New York Times: Federal auditors said today that the Bush administration had violated the law by purchasing favorable news coverage of President Bush's education policies, by making payments to the conservative commentator Armstrong Williams and by hiring a public relations company to analyze media perceptions of the Republican Party.

Two words:

Kazuhiko Kawahara does interesting photo manipulations.

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Canon EOS 5D beginning to ship in Europe, Canada

OMG! OMG! OMG!

Washington Post: A Texas grand jury today indicted Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) on a criminal count of conspiring with two political associates to violate state campaign finance law, and DeLay announced he would temporarily step down as House majority leader.

Oooh -- National Geographic has some photos of the giant squid. Is it weird that it makes me hungry?

What the fuck is wrong with these companies dropping Kate Moss after "discovering" that she was snorting cocaine?

What kind of asinine, duplicitous hypocrisy is this? What on Earth did these fearful people at H&M, Chanel, and Burberry think was going on? This kind of manufactured outrage makes me sick.

Imagine living in an insipid world where your livelihood depends on something as intangible as beauty and as ephemeral as youth. Imagine what an upside down, value deficient crowd that is. Living life as a coat hanger surrounded by sycophants.

I'd get stoned.

Shame on you bastards at H&M, Chanel, and Burberry for enabling that world then acting shocked when someone snaps a photo of it.

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The fifth NYC Photobloggers meet up is happening this Friday at 7:00 pm in the Apple Store SoHo.

I'll be there. Come say hello.

New York Times: Bush Urges Conservation as Retail Gas Prices Rise

Finally, and act of something resembling leadership. Asking Americans to conserve, to share in the pain of what Katrina and Rita did to the Gulf Coast. So much better than urging us to go shopping.

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A wild blog by a guy who traveled back to New Orleans to help his mother handle Katrina's damage. Read it back to front. Good stuff.

Whine Parade

Apple should recall the nano!

I'm going to give Apple a piece of my mind!

My nano never touched anything, but somehow got scratched!

Nano not as good as a Nokia 6100!

It is the Chinese!

It was designed to scratch.

A cotton hoodie scratched it!

Only handled with uncalloused hands!

iPod nano: not as good as a prosthetic.

I carry my nano nude.

The web is clearly the best forum ever created for whining and pointless conversation.

"APPLE DESIGNED THE NANO TO SCRATCH EASILY. PERIOD. HOW COULD THEY HAVE NOT? IT'S NOT LIKE SCRATCHLESS DISPLAYS ARE SOMEHOW TECHNOLOGICALLY IMPOSSIBLE."

This is from an Apple Computer message board talking about the new iPod nano.

Idiots like this are why I don't read newsgroups, mailing lists, or forums any more. Malcontented morons like this, hiding behind anonymity, railing at the world. It is a scratch conspiracy, I tell you.

Too much noise; too little signal.