Given recent history, it's nearly impossible to avoid some cynicism about this: "when will the other shoe drop?" "election year pandering!" and so on... but I prefer to suspend such thoughts for the moment, and savor some of the first good environmental news in years. Onward to the Wild Sky and others...

Quoted: President Bush today will create the world's largest marine protected area, a total of 140,000 square miles of Pacific Ocean surrounding a necklace of islands and atolls that stretch from the main Hawaiian Islands to Midway Atoll and beyond, senior administration officials said.

Priceless.

A weapon "making enemy soldiers sexually irresistible to each other... provoking widespread homosexual behavior" - rejected? Awwww...

Quoted: The earth pukes fire and breaks apart. Its oceans dispatch tsunamis, and the heavens, oh the heavens, churn like an intestinal disorder, flinging skyscrapers of water upon the coasts. Winds and floods scrape the land clean of buildings, bridges, and people

Interesting article on how distributed security may be achieved, in a general sense.

Google Maps, ASCII style.

Worst...president...ever.

Quoted: Flashback: Bush in '99 -- We Warned You! George W. Bush's presidency appears headed for colossal historical disgrace. Barring a cataclysmic event on the order of the terrorist attacks of September 11th, after which the public might rally around the White House once again, there seems to be little the administration can do to avoid being ranked on the lowest tier of U.S. presidents. And that...

Dorkiest application ever.

Actually hilarious parody.