‪י״ב שבט תשס״ז * 31 January 2007: Escape Day/National Gorilla Suit Day

Greetings.

Relevant to one of today’s quasi-holidays: “National Gorilla Suit Day”.

Today’s news and commentary:

• “Controversial Vaccine Purchase Plan Gets the Go-Ahead”
  
• “A Virtual Map to the Root of Diabetes and Other Metabolic Disease”
  
• “Fence the border”
  
• “Israel should bomb Gaza quickly to stop infighting” (I cannot make this up.)
  
• “Our World: Welcome to Palestine”
  
• “FBI turns to broad new wiretap method” (These people really need to review the Constitution.)
  
• “White House extends control over agencies” (These people also really need to review the Constitution.)
  
• “Comics By Klingons, For Klingons To Arrive in April”
  
• “Heroic measures”
  
• “Olive tree leaves spark frenzy in Greece” (This is a good reason to avoid pop medical fads.)
  
• “BBC Under Fire”
  
• “Saudi appeals court upholds enforced divorce” (I think some Saudi judges have been violating the law against drinking alcohol.)
  
• “Cheap AIDS drugs under threat”

Today’s weird things are Flash animations of “The Elements” by Tom Lehrer and (submitted by Barry) “We Didn’t Start The Fire” by Billy Joel. Enjoy and share the weirdness.

Aaron