To Do If You’re The First Human To Ever Make Contact With Aliens – Aliens – io9 – "Check out this exhaustive guide, covering how to behave if you're the first human to come in contact with an alien. Handy tips include: "First things first, hold the @!&#;$ still."
• Warren Ellis: On space travel – "I am writing this in the wake of the announcement — entirely expected — that US government funding for Nasa's human space flight initiatives has been cancelled, and any American progress in that area will now be turned over to private enterprise. And if you think that this is a good idea, just ask yourself how reliable your local rail service has been since deregulation."
• Chris Hedges: How the Corporations Broke Ralph Nader and America, Too – Chris Hedges’ Columns – Truthdig – Ralph Nader’s descent from being one of the most respected and powerful men in the country to being a pariah illustrates the totality of the corporate coup.
• Take It to the Limit – Opinionator Blog – NYTimes.com – In the coming weeks we’ll delve into the great ideas at the heart of calculus. But for now I’d like to begin with the first beautiful hints of them, visible in ancient calculations about circles and pi.

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These are my undigested internests for March 9th through April 3rd:

• Rise of Hungary’s far-Right Jobbik party stirs disturbing echoes of the 1940s – Telegraph – As Hungary prepares to vote in a crucial election, the far-Right Jobbik party expects great success – to the consternation of democrats and those old enough to remember the fascist past.
• t r u t h o u t | Welcome to Glennbeckistan – What if the Tea Party ruled? Imagine a land, let's call it Glennbeckistan, where white, patriarchal, religiously zealous, Tea Party-type patriots hold a super-majority in both houses of the legislature, sit in the governor's mansion, and control most local governments. It's a place so out of sync with the rest of the nation that states' rights and even secession are always on the agenda. It's a place where gun-ownership trumps all other rights, climate change is considered an insidious socialist conspiracy, and a miscarriage can be investigated as a potential crime. Welcome to Utah.
• French bread spiked with LSD in CIA experiment – Telegraph – A 50-year mystery over the 'cursed bread' of Pont-Saint-Esprit, which left residents suffering hallucinations, has been solved after a writer discovered the US had spiked the bread with LSD as part of an experiment.
• Global Guerrillas: JOURNAL: Scott Atran, Terrorists, and Global Guerrillas – Individuals now mostly radicalize horizontally with their peers, rather than vertically through institutional leaders or organizational hierarchies. They do so mostly in small groups of friends — from the same neighborhood or social network — or even as loners who find common cause with a virtual internet community.
• The Five Varieties of Bad Political Thinking – Reason Magazine – “You start by reading your horoscope in the newspaper; then you dabble in chakra balancing or feng shui, saying that it is important to keep an open mind; after a while your mind is so open that your brains fall out, and you read the Protocols of the Elders of Zion without noticing anything amiss.”

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These are my undigested internests for February 19th through March 8th:

• Mercenaries Circling Haiti | CommonDreams.org – On March 9 and 10, there will be a Haiti conference in Miami for private military and security companies to showcase their services to governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working in the earthquake devastated country.
• Make it Faust | Avenue – As a poet, radio show host, novelist and activist, Malcolm Azania has made this city his studio, and become a well-known icon. But what drives the so-called sinister minister Faust?
• BBC News – Nicolas Sarkozy admits Rwanda genocide ‘mistakes’ – I don’t think these were mistakes- Murder and lies is more like it. “Rwanda accuses France of training and arming the Hutu extremists who killed some 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus – a charge denied by Paris.”
• Cheney: “I Was A Big Supporter Of Waterboarding” – The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan – Cheney confesses on television to a war crime. Who cares?

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These are my undigested internests for February 17th through February 19th:

• Left Behind – The sad truth is everything we are seeing we have already seen. Despite presidents who come and go, permanent war is a hallowed American institution. Start if you will with the War of 1812, the invasion of Mexico, and the carnage of a Civil War. Move to the mass murder of Native Americans and theft of their property, the killing, torture, and prison camps in the Philippines, then the blood-drenched 20th century. The 21st likewise dawns red. It never changes. Doves protest, hawks rule, ordinary people pay the penalty. All wars are “just.”
• Stereotyping People by Their Favorite Author (by Lauren Leto) – I like stereotypes and I like authors so . . .
• Print Roger Ebert: The Essential Man – It has been nearly four years since Roger Ebert lost his lower jaw and his ability to speak. Now television’s most famous movie critic is rarely seen and never heard, but his words have never stopped.
• Dirk Hayhurst Article About His Shoulder Injury -

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These are my undigested internets for February 17th from 12:30 to 18:45:

• Brainwashed by a parasite « Neurophilosophy – The spores of the fungus attach themselves to the external surface of the ant, where they germinate. They then enter the ant’s body through the tracheae (the tubes through which insects breathe), via holes in the exoskeleton called spiracles. Fine fungal filaments called mycelia then start to grow inside the ant’s body cavity, absorbing the host’s soft tissues but avoiding its vital organs.
• Parasite Makes Ants Resemble Berries – Fruit pickers beware. That red berry might actually be an infested ant’s rear end.
• Philip K Dick’s FBI file and the bizarre story of a neo-Nazi plot to start a Third World War | Technoccult – “Undoubtedly, one of the prime reasons why Dick attracted attention from the FBI was a series of bizarre letters he penned to the Bureau in the early 1970s, in which he described his personal knowledge of an alleged underground Nazi cabal that was attempting to covertly manipulate science fiction writers to further advance its hidden cause.”
• Evo Morales launches ‘Coca Colla’ – Telegraph – Evo Morales, Bolivia’s first indigenous president and known for chewing coca leaves at UN meetings, has launched a drink featuring the leaf called “Coca Colla”.

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These are my undigested internets for February 9th through February 17th:

• spring-training-the-40s-and-50s?xid=liferss from life.com – StumbleUpon – Spring has almost sprung.
• Please Rob Me – Uses twitter to list all the empty homes in your area.
• The House of David – “The House of David was a Michigan-based religious commune that was founded in 1903. Members of the House of David had to obstain from eating meat, sexual intercourse and shaving/haircuts. Ten years after its inception, the commune formed a barnstorming baseball team originally known as “The Israelite House of David.””
• Fuck you, Google « Fugitivus – I second that. They blew any goodwill I had towards them too.
• Johnny Ryan’s BLECKY YUCKERELLA – 02/04/10 – I just don’t know.

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These are my undigested internests for February 4th through February 8th:

• The Canadian Press: AP source says US investigating whether officials of Blackwater sought to bribe Iraqis – WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether security contractor Blackwater Worldwide tried to bribe Iraqi officials to allow the company to keep working there after a fatal shooting involving Blackwater guards, according to a person close to the investigation.
• Use of Twitter, Facebook rising among gang members – Boston.com – Tech-savvy gangsters have long been at home in chatrooms and on Web sites like MySpace, but they appear to be gravitating toward Twitter and Facebook, where they can make threats, boast about crimes, share intelligence on rivals and network with people across the country.
• Хуясе КОТИК (PHOTO) – 15 Февраля 2007 – Здесь всё что Вам нужно! – You just need to look at this.
• Google to enlist NSA to help it ward off cyberattacks – Google and the NSA, sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G . . .
• Glenn Greenwald – Salon.com – The president can now order the assassination of Americans without trials or any of that nonsense. Change?” Here we are, almost four years later with a new party in power, and the President’s top intelligence official announces — without any real controversy — that the President claims the power to assassinate American citizens with no charges, no trials, no judicial oversight of any kind.”