Time travel excerpt from The Journal of Transfigural Mathmatics: "Because large social events are usually the effect of the cumulative actions of large numbers of people, the time-traveler most likely cannot make a change in larger, well-documented historical events."
Tabloid O' The Day!: the random tabloid generator. Reload for more fun.
How come two members of the Drudge family have incredibly great websites? Matt, the son, has his own litttle "citizen reporter" website, drudgereport.com, but more importantly, his father has Refdesk.com, which is probably the best reference site out there! It is incredible!
Interview with Gregory Rabassa, the man who translated for Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar, and Jorge Amado. Like the interviewer, I blame Rabassa for preventing me from learning Spanish and Portuguese.
Transcript of the vice presidential debate between Richard Cheney and Sen. Joseph Lieberman >
Today has turned out to be one hell of a bloggin' day! Good night.
From the Yahoo! News and the Associated Press: While acknowledging some have labeled him [Harry Browne] politically irrelevant, Browne cast his party as the most viable alternative to the Republicans and Democrats, though it has lacked the vote-getting power of its Reform or Green third-party counterparts. With scant expectations of winning the White House on Nov. 7, Brown believes his grassroots pitches for individual liberties over expansive, expensive government programs could win enough mainstream support to vault a Libertarian into the presidency within 10 years. >
The Deeper Side of Trek: "war is a reality of any situation where complicated civilizations have an impact on one another, whether it be today or in a future like the one depicted on Star Trek. Even in Trek's universe, humanity has not escaped war by any stretch of the imagination.">
Petition to The Commission on Presidential Debates: Open up the Presidential Debates! Sign it, please.
Do all Vice Presidential candidates have their own webpages? Art Olivier, Libertarian for Vice President does.>
I'm sure that in many localities, the World Museum of Erotic Art is still considered pornagraphic.
Halfbakery is chock full of half-baked ideas. Need something to invent for a 24 hour inventing run? Check it out for ideas.>
Geeks4Christ: Gospel for Geeks. God Matters. is a blantant ripoff of the Slashdot page, but with a different focus, some interesting articles and very few active posters. Nevertheless, I check it out once a week or so.
If you like GW Bush's verbal snafu's (like "I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." and "Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness.") then you'll love The Complete Bushisms - Updated daily >
The Price of War, Part III. America's Risks in Colombia: The Price of War
Part III. America's Risks in Colombia
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Summary
The Clinton administration insists its $1.3 billion military aid package will be used only to eradicate the cocaine trade in Colombia, not to battle Marxist rebels. But to reach the coca fields of southern Colombia, new U.S.-trained troops must first battle the guerrillas. Because American aid will bring the war to the guerilla strongholds, they are likely to strike back against American targets. >
I know that this is just blatantly commercial but nickelnews.com is my day job. To be honest, I only included the link so that its content would be included in the search archives here.>
B-92 liberated by Yugoslavian crowds. Check the link for up to the minute reports from Belgrade.>
I've found some interesting stuff on LewRockwell.com: the anti-state, anti-war, pro market news site>
And they say the debates aren't rigged against the third party candidates. Requirements #2 & #3 of the Commission on Presidential Debates's Candidate Selection Criteria page seem to contradict each other.
I predict that the United States will intervene militarily in Serbia between now and the 2000 Presidential election. This guy agrees with me about military intervention before the election, but he thinks that the US will find some excuse to harass Sadame Hussien.
Google returned about 31,300 results for "Harry Browne", about 105,000 for "Pat Buchanan", about 146,000 for "Ralph Nader", 419,000 for "Al Gore", and 521,000 for "George W. Bush".
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Human race developed first on Mars: A videssos (Harry Turtledove mailing list) special report: One indication that the human race did not evolve here is the character of human pregnancy. It is a genetic modification of Martian pregnancy, adapted for a planet with heavier gravity. Martian women carried their young for a full Martian year, or 22 of our months. Their babies were born fully able to walk and to talk. But the genetic engineers working on a new Remnant caste to colonize Earth realized that this would never do on a planet with such high gravity. So they abbreviated pregnancy in the caste that eventually settled here. From a Martian standpoint all births here on Earth are premature. The rest was a modification of fetal development, giving priority to systems necessary for such a premature infant to survive in a gravitational field 2.5 times as high as it should have to endure. From the summary of Jakob Neilsen's newest Alertbox: "To take the Internet to the next level, users must begin posting their own material rather than simply consuming content or distributing copyrighted material." For once, I actually agree with Jakob -- and not only that, but just before I read this I was thinking the same thing. Of course, it is common sense. I think that everyone should publish one page (page being defined as "some informative text and a few links." I don't care if only one person (the author) considers the text informative and the links useful. A web in which only big-media contributes is a one-way medium like television. So, damn-it, make your descendants proud. Post a page a week, that's all we ask.> It seems that the Libertarian Party (and all third parties) have again been betrayed by the courts: Judge rules that LP not allowed to enter taxpayer-funded debates. Bumper sticker slogan archive. "Reunite Pangea" is listed!> Reunite Pangea! In 250 million years will we finally end up with that supercontinent Pangea once more? #title "Dane Carlson's Very Old Archives"
A Vatican festival is mistakenly broadcast over Italian TV with porn-movie soundtracks.
It may just be an urban rumor, but i've heard, from Roy @ www.asomethingiknownotwhat.com that including the phrase "obsessed with lesbians" is a good way to get traffic. I wonder how many people are actively searching for that phrase? Guess I'll find out.> I thought that my idea to track the prices of local gasonline stations was unique. Obviously, it wasn't: Gaspricewatch.com.> Eerily beautiful photo of the Montana fires #title "Dane Carlson's Very Old Archives"
The most important factor in history (and one which is barely mentioned in the textbooks) is the extent to which history has blatantly plagiarised Monty Python's Flying Circus. > Dolphins Evolve Opposable Thumbs, 'Oh, Shit,' Says Humanity>
I may have blogged this already, but I love The World War I Document Archive.> The Best of British: The American's guide to speaking British The Libertarian Party has had a legal team put together a report on how the campaign finance laws could be overturned in the courts. Good read, if a bit legal.
I got this link from Newsblogger: The politics of religion #title "Dane Carlson's Very Old Archives"
The Best of British: The American's guide to speaking British > #title "Dane Carlson's Very Old Archives"