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Even the New York Times can make mistakes.

In yesterday’s issue, The New York Times did not report on riots in Milan and the subsequent murder of the lay religious reformer Erlembald. These events took place in 1075, the year given in the dateline under the nameplate on Page 1. The Times regrets both incidents.

— New York Times, March 11, 1975

Is your sex life too boring?

A Call to Arson: more good information on the attempted shutdown of ‘net radio. There’s also a longer, more polished (but not as pretty) writeup here.

I’m not normally much of a gun person at all. Somehow, though — I think I could have a lot of fun with a rubberband gatling gun.

Following up on one of yesterday’s bits: after people started pointing out that there didn’t seem to be an airplane in the released shots of the Pentagon 9/11 attack, some new photos have been released. It’s a little difficult to see, as they’re from a security camera some distance away, but some enterprising online people have put together some helpful pages. Aren’t conspiracy theories fun? :D

I think GoogleWhack could entertain me for hours.

Y’know, I was pretty curious about this when the photographs of the Pentagon’s 9/11 attack started hitting the media. Considering that a Boeing 757 slammed into the side of the building…there just didn’t seem to be much in the way of airplane debris around there. It’s good to know I wasn’t the only one to notice this.

Certainly, faith in God has often been linked to patriotism in the US through the pledge of allegiance, which contains the words “I pledge allegiance to the flag…one nation under God.” But God is, in fact, a relative newcomer to the pledge and was only included in it because of a right-wing religious lobby’s efforts during the McCarthyite era.

Read the rest of the article here….

Another political cartoon is causing an uproar — there’s an excellent editorial here examining the cartoon in question and the motivations behind it.

More interesting Googlebomb bits: apparently the Church of Scientology figured out how to use it to their advantage. Some bloggers are working on combating this.