There’s a nut with a blogwatch, bang bang bang…

Do you need a Honda Accord? Because Krubner needs to get rid of one, fast.

BugMeNot.com: Via Amy Welborn, who describes it thusly: “This site was featured in either Time or Newsweek this week. It’s a bypass, of sorts, of news sites that require registration. Supplies a username and password for many–just enter the URL of the newspaper that’s demanding some info, and voila. Warning: some verge on the obscene, I’d say. But it works.”

Good news from Afghanistan: A roundup. Women voting, people telling pollsters they feel safe, refugees returning, showdowns over girls’ schooling, DVDs and ice cream shops, free radios, distance education, international trade, and more.

“A terror ruling’s impact on refugees”: From the Christian Science Monitor, via How Appealing: “A recent US Supreme Court decision dealing with the war on terror may herald good news for Haitian and Cuban refugees seeking freedom in America.

“The nation’s highest court on June 28 extended the jurisdiction of US courts to detainees at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. The landmark decision in Rasul v. Bush focuses on the plight of 594 Al Qaeda and Taliban suspects being held indefinitely in military custody there.

“But immigration-law experts say the ruling may also benefit a second, lesser-known group of individuals being housed at Guantanamo–Haitians and Cubans who fled persecution in their homelands.”

read the whole thing

EnviroAds contest: “$6,000 in cold hard cash will be awarded to the creators of the best EnviroAds, as determined both by visitors to this site and by our distinguished panel of judges. Create and submit an ad that’s funny, satirical, creative, inspiring, ironic, sexy or dramatic. You could win the top prize of $2,000, or other prizes ranging from $1,000 to $250 (not bad either).

“We’re looking for original material that causes people to think about environmental issues in different ways. Your goal is not persuasion per se, but to start a conversation. Make us think. Make us cry. Make us laugh out loud.”

Deadline for submission is September 30, 2004. Winners will be announced in October.

I’m messing with the blogroll again. New faces: Ditch the Raft (Buddhist) and Chrenkoff (the guy who does those “good news from Afghanistan and Iraq” roundups–adding him so I remember to read those).