PETA's charity status questioned: "The complaint accuses PETA of acting as a "conduit for information" for the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), which was singled out in congressional testimony by the FBI regarding domestic terrorism last month as "one of the most active extremist elements in the United States.""

Is today the end of the line for Condit? We can hope.

Paul Fletcher: "FYI, the Yahoo Groups outage was caused by the RAID on the main Oracle database blowing up. The hot standby has been offline because of a bad CPU, so the database had to be rebuilt. Which takes time with 40+ million users."  [Scripting News]

Is it table-top nuclear fusion? "The dramatic flashing implosion of tiny bubbles--in acetone containing deuterium atoms--produces tritium and nuclear emissions similar to emissions characteristic of nuclear fusion involving deuterium-deuterium reactions."

Looks like Yahoo Groups is back up, and no it hasn't yet switched to the paid-subscription model.

Uselessfacts.net: "Your Portal For Useless Facts, Strange Facts, Weird Facts, Bizarre Facts, Brain Teasers, Stupid People Stories, Greeting Cards, Interesting Facts!"

Yahoo Groups is down for some kind of maintenance. Is this the expected change to a paid subscription model? Here's a screen shot.

The History of Flash: The story as told by its inventor Jonathan Gay.

I'm back!

Just another day on the river for this tugboat captain? You know how in movies people can slide their motorcycles sideways under a truck trailer? Well imagine doing that in a tugboat under a bridge?