MIT Tech. Review: Saving Lives with Living Machines:
Hybrid devices that are part machine, part living cells, offer new hope to patients for whom purely artificial treatments like dialysis aren’t good enough.

iAbolish: SLAVE RAID ALERT: Free 5-year-old Nyanpal Nyuot

voice4change.org: Tell Your Representative to Overturn the FCC's Rollback of Media Ownership Rules! Urge them to support H.R. 2052

Voice4change.org: Tell your Senators to stop Bechtel's war profiteering.

TrueMajority: Last Minute Deal Eliminates Tax Credits for Poor Kids So Millionaires Can Have Bigger Tax Cuts. Urge Congress to Undo This Immoral Act

ActForChange: Investigate Partisan Abuse of Homeland Security Agency

Common Cause: Tell Congress to overturn the FCC's decision to remove barriers to corporate consolidation of control over the US media. A company may now own as many as three television stations, eight radio stations, a daily newspaper and a cable operator in the largest cities.

UnionVoice.org: Tell your rep to oppose H.R. 1119, which would allow employers to substitute comp time for overtime pay when workers put in extra hours.

I finally got around to seeing "A Beautiful Mind" -- pretty good movie, but I kept hoping for a twist ending, where...

• Nash wakes up in a Siberian gulag, and we realize that he really was a spy, and that Dr. Rosen really was a Russian agent, and the whole schizophrenia-and-recovery story was itself a delusion resulting from dastardly MKULTRA-style mind-control experiments, OR...
• we see William Parcher being strapped to the gurney in the mental hospital, while Dr. Rosen explains to him that there is no such person as John Nash, OR...
• old John and Alicia are asleep in bed; lights are off; camera zooms in on Alicia's forearm; we see a reddish glow beneath it; she turns over and we see her digital implant, OR...
• autumn leaves are falling as freshmen arrive at Princeton; camera slowly pans up to the top of Nash's old dormitory, where we see Charles Herman and Marcee Herman standing on the roof, gazing down intently over the battlements at the eager young minds below...

voice4change.org: Appoint a Special Prosecutor to investigate the Bush Administration:

Did George Bush purposely lie to us during the State of the Union? Did the Administration mislead Congress? Are Intelligence Officers being forced to file cooked up reports to support the policies of the Bush Administration?

Petition Gunnar Berge, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Prize Institute Committee, to reject the nomination of Bush and Blair for the Nobel Peace Prize:

Harald T. Nesvik, a Right-wing Norwegian Member of Parliament, has nominated U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair and U.S. President George W. Bush for the Nobel Peace Prize for their "decisive action against terrorism".

Bill of Rights Defense Committee: Ask your Congressperson to cosponsor the Freedom to Read Protection Act, HR 1157:

To protect libraries, bookstores, and their patrons, Congressman Sanders has introduced HR 1157: the "Freedom to Read Protection Act of 2003." This bill, which has the support of the American Library Association and the American Booksellers Association, would reinstate legal standards which were in place for libraries and bookstores before the passage of the USA Patriot Act. Combined, these organizations represent tens of thousands of individual librarians and booksellers in every part of the country who have serious concerns about this section of the USA Patriot Act. In addition, this bill would increase Congressional oversight over the use of Section 215.

Environmental Defense: Tell EPA to fight air pollution from diesel machines.