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Headlines: (jump to #main below)
A few sneaky semi-recent panels of 'get your war on' (mnftiu.cc)
(Also some filing and fighting)
Uniquely fortuitous Pleistocene megafauna cache (NewSci w/pix)
Suspicious correlation between air pollution and diabetes rates (SciDaily)
Cute new NYer cartoon ('Beware' sign) (7day url)
Compensatory as-yet-unkiboshed pic of Kibo (640x480 jpeg) [more]
Indie label waives net.radio blood-money (Reuters-CNN)
TomPaine.com beat CEPR.net this week (honest economist)
Spectacular Alex-Cockburn mostly on NYT and Israel (NyP)
40 whales re-strand themselves in Cape Cod (AP-ABC) [all die]
New NYPress appears Tues noonish at 'NyP' above, but you must notch issue# forward (reminder)
Cape-Codders save all but 9 of stranded whales (NewSci w/pic)
Is this the scandalous pic of Britney giving Mexican photogs the finger? (beware popup) [bkgd]
JPost editor proposes Palestinian state if Springsteen visits (WP-MsNBC don't-miss)
New-car smell makes fish impotent (etc) (SciDaily)
CORRECTION: Rare pic of Kibo w/o gasmask (RED shirt) (1280x960 jpeg) [yay!]
Nat'l Review pans Britney's NYC restaurant (clash of civilisations?)
Top-level US urgency for more-effective propaganda (NyT-Oz via Drudge)
Zippy's living 'off the grid' (30Jul) (24hr-url)
100k gif-animation of simulated star-cluster swarming (AstroPic)
(...without human meaning, without human feeling...)
Decent new Harper's Index (fun stats) (July2002)
Archive of brainy humor for programmers (mainly Windows?) (Verity Stob via /.)
Sewage 'fertilizer' causes deadly diseases (Eureka-quel-surprise)
Painfully prophetic old Onion on W (Jan2001 via wdc)
Vivid glimpse of Afghanistan now (Revolut'ry Assoc of Women of A'stan) (CP)
Lucid antidote to mideast media-blackout (CP)
Useful update on Project-Gutenberg changes (Slashdot passim)
Decent survey of media-conglomerates problem (Va-CD)
Don't-miss report that Saudi regime faces overthrow (UkObs-CD)
Useful statistic: stock-decline so far is $70K/US-household (NYer-miscalc)
(...or 10,000 billionaires losing $700M each?)
Nightmarish account of agribiz soil-desertification (LATimes-CD)
UN suspects US-coverup in Afghan wedding-massacre (UkT-CD)
Vinland Map revealed as hoax via arcane chem-analysis (Eureka) [bkgd]
Splendid update on Barbara 'Nickel and Dimed' Ehrenreich (UkG-bkrev)
Human-genome guides research on nutrition and aging? (nutrigenomics and metabolomics)
Infotaining AstroPic needs latitude (35S?) and season info (setting sun)
(Confidential to FctChckr@NYTmag: 1997 not 1999!)
Organic-food certification-process backfires (Salon) [letters]
Ominous prediction of more giga-bankruptcies (FT via Drudge)
500BC UK enigma: heads on spikes guard ghosttown? (UkG via Explorator)
New Unabomber tactical advice (GooJa-GreenAnarchy)
Longish informal children's visit with Castro (CP)
Long, barely-readable paper on 'elaboration theory' (instructional design)
(Looks like it might overlap conceptually with my pragmatic web approach.)
Long fine Byatt on Bovary (for Francophones mainly, though) (UkG-2pg)
Philip Pullman on Oxford (for trilogy-fans only, I think) (UkG)
Short Molly-Ivins rant on 1996 Telecommunications giveaway (Dallas via DrB)
Unsurprising details of Michael Jackson's financial crisis (Fox via Drudge)
New centipede-genus found in NYC park (BBC w/pic)
Fightin' Whities fanpage (morning quickie)
Fun paean to eBay's success-stories (Cringely)
Tim O'Reilly confirms Dave Winer's untrustworthiness (via Google)
Before you get involved in Salon's new blogs, you might want to research whether the software-producer is trustworthy (old old flamewar) [Winer's infinitely amoral reply]
Disappointingly favorable review of US Army videogame (GooJa-ark)
Netnews postings by Arlo Guthrie (GooJa searchpattern)
Countering Anti-Islam-propaganda for Dummies (CP)
What the Mars-simmers are trying to do (StarTrek via NasaW)
Perens plans public DMCA civil-disobedience (DVD-hack demo) (Infoworld via /.) [didn't happen]
Full lyrics of John Walker Lindh tribute (GooJa thread)
NyT reporter acts as mouthpiece for hedge-fund (NyO)
Coens planning 'Honeymooners' musical...? (EOnline)
Michigan staph-infection resists top antibiotic (NewSci)
Decent short rant on conscience-less pharmcos (CD-Huffington)
Looong don't-miss Greider on class-action approach to Enron-et-al (Nation via CD)
Faded UK popstar J King claims he was framed for buggery (long&gossipy) [NyP profile]
Thoughtful analysis of Mike Myers' new Austin Powers (NyP-Seitz)
Update on Disinfo.com and their video series (NyP-Strausbaugh)
New details of WTC emergency-procedure failures (AP-Nando)
Interesting issue of Greil Marcus's 'top ten' (Salon)
Appalling claim that high-priced biz-software is often unusable (Salon)
Respectful non-rave for outsider artist Henry Darger (Salon bkrev)
Panoramic AstroPic from atop Mt Everest (4000-by-500 jpeg)
Francis Boyle on W's contempt for international law (CP)
Moondust may offer clues about early Earth-life (Eureka)
More straight talk, where NyT/WP just tell lies (honest economist)
Okay analysis of why Wall Street distrusts W (NYmag-ThomasJr)
Interesting analysis of AOL's Pittman (NYmag-Wolff)
Country singer records tribute to John Walker Lindh (NYPost-Fox)
Long, vivid profile of Gandhi at 53 (1922 Atlantic)
Decent McChesney bashing Michael Powell over WorldCom-et-al (recent Salon)
Peruvian disco fire offers glimpse of foreign culture (Reuters via Drudge)
300 page-images from Split-Enz band-bio (Bitz via OLB)
Eye-opening survey of the corn conspiracy (NyT-CD)
Decent Alex-Cockburn rant on CEO 'hog wallow' (CP)
Commerce Dept squelches public at 'public' DRM workshop (RegUS)
1982 newsgroup descriptions (incl Pacman group) (via alt.fan.dejanews)
Julia Butterfly jailed in Ecuador (SF-CD w/pic) [deported]
Norman Solomon compares 1999 Dean-Baker vs biz-media hype (CD-FAIR)
North-Pole Mars-sim testing robot survey-plane (SpaceRef) [cams]
Elephants may have ears in their feet (BBC)
Excellent analysis of baseball-economics misreporting (Salon-Barra)
Billy Bob chooses touring over Angelina and adoptee (Reuters-ABC)
Colorful analysis of Wall Street's eternal war-machine (CP-Ferner)
MSN leveraging MSIE to compete with AOL (RegUS)
Fun memes from fringe astrophysics: strange xenon, iron sun (SciDaily)
The full 'Master Race' comic Spiegelman reveres (below) (8pg big-jpegs) [back 7am, gone 8am]
Difficult beers 'n' bees poem (Poems.com)
John Lahr analyses London play about gay ballplayer (NYer-spoilers)
Detroit rethinks hydrogen-power (Wired via /.)
CEPR site posts (fine) new issue before TomPaine (honest economist)
Web-resources for PKC.com (patient databases, below) (morning quickie)
Walmart's Linux-boxes cause real excitement (NewsForge via Reg)
Awesome analysis/rave for Russian ballet by Balanchine (NYer-Acocella)
Poignant Art-Spiegelman on a forgotten cartoonist (NYer) [pix] [Master Race] more
Malcolm Gladwell blames Enron on IQ-mania? (NYer-long)
get your war on, p12 (brutally funny political comic) (mnftiu-short)
Ultra-scrupulous medical record-keeping could save lives, reduce costs (3pg-don't-miss) [IE5-only demo]
Okay aerial-geography poem (Poems.com)
Anomalous 7Myo skull may be proto-gorilla? (BBC w/pix)
Semi-live reports from Mars-sim near North Pole (NasaWatch-on-Mars)
Short tally of recent bankruptcies (Fortune via Drudge)
Gossipy Greil Marcus on 'Manchurian Candidate' etc (UkG-extract)
Kibological 1st-person view of All-Star game (GooJa-ark)
Worldcom-shareholder lawsuit spelled out problems in Jun2001 (Forbes via Sam)
Webpages that don't connect Enron with re-named 'Accenture' (Andersen Consulting) (about 50,000) [that do: just 1200]
Lucid account of detailed black-hole experiments (NewSci)
Fine bk-rev of Mary Beard on the Parthenon (UkInd via Explorator)
Playful hints about MS's wireless-home-network kit (RegUS)
Brilliant Steve-Perry on Enron-etc... and Wellstone (CP)
Sensible wishlist for fixing MS Office suite (ZDnet-Coursey)
(No, I've never used it. I just like design-wishlists.)
Mirror-site for Dean Baker w/live links to NyT/WP (via ErikH)
MS forced to publicly retract 'Stinker' hype (RegUS hee-hee-hee)
The Pragmatic Web: semantics as if surfers mattered (morning quickie)
Anomalous 7Myo hominid skull found (BBC w/pic)
Upbeat Rainbow post-mortem (GooJa-agr)
Witty alternatives to name 'C#' (MS prog lang) (RegUk)
Delicate analysis of European resistance to Iraq-attack (CP)
History of European programmers' file-manager cult?! (Softpanorama)
Massively detailed tech-critique of regexps by Larry Wall (via SoftPan)
Profiles of Knuth, Stallman, Linus, Larry Wall, etc (messy but meaty)
Surprisingly tepid Gore-Vidal interview (LAWeekly via Drudge)
Lovely mysterious Venice-poem (Poems.com) ['alae']
Awesome visualisation of Sun's yearly path (AstroPic)
Useful-looking compendium of 'laws' of online-game design (multipage via Salon)
Superb, thoughtful forecast of online-gaming shakeout (Salon don't-miss)
George Lucas sounds sick'n'tired of Star Wars (Ain't It Cool)
Fun, difficult thesaurus-quiz (UkG-10items)
Short rave for 'The Lovely Bones' (UkObs bkrev)
Dean Baker returns in classic style (honest economist)
Okay Yoko update (SacBee-Nando)
A.I.-scam that fooled Wired, Cringely, Slashdot, etc (recent project)
eBay buys Paypal (RegUk)
MS phone-OS dubbed 'Stinker' (for Stinger) (RegUk)
Microsoft locking out older alternatives to WinXP (RegUS)
Very fine summary of Stiglitz and Soros (NYer-bkrev)
Rave for abstract expressionist Joan Mitchell (NYer-Schjeldahl) [pix]
Delightful Nick-Hornby recap of World Cup (NYer-longish) [flag]
Brilliant, brilliant, harrowing story by Robert Stone (NYer-long)
"Little hailstones clung to the russet strands like coral clusters, not melting."
Quiet meditation on distance and weight (AstroPic)
Rural lifestyle of Russian primitive painter (BBC) [pix]
Gruesome forecast of increasing highschool chem-lab explosions (AP-CNN)
How the right usurped the US airwaves (Oregon via Sam)
Vivid reconstruction of the fall of Martha Stewart (NYmag-3pg)
'Due to the announced insolvency of our current 3rd-party provider' (ZDnet-heh-temp)
The W3C Secession: fixing the Web (morning quickie)
Keyboard-layout optimised via genetic algorithm (via Slashdot)
Survey of post-9-11 hate crimes in USA (LATimes-CD)
The trumped-up case against John Walker Lindh (CP-short)
Update on India's $200 Simputer (Reuters-CNN w/pic)
Update on organic farming in US Midwest (CSM-Nando)
165 short book reviews written c850AD (Myriobiblion of Photius)
Top ten campus-novels incl Pale Fire, Lucky Jim (UkG bkrev) [Cather etext]
Cult of Dead Cow developing easy way to hide messages in pix (RegUS)
Judaism doesn't approve nuking-all-gentiles... does it? (WorldTrib via Drudge)
Pharmco greed reaches mindboggling proportions (Prozac mailing) (AP-Nando)
Giant marble Thatcher beheaded (BBC w/pix)
Locals support Rainbows against Forest Service re dumping water (GooJa)
Local coverage of Rainbow Gathering (Ironwood, Michigan)
$800 'farm subscription' gets 36 weeks of fresh produce (AP-Nando)
Long, readable profile of painter Lucian Freud (NYer-Schjeldahl) [pix]
Fun rave for 'Powerpuff Girls Movie' (Salon-StephZ)
Mostly-familiar Stiglitz on recent economic crises (Salon interview)
Recycled sewage... not in your back yard? (AP-Nando)
Fine editorial on intellectual-property (ip) greed and insanity (CSM via Sam)
Rumors of new US incursions into northern Iraq (Oz via Sam)
Update on School-of-Americas protestor-prosecutions (CP-short)
Hilarious forgotten 1986 Fleetwood-Mac tribute by Camper Van Beethoven (NyP-Repsher)
Easily-misunderstood 'connection' between pot and schizophrenia (UPI via Drudge)
Stanislaw Lem foresaw psychopharmacological warfare (via alt.gathering.rainbow)
Krugman on W's expertise with accounting fraud (NyT-CD)
Frank Kermode pans John Lanchester's third novel (UkG bkrev)
How agrarian monocultures promote drought (CNN-short)
Familiar-sounding rhetoric in Hollywood 'gay mafia' flap (Variety via Drudge)
Mysterious $200k prize for Xbox-Linux by year's end (RegUS)
Detailed update on Rainbow Gathering (GooJa)
Want your name etched on an asteroid, free, 30 microns high? (Japan via NasaW)
Sun's spectacular tongue-of-fire yesterday (SpaceRef via BBC)
Update on Xbox chip-hacking (RegUk)
Dutch Indymedia censored by Euro Community (RegUk)
California catpoop blamed for sea-otter die-off (SciDaily)
Ethiopian who dances with hyenas (BBC w/pix)
Atmospheric visit to John Dillinger's home town (1934 NYer)
How ICANN (domain-name fascists) got so screwed up (Salon interview)
Several interesting-looking topics (new NYRB)
Update on MS's Xbox gamble (RedHerring-MsNBC)
Okay Kevin-Mitnick update (AP-CNN w/pic)
PGP-using Mafioso foiled (RegUS-short)
Genetic studies imply 5thC genocide by AngloSaxons against Celts (BBC)
93yo John Kenneth Galbraith on Enron-et-al (UkInd-CD)
Confusing argument that immune-system limits genome-size (Eureka)
Wireless pirates organise via weblogs and chalk (BBC w/pix)
Chatty update on space-shuttle problems, etc (Fox via NasaW)
Nicely-written update on Joe 'Primary Colors' Klein (UkG bkrev)
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