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iTrip FM Transmitter for iPod
The iTrip FM transmitter for the iPod can play your music through any FM radio in your car, at a party, wherever the mood strikes you – and you have a radio. It needs no batteries, just plug in and go.
(found on bad luck blog)

Try out OS8
This is superb!

LifeGem – created diamonds
“A LifeGem is a certified, high quality diamond created from the carbon of your loved one as a memorial to their unique and wonderful life.”

bushin30seconds.org
Your last chance to vote for the funniest ad, best youth ad and best animation.
The winners will be shown at the gala event at the Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC tonight.

My two favourites are the funny ones: “If Parents Acted Like Bush” and “If The Bush Administration Was Your Roommate”.

Neuroscience Art Gallery
Art by psychotics. Some amazing stuff here. I love the fiery cat drawings by Louis Wain.

Over at Chapel Furnace:
Bush Planned To Invade Iraq 9 Months Before 911 according to former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill.

The Bush Administration began laying plans for an invasion of Iraq including the use of American troops within days of President Bush’s inauguration in January of 2001, not eight months later after the 9/11 attacks as has been previously reported.

Bsti: “So I wonder how it would have played out had 9/11 never happened.
Would BushCo still have been able to convince anyone that it was the right thing to do? Very, very doubtful. They had a tough time of it as it was, imagine if they didn’t have the events of 9/11 or al-Qaeda to refer to constantly.”

Find a Grave
See the graves of thousands of famous people from around the world. Find the graves of ancestors, create virtual memorials, add ‘virtual flowers’ and a note to a loved one’s grave.
(as seen on Can You Dig It?)

Today, I woke up in South Africa (mpg ad)
South Africa is my home. Specifically Cape Town – with the magnificent Table Mountain towering over you wherever you are.
I know nehanda will especially love this…

(thanks to FARRAGO for the link)

Okay, I knew that Dogs can go vegetarian, but cats going vegan? Unbelievable?
Well Cait found VeganCats.com. I thought cats need a dietary source of Taurine which can only be found in meat. Well I was wrong. Although Taurine naturally occurs only in animal tissue, synthetic Taurine has been produced on a large scale since about 1930. In fact, many meat-based pet foods utilize synthetic Taurine anyway!

Tips for non-vegan cat food:
Cait knows a lot about cats. She feeds hers Iams, as that’s what her vet and the humane society recommended. The book All My Patients Are Under the Bed suggested feeding elderly cats baby food meat, because it has no additives. Cait fed one of her cats a mix of baby food and some dry food and she lived to be 20!

What’s really in most meat-based pet food:
• Carcasses of euthanized cats & dogs (some with flea collars and containing sodium pentobarbital used for euthasia).
• Unwanted insecticides and pharmaceuticals from diseased livestock (complete with plastic ID tags).
• Rotting supermarket rejects including plastic and styrofoam packaging.
• Animal parts deemed “unfit for human consumption” (heads, legs, tongues, intestines, esophagi, beaks, feathers, bones, blood, lungs, ligaments, etc.)
• Diseased and cancerous body parts from the 4 D’s: dead, dying, diseased, & disabled factory-farmed animals.

Has the SABC become South Africa’s state broadcaster?

The SABC has decided to do a live broadcast of President Thabo Mbeki’s speech to introduce the African National Congress’s election manifesto, but not to do the same for other political parties. The IFP, DA, NA, FF Plus and UDM urged the South African Broadcasting Corporation to reconsider its decision or give other parties the same benefit. Mbeki’s address will be followed by an in-depth analysis of the ANC’s election manifesto by Vuoy Mvuko, SABC news editor, and Redi Direko of the TV programme Interface.

“The SABC is giving an unfair advantage to the ANC by providing them with special treatment and extra coverage in the run-up to the general election. By doing so, the SABC is helping to determine the election result.” ~ DA spokesman Nick Clelland-Stokes.

“The SABC is being turned back into an apartheid-style state broadcaster.” ~ IFP spokesperson Suzanne Vos.

The Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI) also questioned the decision, which it said was “not appropriate”.