http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2008/03/07/GR2008030702914.html

Hate Rises
The dwindling Ku Klux Klan may seem like a relic of crueler times, but the number of hate groups operating in the United States has actually jumped a staggering 48 percent since 2000. Many of these groups have sprouted along the border in Arizona, California and Texas, where their ringleaders have often hijacked the immigration debate. – Mark Potok, director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala.

http://solveclimate.com/blog/20080313/eureka-climate-lessons-down-under

“Australian PM Kevin Rudd shows what a head of government can do for climate in a few short months.

So you wonder, what’s the rush to get the bill to the Senate floor in June and secure passage, with Bush still in office?

You’d think it would color all the deals being cut in Congress the color of oil and coal, and give them a radioactive glow as well.”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/gallery/2008/mar/13/1?picture=332960013

Fifteen pianos have been placed in locations throughout Birmingham, where any member of the public who wants to play them can do so

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/Images/eclipse_ols_2008051_lrg.jpg

Lunar eclipse from space

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article3548864.ece

“The call-girl who brought down the Governor of New York moved yesterday to use her new-found celebrity to boost her flagging singing career.

Ashley Alexandra Dupr, a struggling singer, uploaded a new track to Amie Street, an online music-seller, hours after she was exposed as the prostitute Kristen talking on tape about the disgraced Eliot Spitzer. “

http://www.lifeinthefastlane.ca/very-best-of-the-hubble-telescope/weird-science

Very Best of the Hubble Telescope

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K9a9d72REU

A million dollars. In his bedside cabinet no less.

Sigh.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article3540989.ece

A Polish priest and mathematician who was a friend of the late Pope John Paul II has won the world’s richest academic prize for work that shows how maths can offer circumstantial evidence of God’s existence.

Professor Michael Heller, 72, a pioneering cosmologist and philosopher specialising in mathematics and metaphysics, received the 820,000 prize yesterday in New York.

http://tastybooze.com/wp-content/gallery/mugshots/0307082mugs6.jpg

What not to wear to the police station.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120527756506928579.html?mod=djemTECH

Why we find being online so addictive