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Just posted a comment at the Huntsvilledevelopement blog regarding Lowe Mill
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This comment I made (once it's approved) should show up after this link:

http://huntsvilledevelopment.blogspot.com/2009/09/housing-authority-shifts-to-lowe-mill.html

here;s the comment with irritating mispellings included:

That's not good. not good at all. Lowe Mill is already benefiting. It's already gone from alternative underground with the Flying Monkey Arts Center to above-ground with the Lowe Mill stuff aroudn it.

this happens againa and again ins city after city. The creative class risks going through and living in a rougher part of town, makes it more interesting and the new "cool" place to go and the upper crusts wants to kick out the pople who already live there? Let's not let Huntsville make the same mistake and instead work with people who need help instead of shuffling them off where some people dont' want to see them because it makes them "feel uncomforatble".

Well, gosh darn. 7 words are appropriate here
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George Carlin died.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/021649.html

"Dewey's Nightmare"
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I really liked this idea.

"The Library hosted "Dewey's Nightmare," seven blindfolded playwrights pick seven random volumes, and from them write seven plays in eleven days."

http://www.librarything.com/thingology/2008/06/re-reanimation-library.php

Cory Doctorow's YA novel _Little Brother_ is a really great read.
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I just finished Cory Doctorow's YA novel _Little Brother_. Really great read everyone, not just YA should read.

It is available under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license. download yours. Librarians, ask for print deals.

http://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/

Tweets for Today
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These are one day behind. I don't know why.

  • 13:48 Still kind of freaked out by the horror novel _Dispatch_ by Bentley Little. Especially since I do write every day. #

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Poem by Richard Katrovas-"Love Poem for An Enemy"
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I loved this poem by Richard Katrovas. It was published in a 2001 issue of Poetry Magazine, that fell in front of me. When I picked it up, the title and first two lines hooked me with their beautiful language. Have someone who knows how to read with inflections read this to you or out loud to yourself for the full effect of its sheer beauty.

http://poetrymagazine.org/magazine/0201/poem_30331.html


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Howard the Duck is Steve Gerber's owned creation, settlement with lawyers or not.
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Both Roy Scheider and Steve Gerber died earlier this week.

This post sums up eveything I started to write about Steve Gerber:

http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2008/02/12/steve-gerber-creator-of-howard-the-duck-1947-2008/

And his after-blog has some great remeberances of the man and his writing:

http://www.stevegerber.com/sgblog/

and this is a good write-up

http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/steve_gerber_1947_2008/

Howard the Duck was incredible for the time it was written (Forget the movie, I'm talking about the ground-breaking comicbook). In the 1970s, you never saw questioning of everything like that anywhere else. And his run on the Defenders with the Headmen and Nebulon and the Bozos was fantastic. His Foolkiller miniseries is still one of my favorites, and I've been really enjoying his take on Dr. Fate in Countdown to Mystery, which sadly, may never be finished now if he didn't plot to an end point. Great writing from him and his ideas will be missed.


Roy Scheider was a great actor. He was the Sherriff in Jaws and a thinly-veiled Bob fosse in this part:

http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2008_02_10.html#014805



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Very useful chart of Public Domain timelines
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Want to use something in your work, but not sure if it's in the public domain or noat? Here's an extremely handy table showing the various times and kinds of works and when they enter the public odmain (until Mickey Mouse comes up for being in the public domain-then they'll probably add another 120 years).

http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/public_domain/


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Creators should get paid if the other parts of their industry are making money hand over fist.
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Anyone curious as to why there may suddenly be a lot of reruns of tv shows and talk shows and probably more "reality " shows and halts on movie productions, read this:

http://kingofbreakfast.livejournal.com/67646.html

They just want a small percentage of residuals from works they've created that are making money in new distribution mediums (DVD, interntet, etc.). Not much to ask for at all. But the studios are being greedy bastards by not budging from this.

http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2007_11_06.html#014316


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"oak ray gun, Brother Bear," I said "Surviving Desire's for the Infrared, keyboard kids are energy"
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CT-Biography-

Journal entries:

I love old oak trees. They're tall and beautiful and full of history, carving your lover's initials in when you're a youth, and climbing when you're young.


J-Political Science

This explains a lot, hmm?

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_56314.html

This was pretty funny

http://atbash.net/blog/archives/000046.html

One of the best breakdowns of the now dead Reagan' s legacy I've seen. From BET

http://www.bet.com/package/0,,p553,00.html

N-Art

This is a fun plaything

http://illustmaker.abi-station.com/index_en.shtml

This is a pretty good Project Gutenberg introduction to old art for kids:

http://texts14.archive.org/2/texts/8pics/8pics10h.htm

PN-Film

Brother Bear was a lot better than I thought it be. It was distressing to see the making of it, and realizing that Disney fired pretty much everyone who worked on it.

For my birthday I bought myself a DVD of Hal Hartley's Surviving Desire. My Devilgirl didn't like it, though she enjoyed Trust. The odd dialogue put her off, and that's one of my favorite things about Hartley's films, the highly stylized dialog and visuals with the odd music. The short "Ambition" has one of my favorite quotes of all time:

"The world is a dangerous and uncertain place. A few odd moments of respect and affection here and there are about as good as life gets."

And from his Simple Men movie, another favorite quote:

"I want to live a life of romance and adventure!"

"There's no such thing as romance and adventure. Just desire and trouble. It's desire that gets you into trouble."

QA-Computer Science

For my birthday my devilgirl helped me buy a Palm infrared keyboard. I was surprised at how easy it was to set up and use. Install and go. Biggest downside is that the hinge is right where I usually hit the space bar, so it's taking a little time to get used to. But I'm very happy with it!
Played with it today, and discovered it doesn't work so well in sunlight, even in the shade. I had to wait till I got into a building before I could type anything without shielding the infrared ports with my hand. An irritation, but only a minor one. Best thing about it is it's upgradeable to other Palm OS handhelds-just not the wifi one.


T-Technology-General

Renewable Energy


Turning kids play into energy. Yay! Slave labor! Um, or not. Hurmmm.

http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/000446.html

A Study in Emerald
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J-Political Science

Hee hee. These would be funnier if they weren't so close to the terrifying truth.

http://homepage.mac.com/rcareaga/diebold/adworks.htm#the_top

Some damn fine articles here:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski-arch.html

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/terror_and_lies.php

Another article outlining how journalist betrayed America and got us into this stupid war.

http://www.freepress.net/news/print.php?id=3665

http://www.bopnews.com/archives/000776.html#776

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/28/opinion/28KRUG.html?pagewanted=print&position=

NC-Animation

Really brilliant article on Pixar animation, and how they got
Brad Bird, the guy behind The Iron Giant and one of the best storytellers out there:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.06/pixar.html
P-Lit
Shadows Over Baker Street throws Sherlock Holmes into the H.P. Lovecraft Chthulhu mythos. There's a free sample of Neil Gaiman's "A Study in Emerald" here:

http://www.neilgaiman.com/exclusive/StudyinEmerald.asp

Good advice in general from the comics scribe Steven Grant
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J-Political Science

This isn't surprising:

http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0420/040519_news_blackboxvoting.php


NC-Comics

This is an old article from Steven Grant, with some good advice. I particularly liked this bit:

"What do you want?

If you want to work in comics, this is the single most important question you can ask yourself, maybe the only question worth asking yourself. What do you really want?

There's an old wives' tale that people get what they deserve. That's a bit karmic for my tastes – karma's a myth only very young children could take seriously – but, on careful observation over the last 30 years or so, it's my belief that, above a certain socio-economic level in our culture, most people get what they really want, whether they acknowledge it or not.

For instance, a guy who wants to go to college at UCLA but whose parents want him to go to college locally. If he stays and goes to college locally, what he really wants is to keep his parents happy. If you want to leave your significant other but stay with them because you don't want to be alone, what you really want is to not be alone. If you hate your job but you don't want to lose your pension or threaten your income by shifting to something you'd rather do, what you really want is your pension or your income. If you're bored by crappy, outdated concepts in comics and want exciting, original material, but you keep spending your comics budget on crappy comics with outdated concepts, what you really want is crappy comics with outdated concepts.

It's not a difficult equation."

auth/login?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/20/politics/campaign/20KERR.html

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PN-Film

After discussing how Nursing students are worse than any other students to deal with where I work, my immediate boss threw this phrase out:

Florence Night in Hell

which I though would make a great horror movie title. He said I could steal with the stipulation that his name be one of the characters. I think filming it in Florence, AL would be appropiate, too.

A Wrinkle in Time was made into, unfortunatley, a TV movie
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J-Political Science

Good suggestions here.

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/call.html

Okay, this is hard, but if you want to take America back and get jobs back here, stop supporting as many of these companies as you can. (It's very, very hard and not realistic for me to not support Adobe). It's not realistic to stop using all of them, but if enough different people of enough varying backgrounds make some different business purchasing decisions, maybe, just maybe things could take a turn for the better in our economy. (That the mouthpiece Lou Dobbs has his hackles up about this is actually a good sign that thing are reversing for the better.)

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/lou.dobbs.tonight/popups/exporting.america/frameset.exclude.html

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/10/1084041343688.html

Those dirty liberals, again.

http://powerskeptic.net/ingraham.htm

This was amusing

http://kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu/idaho_does_not_exist.html

Yep, I'm not the only one who saw this coming

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,1212585,00.html

Some damned fine thinking here

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/5/11/121238/575

disturbing NPR connection to Right-wing Paulians.

http://betterangels.blogspot.com/2004/05/ballad-of-barbara-bradley-hagerty.html

P-Lit

Verbs bad! Not say Bizarro.

http://www.scholastic.com/artandwritingawards/gallery/2001/winners2001/tedholm.htm

PM-Esperanto

place holder for this neat translator to Esperanto.

http://lingvo.org/traduku/

PN-TV

They made a movie out of Madeline L'Engle's fantastic book, A Wrinkle in Time.

I liked her quote about it:

"Oh, yes. I expected it to be bad, and it is."


http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4926262/

I also like this

"Such as?""
"Such as I sometimes think God is a s--t and he wouldn’t be worth it otherwise. He’s much more interesting when he’s a s--t."

"So to you, faith is not a comfort?"

"Good heavens, no. It’s a challenge: I dare you to believe in God. I dare you to think [our existence] wasn’t an accident.
. . .
Many people see faith as anti-intellectual.
Then they’re not very bright. It takes a lot of intellect to have faith, which is why so many people only have religiosity."

Like Garbo, I often "Just Want To Be Alone"
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CT-Biography

Yep. This is me. I'm not exactly shy anymore, though I had a bad case of social phobia I have since overcome, which does make it difficult because you can't un-know people even if you like them a lot and just don't have the time. And I find that I can speak in front of people only if I know my subject completely (but I rarely feel that I ever do).

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2003/03/rauch.htm

Thought I saw [info]gwenhwyvar at Hardee's on University of all places, but I wasn't sure so I just left with my vanilla cone in the hot sun. Vanilla flavored hand-errr, yummy.

J-Political science

Let me guess, the College Republicans were wearing brown shirts.

http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=1423

http://www.rollingstone.com/features/nationalaffairs/featuregen.asp?pid=2916

This is pretty damned funny.

http://mcsweeneys.net/2004/4/20sack.html

It is happening again.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040506/ap_on_re_us/florida_voter_rolls_1

M-Music

A friend of mine played me this amazing album:

Van Leer Rose

Loretta Lynn with Jack White of the White Stripes "Have Mercy" was a particularly moving song for me.

Reading the Valley Planet
I came across an article about the Ozark Mountain Daredevils. I had no idea they did "Jackie Blue". That was one of my favorite songs from the 70s.

Listened to the always fun The CounterClockwise after seeing The Forbidden Zone at the Flying Monkey Arts Center. Enjoyed it so much this time I bought their CD.

N-Art

Fonts-

This is nifty. I'd thought about doing this before with my own work, but I couldn't figure out how

http://www.letterjames.de/motive/listMotive.html?rubrikId=14

NC-Comics

these are brilliant and disturbing.. My Little Pony Justice League

http://www.mlbw.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?p=4094

Oooh. I like this:

http://e-merl.com/ex/

http://www.cartoonistgroup.com/

I'm sure it wasn't supposed to be, but I found this old comic hilarious.

http://www.authentichistory.com/images/1960s/treasure_chest/godless_communism.html

And if I've been relapse in posting this link, here it is, all about early comics.

http://bugpowder.com/andy/

I found this funny.

http://powerdude.blogspot.com/

ND-Painting

Humor


Mona Lisa, Moanin' Lisa, men have named you. . .

http://www.cite-sciences.fr/english/ala_cite/expo/explora/image/mona.html

PN-Film

Today's stars photoshopped into past films

http://www.worth1000.com/cache/contest/contestcache.asp?contest_id=2790&display=photoshop#entries


Rush was pretty good the second time I saw it, 10 years later. Jennifer Jason Leigh brings a quality to her roles besides her general hotness I just love.
State and Main was a great David Mamet movie with an outstanding ensemble cast.
Absolute Power was a by-the-numbers thriller with a solid cast. Good for what it was but nothing special.

PN-FilmCoOp



Before watching The Forbidden Zone at the Flying Monkey Arts Center and talking over some things to do with the FilmCoOp library (shelving, mainly) Catherine said to me ''All right, Don't be such a Pushy McGus'' Then insisted she didn't have the "Mc" in there. But I think that's a great name and I'm going to steal it.
Also saw [info]seamusmoonand [info]celestyna . Wanted to say hi to Margaret, but she seemed to be discussing business type stuff with Catherine and I didn't want to interrupt.

Woo hoo! we *might* be showing this:

http://www.animationshow.com/

at the Drive-in theatre in Athens, AL this September.

PN-TV

Good article on why I hate Jay Leno, and love Dave Letterman.

http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/2004/05/06/feature.html

P-Lit

Poems


This is a beautiful poem

http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/wayman/poem5.htm
PR-American Lit

A Confederacy of Dunces is a great book and I thought this spoof of Ignatius responding to the Nigerian banking scam was brilliant.

http://www.scamorama.com/ignatius-winnie.html

QA-Computer Science

I saw this sign that said programming tutors. Nothing special about that, but I read it as "programming tours" and wondered what that would be like? Would you go on the cruise ship Ada, stop off at Fortran for Basic training. Then simmer down with a nice cup of Java, being careful not to anger the python (s)? C what I mean?

Creative drives and Geological Implications
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This was to [info]pabstreally in [info]seamusmoon's comments section. Like that comment, this reply took on a life of its own.

What's funny is when I went out to Albuquerque the alt newspaper there, the Weekly Alibi and Creative Loafing in Atlanta both had letters complaining about the lack of things to do in their cities respectively. My best friend in Albuquerque has noticed a creative shift there along the same lines on the one going on here in Huntsville. Also done by a passionate few in the background over a few years.

It's all perception. Just modifying Pabsts' comment here to reflect Huntsville now instead of Atlanta:

pick up a copy of the Valley Planet (someone with some know-how finally got a tabloid going on an actual periodic basis-and it's pretty good, 'specially info wise) and you have listings for all of the arts, music, dining, and geeking out for (almost) every single night of the week. most of the time the problem is not what to do it's which to do.

This is true now, but it wasn't accomplished by people bitchin', but by people doing. Well, okay, bitching while doing sometimes (why the hell isn't some else doing this?)

Now, I understand that for anyone under 21 here, it's gotta suck. But that's true most places. It's very rare that people stay where they grew up or had defining years, especially creative people. The post in the comments about DRIVE was right on it. If you have drive, it doesn't really matter where you are, unless there's a specific business you want to help out/cash in on (music promotion in your case, Pabst).

If you're moving toward something, go for it: here, Atlanta, New Orleans, Portland, wherever-but don't make the mistake of thinking that escaping is moving forward-it's not. Running from something doesn't help create worthwhile creative endeavors, but running toward something does.

Frankly, I think the problem is that we simply don't have enough in the way of a population to form anything but a small but fervently passionate audience for shows and such. In my opinion, it really is about the numbers of people. Especially with age demographics.

Name something someone wants to do in Atlanta or Chicago or New Orleans and you can do it here. Not as often, and it may not be as good (then again, it may be better-one of the best plays I ever saw was done by a high school), but instead of just saying that sucks, let's move somewhere else, how about saying and then doing, that sucks-I can do better-then doing it.

Burlesque show? Well, okay maybe not. Bu there are strippers and drag queens.

Plays? Every year. Several. Some good ones some bad ones. Some good performances some bad ones. Can say that of Broadway too. And we do have the Broadway shows here.

Opera? A very vibrant opera community.

Music? Just name a style and it's playing somewhere around here.

Art? Several galleries, and the Art Museum has been getting some great thought provoking collections lately (which was due to the influence of a gallery director who cam in about ten years ago and its just now his influence is showing)

Drugs? I don't do them, and I think its silly to waste money on them, but I personally have no problem with their responsible use. Use does not equal abuse in my opinion.

Sex? Depends. Huntsville was like the 4th largest producer of S& M films in the 60s, and I know there's a big fetish crowd in this city. Vanilla is more my style, but I got no problem with others doing safe responsible sex.

With the net now, it's possible to do creative things with people all over the world. Even a live show with a net cast. Jobs are still pretty geo-centric, but creative works aren't-not anymore. If you're a novelist-it doesn't matter where you live. Same for commercial artist or illustrator or painter. Music may be harder-I don't know. There's a lot of talented people here, but having talented people isn't the same as having the audience for them.

So, instead of bitching about creative people moving, like Seamusmoon did, I'm bitching about the lack of support for the arts in general, and I think Huntsville is a very good indicator of popular trends of the nation since it is such a microcosm of differing cultures and viewpoints.

The Zombie Easter party had a great audience and a lot of people don't realize how very important that is until they see a great act with a bad audience.

[info]amusingmuse, I didn't take to biking those hills right away. It was at least 2 years before I got comfortable with them. But I think you're right, Huntsville was probably a good place to learn how to drive (or bike, for that matte). If you survived it and drive legally, you can drive anywhere with any type of driver.

The biggest difference with Huntsville and larger cities is the type of participation from businesses and local government. Huntsville, until the corporations and local governemnt can see how music and art can benefit an are economically are going to insist on family-friendly safe art.

Art shouldn't have to be safe. It should make you think, feel, react act-not feel comfy (unless that was the intent of the piece).
It shouldn't have to be family friendly either.

Which is why the Panoply arts festival may have a few good things, but not that many. Panoply, if done right, would support the artist with free food and drink while the event was going on so that they could stay at their booths and do their acts and wares. It would also always be a free event withoud fences. Instead we hae support for food vendors who descend like vultures on a crowd that comes out for this sort of thing maybe once or twice a years.
In my opinion, it's not done right, and it never will be until the Ats council wakes up.

Which is why it's great to see so many different non-profitw working together to make ago of the Flying Monkey Arts center for some actual adult entertainment.

I've tried to live by this motto recently,

There is no try, only do.

wait, that's Yoda.

Quit complaining and do something. Moving counts, but only if you do something where you moved to and aren't running away from "this boring town", wherever that may be.

Just another physical down day. Need me some potato to put me back up enough to care.
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GT-Manners and customs

You'd never know it by my blog entires, by gum. I don't usually spell or grammar check them at all, and it definitely shows.

Grammar God!
You are a GRAMMAR GOD!


If your mission in life is not already to
preserve the English tongue, it should be.
Congratulations and thank you!


How grammatically sound are you?
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This actually is the only programming language I've even come close to undrstanding after BASIC. Remember kids, I've had absolutely zero computer training.
You are... Java!
class bottles
         {
           public static void main(String args[])
             {
             String s = "s";
             for (int beers=99; beers>-1;)
               {
               System.out.print(beers + " bottle" + s + " of beer on the wall, ");
               System.out.println(beers + " bottle" + s + " of beer, ");
               if (beers==0)
                 {
                 System.out.print("Go to the store, buy some more, ");
                 System.out.println("99 bottles of beer on the wall.\n");
                 System.exit(0);
                 }
               else
                 System.out.print("Take one down, pass it around, ");
               s = (--beers == 1)?"":"s";
               System.out.println(beers + " bottle" + s + " of beer on the wall.\n");
               }
             }
         }

What programming language are you?


J-Political Science

This is the stuff that pisses me off.

http://zerointelligence.net/archives/000096.php
M-Music

I like this lady's stuff.

http://www.theagilmore.com/

NC-Animation

This was pretty funny flsh of the Exorcist. With Bunnines.

http://www.angryalien.com/0204/exorcistbunnies.ht

Z-Bibliography and Library Sciences

This is a cool list of public domain copyright free stuff from Google:

http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=189815

Barely a Dixie Man and Oblique Strategies
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GT-Manners and Customs

Quizzes

swiped from [info]vampy13

55% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category.

http://www.chuckchamblee.com/dom/fun/yankee_dixie_quiz.htm


P-Languages and Literature

Omigod, this is beautiful. Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt were freaking geniuses.

And why the hell have I never heard of this before, dammit?! (How I even found it now is a mystery. Surfed a few websites and ended up on it. But the back button stopped working on my browser [Opera, which is usually exceptionally good about such things]).

http://www.rtqe.net/ObliqueStrategies/

an online version

http://www.dimensional.com/~jthomas/oblique/

there's a palm version here.

http://tribble.dreamhost.com/obstrt10.zip

DJ Dangermouse's The Grey Album and its whole can of worms that just won't go back in.
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J-Politics

Scott McClellan tries to push back the recession dates into Clinton's terms and that pig don't fly.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/002581.html

http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/2004_archives/000324.html


Yeah, I'm a conspiracy theorist. I think Osama going to be conveniently found close to election time.


http://www.pressaction.com/pablog/archives/001313.html#001313


This is a brilliant idea, just to make them face up to the problems they've helped to lengthen and create

http://www.reuters.com/printerFriendlyPopup.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=4398431

On why the "paper of record" can't really be called that anymore.

http://lefti.blogspot.com/2004_02_01_lefti_archive.html#107695396014714456

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2093445

on the right wing hate machine

http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/04/02/int04011.html

Why you probably shouldn't trust a lot of statistics from this administration.

http://www.ucsusa.org/global_environment/rsi/RSI_final_fullreport.pdf

http://images.ucomics.com/comics/tt/2004/tt040220.gif

M-Music

Interesting legal questions about Dangermouse's The Grey album which mixes J-Z The Black Album with The Beatles The White Album

http://www.illegal-art.org/audio/grey.html

http://www.greytuesday.org/

NC-Drawing-Design

Animation

Great Animation world Network article on Oscar nominated shorts with some short clips in QuickTime format.


http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=2011



comics

I still want to know the answer to the first question. ;)

http://www.gamespy.com/comics/dorktower/images/comics/dorktower321a.jpg

this one cracked me up.

http://www.sinfest.net/comics/sf20040220.gif


P-Languages and Literature


This is a neat little format. The authoring software looks a little pricey, but the reader's free.

http://www.nightkitchen.com/books/samples_featured.phtml

QA-Computer Science and Mathematics

I think Spiro graph really belongs more in this section than in the N-Fine Arts section.

http://www.wordsmith.org/~anu/java/spirograph.html

A good review on my favorite Office type software,
Open Office Dot Org, which is conveniently at

www.openoffice.org


http://www.flexbeta.net/main/articles.php?action=show&id=35

TR-Photography

This is a great reference source. No, it's not dead bodies, you sickos.

http://www.morguefile.com/

This would be nice on a large scale

http://www.archive.org/web/sflan.php

My Inner Child is 10
psychoses, scallawag, pirate
[info]cainmark
A-
On Writing


Good forum on writing by James D. Macdonald here.

http://pub43.ezboard.com/fabsolutewritefrm3.showMessageRange?topicID=257.topic&start=1&stop=20


GV_Recreation

Quizzes


My inner child is ten years old today

My inner child is ten years old!


The adult world is pretty irrelevant to me. Whether
I'm off on my bicycle (or pony) exploring, lost
in a good book, or giggling with my best
friend, I live in a world apart, one full of
adventure and wonder and other stuff adults
don't understand.


How Old is Your Inner Child?
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J-Political Science

Bush at Nascar.

"Then Bush's motorcade drove by. One middle finger went up in the crowd, then another, and soon they were everywhere"

http://www.prospect.org/print-friendly/webfeatures/2004/02/thompson-m-02-17.html



This site is very important. 9/11 Citizens watch.

http://www.911citizenswatch.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=61&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

Good article on Dean by Jesse Jackson.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/jesse/cst-edt-jesse18.html

Why Single Women must vote.

http://www.alternet.org/print.html?StoryID=17862

M-Music

Neat new music site.

http://www.mperia.com/


PN-Film

No, no , no, no, no. This is so wrong is so many ways.

http://www.movieweb.com/news/news.php?id=2733

QA-Computer Science and Mathematics

I don't know why this creeps me out.

But it does.

http://infocult.typepad.com/infocult/2004/02/recursive_simul.html