Magnatune: try before you buy MP3 music. Popular Culture/ Music/ Ecommerce
A noble experiment. A website to sell indie music that's both musician and consumer friendly. Uses the Creative Commons license. Music is of a high quality, tho a quite limited quantity at this point. If I had any music that was at all of a commercial quality, I'd be talking to them.
Sunday, January 04, 2004
Saturday, January 03, 2004
Boston Globe:The self-critic Intellectual Life
In his latest book, Terry Eggleton proclaims the death of "Theory".
At last, people are noticing that even the flies have left the skeletal remains of this particular body of work.
In his latest book, Terry Eggleton proclaims the death of "Theory".
At last, people are noticing that even the flies have left the skeletal remains of this particular body of work.
washingtonpost.com: Japan's Empire of Cool Popular Culture/ Business
Could Japan be challenging America's crown as king of world popular culture?
Could Japan be challenging America's crown as king of world popular culture?
Environmental Working Group: BodyBurden Science/ Environment/ Paranoia
Hard paranoia inducing facts about the load of chemical garbage we all carry as a result of living in an industrialized world.
Hard paranoia inducing facts about the load of chemical garbage we all carry as a result of living in an industrialized world.
TheCapitol.Net: You have two cows. Politics/ Humor
Where do you fall on the bovine scale of government?
Where do you fall on the bovine scale of government?
NewsHour: John Updike on why he doesn't write science fiction Popular Culture/ Writers
"JEFFREY BROWN: You didn't need grand, epic...
JOHN UPDIKE: I didn't need to write historical epics, no, or science fiction, though I read a lot of science fiction as a kid and rather liked it. But I didn't have the mentality. I also read a lot of mystery novels, and my few attempts to begin a mystery novel fell apart. So I was stuck from my own limits, really, with middle- class... middle-class life, or the mundane, let's call it, and so I was just trying to, story by story, encapsulate some aspect of life as I was experiencing it or observing it. This was a time when the American way of life was coming in for a lot of hard knocks, some of them deserved, but nevertheless I thought that somebody should be bearing witness to the kind of ordinary life that was going on. Under the revolution, under the talk of the revolution, people were living out their lives in families, by and large, growing up with their children, all that kind of thing."
Science: World's most mysterious book may be a hoax: The Voynich manuscript may be elegant gibberish. Science/ Linguistics/ Crytography
Neal Stephenson must be tearing his hair out.
Neal Stephenson must be tearing his hair out.
Boston Globe: Century-old math problem may have been solved Science/ mathematics
The Poincare Conjecture may have been solved. If so, the proof promises to revolutionize much of mathematics.
The Poincare Conjecture may have been solved. If so, the proof promises to revolutionize much of mathematics.
Jihad Unspun: A Clear View On The US War On "Terrorism" Politics/ Peak Oil/ Neocons
Analysis of the potential effects of peak oil on the war on terror and on the 2004 elections. Chilling.
Analysis of the potential effects of peak oil on the war on terror and on the 2004 elections. Chilling.
Telegraph: Daemons leap into limelight as Pullman's dark fantasy takes life on stage Popular Culture/ Books/ Theatre
An ambitious staging of Pullman's anti-Christian/ anti-theist trilogy sparks controversy and acclaim in London
An ambitious staging of Pullman's anti-Christian/ anti-theist trilogy sparks controversy and acclaim in London
Topsy Turvy: In neutrons and protons, quarks take wrong turns: Science News Science/ Physics
The world of quantum physics just gets weirder and weirder.
The world of quantum physics just gets weirder and weirder.
The 'Neocons', American foreign policy and anti-semitism Politics/ Neocons
A well reasoned essay on how to respond to the bullshit that criticism of the Neocons is only coded antisemitism.
A well reasoned essay on how to respond to the bullshit that criticism of the Neocons is only coded antisemitism.
Severed arm points to disgruntled diners Daily Weirdness
Haven't they heard of simply undertipping the guy?
Haven't they heard of simply undertipping the guy?
Top educator slashes rival's tires Daily Weirdness
Sheesh, and we thought the academic world was cutthroat here.
Sheesh, and we thought the academic world was cutthroat here.
Peeling apples good for the brain Science/ Weirdness
Seems that doing complex operations like food prep work is good for the mind. Just one more reason to avoid 'will you want fries with that.'
Seems that doing complex operations like food prep work is good for the mind. Just one more reason to avoid 'will you want fries with that.'
Phelps Plans Protest To Support School That Disciplined 7 Year Old With Two Mothers Politics/ Civil Rights/ Neocons
Haysus Kreestay these people make me ashamed to be human.
Haysus Kreestay these people make me ashamed to be human.
Images of Gays Banned From National Parks, Civil Service Group Says Politics/ Civil Rights/ Neocons
Just another example of the lengths the Bushies will go to in their headlong flight down the bigotry rat hole.
Just another example of the lengths the Bushies will go to in their headlong flight down the bigotry rat hole.
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