CIA Seeks Probe of White House – I remember the mainstream news not picking up on this earlier (ahh, permalinks would be useful)… I’ve found it interesting how easily distracted and lazy the media has been on covering these types of major, serious wrongs by the the administration (compare to the ridiculous bruhaha’s surrounding Clinton). In my book, compromising national security, walking over the bill of rights, destroying our international good will relations, and the budget are far worse than getting a blowjob, but what do I know?

Syncato is quite interesting, and in many ways reflects some of my thoughts on using and re-using XML fragments.

• Questions: (how) does Syncato take XML (tree-based) and allow graph-like representation
• Sam Ruby’s Xpath enabled Query, expanding on javaslash’s xpath and blojsom querying

Bionic Office – Joel Splosky talks about designing spaces for maximizing programmer productivity – I know that I could be at least 5x more productive in a better environment.

Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic music hits v2.0. Pretty hot.

• Daniel Hsia’s shorts – some clever 10s films (oh, and “How To Do The Asian Squat“, which is quite funny)
• Bernard Chang’s short films – he used to draw Valiant comics!
• Nimpsy – Buster Slims
• Ruben Fleischer
• BEAM.TV: Radiohead – Go To Sleep

He walked the line that Bush does not – comparing and contrasting Johnny Cash’s Christianity vs Dubya’s.

Suzanne Fields wants us to think that George W. Bush is just like Johnny Cash, but the difference between the two is as great as the difference between pride and humility, between white and black.

Celebrity Turing Test – In which a rock star visits his own forum, but neglects to bring a valid I.D.

aptitude – looks better than dselect; also, apparently has minesweeper built-in

Looks like Soekris et al have some new high-power competition w/ the new Nano-ITX boards if the price is decent…

Electronic paper reaches video speed – Diamond Age here we come!