World Nature Photography Awards

Gorgeous.

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Countdown Special Comment on FISA

President Bush is a liar.

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Bush admin shuts down Web site tracking U.S. economic data

Forbes has awarded EconomicIndicators.gov one of its “Best of the Web” awards for compiling data across govt agencies and making it publicly accessible. But as of March 1, the Bush admin has announced that it is shutting down this site due to "budgetary constraints."

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Putting the president above the law

Despite the head of the CIA conceding waterboarding is probably illegal, Cheney made it clear Bush would reauthorize waterboarding whenever he wanted.

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Only in Japan

Dr. Slump Handy Soft Poop for Good Luck. Poop is considered quite lucky in Japan, because the word for it, unchi, sound similar to the word for good luck, unki. Here's a pair of really cute pink colored "poop" toys from that classic bellwether of good taste, the Dr. Slump anime.

Current mood: Productive

"We have brought to Iraq the worst of America"

In a confidential memo, a long-time Republican, Manuel Miranda, who has served in the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad for the past year, says the State Department's efforts in Iraq are so poorly managed they "would be considered willfully negligent if not criminal" if done in the private sector.

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Rockford, Ill.

Small-town Illinois

It's hard to tell in this picture, but the snow is coming down diagonally.

Add Banff to the list of places to visit before I die

Peyto Lake (pea-toe) is a glacier-fed lake located in Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies. During the summer, significant amounts of glacial rock flour flow into the lake, and these suspended rock particles give the lake a bright, turquoise color.

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Expendability

Guess who's not coming back.

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Ridiculous snowstorm at O'Hare

Conveyor-belt sushi

Tampa

The weather outside is frightful

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It's cold and dreary outside, but I'm loving it. I saw snow -- well, more like dingy slush -- for the first time in years last night. I stomped my feet in it like a 4-year-old.

I can't remember the last time I've been in single-digit temperatures.

Growing up Asian-American

This is by a Chinese-American from California, but it pretty much sums up much of my social relationships in elementary school and perhaps gives you insight into how I can grow up in an (half) Asian household and yet not be able to speak Japanese.

Current mood: Pensive

Laugh

Wild effect in Tokyo Bay to market 'Water Horse' movie

In Tokyo, they used water fountains and lasers to project the huge monster from the new movie "The Water Horse."

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F*cking creepily narrated video of hornets attacking beehive

Best Print Ads of 2007

Collection of top print ads of 2007 from around the world

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Top 5 things I saw in America which, freaked me out

Top 5 things I saw in America which, as a Canadian, freaked me right out

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