left blank: October 2004

GeekDIY
"geeks looking for something to do"

You must remember this

"New drugs promise to improve memory and sharpen mental response.
Who should be allowed to take them?"

Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)

Arimaa is the first game that was designed
intentionally to be difficult for computers to play.

Play chess against a transparent intelligence

9/11 "black box" cover-up at Ground Zero?

2004's Scariest Halloween Costumes are here!

Survival Guide to Homelessness

(in case THEY win!)

World (er... MLB) Champions once more. The last time the Boston Red Sox
lost was in the 86
World Series. The last time they won was 86 Years Ago, when they beat the

Chicago Cubs in the 1918 World
Series. (The Cubs finished that season with 86
wins.) This year, after retiring the Anaheim Angels 8-6,
they lost three straight to the New
York Yankees in the ALCS
and seemed to be on the verge of failing

once
again. Eight straight wins later, they finally manage to eighty-six
the Curse of the
Bambino.
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"This is the biggest thing since the Revolutionary War."

An Explanation of History

in 48 pages!

Visualize Winning

Shot Across the Bow: An Election in Doubt

Catching a Darkness-
Glimpses of my Sister's Mania:

get your war on: page 42

"Sooo...what do you wear to a civil war, anyway?"

Thinking with Type:
A Critical Guide for Designers,
Writers, Editors, & Students

Gentleman's Emporium,
featuring authentic Victorian men's clothing
and traditional writing goods.

(suggested by Alex,
a dapper cad,
if ever one there was)

New Yorker makes first political endorsement in 80 years

The Secret in the CIA's Back Pocket

The Bush administration is suppressing a damning CIA report on 9/11
until after the election,
and this one names names.

CNET's Digital Agenda: Homeland security

Part 1: Throwing money at technology
Part 2: Companies profit from fear
Part 3: Global assault on anonymity

The Constitution Restoration Act of 2004

H. R. 3799
To limit the jurisdiction of Federal courts in certain cases and promote federalism.

...would "acknowledge God as the sovereign source of law, liberty [and] government" in the United States. What's more, it would forbid all legal challenges to government officials who use the power of the state to enforce their own view of "God's sovereign authority." Any judge who dared even hear such a challenge could be removed from office.

Drinking Straw Menagerie

check this...seriously

CheeseTronic

music and audio tools for the free software community

Google Meme Observatory

(MY MEME IZ PASSEDED ON YAY!)

A Virtual Library of Useful URLs Arranged by Dewey Decimal Classification

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Warfare By Other Means

David Neiwert
part 5 in The Rise of Pseudo Fascism

...the conservative movement, reveling in a tidal wave of apocalyptic fears, proved adept at manipulating the public in a way that stoked their fears and made them positively eager to participate in an ultimately totalitarian agenda. Indeed, the exploitation in many ways bears all the earmarks of psychological warfare -- waged, in fact, against the American public.

Part 1: The Morphing of the Conservative Movement

Part 2: The Architecture of Fascism

Part 3: The Pseudo-Fascist Campaign

Part 4: The Apocalyptic One-Party State

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links, sources, code and all, directly, and appreciatively from wood s lot

"It's very amazing"

"I'm not sure I can think of any scenario more enjoyable
than making 55,000 people from New York shut up ."

Interfaces for Staying in the Flow

How To Hack Your Head
"A buyer's guide to recreational brain scanning."

a collection of remarkable bookmarks

"The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death"

forensic dollhouse photographs

*warning*
contains tiny ghastly crime-scenes!

Hamlet Finger
Puppet Set

Online papers on consciousness

i want my Print Gocco

Lessons in how to lie about Iraq
comments by Brian Eno

Although he shuns the term, Eno is a Renaissance man

Lisa Firke | Blockbusters

Review of Pogo: vol. 1-11
by John Crowley

Saudis Blame U.S. and Its Role in Iraq for Rise of Terror

The New Contract For A Better America

from Ariana Huffington, the Eva Gabor of the born-again Progressive movement

the gypsy wagon plan begins here!

The Election and America's Future
from the NYRB

RNC funds voter supression efforts

Happy Birthday, Gaston Bachelard!

I am a dreamer of words, of written words.
I think I am reading; a word stops me.
I leave the page.
The syllables of the word begin to move around.
Stressed accents begin to invert.
The word abandons its meaning
like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming.
Then words take on other meanings
as if they had the right to be young.
And the words wander away,
looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary
for new company,
bad company.

- The Poetics of Reverie, 1960

viz : wood s

really really cool page that is really cool

Way down deep he's shallow.

Cheney Vows To Attack U.S. If Kerry Elected

Mother Earth
Mother Board

zoomquilt

New Belly-Dancing Robot

okay, okay...it could STILL be worse

(from the archives

on the first anniversary
of September 10th)

my potchkey is stuck

Pochkey means arranging your paper clips, sharpening pencils (often when they don’t need it), cleaning the keyboard of your computer down to the last speck of dust or fingernail clipping that might have fallen between the keys, etcetera. At the same time, writers may pochkey a lot but for better or worse, that doesn’t mean they aren’t working.

(link via Weirdwriter)