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Headlines: (jump to #main below)
16-pg slideshow of architect Rem Koolhaas (via Ampersand) [article]
David Pacheco's Quentin Tarantino's Taco Bell dog-replacement (alt.religion.kibology)
Detailed update on lost White House emails (via Drudge)
PBS rerun Thurs night: Buena Vista Social Club (YahooTV)
Clinton's private eye, Terry Lenzner (NYPost)
Flaws in the latest Waco verdict (Salon.com)
Deja.com embedding 'product links' in our messages (Slashdot thread)
One-man show about Bucky Fuller (SFGate-2pg)
Harold Bloom on Harry Potter (via Deja)
Back from vacation (The Onion)
Long update on Cat Stevens (USAToday)
PJ Harvey album news (via i forget)
New issue features Seth Godin on idea viruses (FastCompany)
Authors' sensitivity to bad reviews (via FollowMeHere)
Looong article about the Ecstasy boom (NYMag-6pg)
Kate Bush is a mother (via alt.showbiz.gossip)
Gloria Trevi on Univision Sun night (YahooTV) [amateur nite]
Low-grade burgers in school lunches may have spread mad-cow disease (BBC)
A nice, long profile of Groucho Marx (NYRB-5pg)
Joyce's sense of esthetic symmetry (esoteric)
Summer hours: Brilliant and witty live interviews (oops missing again)
Long profile of eco-satirist Carl Hiaasen (UK Times)
New statistics predict imminent mad-cow epidemic in UK (via Drudge)
Britney Spears launches teen girl site (AtNY)
'Dumb Money: Adventures of a Day Trader' (new Epinion)
'Lost' White House emails are getting un-deleted (The Register)
Montana county bills Rainbow family $137,000 (Spokane)
Hubbub about Craig Raine's AIDS poem (ThisIsLondon) [related poem]
Content-centered Web design (first draft)
Secrets of Priceline's success (Salon.com)
Interview about Robert Johnson biopic, etc (NYPress- don't miss)
Political poster idea (contains swearing)
Spooky 1900-themed poem (Poems.com)
Multipage Joni Mitchell artshow (via refererlogs)
Extract from anti-Holocaust-industry book (via refererlogs)
Jenni's first report on the current brouhaha (JenniJournal)
Details on Netscape's SmartDownload spyware (The Register)
Was Netscape's download utility spyware? (via ReBuzz)
Has Jenni stolen her friend-neighbor's fiance? (Deja pattern)
Interesting Oliver Stone rant on deceptive history (via FollowMeHere)
Ten suggestions for web cartoonists (via iBoy)
Well-informed Mark Frauenfelder on Epinions (et al) addicts (Wired)
100 reasons people think Hollywood really is crazy (Deja/Movieline)
Provocative piece on the 'gestalt' factor (Dvorak)
Feed and Suck join nozzles (AP)
Incendiary attack on 'Holocaust industry' (ThisIsLondon)
Study estimates Web adding 2 billion pages per year (via ReBuzz)
Jakob Nielsen's first pinup (Useit.com)
Amusing prank impersonating the Real World crew (via the blorg)
Interesting project tracing Viking DNA (BBC)
Backgrounder on X-Men comic (NYMag-2pg)
Wolff on Tony Hendra's e-publishing startup (NYMag-2pg)
How to invest in high-speed-access stocks (NYMag)
Philippine scavengers buried in garbage-slide (via Drudge)
Sam's back (Progressive Review)
1958 classic, Tom's Midnight Garden (UK Telegraph book review)
Fashion season, multipage- Javascript (ThisIsLondon)
Groovy new conspiracy theory (10k mph plane) (The Register)
Update on BeOS apps (Byte-5pg)
Making economics more psychologically realistic (Forbes)
Civil War sub recovery rescheduled for August (Charleston)
Second chapter of first Harry Potter book (via Yahoo)
First chapter of second Harry Potter book (via Google)
A nice sequel to 'Dream' (Ellen-Flash)
How to win a MacArthur genius grant (the evil Slate)
Interesting profile of Joe Eszterhas (UK Telegraph)
RU Sirius's real name is Ken Goffman (GettingIt)
Pirate Nabokov etexts (Russia)
14-terabyte archive of FTP, Usenet and Web since 1996 (via Slashdot)
Useful typology of movie villains (via rec.humor.funny)
One angry Cubs fan! (Salon)
WNEW freeform music radio moves to Internet (AP)
A weblog you should know (the null device)
Something like a weblog (WashPost)
Cringely predicts trillion-dollar October windfall for US govt from wireless auction (PBS)
LA candid-camera stunt shows extreme bad judgment (SmokingGun-5pg)
Detailed portrait of a script-kiddie attack (via Slashdot)
Debate about Usenet newsgroups vs Slashdot etc (Advogato)
Is this Jodie Foster's sperm donor? (pix only) (via alt.showbiz.gossip)
Asia innovates economical cellphone etext messaging (via Slashdot)
Juicy new content at NY Review of Books (NYRB)
Short'n'sweet anniversary poem (Poems.com)
Long piece on Joni Mitchell's art exhibit (Calgary)
Bee welcomes JenniCam to Sacramento (via alt.fan.jennicam)
Archimedes Plutonium on the invention of hot-water bathing (50yo birthday boy)
BEES, BEES, BEES, BEES, BEES, BEES, BEES! THE MOVIE! (alt.religion.kibology)
Last (or next-to-?) Jules Feiffer (UExpress)
Incendiary claims against Perfect-Storm author (NYPress-scroll down)
Pundits dance on Amazon's (not-yet) grave (NYPress)
Overlooked best films of the year so far (NYPress)
The Colombian drug war's corrupt American commander(s) (Salon)
Wacky urban sculptures know no statue of limitations (AP)
Awesome archive of humanities journals (Project Muse)
Long fascinating prehistory of 'Beyond the Fringe' (UK Times)
Double-Helix Watson pontificating on sex hormones (via Drudge)
A more elaborate command-line meta-search engine (My-Find.com)
And the sheep will lie down with the Danish blood-donors (BBC)
And the sheep will lie down with the goats... (BBC)
IMDb's trivia-page for 'Dr. Strangelove' (via alt.showbiz.gossip)
Unusual kitchen dishes up fine fare for Rainbows (alt.gathering.rainbow)
Jesus.com: Jesus seeks loving woman (via alt.gathering.rainbow)
New theories on Amelia Earhart crash (SFGate)
Wish Archimedes Plutonium a happy 50th birthday (via alt.religion.kibology)
Recommended summer thrillers (UK Times book review)
Scholars research what cowboys really wore (AP)
Honda unveils walking humanoid robot (BBC)
The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin (NYPress- don't miss)
Tragedy of a forgotten founding sociobiologist (Lingua Franca)
An ambitious project to e-publish academic monographs (Lingua Franca)
Wide-ranging July issue online (Lingua Franca)
...she's back!!!! (Ellen- Flash)
'all.marked.up.and.nowhere.to.go' (unexploited putdown of XML)
Disillusioned Priceline.com grocery-shopper (Epinions.com)
McDonald's on trial in France (via Drudge)
John Cleese IS Tyrone Slothrop! (alt.religion.kibology)
Meta-search engine using 'command line' syntax (AgniWeb)
Proposal for 'command line' for Google et al (comp.infosystems.search)
Long thoughtful appreciation of Altman's 'Nashville' (Salon)
A real one, I think (Poems.com)
How the Oxford English Dictionary went online (via the blorg)
What I've posted lately to the AI newsgroups (Deja.com pattern)
'half.full half.empty' (ClicheWatch)
Asimov projects burn hot in Hollywood (Variety)
Enthusiast risks death to prove Da Vinci's parachute works (BBC)
The Social Life Of Information (Slashdot book review)
Dvorak visits the 2100 House (PC Mag)
Interesting comparison of three WinCE units (Byte-4pg)
Google claims a billion pages?!? (via ReBuzz)
De Niro expanding into comedy (via alt.showbiz.gossip)
Sinead's flavor-of-the-month: 'I'm not gay!' (via alt.showbiz.gossip)
Classic rec.arts.books flamefest about cheap OED edition (Deja thread)
'in.your.pocket.or.are.you.just' (ClicheWatch)
Pic of pregnant, naked Madonna (the singer) (via alt.showbiz.gossip)
Accessible issue of Need To Know tech-gossip-zine (NTK)
Patti Smith praises Playboy magazine (NYPress passim)
'partners' has stopped working but 'www10' is good (NYTimes)
Fascinating Hitchens on Bellow on Bloom (LRB)
Lurid 16th century sex-and-murder scandal (LRB) [mentioned pic]
Archive of online content from London Review of Books (via rec.arts.books)
James Joyce and masturbation (morning quickie)
Disney heritage threatened by corporate culture? (Ain't It Cool)
Interesting interview with Nick Park about 'Chicken Run' (Salon)
Eight-Pound Man Removed From Woman's Vagina (The Onion)
A food-service worker's guide to Machiavelli (The Onion)
Sarcastic rating system for Doom-like games (7pg, via P&F)
Deja.com Closes $12.5 Million Private Financing Round (via alt.fan.dejanews)
Chris Byron on Salon's (et al) bottom line (via rc3- don't miss)
NY Observer moved its frontdoor URL (via rc3)
Drew B's loony dad (via alt.showbiz.gossip)
Very useful MagPortal search-engine for online zines (via ReBuzz)
Sinead interview (Time-2pg)
Opening testimony from Waco survivors (AP via Drudge)
The Irish home-digital-music-studio biz (IrishTimes)
Encomium for Tiger Woods (NYPress)
'ways.of.looking.at.a' and not 'blackbird' (ClicheWatch)
Interesting example of NYTimes/Krugman econ dishonesty (via Dean Baker)
The signs are all pointing to a severe US recession (Dean Baker)
My weekly island of economic sanity (Dean Baker)
Did Peter McWilliams die for lack of medical marijuana? (via alt.showbiz.gossip)
Economist Krugman on the 1900 House (etc) (NYTimes via Slashdot)
Analysis of Ultima-Online economics (via Ftrain?)
Nader reveals personal income history (WashPost via Drudge)
Sunday book review salutes Groucho (etc) (NY Times)
Broderbund programmer explains spyware behavior (Slashdot thread)
Somewhat dismal Deja.com rumors (alt.fan.dejanews)
Nice update on London's rebuilt Globe Theatre (IrishTimes)
Sweet 'Dykes to Watch Out For' toon (WashBlade)
Albini antecedent to Courtney's rap (via Mme Moutard)
Yahoo rejects French request wrt Nazi auctions (via Drudge)
Short Sinead interview (NY Post)
Rave for new Proust movie (The Nation)
I've been working on a new edition of Ulysses (8 chapters done)
World's nine worst convenience foods (no pix) (via YAWL?)
Japan's new-style Internet cellphones (via useit.com)
Video games with rock-star tie-ins (via alt.showbiz.gossip)
Navy sonar tests caused fatal whale ear hemorrhages? (AP)
Syllabus for mini-course on weblogging (via referer log)
Mattel-Broderbund plants spy-apps via edu software (Salon.com- don't miss)
Righteous righteous righteous Courtney on Napster (Salon.com don't-miss)
Woven cloth dates back 27,000 years (BBC)
Interesting vertical repurposing of DMoz Open Directory (via AltaVista)
Garth Brooks' vanity project dooms careers (alt.showbiz.gossip)
Amsterdam's 'Baby' is a club for dot.commers (Fast Company)
Jules Feiffer giving up comic after 43 years (UExpress)
Complete list: AFI's 100 Funniest Films (Deja.com)
Unabomber's cabin gets a gallery show (via alt.fan.unabomber)
Okay campaign-analysis of the 'Three Cultures' (NYPress)
Tidbits about James Cameron's new sci-fi tv series (via Google)
Salon.com et al, and their burn rates (VVoice)
Neanderthals forgot to eat their veggies? (BBC)
Freud's Interpretation of Dreams (etext)
Longish account of crewing a replica 18th C ship (Oz)
Walk-in geode found in Spain (BBC)
World Health Org issues antibiotic alert (WashPost via Drudge)
How to brush your cat's teeth (not a joke!)
The life and legacy of Sappho (UK Telegraph review)
Mainstream Julia Butterfly update (AP)
Pat Metheny on Kenny G (it ain't pretty!) (via FollowMeHere)
Short'n'spooky (Poems.com) [url fixed]
Will MS breakup speed the porting of MacOS to Intel? (via Slashdot)
Alternative to Drudge's news-links page (News Of the Real)
Cool Cyndi Lauper anecdote (alt.gossip.celebrities)
Detailed FAQ about Tori Amos's suppressed 1988 album (Geocities)
JenniCam on brink of bankruptcy? (JenniJournal)
Japanese-style pizzas, w/pix (via mr pants)
'Survivor' is a sham (via alt.showbiz.gossip)
CIA admits tolerating Contra crack-trafficking (Consortium)
Sinead's flavor-of-the-month: 'I'm gay!' (via alt.showbiz.gossip)
Microsoft's rope-a-dope strategy? (Cringely)
Analysis of Deja.com's hardware, staffing (alt.fan.dejanews)
Interview with the admirable sexologist Shere Hite (New Scientist)
k d lang goes on at length about Britney&c (via alt.showbiz.gossip)
Salon.com tightens its belt, fires 13 (via Drudge)
Eel-brain successfully implanted in robot body (New Scientist)
An archive of UK Guardian political FAQs (via FollowMeHere)
Don't-miss analysis of 'International Criminal Tribunal' funny business (CounterPunch)
Daily updates on recovery of Confederate (1860s) submarine (via i forget)
Archive of Malcolm 'Tipping Point' Gladwell's NYer articles (via the blorg)
Righteous vignette of a ghetto net.survivor (NYPress)
Intelligent analysis of new John Guare 1880s play (NYPress)
Superb account by Ward Just of writing his first play (NYTimes)
Rules for French aristocracy role-playing game (En Garde)
A linguist's posting using simplified spelling (via AlltheWeb)
History of the 'glass harmonica' (AP)
How Tony Blair blew a billion pounds on expert consultants (via drudge)
OJ scored minus 22 on lie-detector (NYPost)
BBC's 'League of Gentlemen' the new Monty Python? (NYPost)
Ancient Cities Reported Found Under Sea Off Egypt (Reuters)
2Mb Quicktimes of old Gap ads (The Ad Critic)
Open-source Java stuff for natural-language AI (via comp.ai.nat-lang)
Deja.com backs off IPO (via alt.fan.dejanews)
Amazon tribe suckles monkeys (Salon)
Geoffrey Cheshire update on digital projection wrt 'Dinosaur' (NYPress- don't miss)
On pundits bluffing (via the blorg)
Sweet, proustian Lynda Barry toon (Salon-5pg)
New issue includes Kurt Weill; Unabomber at Harvard (The Atlantic)
Boing Boing weblog (back from vacation)
Serious rave for Ron Howard's 'Grinch' (Ain't It Cool)
200-ton meteorite found eight days after it hit (via Drudge)
Some interesting tech-background on Google (via RBuzz)
Extremely awesome London satellite/map (via Haddock)
'Portrait of the Artist as a' NOT 'Young Man' (ClicheWatch)
Don't-miss kiss-n-tell about Digital Entertainment Network (DEN) (via i forget)
Looong interview with the 'Ralph Nader' of movie critics (via Ftrain)
Interesting backgrounder and update on 'Fail-Safe' novel/scenario (The Idler)
Lucid technical accout of Transmeta's Crusoe development (via Slashdot)
More speculation on Waco FLIR-expert's death (WashPost!??)
NYTBR incl first chapter of new Martin Amis (NYTimes)
Inside.com looks at Salon.com's finances (via Drudge)
Review of history of electronic music (Columbus) [Amazon samples]
David Pacheco's high-school reunion (Kibological humor)
Unsubmitted 5k-contest startpage experiment (frames)
Minimalist design for fashion-scans site (via supermodels.nl)
Sonny Barger wants to be played by Jim Carrey (NYPress)
Appropriate-technology successes for 3rd world (New Scientist)
Don't-miss Web experiment in user-created video (TheAtlantic)
Don't-miss 1st-person account of lesbian pickups (via the blorg)
Fine weblog with occasional live cam (the blorg)
Animated display of surname-mapper data (below) (via Sam)
Abe Lincoln's wittiest yarns (Gutenberg-800k)
Workaround index-page for inaccessible Salon site (Archives by Date)
Deja.com Site Move = outage (Deja.com)
Annotated timeline of interactive fiction (via Google-multipage)
More criticism of Columbine whitewash (CRTF)
Bllie Holiday's 'Strange Fruit' (NYTimes 1st chapter)
Literate appreciation of goth role-playing game, Planescape: Torment (Gamasutra)
Joyce-Web: design-lessons learned (quickie project)
Courtney Love on Napster etc (via alt.showbiz.gossip)
Incendiary posthumous report on Waco FLIR expert's findings (via Sam)
Wed, Jun 21, 2000

You will soon be able to donate money to support this website via Paypal. And if you start an account there via this link I'll get a $5 bonus. [via Bogart]

Wed, Jun 14, 2000

[funny highlights] http://www.jennicam.org/guests/index.html

Sat, Jun 10, 2000

Keeper headlines:

US surname-distribution mapper (via ark)
Dissing Harold Bloom (NYMag)
Backgrounder on Linux GUI 'Eazel' (Slashdot thread)
New web.service: photo touch-up (PCMag)
Explanation of 'Panty Cat' (Kibo.com)
Project to film all 19 Beckett plays (IrishTimes)
Brilliant artfilm study of drunks (NYPress)
Update on Scorsese's 'Gangs' (NYPost)
Extracts from Martin Amis's memoirs (C Tayler-3pg)
Interesting poetry&c anthology (Leon Malinofsky)
100 favorite Irish poems (now w/added quotes)
Matthew Barney's artfilm epic 'Cremaster' (IrishTimes)
Another Lynda Barry dog-toon (GIF image 800x813 pixels)
An exemplary weblog (Follow Me Here)
Cheshire rave for Ethan Hawke's 'Hamlet' (NYPress)
Don't-miss analysis of the Net's 'Age of the Consumer' (NYPress)
Beautifully-done thumbnails-page for mailart collages (via Violet Books)
Violet Books: Homeless Days, Homeless Nights (great no-bs essay)
Violet Books: Antiquarian Supernatural Literature (awesome resource)
Hitchens on Martin and Kingsley Amis (ThisIsLondon)
Siberry studio journal is a work of art! (Sheeba.ca)
This weekly econ-critique has become one of my faves (FAIR-ERR)
Could there be life on the Sun? (Chris Crawford)
Bandwidth Speed Test (MSN.com)
Neuromancer etext (via alltheweb.com)
Backgrounder on Wallace & Gromit &co (BBC)
Etext of Godel's Proof (via J Purinton)
Very elaborate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Moon (via Google)
Very nice Moon FAQ (via Google)


Thu, May 25, 2000

[Jenni in bed] VermeerCam
http://www.jennicam.org/guests/index.html

Keeper headlines:

How to link to NYTimes articles with no registration (via Slashdot)
Great overview and links on HTML structure-vs-presentation debate (via my refererlog)
Twirling hippie animated GIF (via misterpants)
Lucid review of Gladwell's 'Tipping Point' (memetics) (New Scientist)
Lynda Barry... dog-liberal! (Salon-5pg)
Multipage update on mitochondrial Eve w/maps, etc (via kottke)
Great survey of 'top 50' Lycos searches (via WebWord)
Using TABLE-BGCOLOR for comments in condensed Ulysses (recent design braintwister)
Awesome archive of folklore etexts (via Google)
The World Clock (current time in many cities) (via Google)
Reconstructing the truth about Russian spies in the McCarthy era (NYRB-10pg)
Long Mary Coughlan [qv] profile (IrishTimes)
David Pacheco's 'Ask the Pope!' (Deja.ark)


Sat, May 20, 2000

Here's a half-assed search-bookmarklet for the UK Times

Net.radio now: 9am-11am This is Hell with guest Daniel Ellsberg

Keeper headlines:

Surfing skills for Joycean newbies (morning quickie)
Pynchon's next one? (Deja-rec.arts.books)
Short update (Hojoy)
Exhaustive analysis of Area 51 spypix (via J Schnell)
Sinead promoted to archdeacon (via alt.showbiz.gossip)
Best Ellen ever!?! (Flash) (Dream) [URL fixed]
Excerpts from unauthorised Patrick O'Brian bio (via Idler-4pg)
Don't-miss look at biomusicology and Mozart's starling (via Honeyguide)
Fine domestic horror-lyric (Poems.com)


Fri, May 19, 2000

[Lynda Barry] (5pg)

Sat, May 13, 2000

Net.radio now: 9am to 11am: This is Hell

Sun, May 7, 2000

Great account of disillusionment with object-oriented programming: http://www.advogato.org/article/83.html

...I have a personal C++ class library which I've slowly built over the years. One of the things that it has is a hash table template class, similar to the one in STL but predating it. I've been using this regularly, adding to it, making it more efficient, for quite a long time. I recently discovered, however, that it only takes me about five minutes to code a hashtable implementation without using the library; And in doing so, I can almost invariably customize the design of the hash table algorithm to better suit the problem at hand.

In my 24 years as a professional programmer, I've noticed this: Nobody ever documents performance. I don't think I've ever seen in any code comment, manual or book the phrase "this routine is very fast, you can call it a lot if you need to" or anything like it.

(This is pretty much why I quit programming.)

Keeper headlines:

Earthweek map finally gets its own URL (CNN)
Temple of the Yoni (explicit) (via Google) [better URL]
Philip Greenspun starts ArsDigita University (SJMerc)
The biomechanics of facial expressions (Gamasutra)
RWWL makes Fast Company's 'My Favorite Bookmarks' page (via Tomalak)
A useful page for converting IP# to hostname (via Google)
'What's Going On at Pacifica?' (The Nation)
Handsome worldmaps of language families (via LangMin)
Child Disciplined for Wasting Yarn (New Onion)
Weblog on book publishing incl e-books (Publishers Lunch)
My unfinished 5k-contest entry (Genesis 5k)


Sat, May 6, 2000

Net.radio 2day: 9am-11am CDT This is Hell

Sat, Apr 29, 2000

Keeper headlines:

Yet another awesome lyric (Poems.com)
The Ira-Glass/Lynda-Barry connection (1998 Chgo Reader)
How to make a .com make money (Slashdot thread)
Comix based on submitted dreams (via BoingBoing)
Two Ira-Glass pix for comparison (This American Life)
100 favorite Irish poems (hotlinked) (yesterday's)
Hacking NYTimes URLs to bypass registration (Slashdot)
Deluxe color Lynda Barry comeek (about Ira Glass) (Salon-5pg)
Long interesting piece on the evolution of gesture (New Scientist)
How capuchin monkeys evolved tit-for-tat sharing (BBC)


Tue, Apr 18, 2000

With a tip of the hat to Steve Kangas, here's a new use for bookmarklets that allows two arbitrary pages to be compared (without having to maintain a real html-file for each pairing):

[compare]


Keeper headlines:

Tracking down 1000 anonymous 1974 faces (IrishTimes) [pix] [more]
Cockburn speech on left-right-libertarian categories (CounterPunch)
Funyuns Still Outselling Responsibilityuns (Onion is back)
Looong update on animal intelligence (LinguaFranca)
Student blinded in 'King Lear's paintball scene (SaltLakeCity)
Noam Chomsky resources on the Web (messy longterm project)
Israel Shahak resources on the Web (morning project)
One-stop guide to online etexts (Morning project)


Sat, Apr 15, 2000

Net.radio now: 9am-11am This is Hell (late start)

Tue, Apr 11, 2000

Sig quote of the day (ark):

"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." ---Satchel Paige


Keeper headlines:

Long article on the music of Gurdjieff & co (WashPost)
Little or no mixing of Neanderthal DNA with modern (BBC)
100 best e-novels of 1899 (Reformatted)
David Pacheco's highschool daze (Deja.ark)
Many very beautiful Mac icons (via P&F)
Decent short argument that speech-recognition won't work anytime soon (via Bogart)
CIA hiring 'Theatrical Special Effects' designer (via NTK)
Whip-smart review of 'True West' revival (and Malkovich, etc) (NYPress)
CIA gives award for torture and murder (via Drudge)
'Lucy' walked on her knuckles (BBC)


Sat, Apr 8, 2000

Net.radio now: This is Hell 9am to 11am CDT

Fri, Apr 7, 2000

[kb shot] http://www.jennicam.org/guests/index.html

Thu, Apr 6, 2000

[tv light] http://www.amandacam.com/current.jpg

Mon, Apr 3, 2000

TV 2nite: Joni on Dave (CWells)

Tue, Mar 28, 2000

Academy of Saint Gabriel Silliness: http://www.panix.com/~gabriel/membersguide/aprilfool.html

You asked whether the name Bacchus mac Rodorigo MacLeod the Brewer of Aberdeen would be a reasonable name for a Scottish-Gaelic Klingon with a Byzantine/Gypsy mother around 1470...


Keeper headlines:

Uncanny school-shooting map coincidence (via ProgRev)
Oldish Seymour Hersh piece on the NSA (New Yorker)
'The Tipping Point' by Malcolm Gladwell (T-W first chapters)
Long interview about growing poplar trees to purify wastewater (CityTimes)
I really must insist you leave. (a weblog) (via Subhonker)
Pursuing Krishnamurti's FOIA FBI files (Oz)
Amazon (and 50 others) will run out of cash within two years (via Slashdot)


Sat, Mar 25, 2000

TV Sunday: One of the Spanish stations (ch66) will be showing scandalacious Gloria Trevi's exuberant Zapatos Viejos at 2:30pm CST

Cable 2day: Huston's 'The Dead' on Bravo around noon (CWells)

Net.radio 2day: This is Hell 9am to 11am CST (no show)

Fri, Mar 24, 2000

That Shahak piece [qv] gives some context for this: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000320/wl/pope_curse_1.html

Jews Cast Mortal Curse on Pope Ahead of Israel Visit


Keeper headlines:

John Perry Barlow's womanizing-confession (old Nerve.com)
Example pic from new x-ray for smugglers (IrishTimes)
Technical anti-XML rant (via Whump)
How Dupont, GM, and Standard Oil poisoned the planet with leaded gasoline (The Nation-5pg)


Wed, Mar 22, 2000

J. Orlin Grabbe is a libertarian expert on digital cash [his overview]. Here he discusses the technology of private currencies, but not the social implications (beyond privacy): http://www.aci.net/kalliste/smartcards.htm

Currently in the U.S., there are no restrictions on who can issue electronic money.

The whole objective is to denationalize money, to decentralize it, to put it beyond the control of regulatory authorities who operate to maintain a government or central banking monopoly, to create mobile network banks that do not become sitting targets for Big Brother information collectors, to distribute private currency operations in such a way that they can be said to exist in no single political or legal jurisdiction-- or for that matter cannot be said to exist in any jurisdiction. Electronic monetary transactions will take place out there, somewhere in cyberspace, unobserved by third parties. The intent is to deliver an honest service at an honest price, and to give the user of the system complete privacy.

New BBS thread: My.eCurrency.com? http://greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=002p9L

As I understand it, e-currency is not quite ready for primetime because the algorithms don't seem secure enough to prevent massive fraud...

But nothing is theoretically preventing any of us from starting our own e-currency, using whatever crypto we choose, and issuing it according to whatever principles we decide...

For example, Slashdot might decide to reward good posts with 'Slashdot dollars' which might be honored by other sites for some privileges...?

Or Epinions could pay their reviewers in their own e-currency, which Epinions might redeem for cash from e-merchants.

Where might this lead?



Tue, Mar 21, 2000

I would have to agree that the ADL is incompetent to distinguish hate-sites from plain criticism, so their HateFilter software should not be seriously considered for gov't use: http://www.sfweekly.com/issues/2000-02-02/feature_p.html

These critics, whose political and religious affiliations vary widely, repeatedly describe the ADL as a self-appointed agent of Israel that cloaks itself in the rhetoric of fighting hate, while actively attempting to silence those who are not hatemongers, but mere opponents of Israeli government policy.

(This is patently true, looking at the quotes they call anti-Semitic:)

Looking over the ADL's materials on hatecrime and prejudice, I don't see any emphasis on the problem of non-racist criticism being misinterpreted as racist. And looking at their Israel materials it's very clear that they themselves make this misinterpretation over and over again.

UsageWatch:

homes in on 3199
hones in on 951
horns in on 105

(Here's a bit claiming home and horn are right, hone is wrong.)

Keeper headlines:

Geffen bio exposes Hollywood's gay mafia??? (NYPress)
Boing Boing weblog (via Subhonker)
Dolphins' 'nails-on-blackboard' sound is snow-falling-on-water (via Honeyguide)
60 free academic etexts (U of California Press)
Dvorak's $10k digital video-editing recommendations (PCMag)
Detailed analysis/praise for Salon's big DC bash (Don't miss)
Cool scientific principle about scientific eponyms (Lingua Franca)
Here's the deal with JollyRoger.com (noisy lit chat) (via Google-2pg)
Jane Siberry considering 'beanie baby' model for financing music (Sheeba.ca)


Sat, Mar 18, 2000

Chgo tv-2nite: (8pm ch20) Women in Song: The Best of Austin City Limits: Joan Baez; Rosanne Cash; Wynonna; k.d. lang; Sheryl Crow; Shawn Colvin; Nanci Griffith; Suzanne Vega; Mary Chapin Carpenter; Lucinda Williams.

Net.radio: This is Hell 9am-noon CST

Phrase I dreamt last night on the edge of waking:

nine-tenths of an orgasm


[mugging] My Spanish isn't good enough to follow Chicago's two Spanish language TV channels, but I often put them on in the background-- because their hosts are generally a lot more vivacious to watch! I stumbled across what looked at first like the usual lame kiddie-fare in the wastes of Saturday morning-- El Club de los Tigritos (translation: Tiggers with Attitude?). They included many, many all-kid dance numbers, though, that were so high energy they charmed me, and I went looking for background info: http://www.webcom.com/cfsc/tigritos.html

During the first two years of the show (1994 and 1995), many people, myself included, believed that it was simply the best show that had ever been produced for television. El Club de los Tigritos was unique in being truly a show for all ages. Unlike other programs targeted toward children, the show treated children with genuine respect...


Thu, Mar 16, 2000

It must seem that I'm starting but not finishing a lot of new pages. In fact, it's just vastly easier to work on them in parallel: http://www.robotwisdom.com/jaj/shakespeare.html

...a slim notebook survives that supplies Joyce's own moderately detailed timeline of Shakespeare's life. It's transcribed below, updated with links to useful net resources, and annotated [eventually] with Joycean connections.

(I've also got a reformatted edition of Molly's monolog going.)

Wed, Mar 15, 2000

What I've been slaving upon (needs much more work): http://www.robotwisdom.com/jaj/bloom.html

A biography of Leopold Paula Bloom


Sat, Mar 11, 2000

Belated net.radio now: a leetle late start for This is Hell (9am to 11am CST)

Fri, Mar 10, 2000

Silly Joyce-related webpage concept of the day: (barely started) http://www.robotwisdom.com/jaj/1904.html

1904 resources on the Web


Thu, Mar 9, 2000

Grrr: Everybody's giving UC Berkeley credit for a scheme I proposed a year ago (and implemented here as 'More' buttons until I found no-one was using them): http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=444610476

...what I'd like to be able to do is include, with the link itself, a short search pattern that could be submitted to a search-engine-of-choice when the 404s appear...


Very fine Lynda Barry interview, about Cruddy: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/7221/barry.htm

My goal was to not think about things at all. To dream it out instead, trying very hard not to edit at all as I went. The first draft really took shape when I found that I needed to slow way down and distract myself at the same time so I used a paintbrush and Tuscan red watercolor and painted the manuscript on legal paper, trying to concentrate on the calligraphic aspect of writing rather than trying to craft beautiful sentences.

In Bulfinch's Mythology it said the Hydra had nine heads and the middle one was immortal. So you couldn't actually ever kill the Hydra. What you could do was cut the heads off and quickly sear the open neck with fire and no more heads would come. But the middle head, the immortal one, well, Hercules just buried that one under a rock. That's the story I like the best.



The Odyssey page (below) has now spun off a Joycean-correspondences page (50 correspondences so far, just from Homer's Book One): http://www.robotwisdom.com/jaj/homeric.html

Homer uses this story of the murder of Agamemnon by his wife and her lover as a recurring motif, a 'worst case' foreshadowing of what Odysseus may face. [Bulfinch] Joyce's analogous motif is Shakespeare's "Hamlet".


Tue, Mar 7, 2000

I'm still studying the Joyce/Homer connection: http://www.robotwisdom.com/jaj/odyssey.html

Aristotle's summary, 4thC BCE: "A certain man has been abroad many years; he is alone, and the god Poseidon keeps a hostile eye on him. At home the situation is that suitors for his wife's hand are draining his resources and plotting to kill his son. Then, after suffering storm and shipwreck, he comes home, makes himself known, attacks the suitors: he survives and they are destroyed."


Mon, Mar 6, 2000

Now with added concordance-lookup: http://www.robotwisdom.com/jaj/ontology.html

The following inventory of concepts was compiled by going thru a concordance of Joyce's Ulysses...

NEW: Click on the asterisk for a preliminary list of all occurrences of that word in Ulysses.



Keeper headlines:

First chapter of witty old Alan Cooper book on design (via WebWord)
Finally, an etext of 'Madame Bovary' in English (Project Gutenberg)
Kibo reviews the JFK GI Joe doll (ark)
IRC-origins of DDoS-bot model (Cringely)
Weekly Ernie Pook comics from Lynda J Barry! (Marlys Magazine)


Sat, Mar 4, 2000

Net.radio 2day: 9am to 11am This is Hell

Thu, Mar 2, 2000

Joyce-related hypertext-project of the day: (mostly done, 500 links!) http://www.robotwisdom.com/jaj/odyssey.html

Homer's Odyssey resources on the Web


Sun, Feb 27, 2000

Unexploited phrase:

Tiggers With Attitude


Keeper headlines:

Charming poem on Greek theology (Poems.com)
Free content from Esquire magazine (via MrPants)
Excellent analysis of HungerSite-advertiser Novica (PCMag-Dvorak)
Fool.com analysis of MS's stock-dilution scam (via R Orenstein)
Cringely explains (?) distributed denial-of-service (PBS)
A Compact History of the English Language (via Google)
HTML Test Pattern (useful, dull) (via Google)
Don't-miss interview with The Sims' Will Wright (Salon)
Enigmatic fairy-tale poem (Poems.com)
Great name, interesting site/premise (Incompetech)


Fri, Feb 25, 2000

ClicheWatch (AltaVista):

loong 16,168
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Thu, Feb 24, 2000

Loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong Camille: http://salon.com/people/col/pagl/2000/02/23/scprimary/print.html

In the three weeks since my last column, Hillary Rodham Clinton has been up hill and down dale, beating the bushes in upstate New York to try to convince someone somewhere that she is a woman of substance rather than a raisin-eyed, carrot-nosed, twig-armed, straw-stuffed mannequin trundled in on a go-cart by the mentally bereft powerbrokers of the state Democratic Party.


I stopped posting to this group four years ago but they're still in shock: http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=587825419

Be thankful you weren't treated to theatrical rants (the hallmark of Jorn Barger, the acknowledged master of this peculiar Usenet subgenre).


Yet another Web resource with Joycean added-value potential: http://www.robotwisdom.com/jaj/tour.html

Fusio Ltd in Dublin has created ten Quicktime VR views of Dublin, each 370k, that give a scrollable 360-degree view from ten different points in the city. This page will give a Joycean's-eye tour of each of these.


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