This is the archived copy covering December 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 :
Vrs :
Gm :
La :
Nas :
ZD :
CP :
CD :
Spn :
Sam :
Bho :
Sln :
NYr :
Poe
Above links sorted by time-of-daily-update, midnight to midnight.
/. :
Drdg :
Reg :
Lnx :
world :
usa : fn : sci : tech :
ent :
BBC :
Popo :
jb
Above links update continually.
Headlines:
(jump to #main below)
Short-lived asterisks in the jumpbars above indicate new/good updates.
Nifty new pic of Uranus w/its moons (400x525 jpeg) [info]
Timeline of knowledge-representation (adding more-recent stuff now)
Exemplary meta-tutorial on Matlab for simulation (JASSS)
Space-station waste could have funded 1M PhDs (PopMech via Nas)
Annotated readinglist on artifical life, etc (no links)
Righteous turnabout, publishing officials' trash-contents (Oregon via La)
Interesting update on the 64-bit cpu race (belated Cringely)
Internet PI sued for abetting stalker-murderer (AP-CNN)
Michael Parenti's written a revisionist history of Ancient Rome (CD-footnote) [due Aug]
Elegy on a suburban Chuck-E-Cheese (Poems.com)
Classic detailed anti-Everquest rant (online adventure game) (Slashdot)
Suspiciously synchronised price-hikes for generic drugs (NyT-CD)
Short droll Dante-tribute (Poems.com)
The glamorous lifestyle of A-list screenwriters (Reuters-ABC)
Biotech may improve cheap wines (NewSci-short)
3Mb Quicktime glimpse of 1st Patk O'Brian flick (Apple via AIC)
A day the world changed (30 August 1964)
Concise Ian Fleming biography (via Google)
Gorgeous relaxed 1997 LeCarre interview (ParisReview-7pg) [more PR]
25 plausible CD-recommendations incl Norah Jones (NyO)
Kibo's Xmas story w/torture, toilet jokes (GooJa-ark)
Decent new Harper's Index (December Harper's)
Was the Trojan War fought in Egypt? (morning quickie)
Script-review for another Charlie Kaufman (no spoilers) (Ain't It Cool)
$140 dongle lets you read your car's diagnostics (TechTV via Sam)
Obit for 50yo 'Clash' frontman Strummer (UkG via we)
George Smiley (LeCarre) timeline and maps w/spoilers (recent quickie)
Too-true holiday message from KeithK (Salon-toon)
Fascinating spoiler-packed synopsis of artflick 'Morvern Callar' (Salon-StephZ)
Todd Haynes plans Dylan ...biopic? (interview via AIC)
Brilliantly researched ebook on early computers (Reckoners)
Detailed timeline of wargaming (via Google)
Okay update on Dante-translations (UkG-bkrev)
US astronomer photographed half-megaton 1953 moon-impact (BBC w/pix)
Hard-to-find history of early flight-sims (10pg w/pix)
Chiquita sells Panama plantation to workers' co-op (Reuters-Fox)
Cindy Lou Who asks why we're invading Iraq (new Onion)
Foxy pic of Terminator3 villainess (Ain't It Cool)
Fine Seymour Hersh on his career (NYer interview)
Critiquing coverage of W's economic regime-change (honest economist)
End of popup-ads in sight? (RegUk)
Google-Babelfish translation-software evolving since 1968 (Systran)
Lucid account of pre-1954 enthusiasm for machine-translation (Compuserve)
Detectivework tracing 'whiskey-strong-but-meat-rotten' translation-myth (Compuserve) [nice site]
Short lovely 'Hours' rave (plus long 'Gangs' pan) (NYer-Denby)
Affectionate David-Thomson chatter about movies (Salon-interview)
Synopsis of Muppets-week on Family Feud (2001) (via MrPants)
Stanford physicist calls for return to 'open-source' science (PhysicsToday via dy)
Timeline of knowledge-representation (still refining)
Looong detailed timeline of chemical engineering incl disasters (for timeline-buffs)
Esoteric theory: gravitational microlensing caustics (weird AstroPic)
English as global-dialect; OED-update, etc (UkObs-short)
Interesting debate over Turkey joining EU (UkG-CD)
Don't-miss Seymour Hersh on Kissinger and Chile (1982-Atlantic-3pg)
Did Mexican dino-killer have Indian big bro? (NewSci w/javascript)
Surprising appreciation of J-Lo's acting (Salon-StephZ)
Kibological parody of Nigerian email-scam (ark-Pacheco)
IMF seeks pounds of flesh from Zambia, Nicaragua (CD)
Brilliant Flash political commercial (Technical Difficulties via La)
PhotoShop-celeb-illustrated Beowulf (18pg via La)
Dick Cavett on Mary McCarthy vs Lillian Hellman (NYer-short)
More relentless NyT/WP econ-propaganda (honest economist)
Early 80s NYC rap docudrama (NyP)
Tragicomic tale of the 1st prince of Trinidad (NyP-Bryk)
Praise for two posthumous Gaddis-works (NyP-Knipfel)
Baz's Boheme wins Broadway raves (EOnline)
Winona Ryder's capacious medicine-jar (EOnline)
Sunset on Io (Jovian moon) (via SpaceRef) [more]
Iridium satellites recycled as 'OrbPhone' (SpaceRef)
UN workers' unheard plea to murderous Israel (MemHole)
Lots of juicy new content (MemoryHole)
Seriously-killer Orpheus-Eurydice poem (VerseDaily)
PhilG's okay guide to Baja California (Greenspun.com)
Syntopical timeline of knowledge-representation (new project) [latest draft]
Indium gallium nitride may be 'solar savior' (NewSci w/javascript)
Very strange generated text? (randomly kibozed, xtrawide) [origins?]
Underwhelming shot of eclipse from above/ISS (SpaceWeather via GooJa) [1999]
Not-very-useful survey of Web knowledge-representation (nl via Google)
Clearchannel (bad radio) drinking game (for dk via ao)
Giant shot of latest Intl Space Station config (AstroPic)
Decent analysis of Republican 'robo-candidate' strategy (CD-Nader)
Plea to the Left to organise (SF-CD)
CD-full of major Linux-apps that run under Windows (NewsForge via /.)
Academic game-AI enthusiast (John Laird) (mostly pdfs)
Update from Fisk on Afghanistan (UkInd via La)
Posthumous detritus of Dylan Thomas analysed (UkTel via MemHole)
Sam analyses Greens vs Democrats (ProRev-04Dec)
Poignant ReubenB on nursery overachievers (Salon-toon)
Fluffy piece on 'videogame university' (USAtoday via /.) [website]
Nice rave for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind' (Kaufman/Clooney) (AIC-Moriarty)
Nice rave for 'Adaptation' (Jonze-Kaufman) (NyP-Seitz)
5000-pixel wide panorama of Tokyo (432-tall via Gimbo)
A newsgroup I wish I'd known about (operating-system design) (alt.os.development) [since97]
Righteous summary of Raskin's post-Mac-gui theory (SourceForge) [hf]
Jef Raskin's insanely-great Curriculum Vitae (SourceForge)
Simple resistivity-measurement gauges groundwater pollution? (Eureka)
Better info-gadgets make public-transportation more attractive (Oblomovka)
Last year's Zambia eclipse (400*600) (elegant AstroPic)
Lecture-notes for class on game-programming (Florida via Google) [3D]
Isaac Newton lost shirt in 1720 scuba-bubble (UkObs via ao)
Clever abstract pessimism (Poems.com)
Kasparov-DeepJr delayed to January (ChessBase)
Jared Diamond says Komodo dragons can swallow porcupines whole (long via dy) [old interview]
Overlong, low-insight account of creation of Sims Online (Gamespot-14pg via /.)
RWWL archives: Nov 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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