Headlines: (jump to #main below)
List of videos they'll be watching in the space station (AFP via Drudge)
Well-informed argument that extinct species can't be cloned (BBC)
Sega CEO personally covers billion-dollar loss!? (The Register)
Don't-miss Alex Cockburn on PanAm-verdict travesty (NYPress)
Indian company offers cheap AIDS drugs to Doctors Without Borders (AP)
Welcome to the unHoly Land (CounterPunch)
Stephen King cleared $500k from free-book donations (The Register)
Serious gossip about Kidman-Cruise breakup (UK via Drudge)
A shady Clinton pardon the media chose to overlook (recent NYPost via FmH)
Oakland vocalists do Bulgarian music proud (Scripps)
Elegant weed-a-day nature/haiku project (Sweden-150pg via FmH)
Goofy look at Blade Runner as (serious) futurology (BBC)
Seriously-bogus FBI fantasy about Bin Laden using encryption (USAToday via Yahoo) (they'd just use netnews, duh!)
An alternate approach to streaming video (morning quickie)
Amazon hosts micropayment experiment (UseIt)
Grim update on Depleted Uranium's 'slow Hiroshima' (CounterPunch)
Lucid exoneration of convicted Libyan bomber (of PanAm 103) (Consortium-2pg)
Definitive post-mortem on Gilliam's tragic 'Quixote' fiasco (UK via AIC)
Hong Kong Disneyland using unexploded WW2 bombs as landfill (AP)
Cute hedgehog pic (wrt groundhog day) (Yahoo)
Kinda hokey 8Mb Quicktime trailer for 'Lord of the Rings' (via AIC)
The Smashing-Pumpkins story told as a Peanuts special (27pg via null)
A computer-game equivalent to 'Dogme 95' minimalism (Gamasutra)
Nice short blurb for 'Alice's Restaurant' DVD (recent Salon)
Extremely cute pic of Spot on White House lawn (Yahoo)
UK Guardian book-review site (new to me)
Shameless hands-on techno-porn about new Powerbook G4 (MacWorld-2pg via Bogart)
ThisIsHell planning (was excellent!) many timely interviews (live RealAudio 9am-11am CST) [Moment of Truth]
Microsoft ruthlessly leveraging anti-software-piracy footholds (The Register)
Simplified Joyce-portal (it's his 119th bday) (morning quickie)
Unique photo-map of full night sky (AstroPic)
Funny pic of Scorsese and DiCaprio (BBC)
Well-written 1st-person experience of Calif medical-marijuana culture (recent Salon)
Contrarian theory that madcow was caused by 1980s pesticide experiment (Reuters)
Fascinating obit for screenwriter of 1960 'Peeping Tom' (NYPress)
New calculation confirms universe is 33% dark matter, 62% dark energy, 5% stars'n'planets (UniSci)
Utah Legislature designates Jell-O as state snack (decline of the West)
Soft-landing attempt on asteroid Eros set for 12Feb (BBC)
Bill Gates or Napoleon? (quien es mas macho?) (BBC)
Update on proto-cracker John 'Captain Crunch' Draper (NYT via Register)
Nice closeup of Jupiter's chaotic clouds (1000-by-900 jpeg)
Google Search: 'zen and the art of' -archery (ClicheWatch)
Mammalian origins split by northern/southern continental masses (Eureka)
Can Will Smith pass as Muhammed Ali? (150k jpeg via AIC)
Computer-virus attacks getting much more sophisticated (Dvorak)
Skeleton Key to Joyce's Ulysses (righteous info-design)
The diamond-cutters of Ahmedabad (AP vignette)
Will Sony buy Be? (The Register)
Zippy the Pinhead signs TV-animation deal? (SFGate)
Diane Sawyer named as prostitute in Watergate-flashback lawsuit (LATimes)
Righteous coverage of anti-Monsanto action in Brazil (AP-USAToday)
Don't-miss glimpse of Pentagon 'star-wars' wargame (UK Telegraph via Drudge)
Excellent Michael Wolff speculation on Clinton's unprecedented opportunities (NYMag-2pg)
New Chris Crawford essays on mind and thinking (Erasmatazz-10pg)
Readable, radically-new theory of cancer-basics (Eureka)
'Free Tools' page for web-authors heavily revamped (ArsDigita)
Greenspan boosts personal bogosity-index (the honest economist)
A free Java newsreader for Deja.com (via alt.fan.dejanews)
Long, fascinating exploration of 'Toxic Avenger' indie-film studio (recent Salon)
More on Martin Amis movies (UK Times)
Various Martin Amis novels being filmed (ThisIsLondon)
9am-noon CST (live RealAud) Witty political interviews (This Is Hell!) [Moment of Truth]
Soros risking assassination in Thailand? (AP) [skipped]
Appalling close-up of Mir rattletrap (350k jpeg)
Incredible pic of Earth, Moon, and Mir (260k jpeg) [info]
Serious Beckett-nut critiques new films-series (IrishTimes)
DirecTV uses counter-hacking to defeat signal-theft (AP)
A Nostradamus for the Third Millennium (ark-McIrvin)
Tama Janowitz's bad experience at kids' wrestling-themed birthday party (NYPress)
How climate change can lead to collapse of cities (Eureka)
New 'virtualised reality' tech to debut at Super Bowl (ScienceDaily) [more] [1.5Mb mpg]
US dollar gold pieces just don't circulate (WashPost-MSNBC)
Spy-sat shows Hindu millions as purple cloud (BBC)
Trials of 'Bonsai Kitten' parody site (The Register)
Surfing-heaven discovered 100 miles off Calif coast (Channel2000)
Yahoo extorts new registration from all eGroups subscribers (boycott!)
A Photographer's Guide to Paris (PhilG- one big page)
E. coli gene-sequence reveals unexpected DNA-swapping (UniSci)
Forgotten origins of Bing Crosby (Atlantic bk rev)
A rat... a dream... a maze... MIT (AP)
1997 R&B cover of Kate Bush weeper (RealAudio sample)
Excerpts from censored UK spy tell-all (10pg via Register)
Tokyo requiring rooftop gardens for city climate-control (ABC)
Long, too-grim account of awful Memphis, Tennessee jail (Salon)
Archeological treasure-trove under Philadelphia streets (AP)
Sweet report from Hindu 'Rainbow Fest' (AP)
Nice Angela Lindvall ad campaign (FashionDir)
Porn-site scamster charges $37M on others' cards (Channel2000)
More on sleazy pardons (NYTimes via Drudge)
Powell questions value of sanctions-in-general (LATimes via Drudge)
Ringers spotted among Clinton pardons (WashPost via Drudge)
Decent 'Index' for Jan2001 (witty stats) (Harper's)
The meat of Geertz's review of Yanomami scandal (NYRB-p6 of 8)
Lively new NY Review of Books (NYRB)
Forensic seismology provides clues to Russian sub disaster (Eureka)
Civil War sub to be 'unpacked' over coming months (good info-design)
WashPost would solve Calif power problem by raising prices until demand drops! (the sardonic economist)
The sociobiology of Jesus (etc) (bk rev via rab)
Is Half.com better than eBay for sellers? (NYPress)
Interesting pic from Spielberg's Kubrick's AI (Ain'tItCool)
Israeli settler gets wrist-slap for kicking 10yo Palestinian to death (Reuters)
Mount Fuji webcams jealous of Popo's eruptions? (Yahoo)
Variable-star Mira's mysterious horn (AstroPic)
My new theory of 'information density' (alt.hypertext)
Fiendishly clever spam pitch (spam)
Clinton's full pardons-list (spot the ringers!) (WashPost via Drudge)
Over now: 9am-11am: Inauguration-protest special live RealAudio (ThisIsHell)
Resources for Dante's 'Inferno' and 'Vita Nuova' (morning quickie)
Mockups of paper laptop and cellphones (via Register)
Thumbnails illustrations-index for Amer. Heritage Dictionary... (Bartleby.com)
...which also includes .wav files of pronunciations (Bartleby example)
Prepare for massive patent-related boycott of AltaVista (The Register)
Funny PJ O'Rourke on Clinton (new Atlantic)
Cringely's wet-dream of a $15, paper-thin laptop (PBS)
Bizarre photo from Slovak winter pool (Yahoo)
Thumbnails-only gallery of Hindu-festival faces (Yahoo)
Controversial instance of Wal-Mart defending customer privacy (Fox)
Amusing intro to NYC's Hunter College (NYPress)
Extreme-bathroom-humor from Viz magazine's [qv] Profanisaurus (rec.humor.funny)
Make archeology the center of gradeschool curriculum? (CamilleP)
Okay pic of mama bonobo (pygmy chimp) (Yahoo)
Interesting critique of post-feminist porno-chic (NYMag-3pg)
Interesting critique of Jewish 'victim' syndrome (NYObserver)
Short, sarcastic New-Year's poem (Poems.com)
Clinton Not Expecting To Collect White House Security Deposit (new Onion, finally)
Readable, idea-filled look at conservatives swerving left (Lingua Franca)
Free 3Mb online database from QuickBase (diy via Yahoo) [sample]
One-page gallery of 1991 Gulf War pix (BBC flashback)
Mad-cow risk devastating US blood supply (ABC)
Tina Brown-Anna Wintour catfight (NYPost via Drudge)
600k gif-animation of rotating Europa (AstroPic)
Israel to humans of conscience: 'Kiss my ass!' (USAToday)
Sony's $500 BeOS 'appliance' (via ZDNet)
I've been doing lots of literary detection lately (alt.books.james-joyce pattern)
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(a JenniCam moment)1800-mirror solar oven being reconfigured as telescope (BBC)
Okay update on Andreessen's 'LoudCloud' (BBC)
Well-written best-of-2000 for various musical genres (via alt.music.alternative.female)
Ted Turner, put out to pasture? (NYPost via Drudge)
New Orleans indictment could bolster investigations of raves (AP)
Nice analysis of stock-bubble economics, etc (the honest economist)
Over now: 9am-11am CST: Brilliant and witty return-of-Hell interviews (RealAudio 9am-11am CST)
GIF of hi-tech unicycle (from patent app?) (via Drudge)
Sony CEO disses Bill Gates bad (The Register)
Lovely evocation of snow by Lynda Barry (800x803 gif)
Delightful Kamen-followup suggests hi-tech unicycle (WashPost via Drudge)
My recent thinking on hypertext and streaming video (alt.hypertext)
Exotic fashion-spread from 1999 Italian Vogue (multipage via Supermodels.nl)
Amazing composite Hubble-pic (via BBC)
Nice pic of eclipse with Pisa (Yahoo-pop)
Nice poem on the biochemistry of love (Poems.com)
Savage attack on Wynton-ized 'Jazz' series (NYObserver)
Instant-classic on 'Googling' prospective mates (NYObserver)
Can a next-gen robot-wheelchair change the world??? (don't-miss via Drudge) [more]
'Scream to high heaven' before Sharon escalates genocide (NYPress-last item)
The commoditizing of a Hindu religious festival (India via Drudge)
In search of extraterrestrial math-geeks (AstroPic)
Adam Engst's basic intro to PayPal (TidBits)
An 'engineering' solution to the Palestinian problem (Reuters Photo)
James Joyce's Dedalus years: 1898-1904 (still at it)
Help NASA classify Martian craters (distributed volunteerism)
Tama Janowitz cooks 'mock-Indian' (NYPress-yum)
Kibo on the new Ukrainian 'Fat in Chocolate' candy (alt.religion.kibology)
First Xbox photo-op looks tacky and amateurish (heads will roll)
All web-browsers should have searchable 'history' archives (alt.hypertext thread)
Spooky tour of abandoned NSA listening-post (via JulianneC) [map]
Nice gallery of older Kate Moss pix (4pg-PG13)
Israelis Oppose Pinpoint Killings (AP)
Lynda Barry's craft of the novel (Salon-4pg)Cute mama chimp with newborn (Yahoo pic)
Slice up Jerusalem? Unthinkable (Boston)
Young Jewish Settlers Put Jerusalem Before Homework (Reuters)
Sneak pix of finalised XBox design (Register-4pg)
Another fine review of NYTimes and WashPost economics errors (Dean Baker)
NSA job-ad makes extravagant claims about in-house hi-tech (The Register)
Very nice guide to photographing building interiors (Photo.net)
Very long, not-too-technical argument that AMD can crush Intel's P4-misstep (via The Register)
Okay overview of Sun Ra's strange career (NYPress)
Are Jews incapable of polite discourse? (Was: Response to my critics) (interactive forum)
Okay George Soros update (ThisIsLondon)
Lovely rave for a 'multimedia' Bjork Selma-song (VVoice)
Readable reviews of 'Traffic' and 'Shadow of the Vampire' (VVoice)
Beat Poodle Fred Milton's Xmas wish (800x836 gif)
Primitive attempts to model human motivations (incl the Sims) (Gamasutra)
'101 Myths of the Bible' traces origins to Akhnaten? (NYPress)
'The Chinese do not spy as God intended it' (WashTimes via Drudge)
Kibo's annual Xmas story, part one (alt.religion.kibology) [part two]
Long, brainy Beatles-gush (NYRB-7pg)
Clear statistics on US media's slanted coverage of WTO (Buffalo)
Prince Charles says the CIA distrusts the French (UK Mail at Drudge)
Biker gangwar in Ontario? (UPI via Drudge)
Is Judaism simply a religion of lawless racists? (UK Times via Drudge)
Dean Baker's year-ago prediction the markets would fall 50% (the prescient economist)
George Harrison update (reissue of 'All Things') (Reuters)
Norman Solomon's P.U.-litzer Prizes for 2000 (FAIR)
Experimental approach to archeology of stone-age toolmaking (bk rev via rec.arts.books)
Great conspiracy-theory of recent MS stock-price drop (Cringely via WebWord)
Searing indictment of FDA's rubberstamping of drugs (LATimes)
Critique of Ken Burns' 'Jazz' series (new Atlantic) [my jazz page]
Search for all-flowers' 'genetic Eve' (SciDaily)
Big win for organic farmers in new USDA standards (AP)
Inside account of birth of AOL's voice-portal (Fortune-last pg of 6 below)
Okay analysis of internal AOL-TW culture-conflicts (Fortune-6pg)
Totally bogus scam-study recommends more broadband for schools (AP)
Motley Fool eats words (Boston)
Funny retouched pic of Jakob Nielsen (no-context via Haddock)
Bush commits $8B to 'Office of Faith-Based Action' (Oz via Null)
As MS tightens belt, will the A.I.-guys be the first to go? (Register)
Detailed plot-summary of (most of?) 'Traffic' (NYObserver)
New Mamet movie sounds fun (maybe spoilers) (NYPress)
Soderbergh's 'Traffic' as a landmark in the war on the war-on-drugs (Salon)
Common-sense wishlist for Internet utilities (Salon)
Chilling inventory of accidents involving atom bombs (don't-miss via FmH)
WTO vs WHO over the health of the poor (Mokhiber-Weissman)
Refreshing Ralph Nader responses to recent smears (VVoice)
Singer Kirsty MacColl killed by speedboat (Reuters)
5kyo Iceman ate ibex! (not isotopic vegan) (BBC excellent update)
'Conker's Bad-Fur Day' potential best-game-of-2001? (CNN)
Congress guts low-power-radio initiative (Indy via Slashdot)
Very-welcome praise of lean-and-mean Web-strategies (MotleyFool via WebWord)
See lava glow in the dark... live (sunrise soon though) (Popo webcam)
Low-profile Microsoft villain changes roles (The Register)
Dang, I missed a big Popo-show after dark last night (AP, no pix)
Spooky 'Aurora Borealis' on Jupiter (AstroPic)
Overwhelming issue from Eliot (lots, thought-provoking) (Follow Me Here)
The humane side of gay prostitution (Salon)
Very thoughtful analysis of MacOS-X disappointment (Salon)
Appalling story of Apple's hardware-arrogance (Salon)
1300-by-2000 collage of R-rated sports bloopers (gigantic jpeg)
Interesting update on 65Myo dino-extinction asteroid, etc (BBC)
Fine Ellen-like artworks using Javascript (Netscape4-only?) (40pg via mrpants) [non-Netscape?]
Estimated number of human genes lowered to 40k? (AP)
Excellent update on Dead Sea Scrolls (AP at evil MSNBC)
Capuchin monkeys discover natural insect-repellant (NYPress)
7000 dead Iraqi babies per month... (Reuters)
...makes Madeleine Albright dance and sing... (RealVid etc) [alt URL]
... and Colin Powell thinks 7000 is way too few (CNN.com)
Temp gallery of Popocatepetl's 17 Dec eruption (phat page)
Yesterday's report on Popo's pressure build-up (LATimes)
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(7am freak out!)'I'm an amiable goofball' t-shirts? (Zippy)
Another awesome pop-Popo-pic (Yahoo-most-pop)
Germinating brown rice before cooking makes it more nutritious (sounds delish)
5Mb Quicktime trailer for Tomb Raider (via Haddock)
Over now: 9am-noon CST: Brilliant and witty return-of-TheDorch-special interviews (RealAudio 9am-noon CST)
Nice pic of Popo with lava (Yahoo-most-pop)
Poetic description of evacuated Chernobyl neighborhood (AP)
Bill Gates Personal Wealth Clock drops below $60B (PhilG)
Ten great technologies that got shortchanged (new TechReview)
(if you're interested in James-Joyce-news, it's here) (my Joyce portal)
Okay Cringely on Hollywood and virtual actors, etc (PBS)
Google Search: on.the.internet knows.you.re.a -dog (ClicheWatch)
News update on ongoing Popocatepetl activity (Reuters)
'Why are you using a public institution to promote a junkfood product?' (CommonDreams-don't-miss)
Bleak analysis of extinction vs reintroduction of species (NewSci)
Bill-Gates-assassination-conspiracy flick being promoted Blair-Witch style (Register) [better URL]
Interesting interview with 'best game ever' designer (Metal Gear Solid!?) (Feed via Slashdot)
Angry Little Asian Girl comix (13pg via AliceMag)
Hip-but-brief looks at fates of many teen starlets (AliceMag via refererlog)
Great issue of Webword (usability weblog) (mobile edition)
100yo geezer gets birthday strip-o-gram (UKSun, PG13-pix)
Mennonite stockholders challenge AT&T on porn-profits (The Register)
Dvorak on AtHome's scary cable user-agreement (Forbes 1.5pg via Sam)
Maggie Estep is an expert on racehorses (NYPress- who knew?)
Sad peek at current teen sexual mores (Salon)
Survey of anti-Palestinian media bias (CommonDreams)
New 'white LEDs' set to replace incandescent bulbs (TechWeb)
Popo's a poppin' (9am CST) (live Mexican webcam)
Savvy hardware gift ideas (PCMag)
How doomed is France's Minitel system? (Slashdot thread)
Best albums of 2000 (new Onion)
The 28 most offensive words in the UK (The Register)
Great-sounding book on the impact of recorded music (Telegraph bk rev)
eBay buys Deja Ratings-- newsgroups twist in wind? (ElectricNews)
Interesting speculation about AOL-on-PlayStation2 (The Register)
Increase literacy-- free 'Harry Potter' for all! (Luddite via FmH)
PBS sequel to 1900 House will be 1800s Montana homestead (AP)
Tufte-fan's gallery of data-visualisation experiments (big slow page via lemony)
Pirate Nike t-shirts celebrate Osama bin Laden (AP)
Really, really big bag of water disappears in Mediterranean (CNN)
Stunningly-colored scary map of facial-muscles (via Google)
NASA calculated one-in-250 odds of Iridium-reentry casualties (Reuters via Drudge)
Popo was venting a little (sunrise 9-ish tomorrow) (was 4pm-6pm CST)
THC now available in handy inhaler or intravenous form (BBC)
Some short, interesting insights into the chad-conflict (Progressive Review)
Sweatshop-protesters in Santa-suits do $10k damage with pepper-spray, paint (AP)
Superb new perspective on Yanomami-genocide hullabaloo (WashPost)
Analysis of content on new contraband-Napster, Freenet (O'Reilly via Slashdot)
Best photojournalism of 2000 (Yahoo-multipage)
Mixed review for Macaulay Culkin's London stage debut (AP)
Long pleasant literary reflections on the course of the New Economy (5pg via 3djohn)
Bots-that-search-for-avail-PlayStation2s are flooding their target sites (CNet)
Teller's (w/o Penn) new book is about his parents (NYPress don't-miss)
The average Slashdot geek has 3 gigs of MP3s!? (Slashdot Poll)
50 greatest moments on 'The Simpsons' (5pg via FreshHell)
(I can't believe they left out the early family-shock-therapy!?!)
Salon adds an (alphabetical) directory of topics (new to me)
Long, shivery-good poem (Poems.com)
Paul Ford brainstorming about 'rhetoric processing' (Ftrain.com-4pg)
Live coverage of a 3rd solar-panels spacewalk (direct RealVideo)
Britney-the-protein-laying-Chicken still on drawingboard (NewSci debunking)
Painless slideshow approach to Page3-girl galleries (PG-13 Javascript-72pg)
Adorable pic of Russian (?) squirrel (Yahoo-most-pop)
How the FBI battles crypto-savvy mobsters (The Register)
Awesome Lynda Barry cartoon (800-by-831 gif)
Greenspan's negligence in the economic downturn (another honest economist)
Recount-relativism from 1990 Hungary (channel.nytimes via blorg)
Lucid, detailed review of some original sociobiological thinking (via rec.arts.books)
Market-crash + bank-deregulation = yet-another-taxpayer-bailout (real Nader link)
Ralph Nader linked to B&D sex column (SFBayGuard typo) [fixed]
Passionate praise for 'Hard Day's Night' (last week's Salon)
Provocative pic of solar (stellar) wind in the Pleiades (AstroPic)
Pranksters experimentally mail many improbable objects (Improbabe via my 5th-grade buddy Daver)
New poll: How much streaming audio (RealAudio, MediaPlayer, .WAV, streaming MP3, etc) do you listen to over the Net in an average week? Pretty good Harper's Index (witty stats) (Harper's)
Short pleasant blurb for 'Bound' DVD (Matrix-bros debut) (Salon)
Crossover success of BlueMan, BattleBots, David Blaine (VVoice)
Excellent long Dan Clowes profile (Eightball cartoonist) (Salon)
Live coverage of another solar-panels spacewalk (direct RealVideo)
Cockburn on the Pynchon-Tinasky (non-)connection (NYPress)
Poignant Vietnam-poverty photo (Yahoo-most-pop)
Intriguing review of Graham-Greene-land travelogue (UK Telegraph)
Alarming new overreaching by WTO? (UK Guardian)
Sociobiology of yawning? (UK Times via FmH)
Tomb Raider sequel gives Lara a cheezier look (UK Sun)
in Norway, everyone reads VGNett (in Norwegian, natch) (1000s of referrals)
Pretty amazing new pic of Jupiter and Ganymede (NASA via Slashdot)
Wide-ranging topics incl emissions-reduction fiasco (the honest economist)
Plot parallels between 'Ulysses' and 'American Beauty' ('nasty' magazine- 9pg)
Don't-miss Matt Ridley on chimpanzee 'socialism', etc (old NewStatesman)
Interesting bk-rev info-design, plus sociobiological leftism (CompleteReview)
George W. Bush or Chimpanzee? (don't-miss via pearls) (stunning, stunning, stunning!)
Fun weblog: pearls that are his eyes (via Null)
Possible six-million-year-old man found in Kenya (Reuters, no pix)
Building the ultimate personal etext-archive (morning quickie)
Bored business journalist rewrites CIA torture manual as advice for managers (The Baffler, looong)
Britney the Chicken lays eggs with any random specified protein!? (BBC)
Small Joycean-literary-detection victory (they saved the wrong door)
A few tips on street-photography from PhilG (Photo.Net)
Over now: 9am-noon CST: Brilliant and witty live interviews (RealAudio 9am-noon CST)
Huge archive of 3D-VR models of great buildings (free viewer software required) (via Metropolis)
Nice, short Julia Butterfly update (Salon)
Okay PJ Harvey profile (IrishTimes)
RealAudios of Nabokov himself reading (via alt.books.nabokov)
Internet activism in the Philippines runs on text-messaging (CSM)
Lots of living coelacanths spotted off S Africa (BBC)
Code breakers believe Poe puzzle solved after 150 years (AP-2pg)
A working RealAudio of the changed whalesong (cf below) (different BBC URL)
Nice PR from Angelina Jolie about Angkor Wat (Reuters)
Fine, gossipy, original short bio of Bill Gates (Cringely)
Palestinian McDonalds franchise suffers boycott (eCountries)
India's cybercafes charge 75 cents per hour (Reuters)
Readable Hunter Thompson on GoreBush, football (ESPN via Drudge)
Dictionary of British cultural references (eg for their sitcoms) (via BirdWire)
Fascinating inquiry into male art-models and the arousal-problem (Salon)
Ages of innovators explored via painters' auction prices (Salon)
Table of 200 net stocks off 80% or more from their highs (via Sam)
Grim update on 'Luna' (Reuters)
Australian humpbacks switch to catchy new Indian tune (NewSci) [RealAud!] maybe?
A napster for porn-- LeechNet (The Register)
Holiday traffic takes down PayPal (briefly) (EcomTimes)
How credit card numbers are algorithmically validated (Luhn via Google)
Almost-sufficiently-sarcastic debunking of recent 'addictive pot' research (Salon)
Special birthday issue (Lynda Barry fanzine) (Marlys Magazine)
Ellen, architect of change, needs a new London job (transitions)
How to tell if you've caught mad-cow disease (USAToday)
Global warming correlates with much-shorter 'solar cycles' (BBC- interesting graph)
Native American DNA doesn't fit Siberian hypothesis (AP)
Teen-male elephants learn self-restraint from elders (don't-miss via Honeyguide)
Implications of Robert Downey's arrest, for 'Ally' etc (AP)
Very promising-looking news-search engine (Pandia via ReBuzz)
Excellent fronts-for-money-laundering conspiracy theory (via Flutterby)
Rave for new translation of Tolstoy's 'Anna Karenina' (ThisIsLondon)
Satellite-radio schemes gambling on untested technology (EDTN via Slashdot)
Julia Butterfly's 'Luna' suffers serious chainsaw attack (AP via Drudge)
Banderas and Lopez making 'big jump' for charity live 3pm Thurs (via alt.fan.jennicam)
Broadband wired via robots in your sewer!?! (USAToday)
Celebs learning to exploit personal websites, incl Tracey Ullman (UK Times 2pg)
goodnight earth (AstroPic 2400*1200)
Nabokov's complete works, almost!? (via Fulmerford)
Citations of new Net.jargon (Jargon Scout via TBTF)
How the Grinch Stole Election Day (Slate via P&F)
Cat poop causes human schizophrenia!?! (new Lingua Franca)
Long, well-researched account of the fall of Oscar Wilde (Oz)
Looooong exploration of the Powerpuff Girls phenomenon (LA Weekly)
Survey of women scientists' unique perspectives (Oz)
Jet-set slumming in Budapest with Tama Janowitz (NYPress)
Pirate 'Lolita' etext (700k via Google)
Detailed summary of Rimbaud biography (WashPost bk rev)
A very nice interview with Gwyneth (oldish UK Telegraph)
More nourishment for the truth-starved (the honest economist)
Enjoyable first chapter of literary-detection book, 'Author Unknown' (NYTimes)
Great account of a virgin 17thC archeological site in Maine (WashPost)
Nice tribute to Shane MacGowan of the Pogues (Dallas)
Fascinating 4300yo archeological find in Syria (LATimes)
Long amazing free-chapter about the evolution of the human face (via Google)
Malkovich Malkovich (via referer logs)
400k gif-animation of cloud-stripes at Jupiter's Red Spot (AstroPic-don't miss)
Followup on biped robots (comp.robotics.misc)
Mind-boggling nanotech submarine (NewSci)
Scariest numbers yet about sealevel and global warming (NewSci)
PhilG's tips for photographing gardens (Photo.net)
Gorgeous page-images of Gutenberg Bible (3Mb via ReBuzz)
A hip pundit on MacOS X and 'Darwin' (ZDNet-Somogyi)
More on the tech-monomyth and A.I. (comp.ai.nat-lang thread)
Jane Siberry's delightful artist-direct online Xmas shop (Sheeba.ca)
eBay humorlessly persecutes Kevin Mitnick (The Register)
Yahoo's portal-page/newspage for robotics (via comp.robotics.misc)
Rough summary of forthcoming game 'Black and White' (Slashdot thread)
Good still pix'n'specs for Sony biped (via Haddock)
Interesting gallery of Comdex gadgets (Dvorak-7pg)
Knoxville TN hosts 'Rave in the Cave' (Scripps)
Sony biped pic (20 inches!? 10 pound???) (USAToday)
Canada does democracy right! (Doris Day referendum) (Variety)
More free chapters of Chris Crawford's 'Understanding Interactivity' (Erasmatazz)
Info on a real bipedal robot (Shadow Robot Company)
This bipedal Honda robot is absolutely a hoax! (QuickTimes via Slashdot)
(there's nothing remotely inhuman about its gait) [thread disagrees]
Incredible profile of the TWA-EMI-theory professor, Elaine Scarry (don't-miss via FmH)
Unearthed skull reconstructed to look like Giotto? (older UK Times w/pic)
Large format of that stunning Wyoming fire-pic (AstroPic 400k) [even bigger]
(think of it as ancient dinos watching the asteroid fireball coming)
Sony unveils humanoid robot (myKingdom for a pic!)
(have you updated your Slashbox preferences lately?) (Slashdot.org)
Rave review of Sims expansion-pack (w/pix) (ArsTech 2pg)
Topnotch stuff (GirlHacker weblog)
MultiAgent.com: a slashdot-style weblog about semantic AI (I think) (indirectly via iBoy)
Preliminary arguments against the 84ky Eve-to-Adam gap (morning quickie)
Charming Thanksgiving vignette of a 1969 commune (Salon)
Major Net-pipe damaged by underwater quake? (Oz via Drudge)
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