Miscellaneous
LJ: The Customize Screen has been overhauled and more layouts are now available to paid and plus users. Also, the Navigation Strip can now be customized by color.

Details on Apple’s battery recall.

Author David Brin predicted this would happen one day: Dallas man foils a robbery 4,589 miles away in Liverpool England, while watching a webcam over the ‘net. Brin foresaw this in his 1999 book, The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?

City Mitts. Interview with the creator: The Subway Glove (Via fleurdelista)

Crummy Church Signs

LA Weekly: Welcome to Gentrification City


Politics
Bush spends 90 minutes with 5 families of slain soldiers.

kiji_kat on the Left Behind series and Christianity

On Sept. 11, CNN will replay its coverage from 2001 in real time, online. In addition, their pipeline service will be free for 24 hours.

Pope Benedict XVI has sacked his chief astronomer after a series of public clashes over the theory of evolution. The Pope believes in ID. Guess he didn’t get the memo.

A 30-person Baptist church in Mississippi banned black members and a biracial twelve-year old boy because he might encourage African Americans to join.

Nine black children attending Red River Elementary School in NOLA were directed last week to the back of the school bus by a white driver who designated the front seats for white children.