2002

The Semantopic Map

An interesting topic-map application showing various things around the Semantic Web.

Mark Pilgrim vs. the Semantic Web

Mark has some thought-out criticism of the Semantic Web: “Look, semantics is hard. Forget the social problems of implementation and the technical problems of the current generation of syntax.

Bright’s Old English Glossary

Longish, simple one-page glossary of OE terms, attached to an OE reader.

Mug Shot Archive

The Smoking Gun’s best mug shots of 2002 - not celebrities, but real folks, including Bambi, the K-Mart employee in trouble. It’s wrong to laugh, but also, it’s very funny.

Does Santa Claus Exist?

Opinions on Santa from the Morning News, including some by your author.

Twisted Matrix Laboratories

Useful-looking framework, in Python, for data sharing across a network inside of various applications.

Tarzan’s Tripes Forever, and Other Feghoots

“The Web’s First Shaggy Dog Story Archive. ” History, examples, abuse your friends.

Sex in a Spreadsheet

A story about the human side of data processing.

Metacrap

A really doofy anti-metadata rant, still making the rounds. The points are correct at the extreme, but it’s a lot of straw-men arguments.

International Society for Bayesian Analysis

All your Bayes needs, met right here.

quarlo - photos of new york city

Simply great photo site - New York looks like this.

Mark Twain Meets DSM-III-R

According to the DSM, Huck and Tom have mental disorders!

Erik T. Mueller

Home site of the person who created Thought Treasure; he’s a neat, hard-working AI researcher.

An architecture of diversity for commonsense reasoning

Article in IBM’s systems journal expressing a variety of ways to approach computer reasoning. Written by a host of heavy-hitting AI/Knowledge Base types: J.

Judge acquits Bush protester, scolds police

The protester was a polite 65-year old man, and his sign said, “The Bush family must surely love the poor — they’ve made so many of them.

Toilets that pop up

Robot pop-up toilets in London, available after 7PM.

Polanski’s new movie about the Krakow ghetto

Long, solid article about Polanski’s relationship between the personal - Krakow, Tate - and creative, and how that plays out in his new film, The Pianist.

Man arrested for smuggling pygmy monkeys in his pants

He had them shoved into his pants the entire flight from Thailand to L. A.

Dictionary of Victorian London

An interesting idea - take several primary sources and index them collectively to create an overall index of Victorian English life.

CCC and the National Park Service

The story of the Civilian Conservation Corps and the National Parks. (Of course, every time you enjoy a CCC park, you’re enjoying SOCIALISM.

Marty Moskowitz’s Bio

Moskowitz is the Borough President of Brooklyn, and an old-school, social-services Democrat. He’s also “Brooklyn Chair of the Loyal League of Yiddish Sons of Erin.

Helene Grimaud and Her Wolves

Photos of Helene Grimaud, renowned classical pianist and wolf-hugger.

Yamaha Artist Spotlight: Helene Grimaud

Helene Grimaud is a Westchester, New York-based classical pianist (who apparently did a fine version of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto #2). Now 30, she has two interesting traits: one, she practices on a Yamaha.

Fractals for Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2

“I know it isn’t very practical, but the idea is to examine each image as the appropriate movement is playing. It is the music which connects the images into a series, not the gradient nor the form nor the math nor the lines nor an idea.

Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor

Depressed, rejected by critics, exploited by publishers, and receiving an in-person scathing from Tolstoy (followed by more depression), Rachmaninoff was brought back to composing by a friendly hypnotist - with the great Concerto #2 as the result.

Basingstoke Canal News

Recent events related to England’s Basingstoke Canal - yobs lobbing bricks, a fraudulent bailiff, and a single dad swan.

Preparedness: The Road to Universal Slaughter

An essay by Emma Goldman about getting ready for war, which always comes before war. “The pathos of it all is that the America which is to be protected by a huge military force is not the America of the people, but that of the privileged class; the class which robs and exploits the masses, and controls their lives from the cradle to the grave.

Letter from Tolstoy

A letter from Tolstoy about Indian rights, to the editor of Free Hindustan magazine. The letter was edited by Gandhi.

Krugman on Economic Disparity

Useful, lengthy article by Paul Krugman on growing economic disparity. (Via RobotWisdom.

email constellations

Look at your friends, as little dots interacting, after your email is chewed and swallowed by a computer.

Funes, his Mail Archive Search Software

An email search engine to help you “search your memories” - a pain to install, though.

Peaceworks Computer Consulting

Developer focused on creating free code for good causes.

Autojot

Autojot indexes every web page you look at and lets you search them later.

Baltimore’s Pissed-off Mayor

After the death of 4 children in a fire allegedly set by drug dealers, talk radio hosts called Baltimore’s mayor Martin O’Malley a nitwit and uncaring. O’Malley drove immediately to the station and began arguing with the hosts.

Hussein elected with 100% of all votes

Iraqis should demand the votes be sent to Florida for a recount.

Hacking Food

Kendall writes about preparing good things to eat. Ahhh!

I really want to do it with Dave Matthews!

I love Dave Matthews so much no other man will suffice!

R.O. LENKIEWICZ

Brilliant, recently deceased artist, among whose effects was found the embalmed body of a homeless man.

Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research

Full text of articles from the JAIR, in PDF.

The New York City Anti-Hipster Forum

She hates hipsters, and with good reason.

The Semantic Web... in Haiku

A really nice intro to RDF and related technology, entirely in haiku.

Protest in Abu Dis

A joint Iraeli-Palestinian protest - Bryan Atinsky documents a protest which leads to violent police action, in addition to nonviolent protesters being outright refused the freedom of assembly. I (meaning me) paid for the camera used to take these pictures, which makes me proud, proud, proud.

ARGUMENTS WITH THE THOUGHT POLICE

Neat collection of essays by John Bart Gerald, drawings by Julie Maas - Nonviolence, Schweitzer, Neruda, and the U. N.

Assholes in Academia

Umm, a site about people in Academia who misbehave, it seems. Yikouch.

This is the spaceship

This is the spaceship that follows me wherever I go, and appears constantly in my dreams. Finally someone has captured an image, which I can show to my friends.

A Mystery Novel With an Inexcusable Title

Right. So the story is about a guy from Michigan who lives in a New York and falls in love with another fellow, who turns out to be well-heeled European royalty.

Google News Search: java

Okay, yeah, the folks at Google think we should do better text analysis, forget the Semantic Web, but this news search for “java” at Google News shows what a car crash text-only databases can be.

dive into mark/October 1, 2002

I like this Mark Pilgrim. He links to Ftrain, which makes me feel goofy linking back to him today, (the first rule of Web Site Club is that you don’t link back to people who link to you) but he asked his readers with sites to link to him on the anniversary of his receiving a royal screwing by an employer because Mark published personal content on the web, and I’m glad to do so.

MIT Biology Hypertextbook

Full textbook on molecular biology, if you have a few spare moments and a desire to understand deep cell mojo.

Stories of Red Hanrahan

A collection of stories by Yeats. “'That is true,’ said another of the men.

Children’s Books Online

Rapidly expanding collection of scanned children’s books, from the turn of last century.

Bayard Rustin’s Mug Shot

Bayard Rustin’s mug shot for refusing to comply with selective service, from The Smoking Gun. Poke around for other mug shots - Dalton Trumbo and Ring Lardner are there, too, for their various unamerican activities.

Bitworking - The Well-Formed Web

The “Well Formed Web” as a replacement for the Semantic Web. It’s a good idea, but I think the idea proposed is just a stopgap way to get to the Semantic Web - that is, you need some way to sort and structure information, and that way is going to look a lot like ontologies.

AlterNet: War on Iraq

Regularly updated weblog on the proposed war with Iraq.

El Gatos Malo Japan Style

Kittens in traditional Japanese costume, some with motorcycles. Watch out.

The Worst Toilet in New York

See it at the bottom of the page. See it!

Kayley

Kevin Fanning and Sam Brown collaborate on a kid’s story about super-powers.

Bauk jos uvijek kruzi

Zizek’s intro to the Comm. Manifesto, on its 150th anniversary.

Official Lojban Home Page

Lojban is an invented language, like Esperanto, but with more rules and based on predicate logic. Remember, “when specifying a concept that is not found among the gismu, a Lojbanist generally attempts to express the concept as a tanru.

<nettime> Database as a Symbolic Form 1/3

The database as symbolic form.

Narrative Time

Essay by Paul Ricouer.

flrt

Flat, a design shop (oh... pardon ....

Understanding HTTP Cookie

Here is simple code for handling cookie with simple CGI. CGI is written in C.

Smalltalk at 30

Nice overview of Smalltalk in its various forms and incarnations.

Tyco Birthday Party

40th birthday party of the Chairman’s wife, on the corporate dime, complete with a Michaelangelo’s David sculpted from ice spewing vodka from its cock.

The Ancient Bells

Good poem from Jim Esch, a different feeling from his other works.

Where Are They Now?

Whatever happened to Jack and Diane? By the author.

Foundation ontology - Wikipedia

A foundation ontology purports to describe “what exists. ” You know?

Logtalk home page

Nift: Prolog + OO + other stuff.

The Cranberry Farming Shrink

A therapist who farms cranberries offers his thoughts on how to avoid getting bogged down by criticism. Bogged down.

About Bunnies

A book about bunnies for wee ones.

Milton Hershey School

... is a residential school offering free education, housing, clothing, meals, medical/dental care and recreational activities.

About Euthanising Pets

If you must put down your dog, whisper the names of the buddhas into its ears, and other advice for buddhists who own animals.

anne galloway’s purse lip square jaw

This comes highly recommended by a most-favored Ftrain correspondent, who writes of the site: “She strikes me as a person who ingurgitates new ideas and can intellectually feel them out, offering much in return. ” At first glance, it looks great, with an emphasis on intelligent textiles.

Two - Headed Turtle Found

Does the headline not say enough? No picture, though.

The Other Pushkin

Pushkin was of African descent! No one told me this.

The History of the Devil

50states.com - States and Capitals

General info on all 50 United States. Need Oregon’s motto in Latin?

Why I am saddened, but not threatened, by those who want to muck with RSS 1.x

Edd Dumbill’s thoughtful thoughts on the recent RSS fork.

Burningbird: Myths about RDF/RSS

People want to take the RDF out of RSS. Ftrain navigation and metadata is now increasingly being built on RDF/RSS, and I expect to be able to do dozens of cool things because I used an RDF framework.

RSS 2.0

A new format proposed by some guy. What’s interesting is how the format numbering goes from .

Divas - The Site / Society Divas

Campy stories of society divas.

Springer LINK: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Book on adaptive hypertext, articles in PDF.

Peter Brusilovsky

Researcher into adaptive hypermedia.

AHA: a Generic Adaptive Hypermedia System

This is a useful article about a “generic” hypertext system, which includes a fairly complete version of the two things I’m working on for Ftrain: conditionals and page-tracking. It’s very specific, and doesn’t connect to any other metadata sources.

Ted Pedersen - Personal Home Page

Ted Pederson is an interesting researcher into computational linguistics at UMN.

Weka 3

Data Mining with Open Source Machine Learning Software in Java.

Animal Pictures Archive

Animal snapshots galore.

Kea

Sweet-looking automatic keyword extractor.

ACL Anthology

N-gram Statistics Package / Ngram / Bigram

Find all the NGrams in your text, in Perl, open-sourced. Whoo!

RASTA 2 - The Awakening

A thesis on the Rhetorical Structure Theory Analyzer.

RASTA, the Rhetorical Structure Theory Analyzer

Paper on Microsoft’s Rhetorical Structure Theory Analyzer, “a system for automatic discourse analysis” which “reliably identifies rhetorical relations” in text. It is now 4AM.

NLP: Tell me about yourself

Overview of MindNet, Microsoft’s expansion on the semantic network concept. We’ve been hearing about MindNet for years and seeing very little evidence that it’s so great, whereas the free WordNet, designed with similar intent, is something I use every day.

Part-of-Speech Taggers

DMOZ POS taggers.

RSTTool

A tool for adding explicit Rhetorical Structure to text.

Research at Microsoft

The sheer number of research projects in play at Microsoft is skull-jarring. The number going on in Beijing is surprising.

Two Techniques for the Identification of Phrases in Full Text

I’m reading this and thinking, I need to learn more about mutual information statistic. It’s 3AM, and I won’t be able to sleep until I learn exactly how you can pull noun phrases from a corpus.

Using Computers in Linguistics

A book from 1998 (which means many of the particulars are beginning to go stale) on linguistics & programming.

XSH - XML Editing Shell

A shell, ala BASH, for editing XML. To add an @id to every title in your document, you could write: foreach //chapter/title { add attribute “id='t$i'” into .

On Lisa Rein’s Radar

I remember, in 1998, being so impressed with something Lisa Rein wrote for XML. com about XML and Vector Graphics that I wrote a fan letter to the people at XML.

Picture of Philippines Tarsiers

In a search for more tarsier images, I found the source of my favorite. “The Tarsier can rotate its head almost all the way around and has adhesive pads on its limbs that allow it to cling to branches vertically or horizontally.

Augustus Carp, Esq: by Himself

I’ve just begun to read this amusing novel about an annoying man.

Phil Ochs

Meet the man who said, “A protest song is a song that’s so specific that you cannot mistake it for bullshit,” and “And if there’s any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there’s any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara. ” Phil, why’d you have to knock yourself off in '76?

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904)

Dozens and dozens of Chekhov works.

When Push Comes to Shove

Rediscover the sheer ignorance and awfulness of PointCast and its CEO, back when “push” was going to be the dominant force on the Web.

Web Term Document Frequency

Millions (113,633,132) of terms on the web, ranked by frequency. 300 meg download.

Consumerism and Cultural Tourism in the Monkey Island games

“I shall attempt to resolve the antagonisms that exist by analyzing the Monkey Island texts using the tools of Postmodernism and Cultural Materialism and suggesting where the strengths of one theory can be used to balance out the weaknesses of the other. ” Yikes.

LEO - a Literate Editor with Outline

A very-unique and clever text editor, written in Python, for editing nested hierarchies of content, then turning them into things.

PeopleSoft Delivers Real-Time Infrastructure for Homeland Security

Peoplesoft, Big Brother’s ASP provider.

Daniel Keyes Homepage

News on the Semantic Web

Thoughtful feedback re: a Semantic Web idea .

RV - 03 Probing Through McLuhan

McLuhan and probes and puns.

The Pun FAQtory - Frequently Askewed Questions about Paronomasia

An eggsalad racehorse for pun-interest.

Funny Puns

Jokes ending in puns. All.

Steve Brooks- Epic Puns

There is a pun contest. This man won it.

The Absolutely Useless Dictionary - Jest for pun !

Pun dictionary. Horrid but compelling.

Puns/Word Play in Ancient Literature

Mesopotamian puns: a dog was the distilled essence of the dog, not a referent to a dog.

Puns

William James

Thorough Wm. James resource.

Autoethnography: Journeys of the Self - Russel

According to my pal Stacy, who is an adjunct English prof, autoethnography is the hot new trend in cultural studies. Basically, it seems to be the production of autobiographical texts as a means of studying your own culture.

Semantic Web Club

You do not talk about Semantic Web club.

Singularity Watch

The singularity is a’comin’! And these people are a-waitin’.

Linda Thompson: Fashionably Late

Jim Esch gives Linda Thompson’s new album the thumbs up.

Resource Description Framework

Good guide by Dave Pawson, who keeps the XSLT FAQ, on RDF.

Scorpion [OCLC Research - Software]

A handy-appearing automatic classifier, now open-sourced.

celebritize

I thought I came up with it, but I'm at least #12 to coin ”celebritize.

Vampiric Studies: Real Predators

Beware... the Vampire impersonator will ruin your life.

Golfing and Terrorism

This is the worst president ever.

MetaTalk | Comments on 2472

Watch as the denizens of Metafilter miss sarcasm so obvious that if it was smeared with sarcasm glitter and had a 50,000,000 watt sarcasm-highlighting bulb shining on it from 4 inches away, it would still only be SLIGHTLY more obvious than it is in its native state.

NBS: Just Keep Trying

Victor reminds people of what's exciting about technology and how it's hard at the beginning. He's right, dammit!

The Upsilon Andromedae Planetary System

A star system with 3 planets.

Stars within 50 light years

Stars, some with planets, within shouting distance.

Emdros

Some Guy at the Mirror Project

A bit bored....

Nooface: In Search of the Post-PC Interface

A weblog about what happens when we get away from files and folders on the desktop and move into... well, who knows?

Economic Policy Institute

Recent-content-drenched front page from a progressive economics thinktank.

Joe Kenehan Center

A trade-union-centric blog.

BlogTree.com - Ftrain.com

All the blogs that are influenced by Ftrain, which is not a blog but a site, but hey, I give up on that distinction, yaknow? Sorta neat idea.

Uri Avnery: A Phone Call From Hell

From CounterPunch - a Gush Shalom activist (Gush Shalom is one of the oldest and smartest peace organizations in the world) describes attempts at consciousness-raising about war crimes inside Israel. War crimes are committed there by the Israeli occupying army by routine.

Bad Taste Is Its Own Reward

John Waters keeps a place in the Village: ”I take the subway everywhere,“ he said. ”I ride in the first car, to look at the rats.

MaxSpeak Weblog

A weblog be a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute. Lots of content, crunchy.

ArgMax.com - Economics News, Data, and Analysis

Sweet-looking site from the fellow who used to run the excellent economics. about.

Hunt and Peck

Wanda Coleman beats up Maya Angelou's new book and gets shunned by parts of the Black literary community. A considered essay on the confusing racial politics of literary production.

Wall Street Folllies - Diagrams

Beautiful map of Wall Street corruption. Via TurksHeadReview.

Class Action Lawsuit Against Primedia Inc About.com and Scott Kurnit - Levinson et al v Primedia et al

Writers are routinely asked to throw away their rights to their own work in exchange for a modicum of publicity, then screwed by their publishers. Web publishing is even worse than print.

Penguin Sweaters

Tiny penguins wearing tiny sweaters. For their own good.

A Dying Voice

Newspaper Columnists are fading fast: ”In past generations, says Carroll, columnists tapped into 'a certain idiom that was largely white ethnic European life in neighborhood bars and pubs. That was best captured by Breslin and Royko.

European Union Guide for Americans

A guide written by the EU to help Americans understand governance, economics, etc.

Was Lincoln gay?

And did Booth kill him in a homophobic rage after being set up as a boy toy? Hmm.

Hoop Dream Hebrews

Excellent and well-researched article on early Jewish sports leagues, particularly in Philly and New York. “'The reason, I suspect, that basketball appeals to the Hebrew with his Oriental background,' wrote Paul Gallico, sports editor of the New York Daily News in the 1930s, 'is that the game places a premium on an alert, scheming mind, flashy trickiness, artful dodging and general smart aleckness.

A History of Jews in Sports

“It goes way, way back. ” Jews in sports.

Bloodchild

Thoughtful meta-review of Bloodchild, and Octavia Butler short story.

NewBreed Librarian's Eric Miller Interview

Interview with Eric Miller on the Semantic Web, by the departing (damn) New Breed Librarian web ste. Nice job.

=\/=Xirium | Tech | MUD-Shell

A shell which is also an adventure game. Both a good idea, and a terrible one.

The Salon Interview: Gore Vidal

Interview with Vidal, talking about America and suchlike.

Gadgets for God

A guide to all the Christian swag you'll ever need.

xml-dev - Re: RE: [xml-dev] Semantic Web

Criticism of my piece on Google and the Semantic Web.

Cerebral's Web Page

Matt has been my friend for 12 years. His discussions with coworkers on this page are, I'll bet, entirely true.

F-Train

Squarepusher is putting out a song, in October, called F-Train. Apparently, it's wandering the knob-twiddler's file-sharing Internet, in MP3 form, as we speak, but out of my low-bandwidth/Linux reach.

More News

Semantic Web weblog.

Biographical RDF

A proposal for how IDs might be created for all people in history.

Google Labs passes Borges test

Meaning that the Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge is in there.

katesippey.com

Michael Sippey's kid is so cute it's unnerving.

MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING (PG): ChildCare Action Project (CAP) Media Analysis Report MAR22044

CAPAlert (conservative Christian movie review sites) reviews My Big Fat Greek Wedding with this remarkable paragraph: “Now the physical aspects begin. To describe the progression of physical involvement between John and Toula, let me tell you about the old Ford Motor Company torque system.

Semantic Web Blog, featuring RDF

A weblog all about the Semantic Web. Haven't looked at it much, but it's quite current.

Google Weblog

All Google, all day.

Google Search: google semantic web

Google and the Semantic Web, 2 tastes that will mess your mouth up BAD, leave you begging them to kill you, put you out of your misery.

O'Reilly Network: The Semantic Web: It's Whom You Know [Apr. 19, 2002]

“If it's done right, the Semantic Web would be accompanied by widespread knowledge management. ” One moving target accompanied by another?

Monkeyfist.com: A simple, prima facie argument in favor of the Semantic Web

Google is a Semantic Web app, kinda.

Net Users Try to Elude the Google Grasp

Google knows who you are. It definitley knows who I am.

Enabling Semantic Searching

Semantic Web searching info.

Business Model for the Semantic Web - Design Issues

Not earth-shaking, a few ideas therein.

Google Sets

Google builds a semantic connection device.

The Semantic Web (for Web Developers)

Just like the title says. Procedural, here's the stuff, technical doc.

Making a Semantic Web

Detailed, thoughtful, thorough.

alan lomax collection site

Alan Lomax Collection, official site. Sad to only learn about people like Lomax when they die.

The Memory Hole [rescuing knowledge, freeing information]

They didn't WANT you to KNOW it!

That Takes Ovaries!

A review of a book, the title as in, “that takes balls,” but with ovaries in for the balls. Except it's got to be “oves.

Zthes - Home Page

Zthes is a protocol to allow you to search yourself some semantic thesauri using Z39. 50 protocol returning XML.

locust eater

Well-written, smart weblog focusing on U. S.

A Wrench the Size of Delaware

A story by Paul Ford about visiting a friend.

blogs by subway line

The people in the neighborhood with Web sites.

CoolStop

Ftrain, says Joe, is a cool site. Thanks, says Paul.

Debunking the Myths About C-SPAN

Long transcribed speech by Brian Lamb, C-SPAN founder, giving the background of C-SPAN with a decent amount of detail, and answering questions about the channel.

Ftrain.com

From a blog that links to this site, which I'll leave unlinked: “Take that Ftrain site, for instance. Ninety percent of the time, I don't know what the fuck they're talking about.

True Porn Clerk Stories

This site has some excellent personal writing. The story is simple: smart, thoughtful woman of about 30 takes job at video store with large porn selection.

Doing the lobster rock

Lobsters have tiny violins that scare sharks. Really!

Web Log Post

Feedback to the post from Josh Allen (different Josh Allen than the Josh Allen we know best here) on XSLT - this person disagrees with his conclusions. XSLT is a harsh mistress.

The Norfolk Language

Whose all em heehee? (Whose periwinkles are they?

Paintings by Anya Ulinich

Anya is great. She lives in Cobble Hill and sees the oddness in the mundane.

Better Living Through Software

How to create a Weblog in XSLT. This is not how I do it (forget Make; I just do it all in XSLT), but interesting nonetheless.

Better Living Through Software

Feedback from Josh Allen to other feedback on Josh Allen's post on XSLT. I forgot to mention that the first post had a link to Josh Allen's piece on Weblogs, and that's another Josh Allen, that's the one we know, the one in Maine.

Christianity and the Space Program

Oh, whoa. Whoa.

Introduction to Genre Theory

How do we classify genres? I'm asking this question (and Daniel Chandler is trying to answer it) because I want to classify work on Ftrain by genre - essay, fiction, semi-autobiographical fiction, science fiction, bald lying, pseudojournalism.

RSS1.0 Modules

Extensions to RSS1. 0; the threading is particularly useful.

We The Sheeple

A page about criminal justice. Pretty great.

sheeple

Pseudodictionary definition of “sheeple.

onegoodmove

Dandy lefty blog.

SCHEMAS: Forum for Metadata Schema Designers and Implementers

European Metadata Craziness! Watch out!

Audrey Easley

Audrey Easley is the flautist for the Polyphonic Spree, which is a musical group. She had a great energy.

sheeple

Usage example for the word “sheeple.

RDF Rich Site Summary (RSS)

Thorough list of RSS-related resources (RSS is a way to summarize Web sites so that other sites can use them. But not just Web sites, really.

[mind G u t t e r]

Enjoyable, mostly-photo Web site.

The Polyphonic Spree

Yeah! Yeah!

The Pragmatic Web: semantics as if surfers mattered

Fun read: Jorn on Topic Maps, a bit, and other stuff.

Mission Statement of BLTC Research

Self-conscious project to ensure happiness and well-being engineering for all creation.

Crochet Skull

It's a crocheted skull. The copy that leads to the link above read “You will love it because it's so awesome.

Modafinil ( Provigil )

Stay awake for 40 hours with no bad side-effects. Then sleep 8 hours and do it again.

RDF for mail filtering: FOAF whitelists

What you do is generate a checksum based on your mailbox ID. Then you distribute that checksum, and people create “whitelists” (but let's call 'em goodlists, instead, okay, and get that color thing out of there, time for a little accuracy in our semantics) with your checksums - NOT your email address, that can't be guessed by looking at the checksum.

The Librarian Stereotype and the Movies

Hair buns, timidity, shushing - vicious stereotypes and slander!

Latin-English Dictionary

Nice, functional resource, clickity click.

eclectic : Closer to a fork?

Detailed, informative, amusing weblog based on the fuss and budgetry on the XML-DEV mailing list.

Units of Measurement

There are Scottish units of measurement here. That includes the lippie, which is a quarter of the Scottish peck.

Beatrice: The Collected Interviews

Collection of good, usually brief interviews with contemporary lit folks.

Butter Sculpture

Tibetan butter sculpture.

Candace Bushnell

The subject is a little icky, but the interviewer is a pretty amusing self-conscious Ftrain rider, and I feel an affinity for what she sees in Bushnell.

The Morning News - Letter from the Editor

“I told him, 'I'm basically trying to sound like a pompous twit. ' He laughed and slapped the table.

A History of the Mideast in the Humble Chickpea

The argument between Israel and Palestine over the provenance of Falafel. Falafel Queens, which is mentioned in the article,IS the best falafel in Israel.

Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art

A large, important museum of Tibetan Art in in Staten Island, the hotbed of Tibetan culture.

Steve's Web Page: Squirrels are Beautiful

The squirrel that sounds something like me has been singing about squirrel love again. Click HEARTHEIRNEXTSONG to hear the squirrel's voice crack painfully, and to hear the lines “I got the best nest in the old oak tree/So come on up and squirrel with me/In the dark.

Steve's Web Page: Flaming Lips are more Beautiful than (some) Squirrels

“Steve Burns,” or (so PARANOID) someone writing to impersonate Steve Burns (who COULD do such a TERRIBLE THING), describing a journey into FlamingLipsLand, a journey I shared.

Miss Ghana

Her name is Precious, she's studying biochemistry with the goal of being a neurosurgeon, and has a big, big basket on her head. The world is an interesting place filled with a variety of people, some of them who have baskets on their heads.

Shocked and Angry: The Prophet Whose Warnings Over Wall Street Were Ignored

At 93 J. K.

U.S. Treasury Sec. O'Neill Visits “Beachhead” Data-Processing Firm - State Dept. Information Programs

Dumb even for a rock star: Bono said, “Anyone who's interested in investing in Ghana has only to look at these people, the smartest, hardest workers anywhere. ” Referring to the notion that the corporate world exploits low wages, he said, “I think as long as the employees of such places and the governments are exploiting the corporate world in a sort of symbiotic relationship, I think that's fine.

Africa Links from the U.S. Military

A large helping of links on Africa.

Arab-Americans of New York City Featured in Museum Exhibit

A good token effort.

William Gibson. New Rose hotel

William Gibson's best short story, I think - transational tech, sex, and the redemptionless hollow ache of those who deserve no better.

The Village Voice: Film: Flop House by Amy Taubin

A review of New Rose Hotel, the Movie. “Instead, what's on the screen is so dreadful that it inspires the ontological question 'What are films and why is this not one of them?

New Rose Hotel (1998)

Somehow it happened that they made a movie of New Rose Hotel and I never, ever found out about it. Damn.

floating wreckage:jettisoned cargo

A more or less perfect Weblog - news, organization, elegance, content. Yikes.

Africa Daily - daily news and current events

Broad portal filled with Africa news.

Transnational Corporations Observatory

Beautiful big site about corporate hoo-ha and transgenics and all the other stuff people do for themselves, hoping they don't get caught.

Kenya Broadcasting Corporation:

Man killed by giraffe!

Social Sciences Weblog

Useful-lookin' weblog about the Social Sciences; links to a wide range of sources. And, whoa, coincidence, it's obvious that Paul Nijjar reads the thing, go Paul Nijjar!

VeeJay

A tracker - ala SoundTracker - but for video. Any which way run the images until reels the mind.

The Nando Times: Crime, repression breed prolific video industry in Nigeria

The thriving Nigerian film industry. Via RobotWisdom.

Tonie's Kladblok - scrollen verplicht in naam der hyperlink

Nothing beats having your work discussed in a language you can't understand. “Ik durf te wedden dat u Ftrain voor het eerst ziet,” indeed.

Pics of Sheep and Lambs

Pictures of sheep.

Africa Famine Relief (UMCOR)

12. 8 million people are going to starve in Africa.

U.S. Vows to Prosecute on Iraq Sanctions; Sacks Says He Won't Pay

Scary U. S.

the eXile #137 - Feature Story - 911 Things To Hate About America

911 reasons to hate America.

Quakers and the Political Process - Presidents

Nixon and Hoover - Quakers!

9/11 Bridged the Racial Divide, New Yorkers Say, Gingerly

Thoughtful, well-sourced article on racism in NYC post Sept-11.

The Rape Blog

A weblog focused only on rape.

The Shins

One of the best bands I've heard in a long, you might even say long-ass, time.

Alan W. Pollack's Notes on “You Never Give Me Your Money”

A reminder that the Beatles are not a musical group, but a lifestyle choice.

U.S. Will Seek to Fingerprint Visas' Holders

An extraordinarily bad, stupid precedent to set.

XML.com: Standard Data Vocabularies Unquestionably Harmful [May. 29, 2002]

Walter Perry gets upset about standard data vocabularies.

JOHO Emergency Instructions

Surviving a nuclear war: wear a hat.

Nuclear War Survival Skills

A handy guide, with a foreward by no less than pro-nuke loon Edward Teller.

Ramon Llull (Raymond Lull/Lully) resources

Excellent Raymond Lull resource.

Concurrent Markup for XML Documents

How to create overlapping hierarchies, which is something I often run into when building Ftrain. I know you don't care, not one bit.

Sketching Device #1

Manipulated speakers generating random sketches. Ah!

Steven Beck's Direct Video Synthesizer & Video Weaver

The ultimate Wobblevision.

SUO: Re: REQUEST: survey of available ontologies...

Sowa on Semantic Web standards. Ouch.

Spreadsheets

Opinionated review of spreadsheet history and present state-of-the-art.

Catching the Dreams

Pat Hayes on different approaches to logic for the Web.

Colour Order Systems in Art and Science (English, French, German)

59 systems of color, richly linked and explained.

WHY ACADEMIC BOYCOTT

Tanya Reinhart on the proposed Academic Boycott of Israel (short version: Academics are just as political as everyone else, and an international academic boycott is a valid idea).

Agent-Based Computational Economics (Tesfatsion)

“Agent-based computational economics (ACE) is the computational study of economies modelled as evolving systems of autonomous interacting agents. ACE is thus a specialization to economics of the basic complex adaptive systems paradigm.

Paul Ford - www.ezboard.com

Steve Burns fans discussing Ftrain in a Steve Burns context. Please share your own feelings.

Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network

Using machines for good causes (like lowering recidivism, keeping people out of jail, etc).

Mondeca - Making your Business Content more Intelligent

“Mondeca provides a software solution enabling enterprises to efficiently and intelligently organize business content. ” All that and directed graphs.

Lambda the Ultimate

I never mentioned this site, but I love it dearly. All about programming, particularly functional programming, which is the kind of programming that people in academia, especially those who spend a lot of time writing papers that say “functional programming is actually better than [programming paradigm X]” while the (business) world ignores them, use.

Reports from the Field

Interview with yours truly about character and narrative on the Web, in which I sound kinda pretentious. But hey.

Robot seal “could lift nursing home mood”

“Our goal is to give joy and relief to people through interaction (with the robot),” Wada said.

Stephen Wolfram: A New Kind of Science

A New Kind of Hype. Stephen Wolfram proclaims self genius again; writes big hoo-ha cellular automata book proclaiming to reinvent science, 99.

The Rotter's Club

Suggested by a friend; has a group of kids who form an art-rock band called “Gandalf's Pikestaff.

FirstGov.gov search for “Semantic Web”

Results for a search on “Semantic Web” for FirstGov.

Managing external tables for SWI-Prolog

External tables (text only) for SWI-Prolog.

User evaluation of automatically generated semantic hypertext links in a heavily used procedural manual

When a manual on the Web gets semantic links added automatically, everyone JUST GOES CRAZY. With subtitles.

SWI-Prolog to SQL bridge. (ORACLE&ODBC)

Connecting SWI-Prolog to SQL, allowing an SQL database to be used as a db of prolog facts and converting prolog statements to SQL queries.

Voices From the Gaps: Octavia Butler

Supergenius literary sci-fi. Not to be missed; beats the pants off your average cyberpunk-type.

Fireland

Fireland is on hiatus.

Michael Bader

Interesting shrink.

Acuncompendium

The story of Nathan Barley, all cut-up-like. Beautiful and profane.

Sense of Place Bibliography

A bibliography of books related to “A Sense of Place.

Joey Skags

NYC hoaxster - creator of the Cathouse for Dogs, troublemaker.

Oral History Techniques Pamphlet

Handy, straightforward oral history interviewing guidelines.

Van Alen Institute: East River Information Site

Thorough site on the East River - politics, ecology, maps.

The Arm in the Wall

“The arm belongs to the boy's father. The uncle killed the father in this basement, and in doing so he maimed the father so horribly that even his ghost cannot show his face.

Access to Insight: Readings in Theravada Buddhism

Excellent, well put-together Web site on Theravada Buddhism; a very strong editorial vision matched with a passion for the materials and a rarely seen diligence for editing and linking.

the Jer zone

Riffing off Ftrain, a writer describes his own Wobblevision experiences.

making the wobble vision

How to make a Wobble Vision. This was originally written up by my friend Steve Pav, but his copy is down for the time being.

Lincoln's Body Exhumed

One last look at Abe Lincoln in 1901 before he was buried in several tons of concrete. He was still recognizable.

Pedantical Graffitti

A beautiful and honest web rant - Jim goes ballistic over a critic of Wordsworth. “It made my thumbs sweat.

Hard-shelled, part 2

Lobster boy “explained” by CMU administration.

Brouhaha at the crabshack

“Lobster” performance artist has been attacked by fraternity members! “Three of the four arrested who could be reached denied damaging the property.

Dancing the Macarena for a talk with Lobster Boy

Painful-to-read article about trying to interact with Lobster Boy.

The ZULU! Website

“It is time to stop seeking excuses for the British defeat at Isandlwana, and to start instead to think of it as a Zulu victory. ” Cool site on 1879 Anglo/Zulu war.

tremble - i did this.

Actually, most female drummers are billed as “quiet and mysterious”, which is generally a polite way of saying “obese and surly.

Cybernetics and librarianship - a fifty year perspective on where we've been and where we're going

Our own “chronological chauvinism” attributes the digital age we are living in today as the biggest technological change in the history of the world. And that may well turn out to be true, but the late 19th century was the greatest period of technological change to date in terms of things that affected huge numbers of people's lives in very fundamental ways.

Reverse Chronological Snobbery?

Belief and chronology.

Princess Superstar's Lyrics for Princess Superstar Is

It's “Bad Babysitter,” Without a question.

Alternatives to Corporate Globalization

There's more than one way to do it. From Philly Indymedia.

ErnieFord.com!

Load 16 tons and what do you get? I'm sure he sang other songs, but that was more than enough.

Ryokan

The story of Ryokan.

My Home Town - Tom Lehrer

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.

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.

Colours of Resistance

Bringing together anti-racism and anti-globalization into a good package.

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.

Stuff: Broken Jokes

Jokes without the humor, for comic effect.

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.

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.

The Bark Unleashed: The Bark Web Site

Dog is my copilot! A Web site for people who have the dog problem.

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.

Mike & Jill

Mike and Jill are friends. Nothing naughty, just friends.

Cheap Zoo - Satisfaction Maybe

An extremly inexpensive animal experience.

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.

18 Feb 2002

Poignant, strong personal narrative about a socially lost classmate, by Dervala Hanley.

Otherkin FAQ v 4.0 Beta (1/6/01)

“A good example is: Are all elves physically or energetically sensitive to metal/iron? No.

obscura: advice: 000529

I asked for advice in 2000, and received it. The images are beautiful.

Author blasts firms for hostile practices

Good article on Jill Fraser, who spoke in West Chester, PA critiquing corporate management practices. By Jim Esch.

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.

Armenian National Institute

Resources on the Armenian Genocide.

Matewan Birthday Cake

The Matewan Massacre of 1920: now in tasty cake form.

Lester Bangs on “Astral Weeks”

Brilliant Bangs' meandering, implicitly Lorca-comparing essay on Astral Weeks, which is the best album on Sundays.

To a Young Child, by Gerard Manley Hopkins

It's bouncy hokum, but I love it.

Monkeyfist Celebrates Black History Month

It's BHM over at MonkeyFist. How are you celebrating?

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 .

Attorney General: “America Must Cease to be a Lurid Statuary of Deviant Sex” - WHITEHOUSE.ORG

It's the picture that gets me.

Julia A. Moore, “Sketch of Lord Byron's Life”

I feel that this is perhaps the finest poem ever written in the English Language.

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?

Song, by Ezra Pound

Sing Goddamm! Goddamm!

whygodwhy/2001 08 20

“Acre for acre you're talking the same amount of zombies.

Toward a Theory of Interactive Fiction

Interactive Fiction, looked upon all serious-like.

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.

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?

Coliseum Books

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