1. We have a new Munchkin Policy, ma’am.
2. Wanna have a baby girl? Move next to the chemical plant in Ontario.
3. Cow power NOW!
4. Stuck in Tallahassee after Katrina? We’ve got football now, get the fuck out of the hotel. (reg maybe required, use bugmenot)

1. Desktop wallpaper images of WHO?!?!
2. Song for New Orleans, from Lone Justice, 1983: After the Flood. (mp3, 3.4 meg) Do not click if you do not like sentimental country-rock.
3. The official poverty rate in the U.S. is now up to 12.7 percent. The real figure may be more like 18%.
4. If you need anything from ACME, look no further than here.
5. A good chunk of scientific publication is wrong. Makes sense, science isn’t about one shining true paper. But the number is a bit crazy.

1. LOL ITS TEH ANTI CANCER PASTE!
2. At least someone at the HuffPo doesn’t like Deepak Chopra.
3. Oh dear, it’s the Mississippi River Flood Gauges.
4. If I dug straight down from here, where would I surface on the other side?

The Fall’s Hex Enduction Hour, which I recently got the re-release of, is even better than I remembered it. If you own just one Fall album, make it this one. And now, links:

1. Pac Man on Trial (via waxy)
2. Dog owner bites man.
3. AAAIIIIGH! Cannibal squid!
4. The “official car” of the Rolling Stones tour is the new Mercedes-Benz luxury minivan. Just retire, guys.
5. Country singer tries to get away with promoting America’s childhood drug abuse gateway drug. Thanks, Gretchen!
6. Jon Stewart versus Christopher Hitchens (quicktime).
7. Nutcase Turkmenistan dictator sends his book into space.
8. The Los Angeles Fire Department has some good information and advice about that “ICE” cellphone emergency contact thing you keep hearing about.

1. The Marines are attempting to resuscitate helicopters that have been out of service for a decade. maineiac_eric, tell us: is this a GOOD idea?
2. UbiquityWatch: The next ads to annoy you will arrive on your phone from a billboard.
3. If you leave your laptop Bluetooth on, you may be announcing its availability to thieves. (via Schneier’s blog)
4. Welcome back to the hot new gadgets of 1985. My boss in 1986 had one of those ridiculous luggable phones.

1. The “Minutemen” in Houston are “observing” day laborers while armed. Their co-founder thinks this is a bad idea, and has resigned from the group anyway because of racism.
2. This cat lost approximately 7.5 lives, I think.
3. It’s not just Navy SEALs. Oompa-Loompas have imposters too, and they’re dealt with harshly.
4. FiestaWatch for pbd and odradak: A cracking car for WRC!

1. In 1966, this board game showed girls what kind of careers to get.
2. WFMU presents This Week in Sex: Meat!
3. DoomWatch: Indonesian polio epidemic threatens Asia.
4. Homeland Security orders Jules Verne Future Weapon.
5. UbiquityWatch: Ads now on water coolers, prescription bags.
6. Cory Doctorow is shocked to find out that counterfeit CDs are not distributed by organized crime. Cory, get a clue. The real CDs are distributed by organized crime.
7. It’s not smart to be a violent, thieving asshole clown, even at Burning Man.

1. The Atkins thing is fading, so get your MEATZA while you can.
2. Your social movement is called WHAT? Oh, okay, you’re just trying to sell a book.
3. BONKED BY AN ORCA!
4. I want my lightning death ray blaster gun now!
5. When car tuner culture goes bad worse
6. Neologism watch: “masstige“.
7. Celebrity portraits in a new medium!
8. Wait… Burger King is being sued by… SLIPKNOT?

1. The Black Panthers did in fact create a coloring book, and then the FBI made it even worse. (via The Nonist).
2. Kids! Do not play the passing out game. Is the spirit of Bill Burroughs haunting Lawrence?
3. We’re so fat, we can’t have air safety life vests any more.