New Scientist Breaking News – Maximum pain is aim of new US weapon: “I am deeply concerned about the ethical aspects of this research,” says Andrew Rice, a consultant in pain medicine at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London, UK. “Even if the use of temporary severe pain can be justified as a restraining measure, […]

The Decembrist: How Social Security Phase-Out Makes Republicans: Now, there is another way that Social Security privatization could create Republicans, and I think this is actually closer to what’s on the mind of the less utopian strategists. (That is, those not named “Gingrich” or “Kemp.”) It’s the negative: they believe Social Security creates Democrats, by […]

Wallace and Gromit Ride Again: Wallace and Gromit have a movie coming out this fall, The Curse of the WereRabbit! There’s a trailer and also a short about the making of the movie accessible via clicking “video” at this site. The short is spoiled by some pretty dorky narration, but it will interest true fans. […]

i put the new website up today… Association of Internet Researchers

F3ll0wsh1p of teh R1ng : Merry: “OMG!!!” Sam: “O.M.G!!!11” Pippin: “***” Frodo has left the server **head nazgul stabs Frodo’s ghost Frodo has connected to the server Frodo: “***… hax!” **Aragorn lraps into the fray with a flaming brand Aragorn: “PH34r!!!!!!” Merry: “LOLOL flamed! ”

popugai: soviet animation….

Memememe: A fun meme, from Philobiblon Via http://littleprofessor.typepad.com/the_little_professor/2005/02/memememe.html: “which authors have you read more than ten books by?” (Obviously, this presumes extremely productive authors.) ———— This could take some time…. Theory and Philosophy Jean Baudrillard Pierre Bourdieu Deleuze/Guattari Michel Foucault Plato Paul Virilio (I could probably list Aristotle, and a bunch of other ancients here […]

<a href=”http://www.asia-oss.org/march2005/china_oss_week.html”>china oss week</a> ———– interesting.

MilkandCookies – Channel Four 17 15 16 21: interesting…. i wonder what the policy goal is…

real life vs internet (it’s meant to be funny but it’s so true) – video: ——- i’ve posted this before, but it is always good to review the differences.