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Movies: The original Planet of the Apes reedited into a Twilight Zone episode. Torrent available along with the 61 mb Quicktime file. Thanks, Boing Boing!

US authorities have been arresting spammers and Internet scammers over the last few weeks. I hope it helps.

USA: Tonight’s a night that I wish I had a TV. My old college friend Jon Stewart interviewed John Kerry on the Daily Show. Kerry admits that the debates will be a challenge, but they had some fun with flip-flopping, ketchup and the Swifties.

USA: The Village Voice gives the RNC a great big welcome with a top 10 list of all the ways W screwed New York City:

1. Will any convention speaker dare mention the name of Osama bin Laden? What ever happened to Bush’s cowboy threat to “smoke ‘em” out?
2. Why was Bush so afraid of a 9-11 investigation?
3. Was the Bush team awake in the nine months before the attack?
4. Iraq plus tax cuts adds up to a deficit that will force a second-term squeeze on social programs vital to NYC.
5. Bush did OK on the $20 billion, but he’s still shortchanging us on the edges of the minimal pledge he made to a city whose economy took an $80 billion hit.
6. Senator Schumer says NY doesn’t expect a share of Idaho’s farm subsidies, so why does Idaho take a chunk of NY’s security subsidies?
7. What could be worse than lying to GZ workers and residents about the air they were breathing?
8. Bush has left most New York children behind.
9. Ten thousand NY families are in jeopardy of losing their housing subsidies and homes.
10. With NYC the No. 1 target of bio and nuclear terrorists, the go-it-alone Bush administration has torpedoed international treaties that would make us more secure.

Don’t forget that W won’t stay overnight in New York City next week. He gives his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention next Thursday and then runs like a little girly man to Pennsylvania after the balloons drop.

Sports: If the Montreal Expos really do move to Northern Virginia or DC next season, they should rename themselves the Washington Senators. There’s too much tradition at stake. I can just see Bud Selig asking the Devil Rays to move to the NL East, too. The Rays have been bombed in the AL East, where the Yankees and Red Sox dominate. As long as Baltimore Orioles owner Peter Angelos doesn’t mind, which I admit is a streatch of the imagination, the new Sens really belong in the AL East. Putting a DC baseball team in the National League just feels wrong to me, but Angelos may insist on protecting what he considers his territory.