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2000	Oct 12	Rhetorica Professor Lanham's snazzy business. Good inspiration for Zairja.com.
2001	Apr 12	A Prisoner's Dictionary Prison words!
		A Theoretically Motivated Tool for Automatically Generating Command Aliases HCI/AI convergence - it figures out what you like to do, etc.
		ADWEEK.COM Big New Yorkish mag about my beloved, evil industry.
		ATT-Meta Project MENTAL METAPHOR DATABANK Metaphors of mind
		Adolf Hitler and Volkswagen Hitler designed the damn thing. Look and see.
		Adventure in Prolog The game “Adventure” written in Prolog - engine, logic, and NLP together.
		All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace Spooky Richard Brautigan cyberpoem.
		Anal Piercing Experience How to get a stud up in that bad place.
		Argus Center for Information Architecture General site for IA.
		Aziz Gokdemir's Archive Aziz Gokdemir is a tremendous writer.
		Batik SVG Toolkit Batik, Java SVG engine from Apache that interfaces with FOP.
		Bookstores in New York City (Manhattan) Fairly definitive and frequently updated list of Manhattan bookstores. Dover Books!
		C-SPAN.org Cable's gift to the ignorant populace.
		Celestial Grammar 1.3 Pornographic grammar; easy to remember.
		Chapter 1: Ergodic Literature Ergodic = RPGs and suchlike.
		Chronology of Artificial Intelligence History of AI in little blurby text.
		CoreLex Extension to Wordnet; can't remember exactly what it does.
		Creating Informal Looking Interfaces Sketched/drawn interface development and effects of the same.
		Culture Jammer's Encyclopedia Overall reference for culture-jamming types and hoaxsters.
		Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind - Chinese room Chinese Room defined.
		Disturbing Auctions Good for a laugh.
		Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) Basic metadata framework for adding meta-information to Web pages; dc: namespace.
		Electronic Activist Advocating for the separation of Church and State.
		English Literature: Early 17th Century (1603-1660) Graphics heavy but good content.
		Episodic writing Theory of screen narratives and others by Michael Stutz.
		Exquisite Corpse - A Journal of Letters and Life Lit and culture 'zine I promise myself to check out later.
		FAQ for comp.lang.functional Introduction and overview, with language descriptions, related to functional programming.
		FBI - Freedom of Information Act - Frank Sinatra Sinatra's FBI file - 2038 pages of Frank!
		Famous Curves Index Beautiful curves, so many beautiful curves.
		Horowitz's Notepad: Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Blacks is a Bad Idea for Blacks - and Racist Too Racist bullshit in its purest form.
		HotAIR - Rare and well-done tidbits from the Annals of Improbable Research Journal of Improbably Research
		Interconnected -I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons- Various topics, including the XMLish.
		Interfacing Annotea Via JavaScript JavaScript interface to JavaScript via W3C.
		Jason Hutchens Hutch! Behind Megahal, and then coworker at Ai. All-around Web/AI/Language fellow.
		LARRY HAUSER: Philosophy Resources, Etc. Hauser is very anti-Searle; neat stuff.
		LIBR.ORG Social-activist librarian's site.
		Left Business Observer Always interesting; one of those classic inside-print lefty zines from backwhen.
		Logical Pluralism \| Log Fascinating Weblog of research into logical pluralism, which I don't understand, but still, it's fascinating.
		MOVABLE TYPE :: Personal Publishing System Cool CM system.
		Making a Moral Corporation: Artificial Morality Applied Info on creating a corporation that doesn't fuck people.
		Middle of Nowhere by Brad Cox Synthesis site from former academic.
		New Scientist Alas, poor Hal, I knew him.
		New York City Department Of Health - EHS Rats We're Working Together How to deal with rats in your apartment. Keep the baby up.
		New York City Documents Handy city docs of various stripes.
		Ontology, Metadata, and Semiotics Useful advice from John Sowa.
		Orbis Romanus Atlas of the classical world.
		Part 4: Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence [565] Long bib of AI info.
		People with online papers in philosophy Many AI-related philosophical papers in the midst.
		Perl Contains the Lambda-Calculus Functional programming in Larry Wall's shitpile of language.
		Personal Ads: Flatulent British Gnome, Toothless, Not Seeking Romantic Sunsets Comparison between NYC and English personal ads.
		Pixbarn: Package Design, etc Odd trash bits and noise from the world of selling stuff, esp. food.
		Place and Zipcode file documentation Places and Zipcodes from the US census.
		Powers, Richard Richard Powers home page and caricature.
		Problems in Web Fiction Random thoughts on hypertext; old.
		Publications of David Mertz Pomo interpretations of tech, biology, and other factors.
		Re: xsl:key Handy advice for :key function.
		Richard Kennaway's Constructed Languages List Constructed languages, like Logsdsghhffu3-rh and Klurnggogn.
		SHOT Scholarship in the Humanities info.
		STS - The Society for Textual Scholarship Nothing could be uglier, visually, than this Web site.
		SWISH-E 2 So simple, so fast, so sweet. Indexes like a demon. What's not to like about SWISH?
		SemanticWeb.org General semantic Web stuff; biased towards business.
		Shielded from Justice: New York Problems with cops; plenty of evil included.
		Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric Nice rhetoric reference. Too bad language is so damn fuzzy. But still.
		Softpanorama: (slightly skeptical) Open Source Software Educational Society Great, general mental flea market from Nikolai Bezroukov.
		Substructural Logics They're weaker than regular logic, but strong on their own. Whoo!
		TNR Online \| Automatic Writing by Keith Gessen Digital writing info.
		Textism Consistently good, I say, and put-up regular-like.
		The Morning News Snazzy blog/zine from a bunch of folks, some of whom seem to be Brooklynites.
		The New York Times: Movies NYTimes current film reviews and links to most current movies.
		The Oxford Text Archive The long-surviving OTA, with etexts galore.
		The Practical Requirements for Making a Conscious Robot Harnad - symbol grounding, etc.
		The Story Machine Scott McCloud's very own zairjat.
		The Third Rail Online Magazine Good for Subway info.
		User Interface Engineering Big on Flash and similar technologies.
		Welcome to RDFWeb Home of FOAF and other techs...
		Wizard's Gay slang dictionary Throrough Gay slang dict; British emphasis if I remember.
		Wordnet 1.6 - WordNet One of many Web interfaces to Wordnet, but probably the best.
		World New York Classic Blog; great links always, or at least often.
		WriteTheWeb: news for web users who write back Infrequently updated Web-content Weblog.
		Writing a Business Plan Instructions on crafting your biz plan.
		Writings and Musings Bob Frankston's articles and essays.
		XSLT FAQ Dave Pawson's de-facto XSLT FAQ.
		XSLT Standard Library Dates, times, expressions, all in li'l XSLT. Bad idea? Good?
		Xanalogical Structure: Now More Than Ever Ted Nelson's latest wackiness; more thorough and quite interesting stuff, but hard to implement with a sluggish processor.
		Yiddish/Hebrew words Yiddish/Hebrew word list with defs. Handy.
		[ -- nDroid -- ] Couldn't be any friggin' cuter, could it?
		agonizer.com Outstanding crank zine.
		development economics Economics related to developing/new economies.
		forensic-linguistics discussion list Forensic linguistics listserv.
		i C S - INFORMATION, COMMUNICATION & SOCIETY Journal for data/culture dorks.
		sugar Holly's consistently funny blog.
		yourDictionary.com General words, thesaurus, etc.
	Oct 9	AlterNet -- All I Am Saying Is Give War a Chance Amusingly angry Michael Moore on American war in Afghanistan.
		Ted Nelson Interview w/BBC Crabby Ted Nelson Interview.
		The Anti-War Movement's Challenge Seems to sum up a big swath of the left.
	Oct 10	Bert in Bangladesh Bert of Bert and Ernie in a seriously weird, probably accidental media hack.
		Protege-2000: Home Page An ontology development tool in Java.
		RDF Interest Group IRC Scratchpad, last cranked at 2001-10-10 19:43 RDF interest group links, churned from IRC logs.
		The Foundation Center - Your gateway to philanthropy on the World Wide Web Getcher grants here.
		“get your war on” War Comix.
	Oct 11	An Informed Public Is the Greatest Weapon of Democracy Slightly boring article against secrecy.
		FOAF RDF Vocabulary: Schema version 0.1 Friend of a Friend RDF language
		PURL - Persistent URL Home Page Where URLS can stay safe forever.
		RDFWeb General Overview RDFWeb is a testbed initiative by some principal SemWeb folks.
		Red Rock Eater Digest - attack General Tech/Society links from 11 Oct 2001.
		Semantic Web Application Platform CWM home page from TBL.
		Uprizer Interesting Web company found on RDFig weblog.
	Oct 12	Even in the Ruins, Race Matters Looting, racism part of the WTC cleanup.
		Fop XSL formatting objects processor written in Java - can't handle turning all of Ftrain to PDF, though.
		Mark Twain on War and Imperialism Twain's writings against U.S. Imperialist policies. We should have listened.
		Summary of John W. Kaye's History of the War in Afghanistan by Frederick Engels Afghanistan and imperialism in the 1800s.
		US Department of State - Home Page The official word from the men in charge.
		USC/ISI - DAML WebScripter Project Integrating SemWeb stuff into spreadsheets, etc.
	Oct 13	A Real-Time CSound Orchestra Further work in RTSound manipulation by Csound.
		Mapping the Web Infome Making pretty maps of the Infobahn
		Schnackertronics Real time looping/phase shifter programmed in Csound (with interface).
		The war over the narrative Weird doublethink from the land of milk, honey, and men named Uzi.
		Waiting for the barbarians USA vs Roman Empire.
	Oct 14	Amazon.com: buying info: I Had a Frightmare! Pile-on on Bill Keane at Amazon.
		Cartoonists Struggle With Patriotism, Terror Attacks Aaron McGruder's been shackled by the man. (Unfair and stupid newspaper reaction.)
		DEVIN'S ART PAGE Devin Esch is a 5 year old girl with a rockin' Web site.
		Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc. Cranky, cranky athiests. But dammit, they're right!
		How do we justify, sell, and measure IA and usability? A few things to think about re: selling the stuff; useful.
		Noise Between Stations weblog Neat blog by an IA; links to me, but I respect it anyway.
		Parsons Information Architecture course syllabus Information architecture course at Parsons.
		Strange Connections -- Information Architecture Archive of past articles by Peter Morville on this spanking new discipline. Spanking! Via Noise Between Stations.
	Oct 15	Aphthonius Progymnasmata Translation of a progymnasmata guidebook.
		Beyond the Web: Electronic Texts for the 21st Century Panel to discuss the future of text w/emphasis on humanities research.
		FIPA RDF Content Language Specification Intelligent Agent specifications in RDF.
		Ghurkas Screwed by the Man The legendary Ghurkas, an elite Nepalese fighting force who fight for Britain, receive crap wages and lousy benefits.
		High-Tech Cardboard Boxes Used In Afghan Food Airdrops The mechanics of dropping food from an airplane.
		IBN KHALDUN - His Life and Work Khaldun - nifty medieval social theorist, wrote the Prolegomena.
		Men loading 1000lb bombs Impressionistic image of men loading 1000 pound bombs onto planes on the USS Carl Vinson. Oddly, I've stood on the Vinson's flight deck.
		Mil. Photographer of Year Competition Winners of Military photo competition. Some lovely, some sad, some very normal.
		Photographs of Signs Enforcing Racial Discrimination Pictures of water fountains, hotels, and restaurants from America during the depression.
		R. Keith Sawyer's Home Page Academic researcher (but very readable) who is studying improvisation in social narratives from a cognitive perspective, among other things.
		The Journal of Mundane Behavior Fantastic scholarly journal of everyday life; articles on “The Improvisation of Everyday Life” among other topics.
		Umberto Eco: The Roots of Conflict Thoughtful Eco on the conflict, from Counterpunch.
		progymnasmata 14 classical writing exercises.
	Oct 16	Ken Alibek: For the Biodefense Today, Alibek works for antidotes to germ warfare at Hadron, Inc, but he used to work manufacturing germs for the Soviets.
		Loebner 2001 Photos The Loebner is over! A.L.I.C.E. won.
		The Suda On Line (SOL) Massive dictionary from the Byzantine era, now being translated to the Web.
	Oct 17	Inside.com and Brill's Content to Close -- This Time We Really Mean It Sheer bitterness. ``Thirty-eight people, including the author of this story, lost their jobs.''
	Oct 18	A Smarter Web Middling-quality overview of the SemWeb from Mark Frauenfelder.
		RDF Interest Group IRC Scratchpad Funny criticism of the Fraunfelder article, by epistemology rock star Bijan Parsia.
		Search Engine Positioning: Link popularity and the Bowtie Theory The Bowtie theory of Web site relevance.
		Thoughts on Total Coverage Jim Esch on ambiguous war emotions.
	Oct 21	The Fortyfour, Inc. Neat DIY folks in Jersey - bands, blogs, bits.
	Oct 24	Celebrity Magnet Jim Esch writes a great article on Martin Guitars, a company with at least a smattering of ethics.
		Emacs at Freshmeat New version of EMACS! A reason for joy in this Godless world.
	Oct 25	American Translators Association Translation Services Directory Search Find a translator (and a translator's Web site) by language.
		The Glenn Gould Archive A collection of Gould resources.
	Oct 26	Business Model for the Semnatic Web - Design Issues Tim Berners-Lee on the Business Possibilities of the Semantic Web.
	Oct 28	Colin Powell Not Smiling He's clearly not having a good enough time.
		IAwiki: DeliverablesAndArtifacts Wiki page describing Information Architecture deliverables.
	Oct 29	Sentient Computing Project Home Page ``What could we do if computer programs could see a model of the world? By acting within the world, we would be interacting with programs via the model. It would seem to us as though the whole world were a user interface.''
		VNC - Virtual Network Computing from AT&T Laboratories Cambridge Open-source tool that allows you to view any desktop from another - Mac, Windows, Unix.
	Oct 30	A Movie Theater Marquee Someone probably got fired for that...
	Oct 31	ICP : Games : Fact Party Fact Party! I want to play.
		Language Toy An online word-muncher.
		List of Prepositions Nice long list of prepositions.
		Stuttercut Stuttercut, if it comes back, will be sweet.
		Wiiski: User.WebHome Cool new Wiki approach; integrates chat and other features.
	Nov 1	After 8 Years, U.S. Economy Finally Falters ``The recession has begun,''
		The Devil and Sonny Liston Kendall Clark wants me to read this book. He says it's the sort of book Norman Mailer would write, if he could write.
	Nov 2	AROS: Analysis, Reasoning and Optimisation based on Semantics Interesting research lab in Denmark fiddling around with various semantic/logical strategies.
		Dismal Scientist Layoff Calculator Find out your chances of being fired. (Via Jim).
		Power Tower Jim Esch on his love for the Amiga, and the waiting and sadness entailed thereof.
	Nov 4	Stuttercut Stuttercut came back. Sweet!
	Nov 5	See the World, One Personal URL at a Time ``Personal Web sites have even evolved their own genre of writing: the rant.'' Please kill me.
	Nov 6	Brokentype Ali Handro has unique brilliance; the story of his lawn is told with style and wit.
	Nov 7	A List Apart: The Narrative Web Mark Bernstein on e-narrative.
	Nov 8	Jim Crow on Fraternity Row Fraternities in blackface. Completely disgusting. Meet the new south, same as the old south.
	Nov 12	Narrative Technologies Blog by Jeremy Bushnell.
	Nov 13	The Learning Machine Web Learning machines! Machines that learn! And think! And do!
	Nov 14	How Dare They - While we have our hands on our hearts, they're trying to pick our pockets! Overview and analysis of war profiteering by big conglomerates.
		net.narrative environments Net Narrative Environments. Sweet-seemin' 'blog.
	Nov 19	A Logical Mnemonic for Calendaring and Scheduling How to build calendars and schedules using var SemWeb techs.
		The RDF Query Language (RQL) SQL for RDF.
	Nov 20	The Foreign Policy Therapist Wallace Shawn writes the Foreign Policy Therapist, as America.
	Nov 25	The Jakarta Site - The Jakarta Project More and more it looks like Java is the way to go for building big Web sites - toolkits like JSP, Ant, Lucene, and Tomcat seem to hold together with fewer seems than comparable CGI solutions.
		lfs.nl A site to take to a desert island, filled with things that move when you touch them. There's much there, but overall it feels unfinished, which is wonderful - it gives you the sense of more to come, of gaps to be filled and new ideas to come in to round out the edges. Any Web site that feels complete and finished, I think, especially this early in the Web's history, has set its sights too low.
	Nov 26	A Model of the Semantic Web Value Chain Biz+SemWeb.
	Nov 30	U. of I. teaching assistants walk out Go grad students! Unionize! Unionize!
	Dec 2	Telling A Story John Udell of Byte.com on Web Narrative.
	Dec 4	Christopher G. Healey Neat data-visualization techs from NCSU professor. Your tax dollars at work!
		History Assisted Navigation Ways to sort and structure the Web-browser's “history” file to make it more accessible and useful.
		Semantic Web Conference Semantic Web conference is going to be held in 2002 in Sardinia, Italy, the hotbed of Semantic Web development.
		The Moral Life of Geeks A previously unseen Kendall Clark on the moral questions geeks face in choosing their work.
	Dec 5	Monkeyfist.com: Our Monkey, Your Fist Monkeyfist relaunches and it's lookin FINE.
	Dec 6	SWWS Final Report Semantic Web conference proceedings - scan down (12 meg PDF!)
	Dec 7	Open Lending Database Project Neat code for sharing information as to what you own, so that you might lend it to others.
	Dec 8	AlterNet -- Israel in 600 Words or Less Summary of how Israel goes.
		When Voice Recognition Leads to Bias Racism in action: sound Black on the realtor's answering machine, and they won't take your call. Sound white and they call back right away. Fuck fuck fuck fuck.
	Dec 13	Art's Theremin Page Thereminmania!
		MCV1a Theremin Midi/CV Interface MIDI interface to Theramins.
	Dec 18	6 Year Old Girl Sjambokked to Death A sjambok is a kind of heavy whip.
	Dec 22	Genesis Prelude Jim Esch on Mike Rhombus' prog-rock attempts.
	Dec 24	Wasis Diop Senegalese/Parisian musician; looks worthy of some outlay for albums.
	Dec 27	The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster E.M. Forster techno-critical sci-fi short story from 1909.
	Dec 28	WordsEye WordsEye converts sentences to pictures. Type: “John stands on the floor and gives the tree to Mary.” WordsEye creates an image.
	Dec 29	CamRants: The I Have a Big Dick Awards Cameron Barrett says “go fuck yourself, Mr. Winer.”
2002	Jan 1	DIVIDE BY ZERO Cute and cool fonts from a young font designer, all free.
	Jan 2	Coliseum Books ...is closing. One of the best New York bookstores, soon to be gone.
	Jan 3	Quotes from Hollywood Squares with Paul Lynde Peter Marshall: The Atlantic Ocean is the major body of water on Africa's west coast. What major body lies off Africa's east coast? Paul Lynde: Ex-president Mobutu.
	Jan 4	A Little Parrot Humor A collection of bad parrot jokes.
		Buddy, Socks's Nemesis, Is Dead Buddy, the best thing about the Clinton administration, was hit by a car.
		Data and Reality [Excerpts] A programmer looks at the relationship between data the real world itself.
	Jan 10	Toward a Theory of Interactive Fiction Interactive Fiction, looked upon all serious-like.
	Jan 16	whygodwhy/2001 08 20 “Acre for acre you're talking the same amount of zombies.”
	Jan 17	Song, by Ezra Pound Sing Goddamm! Goddamm!
	Jan 28	One Week Later Jim Esch is feeling under the weather in more ways than one, and does something fine with it.
		Statistics Every Writer Should Know Within a margin of error, what's a median mean?
	Jan 30	Julia A. Moore, “Sketch of Lord Byron's Life” I feel that this is perhaps the finest poem ever written in the English Language.
	Jan 31	Attorney General: “America Must Cease to be a Lurid Statuary of Deviant Sex” - WHITEHOUSE.ORG It's the picture that gets me.
	Feb 5	Fabulous Baker Boy Why Dean Baker is the best economics commentator out there, by a former economics professor. Dean Baker has a Terkel rating of .91.
		Lester Bangs on “Astral Weeks” Brilliant Bangs' meandering, implicitly Lorca-comparing essay on Astral Weeks, which is the best album on Sundays.
		Matewan Birthday Cake The Matewan Massacre of 1920: now in tasty cake form.
		Monkeyfist Celebrates Black History Month It's BHM over at MonkeyFist. How are you celebrating?
		To a Young Child, by Gerard Manley Hopkins It's bouncy hokum, but I love it.
	Feb 7	Armenian National Institute Resources on the Armenian Genocide.
	Feb 11	Dick Cheney on his way to meet with the GAO Or maybe it's something with a birthday cake.
		Jutes, Angles and Saxons Background on the Jutes, Angles, and Saxons.
	Feb 14	Author blasts firms for hostile practices Good article on Jill Fraser, who spoke in West Chester, PA critiquing corporate management practices. By Jim Esch.
	Feb 15	obscura: advice: 000529 I asked for advice in 2000, and received it. The images are beautiful.
	Feb 16	Otherkin FAQ v 4.0 Beta (1/6/01) “A good example is: Are all elves physically or energetically sensitive to metal/iron? No. But perhaps as much as 30% or so are. It certainly seems to be a trend.”
	Feb 18	18 Feb 2002 Poignant, strong personal narrative about a socially lost classmate, by Dervala Hanley.
		Humiliating Events 1 Ali Handro writes on love, frisbees, and dog shit, and the reader squirms and shivers.
		Humiliating Events 2 Ali Handro on a cabbage patch doll and a moment of terror. Excellent as usual.
		The time has come to talk of many things... Scroll to 09 January - “Tomorrow I go in front of the judge, again.” Excellent personal narrative about alcoholism. Recommended to me by Leslie./
	Feb 19	Cheap Zoo - Satisfaction Maybe An extremly inexpensive animal experience.
		Mike & Jill Mike and Jill are friends. Nothing naughty, just friends. They are also bears.
	Feb 20	The Pitt News - Hard-shelled A CMU student is living for 3 months in a house he built in silence dressed as a lobster attached to an umbilical cord doing exercises and blowing on a horn. See pictures.
		whygodwhy: “Things I would say to Paul Ford if he was the receptionist in my office.” Hmm. It's #6 that bugs me the most. Do I parry, or pretend not to have heard?
	Feb 21	The Bark Unleashed: The Bark Web Site Dog is my copilot! A Web site for people who have the dog problem. Like me. I have the dog problem.
	Feb 23	Angie With Santa A Boston Terrier with an amazing face. An unhappy-looking Santa.
		Literacy Assistance Center: How to get involved New York Literary Assistance center.
	Feb 24	Pundits on Fire in Hell A very kind reader recently sent me the audio file that went with this piece; I thought it was lost forever. Classic Ftrain Scott Rahin/Paul Ford interaction, resurrected from the digital graveyard, plus hardcore trombone fury.
		Stuff: Broken Jokes Jokes without the humor, for comic effect.
	Feb 25	pseudodictionary This site is epic and perfect; I discovered it because its founder sent me a poem for the Ftrain poetry anthology. Example: “dot-com boyfriend/girlfriend - A sexual or romantic partner who requires a high level of investment, on which you will never see any return.” Stunning fun for word goofs.
	Feb 27	Colours of Resistance Bringing together anti-racism and anti-globalization into a good package.
	Feb 28	ErnieFord.com! Load 16 tons and what do you get? I'm sure he sang other songs, but that was more than enough.
		My Home Town - Tom Lehrer “I remember Sam, he was the village idiot/And though it seems a pity, it/Was so/He loved to burn down houses just to /watch the glow/And nothing could be done/Because he was the mayor's son”
		National Brotherhood Week - Tom Lehrer “Oh, the white folks hate the black folks/And the black folks hate the white folks/To hate all but the right folks/Is an old established rule.” God in heaven, please send a new Tom Lehrer.
		Ryokan The story of Ryokan.
		Ryokan: Zen Poet Ryokan was a Zen monk. He wrote love poems to Teishin.
		You've Got To Be Carefully Taught Oscar and Hammerstein song. “You've got to be taught how to hate and fear.” Via Plurp.
	Mar 1	Alternatives to Corporate Globalization There's more than one way to do it. From Philly Indymedia.
		Princess Superstar's Lyrics for Princess Superstar Is It's “Bad Babysitter,” Without a question.