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Peter Saint-Andre's weblog "Politics grows out of culture (which in turn grows out of the thoughts and actions of individuals), so it's wrongheaded to look at things in purely political terms, as many libertarians do when they blame all ills on the behavior of the state. Certainly the state introduces immense distortions into culture and the life of the individual, but it is not the only cause of what ails us."

Matador Records | Pizzicato Five Biography "Pizzicato Five are ultra-hipsters, they have truly gone beyond the valley of the hip, walked in the shadow of the valley of overkill, and come out smiling on the other side."

What the Hell is the Fibonacci Series? education at its finest.

Adbusters: Buy Nothing Day tommorow.

Howstuffworks "How do touchscreen monitors know where you're touching?". which partially explains why they aren't as prolific as we might desire.

Extreme easters during our lifetime. About easter distribution througout the milleniums.

Kiwi Children. and the rest of slurm.

disinformation | ken kesey: comes spake the cuckoo and Salon.com People | Appreciation: Ken Kesey

ant nest plaster casts [bottom 2 images]

A First-Timer's Guide to Wagner's Ring

Salon.com People | Tom Stoppard

more crumbling pedestals: washingtonpost.com: Girl Charged for Slapping Prince Charles

anemic. flash poetry.

[questionnaire/toy] Cat Breed Selector. i can't help but see the various spoofs for how this will be for human baby selection in 30 years, were the technology to be developed and widely distributed. What questions would they ask on the Sony site? or Microsoft? or TW/AOL? And how will the various religions [or even philosophies] adapt to the times? Will you be able to tell a scientology baby from a pagan baby, to differentiate the children of objectivists from the children of evangelists, based only on their markings? 10% off all associated products, for life, if you let PhillipMorris bring your progeny into this world?
i'll stick with cats.

SomaFM: Streaming MP3 Internet Radio. 5 genre stations, no ads, 24k and 128k options, very stable, winamp intelligent, and friendly. exactly right.

news.telegraph.co.uk - Meteor clue to end of Middle East civilisations -
"The catastrophic effect of these could explain the mystery of why so many early cultures went into sudden decline around 2300 BC.

They include the demise of the Akkad culture of central Iraq, with its mysterious semi-mythological emperor Sargon; the end of the fifth dynasty of Egypt's Old Kingdom, following the building of the Great Pyramids and the sudden disappearance of hundreds of early settlements in the Holy Land."

terrifying wallpaper.

surreal. apparantly, they wobble but don't fall down.

Bök Bök Bök.

Elinor Carucci Photography Art Gallery. hell yes.

Electronics at FORMandFUNCTION: turntable of the gods.

[one step forward, two ...] - Microsoft admits serious flaw in 'e-wallet' technology (11/02/2001)
and
Microsoft antitrust battle settled (11/03/2001).

"Secretary of State Colin Powell appointed Charlotte Beers, an advertising executive best known for the Head and Shoulders campaign, to be undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs; Beers said her job would be the rebranding of America: "It's the battle for the 11-year-old mind." "
Because propaganda is ok when you call it advertising.

onion - Hang In There! You Live In The Richest Nation In The World!

The Skeptic's Dictionary: A Guide for the New Millennium. But should people be dissuaded from their superstitions if they do no harm? One person's neurosis is another's personality trait...

The Human Canvas