Friday, March 17, 2000

I was going to write some praise for the search engine Directhit, but after reading their tip of the moment, I'm not sure that they're catering to people with brains. (Tip: leave a space between words). Ugh! I was also about to write something about the web directory Beaucoup.com, but not that I see that they link prominently to Directhit, can I do so in good faith? Its not cheesy science fiction: The first colony of college-educated apes has finally mastered simple math. The Chairman Smiles: propaganda posters from the former Soviet Union, Cuba and China. The search for life on the Red Planet will have to slow down until people on Earth have worked out how to land on Mars without crashing," said Dr Carl Pilcher, head of Nasa's planetary exploration program. An exotic plan to rocket a Russian actor to the Mir space station to make a movie collapsed today because of the filmmakers' failure to foot the flight's bill Pakistani serial-killer to die by strangling, with his body then to be cut into pieces and dropped into a vat of acid Civil rights advocates are loudly objecting to certain inquiries in the 2000 Census as violations of privacy and irrelevant to the legitimate purposes of government. In the "old days," (1994-5) a few friends and I ran a BBS. I've just gotten ahold of the zip disk that had the entire contents of the place backed up. Slowly, I'm moving all of the good stuff here, to the "Allendale, Terra" archive The newest page that I'm working on: Strange War Plans of World War Two (very very rough) In response to my own vanity search a moment ago, I thought I'd slap myself in the face with a little reality. To that end, I did a Weblogs.com search of "robotwisdom". These seventy results were not suprising: Bovine Inversus, adam twelve, Lekhani, s l a v e, Badel.net, Texting, Ethel the Blog, Yub, The BradLands, blorg, Considered Harmful, caught In between, Robot Wisdom, Ed's Weblog, CamWorld, chip's spynotebook, Looka!, log nu, blog.org, FARK.COM, Bouzou, Apathy, lake effect, misnomer, Backup Brain, drat fink, Kestrel's Nest, furtive explorations, iscavenger, Ribbit!, The View From Here, GeneralEyes, Ioway Bitlog, Weblogger, arch>INTER.log, kottke.org, Jauteria, PVtv, Entropy, Robot Wisdom, feckless, Breaching the Web, knobby low boy quarterly, E s c a p e >, l-rs.org (In Dutch), You talkin to me like that?, Le Temps Perdu, MetaFilter, Mike-Warren.com, squirmingcoil, Lorem Ipsum, pixel.txt, kiplog, browse0tron, Philly Future, Bitácora, pixel.txt, Absolute Piffle, NoLondon, Bump, sixfoot6, The American Mind, Simcoe, The Other Side, randomWalks, w i s d o m, Ouch!, Solutions, Star Tribune Weblog and blogit. Just did a vanity search of Weblogs.com. "Comradedane" came back with eight hits: Ethel the Blog, Comrade Dane, Medley, Alphabet Soup, Thomas A. Creedon's Weblog, Ouch!, davidchess and blogit. My hard work is finally starting to pay off! An interesting page of dolphin facts (with some discussion of advanced science) CNN has a page that calculates what your Vietnam draft number would have been had you been eligible when the lottery was held. Also, they have another page detailing what percentage of people killed in Vietnam were draftees (about 30%, while draftees only made up about 25% of the armed forces). Scary. >Hyperculture.com is offering twelve inch tall action figures of Neo and Trinity from The Matrix. Both are selling for $26.09 each. "There IS madmen in the world, and there ARE terror." Salon had a good comic parody of George W. the other day.