Shannon Larratt is Zentastic

I've just posted a small (a bit under 600 pictures if I remember right) image update (thanks to Stainless for the cover shot). It's actually mostly there to start putting out feelers on how people would like a search engine integrated:

That's on all the sections that have been updated. Right now it lets you search either all of BME, or just inside that section. It doesn't have this last update indexed yet though (if you're wondering why searches are missing that stuff). I also want to add supersection searching, not just subsection searching, but that's another piece of code internally first.

However, I think it's very awkward from a navigation point of view. I think what might be most useful is not proposing new or changed features as much as things like “I wanted to go back to the gallery, but I couldn't figure out how… my instinct was to click the logo in the top-left, but that didn't do anything!”

Oh, and if you haven't been watching the news, the White House has basically said “yeah, we approved the torture, but we think we stayed just inside legal” (more). You know, when your torture levels are actually killing the people you torture, you've probably crossed the line legally.

"We are morally adrift, abandoning legal principle for the proceeds of arbitrary power. We have lost that moral distinction between ourselves and our enemies if we believe that our success is measured by the confessions that we coerce rather than the civil liberties that we defend. We are left with the one question not asked at the press conference: Once the president declares victory over our enemies, what will we be other than victorious?"

- Prof. Jonathan Turley
George Washington University Law School (more)

There's a growing buzz and understanding — I'm getting a lot of people messaging me similar comments on it — that if Bush loses this election he and his Cabal may well be tried as war criminals* (more, more, more) and some could even be facing execution (exactly what his lawyers have warned him of in all these “leaked memos” we're seeing)… So in regards to things like obviously fraudulent voting machines, don't write off the conspiracy nuts too quickly — there's a lot at stake in this upcoming election.

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* Yes, I know, it will never happen (more), just like it never happened to Kissinger (more), Bill Clinton (more), Reagan (more), or anyone else… but, stranger things have happened (more).