Today's Links
Timely: The Art of Propaganda: Nationalistic Themes in the Art of North Korea - a picture gallery. Amazing.
Google's quest for world domination continues: Google Maps [requires Firefox - Safari isn't supported yet] is in beta. Here's a guy who's examined the service and how it works.
White House sponsored correspondent Jeff Gannon quits after exposure by Bloggers. Seems he can add pornographer to his list of dubious accomplishments.
Panoramas.dk has a fullscreen QTVR of the Apollo moon landings. Awesome.
flickr graph 'is an application that explores the social relationships inside flickr.com"
The State of Virginia is thinking about making it an offense to wear low-riding pants - i.e. those that expose 'the crack'o'yo'ass' or, failing that, your rhinestone encrusted thong. Whither the plumber's crack?
The Baby Name Wizard - check the progress of your name over the past 100 years. Neat!
Organic HTML - make a flower out of a URL address.
Ananaova reports: In an apparent attempt to deny the reality of their situation, a German zoo is importing female penguins from Sweden (the Swedish penguin volleyball team?) to tempt their gay penguins to go straight. We haven't even settled the issue with our own species and we're starting on the animal kingdom? Sheesh. Get used to it!
Director Roman Polanski has won the right to give evidence in his libel case against Vanity Fair magazine via a video link, to avoid extradition to the US where he is STILL wanted on an outstanding child sex offense.