We have a new hero: Hamilton Naki. Awesome. The Guardian had a fuller piece last month:

Nobody thought to even ask the question and it is only now, almost four decades later, that the truth has emerged. Hamilton Naki was not a gardener. The employment records which described him thus for 50 years were a lie, a fiction to fit the edicts of a racist state. Naki was a surgeon - a pioneering surgeon considered by colleagues to be the most technically gifted of the hospital's medical team. Without him the (first ever human to human heart) transplant might never have happened.

[Ben Hammersley.com]

Plastic::Media::UK: Under British journalism regulations, TV news media must display "due impartiality" in reporting, a directive at odds with FOX's notorious slant. As a result, the news channel may be banned from Brit airwaves. [Plastic]

It is a sad day for journalism. Read this piece by Emily Eakin in the New York Times, and ask yourself if they imbue all of their reporting with the same level of journalistic integrity. When you understand what a shameful piece of tripe Emily's article is, how will you ever trust their integrity again? [Better Living Through Software]

Reuters: Google CEO Has NO Near Term Plans for IPO. "Soon the company will also offer a service for searching Web logs, known as 'blogs,' Schmidt said." The Register's humor columnist, Andrew Orlowski, responds by suggesting blogs be removed from the main search results because "they masquerade as useful information when all they contain is idle chatter." [Google Weblog] everyone's talking about it

Got kids? [video] [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] made me really laugh and I have never, NEVER had personal experience of of anything like this - thanks girls ;-)

Do not accuse the Pentagon of lying. That is what they do! Even when it comes to using weapons that like the cluster bombs, end up targeting civilian population:But they are free now, to die of cholera and unexploded ordnance. [Mercurial] It's an opinion!

In which Professor Tufte addresses the tyrany of PowerPoint. [More Like This]

(1) vintage
(2) stylophone
(3) bpoem
(4) ss7x7
(5) speak 'n' spell
(6) speak 'n' spell mod
(7) theremin
Bonus: Erik points us to the Optigan.

Link, Discuss, (Thanks, Frank!)
[Boing Boing] this is just great - now I'm a composer

When should information be placed on the Internet? What are the reasonable bounds of the US' First Amendment? At what point does National Security take precedence over personal freedom? Can scientific facts - which are universally true - ever legitamately be censored? [Kuro5hin.org]

"Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use." [Quotes of the Day]

I guess linking to CSS rants is last week's news. After all, plenty of people seemed to be linking to Dave The Dinosaur, going back to his font tags. And lots of people linked to old-schooler jwz, unwilling to give up his tables. But I just haven't seen any links to this guy bad mouthing CSS. I mean, come on, he had so much trouble making a simple CSS layout that he, er, wrote XUL instead. Up next on the wheel-o-rants: people who fail to grasp the fact that XHTML+CSS is not a single word synonymous with valid markup. [Phil Ringnalda]