Article on the special effects of The X-Files in an Australia paper. (Good photos) Whether you want to "embrace virtual convergence" or "incentivize magnetic convergence" or "utilize scalable channels", the Web Economy Bullshit Generator will help you talk the talk. The article that asserts that NASA knew the Mars Polar Lander was doomed. World Press Review, the magazine that translates and reprints articles from other periodicals aroud the world is finally online at worldpress.org.

I've finally found the archive of holiday Google logos! (big page -- lots of graphics!) NASA denied a report alleging it knew in advance of a fatal design flaw in the Mars Polar Lander that disappeared in space in December. On Art Bell, it has been asserted that NASA intentionally caught off transmissions from the MPL because of the advanced Martian civilization that greeted it. :) 11,000 square kilometer iceberg is peeling off the Ross Ice Shelf in Antartica. The iceberg is nearly twice the size of Delaware. Photos from space are available. The archives are working poorly again! In depth paper on the evolution of chain letters from whump.com's hoaxes archive. Where have I been? Thanks for asking. Work has kept me from updating this page, but not form working a subject-based archive for this site. I hope to have the begingings of it online tommorrow. #title "Dane Carlson's Very Old Archives"

Saw "Erin Brockovich" [imdb] last night. I hadn't been planning to see it; I can normally resist a Julia Roberts movie on opening night, but it seems that Angie cannot. Good film though, very good film. Salon has a review.

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.

Quick, tell me the name of one brand of casket? Angie just read in her marketting book, that caskets are in the "no interest" category of consumer goods. Yahoo, though. has quite a selection of casket websites. From CHIP (Chile Information Project): U.S. federal prosecutors called for the formal questioning of more than 40 Chileans linked to the 17-year military regime of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, including many retired, high-ranking Army officials as well as several prominent civilians who collaborated with the Pinochet government in regards to the 1976 car-bomb assassination of Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier and his U.S. citizen secretary Ronnie Moffitt in the streets of Washington, D.C. Today is the Ides of March (and my Mother's birthday). Dictionary.com says that "ides was in the ancient Roman calendar the fifteenth day of March, May, July, and October, and the thirteenth day of the other months." Et tu, Brute? New online photography magazine, SoulEyes In film, smoking has never died out. The Art of Smoking in Cinema is a comprehensive look at the on-screen glamour of the cigarette. Lesser known facts of World War Two, like "The first shot of World War II was fired from the German battleship 'Schleswig Holstein' berthed in Danzig harbour," and more. Google offers a web directory? No, its just Google's search technology and the Open Directory. From the Gallery of Obscure Patents: Directing a laser onto the ground and moving it in an irregular pattern in an attempt to get a cat to chase it, is patented in the United States! Billionaire donates money to start online university that he says will offer an "Ivy League-quality" education to anyone in the world -- free.

Good looking Shakespeare site Gary Shandling to play a Fox Mulder-like character in a "movie" within a new episode of the X-Files. (Shandling plays a an actor protraying Mulder in an film based on the X-Files...) Angelina Jolie is in final negotiations to star as Laura Croft in the film version of "Tomb Raider." After not getting a one of the long forms for the Census, I was a bit let down. I can take a bit of pleasure though in browsing historical census data. The Ayn Rand Institute's Religion vs. Morality site explores the differences between religion and morality, especially as they relate to the 2000 US presidential election. 1999 was the deadliest year for reporters around the world. Eighty seven (87) journalists and staff were killed while working. European Space Agency's Mars probe, the Beagle 2, will be decked out in corporate logos. In fact, corporate sponsorship will pay for nearly half the total cost of the mission. Finally, the future is here! With the sponsorship of industry, space will open to us, just as the Internet did! The Statue of Liberty from space (courtesy of Microsoft's Terraserver) April issue of Scientific American online now #title "Dane Carlson's Very Old Archives"

MIT hosts the The Complete Works of Shakespeare online, and annotated with glossary entries. The official website of the "La Torre di Pisa" (The Leaning Tower of Pisa) Air Force developing cruise missles with autonomous targeting capability Maine Governor Angus King wants every 7th grader in his state to have a laptop computer for homework. To that end, he's proposing that the state provide them for free.

Mike the Headless Chicken: "A True Story Of One Bird's Will To Live" Watch the SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, with SetiCam (live images from the Arecibo control room). Dolphins trained to kill for the Soviet navy have been sold to Iran - but what they will do in the Persian Gulf is a mystery Last chapter of "Eating Brasil" [Powell's] by Wim Nijenhuis Today's Google Search for Angie: "suicide after accounting tests". Results: some x-files fan fiction, and Stetson University's bulletin of graduate and professional programs. None of these truly answer her question: How many students commit suicide after bad accounting tests? Reading this week: "The Guns of the South" [Powell's] by Harry Turtledove [fan site] [usenet: alt.books.harry-turtledove]. After learning of Turtledove from soc.history.what-if, I ventured to the library to find some of his works. Not knowing what I was looking for, I picked up one of his books at random. The cover of "The Guns of the South" displays Confederate General Robert E. Lee posing with an AK-47. I read three chapters standing there in the library. It's been an interesting and fun read so far, and I will post a review when I'm done. Five seconds of my girlfriend Angie's churning stomach. Vegetable chow mein can wreak havoc on an empty stomach. This was recorded with her strewn across the desk, belly pressed to the monitor's built-in microphone. Sorry for the bad quality, you may have to turn the volume up. [audio] 861k

For the foreign spouse of an American citizen, or terrorist alike, getting into the United States is more a chore of circumventing the obtuse legalese of the rules than anything else. Light-hearted look at the flamboyant "astrodynamicist" who plotted the trajectory of the NEAR (Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous) mission to reach 433 Eros [image] on Valentine's Day.> The Elephant Man Life and times of Joseph Merrick (very graphic intensive)> Hooshla University: the first university with a postmodern philosophy to offer free on-line courses to anyone the adventures of a big white guy living in hong kong Convert text files to PDF documents, for free

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) - After clamping down on independent media, universities and the judiciary, Slobodan Milosevic is faced with a new challenge: a burgeoning student movement that mocks him in the street and has proven hard to break. [photo] [Full story from AP] #title "Dane Carlson's Very Old Archives"