Best of the Web

May 10

15A speed comparison of the latest Opera 9.50 snapshot and Firefox 3 6Science News / Sensitivity To The Harmony Of Things 25A former Atlanta police officer testified Thursday that narcotics officers routinely lied under oath when seeking search warrants — a practice that led to police killing a 92-year-old woman. 14Charles Barkley pulls a Ron Burgundy 15Canadian company says Taser not properly researched and is not safe 6First Release Candidate of Wine 1.0 Released 15Oh, no. Oh no, oh no, oh no. eBay is trying to acquire Craigslist. 16The Emergency Party Button, instant party in your room at the push of a button 13softlyforgotten: in memory of what we used to call 'in love' 20Another Bank Fails: ANB Financial 19Jaikoo Poor mans CDN 7She's Excited, Why Aren't You? [pic] 17Three’s Company Or Three’s A Crowd? Google To Launch “Friend Connect” On Monday 17Oliver Steele's Git Workflow 12McCain's pastor problems resurface with Rev. Hagee 15Monsanto is trying to patent the pig 19You’re Just Not Meant To Leave Some Facebook Groups [Pic] 14EnigmaCurry » Emacs as a powerful Python IDE 25(story) Why Hawaii Isn't That Great Anymore 2047+ Excellent Ajax CSS Forms 26The most extraordinary mathematician of the 20th century celebrated his 80th birthday, crazy and alone 17"Back To My Mac" Catches a Thief 9The Rise and Fall of a Porn King 15Stanley Kubrick homage 26Bush signs S.1858 ; American citizens are now officially exposed to genetic testing, surveillance and research without their knowledge or consent [PDF] 10Steven Segal Emotion Chart [pics] 23Microsoft IM Blocking YouTube Links Finally, I understand how Chromosones, RNA and DNA fit together... 24Microsoft Prefers Flash To Silverlight 20NVIDIA GeForce To Quadro Soft-Mod Guide 12git Archives: as promised, docs: git for the confused 15What if we'd been on the gold standard? 11Google Japan Blog: Google モバイル検索についてのウェブマスター向け情報 brand tags 11Mother-in-law's tongue How the world's oceans are running out of fish 21Keep More Cash: Clear Those Financial Hurdles | Advice and Know-How | Reader's Digest 23You say inVitro meat, yuck. But eat deep fried meat slurry, corn and chemicals. It is called chicken nuggets 18That Must Be Bob. I Hear His New Hip Squeaking. 20Judge rules that Jamie Leigh Jones will get her day in court. No binding arbitration for gang-rape. 13Gmail As Open-Relay Spam Server 20Op-Ed Columnist: Seeds of Destruction 28Treadmill kittens 18http://tinydb.org/ 15The Bigot in your Brain 17NPR Science Friday Explains the Memristor (podcast) 8Did Someone Forget Something? [PIC] 19A Guardian Angel In Your Cell Phone 2Interior Paint Calculator 1Top 25 Most Visited Tourist Destinations in America 20Computer Game's High Score Could Earn The Nobel Prize In Medicine 13Ain't Eccentricity Great! 20Spain claims $500 million in sunken treasure 10What do you know? _Seth's Blog 11Top 25 Most Visited Tourist Destinations in America 22Single mother fired for giving away a 16-cent Timbit to a customer's fussy child gets her job back. 20Camera Hacks: Turn Your Point-and-Shoot into a Super-Camera 18Gas Prices Send Surge of Riders to Mass Transit 31Iraqi government demand Blackwater’s ouster from the country. US repsonse: business as usual 13250 lb. cop arrests a 115 lb. woman for jaywalking. During the arrest the cop breaks her arm, and the city of San Francisco has to pay her $235,000. Nice police work there Lou. 10Fork Art [7 PICS] 11UnixCommandLineKungFu - Fullscreen 20Lyrics and Mp3 Search Engine | DesMp3.com 17Lost ancient city of Marhashi found in Iran - Claims 17Solar Power goes to Extremes for 5cents per Watt 241,000 Ancient Tombs, Unique Remains Found in Colombia 21A Funhouse Floating in a Korean Spa 22Generators are Iterators [Oleg] 12Music Issue | Cultured Traveler: An Indie Scene That Comes With a Texas Twang in Denton 18McCain caught in a really awkward and obvious lie - great attack ad material 20Author Faces Canadian Tribunal For Hate Speech 13Subliminal? Who's That Hiding In My Fox 5 News Logo? 18MSN Messenger blocks youtube.com links! 18YouTube - Treadmill Kittens [PIC] Clinton is not too happy. 17Ancient Seaweed Tells of Earliest Americans 20For First Time, More Superdelegates Favor Obama 7Continuations and delimited control 16Filipino whose wife died after blunder by NHS to be deported from U.K. 19A Billion-Color Display 16YouTube - Apple Mac Music Video 17I Can Haz LOLCATS ??!!1!!?? 31My Wife Is Not At Home (Pic.) 11Yuuguu. See together. Be together. 12"My daughter deserved to die for falling in love" 17A Game worthwhile playing ! 34 Citigroup to shed $400bn assets 16Did You Know... More Than 25% of US Congress Members Had A Hand In Iraq War's "Profits"? 12GANGSTAGRASS 6NVIDIA GeForce To Quadro Software Mod 10What Happens When the art IS life? 13Climate Models Overheat Computer analyses of global climate have consistently overstated warming in Antarctica 14Time Magazine calls for invasion of Myanmar. CNN features on front page 1Confessions 2Overwhelmed [Pic] Anatomy of Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) 1Space History Footage In HD The Most Elegant Programming Language 21Dad gets 6-months in jail after 18-year old daughter fails to get GED 18In a soft mumble, Simpson told him: "If she hadn't opened that door with a knife in her hand ... she'd still be alive." 18The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder 13Library and Information Science: A Guide to Online Resources 13Microsoft pressuring vendors to limit the hardware capabilities of low-cost laptops so that they don't eat into the market for mainstream PCs running Vista 7Entrepreneurial Proverbs - O'Reilly Radar 18NASA Will Man Destruct Switch Just In Case 10How to Water Your Lawn Efficiently - wikiHow Bush signs unconstitutional "power grab" presidential directives NSPD51 and HSPD20, giving him full-dictatorial powers in the event of a loosely defined "catastrophic emergency." Sub-prime crisis - simple summarization 14Creating great thumbnails in ASP.NET 22You’ve Seen the YouTube Video; Now Try the Documentary 16Your brain has a mind of its own – and it’s not even always yours. 15"A government that can without trial destroy you by simply putting on a list your name is a tyranny. A government that feels free to murder people in any country it chooses is a tyranny." 1513 terrific movies that broke film's rigid storyline conventions 10BREAKING: Republican congressman has an affair with a Lady! McCain Chief quits over ties to Burmese Junta. Jeez. 24BioShock Movie to be Made by Universal 24The world's rarest big cat. 26Some plastic has been found to cause obesity, early puberty, prostate and breast cancers as well as neural and behavioural effects in fetuses, infants and children. 19Ka-Booom! Speed Racer bombs in its debut weekend: $140 million film will be lucky to make $18 million this weekend 21Five Thousand Euro Electric Open Source Car Catches VWs Attention 11Remember the Woman who alleges she got raped by Haliburton goons? The judge says her case can go forward. 17No "brand" is worthy of trust, trust is for individuals, not companies 16Canadian PM Harper Says Criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic and is similar to the attitude of Nazi Germany in the Second World War 21The OS X desktop as music video - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) 2The house-price bust has a long way to go 18☛ you DO NOT want to click this link ☚ 26Rejecting Authority at Police State Checkpoint [vid] 12Emergency Party Button 8WWII eastern front - Dramatic photos - Military Photos 7Rapidshare [Pic] 18YouTube - Treadmill Kittens 19Illegal Farm Workers Get Health Care in Shadows 12GLI Press: Review: 13 Rule-Breaking Films 17Op-Ed Columnist: Mother’s Day Scandal NETTUTS - Web development tutorials and links - How To Create A ‘Mootools Homepage’ Inspired Navigation Effect Using jQuery 16OPEC Pumps 31.87 Million Barrels per Day of Crude Oil in April, Down 350,000 b/d 18Microsoft Decides To Take On Linux On Low-Cost PCs 15"Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy." --Henry Kissinger 19Copy an MP3, lose your house (VIDEO) 21WWII Eastern Front - Dramatic Photos 3http://i31.tinypic.com/wvrex2.jpg 15Opera earns major performance improvements with profile-guided optimizations 27MPX to be merged into the main X tree this month 11Music Issue: Rockin' the Casbah Now we know why those Myanmar generals didn't want the UN to distribute aid 14How many people will check the dictionary after this? (Comic) 5Google Custom Search Engine Damnit reddit, you just creeped out all the girls that were thinking about joining. 15Gas Prices Send Surge of Riders to Mass Transit 12The Clintons should be ashamed of themselves for deliberately trying to wreck the presidential prospects of their party’s likely nominee. 15"Image Not Found" Heiroglyphic?? 14Does your brain have a mind of its own? - Los Angeles Times 17Driving While Distracted More Dangerous Than Supposed 913 Year Old Steals Dad's Credit Card to Buy Hookers