A Robert Heinlein day of quickies: an interesting and intelligent esssay look at the _Moon is a Harsh Mistress_, and the more interesting better footnoted "LUNA LAW: The Libertarian Vision in Heinlein's The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress" The US had planned to detonate a nuclear device on the moon during the height of the Cold War. #title "Dane Carlson's Very Old Archives"

Let's open up the Presidential debates to more than just the Gore's and Bush's. Sign the petition to Open up the Presidential Debates! This article at The New Republic argues that George Bush (the elder) was the best President of the modern era.> Follow Me Here, a weblog that I first discovered after reading Jorn's glowing recommendation is really living up to its promise! Keep up the good work.> I'm back! Where've I been? I've been here, but not, but yes, but maybe. #title "Dane Carlson's Very Old Archives"

404 error foretold in Bible via memepool #title "Dane Carlson's Very Old Archives"

StarWars in Flash (via Camworld) Google's in April Fools Day mood: Search via MentalPlex Slashdot in April Fools Day mood. All of the stories posted today are in different languages. Looks to me like portugese, spanish, pig-latin, and some kind of "swedish chef"-speak.

Art Bell to retire from radio on April 26, 2000!!

Watch out for the men with guns and blue helmets! United Nations Information page hosted and published by the Michigan Militia Corps! (People that support nationalism are stupid)

I was just minding my own business reading an article on Salon, when I was hit with this strange ad for Altavista. Always on the look out for new headlines, I clicked it and found my way to the standard Altavista Live! page. Not to be stopped, I immediately ran a search for "CANADA DECLARES WAR". What did I find? No news of warmongering Canucks, but I did learn that Indiana declared war on Snow in May of 1996!!!

Intermammary sulcus: the new scientific name for breasts

Prisoners' Speak: Captures and records the experiences and opinions of the hundreds of thousands incarcerated in the United States. (After a cursory browse, it looks a lot like a dating service for inmates)

Edit and animates two dimensional models made out of masses and springs (JAVA)

From India: The Indian state of Madhya Pradesh acknowledges that it has the obligation to provide "Simple, Moral, Accountable, Responsive and Transparent" (SMART) governance to its citizens.

Two nights ago, I had a dream someone dropped chuck of concrete block on my friend James's head. Luckily he could still walk, and hospital was just next door, because I helped him hobble into the reception area. I screamed "Head trauma! We've got a head trauma!" from the top of my lungs until a young orderly came over with a hospital bed and a old fashioned hand drill. I couldn't watch and had to run outside to escape the repating sounds of the bit inching slowly into James's head. Once outside, though, I had a realization, and ran back inside. "Trepanation," I said. "Have you heard of it?" I asked the orderly. Yes of course. James just looked up. "James," I said, looking into his serene expression just inches from the drill jutting from the hole in his head. "When the drill breaks through, tell me if you feel euphoric or smarter!" There the dream ended, and I awoke.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's take on Elian Gonzalez (its the New York Times, so registration is required) Sprezzatura: the new weblog I'm reading today Some new sites I'm surfing for news: The Age (Australia), The Press (New Zealand), The Straits Times (Singapore) , Clarin (Argentina - in Spanish) and India Today (India) A privately financed (MirCorp) manned space flight to reactivate the Mir station and open it for commercial use will blast off on April 4 [article] Last night I had a dream about James and trepanation. Details to follow.

Essay on Akscyn's Law of Hypertext. "Hypertext systems should take about 1/4 second to move from one place to another. If the delay is longer, people may be distracted; if the delay is much longer, people will stop using the system. If the delay is much shorter, people may not realize that the display has changed." See, we all knew Jorn was right! Article on the precursors of hypertext at Britannica.com. Need that in Danish? This resource page that combines many of the good translation tools online into one easy to use form. Clinton/Gore have given the Democrats everything and left them with nothing The US Military's "Military Photographer of the Year Competition" results are in. Links to some of the photos in the still photo category are available, as well as some in the videography competition (Quicktime required for the video's). The 13 Illuminati Bloodlines (HUGE) via Robotwisdom

Science fiction writers often suffer from bad science. The Hard Science Fiction Tools page can help. In about 15 different Javascript pages that, you can "Plan a Planet that orbits a Main Sequence Star" or determine "Hohmann Transfer Orbits in the Solar System", and more! The archives and 7-Day OTD are working again. I hate Blogger sometimes. (I was thinking about moving to Editthispage.com or Weblogs.com, but with Dave's recent troubles network, I really don't know if it would be worth it! I've put up some new pages today. The most exciting (and most complete) is my So I Married an Axe Murderer Resource Page. SIMAAM is Mike Meyers at his best! (I also started work on my radio preferences page, but there are not links from it, yet.) #title "Dane Carlson's Very Old Archives"

As promised, I've been working on an archive of blog entries by topic. The topical archives I've built so far are: film, politics, literature, Mars and Chile. More to follow.