New Scientist: Mind of a dog For thousands of years, dogs have worked with us, eaten with us, lived with us. Do they also think like us Alyssa of Forbidden Parallelism is wondering, "is anyone reading me?" I think every net publisher goes through this at some point. I for one am reading her. (Alyssa - sorry about the whole stolen car)> Essay: "There Is Nothing Worse Than Information That Doesn't Move" from Nettime A British woman has become the first person to attempt to patent herself

New issue of Eric Margolis's Foreign Correspondent Deja reorganize's their Usenet newsgroup section by hierarchy> Fascism is alive and well: SANTIAGO, Chile - Gen. Augusto Pinochet's supporters set the stage Thursday for a colorful homecoming with flags and German marches as the former dictator flew back from 16 months in detention in Britain. And on my birthday, too. Ugh. As a follow up to the RAH to Dogma 2000 Comparison Page, here is Jack Keouac's "Technique For Modern Prose" as pointed to by Netdyslexia.> Britain Says Pinochet Can Go Home to Chile Happy Birthday to Me! I'm 24 today.> A Comparison of Robert Heinlein's Rules of Writing to Dogma 2000

In response to the recent flap over Amazon.com's patents, I've decided to no longer actively link to them for books. As a replacement I've chosen Powell's Books (http://www.powells.com). Powell's is a "click and mortar" business, with both an online division and huge physical presence (one square block building in downtown Portland, OR) that sells new and used books. As an added benefit, Powell's offers more ways to link to their collection. I can, for example, link to a book by the author:(Isabel Allende), or keyword: (latin america literature), or ISBN: (185242592X Roberto Arlt's The Seven Madmen, or Section: World Religions, or Subsection: Geography - Mapping and Cartography.> The 5K award: All HTML, script, image, style, and any other associated files must collectively total less than 5 kilobytes in size and be entirely self-contained (employing no server-side processing). Unofficial archive of Calvin Klein Ads The United States is the only country in the world to use lethal gas and electrocution as methods of execution from Amnesty International's "methods of execution worldwide" list via riotblog Catholic Church Handbook on Ethics in Advertising via riotblog

Study: 200,000 Hooked on Web Porn. via Drudge Report This prenup has a 19th century take on marriage> William Safire's grammatical rules The 1950's: starched collars, rolled umbrellas, ration books... and rampant sex Meet Mr. Etch A Sketch CIA and NSA team-up to create super secret: Special Collection Service whose role is to "give information on new means to overcome the difficulties encountered by interception operations caused by progress in encryption."> Of the Day Archives are working again. > Digital Fridge: a free online community for sharing digital photos and videos. My March 7, 2000 California Primary Positions

Talk about a convergence of old reference material and the new: Slashdot is the today's site of the day at Britannica.com.> Last night (Feb 27, 2000) I saw the improv troupe "Oui be Negros" perform with Stanford's "The Simps" at Stanford's Little Theater. Just a lark, but was anyone else there?> If public transport is going to acquire third-world standards, in a leaner and meaner privatised market, then we may as well embrace old-world pleasures. via Nettime.> In other Bird on a Wire related news, the Bird is accessible at www.birdonawire.org. Did I just miss this, or has it been like so forever?> Simpson's epsisodes are online. 203 out of the 241 are available. via Bird on a Wire

USC student films at atomfilms.com> Czech President Vaclav Havel told US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright that he would like her to replace him as President of the Czech Republic. via Drudge> #title "Dane Carlson's Very Old Archives"

New Echelon article in The Sunday Times Pinochet set to return to Chile via Sunday Times If the headline "Dewey beats Truman" were to come out today, you'd find out about it and other media mistakes at Slipup of the Day Man stranded at a Paris airport for more than a decade>

New York Times: Formerly censored US govt report on American deaths in Chile under Pinochet released. (Unforunately, you can see the bias: Henry Kissinger almost looks like the good guy.) Officers Acquitted in Diallo Case! A chill runs down my spine.> What is asdf? Born Magazine combines original literature and html in a pleasurable experience Zillions of Games: Windows 95/98 based "universal gaming engine" that allows you to play (or create) nearly any abstract board game or puzzle> Build your own in-car MP3 player (slow) How many words per day should a writer write?> an exploration of modern magical realism> Is your sight banned? via NetDyslexia Humor: Fox announces new "Marry a Whatever" show: "Who Wants to Marry a Staggering Genius?"

60 Minutes to broadcast Echelon story on Sunday.

America's puritanical fear of sex supports a teen pregnancy rate higher than the rates seen in France, Germany and Japan

New Art Bell ghost-to-ghost photos>

English translations of pre-war and World War 2 Nazi propaganda>

Shipping containers, and their analogous relationship to the Internet.

Disturbing legal tidbit from Salon: Only 15 states prosecute animal rape as a felony: Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina and Virginia.

While NASA officials don't categorically state that there has never been any sexual activity in space, they have consistently drawn a veil over public discussion of such questions

Humor: The lowest rated Jerry Spring episode ever

I am really getting addicted to reading the movie scripts at Drew's Scripts-o-Ramma.>

Wired on weblogging.> Just found this link to an interesting site on Gabriel Garcia Marquez, but then realized that Tracy at Ouch! had a link to it from her main page. Doh! We've got one humdinger of a storm outside now. The rain is shooting down at what looks like a thirty degree angle, small pieces of hail are crashing into my window too, and now the electrical power lines across the street have been hit by lightening. I didn't see the wires get hit, but I was on the telephone when suddenly the room filled with a bright light, and before I could even react a thunderclap like a ten-ton truck crashing into the ground reverberated through the house! All this, and I'm in central California! Give me earthquakes over this anyday!> Astronauts had sex on the American space shuttle - with the full blessing of NASA bosses. via Drudge The Matrix script After watching Annie Hall the other day, I realized that I was living a life just like Annie's family: away from all the Jews. Now that I've found YudelLine: One Jew's news and views, I don't feel like such a bumpkin anymore.> distributed.net suspended the ORG-24 project because of a bug in the code. (Damn, I hate wasting a week of computer time.) Clients that are currently working on OGR will revert back to RC5 the next time they connect to the network. via Slashdot Quicktime Mission to Mars movie trailer (I don't think that this has any major spoilers)> The March 2000 issue of Scientific American is chock full of articles dealing with travel to Mars: Why Go to Mars?, How to Go to Mars, The Mars Direct Plan, To Mars by Way of Its Moons and A Bus between the Planets. Many of the technical aspects of a human mission to Mars are detailed in this report at . Man, Vavatch Orbital really got me in a Mars mood.> Do you support the human exploration of Mars? If yes, sign The Mars Petition.