The Seattle Times: Business & technology: Dial-a-human shortcuts

The Seattle Times has published the results of a hacking/research project to find out how to get through to a live person in a bunch of customer service centers (I'm trying to get permission to publish the entire data set here for posterity):

The Seattle Times: Business & technology: Dial-a-human shortcuts

EU, Industries Want to End Animal Testing - Forbes.com

Let's hope this actually happens and starts a worldwide trend:

EU, Industries Want to End Animal Testing - Forbes.com

ABC News: Democrats Force Closed Meeting on Iraq

It's about fucking time!

ABC News: Democrats Force Closed Meeting on Iraq

Cuba accepts US hurricane offer

Wow. . .that's all I can say. . .Cuba accepts US hurricane offer

Lies Judith Miller Told Us -- In These Times

We're finally hearing some about this larger issue in the mainstream press, but here's an article on what I was wondering about all along with this Valerie Plame thing:

My favorite part of this article:

Out of prison, Miller promised that once she returned to work she would cover “the same thing I’ve always covered—threats to our country.”

Which means, we presume, she’ll be covering the White House.

There were NO fucking WMD's!!!

'Law Is Dead' -- In These Times

The current US administration is so bent against abortion rights, yet we suck up to China with it's murderous policies and practices:

Population Control in Chinese Provinces

See No Evil

More Songs to Make Love To

There's still plenty of love making going on, but no music experiments yet. I guess the list needs to be longer before I can test it out. Thanks to Mikostinko for suggestions in the original post. Once I have tried some of these out, I'll add a ranking column. . .won't that be fun?

Song	Artist	Album
New Songs:
Whole Lotta Love	Led Zeppelin	Led Zeppelin II
Elegia	New Order	Retro [Disc 2] I don't have any original New Order Albums. I just started getting into this stuff when a colleague loaned me the boxed set.
From the original post:
New Years Prayer	Jeff Buckley	Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk
Danger and Heartbreak Dead Ahead	The Marvelettes	Good Morning Vietnam Soundtrack
Face to Face	Siouxsie & The Banshees	Twice Upon a Time: The Singles