Dallas Morning News to Webloggers: "Drop Dead"

Dave pointed to this from the Dallas Morning News's Terms of Service:

If you operate a Web site and wish to link to this Site, you may link only to the home page of the Site and not to any other page or subdomain of us.

Of course, by linking to it, I've broken the agreement.

But then I never accepted it either.

This is so stupid. Do you want to drive traffic to your site? If the answer is yes, then you need to allow -- no, encourage -- deep linking.   

God Re-Floods Middle East

In spite of repeated warnings from God, the flood came as a major surprise to Israeli and Palestinian leaders, who believed He would keep the promise He made following the Great Flood of Noah never to drown the planet again. Confident that God would honor the "Rainbow Covenant," Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat rejected the 11th-hour peace deal proposed by the joint U.S. and Saudi delegation.

"I believe Arafat and Sharon thought the Lord was bluffing and wrongly assumed they could call His bluff rather than make peace with each other," said Timothy Uselmann, a professor at Harvard's Center For Middle Eastern Studies. "Evidently, they were wrong. God has sent a strong message here: Obey His commands, or face certain peril at His hand."

  

I don't know if this impresses me or scares the hell out of me, but you can now create your own custom color mixes of M&M's candies.

You can see the Mariners mix that I put together. I think if I threw parties, I'd use this a lot.  

Just Enough Linux: "Disable directory browsing in apache"   

Method May Transform Cells Without Cloning. A team of scientists say they are developing a technique that transforms one type of cell from the body into another type without using cloning or embryonic stem cells. By Andrew Pollack. [New York Times: Science]