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This month: 26 entries.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,39667,00.html jurors are forced to watch 11 hours of porn: "Crone limited each day's viewing hours, explaining, 'It's extremely onerous to watch any kind of videotape for that length of time.'" 16:03

http://www.flong.com/telesymphony/ a mobile phone concert! 10:39

http://www.beliefnet.com/frameset.asp?pageLoc=/story/93/
story_9363_1.html&boardID=28862 a Rabbi interviews Jewish Playboy centerfold ... perhaps "grills" is a better word. 15:27

http://slate.msn.com/?id=2059057 "Chomsky is famous for his analysis of U.S. government actions and the language used by officials to blind the citizenry from the truth, yet in this speech the MIT professor comes close to adopting the language of distortion he abhors." 11:27

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7853-2001Nov23.html the last two Jews in Kabul: "Both had their run-ins with the Taliban. But their biggest problems, they agree, were with each other." 16:27

http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html SI binary prefixes: "Once upon a time, computer professionals noticed that 210 was very nearly equal to 1000 and started using the SI prefix "kilo" to mean 1024." 15:21

http://tnr.com/online/idiocy102901.html stupid things said about America (or terrorists) post-9/11. This is the Nobel Prize-winners edition. 16:55

http://newyorker.com/PRINTABLE/?fact/011119fa_FACT2 "The Revolt of Islam: When did the conflict with the West begin, and how could it end?" 15:14

http://newyorker.com/FROM_THE_ARCHIVE/ARCHIVES/?011126fr_
archive02 A strange theory of David Hockney: Old Masters used lenses and projection devices to get perspective right. 16:44

http://www.kleinbottle.com/gauss.htm 17:54

http://64.224.191.180/touristguy/found.html 11:28

http://slate.msn.com/?id=2058739 review of Harry Potter 17:31

http://www.worldbank.org/annualreport/2001/pdf/tab8_4.pdf over the last five years, the net transfer of World Bank money to India was -$2.3bn. (Note negative.) I am looking into this. 14:51

http://3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592.jp/
 stop loading this after a while... 10:21

http://orn-lab.ekol.lu.se/birdmigration/windtunnel/ 11:24

http://www.tobyyoung.co.uk/extract2.htm drugs and difficult celebrities: about a photo shoot for Vanity Fair 16:21

http://www.nanowrimo.com/about.htm "Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 200-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30. ... Because of the limited writing window, the ONLY thing that matters in NaNoWriMo is output. ... Make no mistake: You will be writing a lot of crap." Uh, why do this? 23:52

http://www.divine-interventions.com/ 14:20

http://www.pixyland.org/peterpan/updatenews.html Peter Pan found his Tinkerbell! 12:35

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/mariah/smiley1.shtml Letter to Mariah Carey. "The best I've ever gotten at being creative..." 12:22

http://slate.msn.com/?id=2058208 "Can you plead guilty and maintain your innocence?" 10:09

http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/archives/18/adcreep.html advertising is everywhere 02:41

http://slate.msn.com/?id=2058106 9/11 (sic) assignments for the press to handle 02:14

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/dynamic/news/story.html?in_
review_id=470295&in_review_text_id=424158 casting the present action against terrorism as a "war" is a big mistake--it commits you to certain actions, and mandates a particular definition of success that is unlikely to be attained 16:14

http://slate.msn.com/?id=2058022 David Denby (rather movingly, actually) describes the things that the the US should be associated with: freedom of speech, tolerance, the separation of church and state, "constitutionalism"--not Coca-Cola, McDonald's, internet porn 11:44

http://www.citypaper.net/articles/101801/news.godfrey.shtml uncle sam looking foolish: man stopped from flying because of the book he was carrying 00:49