New weblog I'm reading today: Vavatch Orbital run by Adrian Hon (no email address available on site). He and I need to get together and talk Mars colonization. University of California Berkeley team gets algae to turn sunlight into large quantities of hydrogen gas (via Slashdot). Finally, an easily renewable source oh hydrogen. Can we cut back on the petroleum now?> University of California Berkeley team gets algae to turn sunlight into large quantities of hydrogen gas (via Slashdot). Finally, an easily renewable source oh hydrogen. Can we cut back on the petroleum now?> C-SPAN's Survey of Presidential Leadership is out. Everyone has heard that Clinton was 41st out of 41 in Moral Authority, but James Buchanan's average score in all ten categories was 39.9! Zoetrope All-Stories is reviewed by Salon.com and called "Hissy fit now" via Ouch! Zoetrope's egalitarian offspring: Author, Author Paul Theroux has a new book, Fresh-Air Fiend (detailing some 50 journeys in every continent) [amazon] [article] [another] [review] Great writers leave behind great correspondence

Steven Spielberg set to announce next project: Minority Report [imdb] [aint-it-cool] Guide to Cascading Style Sheets

movie presidents that have gone through hell for your country > The University of Virginia's The Religious Movements Homepage The Maoist Documentation Project The internet is not the first invention that's had people saying we'll all turn into loners; first there was bread, plumbing, movable type, the piano, and the vaccination. [Humorous]> Dave updated the Weblogs.com ads page to show a summary and averages because of a post I made to the weblogs mailing list (weblogs@egroups.com).

I'm a script-reading mood: The Sweet Hereafter and Trainspotting Apple's Quicktime movie trailer library

omradecay aneday (Comrade Dane in pig latin) via Annie Hall script> Austin Powers 2 - The Spy Who Shagged Me script, second draft. There were some changes. Fun read if you liked the movie.> Lisa's Whatever Girl is almost ready> David Chess reprinted some of my bread loving prose, without realizing that it was from me. Here's the portion that he reprinted: "i love bread. not the bread that you buy in a store, but the bread that you make at home. that warm gooey sensation... ">

As for kissing on the first date, you should never date someone whom you would not wish to kiss immediately. Garrison Keillor, Salon Magazine The Notebooks of Lazarus Long So yeah, we could fit all of earth's population into Texas comfortably, if your idea of comfort is New York City. World Population in perspective via Camworld Ask Jeeves "What's the meaning of life?" via Backup Brain :) to Dori Combination padlock cracker via Counterpane's Crypto-Gram>

No, I'm not a communist. I'm voting for Harry Browne for President. In the primaries, though, I haven't decided yet who to vote for...

Google is in Valentine's Day mode!> Neruda translates much better into English, with his playfulness and plainspokenness, than Lorca, with his reliance on the blood-pulse and the rhythms of Spanish to enchant his readers, in On being a translated writer It is worth asking why, if we are such devoutly omnivorous creatures, we have so many food taboos. Drinking, Smoking, Gambling, Eating, Fashion, Sex, Credit: The Seven Vices of Highly Creative People

Its this sort of thing that makes me want to go back to having the Badgovt weblog. The Seattle Police Department's WTO riot "suspects". Ugh.>

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