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BBC - Gene Stories How to build a human.

Gibson on japan. "... and truly, there is something in the quality of a good translation that can never be captured in the original.". heehee.

I never turn down a plate of self-analysis or a pint of questionnaire, and have recently been mulling over comparitive religion spiderweb-diagrams; so I was pleased to find this (conservatively done) "puritytest" of sorts.
Beliefnet Belief-O-Matic "Even if YOU don't know what faith you are, Belief-O-Matic knows. Answer 20 questions about your concept of God, the afterlife, human nature, and more, and Belief-O-Matic will tell you what religion (if any) you practice...or ought to consider practicing.
Warning: Belief-O-Matic assumes no legal liability for the ultimate fate of your soul."
my top 12 scores:
1. Secular Humanism (100%)
2. Unitarian Universalism (97%)
3. Atheism and Agnosticism (84%)
4. Liberal Quaker (77%)
5. Theravada Buddhism (77%)
6. Neo-Paganism (68%)
7. Liberal Protestant (65%)
8. Taoism (54%)
9. New Age (51%)
10. Mahayana Buddhism (42%)
11. Orthodox Quaker (41%)
12. Reform Judaism (37%)

Psychedelic Republicans collectors cards.

[spoofalicious] - Operation Mantatory Patriotic Tattoo - Office of Homeland Security - WHITEHOUSE.ORG

Invisible Library The Invisible Library is a collection of books that only appear in other books. Within the library's catalog you will find imaginary books, pseudobiblia, artifictions, fabled tomes, libris phantastica, and all manner of books unwritten, unread, unpublished, and unfound.

Paper Polyhedra Models

[huge. toy. science. !] - Micro shells. for example

Cat triggers explosion in Kabul US Embassy - "The cat lived, but it was a very frightened cat," he said.

[who let the audiophiles out?] - Notes Towards Sound Ecology in the Garden of Listening "Natural soundscapes or sonic eco-architectures are in effect being grafted as 'virtual realities' onto the flesh of Culture". yum.

[good reading] - O'Reilly Network: How the Wayback Machine Works [Jan. 21, 2002]

[not what i was expecting] - MONKEYBALL (TM) - Main Pages

Dictionary.com/expostulate

The Hoopla500 - 01/20/2002: "Coming Clean". She never ceases to amaze me. So much fun watching a writer at work

[smart reading] - The last century-- what went wrong. This is what i was wanting when i took that poli-sci-101 class; smart, funny and highly educational. Every ounce worth reading. I now understand vastly more about politics past present and future.

ChrisAndLuke.com - Sponsorship Opportunities #1 Making my brain hurt. Are they terrifying? bizarre? real? Uber-American?

[fun] - New additions, etc.. an excellent mini-read, news of the subversive. "News: 26 December 2001 - Last weekend, some friends and I hung up fake "NO SUV PARKING" signs in Brooklyn, then gave all the offending vehicles tickets (over 600!). ... "

[psssst. tell them about the pencils]. oh yeah, go see Pencil Thing and its inspiration 72pencils. yumyum-delish.

Ahah! I've been looking for the reference everywhere; could've sworn it was a Martin Gardner, but apparantly it was a Pratchett. Lies-to-Children: An Explanation.

creativebase.com "There are also a couple of new places in Berlin, but some of them are struggling with the economic disadvantages of the city Ð it's very poor, which creates a great cultural atmosphere, but makes it difficult to do business there."

People dont make decisions based on their ethics, they make their ethics based on their decisions.

official ninja homepage. terrifying but true.

[geek] - I've been trying out a variety of distributed computing project (a different one every other month it seems). Currently i'm being entertained (just by the idea of it being running in the background) by Folding@home, whose site has a variety of chart&braincandy.

[brain candy] - the marvellous things you find whilst searching for quotes online. "all human brains!"

[omg] - The Poles.com "Jan 6. Today was our 100th day on Antarctica." Wearable computing at the south pole. Extreme geek. kudos.

Le Palais idéal du Facteur Cheval and its explanation.
Every day, without fail, having walked his 20 miles [postal] round, he set to work. In his own words "I was the first to agree with those who called me insane; I was not a builder, I had never handle a mason's trowel; I was not a sculptor. The chisel was unknown to me; not to mention architecture, it was a field in which I remained totally ignorant". He spent twenty years building what were to become the outer walls.

homemade foamcore hovercraft and its slightly bigger brother.

How to talk like a Situationist. Because Cat and Girl are.

[eye candy] - Art Images.

Sousveillance as an alternative balance.