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Fishing net catches Russian rescue submarine.

Michael S. Marone reads the Technorati tea leaves, sees big changes ahead:

Advertisers are finally drifting over from old media. And venture capitalists may actually finally be awakening to the investment opportunities presented by the blogosphere. The first generation of industry superstars (like Glenn Reynolds, Andrew Sullivan and James Lileks) have already emerged. And you can be certain that obsessive blog-surfing will soon be announced as the next great threat to productivity and family life.

Just as importantly, blogging has become an international phenomenon, with many of the new arrivals in the field coming from outside the United States and Europe. The technology is also beginning to morph, becoming more visual and, thanks to new toolkits, easier to join. But perhaps most important, the blogosphere is becoming the defining source of news analysis (and even the news itself) for the world's intellectual classes.

I'm still waiting for some of those advertisers to drift over my direction.

Syria and Iran got it from John Bolton and the UN Security Council:

Casting his first vote as U.N. ambassador, John Bolton joined the rest of the Security Council Thursday in condemning terrorism in Iraq. He then set his sights on Syria and Iran — accusing them of not doing enough to stop foreigners from joining the insurgency.

Donald Rumsfeld joined the Syria-warning party:

"(Syria is) going to have to live in that neighborhood and Iraq doesn't like what Syria's doing," Rumsfeld said in a question-and-answer session following his speech to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

"Iraq is going to be in that neighborhood for a very long time. It's a bigger country and a richer country and will be a more powerful country," he said. "(In my view) the Syrians are not behaving in a wise manner at the present time."

The heat is being turned up on Syria and Iran, the two primary instigators of continuing violence in Iraq.

A task force begins meeting in Missouri to discuss reforming eminent domain laws, in the wake of the Supreme Court's Kelo v. New London decision.

Gov. Matt Blunt appointed the task force on June 28, five days after the Supreme Court upheld the condemnation of 15 properties in New London, Conn. That city is trying to make way for a private development including a marina, new residences and shops aimed at economic revitalization.

An NBC News story reports that Iran is apparently smuggling roadside bombs into Iraq.

Intelligence officials believe the high-explosives were shipped into Iraq by the Iranian Revolutionary guard or the terrorist group Hezbollah, but are convinced it could not have happened without the full consent of the Iranian government.

The only way out of this whole terrorism mess may be to go forward. I don't think going back is an option.

#10: Mommy, there's a python under our dishwasher
#9: A day in network security
#8: Bolton finds your lack of faith . . . disturbing
#7: Mozilla goes corporate
#6: Red Sox 8, Royals 5
#5: NASA finally realizes the Space Shuttle is an X-plane
#4: Beta blockers may suppress memory
#3: The gloating of the blogosphere
#2: Koreans clone dog
#1: Don't believe everything you see on the Internet

Latest case: Greenlighting.

Greenlighting was a roughly three-day-long attempted internet hoax launched by Something Awful users on the evening of July 2, 2005, primarily as references to the greenlighter message board or as postings on said board. The hoax referred to a new sexual practice in which men and women wore green shirts with the collars turned up, and had sexual relations with whomever turned the collars down. In truth, no such sexual practice has taken place on any notable scale. The practice was invented in an attempt to imitate the success of the Toothing hoax of 2004.

Previously on "Don't believe everything you see on the Internet:" Toothing.

Toothing is a media hoax which claimed that Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones or PDAs were being used to arrange sexual encounters.

It appears that toothing started around March 2004, in the form of a fake forum designed by Ste Curran, then Editor at Large at games magazine Edge. On April 4, 2005, the creator of the forum admitted that the whole thing was a hoax.

Toothing was described as the possibility to leverage the ability of a Bluetooth device to 'discover' other enabled devices within a radius of around 30 feet (10 meters). Having discovered another device, the expression toothing? would normally be sent as an initial greeting.

Amusingly, "toothing" was apparently shown on a CSI Miami episode. As if I need another reason to dislike the CSI/Law & Order TV show genre.

Speaking of reasons, story via Reason's Hit and Run

Snuppy puppy.

Woo Suk Hwang of Seoul National University in South Korea cloned two Afghan hounds using the method that produced Dolly the sheep.

Environmental Republican is entertained by the Ohio Congressional special election results:

Paul Hackett--a former Marine in Iraq--ran in the special election in Ohio for the House. Mr. Hackett appealed to the mainstream of his party by calling President Bush a "son of a *censored*" among other classy things. He stuck with this strategy until he figured out that it wouldn't work. Once that reality hit him, he decided to use that "son of a *censored*" Bush in his final, strongly Republican-looking ad.

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By my count, this makes Kos zero for sixteen when backing candidates. If I was a Democrat running in an election, the first thing I would do is call Kos and ask him to never mention my name on his site.

Via Little Green Footballs, who applies the term "Daily Kos Kiss Of Death" to the above noted phenomenon.

BBC story muses about the ethics of using memory suppression drugs to treat Tube bombing victims.

Studies have shown that rats who have learned to fear a tone followed by an electric shock lose that fear if propranolol is administered after the tone starts.

via Reason's Hit and Run.