The new White House flickr feed currently has nearly 300 images from freelance photographer Pete Souza. Click on the slideshow icon to see them full-screen, but for a real treat, especially on the Oval Office shots, click on "all sizes" above each individual shot to see the best detail. Here's a slideshow from the WH site.


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Diabetes Drug Linked to Heart Deaths

NY Times Magazine profile on former VP Al Gore. This is a picture of Gore's home office. I'm sure every bit of that is recycled paper, right Al? :)

Electricity Crisis Hobbles an India Eager to Ascend

McDonalds offerings around the world

Brits are less uptight than Americans.... "Since the British military ( Read more... )

Essential Bookmark of the Day: Yahoo Shortcuts

"Do you have change for a ton?" "On Thursday's Daily Show, Jon Stewart lampooned former US Iraq consul Paul Bremer -- who somehow managed to lose $8.8 billion of $12 billion in cash. Said Democrat Henry Waxman (D-CA) of the US effort to send so much money to Iraq, "To do that, the Federal Reserve ( Read more... )

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“C is for Cookie”

jinwicked creates the comic “Crap I Drew On My Lunch Break” Very cool. :)

kiji_kat points out “The Crying Game: Despite a celebrated history, Native American Transgenders struggle in the modern world.”

Time: Best of 2005: Television. (BSG made #1: “Most of you probably think this entry has got to be a joke. The rest of you have actually ( Read more... )