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Above links mostly sorted by day-of-weekly-update, Sunday to Saturday.
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Above links mostly sorted by time-of-daily-update, noonish to latenight.
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Above links update continually.
NEW: Faked rss feed via Wytheville Community College
Headlines:
Yet another Blair/Bush/Iraq smoking gun, from July 2002 (UkInd via Wolcott)
Geometric Flash demos with sourcecode (JRgraphix via Plc)
Buffett loses $310M (so far) betting against dollar (Bloomberg) (Timing is all.)
French rave called on account of caterpillars (AP-CNN w/popup)
Interesting
New 3000*500 Mars-panorama jpeg (via Phys.org)
Last iota of serendipity being designed out of Google News (NewSci via /.)
Homeland Security seeks XML 'core' (FCW)
Hubble-repair mission back in play (Space.com w/popup)
Small gallery of children's drawings from Darfur genocide (via EthanZ)
The Left needs to start investing in mass media (Consortium)
'Indirect calorimeter' reads breath to finetune diet (DailyMail via $!art)
Reagan's White House diaries to be published (UkG)
New wave of prefab houses (w/small pix) (Germany via wholelotta)
Okay interview/update on Jean-Luc Godard (UkG)
Indian call-centers recruit UK backpackers (Silicon via Wired)
Enzyme guides diet towards balanced amino acids (SciDaily)
1997 anti-logging pepperspray victims finally win justice (via Anarchogeek)
NTSA-confiscated scissors, lighters, etc up for auction (eBay via JWalk)
Shuttle launch put back to mid-July (NasaW)
Mars rover stuck in sand (Space.com)
Quantum crypto gets very limited rollout (RegUk)
Autism already signalled at 12 months (Eureka) "irritability, tendency to
fixate on objects, reduced social interaction, lack of facial expression"
MP3 aggregator using blog-recommendations (Hype via Waxy)
Sammy Davis Jr's dip into satanism (RigorousIntuition)
$40, 70sec reusable audio post-it note (i4u via Gz)
A nice little metaphor for meditation (43folders via Plc)
$200M telescope built from 20k simple nodes (NewSci) (LOFAR = LOw-Frequency ARray)
Concussions detected by VR test-suite (NewSci via Ag)
Hilarious simultaneous group-Flash experiment (fridge magnets) (via Willison)
Ivory-billed woodpecker rediscovered after 60 years (Birdlife w/painting)
Desktop fusion built on $50 crystal (USA2 w/popup)
Protected sea lions threaten endangered salmon (ABC)
NASA missed boat on Earth-observing satellites (NewSci)
Too-small triptychs of 70s-80s-90s families changing (Flash via Ursi)
Viola to Olivia (vshort) (VerseDaily)
Norwegian woman gets 9mos for nonconsensual bj (ReutersUk)
Interview with curious hacker touring Iraq (Make) [blog via dy]
Compiled list of 47 of Huffington's 250 celeb bloggers (Agonist)
Neural net demonstrates death-sentence racism (USA2 w/popup)
Nifty exhaustive comparison-utility for content-management software (via Bisset)
Basics of setting up an Internet radio station (OReilly-PDF via Bisset)
Search inside 1000s of library books (via GoogleBlog)
Labor unions as logical step towards Arab democracy (CrookedTimber)
Grim update on ozone hole (UkG)
Silly parody of forthcoming Huffington Post (celeb blogs) (UkG)
'Arts org' Heavy Trash protests gated communities (w/pic) (Blogspot via Reuters)
Sports section uses sparklines for homer stats (Tufte)
Business XML (XBRL) too complicated (CNet) [sample]
George Lucas promises return to indie roots (new Wired-looong)
Parry credits Air America and Jon Stewart with political climate-shift (Consortium)
Scary claims about bank rate-gouging (Bankrate-2pg via JWalk)
Anticipating big quake, Utah capitol retrofitted w/shocks (BBC)
Marines may actually convict lieutenant of murdering Iraqis (ABC)
(Contractors doing the same are untouchable, I think.)
Creepy new portrait of John Paul II (BBC) [bkgd]
Greenpeace UK sneaks solar panels onto Deputy PM's roof (CNN w/popup)
Detailed, one-sided backgrounder on Gaza settlers (USA2 w/popup)
(There's also a Flash map with an interesting interface.)
Michael Chabon as liar/hoaxster (annoying frame via Snarkout)
Animated-light sculptures (Flash only) (via Eyebeam)
900-best-albums-on-one-iPod thought experiment (Hipster iPod via Engadget)
Definitive rumor-check on new Oxyrhynchus-papyri tech hype (NatGeo via Xplr)
Clam-diggers enlisted as frontline of Homeland Security (CNN)
Race/IQ debate ready for another go-round (Eureka)
Email-lowers-IQ 'study' was actually just PR (Mindhacks via ambig)
Greenspan's 'Fedspeak' inflates dangerous illusions worldwide (MorganStanley via Ag)
Word of the day: 'aporetic' = unconvinced (Ref.com, via Engadget)
Simon&Schuster bilks Afghan memoir-contest winner (NYmag-short)
Firms offer legal caller-ID spoofing (BBC)
Intl nicknames for '@' symbol, plus history (P22 via Cartoonist) (They forgot Cinnabon.)
New HDs will offer 1Gb Flash buffer (ElecWkly via Gz)
Earlier Vesuvius eruption buried Iceman-era [3500BC] village (Sweden via Xplr)
Text-only synopsis of Edward Tufte's three books (UWash via Brainlog)
Thread about Google using redirects to spy on clickthrus (BramCohen)
Elton John will marry when UK legalises gay marriage in December (BBC w/pic)
Fun RealVideo of Juliette Lewis's new punk band (NME via Fimoculous)
Giant graphic of US budget breakdown (DeviantArt via Grumet)
Human liver-enzyme gene spliced into Tokyo rice (UkInd-CD)
How the flight school caught Moussaoui (Mnpls via Ag)
DNA confirms Tarim Basin mummies were Caucasian (AFP via Xplr)
Blog-history hot topic worldwide (Technorati searchpattern)
Web-kiosks bootstrap Indian computer-literacy (CBC w/pix)
Efficient person-search aggregator (DigPeople via Batelle)
Robot spacecraft accidentally bumped target satellite (Space.com w/popup)
NASA's human pre-sniffer keeps ISS air sweet (ABC)
Billy Collins rehabilitates ee cummings (Slate via Morning)
"Classroom Chaos" documents out-of-control UK state schools (UkObs)
Alan Rickman's hit Rachel-Corrie play (Gaza martyr) (UkObs)
Collected comix-without-words (Germany via Drawn)
Mike Figgis on new Billie Holiday biography (UkG)
"...the way she moved her head when Young was playing his solo..." [cf]
How Indian call-center grunts embezzled $425k (TimesOfIndia via Ag)
Moving short memoir by Rosie O'Donnell (Blogspot)
Long outsider observations on Japan's music business (CDbaby via ffwd)
W's budget proposes 'Sunset Commission' for terminating progressive programs (RollingStone via Sam)
Cop game simulates enhanced drug-effects (CNN w/popup)
'Smart Folders' = Push 2.0? (Inetnews)
Long Tom Frank on effete liberals (new NYRB)
Full Cyc scheduled to go online? (NewSci-long via $!art)
Undated interview about writing 1984 Infocom Hitchhiker's game (BBC via ffwd)
Fine new GetYourWarsOn (mnftiu)
Tom-Friedman mixed-metaphor competition (CrookedTimber)
Evolutionary analogy for Web2.0 vs Semantic Web (Anarchogeek)
Witty exhaustive table (9*10) of webtech neologisms (wide via Plc)
Massive longlasting malware attack on business MSIE users (PCworld)
Java customised/simplified for artists (and kids?), aka 'Processing' (via Waxy)
(Could they have picked a less distinguished name? How will one search for it?)
Chinese new-users sitting ducks for malware (Inetnews)
TB leaks from Seattle biodefense lab (Sunshine via Memory)
Beautifully executed lo-tech home business idea (felt donuts) (SewDorky via JWalk)
Ongoing top-200 free MP3s incl Ani DiFranco, Elliott Smith (Amazon via JWalk)
How W/Rove misdirect progressive priorities (CPunch)
Old Testament (creepy parts) coloring book (Nonist via Cartoonist)
New Von Trier trailer includes intriguing slave-personality typology (Quicktime via AIC)
'Lost Greek classics' story (UkInd below) was way hyped (Xplr) [more]
NyT smears 3rd-world-craft retailer Eziba (EthanZ)
Hashes let others match your data but maintain privacy? (OReilly via Waxy)
Open Office dying of bloat? (ComputerWorld)
Rough notes on Vint Cerf's detailed tech-critique of Internet (Windley via /.)
Nice Flash up/download speed test (Wugnet via Plc)
2ndLife screenshots conceal netlag problems (Clickable via 2Herald)
Don't-miss meme: "5000-fans theory" (SAndrew via JWalk)
Short list of 'niche' dating-sites (Barefoot)
$900 African merrygorounds double as water-pumps (BBC w/pix)
Band-member hacks Nintendo controllers as instruments (Makeblog)
CBC nominates Leonard Cohen for lit Nobel (UkG-short)
Six Greek teens discuss their experiences of online chat (1st Monday)
Okay backgrounder on military-sim studio, ICT (UkG via Wired)
Iraq-terrorist reality show scarily effective? (IWPR via Ag)
Long useful Zucker-Abrahams insider comedy-writers' glossary (Artful via Plc)
Cheap text-messaging for Kenyan jobseekers (Reuters)
CAPalert's worst: Amer. Psycho, Freddy v Jason, Scary Movie, Sin City (full alphabetical list)
(Google's movie reviews omit CAPalert.)
Manga-fied Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew as graphic novels (w/pic) (USA2day w/popup)
Anecdotes about non-tsunami freak waves (KnightRidder-KC)
Tim Bray predicts Adobe will orphan Flash (tbray.com) [more]
Fun wild (free) composer, Gianluca Cangemi (Italy via Indy.tv)
Imaginary Playmate Meets Invisible Fence (new NYer toon)
Short don't-miss inspirational comment on Venezuela and Quixote (Rigorous Intuition)
Elegant Windows app (beta) for effortlessly exploring free music (Indy.tv via bOING) (Awesome!)
(It's temporarily down from overloading, I think.)
Flattened Falluja still under media blackout (CPunch)
Silicon wafers make great gears for wristwatches (Euro via Gizmo)
Keith Carradine playing W in new David Hare in LA (BBC)
Claim that "Laocoon" statue was forged by Michelangelo (w/pic) (World-Science via Xplr)
Riverbend breaks some news (BaghdadBurning)
Status-update on Wikipedia search (Signpost)
(I suspect Wikipedians will always demand more bandwidth than it has available.)
7000yo male fertility figure (pic via Xplr) [story]
Ellen's graphical selection of favorite 'presents' (lfs.nl)
Useful anecdotes about credit-card rate-change scams (CD)
Clay Shirky's 2001 debunking of web-services hype (xml.com)
Short Krugman comparison of intl heathcare stats (NyT-IHT via dy)
25Mb of lost Greek classics now readable using infrared (UkInd via Ag)
Windows could dedicate one CPU-core to anti-virus (TimBray vshort)
Actors who've played Jesus (lots more) (IMDb searchpattern)
"Simpsons-like" venality of Coca-Cola in India (CP-Cockburn)
Robot spacecraft scores a 'D' (SpaceRef via NasaW) [more]
Nicely executed font-identification expert (Identifont via JWalk)
Hopeful speculation that Real plans a more-open iPod (A VC)
MemeWatch: X-shaped hole (Google pattern)
Google.org-- "the philanthropic arm of Google" (via /.) [thread]
Canonical list of people known by one name (Wikipedia)
Helen Caldicott dismisses nukes as global-warming panacea (CD via Sam)
Fine Naomi Klein on "disaster capitalism" (Nation-CD)
New ISS experiment may predict earthquakes (Eureka) [skep]
10th planet Sedna may have 3ft asphalt shell (NewSci)
Century-old daphnia [pic] eggs hatched to test evolution theory (ABC via /.)
Fascinating experimental comparison of dog and wolf behavior (CHE via PhilG)
Actresses who've played Marilyn Monroe (lots) (IMDb search-pattern)
Very handy linkchecker extension for Firefox (Freitas via JWalk)
Amazon adds more fun stat-views (eg Ulysses) (via Waxy)
Can you use Google Groups to track word-frequency changes since 1985? (new-project interlude)
Watching the watchmen = "sousveillance" (Wired News)
More GoogleMaps sightseeing (GlobeTrotting via CynC)
Mozart's 1787 random-minuet game, in MIDI (Austria via Plc)
Harry Partch blamed Bach for decline of western music (NYer-cool)
Technical history of 20thC flus, plus scary screw-up (flus plus!) (NewSci w/popup) [more]
Angelina Jolie breaks Korean-nukes stalemate (Newswk-short via Ag)
Specs on proposed broadband robot-airships (UkReg w/pic)
5yr $40M project to map ancient migrations via 100k volunteers' DNA (BBC w/map) [$100 to join!?]
New Afghan Anti-Opium War meets armed resistance (UkInd via Ag)
Nice overview of the War on Public Broadband (CD)
Update on sociobiological pioneer Robert Trivers (Boston via cognoshanty) [more]
(His ideas on self-deception fit neatly with my language-as-immune-reaction proposal, below.)
Site-specific junk-HTML-cleanup scripts using GreaseMonkey in Firefox (Dunck via Waxy)
(This should eventually approximate my Drawback browser suggestion.)
Teratogens [def] in the so-called Culture of Life (CPunch-short)
Detailed model suggests sharks are key to healthy coral reefs (Newswise via Ag)
Long superb anecdotal 2004 article about honor-system economics (NyT-Freak via Plc)
"...telecom companies have robbed him blind... law firms aren't worth the trouble..."
Encouraging long profile of maverick economist (NyT-Freakonomics)
"the swimming pool is almost 100 times more likely to kill a child than the gun is"
Buzkashi moms miss Taliban security (AFP-CD)
Top-paying AdSense keywords (Googlest via Plc)
Bionic tofu glue patented (Eureka)
Is language an immune response? (very short)
Next-gen ground-based multi-mirror reflector telescopes w/adaptive optics (BBC, obscure)
Riverbend on unreported protests (Blogspot)
MemeWatch: "Also, I would like a pony" (Google pattern) [1996 origin?]
James Wood almost makes Bellow sound good (UkG) "2 much 2 no"
R Crumb cheers up? (UkG)
W's straight-line path handing over USA to its creditors (CPunch)
Reverse-engineering MIDIs of old piano performances (PragmProgm)
Double-agents infiltrating US spy agencies (CSM via Cursor)
Enthusiasts scanning huge library of old car manuals (via JWalk)
Shameless Perle blames CIA's "appalling incompetence" (WaPo via Cursor)
Panasonic Oxyride batteries win value-test (PcWorld via Gizmodo)
Iraq occupation modelled on Israel vs Palestinians (CPunch don't-miss)
Does anyone use IMDb's keywords index for anything? (example) [old classification project]
Provocative thoughts on total-information awareness (short Slashdot comment)
Yikes: "flesh-eating superbug" enters medical vocabulary (BBC)
Headsets don't really cut cellphone microwave risk? (Quicktime via root.cellar)
PRWatch's Spin of the Day has become unreadable, for me (word to the wise)
(too database-y, too many confusing links, poorly written blurbs)
1000 Computerworld subscribers surveyed about language prefs (via Lambda)
Short goosebumpy poem (VerseDaily) The fog got in the house, / he says...
5*7 pixel (!!!) videogame kit (Germany via Plc)
Convenient satellite 'sightseeing' via Google Maps (Shreddies via Plc)
$100M Dickens themepark planned for London (UkG)
Movie "Lost in Translation" made a lot of people cringe (1000+ Google hits)
Cute high-concept-crimefighting-duo generator (BlackInk via CynC)
("...in black ink my love will still shine bright.")
Neat satellite-photo-based short-autobiography experiment (Flash) (Flickr via Plc) [more]
Biotech creates blue roses (w/pic) (Bionet via /.)
Convincing 62My-cycle in biodiversity (w/graph) (LBL via Ag)
New Harper's Index (fun stats) (Harper's)
Blog-gossip incl Warren Beatty, GwynethP, and Drudge (NyObs)
The subtitle that changed the (publishing) world (UkG)
Butterfly-flight approximates straight line (BBC-short)
MemeWatch: "X is the new black" (Google pattern)
Monbiot says Wolfowitz perfectly fits World-Bank history (UkG-CD)
Shortish analysis/history of the rise of the neocons (Alterman via Cursor)
Lo-power radio hijacked by religious right (Alternet via Cursor)
Different digital cameras still take pix w/characteristic personalities (PCmag-Dvorak)
First full publication of 1993 Russian October-Surprise report (Consortium)
Contrarian dismisses oil-prices as another speculative bubble (Seattle-AP via Ag)
Firefox in ROM could be instant-on (Sean McGrath)
Much-better-than-expected results from retinal chip-implant (UkReg)
Nice time-lapse Quicktimes of plants growing (Indiana via CynC)
(Why doesn't Quicktime include variable-speed playback?)
Useful assault on the blogging-celebrity-blowhard syndrome (Ceglowski via Waxy)
Pan-wiki markup-standard mooted (Signpost)
Usage notes: awhile, alright, anymore (Biloxi via Plc) "Follow your own feel..."
Jane Fonda on Barbarella, etc (UkG extract, plus interview)
How the Unicorn tapestries were (painstakingly) digitised (new NYer-long) [lo-res pix]
Online radio station featuring new music (KRUA, Alaska)
Riverbend on Iraqi/US teevee (Blogspot)
Pookmail, for fly-by-night 24-hr email addresses (don't miss via Plc)
Readable Alex Cockburn on Prozac and the toothless FDA (CPunch)
New Amazon feature displays key phrases (SIPs) from sociology (etc) books (Crooked Timber) [example]
Oops: Monsanto's Roundup "extremely lethal" to amphibians (Eureka)
"...nobody would have guessed Roundup was going to be so lethal..."
Exit-poll odds up to 959,000 to one (Ohio-CD)
Moore's-Law 40th-anniversary FAQ (CNet)
Fifth Annual Search-Engine Awards (SearchEngineWatch via Plc)
Neanderthal protein-sequence supports vitamin-C hypothesis (SciDaily via Ag)
Thoughtful weblog by a (!?) venture capitalist (A VC)
Short history of Flickr (UkG via Wired)
Canonical list of 2005 April-Fool's Web-pranks (ongoing) (Urgo via /.)
RWWL archives: 2005: Feb 2003: Sep Jul May Apr Mar Feb Jan
2002: Dec Nov Oct Sep Aug Jul Jun May Apr Mar Feb
2001: Nov 15Oct Aug Mar 2000: Dec Oct Aug [older]