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Headlines: (jump to #main below)
Some diamonds start as sea-floor slime (Eureka)
Fine Janeane-Garofalo political interview (Alter via Spin)
Busy animation of daily US air-traffic (13Mb Quicktime via Tufte)
Fancy Flash animations of Manhattan's history (via Tufte)
Chaotic debate on using .Net for games (Slashdot)
Isabella's back after another close call (flightRisk)
Loooong readable early history of world-sims (von Neumann, Forrester)
Why Spitzer failed to nail Mary Meeker (Toronto)
Tactile carpentry-poem (VerseDaily)
Surreal don't-miss 1st-person of Iraq ammo-dump (Asia via dy)
Ashcroft Rejected By Newly Created Bride Of Ashcroft (new Onion)
Martian Stonehenge 1/2-mile wide (500*800 jpeg) [info]
Scary 'scientific' approach to optimizing prices (FastCo via Obl)
The original Big Bertha (wife not gun) (Bertha-Krupp pic) [gun]
Gallery of recent news-graphics (plus pdfs) (Poynter via Tufte)
Agribiz exec starts globalising Iraq's farms (UkG-CD)
Huge archive on sociology of computing, etc (Phil Agre)
Feeble self-Slashdotting draws 200 hits in 4hrs (and 3 comments) (500 in 28)
Superb look at outsider-artist Wolfli (NYer-Schjeldahl) [16pix]
Fine new issue, mostly about tax-cut (honest economist)
Iraqis to charge US with warcrimes, in Belgium (WashTimes-CD)
Excellent pix of working helicopter models (8pg via /.)
Canadian pot-farmers win '100% organic' label (Winnipeg-short)
Corporate websites strive to improve search (ZDnet)
Excellent long rant on AI and games (comp.ai.games)
Shuttle-debris search has cost $235M (WashPost-Boston)
US precedents for forging evidence of Iraqi WMDs (VIPS-CD)
Melodramatic genius of Alexander McQueen (Spring2002-217pg)
Shuttle liftoff-video may show tiles shattering (MsNBC via Nas)
Iraqi teens throw stones as intifada-symbol (UkInd)
One-shot 2hr tribute to Russian art-museum (UkG-Oz w/pic)
Beautifully liberal defense of social services (Atlantic-intvu)
Readable review of pc murder-mystery, Post Mortem (Reut-Frbs)
Titivillus, patron demon of medieval scribes (history via Google)
Best-designed comix-covers slideshow (25pg via we) [worst]
Informative obit for Nina Simone (WashPost-SDig)
Mrs Mike Nichols' disgraceful Dixie-Chicks interview (Slate)
Defoe's Oulipo 'Crusoe' (140k txt)
"Down he went! but soon rose up, for he swam like a duck."
Hypertext-theory: 'analytic' tables-of-contents (morning quickie)
Naomi-Klein vignette of Argentinian factory-squat (Toronto-CD)
'Mr. President, Please Attack Appalachia!' (CD-withering)
Don't-miss update on Iraqi intifada (in Kut) (UkG via dy)
Okay Tim-Judah 1st-person on Baghdad's fall (NYRB)
Superb lucid F.Dyson on global-warming ambiguities (NYRB)
Original 'Eloise' was Liza Minelli!? (NYPost) [orig-E] [young-Liza]
Geog-illiteracy spoils France-Germany boycotts (Spin-24Apr)
New free reference-books at xrefer (via OlB)
Nicely illustrated nanocomputer-theory (via comp.ai.alife)
Javascript slideshow of looted Iraqi treasures (19pg via netnews)
John Wilkins' 1668 proto-thesaurus (morning quickie)
Pet a dog, catch parasitic worms (BBC-yuk)
Ugly new jpegs and mpgs of global carbon-budget (Nasa)
The Shuttle was made of glass (Houston-oops)
Heartfelt Roger Ebert on movies and politics (AlterNet-intvu via La)
Court denies peyote to 4yo native American (AP-Utah w/pic)
Fifteen fictional billionaires w/pix (old Forbes-1pg via FRisk)
Useful Nov2001 Emily-Eakin profile of Homi Bhabha (NyT-GooJa)
Feb2001 EmilyE on evolutionary-biohistory (NyT-GooJa)
Dec2001 EmilyE on the Dead Sea Scrolls (NyT-GooJa)
Jul2001 EmilyE on Michael Hardt's 'Empire' theory (NyT-GooJa)
Lit-theory bigwigs humbled by Iraq-crisis (NyT-GooJa) [EmilyE]
Iraqis promise intifada if US not gone in year (UkG-CD)
MsNBC posts righteous map of Israel's WMDs (CD-Chernus)
Hitler's favorite cowboy-novel: May's Winnetou (300k via Atl)
"...the fever for life on the plains came upon me..."
Fine review of Oscar Wilde's life-etc (Atlantic-long)
Unordered web-services 'crammed' onto phonebills (PCWorld)
Some tidbits about Reagan's early sellouts (NYer-intvu)
Shuttle safety-fixes will devastate productivity (Fla via Nas)
Mecca Cola and Qibla Cola offer anti-US alternatives (UPI-tiny)
Employees freely tell passwords to strangers (RegUk-droll)
Ebook search-engine counts hits by chapter (inspiring info-design)
Anti-tobacco group starts upfront tobacco corp (LicensedToKill.biz)
Ebert reviews semi-arty kids-flick 'Holes' (Canada.com)
Good loooong update on Media Lab money-crunch (Wired) via PhilG
Chavez socializes Venezuelan oil industry (CSM via Sam)
Righteous praise for al-Jazeera's Iraq-coverage (Newsday-CD)
Monsanto may be going down in flames (Greenpeace-CD)
David Hajdu puts 'Mighty Wind' in historical context (NyT-GooJa)
Excellent trick for tracking 400Kyo DNA (NewSci)
Sacher-Masoch's 'Venus in Furs' (250k) (ProjGut-txt)
Apple hoping to restructure music-biz pricing? (Biz2.0 w/popup)
Useful illustrated history of semantic nets (Sowa-1pg)
Sumlock 'Anita' was 1st desk calc in 1961 (long pg w/many pix)
Madonna's kids-books based on kabbalah (Ananova)
Useful update on Shuttle investigation (GooJa-short)
Microsoft's research park sounds very mediocre (PCWorld) [more]
Sinister professionalism of Iraq antiquities-looters (CNN-GooJa)
Robin Cook on how Blair painted self into corner (UkG via La)
Longish, overwritten update on Carmack's Doom III (Wired via /.)
$20 golden feces are latest good-luck fad (jp via we w/pic)
Very excellent Tim-Robbins speech to Natl Press Club (CD)
Neil Bush's ex threatens dynastic tell-all (NyO)
Bleak Michael-Wolff followup on Doha's 'Hitler youth' (UkG via La)
Reassuringly moronic CIA psyops (Saddam rap) (BBC via Mh)
Fine rant about Catch-22 ironies in Iraq (Pilger via Sam)
Three CD-summations of the ongoing disaster (NyT-Krugman) [Abunimah] [Scheer]
Sad Fisk eulogy for Baghdad's libraries (UkInd-CD)
Lovely Kathy-Kelly eulogy for Baghdad (CD)
Brilliant new Thomas-Perry-like thriller-blog (blogspot via Ag)
Funny rave for 'Mighty Wind' (O'Hara&co folk parody) (NyP-Seitz)
Cute OSHA cartoon (money for safety) (NYer-7days)
Fun backgrounder on new Catherine O'Hara comedy (Toronto)
Finland's new female prime minister (BBC-Jaeaetteenmaeki)
Decent Theroux fiction about Graham Greene (1978 Atlantic)
Awesome PhilG defense of Israel (looong, 1.5-sided)
(No ends can justify Jewish racism/double-standard.)
Fascinating difficult history of logic vs analogy (McLuhan Studies)
(logic's villain = Socrates; analogy's hero = Cicero)
History of Mathematical Approaches to Music (converted-pdf)
Charming, passionate defense of classical 'quadrivium' (AOL)
Wackily enigmatic 'Puzzled Dust' (VerseDaily)
13thC astronomy-etext used by Copernicus (Sacrobosco)
Is this the only Giordano-Bruno translation online? (Heroic Frenzies)
Melanie Griffith's beauty-tragedy (UkTel-Oz w/pic)
Contrasting classic London tube-map with accurate version (Tufte)
Ten-year project to quantify world water-budget (BBC)
Nostalgic ex-prostitutes visit Reno 'ranch' (AP-UkG via we) [pic]
Most-common-word lists in various languages (stopwords via netnews)
(Click the numbers in the 'Rev' column to see a list.)
Tarzan's original chimp 'Cheeta' is 71yo (AP-ABC) [pic] [beer]
Naomi Klein on privatising Iraq's resources (Nation-CD)
Wrenching followup on 12yo Iraqi double-amputee (UkInd-CD)
Philip Greenspun's Weblog (politics, education) (wordy, linkless)
Another interesting profile of historian Anthony Grafton (old CHE)
Lucid, skeptical summary of Iraqi chaos (Spiked via dy)
Total Information Awareness update (InfoWk-short)
A-Jo funds Cambodian wildlife refuge (Reuters-CNN-short w/pic)
Leading Shuttle-theories disproven by debris (Houston via netnews)
Skeptical update on plankton-farms to cut warming (SciDaily)
HoSML = History-of-science markup language (morning quickie)
Occult tendencies among 17thC scientists (academic) [more]
"Galileo, Descartes and Locke expected their readers to be
unfamiliar with the idea that images are internal to the mind"
Historical context of 17thC shift to mechanistic model (pagan)
Michael Moore hollers some positive thoughts (CD)
Red-hot and blue 'get your war on' (mnftiu.cc)
Somber psychoanalysis of wartime necrophilia (Nation via Spin)
Fox network has become Israeli mouthpiece (Ha'aretz via Ag)
Early universe spawned stars much more quickly (Spaceref)
Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce, Nichols and May, et al (NyO-bkrev)
Nifty dactyls (Poems.com-short)
Beautiful Fisk eulogy for dying Baghdad (UkInd-CD)
Long detailed history of ignoring Shuttle-risks (recent Fla via netnews)
RedHat9 bundles ArsDigita content-apps (Slashdot comments)
A sort of portal for philosophy blogs (Blogspot via refererlog)
Superb almost-all-new-topics issue (honest economist)
Plant-diversity enabled by ancient gene-doubling events (Eureka)
Looong Seymour Hersh on Kazakhstan oil-games (NYer-Jul2001)
Mitochondrial DNA reveals springtails aren't insects (LBL w/pic)
Pullman working on Dark-Materials spinoffs (UkG via AIC)
Interesting Fisk on Baghdad-battle aftermath (UkInd-Arab)
Decent antiwar rant (EatTheState via La)
History/defense of Food and Drug Adminstration (Boston-bkrev)
Okay strategy-comparison of Vietnam/Baghdad (UkG-CD)
Longish new Chomsky interview on Iraq (Zmag via Spin)
Internal quark-dynamics distort protons from perfect sphere (Eureka)
Artistic white-trash lyric (Poems.com)
Prior claims on decades of Iraq's oil-profits (Reuters-Dawn)
Spine-tinglingly fine Margaret-Atwood letter to USA (IHT-CD)
W's daily crimes surpass Nixon's career totals (Hartford via Sam)
Elegant Iraq-related extracts from Grotius in 1645 (FindLaw via La)
Bright beaks signal good health to mates (Eureka)
Warren Ellis (we) still blogging like a demon (DiePunyHumans)
Grotesque oil-plan evidence Israel expects Syria to be next (Asia via Ag)
Concise summary of neocon-stench w/links (Buzzflash via La)
Nice new antiwar poem by UK laureate (BBC)
Fisk details Baghdad's hidden defenses (UkInd-Arab)
Suicide-note of depressed Hong Kong actor (Zap2It) [not ensorcelled]
Don't-miss return of Saint Arundhati (UkG-CD-long)
Simple dot-visualisation of US/Iraq budget-priorities (Fi via La)
(I used to have a book like this called One Million)
Photographic anthropology of dress-codes (Exactitudes via we)
Four 'kings' represent David, Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne (gambling trivia)
Cluster-bombs raining 1000s of 'mines' across Iraq (CD)
Links to Flash-etc tributes to videogames (Costik)
Foreseeing three Iraq-outcomes, all dismal (CD-Monbiot)
US turns water-aid into free-market experiment (NyNews-CD)
Freaky 4-frame animated-gif of V838 Monocerotis (AstroPic-1Mb)
PhilG disses Linux, opts for C#/VB on .NET (greenspun.com)
Joni Mitchell on PBS Wednesday night (AmerMasters via refererlog)
Artists get creative at anti-war demos (SJMerc-CD)
Thoughtful pans of Van Gogh and Proust on B'way (NyP-MimiKB)
Rave for Neil Jordan's critique of hip cynicism (NyP-Armond)
Carol Lay on Iraq-sloganeering (NyP-big-gif)
Decent new honest-economist (TomPaine)
Amusing semi-Mac-gossip incl $2k Segway for kids (TidBITS)
The new science of helioseismology (sunquakes) (Spaceref)
The mystery of Titan's methane (moon of Saturn) (Spaceref)
Mind-boggling Pentagon lies about environmental restrictions (CD-long)
S-African human-shields report overwhelming anti-US sentiment (Oz)
Stunningly positive results of 6-month smoking-ban (NewSci)
Poetic gem-terminology in re-analyisis of tiger's-eye (Eureka) [pic]
Seattle's Stephen Funk is 1st US Marine to say 'no' (UkG via Ag)
Decent analysis of cynical 'hornets-nest' strategy (WashPost-CD)
Followup on 'fixed' wargames in Aug2002 (Boston via Ag)
Superb Wolff on Kuwait media-center (NYmag-1pg via Ag)
Details on US occupation-plan (UkG-CD)
Fine perspective from Vietnam-expert Orville Schell (SF-CD)
Beautiful balanced vignettes of Iraqis in Jordan (NYer-long)
Lovely rhymed Horace-translation (Verse Daily)
Shuttle data-recorder update (CBS via Nas)
Decent introspective psychologising (Poems.com)
British military criticizes US heavy-handedness (UkG via dy)
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