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Doha-WTO moves towards privatising water (Toronto-CD)
US tobacco giants caught trying to exploit terror bill (Montreal-map) [more]
Amazing video offer with Chomsky, Parenti, Zinn, and Nader (GooJa-map)
Former UN-chiefs denounce US Iraq policies (recent UkG)
Don't blink or you'll miss 'Iris' biopic (BBC)
Good time to read an Iris Murdoch novel (i recommend 'word child')
Thrilling Renata-Adler defense against NYTimes smear wrt Judge Sirica (Aug2000 Harper's 10pg-don't-miss) [more-3pg] [Salon pic]
Harrison obit (BBC)
Rumors saying George Harrison has died (UkPeople via rec.music.folk)
Fascinating rethink of the wireless-bandwidth paradigm (ZDnet)
US Christian groups opposing Israel (AP-Nando)
Clever acronymize-your-name program (Brunch via ark)
Somewhat-arcane econ-analysis by Dean Baker (CD)
Excellent insider-update on Al Qaida (IWPR-Judah)
Daniel Schorr tells lies to justify bombing Iraq (abunimah.org)
Okay review of secret LBJ tapes (Salon)
Dismal state-of-the-copyright-law address (Wired via Sam)
The winner of the Afghan war was... Russia? (Toronto via Sam)
Fun anti-Salon rock-gossip re the Strokes (NYPress#Billboard)
Roger Ebert's glossary of movie cliches (Google cache)
Very useful backgrounder on Iran's nuclear program (NYer-Hersh)
Feeble new batch of NYer cartoons (4th of 18pg)
More Afghan prison-rebellion pix (Yahoo pattern)
Hyper-thoughtful rave for sensational Anna Paquin play (NYPress)
Unhappy followup on WVa anarchist teen (AP-Nando)
Even never-used Hotmail-addresses somehow leak to spammers (Risks Digest#)
Chomsky says globalisation is Western-elite's conspiracy (Za via map) [transcript] [q&a]
"...over the last millennium war has been the dominant activity of European states. And for good reason: 'The central tragic fact is simple: coercion works; those who apply substantial force to their fellows get compliance and, from that compliance, draw the multiple advantages of money, goods, deference, access to pleasures denied to less powerful people.'"
Chomsky says USA more fundamentalist than Iran (Dawn via map)
Two new Abunimah NPR-corrections (settlements) (deathtoll)
Damning survey of Israeli killings of Palestinian children (CounterPunch)
Okay editorial on the fate of the Int'l Space Station (NYT-GooJa)
Nice analogy between W's justice and Lori Berenson case (Chgo-CD)
Greider sees a little light at Doha WTO-conference (Nation)
Nice closeup of earthlike Martian geology (AstroPix)
Has the cost of backing Israel become insupportable yet? (part3) (MSNBC)
Open Web Content License (morning quickie)
Reasonably coherent all-in-one conspiracy-theory of 11Sept and after (GooJa-map)
Haunting eyes of refugee toddler (Yahoo pic)
Interesting shot of refugees grinding wheat (Yahoo pic)
Okay Paul Krugman on W's patriotic rapine (NYT-CD)
Israelis admit they set boobytrap that killed schoolboys (JPost)
Another hotly-denied report of 35 bodybags (Jang)
Don't-miss 1st-person of Taliban prison rebellion (Time-Drudge) [pix]
The new academic thought-crime of 'patriotic incorrectness' (NYT-GooJa)
Update on Muslim detainees (NYT-GooJa)
Superb long book-review about historical Jesus (TNR via Explorator)
Lucid legal case for Sharon's 1982 war crimes (UkG via Martin)
Interesting backgrounder on Seymour Hersh (UkG via Martin)
Useful backgrounder on Israel's assassination policy (old BBC)
Israeli calls Hebron settlers 'a disgrace' (Boston via Xod)
A Kibologist's Thanksgiving prayer (GooJa-ark)
Even CIA guys think Pentagon hawks are nuts (VVoice-don't-miss)
Xbox harddrive may be destroyed if dropped (Anand via Reg)
Nietzsche on the Old vs New Testaments (GooJa-Moggin)
NY Review of Books charging $4 per article!?? (NYRB)
Interesting Queens-crash conspiracy-analysis (Tripod via netnews)
1997 article portrays Taliban as peaceful and popular (UkInd-WSN)
Don't-miss Tim Judah update on the Afghan situation (IWPR)
Decent new Harper's Index (Harper's)
Fundamentalist settlers vow to expand terrorist occupation (Jerusalem)
The Great Usenet Meme-Shift (morning quickie)
Long extract about Wittgenstein-Popper rashomon-battle (UkG bk rev)
New logo wraps anthrax in USA flag (FBI via map)
Sociology class assigned to critique robot wisdom (see ch23) (hee hee hee)
Readable backgrounder on the little Pepsi-girl (NYObserver)
Short memoir of female junkie busted at amusement park (NYPress)
New NYer cartoons still heavily topical (19pg)
Fine, relaxed month-old interview with Robert Fisk (new Progressive)
Update from PhilG on his free web-services (recent this time)
Food-aid packages selling at same price as ten flatbreads (AP-USA)
Okay fantasy of Linux PDAs as hackers' delight (ZDNet)
Israeli compares ultra-Orthodox Jews to Taliban (Reuters)
Kenya spawns new genres of political rap (Reuters w/pic)
Goofy screengrab from $1B military videogame (Yahoo pic) [story]
How a new Clinton-myth was spread by Rush et al (Spinsanity via Spin)
Pix of the mega-evil Carlyle Group (Bush Sr et al) (UkG via Spin)
Three serious risks of Carnivore (spy-tech) design (via map)
Short 1987 Chomsky on Vietnam, Nicaragua, etc (via map)
Pacifica board agrees to resign (via map)
Sympathetic Ted Turner update (Atlanta via Drudge)
Movie-news of Lem, Barris, DrewB, Coens, Soderbergh, Clooney, etc (Reuters-ABC)
Simulation of Gulf Stream blames Euro ice age on glacial melt (via Eureka)
Richard Reeves protests W's hiding presidential papers (NYT-Yahoo)
Closer-up of Kabul's teevee-teen (different spelling)
Gossipy psychohistory of Jackie O (UkG bk rev)
Eccentric Iliad-translator Christopher Logue (UkG bk rev) [extract] [pic]
Wonderfully rational response to Powell's speech (abunimah.org)
Same fine themes, slightly-less-contained fury (honest economist)
Superb account of Hockney's camera-lucida theory (old NYer) [URL corrected]
Excellent homemade satellite dishes in Kabul (Yahoo pic)
Creditable trailer for Iris Murdoch biopic (Quicktime5 required)
1159 NYer cartoons on the topic of 'money' (Cartoonbank)
Inside a Kabul bathhouse (Yahoo pic)
Veil-less 16yo spokesmodel revives Kabul teevee (a star is born)
Long, balanced summary of hijacked Flight-93 mysteries (Philly)
Boxer's knockout-shot choreographed by the Coen bros? (Yahoo pic)
Zap's imagemap links to best web comix (inspiring info-design)
Interesting stats on PlayStation-One longevity (LATimes-Nando)
New anti-NAFTA book uses example of Swingline staplers (UkG bk rev)
Kandahar so poor that bombs increase its wealth (Gulf)
Pakistani arouses suspicions by dumping dishwater (AP)
Radical claims incl that only 900 Taliban have been killed (Jang)
Prime minister sees Israel as root source of terrorism (Malaysia)
Zionist-propaganda campaign expands to academia? (Lebanon)
20-20 hindsight on Taliban weaknesses (IWPR)
Timing of Al-Jazeera bombing suggests intentional (UkG via Drudge)
Readable 1st-person of the Northern Alliance occupying Kabul (IrishTimes)
The Army's $1 Billion Video Game (ABC)
High-concept post-Taliban propaganda-movie ideas (NYPress#Billboard)
Fun first chapter of 'Carter Beats the Devil' (UkGuardian) [background]
An overview of the 'Harry Potter' books, for adults (older NYer)
Unsurprising overview of the current situation (Peshawar)
First-time Linux users should try SuSE for $80 (The Register)
A Prague-portal for English-speakers (for Peter Lowe)
'The Last Time I Saw bin Laden' (ark-Pacheco)
Two online e-books about recent Afghan history (via OLB)
New-issue cartoons are pretty lame (NYer, 8th of 12pg)
Belated local obit for Ken Kesey (Eugene, OR)
Site-redesign offers more-descriptive linktext (Scientific American)
Crash blamed on cracked plastic tailfin-fittings (WashPost)
William Safire draws line at 'dictatorial power' (yesterday's NYTimes-CD)
Al-Jazeera bomb-damage in Kabul (Yahoo pic) [story]
Readable 1st-person by a Kosovo mine-clearer (BBC)
Elegant editorial about Afghan poverty (Jordan)
Hiring teens to sell gadgets to teens (BBC)
Nicely-written 1st-person account of fall of Kabul (IWPR-TJudah) [prequel]
Balanced account of Syrian protest to UN (Jerusalem)
Kevin Poulsen on rips in the fabric of cyberspace (The Register)
The logarithmic scale of candy sizes (GooJa-Kibo)
Short PhilG on ubiquitous computing (greenspun.com)
Funny pic of Bill Gates with wrestling-star (Yahoo pic)
A very unusual angle on a shuttle launch (AstroPic)
Detailed prediction that Microsoft's mediocrity will doom Xbox (Salon don't-miss)
Readable narrative of northern Afghanistan a few weeks back (NYRB)
Whole new issue posted free on Web (NYRB) [oops, not]
Long, inconclusive analysis of planecrash evidence (Boston via Sam)
Israeli minister described as 'Jewish supremacist' (IAP shortterm)
Sweet short rant by libertarian Harry Browne (CounterPunch)
The first veils fall (Yahoo pic) [happy]
Interesting Kabul-river washerwomen scene (Yahoo pic)
Culture-jamming a WinXP billboard (Register-2pg)
Complicated tutorial on maximising your Net anonymity (The Register)
Update on planecrash theories and rumors (WashTimes via Drudge)
Israel consistently rejects international observers (AP-ABC)
Taliban retreat viewed as strategic (Reuters-Gulf)
Kabul banks looted of millions (Dawn)
Racist state of Israel declares Palestinian lives valueless... again (AP via Xod)
Sort-of-cool 300k animated GIF of polar auroras (AstroPic)
Poll results (pageload time, 500 votes):
48% less than 5 seconds 27% 5-10 . 16% 10-20 . 6% 20-40 . 3% 40-90 (12 votes) . 0% 90-180 (1) . 0% 180+ (2) .Fun visit to Japanese-action-figure store (NYPress)
Exuberant review of Roy Lichtenstein's career (NYer art crit)
Unix-savvy Somogyi finds MacOS X not quite ready for primetime (ZDnet)
Israel tries to block pro-Palestinian Greek-Orthodox patriarch (Jordan)
Scabrous 1992 prediction of Goldin's disastrous management style (NasaWatch)
Silly, very-small Flash animation (kitty_02 via ark)
Thorough-looking news-search not-quite-by-date? (AllTheWeb.com)
FBI views all mideasterners in US universities as suspects (NYTimes-GooJa)
Gloria Trevi's miraculous conception (Reuters) [old pic]
UK watchdog quibbles over tastefulness of WTC coverage (Reuters)
$500M undersea power-cable to tap Scotland's wind and waves? (BBC)
Encouraging editorial on Bush's UN speech (Lebanon)
Queens crash consistent with bomb in luggage compartment (Yahoo links)
We must stop financing Israel's criminality (CounterPunch)
Elegant anti-war composition with landmine victim (Yahoo pic)
Ancient Mayan secret produces non-fading paints (Popular Science)
Alltheweb.com will index 3000 news sources (IDG-CNN)
(...they better start including sort-by-date, then!)
A long-puzzling netnews meme explained ('Jorn cares') [684 hits]
Long lucid analysis of collapse-related WTC design-choices (new NYer)
Has the cost of backing Israel become insupportable yet? (part 2) (AP)
Puzzling claim that US ground forces have claimed Mazar-e-Sharif (Pesh)
Islamic fundamentalist babes-with-guns (Yahoo pic)
Brilliant ObL-Tintin parody (Salon comic)
MRI-brainscans may reliably detect lying (Eureka)
Semi-witty attempt to sort out changing definitions of good and bad (Toronto-CD)
Early Egyptian voodoo-doll (pic via Explorator)
A hippie-looking N-Alliance soldier (Yahoo pic)
Two NJ Indian-Muslims still held on WTC-suspicion (AP-Fox)
Overdue letter-to-NPR puts recent occupation in perspective (abunimah.org)
Overwritten rant accurately nails the Israel-factor (UkInd)
Interesting background on Pashtun tribe in Pakistan (IWPR)
Lucid editorial on Israel's fake 'democracy' (Jordan)
Detailed analysis of Taliban retreat-options (Reuters-Gulf) [big map]
Intelligent negative views of 'Harry Potter' film (Ain't It Cool)
Many new-to-me details of hijackers' background (from UkTimes?) (Pesh)
Colorfully-written analysis of Taliban loyalties (Pesh)
"hezbollah 67,295 - hizbullah 39,630 - hizbollah 27,533 - hizballah 11,627" (AltaVista spellcheck)
"Gadhafi 21,300 - Gaddafi 17,000 - Qaddafi 5840 - Kadhafi 5780" (McSweeneys spellcheck) [variants]
(AV disagrees: "Gaddafi 30,713 - Gadhafi 10,340" and now Google disagrees too.)
Outline of 8-pg CounterPunch history of US anti/terrorism (quickie project)
Artistic shot of Afghans and a misty tank (Yahoo pic)
Interesting raves for 'Heist' and 'Waking Life' (NYer cinema)
1964-era Beatles posed with US flag (Yahoo-UK pic)
Long skeptical 'at home' interview with Sharon (UkG via Yahoo)
Nationwide Pakistan strikes fizzle (Pesh)
Serious report that Al Qaida has a suitcase nuke within the USA (Pesh)
8000 Taliban reinforcements headed to reclaim Mazar-i-Sharif? (Dawn)
Superb Abunimah on the latest Peres-Sharon scam (Jordan via Yahoo)
Analytic introspection about swing-dance lessons (recent ark)
Detailed Palestinian perspective on their recent strategic losses (Lebanon)
Detailed update on diplomatic maneuvering wrt Hizbullah (Lebanon)
"maneuver 277,334 - manoeuvre 110,680 - manoeuver 2438 - maneuvre 1349" (Altavista spellcheck)
Don't-miss transcript of new ObL interview (Dawn) [sidebar]
"There are many innocent and good-hearted people in the West. American media instigates them against Muslims... The Jewish lobby has taken America and the West hostage."
The myth of 'moderate Taliban' (Jang)
UN anti-mine team doing its best with cluster-bomblets (Jang)
'Better Than Sex' explores intimacy (Salon movie review)
Rebranding Earth for an age of interstellar terrorism (fun site via ark)
Short, atmospheric sketch of Peshawar (UkInd)
Grim neologism: 'the Bush Dictatorship' (CounterPunch-8pg)
It's an ex village... (Yahoo pic)
Cute Thai pup with head stuck in jug (Yahoo pic)
Hillary lied about Chelsea's WTC close-call (Drudge)
'Taliban-lite' entrepreneurs smuggle donkey-loads to N-Alliance (IWPR)
Taliban holiday-game of headless-goat polo (Yahoo 4pix) [BBC-passim]
Did Rumsfeld betray Karzai connection? (recent LATimes)
Exploring the Pakistan-ISI-ObL connection (via netnews)
How global warming may impact agriculture (BBC)
$200k minimum for 13-day Russian astronaut 'training' (eBay via NasaWatch)
16yo Latvian faces 15 years for flower-attack (BBC)
USA preferred Islamic fundamentalists over Nasser's independence? (Lebanon)
Many inconsistencies hint that ObL is still CIA (JaredIsrael)
Follow-up on dividing Afghanistan into 'US of Afghanistan' (Jang)
Northern Alliance on horseback (Yahoo pic)
Interesting pic of Kate Hudson (Goldie Hawn's daughter) (Yahoo pic)
Patriotic bubblegum-card series from Topps (Reuters-CNN) [collect all 90!]
Complex backgrounder on Enron's fall (Salon)
Literary sleuth Don Foster investigates anthrax letters (AP-ABC)
Wacky String Explosion at JPL Damages Car (NasaWatch)
Adorable 'collateral damage' (Yahoo pic)
(...but the Zionists are all agreed that-- so long as it's just gentile lives-- the price is well worth it.)
Surreal image of human 'standing stone' (Yahoo pic)
Complete works of HP Lovecraft online (via Google)
Finally a pic of Hamid Karzai (Haq successor) (BBC)
Latvian peacenik slaps Prince Charles with flower (BBC pix) [AP-USA]
Another ground-fiasco produces 26 more US body-bags? (Peshawar)
Refugee-shot of extraordinary depth (Yahoo pic)
'Oedipus complex' demonstrated in sheep and goats!? (1998 BBC)
Intimate exploration of Egyptian views of the crisis (UkGuard via Kate)
Breezy overview of the likeliest next forms of attack (CounterPunch)
Israel clarifies intent to crush all mideast resistance (WashPost via Drudge)
Detailed prediction that master-strategist-ObL will target oilwells with nukes (Cryptome via Mark)
Columnist for Hamas weekly pens paean to anthrax (JPost via Drudge)
The Edmonton (Canada) Edible Ballot Society (whimsy via Sam)
All pretense abandoned of fair play about Israel (recent Reuters)
"This new list clearly shows that there is no distinction between terrorism against Americans and terrorism against Israelis"
Dismal sneak-peek of WTO agenda (UKGuard)
Symbolic victory on local health-care referendum (Maine-CD)
Zionist-terrorist ADL gloats over US-media stranglehold (recent JPost)
Zionists squeeze Hizbollah resistance via Lebanese banks (Reuters) [JPost] [Leb]
(...while the USA funds Israeli terrorism with billions/year.)
Vidcaps of ObL's sons (Yahoo 3pix) [article]
Taliban identify deceased 'spy' as Californian John Bolton (AP)
General map of possible ObL hiding-places (UkTimes GIF)
Okay update on food-aid strategies (Reuters)
Taliban organise defensive kamikazes (Peshawar via Drudge)
Taliban stocking up on dried fruit (Dawn)
Taliban assign 'night shift' to Arab fighters (Dawn)
Report that USA is shipping bodies home in bags (Peshawar)
Difficult but very meaty account of the 'secret' war (UkObsrvr-don't-miss)
Barech tribe defecting from N-A to Taliban (recent GulfNews)
Short comment from Frances Moore Lappe on globalisation and hunger (LATimes-IHT)
(I'm surprised Kabul still has a produce market) (Yahoo pic) [carrots] [eggs]
Skeptical details on Pogo cell-browser (The Register)
Anticipatory obit for Andreessen's Loudcloud (NYObs-Byron)
Google Search: 'terrorists win' (ClicheWatch)
Cosmic magenta sunset (AstroPic)
Sharon and Peres hatching a new evil plot (Jerusalem)
70% of World's Population Could Use All-Star Benefit Concert (new Onion)
Ground forces are training on 3D modeller (IDG-CNN)
Social breakdown makes UN-relief much harder (UkIndep)
Scary details on the big bomb (below) (UkIndep)
Some decent cartoons from the current issue (NYer-44pg)
Poignant George Booth 11Sept cartoon (recent NYer)
Seymour Hersh stands by ground-fiasco report (CNN-Drudge)
London's financial district easy prey to 'war driver' hacking (BBC)
Cute refugee baby-hat (Yahoo pic)
Hard-to-read exploration of a few MS-settlement good points (The Register)
Hard-to-read interview about early Saudi/Taliban connections (ArabNews)
British MPs call for arms embargo on Israel (Peshawar)
Big effing bomb can incinerate everyone within 600 yards (Yahoo pic) [article]
Hundreds are trying to write a novel within this month (LATimes via ark) [wordcounts]
Elegant report on Chomsky-talk in New Delhi (Dawn)
Netflix website efficiently rents DVDs by mailorder (TidBits review)
Sony brandishes DMCA against Aibo-hacking site (LATimes shortterm)
Excellent backgrounder on Afghan movie with 'hobbling stampede' image (UkIndependent)
Brother claims Karzai has grown too strong for Taliban to attack (UkIndependent)
Pakistani who died in jail may have been tortured (Indy-WSN)
(If this is true, could fake confessions be the source of all the recent bogus attack-warnings?)
Interesting inside-Kandahar views about Arabs and spies (Jang)
Unfamiliar-to-me details of western support of Islamic fundamentalism (Dawn)
Paki nukes may be moved to... China? (UkTimes via Drudge)
Remedial intro to language-A.I. (morning quickie)
Napster-alternatives approaching two billion downloads per month (Reuters)
Is Judaism a religion of hate? (AP-USA)
(Try rewriting this story with Israel and Palestine switched.)
USO-shows now feature a mosh pit!? (Variety-Yahoo passim)
A jug-mender's apprentice (Yahoo pic)
Refugee couple of-character (Yahoo pic)
New Star Wars trailer requires Quicktime5 upgrade (many hi-res stills, though)
Cipro is extremely dangerous and virtually untested (WashPost)
Arundhati Roy's new short haircut (pic) (Oz via Google)
Okay backgrounder on new US deputy of mideast-propaganda (NYMag-3pg)
Pakistan shoe 'warehouse' (Yahoo pic)
Afghan domestic scene with baby and laundry (Yahoo pic)
Afghan plowing with oxen (Yahoo pic)
Overview of studies showing health-benefits from pets (SciDaily)
Anti-vivisectionist dies in UK-prison hunger-strike (BBC)
Don't-miss update on the flak that Arundhati Roy is suffering (NYTimes-GooJa)
Prison-food memories (GooJa-ark)
Interesting claims about US political strategies (Peshawar)
Informative Michael-Jordan bashing (Salon)
Insightful Tom Tomorrow, without too much text (Salon comic)
Alarmingly positive review of WinXP (BBC-grudging)
Ground-fiasco reads like a little 'Black Hawk Down' (NYer-Hersh)
Sting w/daughter (Yahoo pic)
Good backgrounder on mass-conversion in India (UkIndependent)
Howls of articulate outrage from Abunimah to Bush and Powell (Bush) [Powell1] [Powell2]
Reconstructing the hijackers' planning (NYT-Yahoo)
More background on Haq-successor Karzai (AP-USA) [August flashback]
Unsettling image of kids playing on artillery piece (Yahoo pic)
Slaughterhouses as a target/weapon for bioterrorists (CommonDreams)
The tenuous links that led to Arabs' preventive detention (WP-MSNBC)
Only 20k untouchables allowed to attend mass-conversion (AP-USA) [pix]
Picturesque collateral-damage landscape (Yahoo pic)
Cute refugee kids (Yahoo pic)
Full translation of ObL's latest statement (BBC)
Chinese documentaries celebrate WTC attack (UK Telegraph via Drudge)
Lurid account of jihad training manuals (Uk Times via Drudge)
Proposal to split Afghanistan among many warlords/ ethnic groups (Jang)
Experts worrying about Paki nukes (Jang)
Some stats about NYT and WP war-propaganda (Fair via Spin)
War-critic barred from flying!?? (CounterPunch) [more]
Goofy Afghan wedding-dance (Yahoo pic)
Sneak peek at NYer coverage of 20Oct ground-attack fiasco (Drudge don't-miss) [more] [denial]
South-Asia map showing US bases (CNN)
Map of Northern Alliance territories (CNN) [BBC]
Population-density map of Afghanistan (via Google)
Map of landmines in Afghanistan (via Google)
Animated map of 1980s Afghan war (via Google)
'Taliban of Kandahar, show us your guns!' (Yahoo pic)
Fine, very long backgrounder on ObL (Observer-Salon)
Update on how the Taliban think the war is going (Jang)
Unenlightening backgrounder on Haq-successor Karzai (UK Independent)
Short backgrounder on Haq's US financiers (UK Independent)
One million untouchables converting to Buddhism tomorrow (UK Independent)
Thoughtful posthumous analysis by Abdul Haq (Guardian-CD)
"...it's impossible to find anyone beneath the level of the [US] president who is willing to take responsibility for a decision..."
Paul's naughty bits in Magical Mystery Tour video? (via Google)
In Haq-sequel, Taliban intercept copter-drop of 600 guns (Reuters)
(...supporting the highly-placed-leaker theory.)
Loony scheme to 'revive' baseball via themepark-design (Metropolis-2pg w/popup pix)
Scope of quagmire becoming all-too-clear (WashPost-MSNBC)
A.I. masters checkers using genetic algorithms (Blondie24 publisher's page) [$25]
Vivid sketch of Pakistani rebels (UK Independent)
New World Order candy (pun, via ark)
Anti-cave tactics (AP-USA)
Yellow food packets will eventually be substituted blue (Ch2000-AP)
15yo's anarchy club banned in W Virginia school (Nando-AP)
More evidence the Red Cross was intentionally targeted (via netnews)
Edutaining shot of Kabul 'highway' (Yahoo pic)
Freaky-looking albino gorilla (3 pix) (Yahoo pattern)
Pakistan smuggling supplies to Taliban by night? (WashTimes via Drudge) [long LATimes]
Bombed hydroelectric dam at risk of collapse? (Dawn-AFP) [Reuters denies]
Short Krugman expose on Cheney-specific corporate welfare (CD-NYTimes)
New issue with Afghanistan coverage (NYRevBks)
Unique da-Vinci bridge-design tested (AP-USA) [pic] [today]
Afghan hut-design tips (Yahoo pic)
Beautiful praying silhouette (Yahoo pic)
Superrealist-style Maine dawn (Yahoo pic)
Japanese 'Matchbox' cars get IR remote-control (Singapore 3pg)
Post-mortem on Goldin's tenure at NASA (Economist via NasaWatch)
Drought-worn Tajiks envy aid for Afghanistan (Jang)
Wild rumors incl 250000 Russian ground troops (Jang)
Interesting ground-report from Kandahar (Reuters)
USA still afraid to risk ground troops (Guardian via Drudge)
Byron skeptical of satellite radio's numbers (NYObserver)
Amanpour gets apology from Murdoch over war slut column (NYObserver)
Great making-of account for stop-motion Poe (NYPress)
General update anticipates ground assault on Kabul (Jang)
Superb issue emphasizes 'upward redistribution' (honest economist)
Game-experts compare the consoles (Xbox etc) (CNN-IDG)
Stiletto heels withdrawn as deadly weapon (Reuters) [pic]
Beable von Polasm on one-click charities (GooJa-ark)
Running tally of websites censored since 11Sept (EFF via Sam)
Global warming threatens mideast drought (Malaysia w/pix)
ObL's cave located by pure deduction? (ArabNews) [map w/Paktika]
Mushroom cloud north of Kabul (AP-short) [pic?]
Long Seymour Hersh on the risk of fundamentalist nukes in Pakistan (NYer)
Scenes from Brazil's olympics for indigenous peoples (Yahoo pattern)
Preparations to deliver ground aid (Reuters)
U.S. warns Afghans of yellow cluster bomblets (Reuters) [pic]
Afghan hospital-system collapses (Peshawar)
Elderly Afghan woman of character (Yahoo pic)
Don't-miss backgrounder on hijackers points to Saudi/ObL origins (UKTimes via Sam)
Bizarre 'mud volcanoes' belch fire (BBC)
"It looked as though an animal was trying to get out of the ground."
Handy free service to make long URLs more emailable (via JDavis)
Israel claims militant groups have formed alliance (Jerusalem)
Neo-Nazi Wm Pierce predicted many details (CounterPunch)
Minimalist sunset composition (Yahoo pic)
Small map of airstrikes so far (BBC gif)
Zombie jokes (alt.religion.kibology)
After the hobbling-stampede... (Yahoo pic) [closeup]
Dramatic shot of volunteers eager to fight USA (Yahoo pic)
Mildly gory but educational shot of Afghan sheep-butcher (Yahoo pic)
Very cool pic of hillside donkey-train (Yahoo pic)
Short Paul Krugman rant about corporate welfare (CD-NYTimes)
Horrifying report of Israeli 'nuclear landmines' (UKTimes-Mar2000)
Interesting analysis of Israeli propaganda campaign, etc (ArabNews)
Exemplary Islamic overview of the latest developments (ArabNews)
Haq's capture may imply high-level leak (GulfNews)
Comical shot from Indonesian refugee sit-in (Yahoo pic) [melodramatic]
Anecdotes of Afghan bravery (ABC)
Lisa Marie looking pissed at Nic Cage (2 pix) (Yahoo pattern)
In case of war, steal (Pakistan's) nukes (UK Telegraph)
Taliban tell Paki volunteers they're not needed (Jang)
Pug-dog dressed as pig (Yahoo pic)
UK critics unanimously pan Jacko's 'Invincible' (BBC via Drudge)
Flag-burning amendment gets belated rider (Yahoo pic)
Avant-garde shot of women covering faces (Yahoo pic)
Clever contestant won $110k on 1984 gameshow (via ark)
Survey of English-language books on Pakistan street (AP-USA) [pic]
Human reaches 11000 ft using 600 toy balloons (Yahoo pic)
18.5k Taiwanese fail to break lantern-waving record (Yahoo pic)
Landscape of Israeli terrorism (Yahoo pic) [sad]
Pirated WinXP available locally for under $3 ('RM10') (Malaysia)
Taliban claim arrested 'journalist' is CIA (Peshawar)
Okay interview with Kabul doctor about bombing, etc (Fisk-Independent)
British rabbi calls Israel 'colonialist' (UK Independent)
A girl, her donkey... and the Northern Alliance (Yahoo pic)
Microwave crowd-control close to roll-out? (NewSci via Drudge)
Traditional funeral for bombing victim at Ghanikheil (Yahoo pattern)
Fascinating cooking technique (Yahoo pic)
Interesting clothes at Tajik refugee camp (Yahoo pic)
Vivid instance of the 'rearranging rubble' bombing-joke (Yahoo pic)
Long, hard-to-read argument that history texts are pulling punches on Bible's historicity (Rutgers via netnews)
Recipes to recreate 1st century Roman banquet (via Explorator)
2300yo Greek theater is still acoustically near-perfect (via Explorator) [info] [pix]
Very credible rave for 'Harry Potter' (spoilers?) (Ain't It Cool)
US sources confirm most of Jang-version of Haq's end (WashPost-MSNBC)
CIA weighs 'targeted killing' option (evil-WashPost-MSNBC)
Excellent sifting of contradictory reports on Haq's last mission (Jang)
Decent auto-repair poem (Poems.com)
Intelligent Canadian werewolf flick (spoilers?) (Salon review)
Second 'accidental' bombing of Red Cross raises serious doubts (AP-USA)
Forrest-Gump director eager to make propaganda films (Ch2000)
Iraqi source of anthrax 'verified' by... Israel (UK Times)
Surprising claim the US is selectively bombing non-Afghan volunteers in the North (BBC)
N-Alliance commander eats like a king (BBC)
Longshot background of refugee tent-city (Yahoo pic) [cuter]
(Why don't I remember seeing this view before?)
Concise Alex Cockburn summary of where things stand now (CounterPunch)
US spin on Haq execution (WashTimes via Drudge)
ObL described as shy and soft-spoken (AP-USA)
Six pix of 5000 Pakistani reinforcements rolling out to fight US (Yahoo temp-pattern)
(Is there a diplomatic reason they won't get slaughtered from the air as soon as they cross the border?) [story]
Refugee-girl with cookie and cat (Yahoo pic)
Afghan currency exchange (Yahoo pic)
Jenna Bush (at school) reported 'on edge' (first twins)
Some principles of Usenet debate (morning quickie)
23 Kursk crewmen survived for hours after sinking (AP-USA) [pix]
Flaubert's oriental adventure (Guardian bk rev)
Taliban claim Abdul Haq carried names of spy-ring (Dawn)
Refugee kids facing winter in a tent (Yahoo pic)
Fun review of various recent country-music CDs (NYPress)
Naomi Klein blames US un-preparedness on slashed safety-net (CommonDreams)
Madison (Wisc) mob enforces pledge of allegiance (Progressive.org)
Ballyhoo Examiner letters-etc page updating almost every day (acquired taste)
Robert Fisk on the puppet-dictators principle (UK Independent)
How that Chinook (below) lost its wheels (UK Independent)
(So our 'plan' that had spared that base from bombing was just a plan for a photo op.)
Journalists with N-Alliance have no clue what's happening (recent IWPR)
Afghan cradle of formidable design (Yahoo pic)
Cute refugee toddler with bread (Yahoo pic)
Grinning Afghan bathes in bucket (Yahoo pic)
Greatest-ever brainwash-campaign fails to boost enlistments (LATimes via Drudge)
US aiming to starve Afghanistan into submission? (CounterPunch)
The anti-Taliban leader who was just killed, Abdul Haq (Yahoo pic) [story]
Pix of northern refugees processing rice (Yahoo temp-pattern)
Michael Wood reviews Pytheas's 325BC expedition (ThisIsLondon)
Lego uses Maori words insensitively (BBC)
Google worrying about income streams (CNet via Register)
Edward-Abbey book-cover deemed terrorist threat (GooJa-Philly)
Hip-hop gains (a little) academic credibility (AP via Drudge)
Aftermath of Sharon's latest atrocity (IAP)
Coverage of tribal 'shurga' (pix below) (AfghanNN) [Jang] [Reuters] [Colin Powell]
US agents wear masks to receive mysterious prisoner (Pakistan)
Refugee siblings (Yahoo pic)
Seattle experiments with 'cozy' housing (CSM via Sam)
Hyper-abstract Mimi Kramer rave for Zimmerman's Metamorphoses (NYPress)
Smallest full web-browser/cellphone 'Pogo'? (April Guardian) [pic]
Al Hirschfeld, Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft (Yahoo pic)
Afghan thinks we bomb because ObL killed our donkeys (BBC)
Simulating Tarantino-esque dialogue (morning AI-quickie)
Enthusiastic review of new Apple iPod MP3 player (The Register) [more]
Sympathetic vignettes of Afghan food-drops (Reuters) [cute pic] more
Intimate shot from Iranian women's olympics (Yahoo pic)
Long brilliant Chomsky on 'the new war on terror' (CounterPunch)
Various lucid FAQs about Israel (PMW 12pg)
Excellent thoughtful Hitchens interview on political labels (Reason via NYPress)
Fascinating bio of US Army/ Al Qaida double agent (NCarolina via Drudge)
The Taliban's ramshackle embassy in Islamabad (Yahoo pic) [story]
Interesting shot of boy weighing walnuts (Yahoo pic)
Spectacular Afghan sunset (Yahoo pic)
Amazing shot of Afghan refugees-by-raft (Yahoo pic)
CounterPunch: Sterilizing mail with nuclear waste (ah, capitalism)
("...we swallowed the nukes to kill the germs...")
Close-up of anthrax-note handwriting (Yahoo pic) [another]
1961 photo of family bomb-shelter drill (Yahoo pic)
Postal workers compare sorting-machines to crop-dusters (NYNews via Drudge)
Somewhat-detached perspective-piece on Bethlehem crisis (BBC)
Israel's state-of-the-art bioterrorism lab (GooJa-Ha'aretz)
(The UK Times claimed in 1998 that they're seeking pathogens that selectively attack non-Jews.)
Interesting perspective on the Saudi connection (NYPress-Szamuely)
Dramatic political meeting of Afghan refugees (Yahoo 7-pix)
(Sorry, guys, Israel needs to impose a puppet dictator to teach you democracy.)
Unbearably painful coverage of Israeli terrorism (Islamic Assoc for Palestine)
Viet Cong veteran predicts Taliban victory (AFP)
Details on Afghanistan's landmine-problem (AFP)
Pakistani anthrax-connection being hushed up? (Pakistan)
(...cf 'Pakistani general' story below?)
Cute wedding pic of Christina Applegate (Yahoo pic)
What if the CIA had butted out of Iran? (GooJa-LATimes)
Franzen disses Oprah's book club as 'corporate' (Nando-AP)
Here's a little javascript to make today's Salon-quiz readable (Bible vs Koran)
They're harboring the real fundamentalist terrorists-- so why aren't we bombing Israel? (Reuters)
(And why doesn't this report even mention the 35 Palestinians killed by govt-sponsored Israeli terrorism in the past 5 days?)
Bethlehem vignette (CounterPunch)
Apple rethinks the Newton? (w/pic) (via Register) [nope, just mp3]
Almost-unbelievable report on the next excuse for an 'economic stimulus' (CounterPunch)
Somewhat-overwritten potted history of pearls (NYer)
Grim Bethlehem update (GooJa Al-haq)
Tenants fleeing Empire State Building (BBC)
Disney airs pathetic say-no-to-Napster cartoon (The Register)
Israeli admits: 'the settlers are like war criminals' (AP-don't-miss!)
Fascinating candid of Jeff Bridges' family (Yahoo pic)
Don't-miss painless history of Qatar and Al-Jazeera news channel (Nov2000 NYer)
The battle for Termez Bridge (Pakistan)
Okay short update on successors to Napster (TidBits)
Detailed, compassionate account of civilian bombing casualties (WorkingForChange)
Long, scabrous account of Jacko's DC schlockathon (Salon)
A simple phonecall verifies helicopter parts as Chinook (abunimah multipage)
Another decent issue of Economics Reporting Review (honest economist)
Weird shot of Pakistani street-sweepers (Yahoo pic)
Interesting transcript of dissident MP being 'whipped' back into line (UK Guardian)
Daniel Schorr's big lies about Israel and assassination (abunimah.org)
Anecdotal evidence for Zionist hanky-panky at CNN et al (GooJa)
Gorgeous new issue of avant-gay culture-zine, Blair (11pg)
Now that's food aid! (Yahoo yum)
Yet another wheelbarrow variant (Yahoo pic)
The Uzbek Frida Kahlo? (Yahoo pic)
Fine pan of McCartney's schlockathon (new Salon) [DC pic]
Understanding Arafat (Mid-East Realities)
Dramatic N-Alliance faces (Yahoo pic) [ditto]
Playful refugee men (Yahoo pic)
No boat (Yahoo pic)
No wheelchair (Yahoo pic)
The truest allies money can buy (GooJa-Guardian)
'Do I look like a clown?' (yes, mr president) [pic]
(...no, i mean, no more than usual, sir...)
Agribiz greed breeds super-salmonella (SciNews)
11Sept provides boost to videoconferencing (BBC)
Relentless, expensive bombing campaign having no discernible effect (Oz)
(And why th'heck didn't they just bomb this place?) (BBC pix of ground raid) [it was a plan]
57yo grandmother is a top environmental activist (LATimes)
Heartfelt plea to improve the lot of teachers (BBC)
USA now imitating Israel's lawless evil (WashPost via Drudge)
(The example they're setting can inspire only more greed and more dishonesty.)
The subtle Sombrero Galaxy (AstroPic-2pg)
Anthrax-threat mishandled every step of the way (Yahoo-NYTimes)
Worst-selling [qv] US stamp features Arabic calligraphy (via arabnews.com)
Solemn refugee madonna-and-child (Yahoo pic)
Another nice Hockney-on-camera-lucida review (Guardian bk rev)
Interior Secretary fudged caribou data (WashPost via LATimes)
Anthrax-contaminated buildings may best be demolished? (Nando-AP)
Pseudo-detailed postmortem on first ground raid (WashPost via Drudge)
O little town of Bethlehem... (IAP)
Much anonymous bashing of departing head of NASA (NasaWatch)
Lo-tech refugee 'wheelchair' (Yahoo pic)
Cheerful refugee brood (Yahoo pic)
Did ObL sell China the 50% duds from BillC's Cruise-missile attack? (Guardian via Drudge)
(...and who'll be sorriest if we deliver him a dud nuke to recondition?)
US operations already causing rifts in Northern Alliance (Pakistan)
Don't-miss interview with Taliban commander (Pakistan)
"...the countries that support us have the right not to do so openly..."
Past examples of imaginative bioterrorism (1991 Atlantic)
Lo-tech credit-card authentication via thumbprint (BBC)
Evangelicals send missionaries to post-11Sept NYC (BBC)
Lucid account of recent conditions in Afghanistan (Salon don't-miss)
Afghan-war action figures? (Yahoo pic) [ObL sold separately]
French teen threatened with 5 years for cheering ObL (AP)
Pat Benatar going thru the motions (Yahoo pic)
UN inspector Scott Ritter says anthrax ain't Iraqi (Guardian via netnews)
Nuclear power plants are infinitely vulnerable targets (CounterPunch)
Balanced pan of new Michael Jackson CD (Fox)
A man, a shed, some yobs and/or the wind... (The Register)
(...and thru it all, a PC.)
10% of female US sailors get pregnant (army of two)
Assassinated Israeli minister was 'virulently racist' (Guardian obit)
New Chinese textbook on asymmetrical warfare contemplates killing Soros (etc) (Insight via Sam)
Intelligent grownup investigates highschool culture (WashTimes via Sam)
Priceless personal note from Sam Smith (ProRev 18Oct)
Hilarious, cynical, foulmouthed war-comix (2pg via Register) [related]
Some contrarian stats on broadband (PBS-Cringely)
Lingua Franca [qv] loses funding (NYPress Billboard)
General update from Robert Parry (The Consortium)
Details on US radio propaganda (AfghanNN)
Dangers of sequestering carbon by fertilising oceans (Eureka)
'Open your own damn mail' (CounterPunch)
US cowards can now kill by even-remoter control (WashPost via Drudge)
CIA warned FBI of hijackers on 27Aug (LATimes via Drudge)
Excellent strategic update incl humanitarian possibilities (CounterPunch)
Gerald Ford's role in the Warren Commission (JFK) (CounterPunch)
Hot NPR-letter about 'breathtakingly and transparently dishonest' Jerusalem coverage (abunimah.org)
Nostalgic review of Grateful Dead boxset (Salon)
Sony's Aibo-inspired auto (Reuters) [pic]
Denial-of-service attacks plotted by Hollywood Napster-baiters (The Register)
Grotesque Israeli charade of justice (JPost-ultimatum)
Northern Alliance disgruntled by US delays (UK Telegraph)
Sweet refugee-girl praying (Yahoo pic)
Readable movie review of Alan Moore's 'From Hell' (spoilers?) (NYPress)
Okay Seymour Hersh on Saudi powderkeg (NYer via Sam)
Balance-of-Power-like geopolitical sim (SciDaily)
Anthrax-handwriting looks schooled-in-USA to me, somehow (Yahoo pic)
Odd Reuters anticipation of attacks on oil tankers (do not worry about the bear)
Some interesting NickVonH thoughts on 'security' (NYObserver)
(Does or does not Israel's targeted-assassination policy work both ways?) (Reuters obit) [BBC analysis]
Ghostly Afghan mountain-community campfires (Yahoo pic)
Forensic geologist analyses ObL video (CNN-Reuters)
Okay survey of anti-Powell rioting yesterday (Pakistan)
Debate whether the 4th hijacked plane was shot down (via alt.disasters.aviation) [official spin]
Cute pic of refugee kids (Yahoo pic)
Israel's scheme for dominating middle east-- puppet dictators (WSJ) [oh, and nuke Iraq too]
Jakob Nielsen free-associates readably (The Register)
The racist fanatics we're budgeting trillions to placate (Jerusalem)
The bombing drags on because no alternative has jelled (Pakistan)
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