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[typographesque] - Benesh movement notation, Sutton Dancewriting, Labanotation, Action stroke dance notation and Greenotation.

[soul] - this is important. Shimabuku: Moon Rabbit.

[sound] - marvellous fun. findsounds. i protest innocent coincidence, but the first two sounds i searched for were "thunder" and "cat".

[robots] - Slashdot | Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us book review.

[quiz] - Ha! The Dead Russian Composer Personality Test. explosive praises from a depraved quiz fanatic [me]. [brought to you, by the letter `O`']

assertive people glom ontu assertive statements; reticent people seem to usually prefer somewhat ambiguous phrasing.

[yikes] - he's watching you.

[me] - currently dreaming about furniture and stereos.

[to do] - -DAILY-
stretch
breathe - [now. always.]
cook - [nourish? play?]
read - [yes!]
talk - [all, whenever, whatever. some, few, special. why? sigh.]
write - [trying]
move - [walk (saunter stroll stumble), climb (leap bound scramble), ride (fly flow fling)]
think - [*giggle*]
make - [ >8) 's at people.]

[ingredientx] - tales of mere existence. [branding. cigarettes. sir.] childs play [live to be nine, pledge of allegiance] and more [news report]

Unorthodox Styles

[portfolio] - i.own.the.sky

[news] - Bush declares war on himself.

[photography] - supersampler

[mumbling in the dark] -
less is more.
grey is gray.
words are.

[geek] - The Old Mac That Went to Pot.

[nonsense] - Are you stuck on:
-people suck. answer: Yes! hence legal systems
-it isnt fair. answer: Yes! hence religion, politics and medicine
-the "uncertainty" of everything. answer: Yes! hence philosophy.
-i'm bored. answer: Yes! hence art.

[sad] - U.S. Military Spending Clock. watch that ticker fly.

[books] - No Media Kings.

[pecul'ar] - TIGER magazine issue 19 is out. 60 pages of silly free art. [yes]

Chicken Little - A Children's Book. and now i know.

[evil] - philip morris is apparantly trying to rebrand their name to "altria" in an effort to place distance between its tobacco and food products. silly sods.

updated the exit page a little. essentially my browser homepage. i find the music search engines particularly useful for finding interesting reviews of interesting things.

[not insane]. "So, hey, everybody suffers somehow, right? The trick is in letting go when you're all growed up, and getting that one sour taste off the tongue, whatever its origin. A long time ago I tried to burn mine off with alcohol, but that didn't work, especially since the taste of cheap Chardonnay is too close to the zesty bouquet of sour grapes. But I wonder how many of my classmates have tried that one."

Google News beta. In case you hadn't seen. Thank you again google. Now if only they could design an excellent paypal alternative...

[video] - Anniversary Party, The (2001). the first movie i've enjoyed and been amazed by in a long time.

I seem to build up vast charges of static electricity. Every time i step out of a car, the door shocks me; Almost every cat i pet is first greeted with a slight zap (which might partially explain my own cat's high-strung nature..); The urban landscape is rife with sparking doorknobs and lightswitches.
a quick google proves once again that i know nothing, and that lies-to-children are most of our education. Including such thoughts as

"ELECTRICITY IS ENERGY? NO, ELECTRICITY DOES NOT EXIST!
The term "electricity" is a catch-all word with many meanings. Unfortunately these meanings are contradictory, and this leads to the unsettling fact that there is no single substance or energy called "electricity.""

oh.

As regards my situation, "In addition, [a static field] is an example of pure voltage, or voltage without current. The strength of this e-field is incredibly large when compared to the voltage of batteries and of common electronic circuitry. ... The tiniest "static spark" is caused by about 1000 volts. Longer "car door sparks" and "doorknob sparks" can involve as much as 10,000 volts."
hmmm.
and then, the sought after link: HUMANS AND SPARKS - The Cause, Stopping the Pain, and "Electric People" - "Your body-voltage can easily rise to several thousand volts, and the next time you touch someone else... ZAP!, the imbalanced charge gets shared between you and the other person. The spark is painful because it's extremely hot. It drills into your skin like a white-hot needle, creating a microscopic burned area." kinky.

[archive diving] - whygodwhy. very. see also. and.

[software] - Dave's Quick Search Taskbar Toolbar Deskbar. marvellous tiny utility. have been using for months. xml and js and gpl goodness!

Derrida?
Derrida :)
Derrida!
Derrida.

[mess-o-links] - I decided to get up-to-date on what napster alternatives there are out there, and the whys and wherefores of selecting amongst them (what features they have/lack, what the privacy/security concerns currently are, etc).
intro: There's this article from aug '01 at webmonkey, which offers a little history, doesnt really like any of the contenders (says morpheus and limewire were the best of the bunch), warns against the horrors of audiogalaxy (which you shouldnt be using anyway, its spyware), and offers some coherent explanations for why none compare to the peak of napster's time (page 3). Even better is this sept '01 article at infoanarchy.
Comprehensive lists and some reviews can be found at infoanarchy (best info source) (recent roundup in bottom paragraph of article), open-nap, nonap (overly simplified), zeropaid (dubious quality) (recent comments), and of course google.
The results? Things are still in (rapid) development. Options for the discerning audio connoisseur who misses the golden age of napster are still disheartening (nothing yet offers as much speed and selection as it once did). The best of the current bunch are: Winmx (open-nap network); Gnucleus, Gnotella and Limewire (gnutella network); and the independants Filetopia, and Freenet look promising. However, with upcoming new releases for many of these, i'm going to resist temptation for another few months, and get back to the things that i'm meant to be doing. *cough*.

[recurrent thoughts] - we have to take all these high concepts and make them into web/tree-diagrams and chart-candy, so that idiots and children can understnad[sic] them.

[cats] - House of Cats Intl. must...resist...urge for...carpentry. or the more standard carpet covered posts and ledges, eg 7th Heaven Cat Furniture.

BBC News | AMERICAS | US 'has nuclear hit list'. I've been trying not to blog these things too much, but What the Hell???
"The Bush administration has reportedly ordered the Pentagon to prepare contingency plans for attacking seven countries with nuclear weapons.
Quoting a secret Pentagon report, the Los Angeles Times newspaper names China, Russia, Iraq, North Korea, Iran, Libya and Syria as potential targets."

[ooooo!] - The Rubber Band Machine Gun

Hello Kitty Vibrator sale by sanrio. old news, but still worth a giggle or scream.