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11:41:25
I'm doing this update remotely from Birmingham. Last night I had the slightly
surreal experience of standing talking to Marvin Minsky and then turning round
and talking to David Lodge. (Possibly slightly less surreal when you learn that
David Lodge's newest book is about a cognitive scientist...)
11:39:05
RIP Edward Gorey
12:02:41
I will now vanish for a while more.
11:53:27
I got this bizarre spam message about becoming a Hindu (if I were an Indian
that is) that pointed me to the New
Jerusalem Church website as an example of what indians have to resist.
These people (apart from being clearly mad) have pages and pages listing all
the awards that thir (horrible) website has received. The head of this
organization refers to himself (it is bound to be a him!) as " Chief
Apostle.N.Lazar". The Hinud message also pointed me to this site of Hindu Links and to hindu.org.
11:23:39
Here's a page based
on the Kokigami book. (N.B. not for the prudish) Searching for kokigami
at google turns up all kinds of strange things. Like this anti-masturbation page.
I assume it is meant satirically, but one can never be sure. I am actually now
officially confused as there seem to be several people out there who believe
that kokigami is genuine, whereas it seemed to me that it was an entirely bogus
art that the authors of the book and invented. You can always take the purity test for people
with large vocabularies.
11:12:18
Back (briefly). The PPIG meeting was most
excellent, though there were various infelicities in the travel arrangements. I
have missed a whole weeks world events and my family failed to record the
Strangerers on Tuesday night. *sigh* I hope I can pick up the repeat whenever
that is.
14:41:16
Some rather nice pen
nibs.
13:45:53
Great Pico Iyer piece in
Prospect. Most of his books
are well worth reading (though the one about Cuba I didn't like). He seems to
have a new book out in the USA which looks as though it
might be good. Most of the other stuff seems to be out of print.
13:16:39
Virtual Speech
Therapy over the Internet.
13:12:36
The Camion Code -
a new fonetik writing system
12:23:04
Update swill be sporadic (or non-existent) for the next couple of weeks. Next
week I am attending the PPIG 2000 workshop and the
week after that I am at AISB in Birmingham.
12:14:59
Conjure
& Gris Gris
12:09:49
Excellent piece on Fortean
beliefs and anti-rationalism.
10:29:21
Hmmm, nobody seems to have registered piz.za.
10:14:24
Yay, a new Ghost Sites.
10:08:40
My Hawaian name appears
to be Linake. I bet that's a girl's name. (Thanks alice)
09:39:53
Jazz++ midi
sequencer for Linux and Windows. Open Source.
09:36:13
The Piano on the Net site I mentioned before is really excellent: well
designed, easy to use, clear. Great stuff.
09:20:43
Some gems from today's Guardian:
The Sperm Bank of California, Piano on the Net - multimedia piano lessons, Worldskip - information about the world, and the Interactive Model Railway - one day soon we'll have our department's model railway on the web too.
15:51:14
Science made stupid. The tables and charts are especially
useful.
15:49:38
What is the Probert Encyclopaedia? I found this mirror of it in Poland of all
places.
15:43:16
Spiritsong - Find your own way to
Higher-Self development
15:42:15
Light Mission - only those seeking
to be blinded by horrible colours, vile animations and other nasties need enter
here.
15:40:09
Sun magazine - noPage 3 girls
then?
15:34:51
Sufis
14:30:40
Excellent article about the
US economy in The Nation. (Thanks rash)
11:30:04
Myers-Briggs applied to networks
by David Strom
11:15:14
MyLackey - yet another case for
mandatory regional domain naming.
15:25:06
Just trying Netscape 6 preview release - some of the rendering is pretty
broken, but it is astonishingly fast. Looks good for a finished version.
15:11:27
CD on a Tesla coil.
12:40:44
The American Diner Museum.
12:40:27
Some great US roadside signs.
12:37:16
"Wacky Hospitality Sites"
The word wacky always makes me nervous.
12:34:32
Motel Signs of the
South West.
12:25:44
A whole site about the Who.
12:05:16
Garbology : Odd (not what I was looking
for either - actually it was...)
11:58:18
Meet the staff of the Hotel California. I wonder
which one stops you leaving after you check-out. Probably the dog. (And
certainly not the link I had in here by mistake if you saw it - thanks
Paul!)
09:40:19
I like these Japanes emoticons. (via gmtPlus9)
09:15:06
Cavies Galore - a cavy community.
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