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Erik Estrada has a fan site

You haven't surfed the net if you haven't visited the official Erik Estrada fan site.

Linked on 10th December 2000 Details

The Times: All dressed up and someplace to go

The Times has published lettersrecounting childhood indignities suffered at fancy dress parties. Parents seem to have a knack for inflicting these things upon us, but the tradition goes on as children grow up, become parents, and do the same thing to their offspring all over again. Revenge or post-traumatic memory loss?

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Posted on 18th March 2001 Details

Camera Planet

Some interesting ideas here: AtCamera Planet, prospective video reporters contact them with their true stories. If selected, a miniDV camera kit is shipped to them. They film their own first-person reality TV segment and send the footage back.Camera Planetthen edits and broadcasts the segment.

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Posted on 17th May 2001 Details

The Independent: Conqueror of enigma code finally honoured

Better late than never.Alan Turinggets a statue in Manchester.

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Posted on 25th June 2001 Details

The Times: Banana baffles takeaway children

A study in Scotland has shown that children with parents who rely heavily on takeaways and pre-processed food, don’t even know thata banana has to be peeled. If I hadn’t read this in The Times, I’d think it came straight from The Onion. I’m surprised though, these children of a fast-food nation are usually TV children too, and should have spotted at least one primate peeling fruit at some time or other on their screens.

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Posted on 10th September 2001 Details

Gestures around the World

When you meet a good friend in Belgium, you would greet them with a kiss. This would be done by brushing your lips against the other person’s check three times in a row...one cheek, the other cheek, and then back again to the first cheek.Ehm, sorry, that’s in France, not here. I’ve hardly ever seen anyone do that in Belgium, it’s usually just one kiss on one cheek. Makes you wonder about the rest ofGestures around the World.(viaxblog)

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Posted on 19th September 2001 Details

IHT: Taboos Are Put to Test in West's View of Islam

Here’s avery interesting articleabout the taboo currently surrounding any discussion of islam, as well as the cultural differences and inferiority complexes all "sides" live with.

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Posted on 9th October 2001 Details

BBC News: Richard Dawkins: The foibles of faith

The BBCprofiles Richard Dawkins:just because something is comforting doesn’t mean it’s true.Yes, indeed.

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Posted on 14th October 2001 Details

BBC News: Net guru's fragmented future

Afascinating interviewwith Nicholas Negroponte about his vision of the future.

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Posted on 30th October 2001 Details

Guardian: Buffalo boy

A must-read interview withVincent Gallowhere everything from masturbation to politics (or is that the same thing?) get discussed.(thanks, John)

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Posted on 1st November 2001 Details

Intrepid Trips

Sad news: Merry prankster and authorKen Keseyhas passed away at age 66.

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Posted on 11th November 2001 Details

NY Times: Kesey's Words Resonate at the End of a Long Trip

Ken Kesey gets alast farewell.

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Posted on 15th November 2001 Details

Word Socialist Web Site: The New York Times and the case of John Walker

An attackon the New York Times and other media over the demonisation of John Walker.(cheers Flow)

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Posted on 27th December 2001 Details

Ground Zero - Frank Morales

Amoving accountof the horror of ground zero by a priest sent in there to do the last rites. You must read this!

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Posted on 6th January 2002 Details

IHT: Shower Power

Theself-cleaning househas not been a success.

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Posted on 19th January 2002 Details

RuPaul: weblog

Cool, another celebrity weblog:RuPaulis part of the madness.

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Posted on 6th February 2002 Details

CBS: Reagan Turns 91

Ronald Reagan hasturned 91, let’s all celebrate by visiting theReagan Home for the Criminally Insane.

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Posted on 6th February 2002 Details

Salon: Straight from the heart

Lover letters and direct mail,identical techniques.

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Posted on 12th February 2002 Details

BBC News: Comedian Spike Milligan dies

Sad news:Spike Milliganhas left us. I was introduced to his offbeat sense of humour via my father’s recordings of theGoons radio showhe taped in the fifties. No one has ever managed to get me laughing to tears as much as he has.

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Posted on 27th February 2002 Details

The Times: Winged Prince is 'Saviour of the World'

This is it, the world has gone completely crazy: Prince Charles is to be immortalised in Brazil in the form ofa statuewhere he stands as a muscular, winged god dressed in a loincloth. The inscription below the statue will read ‘Saviour of the World’.

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Posted on 7th March 2002 Details

Las Vegas Mercury - Goldberg: Dear Diary...

Next time you go out with someone, type their name into google, it mightturn up a few surprises.

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Posted on 22nd March 2002 Details

BBC News: Princes remember their inspiration

The Queen Mum was anAli G fan. Simultaneously funny and frightening.

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Posted on 9th April 2002 Details

Atlantic Online: Tales of the Tyrant

A great article/bio onSaddam Hussein.

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Posted on 3rd May 2002 Details

SIRC guide to flirting

Aguide to flirtingfrom a social science point of view. I find this whole deconstruction of flirting sort of scary, actually.

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Posted on 2nd June 2002 Details

Boing Boing: Howard Rheingold's keynote

Boing Boing transcribesHoward Rheingold’s keynoteat theReboot conference. It makes me wish I was there.

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Posted on 7th June 2002 Details

Confide in me: open secrets

I’m unsure whether I should laugh or cry when I read the secrets people feel some urge to broadcast to the net at large viaConfide in me.

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Posted on 15th July 2002 Details

Alternet: Devil in a blue dress.

Thelunatic ravingsof Ann Coulter.

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Posted on 13th September 2002 Details

Stuff: Russel Crowe wouldn't have known what hit him.

Actor Russel Crowe has been anaughty boyagain.

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Posted on 18th November 2002 Details

L'Express: Les fabuleux freres Bogdanov

If you watched French TV as a kid in the eighties, you probably remember theTemps Xshow. The Bogdanov brothers who hosted this show recentlypublished some scientific papersafter obtaining their physics degrees. The scientific community, initially believing it was a prank, are now up in arms about the paper’s lack of scientific value.

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Posted on 29th November 2002 Details

Sunday Herald: How Cherie gained two houses ... but lost the plot

I wish Belgium had suchinteresting familiesin its government.

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Posted on 10th December 2002 Details

cnet: Hacker Mitnick's Internet homecoming

So ‘infamous hacker’ Kevin Mitnick wouldlike a 17 inch Powerbook? I can imagine the Switch ads now.

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Posted on 24th January 2003 Details

Salon: Interview - Hunter S. Thompson (Salon Premium - requires subscription or day pass)

Hunter S. Thompsondoesn’t mince his wordswhen talking about post-9/11 America.

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Posted on 3rd February 2003 Details

Guardian: Not so wacko Jacko

Is Michael Jackson thelogical outcomeof western values?(thanks KmD)

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Posted on 5th February 2003 Details

ABC News: 'Nasal Cripple'

What would Michael Jacksonlook like now, aged 44, if he hadn’t had all that surgery?

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Posted on 13th February 2003 Details

Always On: Sony's CEO Unplugged

Part 1 of aninteresting interviewwith Nobuyuki Idei, CEO of Sony Corporation.

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Posted on 4th March 2003 Details

Wired: Design According to Ive

Jonathan Ive, designer of the Apple G5 gives Wired animpromptu tourof the new machine.

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Posted on 26th June 2003 Details

Technology Review: Master of Design

Aninteresting interviewwith Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO design.

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Posted on 26th June 2003 Details

Wired: Hackers Lose a Patron Saint

St Jude of, among other things, Mondo 2000 fame hasrecently passed away.(thanks Fdh)

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Posted on 22nd July 2003 Details

Sky News: Mini-Me bags a beauty

Mini-me isgetting married.

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Posted on 24th July 2003 Details

Consumption Junction: Crispin Glover does the Letterman Show (Windows Media File)

The completely whacked out Letterman interview where Crispin Glover is high or something is nowviewable online. Fantastic!

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Posted on 24th July 2003 Details

Salon: Forbidden thoughts about 9/11

Forbidden thoughtsabout 9/11

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Posted on 12th September 2003 Details

CNN: President Bush pens a poem

How did I miss this? Bush is alsoa poet.

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Posted on 6th October 2003 Details

London and Blaine

There were no updates recently as I was taking some time off in London where, as you can see, David Blaine is still hanging in his box with another 5 days left to reach his goal of44 without food.(click to see larger view)

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Posted on 15th October 2003 Details

Discovery Channel: 1,000 Times Too Many Humans?

Time tostop breeding.

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Posted on 29th December 2003 Details

Shaun Ryder: The Agony and the Ecstasy

I just watchedthis fly-on-the-wall documentaryabout Shaun Ryder. I didn’t realise he’d fallen that low. Asthis articleputs it, by all rights he should be dead now.

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Posted on 23rd February 2004 Details

Belle de jour

Is call-girlBelle de jourreally journalistSarah Champion?

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Posted on 19th March 2004 Details

Carl de Moncharline

Most people in Brussels knowCarl de Moncharline, if only from the amazing quantities of spam he spews out advertising the self-promotional events he organises. Read the linked thread (in French) to get more insight into the questionable universe he’s created for himself. It’s worth it.

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Posted on 7th May 2004 Details

celebrities-eating.com

Yet more proof that you can find absolutely anything on the internet:celebrities eating.

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Posted on 27th June 2004 Details

NY Times: The Son Also Rises

A colourfulinterview with Reagan’s son.

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Posted on 28th June 2004 Details

Steven Seagal: Songs from the crystal cave

Maybe this has been common knowledge for a while but it’s certainly new to me. Steven Seagal, master of the single facial expression, beat-em-up movie star and buddy to the Dalai Lama, hasreleased a blues album? It’s only available in France which must be to Steven whatGermany is to David Hasselhoff.

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Posted on 23rd July 2004 Details

William Gibson: no more Vietnams

As noted in many places, William Gibson is blogging again. I’m adding to the collective linking hysteria for one simple reason:his latest post really merits reading.

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Posted on 14th October 2004 Details

Slashdot: Neal Stephenson Responds With Wit and Humor

Slashdot has a lenghty and delicious interview with author and ultimate nerdNeal Stephenson.

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Posted on 20th October 2004 Details

BBC News: Legendary radio DJ John Peel dies

It’s a sad day in the music world. Radio veteran John Peel haspassed away. It feels like a friend has died.

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Posted on 26th October 2004 Details

Monkey Methods: Bill Gates Strikes a Pose for Teen Beat Photospread, 1983

Bill Gates probably cringes significantly when he remembersthis photo spreadwhere he nonchalantly flips his floppies at the camera for a 1983 edition of Teen Beat magazine.

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Posted on 16th January 2005 Details

Amazon DevCon - Rael Dornfest

Several well-known technologists and software developers were invited to an internal conference for the development staff at amazon.com headquarters this week. Most corporations would close an event like this to outsiders, which is what Amazon has done also. The major difference being that they’ve beenblogging highlights of the talks to the rest of the worldvia the Amazon Web Services Blog. They’re basically killing two birds with one stone: scoring top marks for openness and simultaneously showing potential recruits the kind of perks that come with working there. They “get it” and also attract people who “get it”.

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Posted on 21st January 2005 Details

NY Times: Hunter S. Thompson, 65, Author, Commits Suicide

Gonzo journalist and author Hunter S. Thompsonfatally shot himself last night, I’ll miss his acerbic writing. Somehow, his way of passing seems strangely appropriate.

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Posted on 21st February 2005 Details

ESPN: Mahalo, Doc

A couple of Hunter S. Thompson links:

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Posted on 22nd February 2005 Details

Photos of the extraordinary passengers spotted in ...

Photos of the extraordinary passengers spotted in the Moscow subway

Linked on 30th August 2006 Details

Youtubers....

Youtubers.

Linked on 29th October 2006 Details

Wonderful summary of the inane Thomas Friedman. I ...

Wonderful summary of the inane Thomas Friedman. I could never get the hullaballoo surrounding that fellow.

Linked on 18th January 2009 Details

Why are you so terribly disappointing?...

Why are you so terribly disappointing?

Linked on 13th February 2010 Details

Slomo: The man who skated right off the grid

Dr. John Kitchin quit a medical career to pursue his passion: skating along the boardwalk of San Diego’s Pacific Beach. He calls himself “Slomo.”

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Posted on 13th February 2017 Details

Death Metal Grandma

Death Metal Grandma follows the story of 96 year old Holocaust survivor, former WW2 spy and famous songwriter Inge Ginsberg as she decides to pursue a new career: Death Metal.

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Posted on 31st October 2018 Details

Lost wallets largely get returned.

A study finds that people generally return lost wallets when found. The rate even goes up if the amount inside is higher. Curiously, not in the Vatican.

Linked on 22nd June 2019 Details

What Do Famous People’s Bookshelves Reveal?

The New York Times takes a peek at background celebrity bookshelves as they get interviewed from home.

Linked on 1st May 2020 Details

The man who invented more than 800 iconic toys.

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Beautiful story of an inventor still busy at 98.

Added on Jan 1, 2021 Details

Like son, like mother.

You may have heard of Alex Honnold, star of Free Solo, a documentary following his rope-free climb of El Capitan in Yosemite national park. Well, Deirdre Wolownick, his mother, started climbing at the age of 60 in order to be closer to her son. And she just scaled El Capitan for the second time at the age of 70.

If you ever felt like it was too late to learn a skill, that's proof enough there's always time.

Linked on 6th November 2021 Details

Zuckerberg: "scoundrel" of the year.

There are many things to abhor about Mark Zuckerberg and his works, but the fundamental mediocrity of it all—the lack of vision, the absence of any moral sense or shame, the inability and unwillingness not just to fix but even reckon with the dangerous and ungovernable thing he’s made—is what feels both most egregious and most of this moment. It is embarrassing and not a little enraging to realize that you are subject to the whims of an amoral and incurious capitalist posing as a visionary optimist. It is especially humiliating when the all-bestriding and inevitable figure in question is such a dim, dull nullity.

An excellent assessment of Marc Zuckerberg and his complete lack of character and morality.

Linked on 28th December 2021 Details

Susy Thunder. The notorious phone phreaker that vanished.

A fascinating look at the story of Susy Thunder, a phone phreaker, social engineer and many other things.

In the early ’80s, Susan and her friends pulled increasingly elaborate phone scams until they nearly shut down phone service for the entire city. As two of her friends, Kevin Mitnick and Lewis DePayne, were being convicted for cybercrime, she made an appearance on 20/20, demonstrating their tradecraft to Geraldo Rivera. Riding her celebrity, she went briefly legit, testifying before the US Senate and making appearances at security conventions, spouting technobabble in cowboy boots and tie-dye. Then, without a trace, she left the world behind.

Linked on 29th January 2022 Details