Sunday, October 31, 2004

GeekDIY
"geeks looking for something to do"

Saturday, October 30, 2004

You must remember this

"New drugs promise to improve memory and sharpen mental response.
Who should be allowed to take them?"
Arimaa is the first game that was designed
intentionally to be difficult for computers to play.

Friday, October 29, 2004

Survival Guide to Homelessness

(in case THEY win!)

Thursday, October 28, 2004

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
.
posted by Mr Stickfigure at 8:52 PM PST - 1 comments

Wednesday, October 27, 2004

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)

Monday, October 25, 2004

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!)

Saturday, October 23, 2004

______________________________________



Warfare By Other Means

David Neiwert

...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

______________________________________





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

Thursday, October 21, 2004

Wednesday, October 20, 2004

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

Tuesday, October 19, 2004

How To Hack Your Head
"A buyer's guide to recreational brain scanning."
"The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death"

forensic dollhouse photographs

*warning*
contains tiny ghastly crime-scenes!

Monday, October 18, 2004

Sunday, October 17, 2004

Lessons in how to lie about Iraq
comments by Brian Eno
Review of Pogo: vol. 1-11
by John Crowley

Saturday, October 16, 2004

The New Contract For A Better America

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

Friday, October 15, 2004

Thursday, October 14, 2004

Wednesday, October 13, 2004

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

Tuesday, October 12, 2004

Sunday, October 10, 2004

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)
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)
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)

Friday, October 08, 2004

Wednesday, October 06, 2004

Sunday, October 03, 2004

it's grappa time!

(has been for a while now!)