The World's Number One Weekly Weblog - Issue 69 - Week of 04/14/2003 - Monday Edition
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 Current IWR Parodies
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• The Blob
  
   

• U.S. Military Nabs Key Iraqi Player
  
   

• SARS Hotline
  
   

• The Invisible Man
  
   

• Jug Ears
  
  
  

• Terrorist Abu Abbas Arrested at Subway's

He has quite an appetite.

• King James Version of the Bill of Rights
  
  

• Iraqi Information Minister to Marry Monica Lewinski
  
  

• Rummy's Magic Vase

• Saddam Hussein Spotted at the Damascus Starbucks (Updated)

He gives a brief interview to reporters.

• Attack of the 50 ft. Woman

• Iraqi Information Minister

• Republican Rep. Barbara Cubin's Easter Card
  
  

• Bush's Taped Message To Iraq
   

• Bush and Blair Rename Iraq

• Librarians Rounded Up In White House Sting Operation
   

• The Thief of Baghdad
  
  

• The Neo-Con Ten Commandments
  
  

• Dubya et al Horror Movie Posters 
   

• Ashcroft Shuts Down Parody Sites

<More>

The Week in Humor and Kitsch

• Masked wrestler wins assembly seat in Japan
  The Great Sasuke will wear his mask in the assembly.

Great Sasuke

• Lirty Dies: Maddam and Yubble-Doo
  Hysterically funny song by the Capitol Steps of Dubya Speak. [MP3]
   

• RummyCo
  A great animated satire at Rumsfeld's expense by Mark Fiore. [Flash]
   

• Looted Plumbing Fixtures are the New Official Iraqi Currency
  A timely satire by Andy Borowitz.
   

• CIA Radio 'raps' Saddam Hussein
  You think this was written by Rummy?
  
  "My days are finished and I will die - all I need is chilli fries."
   

• Weebl and Bob - Trim
  This is one of the best in the series.  Hang in there for the Hats for Clowns song. [Flash]
  
  

• The War’s Most Unusual Casualty
  Great and amusing article demonstrating what a useless self-obsessed fart-bag Bill O'Reilly really is.
   

• Jubilant Crowd Dismantles Statue of Bush
  Film at eleven.
   

• Candy Retailer Book (SP)
  Lots of poison electric candy from the 1940's remarkably preserved in this retailer book.

The Dentist's Friend

• Safe house or bachelor pad? Troops discover home of one of Saddam's hideaways
  Too weird.
   

• The Smoking Gun: Archive
  Talk about bad timing.
   

• The Stupid Store: Mr. T Chia Pet (GA)
  I always wanted on of these things, but all I ever got was sox and ties. :(
   

• You've Lost That Loving Feeling by Telly Savalas (MP3) (BB)
  Yes, you read that correctly.  There are many more of these celebrity cover songs at April Winchell: Multimedia.  Hot Dog Heart by Jim Nabors is also great.
   

• We Love the Iraqi Information Minister
  This silly guy has become an Internet celebrity.
  
  

• get your war on | page twenty-three
  The comic saga continues.
  
  

• Fertco
  Fascinating artistic animation by Nina Paley on a Fertilization Company [QuickTime].
  
  

• Skateboarding Dog (MC)
  I'm a sucker for these great little dog  videos.  [ASX]  Also, have you seen the The Smoking Dog or Car Cam?
  

• Crash (MC)
  Short and sweet.  [MPEG]  
  
  

• 137 More Oil Wells Liberated For Democracy
  Another biting satire from the Onion.
  
  

• Is war a joke to late-night comedians?
  Good CNN article on late-night comedians and they also mention the Onion.
   

• The Truth Hurts (LR)
  The Daily Show lampoons Rummy.  Funny Stuff. [Real]
  
  

• Re-Code.com
  Tired of high prices?  Well now you can create your own bar codes. 

As the Blog Turns

04/19/2003

• Prove Iraqi guilt, MPs tell Blair
  Tony Blair is feeling the heat from Parliament because of those missing WMD. 
   

• Sunnis in Iraq Protest U.S. Occupation
  Everything is going as planned?  Perhaps Dubya needed to read the article below.
  
  

• Reasons Not to Invade Iraq, by George Bush Sr. (C)
  This article written in 1998 mysteriously disappeared from the Time site. 

04/18/2003

• Daily Show on Bush's Speech to Iraq - Baby Talk (LR)
  A brilliant Daily Show satire by Jon Stewart.  [QuickTime].

• The Iraqi Information Minister Doll
  It was only a matter of time I guess.  That the man who said: "There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!", would have an action figure made in his honor. This site has a few select videos of Comical Ali. [Real]

  
  Baghdad Bob
  The Talking Doll
  
  

• Looting
  Hey, it's the American way! Great Flash by Mark Fiore.
  
  

• Rumsfeld: Bioweapons May Be Hard to Find (BF)
  I thought we had definitive evidence  of WMD sites in Iraq.  I mean was Powell's U.N. WMD presentation just all BS?
  
  

• U.S. Culture Advisers Resign Over Iraq Museum Looting
  "We certainly know the value of oil but we certainly don't know the value of historical artifacts," Vikan, director of the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore, told Reuters on Thursday.
  
  

• Hawks recycle arguments for Iraq war against Syria
  David Sands on Dr. Strangelove's quest for Armageddon.
  
  

• Why The Anti-War Movement Was Right
  Good column by Arianna Huffington.

04/17/2003

• Many Iraqis Turn Anger Toward the U.S.
  I think the longer that we are there the more our troops are going to become the object of Iraqi ire.  This is where having a multinational U.N. force would have helped greatly.  See, also Chaos mars talks on Iraqi self-rule.
  
  

• Honda's Accord Commercial (UI)
  This is a great commercial.  I wonder how long it took them to set up all of the Rube Goldberg effects?  [Flash]
  
  

• CNN Obituaries Discovered
  According to the Smoking Gun, some Farker found these obituaries, e.g., Dick Cheney, Fidel Castro, etc. on CNN.  CNN then shut off access 20 minutes after the links were Farked.
  
  

• Vandals Loot Rumsfeld’s Home
  It's nice to see that Bob Hirschfeld feels Rummy's pain. ;-)

04/16/2003

• 45 More Legislators Lose Jobs To Increased Congressional Automation
  Clever satire from the Onion.
   

• Back From Relapse, Bush Discovers He Started A War
  Satire from Broken News.
   

• Strong Bad's Latest Email
  Strong Bad recalls his best emails. [Flash]
  
  

• Invasion of the Little Green Men (BB)
  A new Internet comic by Feorag Nichols.
  
  

• Robert Fisk: Priceless documents are set ablaze in final chapter of the sacking of Baghdad
  How tragic.  How could we let this happen?
  So yesterday was the burning of books. First came the looters, then the arsonists. It was the final chapter in the sacking of Baghdad. The National Library and Archives ­ a priceless treasure of Ottoman historical documents, including the old royal archives of Iraq ­ were turned to ashes in 3,000 degrees of heat. Then the library of Korans at the Ministry of Religious Endowment was set ablaze.
  
  

• Now Free to Protest, Iraqis Complain About Americans
  We won the war, but the winning the peace will not be so easy.
  
  

• Baghdad Did Not Fall - It Was Handed Over
  Something sure seems fishy with the way all the Saddam's troops just vanished into the woodwork.

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Salmagundi

• The Grandeur of Viceregal Mexico
  I saw this wonderful painting of a Mexican woman from the 18th century in the LA times.  I then Googled my way to the collection in Houston, which on loan to the San Diego Museum of Art.

Portrait of a Lady,
Miguel de Herrera, 1782

• SDMA: Far Eastern Art
  I'm a sucker for Japanese artwork and I was very impressed by this beautiful painting of two monks crossing a bridge.  Also, the next time I am in San Diego, I'm going to check the SDMA out.

Monks Crossing a Bridge
18th Century

• Match Labels Art Gallery (GA)
  These are pretty cool and colorful matchbox covers from Japan.

Samurai Matchbox Cover

• The Chinese in California, 1850-1925 (SR)
  Interesting old photos of the Chinese California around the turn of the century.  The painting caught my eye, wow!

San Francisco's Chinatown 1890

• Japanese Historical Maps from the East Asian Library, UC Berkeley
  These are some interesting maps from Japan.  You can zoom in on the image for more details.

A part of pocket map showing Mongolia 1868

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The Week in Science and Technology

• Create Your Own O'Reilly Book Masterpiece
  Pretty cool site where you can design your own geek book cover.  O'Reilly is the maker of the famous Camel Perl Programming books, etc.
   

• Coming soon: Plenty of jobs
  Don't despair there will be plenty of Tech. jobs someday. ;-)
   

• Mass-extinction controversy flares again
  A scientist claims that a core sample at the Chicxulub asteroid crater in the Yucatan peninsula disputes the single asteroid extinction theory.

Health

Lab Decodes Genes of Virus Tied to SARS
NYT (04/14/2003)

Virus Called Mostly Under Control
NYT (04/12/2003)

'Irish coffee' injection prevents stroke damage
New Scientist (04/11/2003)

No sign of end to SARS outbreak
New Scientist (04/11/2003)

Psychology, History and Evolution

Cannibalism 'rife among prehistoric humans'
New Scientist (04/10/2003)

Roman pipeline kept water flowing
Nature (04/08/2003)

Are Flashy Male Birds Threats to Their Own Species?
NG (04/08/2003)

Astronomy, Physics and Space

Hubble's New Camera Snags First Supernovae
Sky and Telescope (04/11/2003)

Voyage to the asteroid belt
BBC (04/10/2003)

'Naked' galaxies found lacking dark matter shroud
New Scientist (04/09/2003)

Ice telescope draws useful blank
Nature (04/09/2003)

Environment and Nature

Advocates of Arctic Drilling Buoyed as House Passes Bill
NYT (04/12/2003)

Rising rivers set to wreck Bangladesh
New Scientist (04/12/2003)

Environment and Human Rights Linked Before UN Commission
ENS (04/11/2003)

Coral bleaching caused by "malaria of the oceans"
New Scientist (04/11/2003)

Bush Administration Enforces Clean Air Act
ENS (04/09/2003)

Security, Utilities, Hacks and Patches

Flaw leaves Windows open to Java attack
CNET (04/10/2003)

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The Weekly Rant

04/15/2003

Woob! Woob! Woob!

• The Three Stooges Online Filmography  (Y)
  The Threestooges.net is a great site.  Lots of Real videos, sounds, and images.  Here are two sounds from my favorite shorts: Moe! Larry! Cheese! and Dr. Howard. 
  
  

• Parallel Universes (SD)
  Parallel universes seem to be supported by astronomical observations.
  
  Is there a copy of you reading this article?
  
  Do Do Do Do.
  
  

• Straw refuses to back US line on Syria
  There will be no coalition if the U.S. invades Syria next.

04/14/2003

Worst Dictator
Since Hitler?  Not!

• Time Magazine Cover
  Whatever respect I had for Time Magazine's grasp of history is now completely gone.  Saddam was a indeed a brutal dictator, but certainly not on the A Team of tyrants comparable with Hitler.  I mean how could they have forgotten about Pol Pot, Josef Stalin, Chairman Mao, the Hutu mass murderers in Rwanda, or Slobodan Milosevic's ethnic cleansing?  The jingoistic news media needs to cool its jets and get it right for a change.  Talk about your Yellow Journalism!
  
  

• After Saddam
  Yet another great Clay Bennett editorial cartoon.
   

• Is the real Tony Blair still alive?
  A new satire from the Rockall Times.
   

• Aftermath: The Bush Doctrine
  Excellent NYT editorial on the Bush Doctrine.  It's time for the West Texas sheriff to hang up his shooting irons.

04/13/2003

• The Soft Bigotry of Loose Adulation
  William Saletan criticizes Bush for using "soft bigotry" in his recent speech to the Iraqi people. 
   

• Hatch Leading Charge to '1984,' Critics Warn (BF)
  This idiot thinks we need to protected from the evil Bill of Rights! 
   

• Pillagers Strip Iraqi Museum of Its Treasure
  Archeologists had warned the Bush Administration about this site, but no action was taken by our troops to protect these priceless artifacts. No matter what the Bush Administration says, the situation Iraq is out of control.  Rummy et all botched their security planning big time.  The looters destroyed what the war did not.
  
  

• Syria could be next, warns Washington
  If we preemptively strike Syria next, we will appear as an imperialist bully and stooge of Arial Sharon to the rest of world.  See also Bush ready to fight war on two fronts, and today more troubling Syria warnings from Bush, Rummy and Dr. Strangelove.

The Weekly Rant Continued

04/12/2003

• US troops' anguish: Killing outmatched foes
  It was a lot like shooting fish in a barrel, and Bush had the gall to say that Iraq posed a real threat to the USA?  He even did it with a straight face!
  
  I just hope that we are entering a new era of peace for both the Iraqi people and our troops.
  
  It's now time for West Texas Sheriff to hang up his six shooters and start working for just peace between Israel and Palestine. 
  
  However, if we should expand the war into Syria, Iran, etc., our national credibly and reputation, will be damaged forever.
  
  

• Rummy - Looting is just all right with him!
  Social Darwinism that's what it's about.  Survival of the fittest.  Hey as long as you don't call it anarchy.

04/11/2003

• Shock and Awe: About that dead statue... (C)
  Here is a long shot of the famous video of the Saddam Hussein statue coming down.  Interesting, no?  See, also Powerful TV image obscures details.

04/10/2003

• Bombard the Baseball Hall of Fame
  Let the Baseball Hall of Fame know how unhappy you are with their censorship.
  
  

• US warns Syria over Iraq
  Scraps of Intelligence?  What a dork.  This is the second time Rummy has warned Syria, which looks like our next target on our imperial romp through the Middle East.
  
  

• The battle for American science
  The Bush Administration's support for science and scientific thinking is appalling.  We need to keep the separation between church and state.  Intelligent Design is just religious BS.
  
  We don't teach both sides of the germ theory of disease and faith-healing. Evolution isn't in the classroom because of political action or court decisions. It's in the classroom because it made it through, it stood up to scrutiny and became the scientific consensus. It fought the battle and won."

04/09/2003

• U.S. Says Baghdad Is Now Free
  Jubilant crowds swarmed into Baghdad streets today, dancing, looting, cheering U.S. convoys and defacing images of Saddam Hussein as American commanders declared that his regime's rule over the capital had ended.
   

• Republicans Want Terror Law Made Permanent
  Don't let these GOP anti-freedom extremists rollback the Constitution!
   

• The Adventures of the Unlikely Society
  Amusing Lego comics.
   

• Dances With Wolfowitz
  Maureen Dowd on Wolfenstein et al.
  
  There remains the unfinished business of Osama bin Laden. But the end of Operation Iraqi Freedom should not mark the beginning of Operation Eternal War.
  
  

04/08/2003

• The Last Refuge
  Paul Krugman points out the hypocrisy of Tom Delay.
  
  Consider the case of Tom DeLay, the House majority leader, who also piled on Mr. Kerry last week. As it happens, during the war in Kosovo Mr. DeLay was a defeatist, and blamed his own country for provoking Serbian atrocities; any Democrat who said similar things now would be accused of giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
   

• Librarians Use Shredder to Show Opposition to New F.B.I. Powers And Why we may never regain the liberties that we've lost
  Don't let Ashcroft and Bush tread on the Constitution!  Support the ACLU and let your representatives know how unhappy you are with the expanded Bush police state.