This is the archived copy covering Sep 2006

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Does pot make you paranoid? [view]
The USA is as noble as it likes to think. [view]

Headlines:
List of 'cognitive biases' (Wiki-arcane via Chtq)
Pynchon family sex scandal (NyPost-stupid via Fim)
IsraelLobby-debate briefly emerges from shadows (mWeiss) [cPnch]
US allies now ensnared in violations of GenevaConv (B&T)
"Having a biography in Wikipedia is a magnet for libel" (Wkbnch)
IsraelLobby showdown in NYC 2nite (mWeiss)
Plagiarism (incl Proust) in Dylan's autobiography (Ralph)
Robot rides bike in circles (yTube-60sec)
GPS hypersensitive to solar flares (PhysOrg via digg)
Neocon warcrimes started in 1997? (vshort via sGuer)
New polls confirm Iraqis want US GIs gone (aAard)
Fathers' smelling paint thinner may cause birth defects (Euk)
Winning 'Bully' requires earning cliques' respect (longish via digg)
Synaesthesiac complains ice cream tastes like seven (new Onion)
Scary 1My global-warming graph (Loom w/graph)
Where the billionaires are: Forbes 400 atop GgMaps (ajax via iGreed)
W's Iraq 'comma' traced to Gracie Allen, via Christians (E&P)
ObL (probably) not dead (aAard)
Stats on ultracapacitors to power cars (via /.)
Likky missing? (yTube-2min via GgG) [more]
Politicians are like bombs (B&T-subtle)
Protein avoids shredder by tying self in knots (Euk-arcane)
New views of Saturn (Sat2)
NIE: US mideast policies exacerbate terror (NyT via lf)
Unabridged Simpsons and Futuramas (Flash via lf)
Great R-rated LucienFreud slideshow (UkTel-ajax-18pg) [intvu]
German maglev tragedy ignored security policies (AP-aJ)
Stiglitz on ThisIsHell (zzzzz-over)
Equinox terminator vertical (1600*900 jpeg-arcane-live)
Great long Scorsese interview (tiLondon via Fem1st)
Strange sad 'dead madonna' story (BBC-short-no-pix)
Iran holds vulnerable USA hostage in Iraq (Znet-arcane)
Superb counterpoints to W's recent UN lies (Znet-Zunes)
7" singles stage comeback?! (Scots) {kb}
Topologists protest journal's price-gouging (Baez w/pdf)
Morning quickie: Feynman on the Tree of Life (RWx w/pix)
Overview of Chavez's radical policies (SfGate via dy)
in stubborn wonder / and neglect by a dry pot / in the winter-light (Poems)
Banksy for dummies (UkInd)
Vexpensive way to drag files onto neighbor's desktop (yTube-80sec via digg)
Spoiler-free LeCarre backgrounder on 1strate 'Mission Song' (UkTel-long-varcane)
SmokingGun exploits sex workers? (tHow)
Poignant Alzheimer's photo gallery (BBC-8pix)
Chinese fad for surgical leg-extensions (UkTel)
Activist parents want less-structured toy-play (Make w/links)
eKolbert rave for Arnie's globalwarming bill (NYer-shortish)
LarsVonTrier update (Cinem-short)
A dozen new previews of 3rd-gen-console games (jStiq-1pg-Flash)
Pakistan ought to be scarier than Iran (itTms)
$5B hedgefund loss blamed on virtual O-rings (iGreed-vshort-arcane)
Update on Google's tera-word corpus (GgResearch-arcane)
Locked horns consign stags to eternity (pic)
MacArthur geniuses atop GgMaps (ajax via iGreed)
Me stiII Ioves meIovescookies (flickr-arcane?)
WoW guild meets in 2ndLife for planning raids (3.D w/pix)
Pix-n-stats on Willie Nelson's stash (via Vh1)
Health insurance by 'boiler-room' (Krugman-shortish via Crsr)
Presidential doodles vs album-art (FMU-short w/links)
Entertaining highlevel brawl about expert-centric Wikipedia fork (Shirky via Brain)
BlondeOnBlonde outtakes (mp3s via Steve)
Rules for storing veggies, as pointless periodic table (jpegs via lf)

With hunger / In their cup of sticks (vDaily-arcane)
Energy-saving tips (cReports-1pg)
Evening quickie: Where is games' Alan Moore? (RWx-longish)
Nvidia developing physics-calcs card (RegUk)
Feminist philosophers analysed (PhysOrg-short)
Window closing fast for Xbox2 indie devs (jStiq)
Cheap Fostex/Tascam 4tracks still have fans (Gz-arcane)
UK lakes still haven't recovered from 1960s paint additive (SciDaily)
No-FaceOnMars update (pix via Euk)
New product-ratings aggregator (eg-mp3players via wLotta)
Newsletter profiles top-50+ investment wizards (1pg-loong-arcane via lf)
Blisspop for Libra (mp3s)


Hawt champion chess babes (1pg)
Theosophy's illustrated 1901 inspiration for abstract-art movement (1pg-phat)
Fine pix of decent French dance (flickr-Flash-40pix)
A-list artists submit $100-diy art for Palestine (UkInd-no-pix)
Surreal night performance at Danish bldg site (flickr-Flash-50pix)
Edible fullsize nude self-portrait in bread (flickr-set-5pix)
Hands-on review of $350 Sony Mylo pmp (AP-PhysOrg)
PaulMcCartney/BlytheDanner matchup sought? (friv via Vh1)
ATI/AMD offloading numbercrunching to video cards (RegUk via /.)
Lucy's 3Myo 3yo (UkTms-longish) [pix] [NatGeo-multipage]
How the best productions re-spun 'Cabaret' (UkInd-long)
'onebox' = special semantic searchresult (Blgscpd-eg-earthquakes)
NYCers talk money (oDinny-1|rs)
Midday semiquickie: Values and choice on the yahoo zodiac (RWx-shortish)
More Loebner transcripts (MIT)

88 out of 300 deem USA very evil (MrPoll-results)
Hibernians descended from Iberians (UkInd)
Mindblowing 60s gogo-girl w/electric mandolin (FMU w/yTube-3min) [Wiki]
10W generator built on silicon chip (PhysOrg)
Fresh-spinach substitutes (NyMag-short)
WarOnTerror brings dusty philosophers back to life (B&T-arcane)
NyT chooses fine-short-story-writer* Michael Rogers as house futurist (E&P) [*Az]
W's latest seemed to incite genocide (cPunch)
DThom explores NicoleK via 'viewer's cuts' (SfGate-bkrev)
Morning semi-quickie: Linktext and heraldic barcodes on the yahoo zodiac (RWx-longish)
Upbeat JonStewart deflating RobertNovak (1gm-QT-4min)
3 Photo Story (flickr-1pg)
AirAmerica gossip (WFMU)
I must stay and find a way, to stop before it gets too much (flickr)
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Gerrymandered To Serve King Friday's Make-Believe Agenda (Onion)





2006 MacArthur genius awards (list)
New fave photographer (flickr-6000pix)
$2k helium balloon lifts cam 20miles (BBC)
Juicy new NYRB incl Didion on Cheney (toc)
Vprovocative Krugman on W and torture (NyT-uCan-shortish via Crsr)
(Is Wikipedia a longterm force/forum for clarity in philosophy?) (eg 'value')
Latest Loebner-winning chatbot text extract (BBC)
NYC carpettack bikepath saboteur (NyMag-vshort)
18 30sec wma samples from jukepick Hanne Hukkelberg (NO-cdrev w/playlist)



Melbourne got down (flickr-set-100pix)
Killer new leaked Weird Al (yTube-3min via digg)
My fave yTube because she's fallen in love w/the pianist by the end (yTube-4min)
HighTimes profile of Stephen Gaskin* (yTube-12min-2part) [*fan]
Crappy vid for sublime Stewart-Gaskin LeslieGore-cover (yTube-last-3-of-7min) (alt-3min)
1st true world chess championship in 13yrs starts next week (cBase)
Mythbusters defeat 'uncrackable' fingerprint-lock 3 ways (yTube-3min via digg)
Danish punk's gravestone doubles as bong (flickr)
Grim update on ongoing Lebanese clusterbomb casualties (UkInd-pCock)
Crossbred zoo-lions experiment ends w/whimper (UkInd-no-pix)
7pg Disney cartooning tips (jpegs via ET)
Wiimote works great for simple flight sims (Ktku-short)
Creative parody of self-help schemes (2of12pg via eAard)
ClicheWatch: pix titled 'baby got back' (flickr-32hits)
10hr climax for Saturn-rings fans (SpaceRef-no-new-pix-yet)
New chess prodigies from Asia (cBase w/pix)
DanielRadcliffe on 'Extras' (yTube-friv-60sec)
Okay bonobo-sanctuary gallery (BBC-6of12)
MemeWatch: pix titled 'waving not drowning' (flickr-140hits)
Nuke-Iran-like-a-pirate day (arrrr!) (Xym-short)
Hackers confident iPod homebrew-games possible (wiki via digg)
Artfun w/found colored wires (flickr-17pix)
Compilation of suspected Israeli covert projects (wrHap via dDuke)
Analysis of commonest MySpace leaked-passwords (mirror via /.)
Recent non-quickie: Representing stories in Web2.0 (RWx-shortish)
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo (Wiki via digg)
Hasbara even at alJazeera (EI via aJFriends) [def]




Your Nokia can upload a continuous life-movie ($!art w/link)
When there are no more polar bears in the wild... I quit (vshort)
DThom debates NicoleK's greatness (UkInd)
New bio of Francis Crick (UkG-shortish)
Cute little boy w/guitar (flickr-no-blog)
Sunflower thinks it's ivy (flickr-friv)
VW beetles rally in Kathmandu (BBC-10pix)
Vote for best console-wars limerick (jStiq-longish)
Iraq reconstruction was manned solely by ideologues (WaPo via sGuer)
Cute flowergirl near-tragedy story/pic (flickr-no-blog)
ClicheWatch: Every 94min a pic titled 'pretty in pink' (flickr-pattern)
Israel's longterm mideast strategy (cPunch-Apr06 via dDuke) [1982 cite] [dIre] [Antiwar]

Wireframe TonyHawk skateboard animation-process (yTube-2min) [more]
Fan fiction becoming semi-respectable (WSJ-longish)
Credible stats say Facebook blew it (Dead2 via eAard)
Nicely staged MattDamon/JimmyKimmel prank (yTube-3min-friv via Vh1)
Lucid tech analysis of hurricane-season fizzle-so-far (jMast)
Too-quick overview of Wii controller-motions so far (yTube-60sec via Ktku)
The girl with error-message eyes (wE-2ndLife-pic)
Now ObL = W + Pope (aAard)
More expressive 2ndLife faces (1pg-long)
New Wii faq (jStiq)
Background on IvoryCoast H2S poisonings (NewSci)
MS DRM locks out MS Zune players (EFF)
Nietzsche vs a Yankees tickertape parade (wStair-prfmrev)
"Please allow enough time to figure out how to wear clothing" (flickr-2ndLife)
10kyo mammoth-DNA detected on blade from new site (Can via lf)
Human brain-model knitted from yarn (2500*1700 jpeg) [more]
Clash of cultures reduces to arranged-or-not marriages? (iSteve-unpc)
New poll: How evil is the USA? (MrPoll-short)
The voles are not what they seem (arcane via Euk)
Stunning was=live video of ISS construction spacewalk (multiformat)
Witty Walmart instore-shipping scam (AZ via digg)
Gayle Gorman music video (QT-3min) [site]
Boobs of BurningMan (flickr-set-24pix)
Subtly ecstatic regular CA nightbikerideparty (flickr-set-150pix)
Zionist vote favors Giuliani in 2008? (Xym)
Awesome SusieB on sexual electricity (shortish)
WTC cleanup pollution = 'Freedom Lung' (Onion-passim)


Virtual Adidas 20c/pair in 2ndLife (3.D)
Murtha's indictment of Rumsfeld (C&L-etext)
Video faq-bots for biz (no-demo)
Xena renamed Eris (BBC w/pix)
From slow-food to slow-clothes (gStraight via dTongue)
Therefore, you have brought a tree inside / and put lights on it (vDaily-longish)
"What happened in Russia in the 1990s was one of the great economic crimes in all history" (iSteve)
If alQaeda really has Anbar, we'll never get them out (wBar-loong)


Trailer-to-end-all-trailers mashup (yTube-3min via Vh1)

The Course of Natural Life (MttS-vfriv)
Quiet Guy Mistaken For Nice Guy (new Onion)
MsNbc suppresses poll results on 911 conspiracy (pix via digg)
FlickrMemeWatch: "Not sure about this one" (flickr-arcane-300hits)

The Sixteen Acre Ditch (wBar-don't-miss)
Old Venus-lander pix sharpened (1200*600 jpeg) [more]
Superb overview of Arab press on 911+5 (aAard w/links)
Critical rave for Sorkin/Studio60 pilot (wE)
Newton's wacky alchemical view of economic history (Euk-varcane)
Chicken eggs nourished on cannibal diet (UCS via pboy)
Devastating pan for DePalma's Dahlia (NyMag)
NSA makes terror database semi-searchable online (Cnsmrst w/link)
AlQaeda now rules 30% of Iraq (WaPo via dy)



Crafting a laptop formfactor for an Xbox2 (Engdgt-6pg)
How a jr-high teacher uses Ning (Ning-intvu)
Beer Pong (Wikipedia)
Devo attracts a new generation (flickr)
Do drivers ever use gps features? (iGreed-vshort)
ConsumersReports' exemplary web-integration (tBray)
Tiny glimmers of truth in Senate Iraq investigation (wBar-longish)


PattiSmith cites imaginary fashion-mag 'Bizarre'? (UkInd)
'mad honey poisoning' = psychoactive Turkish azalea-nectar (UkInd-short)
3in5 sometimes paranoid, so 1-in-5 quit (MrPoll-results)
Sweetest-ever loveletter to James Joyce (Flash-4min via eAard)
Joycean epiphanies (RWx-vshort)
Red and green on the Tree of Life (RWx-too-short)
1940 story launched typing-chimps meme (etext-shortish via Chtq)
Life imitates NormanRockwell (flickr-emo)
ClicheWatch: pic titled 'dancing queen' posted every 54min (flickr-searchpattern)
Rummy nixed appearance of longterm Iraq-planning (VA via lf)



100Mb 2hr DylanThomas poetry reading (rar-archive via lf)
4 short memoirs of 1982 peace demo (UkG)
LonelyPlanet guide to 'micronations' (UkG-bkrev)
Constraining sociality by tweaking wiki-rules (Cnet w/link)
Unicode/nethack mashup (edV w/link)
Nifty eclipse-visualisation art (AstroPic)
a single drop of water from the tap / that gathers light and works light's little knives (Poems) [pic]
Walmart separately targets 'Hispanics, blacks, boomers, affluents, suburbans, rurals' (WaPo)
Entourage/JPiven for Dummies (UkG)
Sacred Monsters = multiculti dance collab (UkTel-arcane w/pix)
Borat: "I hope you kill every man, woman and child in Iraq, and may W drink their blood" (UkInd)
New leCarre intro/extract (UkTms) [part2]
Michael Moore bails out 'Borat' filmfest snafu (Cinem-friv)
Pentagon losing IED arms-race (wBar)
MemeWatch: slap [] [] and call me [] (GgW)
Inventress of the bumblebee gun (Vimeo-Flash-70sec)
Iraq mocks press freedom (BBC via Mach)


Gentleman-jewel-thief gets 4yrs for taking $65M saltshaker (UkTms) [pic?]
1st 2ndLife presidential campaign stop (WaPo-friv-no-pix via Ktku) [pix]
Prize offered for worst cable-tangle (Gz)
Hyperdramatic Williamsburg experimental dance (flickr-Flash-84pix) [info]
Top 10 'counterculture campuses' (hiTms-list)
19yo bugs coed bath (BBC w/pix)
Witty experiments link conscience and cleaning (NewSci)
1981 vradical UK feminist anti-nuke protest (Monbiot)
Semantic markup for newspaper articles (aHol via evrbdy)



Warhol on the origins of Pop (NyP-extract)
'Poser' figure-animation free offer (Make w/link-48hr)
Ill-matched chatbots fail to spark romance (Radar-trnscrpt)
Chomsky and Trivers on sociobiology of lying (Seed-trnscrpt w/yTube-7min)
Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan (pic)
Patti Smith on Mapplethorpe (UkTms-longish)
Fine recent DavidLynch dreamsequence ad (yTube-60sec via Cnsmrst)
GgNews adds extensive for-pay archives (eg)



UK's Afghan strategy delusional (UkG)
1st pix of Suri (Vh1)
1962 Dylan studio outtakes (mp3s via Vh1)
Floating-flowers art (flickr)
Static zoom on 30yo Viking2 on Mars (Mars2 w/pix)
Web2 success depends on intangibles, not genre/category (iGreed-vshort)
Midday quickie: Recap of Yahoo zodiac (plus novelists' styles) (RWx-longish)
GSpencerBrown* on primes and 'shrinkage' (GgG-long-vvvarcane) [*fan]
Implausible dedicated-pathfinding chip (short-arcane) {ai}
A tribute to the crocodile hunter (flickr-vfriv)


Mordant Monbiot on IMF 'reform' (UkG)
LeCarre on Africa, Lebanon, neocons, etc (MN-intvu-short)
LBJ blamed for JFK assassination (pPlanet w/yTube-5min via wE)
No CO2 precedent in 800kyr ice core (BBC)
TimRussert is a big fat liar too (dBaker)
New poll: Does pot make you paranoid? (MrPoll-short)
Kubrick 3X as beloved as JoniM? (old-MrPoll-results)
Artists, activists, griefers target GgEarth repository (3.D w/links)
Final animations from Moon probe (ESA-Flash)
Lurid details of death by stingray-barb (UkTms)
Revealing account of #1 alQaeda witness-protection program (NYer-long)
Predictably gloomy 911-anniversary interview w/Sy Hersh et al (NYer-longish)
Brechtian dialectics (iMomus)


Paraders finesse 'infinite red carpet' (flickr via Gm)
Midday quickie: On a bag of paragraphs (RWx-short-arcane)
Cambodian monks stalk tourist chyx (flickr-thread)
TomCruise's evolving boxoffice stats (UkInd-dThom)
Characterising gigantic culture-shifts (iMomus)
Good week for secrets (pSecret)
MemeWatch: "why do i like this?" (flickr-28hits)
8yo tutors adults in Halo (UkTel) [pic?]
Excuse me, but are you talking to yourself? (oDinny) [also]
Charming homeschoolers' talent show (flickr-set-28pix)
DThom on NicoleK (Philly-bkrev)
Moon impact animated-gif (gif-3Mb) [info]
Free oldskool Windows wordprocessor (download via mshook)
American People Shrug, Line Up For Fingerprinting (Onion-mp3-vshort)



M.Amis fictionalises M.Atta (UkG-2pg-etext)
Banksy targets ParisHilton's cds (UkInd-no-pix) [pix]
New NYRB finally (toc)
PG-13 models w/messy foods (flickr-set-400pix)
G-rated toast orgasm (flickr w/recipe)
Beck employs go-go geek (flickr)
Saturday quickie: Evolving tastes on the Yahoo zodiac (RWx-moto)
Milhouse Mafia revealed (flickr-friv)
New low Canon 7Mp $180 shipped (oMax-DN)
Misleading mortgage deals threaten millions of homes (BizWk-long via dBaker)

Critical appreciation of Graves' Claudius (UkG-longish)
Life imitates Fowles' 'Collector' (UkTms)
OpenID = emerging password-management standard (Cnet w/links)
Moon impact ?visible Saturday night (NewSci)
Tone-of-voice supplies 38% of message-impact? (UkTms-longish)
MemeWatch: "hearts and minds of" (GgW via js)
Brain gene mysteriously uses multiple copies (Nature via /.)
New low refurb'd Roomba $135 shipped (Az-DN)
Improved character-AI in 'Saints Row' (Ktku)
TomFrank on effete Democrats (NyT-uCan via Crsr)
SpikeLee's 4hr Katrina-doc as free 10min yTubes (multipage via Crsr)
MemeWatch: energized (flickr-579hits-varcane)
MemeWatch: *bucks (1L-38hits-arcane)

RWWL archives: 2006: Aug Jul Jun May Apr Mar Feb Jan
2005: Dec Nov Oct Sep Aug Jul Jun May Apr 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]

Timely:

the Violation: Oz : Arab : Dwn : Leb : Jrd : Glf : Aw : CS : UkG : Gg

Israel: 9/11, overview, Tikkun; fundamentalism, more Shahak, Chomsky; Stone's Damascus Gate

Projects: knowledge representation, Linux, Flaubert, Greeks, poems, eyelids        

James Joyce: news/portal, intro, gossip, Finnegans Wake

Press: Y10, Sam, Reg, WPost, Wired, IrishTimes, WSJ, Philly, Danish, Norwegian


Periodicals by date: [more]

Continuous: DJIA : AIC
Daily: nude : nude : SGun : CPnch : celebs
Weblogs: Obl : PhilG : yti : CT : Cyn : JWk : Rv : Semiweekly: Gm : Tufte : Mem
Weekly: NYmg : Risks : XML : Hell
Semimonthly: NYRB : mnftiu : NTK : Cnsrtm : Cstk : Prtg
Monthly: HrpIdx : 1Mon : Mtrpls : MrP

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