Last week was pretty busy. There was the Senate Bill that may restrict freedom of the press:

"The bill would make it a crime to tell the American people that the president is breaking the law, and the bill could make it a crime for the newspapers to publish that fact," said Martin, a civil liberties advocate.

There was also an example of what this senate bill may be trying to avoid, as the Chicago Tribune discovered the identities of 2600+ CIA employees (some were even covert operatives), 17 aircraft, a couple dozen facilities’ locations, and of course phone numbers. How did they find out this juicy information, you ask? The Internet, of course. (Use Bugmenot.com for registration info.)

"At a minimum, the CIA’s seeming inability to keep its own secrets invites questions about whether the Bush administration is doing enough to shield its covert CIA operations from public scrutiny…"

And of course the US is in danger of edging towards dictatorship…

LiveScience reports, "Scientists" have set a new record for "Hottest temperature on Earth." No, I’m not referring to a chili cook-off. Scientists "superheated" some "gas" to 2 billion degrees Kelvin, or 3.6 billion degrees Fahrenheit! That is hotter than the center of the sun. Pretty hard to believe, I know. They didn’t believe it either:

They don’t know how they did it.

The feat was accomplished in the Z machine at Sandia National Laboratories.

"At first, we were disbelieving," said project leader Chris Deeney. "We repeated the experiment many times to make sure we had a true result."

The story continues in detail. By the time you finish, I promise, you will not believe it.

CNN reports that this ugly beast, named Kiwa hirsuta, was discovered over a mile deep in the ocean. Apparently it is so neat that they created a new family AND genus for it. But it prefers to go by Furry Lobster. While 66% of adult males are sure to be jealous of this creature’s sinuous, hair-like strands, they can take comfort in knowing that it is blind.