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June 3, 2004

A totally audacious project! Mobilivre tours the North American continent with a mobile museum of handmade books. I saw them as they passed through Somerville, MA and read some neat stuff. A little museum of books in an Airstream trailer hauled by a van. And wasn't all book distribution sort of like that once upon a time? William Blake was the first zinester.

May 26, 2004

More people trying to comprehend the Libertarians

A collection of critiques of libertarianism written and gathered by Mike Huben at his site contains lots of important ideas.

And by the way I am reading the aforementioned Paulina Borsook's book, and I am dissappointed to find it so sloppy and fuzzy! A necessary book, it fills a vacuum. But not quite as well as I wish it did.

May 3, 2004

Greetings from my shrubbyhole in
Cockermouthwickermouthwestauckleybridgeonwye


The above exotic words came from a program I have that generates random words. It was my brilliant idea to use names of English towns as the source text.

December 10, 2003

Yes, I'm still here. Sorry I've been neglecting you, dear reader.

One important question I have been aware of since the seventies and the rest of the world is waking up to: why are there so many libertarian computer programmers? I was pleased to find another perspective on this at this site.

October 9, 2003

The guest blogger on one of my favorite sites, boingboing.net, on the right side, scroll down, writes about the game of Lemmings. That's the game where you herd your flock of lemmings from one island to the other by giving them jobs such as tunneling, directing traffic, etc., and try for a minimum of attrition by drowning etc. on the way. Well, he says there are Satanic symbols in the game of Lemmings, which I did not know.

Well, I notice that in Lemmings, you have to find work for idle hands, you have to take the hindmost, they're caught between you and the deep blue sea, and you may care. Therefore, in Lemmings, you ARE the devil.


September 23, 2003

An amazing never-ending webcomic serial: A Miracle of Science is cleverly scripted, lovingly drawn, and probably didn't cost as much to make as Star Wars. The story's been going on for months, and hasn't run out of gas yet. The thing they need to watch, though is that they're doing a serial, not a comic book, and in a serial each page needs to advance the plot by a more or less equally satisfying amount. In a comic book you can dedicate a whole page to a glorious explosion, but if you're showing only one page per episode, such a page is less satisfying as a daily dose.

September 10, 2003

Here is a Spell to Free Onesself from Excessive Computer Enchantment , in case you need one.


September 9, 2003

The Subgenius Brag Generator says it's a lot of things but it's really a random sentence generator.


With a stroke of the wrong button, I have just lost months of webloggery. **Whaaa** Well, I will just have to rethink the way I do things. So I start fresh on Sep. 9

{Actually I was able to recover it. See below.]

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