Best use of Flash I've ever seen.

Bush Finds Money to Give Every Kid Health Insurance and Head Start, Then Gives It To The Rich. Tell Congress to Say No.

MidEastLog -- a weblog from an American in Baghdad.

WashingtonPost.com: Q&A with Chris Hedges, author of 'War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning'

Infoshop News - 800 missiles to hit Iraq in first 48 hours. So much for Bush's claim to have no quarrel with the Iraqi people.

Infoshop News - 'Does Tony [Blair] Have Any Idea What the Flies are Like That Feed Off the Dead?', by Robert Fisk

60 Volunteers Leave London, To Put Their Lives On The Line To Save Iraqi Civilians

MoveOn.org: Help air the "Let the Inspections Work" ad (aka the "Daisy" ad) during the Super Bowl

Hacking the genome: from Expanding the genetic code--TSRI scientists synthesize 21-amino-acid bacterium:

"We have effectively removed a billion-year constraint on our ability to manipulate the structure and function of proteins"

A timeline of upcoming Peace Events -- Nationally and in Massachusetts

PROTEST FOR PEACE AT YOUR LOCAL GAS STATION -- INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION TUESDAY FEBRUARY 4th

A positive write-up about ProgressiveSecretary.org in Utne Reader

The FBI has a new way of tracking terrorists.

American Friends Service Committe: Iraq Donation Appeal: Health Kits

Must read: My House Is Killing Me! The Home Guide for Families With Allergies and Asthma by Jeffrey C. May

There's where I want to live! You know, in a nice, friendly MMPOG. Or... maybe I'd rather hang out in dark alleys, beneath gleaming towers and the incandescent, hypnotic glow of glooming streetlights, under scorching twin suns far into the arid desert, on the outer fringes of the known universe.

Must see: PSYCHEDELIC SCI-FI CULT (SOON TO BE) CLASSIC, "Candy Von Dewd and the Girls from Latexploitia"! Best enjoyed in a fur-lined theater, but you can watch the trailer here.

AlterNet: Tell Bush You Oppose the War. Call 202-456-1111, from 9am to 5pm, Eastern Standard Time, Monday through Friday, and when the operator comes on, simply say "I oppose".

From Norwegian Hacker, 19, Is Acquitted in DVD Piracy Case:

"The court finds that someone who buys a DVD film that has been legally produced has legal access to the film [...] even if the films are played in a different way than the makers had foreseen."

Yeah, man! Take that, MPAA!

New Zealand News: 'Human shield' peace activists mobilise for Iraq

September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows delegation visiting Iraq January 5-14, 2003

Location Earth Dog Tags come with an Alien Abduction Money Back Guarantee:

Should you ever be abducted by aliens while wearing Location Earth Dog Tags and not returned safely to Earth you will be entitled to a full refund of the purchase price.

Personally, though, I prefer organic data memory using the DNA approach:

For very long-term storage and retrieval, encode information as artificial DNA strands and insert into living hosts. As vectors, bacteria, even some bugs and weeds, might be good for hundreds of millions of years.

Update: DRCNet: NJ Weedman to Get Day in Federal Court After Months in Jail for Thought Crime

Are you listed in a police database as a member of a "criminal extremist" group? I just hope they spell my name right.

unionvoice.org: Take Action: Tell Rep. Tom Delay to extend unemployment benefits and leave no jobless worker behind.

Must read: The Psychology of War : Comprehending Its Mystique and Its Madness, by Lawrence LeShan

From washingtonpost.com: U.S. Had Key Role in Iraq Buildup -- Trade in Chemical Arms Allowed Despite Their Use on Iranians, Kurds:

On Nov. 1, 1983, a senior State Department official, Jonathan T. Howe, told Secretary of State George P. Shultz that intelligence reports showed that Iraqi troops were resorting to "almost daily use of CW [chemical weapons]" against the Iranians. But the Reagan administration had already committed itself to a large-scale diplomatic and political overture to Baghdad, culminating in several visits by the president's recently appointed special envoy to the Middle East, Donald H. Rumsfeld.

Secret talking points prepared for the first Rumsfeld visit to Baghdad enshrined some of the language from NSDD 114, including the statement that the United States would regard "any major reversal of Iraq's fortunes as a strategic defeat for the West." When Rumsfeld finally met with Hussein on Dec. 20 [1983], he told the Iraqi leader that Washington was ready for a resumption of full diplomatic relations, according to a State Department report of the conversation. Iraqi leaders later described themselves as "extremely pleased" with the Rumsfeld visit, which had "elevated U.S.-Iraqi relations to a new level."