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Headlines: (jump to #main below)
Superb Sarah-Waters on re-reading Victorian thrillers (UkG-extract)
Don't-miss leaked 1st-person from Davos WEF (txt via /.) [bkgd]
$350 iPod clone (w/pic) (Biz2.0-CNN)
George Soros blasts W (Pittsburgh via Drdg)
Abunimah tallies dismal US-intervention track-record (Lebanon via Sam)
Lenat's Cycorp is also taking scary-TIA funds (Memory Hole)
Righteous congressional page quoting W's lies (house.gov via Spin)
Satellite view of London at night w/cloud-blurs (1000*700 jpeg) [info]
Charming anecdote about the late Fred Rogers and Tony Perkins (plus gossip)
Web content-management apps fail to deliver (TechWeb)
Thrilling account of Lisp-as-secret-weapon at Yahoo Store (txt via Tufte)
Illustrated history of the graph (Isis via Tufte)
Edward Tufte: Ask E.T. forum (info-design) (fell off my radar)
Profusely illustrated course on info-design (Brighton-30pg)
Google putting text-ads on Blogger (Google.com via dy)
Blogger baby plushie pampers (Oblomovka-23Feb) [Ada]
Doctress Neutopia tries to inspect Raytheon's WMDs (lovolution.net w/pix)
Above-average issue of Risks Digest (via comp.risks)
Sweet little 300k animated-gif of Jupiter w/moons (AstroPic)
Nice odd little impressionistic thing (Poems.com)
Shortish Michael-Wood bibliophilic Alexander travelogue (UkTms via dy)
Update on eBay's challenges (Reuters-Forbes)
Dry summary of how large bank implemented knowledge-management (ComputerWorld)
Greenspan opposes FDIC 'subsidy for wealthy people' (AP-Fox)
Fun backgrounder on Lindows (USAToday w/popup?)
Telemarketers adapt to 'zapping' tricks (AP-ABC)
Shuttle-clues are few and far-between (Reuters-ABC)
Key Shuttle-tile with specks of... mud? (Yahoo pic)
Global-warming wildcard: seafloor belches methane? (SciDaily-wide)
The unbearable bogosity of academic AI (techy thread)
Gorgeous 'Apology, a Love Poem' (Verse Daily)
The patented RobotWisdom surfing-schedule (Slashdot post)
Quantum-leap for webphones (Sony P800) (Reg-AO)
The war-planning Commedia Dell'Arte (LiberalArtsMafia)
Update on class-action against IPO-hypers (Reuters-Forbes)
Fine Krugman tally of W's dishonesties (NyT-CD)
Hamhanded CIA impersonation of Iraqi radio-station (NewSci)
FPGA CPU rewrites own microcode on the fly (SciDaily)
Quickie uber-esthetic html-design experiment (OfMereBeing+4)
(Added footer-navbar for four more poems.)
Hollywood 'Iliad' incl Brad Pitt as Achilles (Variety-ABC)
Bollywood's lame scripts causing profits to plummet (Reuters-ABC)
Asians honor Ravi's genes in Norah Jones (India)
More-or-less witty/rhymed couplets (VerseDaily)
Linus praises x86, disses Intel's 64-bit (Inq via /.)
Orion Nebula made of cotton-candy? (AstroPic) [big]
Superb Penelope-poem won't mean much w/o reading Odyssey (Poems.com)
Graphic reconstruction of Shuttle-crew's last minutes (MsNBC-Oberg)
Decent Terry-Jones antiwar rant (UkObs-CD)
Cute pic of Simon and Garfunkel backstage (Yahoo) [all]
Is NASA trying to minimise foam-miscalc? (Knight-Ridder)
Intimate tribute to Matisse-Picasso (NYer-Schjeldahl) [Biskra] [Piano]
"His contours are like the borders of wetness left by waves on a beach."
Giddy possibility of free peer-to-peer webcasting (Reg-AO)
Pharmco claims $20k/yr for AIDS-drug is justified (Reuters-ABC)
Long deep analysis of cooperation in stock-car races (1stMonday via /.)
Long look at the new amoral teen fiction (UkG-bkrev)
Long lucid update on Space-Station status (AP-Fox)
300k gif-animation of solar flare (AstroPic)
Nicely-handled e-activism faux-pas (scroll UP for more) (Oblmvka)
Small gif-animation of comet passing sun (128*210) [article]
Excited hype for embedded-data instant-messaging (Cringely)
Long mixed praise for Egypt-themed online game (Costik-21Feb)
Stars plan anti-war gestures for Grammys (Drudge w/pic)
Map, timeline, and Shuttle-wing diagram w/hotspots (500k gif)
Lively history-rant defending the French (CD-Ivins)
Daily gamma-ray bursts are bright as 10^45 watt bulb (Eureka)
Joan Baez's cousin explains recent neutrino-theories (sci.astro.research-long)
Lectures on lit-theory (structuralism, etc) (Boulder.edu-20pg)
Departing insider bashes Microsoft (InternetWk)
Experiments quantify 'willpower' (Eureka)
Massive grid-search for debris before foliage returns (sci.space.shuttle)
Decent 1990 debate about 'semantics' of music (comp.music thread)
Oil mixes fine once you suck dissolved air out of water (NewSci)
Flying killer-robots powered by x-raying halfnium (NewSci-yuk)
640 toons by Charles Barsotti (mostly puppies) (Cartoonbank-54pg)
Dramatic narrative of 4.5Byo collision of Earth with twin (BBC)
GlobalSuperPredator's new mini-nuke plans (NewSci)
55Myo global-warming downsized the megafauna (SciDaily)
Loooong post-mortem on the Segway bubble (Wired via /.)
Where hypertext design should go (morning quickie)
Righteous $300 scrap-rocket reaches 13000ft (Texas via Nas)
Review of Ani Difranco opening for Dylan in Oz (GooJa short)
Tarantino bridges Japanese cult-movie gap (Ain'tItCool w/Uma-pic)
'What-if' scenarios for saving the Shuttle (MsNBC-Oberg)
Accumulating physics-anomalies may imply extra dimensions (Spaceref)
Useful Shuttle-investigation update (AP-ABC)
Surprisingly effective pop-culture raps (Poems.com)
Glimpse of experiment w/infrasound and music (Liverpool via /.)
Ebola blamed for chimp-gorilla die-off (NatGeo via Sam)
Carol Lay sketches peace marchers (NyP-big)
Update on voice-over-Internet controversies (AP-InfoWk)
The Linux-factor and the China-factor in cellphones (Reg-AO)
Smithsonian-Folkways uses CD-Rs to keep catalog in stock (NyT-GooJa)
$300M US gamble to detect gravity-waves (BBC)
Babies get headstart w/Chinese via personal contact, not video (Eureka)
Robot-faces that mimic your expression (BBC w/pix)
Nice analysis of Michelangelo as a neoplatonist (GCSU.edu)
Aristotle cited on netnews dozens of times a day (GooJa searchpattern)
Overdesigned tutorial on cosmic microwave background (12pg-typos)
Decent long interview with DeepJr programmer (Chessbase)
Joe-Millionaire surprise-endings ad-absurdum (yeti-14Feb)
Triangulating 'diet' of earliest life via genetic relics (Spaceref)
Desert hotsprings used for experiments w/origins of life (Spaceref)
Giant satellite-jpegs of ancient mideast roads (SpaceRef)
Why did Google just buy Blogger? (Slashdot thread)
Grudging overview of worldwide demonstrations (NyT-CD w/pix)
Impressive sustained tightrope-walk (Verse Daily)
Lucid multipage synopsis of Greek philosophy (NewGeneva w/frames)
Space is a battlefield, part 4 (Shuttle vuln) (NewSci via we)
What if terrorists have been putting anthrax on duct tape? (DBarry 14Feb-vshort)
Cut global-warming by smothering underground coal-fires (BBC)
Audio transcript of shuttle's last half-hour (sci.space.shuttle)
Clearchannel's memo on milking the war-story (IntMemos via Sam)
Map/timeline of Shuttle breakup over sw USA (640*480 jpeg)
Amusing precursor to 'all your base' art-prank (ChessBase w/pix)
New eco-tragedy of Asian antelope (NewSci w/Javascript map)
Eleven outstanding puzzles in astrophysics (short, Jan2001)
Mortimer Adler's Syntopicon (morning quickie)
Intriguing argument that Iraq-war is about euros (loooong via fy)
Rumors about Madonna's new anti-war video (EOnline)
Short sweet true love story (NyP)
Pix of artifacts from Stonehenge emigre (NewSci)
The evolution of miltary knowledge-representations (morning quickie)
Rove thinks W can win votes by talking Christian (Baltimore-CD)
What was wealthy Swiss emigre doing at Stonehenge, 2300 BC? (Reuters-ABC)
Well-researched history of Shuttle budget-fudging (NyT-Yahoo via Nas)
Nicely-archetypal pix of latest comet (AstroPic)
Very lucky the debris didn't hit anybody (GooJa-short)
Droll Susan-Orlean dog-fantasia (NYer-shortish)
Decent new 'get your war on' (changed tone?) (mnftiu.cc)
Uneven short history of Martha Graham &co (NYer-Acocella)
"They just did their do-si-do, which, all by itself, said, 'Here there can be no sin.'"
Closeup of aging Columbia, before launch (2000*3000 jpeg)
Neglected genius of analog computing, Leonardo Torres y Quevedo (morning quickie)
Torres' 1920 chess-machine played limited endgame (600*400 jpeg)
Gallery of obscure chess-related photos (ChessGraphics)
One actress's amazing range of voice-animations (NancyCartwright via /.) [pix]
Gossipy chess-insider's weblog (Mig via ChessSmith)
Amazing NASA-map of Shuttle-debris hits (900*700 jpeg) [cf w/o]
Okay history of Shuttle tile-problems (WashPost-MsNBC)
Long lucid analysis of game6 (WCR-Shipov)
Underexploited meme: 'the Stupidity Olympics' (Google-search)
Fascinating info on 10-to-50-mile-up 'ignorosphere' (USAToday)
French 'electronic-purse cards' experiment fizzles (AP-CNN)
Restrained reconstructions of Shuttle failure (sci.space.shuttle thread)
Analysis of Kasparov's strategy vs DeepJr (WCR-interview)
Short post-mortem on game6 (ChessBase)
Pinker, Bettelheim, Gerry Adams, and Updike-on- Marsden Hartley (new NYRB)
Sci.space.shuttle dissects the tracker-pic (long new thread)
"That's no picture-- that's an icon!"
Amazingly sharp pic of nearby solar-system forming (AstroPic)
Awesome little unit-mover (Verse Daily)
Long lucid history of Ellsberg's Pentagon Papers (LRB-UkG-2pg)
Tracking-pic silhouette shows jagged wing (SpaceRef)
DeepJr accepts draw-- K feeling ill??? (Chessbase-Flash6)
Nope, just playing safe-- K declares DeepJr 'best program ever'
My DeepJr timeline is the 6th-highest hit at Google (search 'deep junior')
...but I haven't noticed any other sites linking it.
DeepJr rejects draw-offer after 23rd move (WCR-log)
Kasparov has slight advantage after 21 moves (WCR-log)
Arcane measurement contradicts quantum time (SpaceRef)
Elegant domestic terza-rima (Verse Daily) [def]
Tracking-camera supports foam-damage to left wing (SpaceflightNow)
Search for Shuttle encryption-device has X-Files frisson (Reuters-ABC) [def]
Horrifying 1980 account of Shuttle-development insanities (WashMonthly-long)
Dwight Macdonald savages Adler's 'Great Books' (1952 NYer)
Okay backgrounder on space-station cost-overruns (WSJ-GooJa)
Lively post-mortem on game5, w/fun pix (Chessbase)
More-detailed account of disappointing game5 draw (WCR-Shipov)
Memoir blames 1929 crash on conspicuous consumption (1933 Atlantic)
Game5 dramatically drawn within 20 moves (WCR-log)
Stockmarket rises for war, falls from peace (Yahoo-temp-url)
DeepJr threatening mate after grandmasterly (??) 10th move (WCR-log)
Clearest-yet pix plus 2Mb mpeg of launch-debris (SpaceRef)
Why 'Sims Online' is a dud (w/news links) (Slashdot-thread)
Kasparov's dry analysis of game4 admits small errors (WCR)
Longish giddy 21stC-Brautigan? (VerseDaily)
Even Sun finds Java impractical (Inq-short via OSnews)
Warren Ellis still blogging like a demon (DiePunyHumans-slowish)
Dennis Hans tallies US lies about Iraq (CD)
Gruesome slaughterhouse lyric (Verse Daily)
The hot-hot-hot new research-trick is RNA interference (BBC)
Quicktime of early shuttle flaring (just white dots) (Reno-800k)
Exemplary Lisp-enthusiast weblog (lemonodor via refererlog)
French Flaubertians appreciate my GF-pages better than any durn Joyceans ditto (via refererlog)
"...devient bizarrement elliptique pour la troisieme partie..."
(I had to return it to the library!)
Game commentary by DeepJr-programmer (Javascript-frames)
Just the text:game1 game2 game3
Very detailed analysis of game4 (WCR-Shipov)
Internet makes folkie 'house concerts' practical again (Reuters-ABC)
Baffled-shrug analysis of game4 (Chessbase w/pix)
Broad-minded anthropological indexing-scheme (Outline of Cultural Materials)
Game4 a cerebral 6hr draw (K on game3)
Forty-year archive of essays by a cyber-utopian (AnthonyJudge-100k)
(Laetus in Praesens = Joy in the Present)
List of major debris-discoveries (AP-ABC)
Tile-loss may have begun over California (AP-CA-no-pic)
Nicely-written debris-update (WashPost w/popup)
Some 1988 posts about Shuttle vulnerabilities (Slashdot-followup)
Charming Rexroth lyric (Verse Daily)
Columbia Loss FAQ v1.0 (sci.space.shuttle)
ChessSmith, a chess blog (via refererlog)
Spectacular radar 'loop' of fireball descent (Yahoo-150k-GIF)
Human remains found among debris (AP-ABC)
Sci.space.shuttle is claiming three bodies have been recovered.
Likeliest cause is small aerodynamic instability (Time)
More newspix of Texas debris (Yahoo-multipage)
Local coverage of debris recovery (Nacogdoches Daily) [8pix]
Debris rains over Nacogdoches, TX (no pix) (Reuters-ABC)
Newsgroup thread last week about possible Shuttle disaster (spooky)
Shuttle breaks up 40miles over Texas (Reuters-ABC)
The Space Station will have to be mothballed, I assume.
Detailed 2001-interview with DeepJr programmers (Germany-long)
Deep Junior timeline (morning quickie)
Mindboggling layers of anti-vegetarian deceit (Spin-30Jan-3pg)
(If you don't eat your burger, the terrorists have already won?)
Gentle ornithological lyric (Verse Daily)
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