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2003-05-07 -----------> fortune:
The Metamorphosis LITE(tm) -- by Franz Kafka
A man turns into a bug and his family gets annoyed.
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Excellent, excellent piece about ammo dump in Iraq. Surreal and funny
while still informative and interesting:
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/ED30Ak06.html
###!!!!!###### BOOKS ###############################(RW)##################
All the books you ought to read, Appendices A-D of Harold Bloom's The
Western Canon: The Books and Schools of the Ages. Basically a rather long
list of classic literature from around the world and throughout history.
http://www.literarycritic.com/bloom.htm
Unfortunately, all the links are to Amazon.com, while a lot of these books
would probably be available as free e-texts through project Gutenberg and
similar websites. Interesting nonetheless.
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http://www.disinfo.com/pages/article/id3334/pg1/
"Anarchy For The Masses dares to romp with the living, knob-encrusted
monster that is the six-year-long Invisibles experiment. If, as
intended, the series is a stained paper section through the body of
some vast, soft intricate entity made of time, then Anarchy is an
historic first probe, a plucky Voyager bringing back and making sense
of the many dripping, weird-angled splinters and fully authorized
facets found deep in the hide and guts of my captive mega-terrestrial."
--−Grant Morrison
Invisibles overview:
http://www.disinfo.com/pages/dossier/id94/pg1/
Complete annotations, all three volumes on one webpage:
http://www.lunabase.org/~faber/Vault/invisibles
Related and aparisting:
http://www.levity.com/index.html
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Interesting stuff on Ong's Hat, and good links:
http://www.disinfo.com/pages/dossier/id219/pg1/
Montauk project is related:
http://www.disinfo.com/pages/dossier/id95/pg1/
###!!!--###### FREE BOOKS ##########################(IB)##################
I haven't read these, but thought they might be good:
http://www.incunabula.org/blog/archive/2003_04_28_index.html#200212926
John Sundman has posted the full-texts of his gonzo hacker novel "Acts
of the Apostles" and equally gonzo story-collection "Cheap Complex
Devices" online as free downloads, under a Creative Commons license.
Link: http://wetmachine.com/
###!!!--###### PULSEJET ############################(/.)##################
A DIY Gasflow Modelling Rig
http://www.aardvark.co.nz/pjet/wooden.shtml
Links from that page have more material on similar theme (homemade jet
engines). e.g. "The No-weld Pulsejet Engine":
http://www.aardvark.co.nz/pjet/noweld.shtml
Pixel, a micro helicopter:
http://www.planetinternet.be/pixel/pixeli111.htm
###!!!!-###### SCALE ###############################(IB)##################
Lots of ships/buildings/starships to scale. 1 pixel per metre:
http://mirror.wolffelaar.nl/zardalu.sytes.net/
Even first two pics are very interesting on their own, contrasting size of
Boeing 747 (smallish) to the Hindenberg (v. big).
###!!!--###### NECKTIE #############################(##)##################
How to tie a tie
"I don't wear neckties very often, and unlike cut-offs, they don't just
zip and button in the front. So I tend to forget what to do with them."
http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/maddog/Ties/ties-gray-2bpp.gif
###!!!!-###### EDIBLE ##############################(##)##################
Index of edible plants, and instructions on how to grow them, plus
descriptions:
http://www.efn.org/~bsharvy/edible.html#plantIndex
Some insights are more remarkable than others:
Etymologically, "dandelion" means "lion's tooth," probably a reference
to its jagged leaves. The dandelion has no origin; rather, its seeds
came into existence at the Big Bang and dispersed through all the
dimensions of spacetime, like background radiation and logic. The stem
contains natural rubber.
Links good too:
http://www.efn.org/~bsharvy/references.html#edibleSites
Relative to that, it is useful to know what growing zones in Europe
correspond to USDA zones:
http://www2.dicom.se/fuchsias/eurozoner.html
Sort of related: Culinary herb FAQ
http://www.ibiblio.org/herbmed/faqs/culi-cont.html
###!!!--###### SARS ################################(NM)##################
See the SARS genome at:
http://www.sciencemag.org/feature/data/sars/index.shtml
###!!!--###### TUFTE ###############################(ATC)#################
I had never come across Edward Tufte until he was referred to in Don
Marti's Aspiring to Crudeness newsletter:
http://www.ssc.com/pipermail/atc/2003-April/000038.html
Tufte has written extensively on the visual presentation of information,
and seems to be quite an influential figure (I am probably understating
that through ignorance!). His website is here:
http://www.edwardtufte.com/882866374/tufte/
Maybe of some interest to readers, is his analysis of the key slide from
the presentation of evidence related to the Columbia tragedy:
http://www.edwardtufte.com/882866374/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0000Rs&topic_id=1&topic=Ask%20E%2eT%2e
Unfortunately quite heavy on images and my browser had trouble loading
them, but worth reading nonetheless.
Happily UCD library appears to have some copies of his work:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?F24F51964
###!!!--###### BACKUP ##############################(##)##################
Don Marti on the necessity for paranoid backups:
Some guy recently asked for help recovering a /home partition that
wouldn't mount. He added, "Please help. Seven years of valuable data is
on there."
Seven years? Dude, if you go seven years without doing a backup, you're
probably not smart enough to tell whether the data is valuable.
Computers are garbage. Removable media is garbage. The only way to keep
data is to set up a paranoid backup plan and follow it. Copy your
digital scribblings onto as many of these horrible flaky little pieces
of trash we call computers as possible, so that when--not if--the one
you're working on dies to spite you at the worst possible time for your
project, you can recover and continue.
If you only keep one copy of your data, you might as well have written
it in Cheez Whiz on crackers and left it in a basement full of hungry
rats. You will lose it. By the way, this is one of the reasons digital
rights management (DRM) is so dangerous. Bits must be copied or they
die.
http://www.ssc.com/pipermail/atc/2003-April/000038.html
###!!---###### DIRECTFB ############################(/.)##################
DRI comes to DirectFB:
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/01/120254
http://www.directfb.org/news/dok/directfbgl-dri.xml
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23/1252214&tid=152
###!!---###### LINUX ###############################(##)##################
How to burn a Linux CD under Windows
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/29/1821202
###!!!--###### SHELL ###############################(##)##################
Quoted from Linux Today:
UNIX REVIEW: REVIEW: IMPROVING THE WINDOWS EXPERIENCE WITH CYGWIN
"Long-time Unix and Linux users realize that sometimes nothing beats the
power of the shell, not to mention the bevy of tools that the *nix
environment provides. This is where Cygwin shows its power..."
http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=7822/sam0302web/
###!----###### RIAA ################################(/.)##################
RIAA settles suits with students accused of sharing songs. The students
will have to make payments to the RIAA totalling between $12,000 and
$17,000
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/01/216206
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