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Aug-Sept 2000 archive

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Short show today: Brilliant and witty live interviews (RealAudio Sat 9am-10am CDT)

New poll: Do you use automatic filters to delete spam, or just by hand?
Okay Karen Finley interview (Alaska)
Olympic lights draw giant, pecan-flavored moths (WashPost via Drudge)
Thread about trying to calculate webcam costs (Deja:alt.fan.jennicam)
A crash course on the (winning) SF Giants (Salon.com)
Tallying the net.swag from an NYC 'e-show' (NYPress)
A useful archive of magazine articles (Harper's, etc) (via the blorg)
Bill-Gates pic caption-contest (150x180 jpg via NTK)
Mourning monkey traffic tie-up in Assam (Earthweek map)
The view from Alexa, via Brewster Kahle (Feed via Slashdot)
Ivy-league stands up to Hollywood re Napster (Harvard via Slashdot)
Tech-analysis of future satellite broadband (The Register)
Promising game-review site: Sharky Games (via The Register)
Insider glimpse of 1991 Dublin music scene (IrishTimes)
Very well-thought-out navigation on supermodels site (PG-13) (inspiring info-design) [URL disabled?]
Bill sits on Jerusalem decision for Hillary's campaign's sake (Jtown via Drudge)
Harrowing Lynda Barry acid trip (Salon.com-5pg)
Topnotch Chris Hitchens on Bush's dyslexia (new The Nation)
Serious mystery: why are there boulders on asteroid Eros? (BBC)
iWon search now includes excellent 'News articles' radio-button (via ReBuzz)
Powerlines cause cancer downwind, via ionisation? (BBC)
Tuli Kupferberg, the Fugs, and Broadside magazine (NYPress)
$300 plug-in turns PDA into cellphone!? (The Register)
Date-insensitive Pope hurts feelings of Red Chinese (UK via Drudge)
How Orthodox is Lieberman? (Jtown via Drudge)
Inflation, from OPEC to Amazon (NYObserver)
Windows app indexes your hard drives (PCmag)
Rhetorical figures in the Eolus episode of Ulysses (recent project)
Columbine fiasco leads to new police rules of engagement (new The Atlantic)
Free online book: inside Nader's '96 campaign (multipage via Sam)
An interesting handful of CD reviews (NYPress)
Sun announces Java-standard for cellphones (CNet via the Register)
Lots of new content at Lingua Franca (via FmH)
Tender sad gay-lib poem (Poems.com)
Very awesome landscape-photo of Montana fires (via P&F don't-miss)
UK magazine including full human genome on free CD (The Register)
Intriguing Michael Wolfe on satellite radio (NYMag-2pg)
Dang, Gwyneth really can sing! (Amazon RealAud clips)
London Festival of Literature 2000 (ThisIsLondon)
Archives-by-subject in left margin with article-count! (inspiring info-design)
NY highschool gives ThinkPads to all students (via Drudge)
Decent Nielsen piece on wireless web devices (etc) (UseIt)
Low-budget 'Ulysses' movie planned (ohmygod)
Japan stuck with ISDN instead of fiber? (Slashdot thread)
'Humphrey Blogart' (unexploited wackyparse)
Inspiring info-design (oneliner visitor-link log)
Linguist wrote masters thesis on translating 'The Simpsons' (don't-miss via iBoy)
Comparing translations of Finnegans Wake (Saturday morning project)
Ex-CIA-chief Deutch was 'congenital downloader of classified info' (WashPost via Drudge) (and he used Macs!)
Don't-miss John Dean praises the new Nixon tell-all (ChgoTrib via YAWL)
Shortened today: Brilliant and witty live interviews (RealAudio Sat 9am-10am CDT)
Vote for 'This Is Hell' and Chuck Mertz as best Chgo radio (NewCity reg req)
Futurama videogame due in 2002 (Gamasutra tidbit)
Decent interview with PBS's "Cringley' (Slashdot)
Awesome first guess about fate of Civil-War sub Hunley (Charleston)
Cubs achieve undisputed 'doormat-of-major-leagues' status (Yahoo Sports)
Preview/interview about new The Sims sequel (Feed-don't-miss)
Geena Davis's scandalous Emmy's dress (PG-13) (800x600 jpeg)
The world's goofiest weblog, imho (misterpants)
A lovely, lovely laundry-recipe poem (Poems.com) [url fixed]
200 AD London grave may be female gladiator (Discovery.com via YAWL)
Testing HTML-vs-Flash for e-commerce site-design (multipage via WebWord)
A thoughtful weblog you should know (Yet Another Web Log)
Jesus Dress-Up paperdoll (via Flutterby)
A UK-mailing-list-based weblog you should know (Haddock)
Email beats Web for digital signatures? (The Register)
Great study-questions for 'Lolita' (via Google)
The return of the adventures of Square (Ellen-Flash)
Rebekah Jude checks in, briefly (the blorg)
Long profile of impressively overachieving inventor Dean Kamen (Wired-via-Slashdot)
Sony will ship 64-CPU hyper-Playstations in 2001 (The Register)
Ambitious plan to boost Hubble's power, extend its life (Fox via Honeyguide)
$129 'Cybiko' PDA-with-alphabet-keys for teens (via Register)
How many [dog-breed]s does it take to change a lightbulb? (rec.humor.funny)
Comparative 'stress tests' of physics-simulation packages (Gamasutra-3pg)
Sony's $20 solution to the 'what's-that-song-on-the-radio?' problem (The Register)
Top 100 sleaziest moments in rock'n'roll (Spin multipage via asg)
One thing you can do if you're reading an un-illustrated biography (new Picasso page)
Seinfeld's new stand-up routine (NYObserver)
Perplexing evidence that Google is overrating Yahoo sites (via ReBuzz)
Competent short peecee poem (Poems.com)
Who's Pickling Our Beets? (new The Onion)
Okay analysis of what CNN is doing wrong (NYPress)
Science imitates Bogdanovich's 'What's Up, Doc?' (origins of music)
Last chapter of annotated shorter Finnegans Wake (but i skipped book two)
Gossipy Bjork update (ThisIsLondon)
Campus 'portal' service making dubious inroads (via Slashdot)
NATO-sponsored conceptual art?!? (NYPress)
Online archive from the magazine that invented 'sustaining subscribers' (Whole Earth via FmH)
The Moby story (NatPost via iBoy)
Burning Man gallery (NYTimes-8pg)
Slightly dated but funny 'Dykes to Watch Out For' (WashBlade)
MTV meta- award-show awards (Metascene presents)
Exciting preview of SF anti-big-media demo (30min RealAud) [description on page is wrong]
Tepid praise for movie of Nabokov's 'Defense' (IrishTimes)
Burning Man gallery (SFGate-6pg)
Build a 32-by-32 pixel house in IconTown (via P&F)
4-page rave for Compaq's iPAQ super-PDA (O'Reilly via Boing) [great page-design, too]
Some O-Henry award-winning stories (Bold Type)
Stewart Cheifet trying web-search quiz-show concept (Wired via ReBuzz)
Biofeedback helps musicians get into the groove? (BBC)
Amazon using cookies to give discounts to newbies (The Register)
Nat'l Archive will get 40 million White-House emails (Maryland via Drudge)
Homemade Ouija board turns jail into X-Files melodrama (SJMerc via FmH)
Long review of 'Apocalypse Culture II' (NYPress)
New content includes Eggers review (NY Review of Books)
James Dickey's son remembers the making of 'Deliverance' (CSPAN Booknotes)
Microlivestock: Little-Known Small Animals with a Promising Economic Future (online book)
Al Gore's daughter has a wild past (Natl Enquirer)
Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigresses are world's deadliest women (Natl Enquirer)
Worldwide variants on 'Millionaire' quiz show (AP via NewsHub)
Robo-dog toy learns any of 16 dog-personalities (The Register)
Elegant little whimsical poem (Poems.com)
Net.journalism done right-- the Harvard-Business-School way (Salon-don't-miss)
Three-day rave drives London neighbors batty (via Drudge)
SF museum uses BeOS for hands-on video production by kids (Byte-5pg)
Triumphant return of weblogger Eliot Gelwan (Follow Me Here)
Straight summary of Burning Man (AP)
Computer Gaming World gets zdnet-ified (banal site-design)
More detectivework on TWA800 crash and electrical interference (NY Rev of Bks- one page!)
What's the deal with the goofy 'Highlander' series? (Salon)
Four-part review of Bush-clan financial history (The Consortium)
Philip Greenspun marooned in Oz with 'the bends' (Photo.net)
Compelling link between Gulf War syndrome and depleted uranium (UK Times via Drudge)
August Harper's Index is worthwhile for a change (Harper's)
Ashley Judd too literate for Hollywood? (NYPost via asg) [Slate item]
The career of a Jewish commodore in the 19th C US Navy (NYPress) [portrait]
Decent review of recent Coltrane re-issues (NYPress)
Cyc-Lenat-Guha resources on the Web (Sat morning project)
Extended hours: Brilliant and witty live interviews (RealAudio Sat 9am-1:30pm CDT)
Vote for 'This Is Hell' and Chuck Mertz as best Chgo radio (NewCity reg req)
Early history of the disk jockey (NYT first chapter)
CNET gives big thumbs-up to iCab browser for Mac (via Slashdot)
Pix of space-junk that survived re-entry (via Slashdot)
Strange preview of JD Salinger's daughter's new tell-all (NYTimes)
In search of overlooked/underutilised/obscure food crops (New Scientist)
Cringely looks at PayPal (PBS) [join here]
Short lucid intro to philosophical 'model theory' (Lingua Franca)
A long overview of fall book-season (AP via Drudge)
Two indie films that do it right (NYPress)
Anti-Kibo praises okra, Charles Nelson Reilly (Looka weblog)
NYC bus depot gets statue of Ralph Kramden (Yahoo pic)
Antoine de SaintExupery was a cad? (IrishTimes)
Debating Salon's praise of the MS XBox game console (Slashdot thread)
Embarrassing 1992 video of drunken George W Bush (60sec Quicktime)
Kipling's 1905 sci-fi story about aviation in 2000 AD (via Online Books)
The latest Julia-Butterfly bashing (AP via Drudge)
Hairy new overview from sociobiologist Maynard-Smith (Danny Yee bk rev)
WashPost gives JenniScandal major coverage (via afj)
Reconstruction of Kursk's final moments (Russian sub) (WPost via Drudge)
Doctress Neutopia checks in (Deja author search)
Interesting trivia for 'Gone with the Wind' (IMDb via a.s.g)
Hojoy turns 14 tomorrow (Hero Joy Nightingale)
New contest for limited-vocab swearing (The Register) [readable gif]
Another backgrounder on Google's new text-based ads (also via Slashdot)
Okay backgrounder on Google (via Slashdot)
Random-access Ulysses index (nifty hypertext design)
Don't drop your Handspring Visor PDA (pic) (via local)
Exemplary combo of weblog-plus-eBay self-merchandising (via Guardian)
Wonderful Lynda Barry meditation on girlness (Salon-5pg)
Concert review: kd lang in Toronto (via alt.showbiz.gossip)
Is IBM trying to re-write Moore's Law? (Dvorak)
Horrific bureaucratic infanticide in rural China (via Drudge)
MS spends $100M to shave $10 off costs for each WebTV sold? (via Slashdot)
More on Soros and Kosovo mines (NYPress-3/4 down page)
Bacteria that thrive in the clouds (New Scientist)
Book review: 'Evolutionary Psychiatry' (via rec.arts.books)
Soros suggested NATO's cover-story for seizing Kosovo mines (scroll down)

New poll: How has your standard of living changed since 1992, and how much credit do you give Clinton (and/or Greenspan)?

         Thanks/Blame  Some  None
Better     191          131   149
Same        19            8    30
Worse       14            6    10

Esoteric Racist Hates Uighurs (new Onion)
Pete Seeger gets banjo back (AP)
Tom Tomorrow tries something different (Salon cartoon)
Detailed review of IBM's speech-recognition software (Mac version) (TidBITS)
Chlorophyll-based photographic prints (via Honeyguide)
Pete Seeger's 1940 gangsta rap (rec.music.folk)
Critiquing Nielsen's new 'communications control panels' (comp.human-factors)
NYC's contemporary opium scene (NYMag)
Dictionaries competing for Web partnerships (NYTimes)
The next generation of pen-based Web tablets (Byte-3pg)
Fired Tampa reporter wins suit against Fox re Monsanto (via Sam)
Paul Krassner's convention 'Oscars' (Common Dreams)
How to swear with a limited vocabulary (The Register tidbit)
Scabrous attack on Vanity Fair's 'It Girl' mentality (Salon)
His life was saved by urge-to-blog (metascene)
News from London (Ellen update)
Greeks, Romans uncensored in new literary editions (AP)
Mainstream coverage of PhilG's ArsDigita University (ABC)
Summer hours: Brilliant and witty live interviews (maybe rerun today) (RealAudio Sat 9am-noon CDT)
Lessons from a debugging specialist (Slashdot thread)
Millennium Seed Bank aims to save 24,000 species' seeds (BBC)
Latest Sega virtual-pet includes decent speech-recognition (Salon)
Where are the online hypertext labs? (alt.hypertext query)
Britney Spears guide to Semiconductor Physics (via NTK)
Useful-looking analysis of cheap Wintel-box components (via The Register- multipage)
New Watergate conspiracy angle (Sirica and the mob) (letter to Slate)
Movement to change 'Korea' back to 'Corea' (via Geegaw)

A somewhat complicated poll: I've been getting a lot more spam than regular email lately. I assume they're getting my email address either off my newsgroup postings, or off this website. How much spam are you getting, and where might they have gotten your address?

         spam   email
both      50      20
news      23       9
web       64      29
neither   57      22

Schroedinger's Cat joke (via rec.humor.funny.reruns)
Two short suburban poems (Poems.com)
Suicidal people show distinctive voice-frequencies (New Scientist)
Plugging the leaks in your website (design quickie)
Surprisingly good Peggy Noonan on the Clintons' speeches (via Drudge)
More details on Linux GUI Eazel (The Register)
Complete revision of my main James Joyce page (recent project)
Frida Kahlo biopic may star... Jennifer Lopez? (ABC) [with Sean 'Puffy' Combs as 'The Dieg']
Interesting interview with Paul Verhoeven (VVoice)
Exciting new antibiotic molecule found in sourdough bread (BBC)
Anyone know why PhilG's polls aren't working? (server error)
James Bond's Le Chiffre based on Aleister Crowley? (ThisIsLondon bk rev)
Pooh turned 79 today (Dallas)
Al Pacino to have computer-generated co-star? (EOnline)
Pete Seeger's banjo stolen in NY (rec.music.folk)
This fall's Levi's jackets will have embedded phones, MP3 (The Register)
Update on Harlequin romance novels (NYMag-3pg)
Wall St Journal vs language-translators Lernout&Hauspie (The Register)
How Deja.com could integrate a weblog-like feature (alt.fan.dejanews)
Mister Poll: Ethics of Jennifer Ringley of JenniCam (results page) {spammed silly]
Big corporate guns choose GNOME platform for assault on MS Office (via Slashdot)
Redletter coverage of Russian sub disaster (Drudge)
Jenni falling in love (image gallery) (3rd thru 5th images)
AnaCam's response to financial disclosure (Peeping Moe's)
VW gets 25 miles per gallon of cooking grease (SFGate)
Chimp expert Frans de Waal (pic and links)
A Slashdottified timeline of world history (Slashdot thread)
Nice obit for Alec Guinness (ThisIsLondon)
Kinsley's shameless shill for MS Reader ebook app (the evil Slate)
The week's top tabloid gossip (Hollywood.com)
Summer hours: Brilliant and witty live interviews (incl Chris Hitchens today) (RealAudio Sat 9am-noon CDT)
Transcript of fine PBS Jules Feiffer interview (via Steve Bogart)
Does Bill Clinton have VD? (via Drudge)
Zoo-fundraiser tiger mauls woman (via Drudge)
Summary of India's film-star-and-bandit realllife melodrama (IrishTimes)
Chris Hitchens spits on Clinton's memory (Salon)
Don't-miss disclosure of webcam financials (Jenni and Ana) (alt.fan.jennicam) [part two]

cam:                    Jenni        Ana
subscribers:              35k        500
yearly subscriptions:   $500k       $60k
bandwidth costs/year:   -$36k      -$36k
syndication of stream: +$120k      +$60k

Sony putting Transmeta Crusoe chip in Vaio notebook (Gamasutra newsbrief)
Finally a decent pic of the recovered sub (Charleston) [tracked by Curt Salada]
WinCE cellphone due next year (PCMag)
Rain of fish in Norfolk, England (Yay!)
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Dot-Com (ClicheWatch- too late!)
Ken Burns' jazz-history on 20+ discs (Billboard)
Playing Scrabble with my Mother (via PTypes (fun))
Mathematicians' Woodstock at UCLA (LATimes)
Finally a decent pic of the recovered sub (Charleston) [gone awol already!??]
Jules Feiffer scheduled for PBS newshour Thurs night (via Steve Rhodes)
Mindblowing Quicktime demos of new facial-animation technology (multipage-Flash-don't-miss)
Space-age audio-speaker hacking (PCMag)
Dvorak on the accelerated evolution of hard drives (PCMag)
Patk O'Brian movie-rumors mention Stoppard and Mamet (Variety)
'Smilla's Sense of Snow' offers a cool female James Bond (new Epinions book review)
Lynda Barry's 'Cruddy' is perfect for David Lynch fans (new Epinion)
1996 Mac-only predecessor to Napster (old Salon)
Juliette Lewis on mayhem-panel at Dem convention (via Drudge)
Amazon reveals plans via newly-registered URLs (The Register)
September issue looks interesting (FastCompany)
How the recovered Hunley will be studied (CharlestonSC)
New Deja.com president out after three months (via alt.fan.dejanews)
Web-porn scandal rocks White House (via Sam)
Thumbs-up for Charlie's Angels preview (no spoilers) (AICN)
DiMaggio's last words: 'I'll finally get to see Marilyn'? (ABC)
17,000-yo starmaps in Lascaux caves (BBC)
When firewalking ceremonies go bad (via Drudge)
First it was 'partners.nytimes', then 'www10.nytimes'... (channel.nytimes.com)
Some specs on that Linux wristwatch (via Slashdot)
AltaVista's flat-rate UK access offer looking like a scam? (The Register)
First pix of Hunley raising (Civil War sub) (SCarolina)
All marked up and nowhere to go (new anti-XML rant)
Top 1000 sites for June 2000 (Alexa.com)
Pic of IBM's Linux-wristwatch prototype (via Slashdot)
Democratic platform includes anti-Hollywood-mayhem plank (via Drudge)
Tim Berners-Lee descending into AI-madness? (multipage)
'Blank W3C web page no title' (TimBL on AI- esoteric)
How the XML-nutters want you to classify your 'documents' (sigh)
How the XML-nutters want you to index your homepage (heh)
Ontology Markup Language (esoteric)
Debunking of secret, 'gay' Gospel of Mark (Ottawa)
Contrarian view that rewriting an app from scratch is doomed to fail (via Bird/wire)
A weblog you should know (science-oriented) (Honeyguide)
Fullscale remake of Orson Welles' original 'Magnificent Ambersons' (EOnline)
Summer hours: Brilliant and witty live interviews (incl Chuck Collins today) (RealAudio Sat 9am-noon CDT)
Review and first chapter of new Mingus bio (NYTBR)
Chatty interview with Woody Allen (IrishTimes)
Interesting view of Siggraph computer-graphics show (Gamasutra)
Finally finished my HTML Ulysses (two months, fulltime!)
Cartoonist Ben Katchor interview and pic (BoldType)
Fox arguing in court that it's okay to lie on the news (CounterSpin RealAudio)
Emotional perspective on the autism epidemic (recent Salon)
1024x768 gif of Europe at night (via Haddock)
David Lynch cow-sculpture too gruesome for NYC 'parade' (AP)
Peter Weir/Patrick O'Brian movie-rumors 'premature'? (Oz)
Convergence of Blogger and Moreover = NewsBlogger (via Whump)
A programming-languages weblog (via C Laird)
Funny short Flash movie about Jakob Nielsen (via kottke)
IBM's new pc-with-desk for 3-year-olds (via Kibo)
You can be sure Microsoft's .NET will suck, because their homepage sucks (www.microsoft.com)
Long, extremely obnoxious and dishonest Bill Gates interview (via Drudge- 14pg)
3-D role-playing game uses Java scripting-engine (Gamasutra) [review]
Rave for FoxTV's 'American High' (via Pusssykatt)
Excellent issue of New Scientist (multipage)
Dinosaurs died suddenly-- not 'victims of their own success' (BBC)
Decent episode of CounterSpin (media crit) (RealAudio 30min)
George V Higgins' last effort (At End of Day) (new Epinion)
Excellent issue of Progressive Review (Sam Smith)
Intensely unsentimental poem (Poems.com)
1152x606 gif of Tokyo subway map (via P&F)
If breakfast-cereal mascots ran for office (via metascene- don't miss)
Interesting experiment from Ellen (Flash required)
Detailed examination of NYC costs-of-living (NYMag-8pg) [$30k] [$10M]
Google adds dictionary definitions (ResearchBuzz) [URL fixed]
500 Chinese women commit suicide daily (old NYTimes via Google)
Civil War sub may be raised this week (multipage fascinating)
More on Microsoft's .Net silliness (The Register)
History of the 'cinnabun' (@) symbol (The Register)
Astronomy pic-of-the-day (restored below by popular demand) (NASA)
Jane Siberry's back yard, I think (nice pic)
A year of TV debases 'Shangri-La' of Bhutan (via FollowMeHere) [map]
Billionaires for Bush or Gore: Return on Investment (via the blorg-- don't miss)
If The Phone Company Ran A Restaurant (rec.humor.funny)
Peter Weir to direct Patk O'Brian flick (AICN via NTK)
Intimations of nanotech housecleaners (via Honeyguide)
Forgotten origins of AOL (Cringely)
Shogun videogame compared to Kurosawa (Salon)
Harry Potter Books Spark Rise In Satanism Among Children (The Onion)
Andy Warhol action figure ($35) (via mrpants)
Enthusiastic peek at Linux-GUI Eazel (Salon.com)
New content incl. McMurtry on the Old West (NY Review of Books)
Detailed exploration of cheating in online games (Gamasutra)
Free MP3 of Bjork's latest song (registration required)
Hilarious examples of Deja.com productlink ineptitude (alt.fan.dejanews)
Great issue of Economic Reporting Review (FAIR)
Overview of alternatives to Atomz.com search (via WebWord)
Amphibian decline has many causes (BBC)
Retrovirus scare forces re-think of animal-to-human organ transplants (via Drudge)
Delegate-swag includes 'Convention Barbie' (via the blorg)
New Charlie's Angels action figures (jpeg 497x513)
A contrarian genius's 'deep hot biosphere' theory (Wired interview)
Oprah is Jeff Bezos's hero (etc) (Wired interview)
Lively Sunday book review section (WashPost)
Long Ken 'The Newsroom' Finkleman update (Natl Post)
Well-researched update on JenniCam scandal (Natl Post)
Ken Kesey's new website (via CNN.com)
August issue arrives early (The Atlantic)
Incredible account of 'choreographed' Brazilian gang warfare (IrishTimes-don't miss)
Stephen King reviews Harry Potter (NYTBR)
[old archives]

Timely: Hunley Civil War sub recovery (perfect info-design!)

JenniCam: scandal, more, newsgroup, her journal

Brazil: disco gangwars

US election: ROI parody, Jorn's profane poster

Eazel: Linux GUI, screenshots, old Susan Kare profile

TeeVee: American High

Periodicals by date: (see by-subject below for abbrevs) [more]

Continuous: Slashdot : Drudge : Register : BBCsci : NHEnt : Jcam : AIC

Daily by time of day: am : Astro : Celebs : Zip : NYTBks
pm : nude : Gmstr : Sam : Ellen : NYPr : Poem : Sln : SlnA : IrishTms :
weblogs: FolMe : Null : Fby : Hdck : Ktke : Blrg (cam) : Wwrd : ReBz : RC3

Semiweekly: Advg : CPnch : SGun : OnBks : fashion : models
weblogs: GnHk : Mscene : YAWL : HGd : MPnts : Whmp : GrlHk : iBoy : Kstrl : Bird : Geeg : Lka : &amp : Boing : PTypes : P&F
kibology: Kibo : Pacheco : JMBay : MattM : gossip : Pusssykatt

Weekly: M : Byte : TBks : EcRR : NYmg : PCmg : LBks
Tu : NEnq : VV : Onion : LJB : SFBG
W : NYOb : NSci : Th : CSpin : Crng : Natn
F: Dykes : EarthW : NTK : @NY : TBks : Sa : Hell : Su : WPBks
weblogs: UseIt
Deja: ArcPu
Semimonthly: NYRB : Atlan : UseIt : LangM : NormS : FTrain
Monthly: FastC : HrpIdx : Bold
Bimonthly: LFranc : Cnsrtm
weblogs: Bogart : KLBQ : lemony : nudes

Classics

Google: adds dictionary

Deja: productlinks

Jakob Nielsen: Flash lampoon; his good side

Poems: Hirschfield; lovepoems

Patk O'Brian: movie?

[older]

Periodicals by topic:

General : NYPress : Salon : SalonArchive : FollowMeHere : Null : Flutterby : Haddock : Kottke : Blorg (cam) : Metascene : YAWL : iBoy : &ampersand : Boing : GirlHacker : Kestrel : Bird/wire : Pigs&Fishes : Geegaw : Looka : NYmag : NYObserver : Atlantic : FTrain : Bogart : KLBQ

Humor : Zippy : Kibo : DPacheco : JMBay : MattMcI : MrPants : Onion : Dykes : ArchiePlutonium : archives

Books : NYTBks : OnlineBks : UKTimesBks : LondonBks : UKTimesBks : WPostBks : NYRB : BoldType : archives

Don't miss: PhilG on computer-book insanity

Gossip : Drudge : NewsHubEntertainment : Pusssykatt : AintItCool : SmokingGun : Natl Enq : archives

DrewB: action figure

Arts : Ellen : Poem : IrishTms : LyndaJBarry : archives

Don't miss: VR-poet Char Davies (website)

Political : Sam Smith : CPunch : EconRRev : VVoice : SFBGuardian : CounterSpin : Nation : EarthWeek : ThisIsHell : NormanSolomon : HarpersIndex : Consortium : archives

Tech : Slashdot : Register : ResearchBuzz : RC3 : Advogato : Whump : Byte : PCmag : Cringely : NTK : archives

Don't miss: PhilG on website tech; Chris Crawford on copy-protection

Science : AstroPic : BBC science : Gamasutra : GeneHack : Honeyguide : NewSci : PTypes : LanguageMinis : LinguaFranca : archives

Theories: algae&weather; GulfStream crisis; deep hot biosphere; Benford's law; dog and germ evolution [more germ]; EOWilson on econ

Primates: big vocab

History: pirate revisionism

Design : WebWord : UseIt weblog : UseIt Alertbox : lemonyellow

Gamasutra: Thief done right; Jurassic fiasco

Cool sites: Haeberli; Ventrella

Biz : @NY : FastCompany : archives

Femmes : JenniCam : nude Celebs : candid nude : fashion : models : nudes weblog : runway : archives

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