This is the archived copy covering October 2002
pray for justice

NYer-NYmg-ERR :
NyP-Onion :
NyO :
PBS-tns :
NTK :
UkG
Above links sorted by day-of-weekly-update, Monday to Saturday.
Ast :
Zp :
NYr :
Gm :
La :
Nas :
ZD :
CP :
CD :
Spn :
Sam :
Bho :
Sln :
Vrs :
Poe
Above links sorted by time-of-daily-update, midnight to midnight.
/. :
Drdg :
Reg :
Lnx :
world :
usa : sci : tech :
ent :
BBC :
Popo
Above links update continually.
Headlines:
(jump to #main below)
RegUS reverts to RegUk (saves me reading both!) (The Register)
Chapter one of new Saturday Night Live book (ABC-long)
Belushi quote: "My television has spit all over it."
Odd top-ten semi-gothic novels (UkG-bkrev)
Dramatic account of Vancouver eco-terrorist (NYer-longish) [semi-pix]
French semiologists successfully pose as string-theorists? (via rec.arts.books)
Comedians' mostly-negative views of clowns (NyP-Knipfel)
Bollywood musical version of 'Pride and Prejudice' planned (Ananova)
Live Ani-DiFranco webcast Fri 8pm Pacific (via rec.music.folk)
The Intel 80386 chip (morning quickie)
Short history of 6502-et-al micro-controllers (1998 Forbes)
Short okay bio of Pink-Floyd's Syd Barrett (UkG-bkrev) [multi-pix]
Sahara's mysterious giant non-crater (AstroPic)
Mellow modern Italian pastoral (Poems.com)
Smart mixed rave for Twyla Tharp's Billy Joel (NYer-Acocella)
Timeline of GNU/Linux and Unix (morning quickie)
Free ebook history of Unix-GNU-Linux-open-source (O'Reilly-OR)
MacOSX Unix-tips look useful (ORA via /.)
Angry Arundhati-Roy advocates civil disobedience (short) (Reuters-CD)
Sound-samples from outer space (mov, wav, au) (SpaceRef)
Looong brilliant Krugman analysis of US wealth-disparity (NyTmag-GooJa)
An Internet way of self-knowledge (morning quickie)
Tweaking fonts in KDE/X-Windows/Linux (RegUk)
publicly-- 2,509,783; publically-- 156,582; publickly-- 1844 (AltaVista spellcheck)
Interesting juxtaposition of weblog how-tos and journalling how-tos (Amazon list)
Amazon list: Be more like super-nifty-Julia (inspiring info-design)
Winning rave for 'Life with Bonnie' (ABC tv) (Salon-Chocano)
Followup on Iraq prisoner-release (CD-Scahill)
Web-savvy toon ('funny feeling') (new NYer)
Space-Station astronauts getting extra-irradiated? (NewSci)
1998 quotes show media lying about weapons-inspectors (FAIR via Sam)
Quasar absorption-line may imply black-hole ate star (SpaceRef)
Lively NASA-budget rant (SpaceRef)
Sam reflects on various 'lefts' (ProRev-22Oct)
Google Search: met.+a.man.+who.had.no -feet (MemeWatch)
Did China circumnavigate the globe in 1421? (BBC)
Small new maps show surviving wilderness (WCS via Eureka)
Homebrew mp3-jukebox in NYC bar (NyP)
Wordy rave for new Mike Leigh (NyP-White)
Excellent rave for Frida, et al (NyP-Seitz)
Korea, Sacramento, Shirley Q Liquor and Allan Bloom (NyP-Cockburn)
UkInd surveys British writers on mideast-question (CP)
First-person report on Saddam's freeing prisoners (CP-Scahill)
Zippy does Wm Blake (22 Oct) (SFGate-24hr)
63 AD bone-box mentions Jesus, Joseph, and James? (CNN w/pix)
Another superb honest-economist (TomPaine)
PCBs turn kids into tomboys and sissies? (UkInd via Drudge)
Clickable edition of Messier's 18thC catalog of galaxies-et-al (850x700 jpeg)
Angelina Jolie walks the anti-landmine walk (AP-ABC)
California-power-crisis scam about to unravel? (SF-CD)
Readable survey of 6 new Napoleon-studies (UkG-bkrev)
Short game-mod success story (Counter-Strike) (Biz2 via /.)
Scholar analyses marginalia in 600 16thC Copernicus-books (SpaceRef)
Angry rave for Michael Moore's new flick (CD-Mokh-Weis)
Fritz draws match (Bahrain)
Fine long Hensher on Pepys (new Atlantic)
Pleasant Tom-Mallon appreciation of Mary McCarthy (new Atlantic)
Carmack-of-Doom enters shuttle-design contest (Houston via NW)
It's not Al Qaeda, it's billions of angry poor (CP-Skog)
Milky-Way photo-panorama w/constellations (De via Google) [no consts]
Decent Vegas quickie w/unforgivable typo in last line (VerseDaily)
Densepack of stars at core of Milky Way (AstroPic)
Close analysis of dramatic game six (Bahrain)
Penultimate game is a draw (Bahrain)
35 decent astronomy-quotes (via Google)
Devastating new honest-economist (TomPaine) [cepr]
Detailed new info on Milky Way's black hole (Eureka)
Kramnik may have resigned too soon (Bahrain-short)
Free etext of new ORA book on Mozilla app-building (MozDev via /.)
Everquest-hackers cause inflation via platinum-creation macro (via /.)
Lost works of Thomas Traherne (17thC mystic) (UkG)
You never enjoy the world aright
till the sea itself floweth in your veins
till you are crowned with the heavens
and cloaked with the stars.
Pix and analysis of 77Myo dino 'mummy' (MsNBC via Drudge)
Fun account of Kramnik's losing gamble (blowing 7-to-1 odds) (Bahrain)
Goofy 2Mb animated gifs of Apollo-12 return-path (640x480 via /.)
Protein-folding sim takes 34 years of CPU time (Eureka)
Okay Hensher on Henry James (CP-maillist)
Fritz ties the match! (moves only) (Kramnik.ru)
Lovely Hensher rave for Chekhov (Jan2002 Atlantic)
Baby Found On Doorstep Moved To Neighbor's Doorstep (new Onion, w/popup)
Mostly-lame pol-humor 'Diddly Awards' (MoJo-12pg via La)
Winona Ryder victim of railroading (NatRev via La)
Background on Israel's nukes (CP-shortish)
'No to War, No to Nice [EU], No to American Terrorism' (CP-Dublin)
Google Search: love.the.smell -napalm (MemeWatch)
Game six in progress (Kramnik.ru)
Hensher: if we want peace, try honoring Islam? (Tripod/popup)
Best Proust-review I ever read (UkSpec via dy) [Hensher] [links]
JoniM bashes Geffen-et-al (short, 70s-era pic) (BBC via we)
Okay Wolff on Eisner/Disney (NYmag-2pg)
Kramnik just made a hurried blunder (Bahrain)
The concept-space of poetic forms (morning AI-quickie)
Fritz wins game five (moves only) (Kramnick.ru)
Brilliant Jensen analysis of the crisis in US democracy (CP-don't-miss)
Short reminder of the blood on Carter's hands (CP-Cockburn)
Short, difficult household-alchemy poem (VerseDaily)
List of free reference books collated by xrefer (xrefer.com)
Hashish-club for writers in 1840s Paris (UkG-extract)
Frances Yates resources (Art of Memory, etc) (new quickie)
Ghastly Stella-McCartney fashions (spring2002-175pg)
Okay update on 'Eloise' (lost title) (Reuters-ABC)
US Navy exploiting fun robot-submarines (SpaceRef) [pix]
Mostly-negative comments on DocBook DTD (XML for etexts) (Slashdot thread)
Evil genius hiding trojan-horses in open-source code (RegUS-Poulsen)
Mathematician applies classical rhetoric to poetry (Ted Dyck archive)
Short tribute to Harpo (Poems.com)
Accidents among tree-sitters now include fatalities (BayArea via Drudge)
Nader rave for appropriate-tech-wheelchair activist (CD)
Michael Powell's aboutface on satellite-tv merger (CBS via Drudge)
Analysis of game four (draw) (Bahrain)
Way-belated return of honest-economist live-links edition (ERR-cepr)
Game four is draw (just the moves, here) (Kramnick.ru)
Iraq teevee carried W's speech live (PR via Spin)
Project TIPS Bags Subversive Mastermind (768x1024 jpeg)
Pretty potential nearby supernova (AstroPic)
Krugman betrays confidential Enron source!? (CP-long, messy) [more]
The concept-space of rhetoric (morning AI-quickie)
Clever analysis of laser-pointer as anti-surveillance-cam device (via we)
SEC backs off real reform (Ivins-CD)
Hot new meteorite crater in remotest Siberia (BBC-no pix)
Concise analysis of Kramnick's strategy (Reuters-CNN)
Ubergeeky goodness: Lego Escher (3pg via Gim)
Rec.games.chess.computer heckles Deep Fritz (GooJa thread)
Anna Nicole's bitch-goddess, Bobby Trendy (NyO-Doonan)
Fun quotes from well-written film-dictionary (NyO-bkrev)
Knockout poem of woman's ageing (Poems.com)
Neat rave for Jagger-Coburn-Margulies 'Elysian Fields' (Salon-StephZ)
Chronological list of ignored UN resolutions (Zunes via pr)
Kramnick takes game three in brilliant style (Bahrain)
French say Israel and US among worst threats to peace (Haaretz via Drudge)
Mekons offer 'behavioral model' of doing-it-differently (Reuters) [Salon]
Okay reflections on US vs UK media/propaganda (CP)
Dylan reborn? (CP-woah!)
Excellent issue on MacOS X (conference; reportcard) (TidBits)
Ezra Pound's tips for poets (via Google)
Fascinating research on Christopher Columbus (NYer-bkrev)
More mindboggling dishonesty from NyT-WP (honest economist)
Website for GlassBeadGame-related research (HipBone)
Remarkable historic origin of the meter (UkG-bkrev)
Fritz's blunder blows game two (Bahrain)
Kramnick draws Deep Fritz in 1st of 8 (htmljunk, via /.)
Kasparov's computer-match is delayed until 01 December.
Sweet 'Harry Dean Stanton fixed my brane' memoir (longish via Kestrel)
Short, optimistic preview of Xbox-online (CNN via /.)
Daring survey of rapture (Poems.com)
Inconclusive new bio of Peter Sellers (UkG-bkrev)
Brainy analysis of US/EU demographic trends (Economist via dy)
Detecting 90% of killer asteroids might cost $125M (SpaceRef)
Fun interview with 'Reader's-Manifesto' ranter (anti-pseud) (Atlantic)
Stats on US organic farming (Reuters-ABC)
Enthusiastic technical review of Lindows (Linux Windows) (7pg via /.)
Zionists target Pacifica in Houston (CP-Buzzanco)
Spooky pic of black hole at heart of Milky Way (SpaceRef)
A defunct nuclear-reactor has been orbiting Earth since 1965 (did you know?) [more]
Statistical analysis suggests quasars are distant, not close (SpaceRef)
Peter Gabriel jumps into bed with Palladium-et-al (RegUk)
More-readable re-sorting of Flaubert's dictionary of cliches (ongoing project)
Rejecting spam with a procmail accept list (Nic's Tricks)
Okay lucid Steven Weinberg on Wolfram (new NYRB)
Loooong, extremely thoughtful analysis of W's choices (LndnRevBks via lam)
"...a strategy to use American military force to permit
the continued offloading onto the rest of the world
of the ecological costs of the existing US economy..."
Tony Blair wants Israel to obey UN, too (BBC via lam)
Remarkable thoughtful cartoon ('mysterious stranger') (new NYer)
Okay Alex-Cockburn on various crises, etc (CP-shortish)
Don't-miss 'How-to-explain-fascism-to-your-kids' (CP-Leupp)
Joe Klein gives Gore grudging praise (UkG-CD)
Gene-therapy delivers expected fatal side-effect (NewSci)
State-of-world opinion-poll samples 25k worldwide (BBC)
Zippy/Griffith on McDonald's (03Oct) (24hr-url)
Newly-discovered star doesn't fit the theories (AstroPic)
Pot-heads analyse how it affects their ballplaying (NYer-shortish)
Overview of software using 'mouse gestures' (ZDnet via /.)
(Doesn't mention the Newton's exx-out...?) [/. followups]
Bkmrk-mngr for Windows uses 'faceted' indexing (bookkey via comp.human-factors)
Long, deep analysis of pharmco profiteering (TNR via /.)
Four worldmaps show land-use changes since 1700 (Nasa via SciDaily)
Background on recent Oregon salmon die-off (CP-StClair)
Barbra Streisand manages rumormill via website (via Drudge)
Okay survey of recent 'wicked heroine' indie-flicks (NyO-Haskell)
Unremarkable update on Baba Ram Dass (NyO-Weiss)
Short critique of 'IPO spinning' as bribery (NYer-Surowiecki)
Kind poem about remembrance (VerseDaily)
Historians debunk some rise-of-Nazis cliches (Salon-interview)
Transcript of recent Arundhati Roy speech (SantaFe via Sam)
Okay praise for 'Biggie & Tupac' (rap documentary) (NyP-A.White)
RWWL archives: Sep Aug Jul Jun May Apr Mar Feb
2001: Nov 15Oct Aug Mar 2000: Dec Oct Aug
[old]
Timely:
Israel: 9/11, overview, Tikkun; fundamentalism, more Shahak, Chomsky; Stone's Damascus Gate
James Joyce: news/portal; intro; Finnegans Wake
Press: Reg, WPost, Wired, IrishTimes, WSJ, Philly, Danish, Norwegian
Periodicals by date:
(see by-subject below for abbrevs) [more]
Continuous: Jcam :
AIC
Daily by time of day: am :
nude :
Celebs
pm :
nude :
Ellen
Semiweekly: Advg :
SGun :
OnBks :
fashion :
models
Weekly: M : Byte :
TBks :
LBks
Tu : VV :
NYer :
LJB :
SFBG
W : NSci :
Th : CSpin :
Natn
F: Dykes :
TBks :
Sa : Hell : Su :
WPBks
weblogs: UseIt :
Deja: Jorn
Semimonthly: NYRB :
Atlan :
UseIt :
LangM
Monthly: FastC :
HrpIdx :
Bold : Mtrpls
Bimonthly: Cnsrtm
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