Once an enemy, PETA now lunching at Burger King: "Vegetarians and animal rights activists who condemned Burger King in hundreds of protests last year returned to the home of the Whopper on Tuesday to celebrate having it their way."

Peace Is War: "Get ready for the new frontier of missile defense, where peacekeeping space lasers battle a storm of rogue nukes."

From the of course category, Tax Burden Falls on the Wealthy: "As a group, Americans whose incomes are in the top 5 percent are footing an increasing share of the national income tax burden. People in the bottom half, on the other hand, are paying only a fraction of the total take."

Rio blames it on The Simpsons: "When the Simpsons, America's favourite dysfunctional family, visited Brazil last week they made some offbeat observations. Unfortunately, the Rio tourist board did not see the funny side and is preparing to sue the producers, Fox, for damage to its international image and loss of revenue. The issue threatens to become a diplomatic incident."

Busy day today. Ugh.

The lawyers are blogging: "This seemed a great outlet for my day-to-day observations on technology and law. In the three months since I started my blog, I've also found it is a great tool for capturing sites and news for my future reference. That alone is tremendously valuable."

Michael Sippey on how Google could make money: "1. Providing local search services. 2. Integrating Jabber and becoming the thinking person's IM network. 3. Identity management. 4. Unleashing its hidden power as a peer-to-peer content distribution network."

RssDistiller: "Extract rss feeds from most regular web pages."

Los Angeles Times: "Earth Has More WormsThan People - by Far"

NY Times: Compensation of some US corporate CEOs