Oct 2000 archive

Older archives: Aug-Sept [oldstyle]


Headlines: (jump to #main below)
Tantalising gossip about Echelon etc (The Register)
Righteous critiques of Greenspan, etc (the honest economist)
Competent synopsis of Wm Blake's life and legacy (IrishTimes)
Detailed critique of AOL's WebTV-competitor (SJMerc)
Industrial chemistry of nanotube fibers (BBC)
New Enya CD w/link to samples (BBC review)
Exhilarating profile of Baz Luhrmann ('Moulin Rouge') (Oz via Null)
Special feature on Internet radio (IndStandard-multipage)
Over: 9am-10am: Brilliant and witty live interviews (RealAudio 9am-noon? CST)
Harrowing 1st-person of the recent Singapore runway crash (NYTmag via blorg)
NATO polices ethnic-Albanian (etc) brothels in Kosovo (USAToday)
Okay gallery of recent children's-books illustrations (NYTimes-10pg)
Bart Simpson was on 'My Little Pony' before 'Tracey Ullman'!? (IrishTimes)
US corn exports plunge 39% amid fears over StarLink (Reuters)
Space station 'certainly livable,' astronaut says (AP)
Controversial book creates stir at anthropologists' convention (AP)
Enjoyable reflections on the Melville boom (NYPress)
(I've been gnawing on Joycean biographical cruxnuts all day) (alt.books.james-joyce) [timeline]
Peculiar 3Mb QuickTime of asteroid Eros flyby (CNN)
Kibologist substitutes cold neutrons for candidates (heavy physics, no humor) (Deja-ark, McIrvin)
Web Voice looks like a good weblog (via iBoy)
ICANN's shortlist of new domains (The Register)
Belated update from Steve Kangas (Bookmarklets.com)
Critical history of HTML (morning not-so-quickie)
The synesthetic (color) alphabet of WWW co-inventor Robert Cailliau (CERN)
Magical solar-storm closeup (AstroPic)
Electrifying nature vignette (Poems.com)
Rave for Juliette Binoche in Pinter's 'Betrayal' (B'way) (NYObserver)
Special election issue of America's Finest News Source (The Onion)
Experts say monkeys make ferocious, unmanageable pets (Scripps)
More on genetic Adams and Eves (Reuters)
Amazon adds 2ndhand book ads to retail pages (WashPost)
General Mills to test customized cyber-cereals (Reuters)
Nice review of Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde (ThisIsLondon)
Scientists find three unknown lemur species (Mickey, we hardly knew ya)
Google Search: turn.on.tune.in -drop.out (ClicheWatch)
Royal budgies need new blood (USAToday)
Cloth-problem (below) explained in plain English (Slashdot comment)
Doris Lessing on Idries Shah on the English (UK Telegraph)
Catalog of Mary McCarthy's (hyperliterary) personal correspondents (Vassar via Google)
Excellent insight about home wireless terminals (GirlHacker 13Nov entry)
Phrase-of-the-hour: 'Schroedinger's Candidate' (Honeyguide)
Dr Menlo's all-pix weblog (slowload via Haddock)
Mind-boggling complexities of realistic cloth in videogames (7pg via Slashdot)
Overview of wireless PDAs, w/pix (Byte-5pg)
Arafat welcome at Leah Rabin funeral (strong emotions)
Minimalist solution to mapping basic Joycean geography (3k txt file) [more maps]
When the candidates are soulless, a 50-50 split is inevitable (Salon- dead on)
Great backgrounder on 'O Brother' soundtrack (US folk) (LA Times)
Okay update on Karen Finley (VVoice)
The Adventures of ACTION ITEM! (via Pacheco-ark)
Want Windows 2001? Gotta buy a new computer. (The Register-4pg)
Poor safety-design doomed Austrian skiers (BBC)
My new art-heroines (don't miss!) (NatPost via iBoy)
Many more electoral intricacies down the road (WashPost via Drudge)
Vote for 'This Is Hell' as 'Best Chicago Secret' (FoxChgo poll)
Palestinians lay down terms for return to talks (Reuters)
Dean Baker, phenomenal as always (the honest economist)
James Fallows is happy with his speech-recognition software (Atlantic)
Norman Mailer adapts OJ saga for CBS miniseries (CNN)
Scan yourself as a 'Sims' skin for $25 (CNN)
Pic of new AOL webpad from Gateway (via Register)
Jakob Nielsen for President in 2004! (NTK)
Popocatepetl has been very active lately (live Mexican webcam)
Mysterious correlation between immune system and promiscuity in primates (UniSci)
Sensitive update on Linda 'Deep Throat' Lovelace (NYPress)
Clear-as-mud hypotheses about Europe's ten Genetic Adams (BBC)
What's planned for surviving-beatles.com website (Reuters)
Charles Darwin pic on new UK ten-pound notes (BBC)
Herblock is 'America's worst political cartoonist'? (WeeklyStandard- yikes!)
Pix of the controversial Florida ballot-design (much better URL)
Antique baseballs prove composition has changed for the livelier (NewSci)
Rural students can take advanced-placement courses on Net (NYTimes)
Linus made $13M yesterday on Transmeta IPO (NYPost)
5:30am state-of-the-cliffhanger overview (WashPost via CDreams)
Fun how-to-hack Ellison's $199 Net appliance (GeoCities 4pg via Slashdot)
Jury demands stock brokers repay $164M for negligent advice (NYObserver)
More than you probably care to know about the About.com merger (Chris Byron)
New variable-length sail imitates birdwing (w/pix) (BBC-don't-miss)
Exploding Food Sparks Fear of Surrealist Italian 'Unabomber' (Reuters)
Hilarious closing line in Charlie's Angels review (VVoice)
The ten most undervalued companies? (CRN)
Microsoft's 'damn the torpedoes' strategy? (The Register)
Radio Shack's new $60/month hi-speed connection requires 'satellite modem' (InetNews) [diagram]
David Murphy's 'Panic Art' inspired by hardcore porn? (IrishTimes)
Update on 'Terminator 3' (Arnie, Eddie, no Linda) (Ain't It Cool)
Nicholson Baker blows $200k on old newspapers (UK Telegraph)
BeOS evangelist finds MacOSX comparatively lacking (Byte.com)
Update on Tim Berners-Lee nervous-breakdown watch (InteractiveWk)
It's the silly season for videoconferencing theory (BBC)
PhilG's hardcore (long, dry) advice on managing software engineers (ArsDigita instant classic)
Backgrounder on anti-Arab 'apartheid' in Israel (Salon)
Checking in with this year's college freshmen (LATimes)
Louisiana swampland may hold 'long extinct' ivory-billed woodpeckers (AP)
Siberian zoo has 'long extinct' Cape lion cubs (BBC)
14,454 online books, alphabetically by title (2Mb via Kevin Langdon)
Alert over 'GM tortillas' (BBC)
Atom Films financing projects picked by its users (EOnline)
Shakespeare's pipes being tested for THC (BBC)
Pix of hole in USS Cole (via JChatelain)
Over now: Brilliant and witty live interviews incl Dean Baker today (RealAudio 9am-noon CST)
Vote for 'This Is Hell' as 'Best Chicago Secret' (FoxChgo poll)
More meaty econ critiques from Dean Baker (the honest economist)
Michael Moore's recent letter to Al Gore (yow, via rc3)
Plath diaries reviewed, plus readings by SP (NYTBR RealAudio)
Tortilla-Board: A New Breadboard Technique (fun hack via P&F)
Optimistic view of computer tech for India's poor (AP)
Qualified rave for Charlie's Angels (Salon.com)
Don't overlook the little messages in the statusbar (waitallday updated)
New York Press has semi-accessible archives (new to me)
NTK asks the sane questions about Napster-Bertelsmann (Need To Know)
Black Sea archeology yields big surprises (AP) [map]
Willner, Horovitz and Was put beats to Nader speeches (free MP3s) (who's Willner?)
Spoken-word CDs of 1920s-50s monologist (LA Weekly)
TNR slaps the hands of Sam and Cokie (NewRepub via P&F)
Sam Smith sez, don't waste your vote on Gore (what he said)
Zippy The Pinhead on Dubya Dubya (SFGate)
Gallery of kibological kollectibles (150pg!? via Boing)
New poll based on this: How burnt out are you lately, and do you blame 'Internet time'?
View results
First 300 poll votes:
blame? Net not tot. very burnt 22 12 34% kinda burnt 18 25 43% not burnt 8 8% energized 12 4 16%

$0.13, .34, .21, .21, 1.18, .23, .78, 1.43, .77, 2.18, 2.00, 2.25, 3.08, 2.58, 2.72, 1.63, 2.62, 2.94, 3.03, 1.86, 1.97, 1.05, 1.41, 1.27, 2.76, 1.45, 2.95, 2.03, 2.03, 2.38, 1.91, 3.35 (full disclosure of Epinions royalties)
misterpants.isterpants.sterpants.terpants. erpants.rpants.pants.ants.nts.ts.s. (cute title)
Group critique of nice nature photo (Photo.net via Honeyguide)
Foreseeing the next 100 years (morning quickie rant)
Long JenniCam profile with tech details (MacAddict-4pg)
Jaded view of space-station boondoggle (via NASAWatch)
Is music the killer wireless app? (InetNews )
Anti-MacOSX buzz seems to be building (osOpinion via WebWord)
Uri Geller sues Pokemon over cartoon monster (Reuters-- old news, apparently) [pix]
Strong opinions about recent UK 'teen realism' films (NYPress)
Alex Cockburn's anti-Gore campaign goes hyper-articulate (yeeeeee-haw!)
Detailed account of yesterday's mideast developments (UPI via Drudge)
Excellent followup on FBI Yankees-hack search-warrant (The Register)
Thomas More becomes patron saint of the governing classes (AFP)
Okay onepage overview of Internet Appliances (Forbes.com)
Fun review of literary-detective story 'Author Unknown' (Salon)
Appalling case where drug-co sues to suppress negative research results (SFGate)
Alaska lakefloor cores show cycle of salmon populations (ABCnews)
Intel using Microsoft-style tactics against Transmeta? (The Register)
Who the geeks'n'nerds are voting for (Slashdot Poll)
Announcement-mailinglist for new issues of web zines (2nd notice)
Unexploited domain name (even with a hyphen) (survivingbeatles.com)
Franklin's $129 eBookman (Forbes.com)
4thC BC archeological find in west Russia (UniSci)
Nice use of pix in film-fest article (BBC)
Mind-boggling account of the Moonies' (excellent!??) ballet company (Telegraph via FmH)
Superb Steven Pinker on the speech-patterns of the candidates (NYT via Blorg)
Radio-controlled helicopter weighs 4 ounces (via Honeyguide)
An NYC view of the Pacifica wars (NYPress)
Thoughtful look at Eminem as the new Kurt Cobain (NYPress)
Survey claims Napster-users really do stop buying (The Register)
When stock options go bad... (LATimes)
FBI seizes computers of visitor to hacked Yankees site (yikes via Slashdot)
Ray Ozzie predicts hacked TiVo w/P2P video-sharing (InfoWorld)
Nice review of new Quentin Crisp bio (ThisIsLondon)
AOL subversive steps down, alas (WSJ)
The infamous John McLaughlin (villain-of-the-week)
Detailed walkthru of how-to-hack-Microsoft (The Register)
How NLSearch analyses robotwisdom.com's 'subfolders' (NorthernLight)
Update on de-Gates-ifying Windows w/MSIE (Wired.com)
Clever info-design bests Google ratings? (Slashdot)
Kevin Mitnick shares his strategies! (Techweb)
Philip Greenspun's optimised Web curriculum (ArsDigita University)
Elementary-school black market for Ritalin? (CSM)
Microsoft testing software-as-service in cafes (Register)
Spot the blatant logical flaw in this 'Genetic Adam' hypothesis (BBC)
Awesome praise for Yoko Ono song!?! (Deja mirror)
Joy Hopes Reason Prevails (cool headline)
The most-recent 500 searchpatterns at WebCrawler.com (oldie-but-goodie)
Backgrounder on Yahoo's 'Buzz Index' gameplan (InetNews)
Okay look at an AI project using agents called 'elves' (USAToday)
Longish, somewhat technical look at Groove (Byte.com)
AFP news site (Kibo's fave newswire) (Voila via Drudge)
Some recent stats on PayPal (AP)
Google Search: harsh.mistress -moon (ClicheWatch)
Lovely review of Siberry's latest (Billboard)
Lots of new content from Jane Siberry (Sheeba.ca)
More fun Flash Nielsen-bashing (youzit via kottke)
Fun pix'n'bios of 70 independent presidential candidates (via dev.null)
Michael Moore asks, can Bush even READ? (classic via D Anderson)
Superb overview of the Transmeta-Crusoe story (TechReview)
Excellent interview with Google guys (MIT via PTypes)
Java-cellphones inspire new 5k contest? (The Register)
Skeptical look at P2P-debutant 'Groove' (The Register)
Major-league ethical quandary-- Can Hopis sacrifice eaglets again? (NYT via FmH)
Interesting review of Henry Darger artbook (coloringbook psycho) (VVoice via caterina)
Kramnik beating Kasparov in chess championship (USAToday)
Features on asteroid Eros named after famous lovers (NASA heh!)
Nifty astropic-of-the-day (moonrise from shuttle) (NASA)
Prions in cheap burgers responsible for 14yo girl's death? (BBC)
Surgical instruments may pass prion-diseases even after sterilization (Reuters via FmH)
'Top Ten List' of files stolen by Microsoft hackers (The Register)
An honest economist critiques campaign econ-claims (Dean Baker- don't-miss)
The 'thinking man's clown' does Beckett (NYPress)
Book reviews praise Steve Martin, Armistead Maupin (Sunday NYTBR)
Splendid new Io pix (moon of Jupiter) (NASA via Slashdot)
Thoughtful Spike Lee interview (Salon)
Intro to password-cracking 101 (old ChgoTrib)
Soyburgers, tofu now available in federal prisons (AP)
FDA finally banning poultry antibiotics (AP)
(Where can I find this thumbnail pic of Mars?) (BBC/help!) [Hartung wins]
Gigantic whole-Mars closeup (1552x1552 jpeg)
3409 by 803 jpeg closeup of asteroid Eros (AstroPic 500k)
Thai Buddhism facing sex scandals (USAToday)
Quark founder retires, pledges fortune to gay rights (CNet)
Was the Paraclete a Qumran cultist named Menahem? (Chron High Ed)
Okay look at the 'hotter tone' of online journalism (Boston)
Probable Cleopatra autograph found (UK Times) better pic here somewhere? [German multipage]
Extremely scary case of black-hat hacking against Microsoft (The Register)
Interesting-but-long math-argument in favor of electoral college (Discover via rc3)
How eBay's success has led to glut of sellers (Salon-don't-miss)
How World Bank policies destroyed Mozambique's cashew industry (WashPost) context: [TomPaine]
Cute animated GIF (Ellen)
'We moved some things around and, yes, it's not there.' (AOL6 lacks 'home' button)
Ftrain.com gets mistakenly clobbered (ouch)
Sleeping birds dream of newly-heard songs (Too cool if true!)
Mailinglist to announce new issues of periodicals (eGroups experiment)
The clueless portal Microsoft is spending a billion to promote (Welcome to MSN.com)

you can tell they don't really use it themselves! cf Yahoo and AOL

Okay postmortem for Diablo II (Gamasutra)
Pleasant cyberslacker autobiog in graphic novel format (100 pages (!) via Boing)
New biography of Kurt Gödel (book review via rab)
Interesting overview of programming choices for MacOS X, incl Java (MacWeek)
Long sneakpeek at 'Tomb Raider' script w/spoilers (Ain't It Cool)
Special multi-multipage look at e-commerce (NYTimes)
Meandering look at Deja.com sale, other Usenet archives, etc (Wired)
Gilliam's Quixote gets $37M hernia (Variety)
The psychology of curry (BBC)
Amazing inventory/classification of peer-to-peer (P2P) projects (O'Reilly via WebWord)
Wordy Jeremy Rifkin on the consumer-debt crisis (Guardian)
Interesting graph of recent dot.com job cuts (halfway down page)
Economics of companion-websites for paper magazines (Upside via Linx)
Mac word-processor reviews (Word 2001, Nisus6) (TidBITS)
Speculation about the design of the USS Cole bomb (Deja.com)
Non-lucid look at the NullSoft subversives inside AOL (AP via Slashdot)
Righteous update on the paradoxes of Napster and the DMCA (The Register)
Tech argument that the Linux kernel is a hopeless mess (Slashdot thread)
Over: Brilliant and witty live interviews (RealAudio Sat 9am-noon CDT)
Slightly overwritten rave for 'Wild Bunch' DVD w/new 'Making of' doc (Salon)
If Jennicam were animated... sort of (36pg via metascene)
Extraordinary outsider-artist Henry Darger's coloringbook universe (via caterina)
Moore's Law hits testing-algorithm wall (Infoworld)
Quake engine works splendidly for VR-architecture (BBC)
Wacky Lars von Trier interview (IrishTimes)
Confuse A Cat, Ltd. (multipage via YAWL)
Camgirl Ana Voog explores $1000 sustaining-subscriber plan (via afj)
Convenient every-Friday scoreboard for NYC tech stocks (AtNewYork)
Krispy Kreme has done ten times better than the Net this year (BizWeek)
Yahoo or anybody could offer their own alterna-DNS,
where you send them a word or phrase and they send you to
the page they think will please you best
(jes' speckalatin')
(in fact, Google's 'feeling lucky' button already implements this)
Oops! Try and spot the missing allergenic GM corn (AP)
Completely random Yahoo link (Yahoo)
Another excellent URL (political) I haven't been using (Common Dreams)
In search of the 'technology monomyth' (morning AI quickie)
Generous gallery of Art Kane photos (via French Photo)
Jiddu Krishnamurti resources on the Web (hasty web-survey) [improved]
Salon.com's demise calculated for 2 April 2001 (plus many, many more) (via JChatelain)
Fallible humanity (morning rant)
Questioning Lieberman's mideast neutrality (LA Times)
35-year counterculture vets look back (Salon-don't-miss)
O'Reilly spikes Intel's move to co-opt P2P (Mindjack via Boing)
Analysis: Teen-girl portals proving unfruitful (IndStand)
34 Myo fish-ear-stone rings show temp-drop caused extinctions (Eureka)
Over-the-top Cockburn on Gore, Israel, etc (NYPress)
Source of Ugandan Ebola found (WashPost via Drudge)
Painkillers during labor produce drug-abuse in the baby's later life (NewSci)
Three-pound portable spy-plane (NewSci)
250 Myo bacterium revived out of salt crystal (NewSci)
Anomaly: 11 Byo gamma burst as bright as nearer ones? (BBC)
Poll: This very negative poll is based on these very negative UK survey results:
My future     I feel     I can fix my     I think    .
  looks:     miserable:    problems:    about suicide:
235 bright   13 never     83 always     221 never    .
198 okay    144 rarely   261 usually    164 rarely   .
 36 dim     222 occas    108 sometimes   65 occas    .
 18 bleak   100 often     23 rarely      29 often    .
  5 dire     14 always    11 never       13 allthetime
Graphic novelist covers Bosnia, Palestine (NYTimes)
Intel's main Pentium4 plant is in the Gaza 'hot zone'!?? (The Register)
Webwide average for banner ads $14/thousand hits? (eMarketer)
Make-yr-own CDs for $1/song, at Yahoo (Cnet)
Google also downgrades pop-culture keywords? (SEW via ReBuzz again)
Interesting research says Beethoven had lead-poisoning (Reuters) more at AP
Chris Crawford's new book 'Understanding Interactivity' (Erasmatazz sample chapter)
Potential HyperCard for Windows?-- DesktopX (The Register)
Does Google prefer short pages?!?! (SEW via ReBuzz)
Withering (if obvious) critique of NBC's Olympics coverage (NYRB-4pg)
Good CounterSpin incl Cockburn on Gore; microradio; more (30min RealAud)
Man Listening To 'Highway To Hell' Actually On Parkway To Waukegan (new Onion)
Painless gallery of Charlie's Angels pix (Yahoo-14pg)
Forbes finally redesigns pages for faster loading (new to me)
Funny photoshopped cat jpeg (via alt.fan.jennicam)
Even lame stories about The Onion are funny (Boston)
Bertrand Russell utterly shredded in new bio (yikes! ThisIsLondon)
Yahoo! Buzz Index - Movers Snapshot (via ReBuzz)
The impact of the Web on the future of academia (morning quickie)
Online tech dictionary at NightFlight.com (inspiring info-design)
New content incl Updike; Epstein on e-publishing (NYRevBks)
Vaccines work better on skin than via injection (UK Times via Drudge)
New bio of the spiritual teacher I respect most-- Krishnamurti (Telegraph bk review)
Yay! Deja.com throwing in the towel and selling archive (Interactive Week)
Irish Republican Army tracked Prince William via secret website? (The Register)
Some new developments at Google (ResearchBuzz)
Pleasant interview with the Sweetheart of '79, Rickie Lee Jones (Salon-3p)

The real thing comes and the real thing goes...

Surprising rave for new Aleister Crowley bio (NYPress)
Minimalised tech-headlines aggregator (not-quite-NewsLinx)
Novice's account of taking a course online (WashPost)
Interesting, short historical parable about SGML and HTML (via PTypes)
Some great 1920s dirigible disaster stories (NYPress)
Okay update on McLuhan in the Internet Age (NYTimes)
Backgrounder on Britannica.com's attempt to be hip (ChgoTrib)
Insightful analysis of worldwide public-health crisis (WashPost bk rev)
Brilliant and witty live interviews (RealAudio Sat 9am-10am CDT)
All the CIA's billions can't track the biggest bombers (LA Times)
Don't overlook the little messages in the statusbar (via Haddock)
Adam 'that a-hole' Clymer uses Nader-book review to defend Gore!? (NYTBR)
WhiteHouse emails scandal about to break open? (WashPost via Drudge)

New poll: What bias do you see in US media in their mideast coverage, and how alarming- destructive- dangerous do you consider this?
View results
248 votes                                  .
               pro-Israel  pro-Arab  neither
Not dangerous     6%          0%       6%  .
Somewhat         44%          5%           .
Very             32%          7%           .
total            82%         12%       6%  .
Update on decyphering Archimedes palimpsest (AP)
Jakob Nielsen's relation to Epinions is apparently 'advisory board' not 'co-founder' (correction)
Yay! Fundamental quantum law may be just about to crumble (NewSci via FmH)
Weird drug-co complication hangs up RU-486 (FoxNews via Drudge)
[D'oh!] (a JenniCam moment)
Lynda Barry's 'Cruddy' out in $11 paperback (Amazon via r.a.b) [Epinion]
A zillion Japanese experimental form-factors for handhelds w/vid-screens (7pg via Slashdot)
Tikkun-editor's extremely levelheaded critique of Israel (David Anderson)
Short paean to 'American Graffiti' DVD (Salon)
A gentle expose of the Yale grad program in English (via David Haan)
What Microsoft is after from Corel (Linux for .Net) (The Register)
Technical nostalgia for oldstyle videogames (Siggraph via Slashdot)
Long-overdue critique of Microsoft's purchase of WebTV (CNet-4pg)
Inconclusive linguistics exploration via web-search ('Good vibes' on the Web)
Courtney's Jamaican Slang Page (via Google)
A short course in the historical context of martial arts movies (Triads, etc) (old Salon)
Cheap Bucky Fuller Dymaxion globe and maps (via MetropolisMag)
Modest input of oceanic iron produces big gain in CO2 absorption (new NewSci)
Quick, lucid example of mass-media photoshop trickery (Sydney via Ampersand)
Effing brilliant Flash from Douglas G. Allen (creator of Steven) (via Boing)
Over-the-top rave for Aronofsky's 'Requiem for a Dream' (NYPress)
Short eyewitness account of Nader's exclusion from debate (NYPress)
Sort-of-obit for good old AltaVista (Inside.com via Tomalak)
Decent post-mortem on Gabriel Knight 3 (Gamasutra)
QPass making inroads with micropayments for online content (Inside.com)
Thoughtful reviews of Bjork and Jakob Dylan (NYObserver)
My fave combo weblog and 24/7 webcam (Vassar dormroom)
Charming Lynda Barry b&w comic (800-by-827 gif)
'Rael' religious cult setting out to clone humans (Express via Drudge)
85 million Bangladeshis face arsenic poisoning (UK Independent via Drudge)
Hollywood trying to sneak stinkers past critics (Guardian via Drudge)
Fascinating review of 'Dead Man Walking' opera premiere (Salon)
Japan arrests nuke-accident corporate criminals (BBC)
Mystery: who is buried in Yeats' tomb? (IrishTimes)
Web-dossier on Jakob Nielsen (infamous villains)
Don't miss (Poems.com)
Clinton Suffering From Senioritis, White House Sources Say (new Onion)
Nice profile of expert on prehistoric textiles (new SciAm)
Yahoo offering free Internet voice long-distance? (The Register)
Comic Book Guy critiques the Simpsons (long) (evil MSNBC 2pg via Kestrel)
Short sharp opinions on Rushdie, Nixon, Milosevic, etc (NYPress)
1997 hypothesis that language replaced grooming-behavior (book review via rec.arts.books)
Fun review of the new Beatles Anthology (ThisIsLondon)
What would have happened if one of the tv-networks' CEOs
had agitated for a real, 3-or-4-way debate?
What does it imply, that none did? (jes' wonderin')
Literary overkill in new Radiohead lyrics? (via Libyrinth)
Dry but convincing attack on Pinker's past-tenses argument (linguistics) (LRB via FmH)
Decent MacOS X pep-talk incl multi-CPU support (ZDnet)
Hard'n'heavy issue of Progressive Review (Sam Smith)
A look at the Ain't-It-Cool sneak-peek phenomenon for Broadway shows (NYmag-1pg)
Michael Wolff's family's running commentary on the first debate (NYMag-2pg)
McCoy (see Salon below) addresses Mojo Nation questions (Slashdot thread)
Chatroom ethics-debate between CarGirl and Jenni (alt.fan.jennicam 6pg)
Best review yet of Peter Ackroyd's 'London' (UK Telegraph)
Some stats on Internet radio (NYTimes)
Oldschool cypherpunk Jim McCoy gets serious (Salon)
A headline aggregator you should know (pages for topics) (NewsHub World)
Fine interview with the graffiti-writing-robot subversives (NYPress)
Dysfunctional site redesign with many weird popup menus (UK Times)
More dotcom gloom'n'doom (Seattle via Drudge)

New poll: Do you think karma rewards good and punishes evil?
View results
Total: 400 votes (possible spamming for 'rewards evil')
31% No, it's pretty random.               .
26% No, it seems more like it rewards evil.
20% Yes, more often than not.             .
13% No, only via human intervention.      .
 5% Yes, absolutely every time.           .
 5% Yes, in the afterlife if not before.  .
Excellent Sunday NYTimes Book Review (no registration req)
Hitchens rave for recent Nixon expose (NYT no reg-req)
Is the Linux community poisoned by freeloaders? (via WebWord)
Short show again today: Brilliant and witty live interviews (RealAudio Sat 9am-10am CDT)
Streetmimes-plus-propbag-plus-camera-plus-malicious-wit (12pg via blorg)
Nifty Beethoven scherzo on xylophones, etc (1min RealAud sample)
Gossipy overview of the London theatre season (NYPress)
Long, awesome drinking-poem (Poems.com)
Jenni talks about some real stuff (JenniJournal)
More OJ gossip (poor health, etc) (NYPost via Drudge)
Lunar month was just 20 days way, way, way back when? (BBC)
Risks-y sounding genetic-algorithm strategy for Net routing (NewSci)
Very well-informed Cockburn on Yanomami scandal (NYPress)
Edgar Allen Bay's Telltale Heart (Deja.ark repost)
Economic Reporting Review emerges from hiding w/new URL (hallelujah!)
Dvorak joins the XML-bashers (PCMag)
Fun prediction of giant tsunami triggered by volcanic landslide (BBC)
old Harper's Index includes Jaguar banner-ad tie-in (just the banner ad)
New poll: When someone emails you a URL, what do you usually do to bring up the page in your web browser?
View results

Old poll closed: What drugs have you used?
caffeine                I use it daily      .
pot                     I use it occasionally
LSD or similar          I use it rarely     .
ecstasy                 tried it, didn't like
GHB                     used heavily but quit
Valium or similar       I'd like to try it  .
speed or similar        I never tried it    .
powder cocaine                              .
crack cocaine                               .
heroin                                      .
 
        daily  occas  rare  tried  quit  like-to  never  total
   crack   0     2     6     27      8      16     565    624
     ghb   1     6     7     14      2      34     559    623
  heroin   0     2    11     30      8      21     551    623
  valium   5    30    76     83      7      10     420    631
 ecstasy   1    47    65     32     14      82     393    634
 cocaine   3    27    60    100     35      19     383    627
   speed   1    26    56    112     38      19     374    626
     lsd   0    32   132     75     67      36     291    633
     pot  63   152   113     92     94      10     117    641
caffeine 484    81    46     15     21       0       5    652
WakeOS: a Joycean operating system (morning quickie)
Babelfish has a built-in international keyboard (did you know?)
Excellent Norman Mailer interview (partners.nytimes)
Classic tale of crashing Internet mutual fund (NYObserver)
Long, okay examination of Kubrick's Napoleon biopic plans (Salon)
Congressional Panel To Investigate Old Parker Mansion (new Onion)
Political commentator burns out from lack of truth (CHBlue via Sam)
Early-warning signs from newly-belly-up [qv] startup Kibu.com (long Salon piece from June)
Cameron and Alba's 'Dark Angel' a complete let-down? (Salon)
Internet broadcast of 'Great Gatsby' opera (7pm to 10pm Oct2)
Knockout supermodel Ana Claudia Michels (8 giant jpegs)
October issue of architecture/design mag (Metropolis)
JD Salinger's neuroses sussed 30 years ago by Mary McCarthy (Salon)
Awesome photo of Palestinian w/fire and flag (Yahoo via Drudge)
Joyce's 'Buck Mulligan' won poetry medal at 1924 Olympics (random trivia)
Drug-use rampant in the dot-com world (LATimes via Drudge)
Technical-but-don't-miss theory of prion benefits (UofC via FmH)

Briefly, they allow 'B-list' genes to be expressed occasionally

P2P-based webcam-tech mimics videophone? (USAToday)
The 'partners.nytimes.com' trick seems to be working again? (NYTimes bk rev) ('channels' too, actually)
Physically-insider's view of the WW2 'Colossus' de-crypter (short Slashdot thread)
Salman Rushdie's latest move stirs chorus of howls (Boston)
Testing finally begins on 5000yo Alpine 'Iceman' (ABC)
Mokhiber's synopsis of ADM price-fixing books (WashPost bk rev)
Picasso a suspect in 1911 theft of Mona Lisa (random trivia)
65th anniversary of 'Porgy and Bess' (via WFMT)
The 1925 novel that inspired 'Porgy and Bess' (etext via Google)
Over-the-top anti-Madonna rant (Guardian-IrishTimes)
Duet of Moby and Gwen Stefani (4min RealAud)
Adolf Hitler filmography (IMDB via NTK)
Is anybody bothering to target banner-ads? (morning quickie)
Charles Taylor's paean to De Palma's 'Mission to Mars' (Salon)
Lockerbie-bombing trial still plodding along (BBC multipage)
Excellent Bill-Gates-at-airport joke (rec.humor.funny)
I jump on the bandwagon with a Joycean mousepad (CafePress.com) [map-key]
Original 1972 Watergate break-in logbook entry (Smoking Gun)
Save money on long-distance with Internet telephony? (Cringely)
Pic of Sony's new $1100 wireless TV/web-appliance (CNet via Register) [article]
Male 'anti-romance' novels sell 50 million in USA?!? (BBC via Null)
Elaborate site examining Carlos Castaneda (via alt.society.neutopia)
Doonesbury's Duke takes candidacy to public radio (Scripps-Howard)
Longish update on Catherine O'Hara (Salon-2pg)
'unique sound of gobs of honey dripping onto a plastic sheet' (Karen-Finley review)

New poll: If you win the lottery (say) in 2002 what OS will you choose for your main computer?
View results
Total: 561 votes. 
35%  Linux       .
34%  Mac OS X    .
18%  Windows     .
 4%  Unix        .
 4%  other       .
 3%  BeOS        .
 2%  MacOS (older)
Sneak pix of 3Com's Web-slate (via The Register) [new mirror] [article]
Suppressed pic: [curvy blue]
Messy profile of playwright/actor Wallace Shawn (IrishTimes)
Rapid evolution continues in olfactory genes!?? (BBC)
Goth photo mag, GodPhoto (multipage via metascene)
Gallery of satellite pix incl Mecca w/pilgrims (via Slashdot-10pg)
Google pattern: 'rode.hard put.up.wet' (ClicheWatch)
Long, gossipy, NYC-insider media&politics 'awards' (NYPress)
Alex Cockburn on the NYTimes's Tom Friedman (NYPress)
Creepy new OJ development (LA via afkm)
Lowered spermcounts blamed on childhood Pampers (AFP via Drudge)
A nice URL I haven't been using lately (Christian Science Monitor)
Courts return 9000yo Kennewick Man to tribes (BBC)

from William Rose Benet's "Eternal Masculine" (apropos of nothing):

Neither will I put myself forward as others may do,
Neither, if you wish me to flatter, will I flatter you,
I will look at you grimly, and so you will know I am true.


Long Christiane Amanpour talk (linked clumsily by Drudge) (Drudge links Deja!)
Surprisingly affectionate review of 'Drudge Manifesto' (WashPost via Drudge)
More Bjork on 'Dancer' (NYPost via asg)
Phil Donahue calls for debates to include Nader (LA Times via Sam)
1990 Dylan bio re-released (UK Telegraph bk rev)
An interesting XML tagset for outlines (Winer via Whump)
Worker and Parasite (eastern European anime) (fun-ness, via Looka)
Shell Oil to be tried in NYC for Nigerian executions (UK via metascene)
Are you a genius with color-combinations? (Link-colors challenge) added poll (new trick)
Web-dossier on the work-for-hire sneak that Courtney Love denounced (infamous villains)
Steve Jobs personally handles G4-Cube customer-service complaint (MacWeek)
I wish this lovely weblog didn't use teenytiny type (JIMWICh via FmH)
Honor-system slipping for Stephen King ebook (SFGate)
Even dinosaur history has been Eurocentric (NewSci via HoneyG)
Best hack of the year: handheld Atari 2600 (Geocities-9pg via Null)
Chris Crawford on intelligence-vs-lying (Erasmatazz.com)
RobotWisdom.com cracks top 25,000 most-linked websites (via Chris Crawford)
Appalling claim that Atomic Energy Commission ordered genocide against Yanomami in 60s (BBC via FmH)
New Ward-Just resources page (just getting started)
Ward Just's 'Dangerous Friend' a classic Vietnam parable (new Epinion)
Why are family dinners (eg) down 33% in the last 20 years? (The Atlantic)
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?
View results
Total: 273 votes
16%  Filters that delete some patterns automatically  .
31%  Filters that move probable spam to a separate area
43%  Just scanning subjectlines                       .
10%  I look at every message before deleting           
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)
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)
Inspiring info-design (oneliner visitor-link log)
Linguist wrote masters thesis on translating 'The Simpsons' (don't-miss via iBoy)
RWWL archives: [new] [old]

Timely:

Sims: 'Online'

Browser wars: iCab for Mac

JenniCam: scandal, more, newsgroup, her journal; stats

Don't miss: new tech for animating faces; Brazil's disco gangwars

US election: ROI parody, Jorn's profane poster

Eazel: Linux GUI, screenshots, old Susan Kare profile

Jules Feiffer retires: last strips, interview

Hunley recovery (Civil War sub): good info-design; sneak pic, lab plans; theory

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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: Gene : Mscene : YAWL : HGd : MPnts : Whmp : Girl
iBoy : Kstrl : Bird : Brk : Lka : &amp : Boing : PTypes : P&F
kibology: Kibo : Pacheco : JMBay : MattM : gossip : Pusssykatt

Weekly: M : Byte : TBks : EcRR : NYmg : PCmg : LBks
Tu : 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; text-based ads; backgrounder, tech details

Deja: stupid productlinks tricks

Jakob Nielsen: CCPs; Flash lampoon; drinking game; his good side

Poems: laundry, Hirschfield; Irish; lovepoems

Patk O'Brian: movie? [more]; Picasso bio

[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 : Brake : 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 : archives

Pix: Genna's Emmy's dress; DrewB action figure

Arts : Ellen : Poem : IrishTms : LyndaJBarry : archives

Don't miss: VR-poet Char Davies (website); Courtney on Napster

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 : Risks Digest : 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

Web: anti-XML; PhilG's free services and free U and 'bends' crisis

History: pirate revisionism

Design : WebWord : UseIt weblog : UseIt Alertbox : lemonyellow

Gamasutra: Thief done right; Jurassic fiasco

Cool sites: Haeberli; Ventrella; IconTown

Best eye for HTML: Jane Siberry

Biz : @NY : FastCompany : archives

Don't miss: frontiers of customer profiling

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


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