Reading Material

• A group of influential conservative members of the behemoth social media site Digg.com have just been caught red-handed in a widespread campaign of censorship, having multiple accounts, upvote padding, and deliberately trying to ban progressives.
• An interesting way to look at the world: Google Maps without the Maps.
• Need special paper (like line/graph paper) but don't want to buy it? Print it up here or here.
• He was touting family values during the Clinton impeachment, but Newt Gingrinch likes to play around, too.
• More songs are covers than you might think.
• 40+ billionaires pledge to donate half of wealth via the Giving Pledge.
• Now this is stupid: Man who gives free rides home to drunks was arrested for operating a taxi service without a license (related: watching your neighbors' kids before they go to school could get you fined for running an unauthorized day care).
• Want to generate a URL that will failover automatically to a mirror should the original site go down? I Can Has Mirror might be able to help.
• 10 free web UI kits and resources for designers.
• Everybody acts like photo tampering is a new thing, but it's been around for over 100 years.
• A hilarious visual diary documenting a flight from New York to Berlin.
• Want to be notified when a web site is sending data to Google? Here's a nice obnoxious alarm for you (please note: many sites out there, including this one, will trip the alarm, because they use either Google Adsense for ads or Google Analytics for web stats).
• CCleaner Enhancer makes the best system cleaner even better.
• If you're the exercising/fitness type, here are a bunch of great mobile fitness apps for your phone.
• That's gratitude for you: The man who made iPhone 4 has been ousted at Apple.
• It's amazing what you can do with 1KB of Javascript or 10KB and some libraries.
• A stupid-simple way to hack change a Windows XP password.

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