Spiral time via Dark Roasted Blend

Perennials: The long-running, gigantic Garden Blogs list I started many years ago has gotten yet another update, with a dozen new garden blogs added.

These bloggers are in it for the long haul. This list has been going for at least four years, and when I periodically run a link-checker on it, they're nearly all still at it.

Chocolate Zen: A review of the 99%-cocoa Lindt chocolate bar.

Webbier than iTunes: Winamp goes where iTunes doesn’t dare. Media player WinAmp is turning 10, so...

On the 10th of October at 10:10am, Winamp 5.5 (PC-only) will be released sporting two new and potentially controversial features: support for mp3 blogs and the ability to stream your music collection over the Internet (a Beta version is available here).

Screenshots and more at that Last 100 link.

The dean speaks: Q & A with investigative journalist Seymour Hersh at Jewish Journal:

JJ: Bush recently compared Iraq to Vietnam in a positive way. What do you think he learned from the Vietnam War?

SH: He seems to have learned from lessons that were not very valid. Nobody wants to be a loser. Bush is going to disengage to some degree, and he's going to claim the country is more stable. He's just going to say whatever he wants, and he's going to get away with it because who knows what is going on in Basra. Nobody I know in their right mind would go down there. You'd get whacked.
And the Democrats have fallen into the trap of saying, "We shouldn't get out." As far as I am concerned, there are only two issues: Option A is to get out by midnight tonight, and Option B is to get out by midnight tomorrow.

via Robot Wisdom

Not Photoshopped:

The impossible barn? A cantilevered truss system makes it seem so.

NYT rave for 82-year-old Earth Kitt:

Woe be the male ringside patron who becomes her cat toy for the evening, as she queries him in several different languages and coyly inquires about his financial status. If he is young, the chances are she will soon lose interest and suggest he introduce her to his father. In “Too Young to Be Meant for Me,” one of her wittiest songs on Tuesday, she impatiently brushes off a 20-year-old admirer and tells him not to wait: “Can’t you see I’ve got a date with someone rich and 82?”

Spread the word: Mandela still alive after embarrassing Bush remark. Reuters.

"I heard somebody say, Where's Mandela?' Well, Mandela's dead because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas," Bush, who has a reputation for verbal faux pas, said in a press conference in Washington on Thursday.

..."It's out there. All we can do is reassure people, especially South Africans, that President Mandela is alive," Achmat Dangor, chief executive officer of the Nelson Mandela Foundation, said as Bush's comments received worldwide coverage.

Pretty coal tar: The 7 Wonders of the Food Coloring World at Colour Lovers.