Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

• The Story About the Toddler, Volume 1
• The FBI has recovered a valuable copy of the Bill of Rights that had been missing for 138 years (<tone=catty>but gosh, isn't that obsolete now?</tone>)
• A "beating the Devil" story that I'd heard a version of a long time ago, retold by pdcawley. I like this telling of it.
• Genetic switch for certain sexual behaviours in mice found. Doesn't seem to apply to humans, but we now know how to make bisexual mice.
• Short, shameful confession: I don't find this dress anywhere near as hideous as everyone else I've heard comment on it seems to. Outrageously cartoonish, yes. Not something I could see on the street or in an office or at most parties, but it'd be fun eye-candy at a science fiction convention! I actually like it.
• merde posted this utterly adorable filk
• I should probably at this T-shirt to my gift-wishlist.
• This article in Wired discusses port-scanning and using foreign computers as proxy servers in order to discover other countries' censorship policies. The fact that doing so constitutes unauthorized use of someone else's computer is reflected in the title of the piece, "Does the End Justify the Means?"
• There's no way I'm going to be able to get to Fantasm, but it does sound like a fun convention.

In no particular order, a batch of war-related, civil-rights, and otherwise political links, with some snippets of brief commentary:

One comment that I wanted to put above the lj-cut tag because I wanted to make it harder to overlook, is from the Salon article noted inside the lj-cut:

"The real danger to our liberty comes from politicians wanting to look like they are doing something in a time of crisis," said the ACLU's Edgar. "Unfortunately, it's inevitable that there will be politicians, including politicians in the Justice Department, who aren't really looking to make us safer but to take advantage of the situation."

Veering off in another direction entirely:

For fans of The Very Secret Diaries (LotR parody), here's The Very Secret Diary of George W. Bush by cygnusfap

therese19 collected what comics and late-night television hosts have been saying about Iraq.

This has gotten long, and I'm not sure when I'll have time to finish it, so I'll declare this "part one of 'n'" and post what I've got so far. I've still got a folder of bookmarks to go through.

Probably going to be a little distracted from LJ for the next few days. A friend whom I haven't seen in several years is visiting from California. This is a good thing.