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Virtual imaging brings fossils to life (BBC)
The obscure semi-Joycean topic I've been working on lately (The Household)
Bob Dylan's black ex-wife? (ThisIsLondon) [pic]
Nicole Kidman will play Virginia Woolf (Oz via Drudge)
More fine debunking of NYT/WashPost economic propaganda (the honest economist)
Update on cryptogrrrl Sarah Flannery (The Register)
John Boorman's next will be Oxford-English-Dictionary story (fine Salon interview)
I used to distrust this critique of Jewish racism, but now I think it's one of the most important documents on the Web (6 long pages) [the author's impeccable credentials]
Over now: Live RealAudio interviews (Sat 9am-11am CST)
Elvis Costello's new classical crossover (IrishTimes)
Brit rowed 8000 miles across Pacific in 9 months (Yahoo pic)
Short rave (plus pix) for PC game 'Black & White' (CNN)
Background on new Jesus-image (below) (WashTimes shortterm)
Another update on the keyless-remote mystery (Bremerton)
Mature rave for 'Tailor of Panama' movie (Salon)
Pix of Hunley excavation (Civil War sub) (Hunley.org) [more]
Wacky design for flying windmills in jetstream (BBC)
Alex Cockburn defends Tim McVeigh (NYPress)
Interesting tech argument that Mars atmosphere is moist... but only 3 ft deep (via sci.space.science)
Tuesday's updates on Saturday's mysterious keyless-remote outage (WA multipage via FmH)
Linux virus already more sinister than Windows predecessors (The Register)
Erotic pic without nudity (old Nerve PG-13)
Brits hatch scheme to grab a rock off Mars by 2009 (UK via NasaWatch)
Decent Tom Tomorrow comic on NAFTA et al (Salon)
'Heelys' are stealth rollerblades (IrishTimes)
Lovely history poem (Magellan) (Poems.com)
Provocative image of wellfed semitic Jesus (BBC via Drudge)
Foot-and-mouth blamed on smuggled swill (UK via Drudge)
Pic of Bjork in swan dress laying 'egg' (Yahoo)
A nice range of topics this week (the honest economist)
Fascinating new JFK-assassination analysis (WashPost via Manfre)
A nice Pre-Raphaelite fairy painting ('Midsummer Eve')
Juicy old John Lennon gossip (Reuters)
Live RealAudio interviews incl Naomi Klein (Sat 9am-noon CST) [Moment of Truth]
Are lunar volcanoes showering Earth with lava? (via sci.space.science)
Interesting update (and history) about game-console wars (PBS-Cringely)
One reviewer's critical history of Epinions (Epinions.com)
Okay 'The Sims' update (CNN)
Madcow-theory predicts potential major human die-off (Reuters via Drudge)
Last week's NYObserver had fun lit gossip from Ron Rosenbaum (via Google groups)
Your body is a soup of poisonous chemical additives (Reuters via FmH)
Beautifully scanned new Kate Moss pictorial (slow 10pg PG-13)
Well-written portrait of post-NAFTA Mexico (Consortium)
Confederate ribs found in Hunley sub (Charleston)
Lucid map of Mir target-area (NasaWatch)
Reconstruction of madcow's route via butchershop (NewSci)
Google Search: '2001 a [blank] odyssey' (ClicheWatch)
Strange, rare Indian kitties (Yahoo pic)
Painful insider record reviews by Steve Albini (via JoeManfre)
YAY! Triana whole-earth-cam scheduled for 2002 (news to me)
Millionaire 'cosmonaut' embarrasses space-program (WashPost via Drudge)
Vignettes of Japanese recession (UK via Drudge)
Nice villanelle (Poems.com)
Okay Michael Wolff rethink of post-POTUS Clinton (NYMag-2pg)
Another fine critique of economic reporting (the honest economist)
US corn supply hopelessly tainted with StarLink gene (LA Times)
Cambridge egghead discovers the wonders of email (The Register)
Jaynes-like theory of schizophrenia among early 'fat-heads' (Guardian via FmH)
Pleasant New Jersey seafood-restaurant review (NYPress)
Spielberg's Lincoln-revisionism (UKTimes via Drudge)
When the swallows don't come back to Capistrano... (AP)
Difficulties of PCs for older novices (PCMag)
Don't-miss report that Germany suspects Microsoft of abetting NSA spying (The Register)
9am Saturday CST 'This Is Hell' (live RealAudio)
Impassioned Edward Said update (CounterPunch)
'Silent Running' theme park opens in Britain (BBC)
The cosmic banalities of space-station life (AP)
Generous obit for thriller-writer Robert Ludlum (Guardian)
Puzzling threat to Great Lakes fish populations (CNN)
Google groups add date-search (via ReBuzz)
Righteous-but-arcane medical research using worm-genome (Eureka)
A true hero at Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (recent Salon)
SXSW pogos on dotcoms' graves (short) (recent Salon)
Sony will keep milking original PlayStation CPU (The Register)
More on 'goth hillbilly' Johnny Dowd (NYPress)
Brilliant solution to disposable cellphone idea (AP)
Israel-divestment campaign at Berkeley (SFBG via Sam)
NASA commissions space-music from Terry Riley (via alt.sci.planetary)
Linus's handcrafted Crusoe-kernel just 36k (The Register)
BackOrifice cracker-tool outclassed by SubSeven (The Register)
More ThisIsLondon javascript fashion galleries (new to me)
Okay review of Shane MacGowan bio (IrishTimes)
Witty debunking of CIA spycraft (CounterPunch)
A nice country tearjerker (lyrics plus Flash4 audio) (She Misses Him)
Debate about the sociobiology of antisemitism (via Google)
Informed speculation about Sony-IBM CPU-development alliance (The Register)
Looooong readable rave for 'Buffy' series w/spoilers (Salon)
Way-belated backgrounder on 'The Phantom Tollbooth' (children's book) (Salon)
Men Banned From Bogota Streets on Women's Night (Reuters)
Don't-miss Shane MacGowan interview and memoir (Guardian-2pg)
Unlock your higher powers with a blow to the temple? (BBC via FmH)
People's Republic of Hip-Hop gets down (NYTimes via Drudge)
Filming begins on 'Black Hawk Down' movie (via AIC)
Timeline for Google-groups upgrades (ResearchBuzz)
Thoughtful backgrounder on 'Center for Study of Popular TV' (Salon)
Bleak prediction of pc-industry dominated by copyright lawyers (The Register)
Uncanny pic of baby orangutan (Yahoo) [more canny]
A way to follow eGroups without Yahoo's cookie (eGroups.co.uk)
Detailed rave for Handspring cellphone-PDA (Salon)
Philip Greenspun outgrows ArsDigita (via vanEgmond)
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Thoughtful backgrounder on pardonee Marc Rich's Swiss hosts (AP)
Charming anecdote of sculptor Joseph Cornell (Poems.com)
Dublin literary gossip of 1898-1904 (recent project)
Top thirteen posthumous breadwinners (Elvis is #1) (Forbes.com)
Okay speculation about chip-competition (AMD, nVidia, etc) (Dvorak)
Detailed narrative of Hawaii sub catastrophe (AP)
84yo anti-renewal urbanist Jane Jacobs (new Metropolis)
RealAudio tribute to John Fahey (Sat 4pm-7pm CST)
Over now: Reruns of classic witty RealAudio interviews 9am-11 or 12 CST (This Is Hell!)
What they learned from the last Eros data (semi-dull) (NASA)
UK firms wouldn't pay $100k to hear Gore (Independent via Drudge)
Theory: The Browser in the Belly (Google rec.arts.books)
The very last (dull) scientific results from Eros probe (via sci.space.science)
Totally uncalled-for Mahavishnu-Orchestra bashing (Ftrain)
Affleck and Damon name $1M screenplay winner (Reuters)
Okay vignettes of Seattle quake (ABC)
Excellent short peek at Cuba (Mokhiber-Weissman)
Short memoir about prayer (Ftrain.com)
Okay update on IMAX experimentation (hi-res movie format) (NYPress)
Excellent Philip K Dick synopsis (NYPress-scroll down)
Spooky close-up of the Witch Head Nebula (AstroPic)
Elegant pet-poem of the Humane Society (Poems.com)
Interesting gossip about that webcam fiasco (WeLiveInPublic) (Salon)
Hilarious Napster-parody exploits MS-Windows security hole (The Register)
Overwhelming issue includes Sam's synopsis of BillC's biography-in-crime (ProgRev)
Google's newsgroup-browse starting to look usable (alt.books.james-joyce example)
Debunking the Ada Lovelace myth (NewYorker)
Anthology exposes sibling incest (AP)
Real-life Dances-with-Grizzlies (Anchorage)
Unsurprising sociobiology of economic recession (NYPress)
Inktomi ranks unpaid sites below paid (via alt.internet.search-engines)
Fascinating backgrounder on recent Mike Figgis hyper-cinema experiments (CSM-don't-miss)
Over now: Live, witty RealAudio interviews 9am-11 or 12 CST (This Is Hell!) [Moment of Truth]
Nifty one-ounce robot (w/pic) (CNN)
Gallery of London fashion week (multimultipage)
Short, lucid account of basic galaxy-formation (Eureka)
PhilG adds photo-guides to Barcelona and London (Greenspun.com)
'Mappings' page gives more hints of Google's plans (via alt.fan.dejanews)
'My ex-boyfriend sucks and here's the proof' (webcam fiasco) (5pg via alt.fan.jennicam)
1st-person account of Hindu fest (NYPress)
Esoteric explanation of 'asset management' for very large computer games (Gamasutra)
Microsoft disembowels Corel, then flees (The Register)
Brothers cross the world by pedal and paddle (via Drudge)
Warning: 'keep your Paypal balance low' (Salon)
Rec.music.folk reports guitarist John Fahey died this morning (Amazon samples) [obit]
250Myo asteroid impact killed off the trilobites (BBC)
Elegant exposition of DSL-biz catch-22 (Cringely)
The appalling lyrics of my current fave song (X-rated rap) (Mystikal's 'Danger') [RealAud] [pic]
Zillions of Grammy pix (Yahoo-multipage)
A readable short story (girl w/crush on teacher) (new old NewYorker)
Interesting preview of a solar-sail spaceship experiment (NewSci)
Interesting new AI's that detect patterns in science data (NewSci)
Why London's Millennium footbridge swayed so badly (NewSci)
How Chicago got its Shakespeare Theater (Reuters-ABC)
Starlight reveals billions of Earths (Telegraph via Drudge)
Are Earth's oceans slowly-but-irreversibly soaking into the mantle? (BBC)
Incredible photo of ' Prandtl-Glauert Singularity' (AstroPic)
Excellent bits on Bin Laden, Sharon, and Colin Powell (et al) (NYPress)
Nicely-done outrage over sub accident, etc (NYPress)
Don't-miss account of Greenspan power-grab (plus 800-to-1 NASDAQ p/e) (the honest economist)
Glimmer of hope for Iraq-sanctions relief (BBC)
Some of those New Yorker 'streaming' cartoons are hilarious (CartoonChannel multipage random)
Free Mac Opera beta due Thursday (web browser) (via Register)
Preview of MS 'Stinger' Pocket-PC cellphones (MSNBC)
FDA being forced to label GM foods? (Eureka)
Amish farmers embrace lo-nicotine, hi-profit GM tobacco (Reuters-ABC)
Update from Ellen (popup textwindow)
Women on the Pill seem to choose partners differently, by scent (Guardian via FmH)
Historians of Israel split into pro- and anti-Zionist (old LinguaFranca)
Australian remake underway of Graham Greene's Vietnam novel (Reuters)
Generally-informative digital-camera review (Photo.net)
No Hell this week (ThisIsHell)
Excellent effort to foresee witless W's foreign policy (Consortium-3pg)
Don't-miss intro to the comp.graphics 'demo scene' (Gamasutra-phat page)
Sweet V-day 'Dykes to Watch Out For' (WashBlade)
50yo alt.country primitive, Johnny Dowd (IrishTimes) [RealAuds]
Botanical genome projects yielding deeper understanding (Eureka)
Asthma epidemic leading to paradigm-shift on desirability of childhood diseases? (Reuters)
Dvorak claims Texas Instr. is about to revolutionize home stereo (ZDNet)
Mildly amusing account of how theoretical astrophysics is done (Eureka)
Much still to learn about nanoscale lubricants (Eureka)
Microsoft's horrific masterplan for enforcing music copyrights (The Register)
Treasure-filled 1st-millennium Peruvian tombs found (CNN-Reuters)
Alex Cockburn's mega-jaundiced political eye (NYPress)
Hannibal Lecter being spun as Ayn Rand hero (NYPress)
Gates, Buffett, Soros ask W not to repeal estate tax (right on, right on)
Awesome shot of Indonesian volcano (Yahoo pic)
Awesome Australian bug that escaped extinction-by-rats in 1920 (Yahoo pic)
Google's detailed comments on Deja complaints/status (Google Groups - Usenet Help)
Troubling update on Google's interface-plans for Deja (The Register)
Colombian cocaine-raid photo-op report reads like CIA press release (AP)
Byron on a sneaky Lucent-spinoff IPO scam (NYObserver)
Gloomy Amazon financial gossip (NYObserver)
Jeremy's comments on alt.fan.dejanews Monday (there now) were insightful (Google Full-Article View)
Mitnick-movie released on French DVD (The Register)
Farmers warned against biotech corn (heh) (AP)
Free content at NewYorker.com incl 'streaming' cartoons (via newissues)
RobotWisdom lands astronauts on Eros (carefully to scale)
Eros orbiter survived impact! (CNN)
Reloadable, semi-live 'webcam' for Eros landing (426x341 jpeg every minute or so)
(If it says 'forbidden' just reload again)

HALLELUJAH, GOOGLE BOUGHT DEJA!!!! (The Register) [more]
Superb issue of ERR, incl deregulation failures (the honest economist)
Long summary of new genome insights (WashPost via GeneHack)
Grab your Eros-landing RealVideo feed at 1:30pm CST? (delayed, and you may need G2) (NASA)
Eros-landing 'portal' includes useful animations (Johns Hopkins U Applied Physics Lab) [mirror]
Analysis of Japanese anti-US-military sentiment (Reuters)
Witty last line in Clinton-departure analysis (UK Times via Drudge)
Tragic update on bonobo poaching in Congo (pygmy chimp) (Chgo via FmH)
200 human genes originated in bacteria-to-vertebrate crossover? (AP)
Murky debate about so-called 'junk' in genome (Reuters)
Lost works of Aristotle found!?? (UK via referer log)
Elegant theory of skin-color evolution (Discover via FmH)
Le Carre: 'Book-into-film is like cow-into-bouillon-cube' (Reuters)
Drug Kingpin's Release Adds to Clemency Uproar (LATimes)
Israel's Nuclear Weapons-- A Case Study (long, restrained)
Great account of recent genome-project backbiting (Reuters)
Live coverage of space-station stuff (direct RealVideo)
Old poll: This is to compare USA vs non-USA over madcow fears: Has the risk of madcow disease changed your eating habits? View results
Updated ascii-graph of relative proportions: 
USA: VVVVVVVVVaaaaaGGllllllSSSSccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc
not: """"""""""""""GGGGGllllllllllllllllSSSccccccccccccccccc
 
Veggie avoided GaveUp less Start chances
Why service goes south when your local ISP gets sold (SFGate via FmH)
Over now: 9am-11am CST (live RealAud) Witty political interviews (This Is Hell!) [Recipe of Truth]
Elton John agrees to Grammy-duet with gay-bashing Eminem (LATimes)
One disgruntled physics student's lab report (via ark)
Claudius ate the poisoned mushrooms! (AP) [more]
Kibological candy hearts (Deja thread)
Google Search: 'fell into +a vat +of' (ClicheWatch)
Better gallery of press-photo-contest winners (Yahoo-multipage)
Mildly interesting genome-project update (Reuters)
A zillion elegant Patrick Demarchelier fashion photos (PG-13 via supermodels.nl)
Fun list of overhyped tech-flops (ZDNet via Yahoo)
Does it make sense to use your creditcard co as your ISP? (CNet via Yahoo)
London artist to grind up everything he owns (BBC)
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)
[M&F&feline] (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)
Do you have (or want) a website, and if so does it offer server-logs and referer-logs, and if so how closely do you monitor the referers? View results
26% no website (11% don't want, 8% lack time, 5% lack skills)
19% no referer logs (16% no logs at all)
55% have referer logs (17% monitor closely, 27% casually)

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)
Superb new perspective on Yanomami-genocide hullabaloo (WashPost)
Salon adds an (alphabetical) directory of topics (new to me)
Long, shivery-good poem (Poems.com)
Don't-miss Matt Ridley on chimpanzee 'socialism', etc (old NewStatesman)
Interesting bk-rev info-design, plus sociobiological leftism (CompleteReview)
goodnight earth (AstroPic 2400*1200)
Electrifying nature vignette (Poems.com)
My new art-heroines (don't miss!) (NatPost via iBoy)
Are you a genius with color-combinations? (Link-colors challenge)
A useful archive of magazine articles (Harper's, etc) (via the blorg)
RWWL archives: [Dec00] [Oct00] [Aug00] [old]
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Second looks: chess; Yanomami genocide

Israel: weblog; overview, Tikkun; fundamentalism, more Shahak, Chomsky; Stone's Damascus Gate

Sims: 'Online'

Don't miss: Lynda Barry's 5pg acid trip ; Montana fire pic; new tech for animating faces

James Joyce: news/portal; intro; Finnegans Wake

Press: Wired, IrishTimes, WSJ, Philly, Danish, Norwegian

US election: ROI parody, Jorn's profane poster

Eazel: Linux GUI, screenshots, old Susan Kare profile

Transmeta Crusoe: overview

Browser wars: iCab for Mac

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

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

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Google: adds dictionary; text-based ads; backgrounder, tech details

Deja: stupid productlinks tricks

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

Poems: manmuse, drinking, laundry, Hirschfield; Irish; lovepoems

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History: pirate revisionism

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