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From Afghanistan 7 [Scott Carrier]
It will take a long time, maybe forever, to make this place look even as good as Tashkent, and then it will still suck. Naji just looks at the ground and kicks a brick and says, “Shit.”
Ned in Boston and other Friday confusions
It is friday. And I am hung-over. Here are some random and interesting-looking things that people with reasonable bandwidth might be able to enjoy: Ned in Boston The Beaver Trilogy East L.A. Gangster Musical
Bellybuttons in space and time
Wading through a sea of generic academicese as I try to find some useful stats on computer and internet access in the South Pacific, this one takes the cake: On the Internet Thinking in Action, By Hubert L. Dreyfus Published in 2001, this 144-page book uses philosophical analysis to explore questions such as whether the [...]
Another attractive web font
More Sexy CSS from In These Times, this time the fashionable Georgia: .storytitle { font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; font-family: Georgia, “Times New Roman”, Times, serif; line-height: 18px }
nice fat arial
Just spotted another instance of damn fine arial. This one looks best with Opera’s tight kerns: Good Fela from In These Times – Good Fela
Interesting physics speak, with .mov!
I don’t know what the Evolution of the tinkerbell chaotic attractor or the Rotating Lorenz Attractor are, but they sure got funny names!
This is not webactivism
I often feel guilty that this blog doesn’t live up to its url. Then I think that it’s my blog I can fart if I want to and decide that if anyone has anything better to do with it, they can contact me. Elegant hack has clearly wrestled with their blog’s identity as well, and [...]
Archival Database Saved by Hackers
Archival Database Saved by Hackers
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A script that looks for the word “copyright” and then proceeds to build a page reassembled from the images and text on that page. If the website was anti-copyright, they probably want their words to be spread; if not, then they deserve to be teased as such.