I can’t resist sending interesting links through email to my close contacts, or publishing them to my Twitter page. But I thought it’d be a good idea to collect them every once in a while and publish them on my blog as well. Hope you find them as interesting as I do!

• Have you been unable to get a mortgage or to rent a place lately? You may be on one of the government’s many terrorist lists. The Treasury Department has started to release names of suspected people to private businesses. They’re supposed to check against these lists when doing business with normal folks like you and me. The sad part is, the lists are inaccurate and there are many false matches. It’s also a serious invasion of our privacy. See “Ordinary Customers Flagged as Terrorists“, in the Washington Post.
• If you use FeedBurner, you’ll be glad to know they’ve released a Twitter Feed Flare that will let your site visitors automatically submit a link to your blog posts on their Twitter pages.
• Have you been getting hassled about your photography in public places? You’ll get a laugh out of this What The Duck comic.
• The Japanese are doing some pretty cool things to save energy in their country, and in many ways, are on the leading edge of energy efficiency and conservation.
• The FBI abuses its right to use gag orders when they investigate suspected crimes.
• Got money to burn, no common sense, and a desire to possibly pee in your pants while eating dinner? Great, then have dinner in the sky.
• Hey look, here’s a really cheesy Bollywood movie featuring a dancing Superman and Wonder Woman…
• The last WWI combat veteran, Ret. Army Cpl. Howard V. Ramsey, has died. Rest in peace, brave soldier!
• Russia has formed a super agency that will control what the media says and does. Gee, what does this remind me of? Oh, I know, communism…
• Just what is Supermarket 2.0? Watch it and see.
• I always thought the Art Lebedev Studio made products that bordered on useless, but this is just not right. Although, given the date when it was released, I have a feeling it’s an April Fool’s joke.
• A very cool dog saved its owner’s life by jumping on her chest as she choked on a bit of apple. It worked! There’s a video as well.