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Chasing Artist and Downtown Legend Dash Snow -- New York Magazine
They had to flee it in the middle of the night with their suitcases before it was discovered that they’d created one of their Hamster’s Nests, which they’ve done quite a few times before. To make a Hamster’s Nest, Snow and Colen shred up 30 to 50 phone books, yank around all the blankets and drapes, turn on the taps, take off their clothes, and do drugs—mushrooms, coke, ecstasy—until they feel like hamsters.
Chasing Artist and Downtown Legend Dash Snow -- New York Magazine

Replaying history « Jon Udell
"In his writeup on Google Wave, Dare Obasanjo says:

I’m sure there are thousands of Web developers out there right now asking themselves “would my app be better if users could see each others’ edits in real time?”,”should we add a playback feature to our service as well” [ed note - wikipedia could really use this] and “why don’t we support seamless drag and drop in our application?”. All inspired by their exposure to Google Wave.

Indeed, every application that preserves a change history needs playback."

Replaying history « Jon Udell

Series 16a - George Masa Papers

Series 16a - George Masa Papers

Interesting Japanese-American photographer involved with founding of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, apparently. Must investigate.

Black peas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Black peas, also called parched peas or maple peas, form a traditional Lancashire dish served often on or around Bonfire Night (5 November). The dish, popular in Bury and Bolton, is made from the black pea (Cajanus cajan) which is long soaked overnight and simmered to produce a type of mushy pea. Parching is a now defunct term for long slow boiling.[1]
Black peas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Something I'll have to try one of these days.

The 20' By 20' Room: Fantasy Vietnam
When David Wesely created Braunstein, his seminal proto-roleplaying game, he was inspired, he said, by three books he'd found in the University of Minnesota library. One was a wargame by the glorious 19th-century crackpot Charles Totten. One was a primer on game theory by the Cold War eggheads of the RAND Corporation. And the third was Conflict and Defense, an assault on RANDian game theory by the Quaker peace activist, systems theorist, and mystical poet Kenneth Boulding. A catholic trinity, to say the least.
The 20' By 20' Room: Fantasy Vietnam

MIT OpenCourseWare | Writing and Humanistic Studies | 21W.747-3 Classical Rhetoric and Modern Politi

MIT OpenCourseWare | Writing and Humanistic Studies | 21W.747-3 Classical Rhetoric and Modern Politics, Spring 2006 | Readings

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Writing-and-Humanistic-Studies/21W-747-3Spring-2006/Readings/index.htm

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Literature/21L-705Spring-2008/Readings/index.htm

Pondering a little guidance ...

.... Psychohistory?
I mean people actually in police and law enforcement do this for modeling behavior of crime or it's called crime analysis. They'll look at different perimeters of incidents of crime. Look at it in terms of a social networking or community environment and then forecast possible crimes. And then as a result of that, police departments will redistrict their law enforcement resources to most maximize where these issues are.
Jack Dangermond Interview 1 of 3: Web Mapping - O'Reilly Radar

...
I have accomplishments, even if I'm alone in recognizing them.

Companion of the Argent Rapier, September 2008

Rapier Warlord, June 2008

Award of Arms, May 2008

Ode to Entropy

All change distributes energy
spills what cannot be gathered again.
Each meal, each smile,
each foot-race to the well by Jack and Jill
scatters treasure, lets fall
gold straws once woven from the resurgent dust.
The night sky blazes with Byzantine waste.
The bird's throbbing is expenditure,
and the tide's soughing,
and the tungsten filament illumining my hand.
A ramp has been built into probability
the universe cannot re-ascend.
For our small span,
the sun has fuel, the moon lifts the lulling sea,
the highway shudders with stolen hydrocarbons.

--John Updike

Auctorial honesty
As long as I'm dealing in honesty, I may as well admit that I have been more influenced (as a person) by my childhood readings of Tolkien and Lewis than I have been by any philosophers I read in college and grad school. The events and characters in Narnia and Middle Earth shaped my ideals, my dreams, my goals. Kant just annoyed me.
Powell's Books - PowellsBooks.BLOG - The Amazing Tale of the Butterfly-Unicorn-Ballerina-Princess and the Giant, Creeping Land Squid

Avalon Project - The Barbary Treaties 1786-1816 - Treaty of Peace and Friendship, Signed at Tripoli
ARTICLE 11.

As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion,-as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen,-and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.
Avalon Project - The Barbary Treaties 1786-1816 - Treaty of Peace and Friendship, Signed at Tripoli November 4, 1796

The Paranoid Style in American Politics
We are all sufferers from history, but the paranoid is a double sufferer, since he is afflicted not only by the real world, with the rest of us, but by his fantasies as well.
The Paranoid Style in American Politics

EXILED ONLINE - MANKIND’S ONLY ALTERNATIVE » The War Nerd: This Is How the Carriers Will Die (Update
Think back a ways. How old is the ballistic missile? Kind of a trick question; a siege mortar is a ballistic missile, just unguided. A trebuchet on an upslope outside a castle is a ballistic weapon. But serious long-range rocket-powered ballistic weapons go back at least to the V-2. A nuclear-armed V2 would have been a pretty solid way of wiping out a carrier group, and both components, the nuke and the ballistic missile, were available as long ago as 1945.

EXILED ONLINE - MANKIND’S ONLY ALTERNATIVE » The War Nerd: This Is How the Carriers Will Die (Updated Version) - Gary Brecher

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