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Net Neutrality... yeah, you're going to hear a lot about it in the near future. Here's why it's important:

One of the Internet's great strengths is that a single blogger or a small political group can inexpensively create a Web page that is just as accessible to the world as Microsoft's home page. But this democratic Internet would be in danger if the companies that deliver Internet service changed the rules so that Web sites that pay them money would be easily accessible, while little-guy sites would be harder to access and slower to navigate. Providers could also block access to sites they do not like.

So join the fight. Wil Wheaton has some suggestions for what YOU can do about it. FilkerTom covers it. Boing Boing also weighs in. TPM has something to say. One of the creators of the internet speaks out. Wired talks about it. And here's still more. It might not seem important now, but it might bother you when your favorite website won't load because they didn't pay tons of money to your cable provider.

Yeah, that's one cool window. I want to look.

Get 80 people in dark blue polo shirts together, and send them into a Best Buy. heh. This is my kind of prank. Via Augie.

Stephen Harper eats babies. At least, that's what the signs on Toronto's Transit trains said. And here's another instance of altered signs.

The Star Spangled Banner in Spanish in 1919. Also included are links to German, Yiddish, French, Navajo, and Samoan translations.

The flow of glass... or not.

A bill up for vote will strip women of their health care rights. I'm guessing men will still be able to get Viagra, though.