“It cost us about $50,000 when all is said and done to produce the NPR video. If you help us raise over $50,000, it will go toward our next video — after we pay off our credit cards, of course.” [TPM]

Sarah Palin began her two-day tour of Israel yesterday with a visit to the Wailing Wall, where she left a note with a prayer in the wall.

Dear Stinquers, what do you think she wrote in the note? Put your suggestions in the comments below.

[MSNBC]

“Although representatives deny any connection to the recent prank call on the governor, two [Wisconsin] legislators began circulating a bill Monday that would ban making trick calls masking the caller’s true identity… Lawmakers introduced the bill at the end of the last session but ran out of time to pass it, [a spokesman] said.” [Badger Herald, via Political Wire]

“Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has fled Libya and may be heading for Venezuela, William Hague said today. The Foreign Secretary said he had seen ‘information’ that suggests Gaddafi is on his way to the South American country — as Libya was up in flames today with reports of around 400 dead.” [Daily Mail]

If you’re not familiar with how the Internet works, there are domains (stinque.com), and there are subdomains (zombie.stinque.com). A subdomain is very easy to set up — just an additional entry in your domain registration record. Heck, if there was a market for it, we could sell custom subdomains: YourNameHere.stinque.com.

Some web-hosting companies do just that. Of course, it means that your custom subdomain is dependent on the primary domain remaining live, but what could possibly go wrong?

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Allen West, whom we still can’t get excited about, issues a Dire Warning:

“You look out there, you see that AOL has purchased the Huffington Post. Now all of a sudden a very far left liberal blogger such as Arianna Huffington has a huge influence in the Internet world,” he said.

“We cannot allow ourselves to be suppressed. We cannot allow them to take over the Internet,” he said, as audience members nodded vigorously and started clapping.

Set aside the Abject Silliness of Arianna Stassinopoulos being a Far Left Liberal Blogger, as opposed to a Wily Spam Queen. Instead, consider the consequences of teabaggers turning AOL into the Ogre du Jour.

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Tunisia’s one thing, but Egypt?

At least three people have been killed during a day of rare anti-government protests in Egypt, reports say.

In Cairo, where the biggest rallies were held, state TV said a policeman had died in clashes. Two protesters died in Suez, doctors there said.

Thousands joined the protests after an internet campaign inspired by the uprising in Tunisia.

Speaking about that Internet Campaign, Egypt’s on it:

As anti-government protesters and police clash in Cairo today, reports indicate that the Egyptian government is making an effort to censor Twitter and other websites.

If we weren’t so busy this afternoon, we’d find that line about how killing hundreds of thousands of civilians in the course of toppling a dictator is the only thing that will bring change to the Middle East.

Egypt protests: Three reported dead in ‘day of revolt’ [BBC]

Twitter Blocked in Egypt As Protests Turn Violent [Mashable]