 - The Riff: The Christmas Wars MMVIII: Attack of the Atheists
 Nov 17, 12:46pm  (3 reviews) atheist, christmas, ad-campaign http://www.motherjones.com/riff_blog/arc...- Points up the pro-atheist group American Humanist Association new add campaign centered around Christmas.
- Welsh Road Sign Features Email Auto-Reply Instead of Correct Translation...
- Nov 3, 6:06am
 (1 review) humor, translation, wales http://gadgets.blogs2k.com/2008/11/03/we... - A new twist on the translation errors stories. Also a commentary on the British relationship to their road signs.
- Bizarre | New Gadgets and Gizmos
- Nov 3, 6:02am (1 review) bizarre, alarm-clock http://gadgets.blogs2k.com/tag/bizarre/
- Alarm Clock gadget for those who find it hard to get up. Clever and it sounds effective.
- Archelogy | ZME Science
- Oct 30, 11:39am (1 review) science, popular-science http://www.zmescience.com/category/scien...
- Archeology articles in a science-oriented site. Nice source for a number of popular science information.
- Protect Planet Ocean
- Oct 23, 2:23pm (1 review) science, marine-biology, oceans, marine-reserve http://www.protectplanetocean.org/
- Marine Protection site which includes ocean/underwater photos, a google-earth view of any location, and links to Marine Protection news, events, blogs, facts.
- The New York Times & Log In
- Oct 22, 12:35pm (1 review) evolution, science, fossils http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/16/scienc...
- News story about the analysis of a fish fossil found which may be in the line of fish-to-land evolution.
- MotherJones Blog: Maybe Nothing is Wrong With Kansas
- Oct 20, 5:01pm (1 review) politics, democrat, working-class, values-voters http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/arch...
- Blog on why the 'working class' seems to have abandoned the Democrats, which seems to be contrary to their interest. References a New Yorker and a Slate article.
- Niyaz: From Iran To India To Los Angeles : NPR Music
- Oct 12, 9:04am (1 review) music, iran, indian, electronic http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story...
- NPR article with audio links of musical group Niyaz, an Iranian/Indian group with sufi influences. Electronic sounds; I like it very much.
- Kevin Drum - Mother Jones Blog: Debate Liveblogging — VP Edition
- Oct 4, 7:32pm (1 review) politics, debate, biden, palin http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/20...
- Review (from a cranky liberal) of the US vice presidential 'debate' held recently.
- Flight of the Diplomats
- Sep 26, 4:06pm (2 reviews) political-science, state-department http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/...
- Conditions in the U.S. State Department, in particular for the foreign assignments, diplomat retention, and budgets. The 'sole superpower' is loosing its experienced diplomats, the only ones which can present and represent this superpower to the rest of the world.
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