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fortune: "I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment,
and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment."
-- Gotama Buddha
###!!!!!###### NYT #################################(##)##################
Narco News' take on New York Times journalist Jayson Blair. The NYT had to
apologise after it emerged Blair had been fabricating stories and
plagiarising other journalists' work:
http://narconews.com/Issue30/article781.html
What is interesting here is that the incident is presented in the context
of the culture in the NYT and in commercial media at large.
###!!!!!###### DEMOCRACY ###########################(??)##################
What makes democracy function, and how is it in danger:
The disconnect between global rhetoric and local behavior can be
remarkable. Consider a recent conference described by Dorothy Brazill
in DC Watch:
"Last Thursday, the Greater Washington Research Program at the
Brookings Institution held a roundtable forum on 'Revitalizing
Washington's Neighborhoods.' At the forum, Alice Rivlin released a new
study she wrote for Brookings. . . In conducting the research for the
report, Rivlin and her staff at Brookings relied almost exclusively on
information provided by District government officials, particularly by
the Office of Planning, and they did not attempt to meet with
neighborhood groups or residents or to do any independent analysis.
http://prorev.com/shilling.htm
Makes the cogent point that democracy can only remain vital and healthy
when people act to maintain it. Words on a sheet of paper are not enough,
it needs to find expression in people's lives. Also discusses changing
nature of citizenship in an interesting manner.
###!!!!-###### MNFTIU ##############################(RW)##################
The GYWO Players in: "Have You Seen My Book of Virtues"
http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war24.html
###!!!--###### PEACHY ##############################(RW)##################
Criticism of the war, and the assertion that Bush should be impeached:
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0512-07.htm
Of course there was a strong movement to have Clinton impeached, and
searching google for "+clinton +impeach" gives 27,800 results:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?I39A22D84
Doing the same search for "+bush +impeach" gives 32,800 results:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?U2AA12D84
###!!!--###### CARTOONS ############################(JC)##################
http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/archive/stevebell/0,7371,337764,00.html
###!!!--###### ROCKET ##############################(##)##################
Some links on "sweet rocket" (at least that's what i think it is), which is
a plant in my garden that's been having some problems lately.
Not sure if this one is the same plant:
http://www.herbnet.com/magazine/mag01_p07--sweet_rocket.htm
...might just be different strains of the plant as this photo looks a
little more like it, though colour is different:
http://ghs.gresham.k12.or.us/science/ps/nature/gorge/4petal/must/swrocket.htm
No photo, but more description:
http://www.botany.com/hesperis.html
Good way to get some pictures, using Google images:
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=sweet+rocket&btnG=Google+Search
Overview of rocket family:
http://www.arthurleej.com/p-o-m-Sep02.html
Not entirely sure if it is edible. Flowers certainly appear to be edible,
but leaves might only be edible when young. Probably not poisonous though.
Searching for leaf curl along with sweet rocket led me to this page:
http://image.fs.uidaho.edu/vide/famly049.htm#Hesperis%20matronalis
says sweet rocket is susceptible to "Turnip mosaic potyvirus". Symptoms
are not a world away from what i have observed on the plant:
http://image.fs.uidaho.edu/vide/descr855.htm
And to conclude, a site I would never have thought up:
http://www.lesbiangardens.net/
"First we were victims, then we became warriors, now we are gardeners."
- Ferron
###!!!--###### PI ##################################(NM)##################
Algorithm for calculating any single digit of PI in a matter of seconds
http://www.nersc.gov/~dhbailey/
"This work has been featured in the May 2003 issue of Scientific American"
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?colID=5&articleID=00023DFC-7861-1E90-8EA5809EC5880000
The algorithm is available at:
http://www.nersc.gov/~dhbailey/pi-alg
and code at:
http://www.nersc.gov/~dhbailey/mpdist/
###!!---###### POSTNUKE ############################(##)##################
Some useful Postnuke (content management and website generation)
documentation:
http://www.bluediscovery.net/ticalc/pnGuide/
###!!!--###### ECONOMY #############################(##)##################
Economics reporting commentary, by Dean Baker:
http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/7759
These commentaries are good, but the more you read them the more it becomes
apparent that there is a huge difference in world-view between Baker and
the journalist's whose work he critiques. Whatever the merits of each
view, at least Baker makes an effort to engage with expressions of
conflicting idea-systems.
###!!---###### REINHART ############################(##)##################
I heard Tanya Reinhart on the Today With Pat Kenny radio show today. She
is an Israeli academic who has taken a very pro-Palestinian position in her
writing. Had a look for her CV, and turns out her PhD supervisor was Noam
Chomsky (in Dept. of Literature and Linguistics, MIT):
http://www.tau.ac.il/~reinhart/
Her most recent book is "ISRAEL/PALESTINE How to End the War of 1948"
http://www.sevenstories.com/Book/index.cfm?GCOI=58322100716180
ZNet has an interview with her on the subject of the book:
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=50&ItemID=2595
###!!!!-###### PIC #################################(RW)##################
British Library images online:
http://ibs001.colo.firstnet.net.uk/britishlibrary/controller/home
Images are many and varied. You can purchase a v. high res version on
cdrom, or view a largish one on screen with a "British Library" label in
the corner:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?G22916D84
###!!!--###### NOWHERE #############################(/.)##################
Nowhere girl, highly recommended by Warren Ellis, available online:
http://www.nowheregirl.com/episode/01/01.html
###!!!--###### SPAM ################################(/.)##################
Really has a familiar ring about it, but still an interesting article:
The response rate is extremely low: One-tenth of a percentage point is
considered wildly successful, Shiels and spam experts agree. For
spammers, that's made up for by the ability to send millions of e-mails
a day and the relatively generous commissions.
Viagra distributors pay spammers per sale -- about $60 for every $150
order -- while financial companies typically pay for every consumer who
requests more information -- as much as $12 for mortgage leads and as
much as $5 for insurance referrals, Shiels said.
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/business/105256787116000.xml
###-----###### ENVIRONMENT #########################(BB)##################
Environmental journalism, impact of Californians on rest of world:
http://www.sacbee.com/static/live/news/projects/denial/
Origami and mathematics:
http://www.paperfolding.com/math/
The parent website has lots of good links and info on origami, including a
guide to the basics of the technique and instructions on producing some
forms.
Somewhat similar to origami are string figures:
http://www.darsie.net/string/index.html
###!----###### ARGOT ###############################(RW)##################
slang glossary:
http://www.thesourcefym.com/teenlingo/
###!!!--###### HOST ################################(##)##################
Vadim Makarov's guide to web and domain hosting. Many good general points
to bear in mind here.
http://www.vad1.com/hosting.html
###-----###### LANGUAGE ############################(NM)##################
What I Hate About Your Programming Language, because every language has its
niggles and idiosyncrasies:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/05/12/languagephilosophy.html
This lead to thinking about the Haskell functional programming language:
http://haskell.org/aboutHaskell.html
Could be one to learn since the Pragmatic Programmer has it marked as its
Language of the Year (LotY) for 2002.
http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/loty/index.html
They haven't updated for 2003, so maybe there is still time to learn it.
It is recommended to learn a new programming language every year.
###-----###### SQUEAK ##############################(OB)##################
"Squeak is an open, highly-portable Smalltalk-80 implementation whose
virtual machine is written entirely in Smalltalk, making it easy to debug,
analyze, and change."
http://www.squeak.org/
###!!!!-###### DILLO ###############################(##)##################
The Dillo web browser has recently (29 April) reached version 0.7.2, with
the addition of copy&paste, which is a feature I very much missed in
earlier versions. It is still fast and no-frills.
http://dillo.auriga.wearlab.de/
###!!---###### LIN #################################(##)##################
Two tutorials from UK magazine PC Plus, maybe of use:
How to install Linux:
http://www.pcplus.co.uk/tutorials/default.asp?siteid=10§iontypeid=7&subsectionid=377&pagetypeid=4&articleid=16265&page=1
Using Linux beside windows (basically about dual booting potential pitfalls
and alternatives)
http://www.pcplus.co.uk/tutorials/default.asp?siteid=10§iontypeid=7&subsectionid=377&pagetypeid=4&articleid=17557&page=1
###-----###### HERF ################################(/.)##################
DIY HERF gun. Link slashdotted ATM, so will read later:
http://www.voltsamps.com/pages/projects/herf004/
Sounds interesting though
###!!---###### HARDING #############################(##)##################
Michael Harding, author and interesting guy:
http://www.artscouncil.ie/aosdana/biogs/literature/michaelharding.html
Ordained a priest. Has a very interesting outlook on life, spirituality
and religion. Proudly he says he has been a failure at everything he has
done, but that that is certainly not a bad thing. Haven't read anything he
has written, but following from an interview with him I heard I intend to.
For a couple of days, you can hear an interview by Carrie Crowley of
Michael Harding here:
http://www.rte.ie/rams/radio/snapshots.ram
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