Today in Links: NYU to ban Killer Coke and Canada’s Blogs and Dogs Conference
November 5, 2005 
*NYU to Ban Killer Coke: New York University will ban Coca-Cola from campus on December 8th (joining 19 other colleges), unless the company agrees to an independent investigation into conditions at a Columbian bottling plant. And this November 9th, NYU graduate students and teaching assistants plan to strike over the right to unionize.
*Blogs and Dogs Conference: Alberta, Canada will play host to a blogging conference called Blogs and Dogs for 4 days in December. It won’t be about bloggers meeting each other’s dogs, though. It’s actually about blogging and social software with an included dog sled race for all participants!
*Democrats, Don’t Ignore the War: Former presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich calls on Democratic leaders to make their party a true opposition party to get things done and get troops home from Iraq in an article on Alternet. Ignoring the war apparently wasn’t helping.
*Ashlee’s fast food flipout: Terrible singer and actress Ashlee Simpson got drunk and went crazy at a Canadian McDonald’s and here’s the (poor quality) video to prove it! She’s probably unset she wasn’t invited to Blogs and Dogs 2005…
*Splogs Solution: Class Action Lawsuit Against Google?: Ensight.org’s Jeremy Wright ponders whether suing Google could help stop the spam blogs (or “splogs”) problem on site’s like Google’s Blogspot. Interesting idea, but could it really work? Any lawyers want to chime in on this one?
*NaNoWriMo: November is National Novel Writing Month. Join in with bloggers or others for a fourth year of novel writing. Can you write an entire novel in less than 30 days? I think I’ll wait ’til next year.
*Famous Friends UK: A British service called Famous Friends will photoshop you into celebrity photos for a fee. Why didn’t I think of that as a business venture? You can even become a Scientologist celebrity-friend! [via Chris Diclerico]
*Most New Yorkers In Favor Of Smoking Ban In Some Outdoor Areas: Bad news for you city smokers out there — now non-smokers don’t want you to smoke anywhere. Well, there’s still inside your car… oh wait.
