And finally, there is the book at Amazon.com: Amazon.com: buying info: Bowling Alone : The Collapse and Revival of American Community Just to be fair, I should present a counter to the Bowling Alone argument: Detroit News Editorials "The 'bowling alone' phenomenon is bunk" Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital Who are those laptop nomads you see everywhere? California Assembly approves Internet tax measure The man in prison for shooting of Pope John Paul II is requesting clemency, following the revelation that the third secret of Fatima was a prophetic vision of the assassination attempt

This virus works on the honor system: Now that you have received this virus, please forward this message to everyone in your address book and delete a bunch of your unused files at random. Thank you.

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A lawsuit over the IRS's meaning of the phrase "voluntary compliance"> #title "Dane Carlson's Very Old Archives"

Flapper Jane, originally published in The New Republic on September 9, 1925. Orwell's Animal Farm online - complete and uncut> David Pacheco's class reunion story. (via RobotWisdom)> Gore forecast to win 2000 election. Here's the formula used. (You may have to reload the graphic on the equation page -- I'm sure everyone is linking to it.)>

The potato powered webserver is a HOAX, reports the UK's The Register.> Join Nupedia, the open content encyclopedia From Deja:
Picture the police arriving at the scene of a crime and interviewing the victim:
"Can you describe your assailant?"
No, actually, that would be incredibly judgmental of me.
"Was he white or black?"
What a racist suggestion - sexist too. Are you inferring that a woman would lack sufficient physical prowess to be a successful criminal?
"What was he wearing?"
What's this about clothes, are you drawing some sort of correlation from wardrobe, socioeconomic status, and the predilection towards criminality? Scandalous! I'll sue!
Language would not be much use if it was colorless, genderless, odorless, and completely tasteful, with taste defined by the latest law enacted. > Visit a trailer park family Danny Yee's Book Reviews: A collection of five hundred book reviews, covering all kinds of books> Brain Activity is Visibly Altered by sleep deprivation (with photos)>

Paul Theroux has a new book of short stories: Fresh Air Fiend.> So is grok.com!> Somebody already grabbed grokthis.com. Damn!> Robotic line cook debuts at the National Restaurant Association convention in Chicago.>

Virginia passed a bill to Require a driver's license and insurance to operate a horse-and-buggy on public roads and other silly state laws. Press release from the Libertarian Party.> Yesterday, someone cellmailed me and asked about the expense of receiving mail on my phone. My cellphone is a Nextel, and Nextel only charges a flat rate for incoming messages. One of the candidates for the Massachussetts Senate, Jack E. Robinson, III, published an 11-page report disclosing all of the things he's not proud of doing over the years. I have archived a copy here, in case the real url dies (as it has done repeatedly over the last few days).

Its one thing to read comradedane, its another thing altogether to read it as if Jesus had written it. (How we know this, I don't know. We don't have any recorded writings of Jesus except for the non apocryphal Gospel of Thomas. Anyway, its fun either way. Not all attachment problems are in Outlook Express. Eudora for Windows also has a problem with "stealth attachments." In order for the exploit to work, the sender must know the location of your attachments directory (the location where attached files are extracted to). Here's the Peacefire page on the subject (and fix).>

George Lucas in Love tells the fictional story of a young George Lucas with writers block. If he doesn't finish his screenplay in three days, he won't graduate from USC Film School. What he doesn't realize is that his story is all around him. Then he meets a beauty with hair buns, and everything changes. 9 minutes. Watch your surname's distribution through time across the United States.> Privacy-loving space aliens put the smack down on SETI: A SETI radio telescope has been destroyed and scientists fear that space aliens may be responsible.