Well. Dioxin in borscht. I also find the comments from the doctors amusing - they said they had no idea what a high dose of dioxin would cause - previous dioxin poisonings were usually from low doses over a long time. Now they know.
Dive Into Accessibility - Oldy but Goldy - still one of the best introductions to web accessibility
A fascinating project, the CIA Open Source Notification System. You stick a small script into your CVS and it diligently logs, saves, and distributes every commit. There are RSS feeds for every view and contrary to many other projects that aggregate some large amounts of data, this one is also blazingly fast. By the way, the title links to my user and shows my three projects being monitored there. So if you're curious what I'm currently breaking, you can subscribe to the appropriate RSS feed.
For those interested in what programming languages are available on the JVM - yes, there are far more than just Java. And many of them are far more interesting than Java. And many integrate very well with Java libraries. In any case, Robert Tolksdorf has started building such a list here. I have no idea if it's complete, but the selection is enough for me ...
(although of course I'm biased and would only take either a Lisp dialect or Jython anyway)
PyX - Python graphics package - Generate 2D and 3D graphics suitable for presentations in Python
William Gibson with a few excerpts from an American tract about slavery in the American South. In it, slavery is portrayed as the last harmonious multicultural society and as a particularly Christian society. And this is being read in lessons at a Christian school in the USA. On Gibson's blog I found the original article.