2001

DIVIDE BY ZERO

Cute and cool fonts from a young font designer, all free.

CamRants: The I Have a Big Dick Awards

Cameron Barrett says “go fuck yourself, Mr. Winer.

WordsEye

WordsEye converts sentences to pictures. Type: “John stands on the floor and gives the tree to Mary.

The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster

E. M.

Wasis Diop

Senegalese/Parisian musician; looks worthy of some outlay for albums.

Genesis Prelude

Jim Esch on Mike Rhombus' prog-rock attempts.

6 Year Old Girl Sjambokked to Death

A sjambok is a kind of heavy whip.

Art's Theremin Page

Thereminmania!

MCV1a Theremin Midi/CV Interface

MIDI interface to Theramins.

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.

Open Lending Database Project

Neat code for sharing information as to what you own, so that you might lend it to others.

SWWS Final Report

Semantic Web conference proceedings - scan down (12 meg PDF!

Monkeyfist.com: Our Monkey, Your Fist

Monkeyfist relaunches and it's lookin FINE.

Christopher G. Healey

Neat data-visualization techs from NCSU professor. Your tax dollars at work!

The Moral Life of Geeks

A previously unseen Kendall Clark on the moral questions geeks face in choosing their work.

Semantic Web Conference

Semantic Web conference is going to be held in 2002 in Sardinia, Italy, the hotbed of Semantic Web development.

History Assisted Navigation

Ways to sort and structure the Web-browser's “history” file to make it more accessible and useful.

Telling A Story

John Udell of Byte. com on Web Narrative.

U. of I. teaching assistants walk out

Go grad students! Unionize!

A Model of the Semantic Web Value Chain

Biz+SemWeb.

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.

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.

The Foreign Policy Therapist

Wallace Shawn writes the Foreign Policy Therapist, as America.

The RDF Query Language (RQL)

SQL for RDF.

A Logical Mnemonic for Calendaring and Scheduling

How to build calendars and schedules using var SemWeb techs.

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.

The Learning Machine Web

Learning machines! Machines that learn!

Narrative Technologies

Blog by Jeremy Bushnell.

Jim Crow on Fraternity Row

Fraternities in blackface. Completely disgusting.

A List Apart: The Narrative Web

Mark Bernstein on e-narrative.

Brokentype

Ali Handro has unique brilliance; the story of his lawn is told with style and wit.

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.

Stuttercut

Stuttercut came back. Sweet!

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.

AROS: Analysis, Reasoning and Optimisation based on Semantics

Interesting research lab in Denmark fiddling around with various semantic/logical strategies.

After 8 Years, U.S. Economy Finally Falters

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.

Language Toy

An online word-muncher.

Stuttercut

Stuttercut, if it comes back, will be sweet.

ICP : Games : Fact Party

Fact Party! I want to play.

List of Prepositions

Nice long list of prepositions.

Wiiski: User.WebHome

Cool new Wiki approach; integrates chat and other features.

A Movie Theater Marquee

Someone probably got fired for that...

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.

VNC - Virtual Network Computing from AT&T Laboratories Cambridge

Open-source tool that allows you to view any desktop from another - Mac, Windows, Unix.

Colin Powell Not Smiling

He's clearly not having a good enough time.

IAwiki: DeliverablesAndArtifacts

Wiki page describing Information Architecture deliverables.

Business Model for the Semnatic Web - Design Issues

Tim Berners-Lee on the Business Possibilities of the Semantic Web.

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.

Emacs at Freshmeat

New version of EMACS! A reason for joy in this Godless world.

Celebrity Magnet

Jim Esch writes a great article on Martin Guitars, a company with at least a smattering of ethics.

The Fortyfour, Inc.

Neat DIY folks in Jersey - bands, blogs, bits.

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.

A Smarter Web

Middling-quality overview of the SemWeb from Mark Frauenfelder.

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.

Loebner 2001 Photos

The Loebner is over! A.

The Suda On Line (SOL)

Massive dictionary from the Byzantine era, now being translated to the Web.

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.

IBN KHALDUN - His Life and Work

Khaldun - nifty medieval social theorist, wrote the Prolegomena.

progymnasmata

14 classical writing exercises.

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.

Aphthonius Progymnasmata

Translation of a progymnasmata guidebook.

FIPA RDF Content Language Specification

Intelligent Agent specifications in RDF.

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.

Mil. Photographer of Year Competition

Winners of Military photo competition. Some lovely, some sad, some very normal.

Ghurkas Screwed by the Man

The legendary Ghurkas, an elite Nepalese fighting force who fight for Britain, receive crap wages and lousy benefits.

Photographs of Signs Enforcing Racial Discrimination

Pictures of water fountains, hotels, and restaurants from America during the depression.

High-Tech Cardboard Boxes Used In Afghan Food Airdrops

The mechanics of dropping food from an airplane.

The Journal of Mundane Behavior

Fantastic scholarly journal of everyday life; articles on “The Improvisation of Everyday Life” among other topics.

Beyond the Web: Electronic Texts for the 21st Century

Panel to discuss the future of text w/emphasis on humanities research.

Umberto Eco: The Roots of Conflict

Thoughtful Eco on the conflict, from Counterpunch.

How do we justify, sell, and measure IA and usability?

A few things to think about re: selling the stuff; useful.

DEVIN'S ART PAGE

Devin Esch is a 5 year old girl with a rockin' Web site.

Cartoonists Struggle With Patriotism, Terror Attacks

Aaron McGruder's been shackled by the man. (Unfair and stupid newspaper reaction.

Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc.

Cranky, cranky athiests. But dammit, they're right!

Strange Connections—Information Architecture

Archive of past articles by Peter Morville on this spanking new discipline. Spanking!

Parsons Information Architecture course syllabus

Information architecture course at Parsons.

Amazon.com: buying info: I Had a Frightmare!

Pile-on on Bill Keane at Amazon.

Noise Between Stations weblog

Neat blog by an IA; links to me, but I respect it anyway.

Waiting for the barbarians

USA vs Roman Empire.

Mapping the Web Infome

A Real-Time CSound Orchestra

Further work in RTSound manipulation by Csound.

The war over the narrative

Weird doublethink from the land of milk, honey, and men named Uzi.

Schnackertronics

Real time looping/phase shifter programmed in Csound (with interface).

Mark Twain on War and Imperialism

Twain's writings against U. S.

US Department of State - Home Page

The official word from the men in charge.

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.

USC/ISI - DAML WebScripter Project

Integrating SemWeb stuff into spreadsheets, etc.

Summary of John W. Kaye's History of the War in Afghanistan by Frederick Engels

Afghanistan and imperialism in the 1800s.

Red Rock Eater Digest - attack

General Tech/Society links from 11 Oct 2001.

FOAF RDF Vocabulary: Schema version 0.1

Uprizer

Interesting Web company found on RDFig weblog.

PURL - Persistent URL Home Page

Where URLS can stay safe forever.

RDFWeb General Overview

RDFWeb is a testbed initiative by some principal SemWeb folks.

An Informed Public Is the Greatest Weapon of Democracy

Slightly boring article against secrecy.

Semantic Web Application Platform

CWM home page from TBL.

RDF Interest Group IRC Scratchpad, last cranked at 2001-10-10 19:43

RDF interest group links, churned from IRC logs.

Protege-2000: Home Page

An ontology development tool in Java.

Bert in Bangladesh

Bert of Bert and Ernie in a seriously weird, probably accidental media hack.

The Foundation Center - Your gateway to philanthropy on the World Wide Web

Getcher grants here.

“get your war on”

War Comix.

The Anti-War Movement's Challenge

Seems to sum up a big swath of the left.

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.

Creating Informal Looking Interfaces

Sketched/drawn interface development and effects of the same.

Writing a Business Plan

Instructions on crafting your biz plan.

forensic-linguistics discussion list

Forensic linguistics listserv.

ATT-Meta Project MENTAL METAPHOR DATABANK

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.

The Morning News

Snazzy blog/zine from a bunch of folks, some of whom seem to be Brooklynites.

STS - The Society for Textual Scholarship

Nothing could be uglier, visually, than this Web site.

World New York

Classic Blog; great links always, or at least often.

FBI - Freedom of Information Act - Frank Sinatra

Sinatra's FBI file - 2038 pages of Frank!

Textism

Consistently good, I say, and put-up regular-like.

LIBR.ORG

Social-activist librarian's site.

A Prisoner's Dictionary

Prison words!

Bookstores in New York City (Manhattan)

Fairly definitive and frequently updated list of Manhattan bookstores. Dover Books!

Jason Hutchens

Hutch! Behind Megahal, and then coworker at Ai.

Episodic writing

Theory of screen narratives and others by Michael Stutz.

SHOT

Scholarship in the Humanities info.

HotAIR - Rare and well-done tidbits from the Annals of Improbable Research

FAQ for comp.lang.functional

Introduction and overview, with language descriptions, related to functional programming.

The New York Times: Movies

NYTimes current film reviews and links to most current movies.

Famous Curves Index

Beautiful curves, so many beautiful curves.

XSLT Standard Library

Dates, times, expressions, all in li'l XSLT. Bad idea?

TNR Online | Automatic Writing by Keith Gessen

Digital writing info.

Problems in Web Fiction

Random thoughts on hypertext; old.

MOVABLE TYPE :: Personal Publishing System

Cool CM system.

Argus Center for Information Architecture

General site for IA.

[—nDroid—]

Couldn't be any friggin' cuter, could it?

Writings and Musings

Bob Frankston's articles and essays.

People with online papers in philosophy

Many AI-related philosophical papers in the midst.

XSLT FAQ

Dave Pawson's de-facto XSLT FAQ.

Celestial Grammar 1.3

Pornographic grammar; easy to remember.

Making a Moral Corporation: Artificial Morality Applied

Info on creating a corporation that doesn't fuck people.

Anal Piercing Experience

How to get a stud up in that bad place.

ADWEEK.COM

Big New Yorkish mag about my beloved, evil industry.

Aziz Gokdemir's Archive

Aziz Gokdemir is a tremendous writer.

sugar

Holly's consistently funny blog.

Perl Contains the Lambda-Calculus

Functional programming in Larry Wall's shitpile of language.

Interfacing Annotea Via JavaScript

JavaScript interface to JavaScript via W3C.

Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind - Chinese room

Chinese Room defined.

Shielded from Justice: New York

Problems with cops; plenty of evil included.

i C S - INFORMATION, COMMUNICATION & SOCIETY

Journal for data/culture dorks.

agonizer.com

Outstanding crank zine.

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

Spooky Richard Brautigan cyberpoem.

The Oxford Text Archive

The long-surviving OTA, with etexts galore.

Logical Pluralism | Log

Fascinating Weblog of research into logical pluralism, which I don't understand, but still, it's fascinating.

Softpanorama: (slightly skeptical) Open Source Software Educational Society

Great, general mental flea market from Nikolai Bezroukov.

User Interface Engineering

Big on Flash and similar technologies.

Orbis Romanus

Atlas of the classical world.

Substructural Logics

They're weaker than regular logic, but strong on their own. Whoo!

SWISH-E 2

So simple, so fast, so sweet. Indexes like a demon.

LARRY HAUSER: Philosophy Resources, Etc.

Hauser is very anti-Searle; neat stuff.

Welcome to RDFWeb

Home of FOAF and other techs...

CoreLex

Extension to Wordnet; can't remember exactly what it does.

Electronic Activist

Advocating for the separation of Church and State.

New York City Department Of Health - EHS Rats We're Working Together

How to deal with rats in your apartment. Keep the baby up.

development economics

Economics related to developing/new economies.

English Literature: Early 17th Century (1603-1660)

Graphics heavy but good content.

Batik SVG Toolkit

Batik, Java SVG engine from Apache that interfaces with FOP.

Left Business Observer

Always interesting; one of those classic inside-print lefty zines from backwhen.

Wordnet 1.6 - WordNet

One of many Web interfaces to Wordnet, but probably the best.

Interconnected -I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons-

Various topics, including the XMLish.

SemanticWeb.org

General semantic Web stuff; biased towards business.

Richard Kennaway's Constructed Languages List

Constructed languages, like Logsdsghhffu3-rh and Klurnggogn.

Horowitz's Notepad: Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Blacks is a Bad Idea for Blacks - and Racist Too

Racist bullshit in its purest form.

Part 4: Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence [565]

Long bib of AI info.

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI)

Basic metadata framework for adding meta-information to Web pages; dc: namespace.

Culture Jammer's Encyclopedia

Overall reference for culture-jamming types and hoaxsters.

New York City Documents

Handy city docs of various stripes.

The Story Machine

Scott McCloud's very own zairjat.

Middle of Nowhere by Brad Cox

Synthesis site from former academic.

Powers, Richard

Richard Powers home page and caricature.

WriteTheWeb: news for web users who write back

Infrequently updated Web-content Weblog.

A Theoretically Motivated Tool for Automatically Generating Command Aliases

HCI/AI convergence - it figures out what you like to do, etc.

Yiddish/Hebrew words

Yiddish/Hebrew word list with defs. Handy.

New Scientist

Alas, poor Hal, I knew him.

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.

Adolf Hitler and Volkswagen

Hitler designed the damn thing. Look and see.

Wizard's Gay slang dictionary

Throrough Gay slang dict; British emphasis if I remember.

The Practical Requirements for Making a Conscious Robot

Harnad - symbol grounding, etc.

Disturbing Auctions

Good for a laugh.

Publications of David Mertz

Pomo interpretations of tech, biology, and other factors.

Chapter 1: Ergodic Literature

Ergodic = RPGs and suchlike.

Personal Ads: Flatulent British Gnome, Toothless, Not Seeking Romantic Sunsets

Comparison between NYC and English personal ads.

Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric

Nice rhetoric reference. Too bad language is so damn fuzzy.

Adventure in Prolog

The game “Adventure” written in Prolog - engine, logic, and NLP together.

Chronology of Artificial Intelligence

History of AI in little blurby text.

Re: xsl:key

Handy advice for :key function.

Ontology, Metadata, and Semiotics

Useful advice from John Sowa.

Exquisite Corpse - A Journal of Letters and Life

Lit and culture 'zine I promise myself to check out later.

yourDictionary.com

General words, thesaurus, etc.

The Third Rail Online Magazine

Good for Subway info.

C-SPAN.org

Cable's gift to the ignorant populace.