] If someone like Karl Rove had wanted to
] neutralize the most creative, intelligent, and
] passionate members of his opposition, he'd have a
] hard time coming up with a better tool than
] Burning Man. Exile them to the wilderness, give
] them a culture in which alpha status requires
] months of focus and resource-consumptive
] preparation, provide them with metric tons of
] psychotropic confusicants, and then... ignore
] them. It's a pretty safe bet that they won't be
] out registering voters, or doing anything that
] might actually threaten electoral change, when
] they have an art car to build.

No one has ever expressed my thoughts on burning man more accurately.

[BarlowFriendz] 9.8: Spectacles in the Desert

Seems a strange thing to put in Taipei, and I can't exactly explain why. Seems too pretentious for them. However, I've always been fascinated with tall buildings. I think I was brainwashed with pictures of the CN tower when I was a kid.

Taipei 101, Taipei

] Since the earliest research into the the English Language
] as spoken in North America was begun by Noah Webster in
] the early 18th century, the regional variations in
] dialect have always been the most challenging and
] difficult to explain field. Since the development of
] carbonated beverage in 1886, one of linguistic
] geography's most important and least investigated
] phenomena has been the sharp regional divisions in the
] use of the terms "pop" and "soda." Due to the domination
] of hard-line conservative lingusitic geographers in such
] leading institutions such as Harvard, Yale, Stanford and
] the University of the West Indies, this dilemma has been
] swept under the rug . . . until now. Using the new
] technologies of the Internet and the World Wide Web, I
] and my colleagues at the California Institute of
] Technology and Lewis & Clark College are undertaking a
] bold new research into this fascinating area.

I memed the dialect survey at the bottom of this page a few months ago (search memestreams for dialect). I wonder is there is any relationship between the term "bog rolling" and the term "blog rolling."

The Pop vs. Soda Page

Lynksys has released the source for the software in one of their more recent 802.11g AP/Router models.

Linksys: GPL Code for WRT54G AP/Router

] This amazing image is included in the standard US
] Department of Defense briefings on North Korea. It was
] mentioned in a news briefing on 23 December 2002 by
] Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, who stated that "If you look
] at a picture from the sky of the Korean Peninsula at
] night, South Korea is filled with lights and energy and
] vitality and a booming economy; North Korea is dark."

North Korea Is Dark

] Mencal is a simple variation of the well-known unix
] command cal. The main difference is that you can have
] some periodically repeating days highlighted in color.
] This can be used to track menstruation (or other) cycles
] conveniently.

OK, this is just too off the wall not to recommend!

Menstruation calendar

Santa getting taken out Sept 11th style.

santa2.jpg (JPEG Image, 576x432 pixels)

"There was a comment made to one of my officers about his hope to make a smiley face when he was all finished," Pershing County Sheriff Ron Skinner said.

Bomber planned to make 'smiley face'

World authorities allowed, and still allow you to fear death!

The complete mad-bomber note

Links to various webcasts like NASA TV, the Shuttle Spaceflight coverage, and the Kennedy Space Center video feeds.

NASA Webcast Central