Errata

Target : Kabbalah Red String: "A centuries-old spiritual tool used by Kabbalists, this red string is believed to protect against the evil eye, a negative energy source."

vaginoscopio v1.0: "Kaleidoscopic porn."

glarkware :: urban asshole notification cards: "Urban life is fraught with daily challenges. We're beset on all sides -- by thoughtless co-workers, oblivious roommates, and even regular strangers on the street -- with the flagrant flouting of the simple rules that govern mundane transactions in society. One such rule, however, is that we don't confront those who transgress against the social order -- and that's a rule Glarkware feels was made to be broken.

Now you can confront those who wrong you, in a way that won't result in your getting your ass beat up. Let the Urban Asshole cards do the talking for you, and put urban assholes in their place."

ITaP: Student Writer: "Duties include interviewing sources, writing, and proofreading articles for newsletters, Web pages, and other internal and external communications. Opportunity exists to assist with special events, booths, and displays."

real_indiana: Exteremely Political: "'HEY HONKEY LEAVE BEFORE YOU GET SHOT, THIS IS THE BLACK MAN'S WEEKEND.'

Ok, what the fuck? No, its not. The only reason you get a black expo is because white people feel sorry for what happened 100 or 200 years ago, which is slavery, when we shouldn't feel bad at all. Our ancestors are the ones that stole you from you're home and brought you here. Now, while playing DDR these 5 ugly black bitches walk up and are making fun of DDR. I stop mid song, and like 'why dont you shut your fat ass up bitch!' and yes I really said that, then shes all like 'oh no hes gonna get me mad' then 1 of em tried pocking me with a fucking umbrella. She walks off calling me a fucking cracker honkey or something, so I shout

'You fucking bitch, you should be thanking my ancestors for bringing you to this country!'"

Amazon.com: Books: Quarterlife Crisis: The Unique Challenges of Life in Your Twenties: "This addition to the crowded self-help genre claims to document a previously overlooked phase of life: the period between college graduation and one's 30th birthday, when young adults struggle to find their place in the world. While the assertion that this period can be wracked by 'crisis' rings true, this attempt by recent college grads Robbins and Wilners to document it falters. Their overall effort, though uplifting, lacks the substantive advice that many people need as they enter adulthood. According to the authors, the difficulty arises when 20-somethings are ejected from the structured academic environment and forced to choose a career, find a home, carve out social niches and manage money (or the lack thereof). This period can indeed be rocky, especially when a young person is told that the world is her oyster and then can't find a satisfying job. In a somewhat self-conscious vernacular, Robbins and Wilner discuss, among other things, spirituality, job-hopping and living with parents. Most of the book's advice lies in lengthy quotes from other 20-somethings an anecdotal overabundance that makes for more of a pastiche than a guidebook. But while the book may not have all the answers for members of generation-Y, it at least provides proof that they're not alone in feeling pressured, depressed or disappointed."

Welcome to Frassle - frassle: "Frassle is a new kind of information system that leverages the unique tastes and opinions of many individuals to help you manage information overload. Frassle builds on important ideas from weblogs, aggregators, social networks, and search engines."

Doug Kaufman's Web Site - DOS ports: "This site exists primarily to distribute DOS ports of programs in which I have taken an interest. This consists primarily of the text-mode web browser 'lynx', the network file retrievers 'wget' and 'curl', the file compressor 'bzip2' and the URL extractor 'urlview'. Running programs originally designed for unix in DOS is not necessarily easy. If you download these programs, please read the text files which explain how to set up these programs in DOS and which functional problems may be present."

links clips notes etc.: "Oh! Um! Hi, Salon people! How nice to see you! I wasn't expecting you! Here, sorry, the place is a mess, won't you come in? Oh, uh, whoops, can you hold on a moment while I get myself decent? Do you want something to read? There's a bunch over in the sidebar. Oh, man. Here we go. I'm afraid there's a bunch of inside baseball about a comic book convention down there, but if you go spelunking a little there are a few more excellent MP3s that haven't expired yet. "

The Regional Economist: "Economists have long been interested in why some countries are rich and why some countries are poor. Differences in labor productivity, inflation, and saving and investment rates are traditional economic explanations for variations in wealth across countries. But when these explanations fall short, researchers sometimes turn to noneconomic factors. Two such factors are a country’s legal and social institutions. Religious factors can also help explain variations in economic growth, many economists are increasingly finding. In particular, in countries where large percentages of the population believe in hell, there seem to be less corruption and a higher standard of living."

Suicide Rate In Japan Reaches Epidemic Proportions: "Japan has been stricken by an epidemic of suicides cutting across all social strata and age groups, according to recently released statistics for 2003. "

Telegraph | News | Japan gets set for the Buttocks generation: "Japanese parents have been given government permission to name their children 'Buttocks' or 'Prostitute' if they wish after a bizarre row over expanding the list of officially acceptable names."

Stuff It, Emo Boy!: "Emo boy is currently manifested on the big screen in the persona of Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man 2. In the last scene of the movie, Kirsten Dunst, as the long-suffering M.J., says, "Go get him, killer," lovingly giving the hero her blessing to go out and fight more crime rather than consummate their relationship. And she just left another man at the altar! Why won’t Spidey just do the deed?"

Firefox extension google preview plugin thumbnails: "A Mozilla Firefox 0.9 browser extension that inserts preview images (thumbnails) of web sites, Amazon products and stock charts into the Google search results page."

kiss my bitter ass: "I really do not want to give too many details about this, considering that howard stern occasionally gives free advertising to the place I work at on his show. (in the form of good reviews) By posting this I am essentially risking my job because my employers would not appreciate this.

If he really liked the place, I would think he would tip better. I was his only waiter -- my boss specifically pulled me off of working with other people so that I could get his table everything they needed as soon as possible. For probably two hours I served his party, and I was expecting a very nice tip for my services rendered. He is a big name celebrity after all. The manager personally came up to him and told him that his bill was taken care of. Apparently this a-hole thought the tip was included in that as well, because I didnt see a single penny from this tightwad jew bastard."

The Exponent - features: "Popular tools for self-expression and information exchange in the cyber world — Weblogs, or blogs, as they are called for short — have become an increasingly popular fixture on the Internet since the late '90s and now several Purdue professors are bringing them into the classroom.

According to an upcoming book tentatively titled "The New Technologies Handbook," which is co-authored by David Blakesley, associate professor of English, the definition of a blog is an online journal or commentary usually written by an individual or a small group of people.

Blakesley, the director of Purdue's professional writing program, learned about blogs from a colleague, researched them and began using them in his classroom last summer."

Tivo Video to DVD for Windows: "Tivo Video to DVD for Windows"

Typewriters | Metafilter: "Why I use a typewriter. All this talk of retro technology! Great essay from Bill Meissner on why he uses a typewriter. Also worth checking out is Ian Frazier's piece in The Atlantic about typewriter man Martin Tytell, and this interview with Harlan Ellison about why he can't use a computer to write with. (via Sassone)"

How NOT to Talk!: "Conversational Cheap Shots"

Live from Gusev Crater!: "more useless information about Mark."

Jake @ Myspace.com: "And Jake's?"

Kirsten @ Myspace.com: "Kirsten Dunst's myspace?"

MonkeyFilter | Donnie Darko for Dummies: "Who doesn't like Salon ads?
Me. Save this URL and avoid."

Salon.com Arts & Entertainment | Everything you were afraid to ask about "Donnie Darko": "Everything you were afraid to ask about 'Donnie Darko'
With the release of the new director's cut, there are even more questions about the 2001 cult fave. Who's the fat guy in the track suit? What's with the 6-foot rabbit? We answer them all."

audible frequency: "this is a page containing sounds i've heard and recorded, mostly around the city of chicago. if you would like to use any of the sounds on this page, all i ask is that you please notify me via email indicating what you would like to use the sound for and see the creative commons license."

muted tones // introduction: "Seven curators, seven months, seventy minutes of music. Each month is assigned to a curator, whose job it is to fill ten minutes with the sounds of their choosing. They are invited to keep a log of their work, as they create it. Each month, their ten minute piece of music is made available for streaming or download. Select volume one or volume two."

Hillarious picture comics

9-11 Commission Final Report: "The Commission’s Final Report provides a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11th, 2001, terrorist attacks, including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks. It also includes recommendations designed to guard against future attacks. Below you will find the official Government edition of the Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States.

The Full Report (7 MB, 585 pages) has been made available in its entirety, as a single PDF file."

News Sentinel | 07/20/2004 | Bishop says church should ban gay priests: "Bishop says church should ban gay priests"

TCS: Tech Central Station - The Trouble with Libertarianism: "For it simply isn't true that libertarianism is neutral between various moral and religious worldviews, notwithstanding that most libertarians would like to believe (indeed do believe) that it is."

105.9 WCKG: "Kevin Matthews Middays
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM

KevHead.com
(312) 591-WCKG"

Just the Facts: "Former WCKG 105.9-FM employees Kelly Mohr and John Myron, known on the air as Kelly and Pugs, are suing afternoon host Steve Dahl for violating their right to privacy.

Dahl secretly taped conversations in which they dissed him and then played the tapes on the air. Mohr and Myron were fired from 'CKG last year. They are seeking compensatory damages for 'intentional and malicious acts ...in reckless disregard for their rights.' As an old media law student, I'd say they have a much stronger case than Janet Dahl has against WKQX 101.1-FM morning host Mancow Muller."

Pocket PC magazine Forum - Help w/Bluetooth Connectivity 4 iPaq h1945: "WIXDC001@W5.MYCINGULAR.COM"

Web Hosting Reviews .com : Web Host Guide - [ Basic Hosting | Dedicated Server | ColdFusion Hosting | E-Commerce | NT Hosting ]: "WebHostingReviews.com has been updated once again by an addition of new web hosts throughout our various showcases."

Zenit News Agency - The World Seen From Rome: "Religious unbelief isn't uncommon anymore, says the president of the Pontifical Council for Culture. "

radioguy42: Excerpt of a letter from Nick Anthis, Pu: "Excerpt of a letter from Nick Anthis, Publicity Director for the Aggie Democrats to NY Subs. If you're from B/CS, and especially not Republican, make sure you read this, so you don't come back from the summer and are surprised."

Venus: Gillian Welch

Ironically, in recollecting her own motivation for moving to Nashville, Gillian settles easily on the adjectives "romantic" and "unrealistic." In effect, a whim. Like a young Charlie Parker moving to New York City for Jazz music, or Axl Rose hopping a Greyhound to find heavy metal in L.A., Gillian migrated to Nashville, Tennessee for no other reason than the country music that she loves.

Now, some ten years later, she is not only hitting her stride musically but brimming with stories about her time in the Nashville that had she hoped for. Both humble and amused, Gillian doesn't take notice that Emmylou Harris is just "Emmy" in her stories or that performing at the Grand Ole Opry is just "the Opry." She can, however, appreciate the beauty of being stood up for dinner by Willie Nelson at a tiny fried chicken shack. "Willie stood us up," she explains with a laugh, "but it's better to be stood up by Willie, than to not have a date with Willie."

Actually, this optimism went a long way, since Gillian and her co-collaborator David Rawlings salvaged a song for the new album out of the experience. Standing in line for their fried chicken Gillian overheard a wonderful piece of spontaneous conversation - "Well you know, one monkey don't stop the show" - a phrase that would be the main foundation and chorus for the Soul Journey track "One Monkey."

Gillian sees this as further evidence of finding the Nashville she had dreamed of. "Willie knew there was a song waiting there for me...and he didn't want me to miss it," she explains humorously.

Without ever needing to directly speak of her reasons for titling her latest album Soul Journey, her motives are clear, "This is what I meant by the Nashville that I moved here for, it has come to life all around me."

JB:

What is meant by the title, One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show?

Khujo: It’s all the adversity we were up against. Like, Ya’ll can’t do it without Arista. Ya’ll can’t do it without Cee-Lo. Or without Organized Noize producing your whole album. It’s multiple meanings. Like when I was in the accident, I couldn’t perform and get out there and do what I had to do but time permitted me to get back up and not let that monkey hinder me as much. There’s a lot of positive stuff around this album. We heard our elders say it long before we decided to put it on wax. It’s a perfect time for the whole country. Like 9/11, they didn’t let that stop the show. All the lights came back on. People went back to work. Goodie Mob is about relating far beyond one person.

The Africana QA: Cee-Lo Green: "What's the current situation with Goodie Mob?

Well, it's definitely in better standings than it was a while ago. We are in the process of reconciling our personal differences and kind of trying to salvage our personal relationships. I don't know if artistically we'll come back together any time soon, I simply just don't know. It's not something that I would pretend, or attempt to pretend just for the sake of doing a Goodie Mob album. If the feeling is right and we're all on the same page. It was never ever really anything personal with me; it kind of festered into something personal. To begin with, it was more artistic, I was just ready to move on and do some other things. So it's unfortunate that our dirty laundry got aired but we're working through it man, no hard feelings.

But what about the name of Goodie Mob's new album, One Monkey Don't Stop No Show? Being called a monkey is a hurtful racial slur.

It hurt my feelings that there's even an insinuation that the album is pertaining to me. I may have been the initial monkey, so to speak, but in the South, we say 'monkey' as in regarding to an obstacle. So if you were to talk to Khujo, he would tell you that his accident [that resulted in the amputation of Goodie Mob member Khujo's right leg] was also a monkey that didn't stop the show. You understand what I mean? To begin with, I was taking it personal but I will say that my leaving the group in itself is a monkey that didn't stop the show. I guess that's cool. They're supposed to feel like that and have the ability and musical attributes to go on without me.

But I do think that some degree of it was a little negative. I'm sure the insinuation gets people to wondering and gets people to inquire about what's going on, but to some degree I feel that it was jumpstarted off of a supposed beef between us. In that sense, it's not truly honorable but the fact that there are other circumstances that are also relevant to the title caused me to be a lot more levelheaded about it, but to begin with, it was just disappointing. I had and I have more empathy than I ever had anger.

Outside of the South, most people wouldn't have known about that slang. Some consider it racially offensive.

It is shocking to hear. And of course, in some regard it's a ploy. It's supposed to shock you and be like 'Damn!' and hey, you might end up buying that album because of it. So it's one of those more or less trump card type of situations. I felt like maybe it was due to some degree of vulnerability or insecurity to begin with that they would have to lean on such a thing to try and sell that album and not just selling it off of the product alone. But I have talked to the guys about it and I let them know how I feel about it and it remains to be seen. People ask me about it all the time and I'm like 'hey, we'll see!' Then they ask me if we'll get back together and you know, after a statement like that was made, I got to see that come to pass first or else it would be pointless."

POE News: Rumsfeld Fighting Technique: "Rumsfeld Fighting Technique"

Oregon State Daily Barometer Online - Examining the gay rights movement: "Clearly, homosexual acts cannot be justified by a blanket appeal to the legitimacy of acting on desire. The question then, is whether they can be justified on other grounds. In short, it is clearly immoral to indulge some urges; is homosexuality among them?

Space limitations force me to continue this next week, when I will further examine the moral and legal questions pertaining to the topic."

SSINFO: "Off Campus Housing"

'Top Model': A Teetery Runway to Fame (washingtonpost.com): "Sewell is also an atheist who was not amused when, in the middle of a household argument regarding a photo shoot, Manning launched into a hymn, orchestrated a prayer circle and then prayed loudly and tearfully. Manning, at 5 feet 9 inches and 160 pounds, is quite pretty and mostly suitable for the plus-size market. She is the show's nod to political correctness -- and perhaps to the Bible Belt."

AGORA: Winter 2002 Issue: Goyal: "Elements of Atheism in Hindu Thought

Biju Sukumaran
Texas A&M University"

Winnipeg Sun: NEWS - Man takes wrong turn: "A man caught driving naked from the waist down while watching kiddie porn on his laptop computer has become the first man in Toronto charged with allegedly stealing an Internet connection. Toronto police laid a theft of communications charge after busting a man driving the wrong way down a one-way street, downloading child porn using stolen wireless Internet signals."

The New York Times > Books > Fewer Noses Stuck in Books in America, Survey Finds: "Still, in a world where information is more readily available than ever, where people know more than they ever have, and where visual acuity is becoming ever more crucially utilitarian, it is worth asking: What, if anything, does literature's diminished importance to Americans represent? The study has already produced conflicting reactions.

"It's not just unfortunate, it's real cause for concern," said James Shapiro, a professor of English at Columbia University. "A culture gets what it pays for, and if we think democracy depends on people who read, write, think and reflect — which is what literature advances — then we have to invest in what it takes to promote that."

On the other hand Kevin Starr, librarian emeritus for the state of California and a professor of history at the University of Southern California, said that if close to 50 percent of Americans are reading literature, "that's not bad, actually."

"In an age where there's no canon, where there are so many other forms of information, and where we're returning to medieval-like oral culture based on television," he said, "I think that's pretty impressive, quite frankly." Mr. Starr continued: "We should be alarmed, I suppose, but the horse has long since run out of the barn. There are two distinct cultures that have evolved, and by far the smaller is the one that's tied up with book and high culture. You can get through American life and be very successful without anybody ever asking you whether Shylock is an anti-Semitic character or whether `Death in Venice' is better than `The Magic Mountain.' ""

The New York Times > Travel > Interest Guide: "Hiking"

MonkeyFilter | I swear, I'll never miss an mp3 again.: "wget to the rescue. Having trouble keeping up with all those mp3 blogs?
This guy has figured out a way to scrape all the new audio files from your favourite sites."

pancake.org: zina is not andromeda: Zina is a graphical interface to your MP3 collection, a personal jukebox, an MP3 streamer. It can run on its own, embeded into an existing website, or as a Postnuke/PHPNuke module. It is similar to Andromeda, but released under the GNU General Public License.

When you can't work from home: "The goal of Gate-3 Workclub in Emeryville, Calif., is to create a new kind of community where neighborhood people can “work and network and hang out with friends,” founder Neil Goldberg says."

Common Errors in English: "Common Errors in English"