This is the archived copy covering November 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)
Gloria Trevi accepts extradition, trial (Reuters-ABC)
Mid-ocean ridges crack like ice as they lengthen (Eureka)
Sorting nanotubules via fluorescence (Eureka-short)
30 science-gifts under $100 from SciAm via /. (links, no pix)
Google Search: born.with.a.silver -spoon (ClicheWatch)
Greek physics-babe collapses Penrose-net with lightcones (SciAm-2pg via /.)
Oil pipelines getting 24/7 armed guards? (recent AP)
Cute rhyming poem (VerseDaily)
Lovely lovely kitchen-poem (Poems.com)
Baz Luhrmann brings 'La Boheme' to Broadway (EOnline)
Get your Kissinger on (profane toons) (mnftiu)
Webpages listing words that are fun-to-say (MemeWatch)
Historical emergence of Israel's settlements as root of all evil (NYRB via dy)
Freakishly unfunny NYer Iraq-joke ('rich bastard's son')
Thunderstorm-research began in 1933 on $350 budget (ebook via Kestrel)
(Wilhelm Reich's controversial experiments weren't until 1952.)
Is pagelayout evolving towards one sentence per paragraph? (BBC-example via dy)
Danny O'Brien returns with a vengeance (Oblomovka weblog)
Sims-Online is just a graphical chatroom? (Slashdot-short)
Dramatic gallery of smallish Etna pix (volcano) (BBC-1pg)
Borneo jungle conceals thousands of orangutans (BBC)
Google Search: 'baby-dangler' (MemeWatch)
Anti-trust case against 'alternate' newsweeklies (TomPaine-short)
Another bodhisattva-like honest-economist (TomPaine)
Microsoft preens over early Xbox-Live stats (RegUk-short)
Ad agencies shape drug-test results for pharmco (NyT-IHT via Spin)
Interesting insight into bilirubin as anti-oxidant (Eureka)
Subjective-stress reduces effectiveness of vaccination (SciDaily)
Poignant backyard pastoral (VerseDaily)
Nice appreciation of Byrd's anti-W speech (NyT via dy)
Pix from set of Mel Gibson's Jesus-flick (Ain't It Cool)
Electrifying rave for Spike Jonze 'Adaptation' (minor spoilers?) (AIC-Moriarty)
Short preview of new Angelina-Jolie political drama (Ain't It Cool)
New wireless technologies demand major policy-shifts (AP-CNN)
The Wodehousian side of the gangs of 1900 NYC (UkG-fun)
Great anecdotes of early Calvinist anti-sexuality (UkG-bkrev)
How Progressive Networks became RealPlayer (1997 Wired-long)
Semi-obscure origins of pre-Shockwave Flash (TechTV) [Shockwave]
Tantalizing list of recommended books about filmmaking (Buxton-short)
Interview with Mac 'Switcher' celeb, Ellen Feiss (Brown via /.) [QT ad]
Some great, deep Alec-Guinness anecdotes (UkG-long)
Are some earthquakes caused by 'quark matter'? (BBC via /.)
Biological nanomachines are component-soup (SciDaily)
Brilliant uif-trick for choosing 'tools' w/left hand (Buxton-wordy) [pix]
Provocative illustrated 1999 essay on uif-evolution (Buxton via Hopkins) [more]
Nice/short by Mrs Peter [qv] Redgrove (Poems.com)
56Myo primate used opposable 'thumb' to cling on branches (Reuters-ABC)
Uniquely detailed early history of PostScript graphics-language (1985 esoterica)
GM pharmaceuticals threatening food supply (CD)
WalMart-et-al claim sale-prices are secrets under DMCA (RegUk)
Linux desktops, GUIs, widgets, etc (recent timeline-topic)
463 googled-examples of typo 'econonomy' (mildly surprising) [econononomy!]
Looooong analysis of the threat of 'mad deer' disease (Mlwkee via Spin)
200 NYer cartoons on 'heaven' (17pp) [177 mention hell]
Interesting research on maternal competition with foetus (Eureka)
Loooong, superb Michael Moore interview (UkG-2pg via La)
PC-prices plummet in pre-xmas pricewar (AP-CNN)
Interesting survey of open-source multimedia projects (Debian)
The tritium-glowring link between ravers and terrorists? (RegUk)
Infrequent but exquisite illustrated weblog (Portage via BlogTree)
PHP-script calculates htmljunk-vs-content for any url (via Gimbo)
(It can't tell good links from junk-links yet.)
Google's text-ads a big success? (Biz2.0)
Nice Alex Cockburn on various topics (NyP)
Okay honest-economist (TomPaine)
Fine new weblog offers a few items per day (Danny Yee)
Obit for catastrophe-theorist Rene Thom (UkG via Explrtr)
Early opinions of Xbox Live (Slashdot thread)
Cute spellchecker tricks (scroll down 40%) (Wozniak becomes Wooziness)
Teen gangs in El Salvador (UkObs via dy)
NYC storytelling-salon moves to cable ('The Moth') (Salon-don't-miss)
(Looking at their website, the only tv-actor I see is Philip Pavel...?)
As I teach myself Linux, I'm experimentally building a web-intro (Opcodes for poets)
The global anti-McDonalds 'slow food' movement (Atlantic-interview)
Don't-miss Everquest packet-sniffing-pirates war (Cringely)
Smart-sounding tech-strategy for India (NewPath) (RegUk)
Short meditation on Disney's decline (ie, JungleBook 2) (Ain't It Cool)
Seals recognise 'friendly' whale songs (NewSci-2pg w/wavs)
Bollywood Romeo&Juliet treats Hindu/Muslim clash (Reuters w/popup pic)
Portraits taken with a kite-cam (from above) (via /.) [links]
Swedish expression: 'That law is written in COBOL' (alt.folklore.computers passim)
Details on campaigns against academic Israel-critics (Nation-2pg via dy)
Gates scores against Stallman in India (AP-ABC)
Extreme closeup of a sunspot (AstroPic) [4Mb QuickTime]
Kibo eats a bug (alt.religion.kibology)
Dubious 'mirror matter' theory applied to various anomalies (BBC)
Joni Mitchell quits record-biz in disgust (Reuters)
Clear discussion of microkernel-theory (eg GNU HURD vs Linux) (CBBrowne)
1991 account of innovative NeXT spreadsheet, Improv (SimsonG) [SG archive]
A Taxonomy of Linux Distributions (CBBrowne)
Amazing baffling pedestrian anecdote (Poems.com)
Informal debate between I. Finkelstein and H. Shanks (BiblicalArchaeology)
Dark update on the UN in Kosovo (UkSpec via Sam)
Dean Baker, a lonely honest-economist (TomPaine)
PhilG returns with concerns about cable-co's (Greenspun.com)
'Blue Crush' meets Ibsen's 'Enemy of the People'? (Eureka) [pic]
A Linux-FAQ that addresses real newbie-questions (Pat Beirne)
Why geeks shouldn't ever design document-navigation (GNU-help) [sample]
(Just duplicating the basic ToC at the bottom would be much more effective.)
Results of Mac ezine's experiment w/voluntary micropayments (TidBits)
Short bits on Theodore Roethke (Salon-King)
Yet another NY Magazine url-format (via Spin)
Don't-miss rant against standardised testing (pixel-bkgd via Sam)
Some websites that offer unsigned-bands' mp3s (Slashdot thread)
Sad fast-food toon ('outlived') (NYer-finally)
Readable rave for new Todd-Haynes (spoilers) (NYer-Lane)
Exxon geologist's flawed theory gets free ride (Eureka-short)
Florence conclave hashes out new progressive consensus (UkG-CD)
Lucid onepage summary of Microsoft history (Houston-long)
Marvelous puzzling extended-metaphor (Poems.com)
Veterans-Day meditation on deserters (Salon-King)
Sneaky way to determine your Google 'rank' (Raimondi via dy)
Credible argument the ossuary-inscription is a forgery (via ark) [nope, incised]
Online educational game stiffs organic-farmers (Kestrel-08Nov)
Un-detailed preview of 'The Sims Online' (Nov2002 Wired)
Chile by starlight (AstroPic)
1989 Harvard-Biz-School analysis of Sun Microsystem's birth (via Google)
Witty wrapping for small MS-antitrust bombshell (RegUk)
Intriguing cultural history of the penis (UkG-bkrev)
Brilliant synopsis of Byron's sexual scandals (UkG-extract)
Hyper-venomous bio of Anthony Burgess (UkG-bkrev)
Okay look at medieval luxury (UkG-bkrev)
Fun lampoon of Tartt's 'Little Friend' (spoilers) (UkG-digest)
More info on scary GATS trade-pact (CP)
New hints about Palladium 1.0 (RegUk)
Yemen-attack suggests assassination is new US policy-norm (WashPost-CD)
Milky-Way's black hole finding little to 'eat' (SpaceRef)
Interestingly eclectic progressive conclave in Italy (UkG-CD)
Update on Al-Qaeda's strength in Afghanistan (WashPost-CD)
Upbeat Texas-elections post-mortem (CD-Ivins)
William James explores mysticism via nitrous oxide (1996 Atlantic)
Kibological cute-meet (two poems) (GooJa-ark)
Optical bowl of degenerate-Fermion lithium-gas expands anomalously (Duke via Eureka) [animated gif]
Patient dies in robot-aided surgery (Fla via comp.risks)
(Gosh, who could possibly have foreseen such a thing!?)
Frederick Crews bewails the pseudo-lit-critics (Spiked via Sam)
Alaska's earthquake-vulnerable oil pipeline (CP-StClair)
Free satellite-feed offers daily 'best of' Internet (SpaceRef)
Fun jargon: 'spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscope' (Eureka)
Cute fan-plea to Winona R (Salon-Leonard)
Short sweet meditation on women as film-editors (Salon-Thomson)
Stunningly eloquent Sam on the pseudo-Democrats (ProRev-06Nov)
Early history of microprocessor Unixes (recent research)
Kibologists share tech-support-job-headache wisdom (GooJa-thread)
More on newly-discovered highly-variable star (SpaceRef) [recent AstroPic]
Cheap wireless Internet via Linux and Sprint (short via /.)
06Nov Zippy also bridges the why-they-hate-us gap (24hr-url)
Awesome new book bridges why-they-hate-us gap (Salon-interview)
Brilliant USA/Barry-Bonds analogy (Salon K-toon)
It takes a mess o' nature to make a microchip (Eureka)
Evocative Lynda Barry featuring Arna (NyP)
Record companies profit from posthumous exploitation (UkG via Sam)
Decent honest-economist (TomPaine)
Sinclair Lewis accidentally insults Nobel-Prize committee (Salon-short)
Praise for Eminem, less for Frida (NYer-Denby)
Detailed account of James-Joseph-Jesus ossuary (Time-3pg)
The eye in the Hourglass Nebula (old 900x900 jpeg) [info]
Curmudgeonly Pete-Townshend on Kurt Cobain (UkG-bkrev)
Fine deflation of Harold Bloom's ego (UkG-bkrev)
Donate cpu-time to cracking TiVo password (bbs-thread via /.)
Letterman devotes hour to Zevon farewell (alt.music.zevon) [transcript] [backstage]
Short pleasant dove-poem (Poems.com)
Interesting content-survey of Iraqi mass media (CP-shortish)
Rumsfeld admits plan to provoke terrorist attacks (CP-don't-miss)
Iterations: An interdisciplinary journal of software history (via Google)
Giant craters on Europa bubbled thru ice? (AstroPic)
RWWL archives: Oct 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
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AIC
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nude :
Celebs
pm :
nude :
Ellen
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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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