Ang Lee Movie

At bmwfilms.com. I thought it sucked, until the end.
http://www.bmwfilms.com/site_layout/filmstream.asp?FilmID=2&Type=WM&size=large&dir=off

Hilarious Salon Comic

USs environmental policy. Nuff said.

 

http://www.salon.com/comics/knig/2001/05/30/knig/index.html?CP=RDF&DN=310

Hubble Sees Massive Star Nursery in Nearby Galaxy

Glowing gold at its center and ringed by a purplish halo, a nearby galaxy holds a vast, stellar nursery with dusty and clean areas for newborn stars, a new Hubble Space Telescope (news - web sites) image showed on Thursday.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010531/sc/space_hubble_dc_1.html

Toshibas Organic Displays

Toshiba is applying its experience with liquid-crystal displays to create the next generation of screen technology known as organic light-emitting diode displays.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/20010531/tc/toshiba_dazzles_with_new_organic_display_1.html

Asteroids come in couples

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/010531/6/5iw7.html

Life, the universe, and everything

Three important lines of discovery have been fuelling the growing belief that we are not, after all, alone in the universe.
http://sci.esa.int/content/news/index.cfm?aid=1&cid=1&oid=27243

Netscape on the PS2

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/30/0632257

Voyager Finale

Id give it about a 6/10... a let-down, really.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/27/2255228&mode=thread

Freeware 3d package

http://www.blender.nl/download/index.php?PHPSESSID=c8073d569ba2426810f99308cce1cc69

good little gamers

http://www.little-gamers.com/daily.gamer?date=20010525

New Mars Face Pics

Ok, now Im convinced. Its just a pile of rock.
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/extended_may2001/face/index.html

NASAs going comet smashing

NASA approved a mission Thursday designed to send a projectile hurtling into a comet in an effort to bare the dirty space snowballs nucleus for study.
http://news.excite.ca/news/cp/010524/23/nasa-approves-2004

Watch Aaron Draw

Watch a Java version of this AI app paint an origional work right now.
http://devweb.kurzweilcyberart.com/KCATaaron/STAFsample

European Govt Echelon Report

WORKING DOCUMENT in preparation for a report on the existence of a global system for intercepting private and commercial communications (ECHELON interception system)Temporary Committee on the ECHELON Interception SystemRapporteur: Gerhard Schmid
http://cryptome.org/echelon-ep.htm

New Peruvian Ruins

On a scarp overlooking a lush valley carved through Perus dusty Andean foothills, archeologists have unearthed what they believe is the oldest city in the Americas -- the sacred ruins of Caral.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010523/sc/life_peru_city_dc_1.html

New Re-Usable Solid Rocket Motor

On May 24, a full-scale Space Shuttle Reusable Solid Rocket Motor is scheduled to test fire for 123.2 seconds at Thiokol Propulsion...
http://www.cosmiverse.com/space05240104.html

NSA Taps Underwater Fiber Cable

In the mid-1990s, the NSA installed one such tap, say former intelligence officials familiar with the covert project. Using a special spy submarine, they say, agency personnel descended hundreds of feet into one of the oceans and sliced into a fiber-optic cable. The mixed results of the experiment--particularly the agencys inability to make sense of the vast flood of data unleashed by the tap--show that Americas pre-eminent spy service has huge challenges to overcome if it hopes to keep from going deaf in the digital age.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2764372,00.html

Hilarious Suck Today

http://www.suck.com/daily/2001/05/23/

Bitchin Russian IP cloaker

The Invicta system uses special cards to link protected computers to a central control unit. It lets clients decide how often they wish to vary IP addresses and specify which applications may be accessed on their network. The number of IP addresses drawn on may be in the billions thanks to an artificial increase in cyberspace...
http://www.msnbc.com/news/576522.asp

White Hat hacker bites the dust

Maxs arrest at his home in March 2000 followed his refusal to wear a wiretap into a meeting with a friend, Matthew Harrigan, then chief technical officer of San Francisco security services firm MCR and an ex-hacker who went by the handle of "Digital Jesus."
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,44007,00.html

Hilarious UF

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20010523

Chris Cornell joins Rage Against the Machine

Sweet... going to miss Zack de la Rocha as the former lungs of Rage, but Chris rocks.
http://www.crowdsurfer.com/index.php3?id=20010523112010

Modern version of Titus Andronicus

No Comment.
http://www.sepulchritude.com/suffer/volumethree/titus1.html

New Onion Out

http://www.theonion.com/

Irvine Welsh pumps out another one

Glue by Irvine WelshFrom the author of Trainspotting, another high-octane tale of Edinburgh toughs who live for gitting their hole and leathering laddies.
http://www.salon.com/books/review/2001/05/21/welsh/index.html?CP=RDF&DN=310

best/worst 20 films

eFilmCritics top 20 movies... compared to the bottom 20 movies. Interesting... battlefield earth was only the 16th worst movie of all time.
http://efilmcritic.com/hbs.cgi?stats

Aikidos Effectiveness

There is a fascinating thread on the Aikido Journal bulletin board titled, "Has modern Aikido lost its martial effectiveness?"
http://www.aikidojournal.com/ubb/Forum9/HTML/000447.html

Genetically Engineered Poliovirus Fights Brain Tumors

Scientists at Duke University report that they have crossed a poliovirus with the virus that causes the common cold and come up with an efficient mechanism for killing brain tumors.
http://www.cosmiverse.com/science05220102.html

Interplanetary Internet

This document describes the Interplanetary Internet: a communication system to provide Internet-like services across interplanetary distances in support of deep space exploration. Our approach, which we refer to as bundling, builds a store-and-forward overlay network above the transport layers of underlying networks...
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-irtf-ipnrg-arch-00.txt

Cosmologists Confirm Web-Like Structure of Early Universe

Using the European Southern Observatorys Very Large Telescope, researchers have spotted a strand of the early universe. The new findings, which will appear in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics, lend support to computer-simulation-based reconstructions of the young universe as a cosmic spider web.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/news/052101/3.html

Healing Computer Viruses?

A new worm, called Cheeze appears to repair the vulnerabilities opened by the Lion worm... interesting.
http://www.cosmiverse.com/tech05210101.html

Java Game of Life

I remember writing this code for one of my university classes... interesting rules about the evolution of chaotic systems.
http://www.collidoscope.com/cgolve/

Majestic Due Out Next Month

Majestic is a persistant game. You get emailed, phoned in the middle of the night, faxed... its supposed to be a totally immersive conspiracy game.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,43944,00.html

Earth Observatory New Images

Some amazing images here... fires in California, dust storms in Afghanastan, stuff like that.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/

Comet Linear Pics

http://sci.esa.int/content/news/index.cfm?aid=1&cid=1&oid=27088

Civilization III

Man, I spent a sizable portion of my late teens playing Civ I... I cant wait to see what theyve done now.
http://www.neoseeker.com/resourcelink.html?rlid=35889

Caucasian Mummies in China

How could an ancient mummy found in remote China have red hair and caucasian features? The answer has sparked a battle over smuggled DNA, Western imperialism, and history as we know it.
http://www.sightings.com/general10/redhair.htm

Bringing up the Kursk

Russian officials called a press conference Friday to announce a deal to raise the nuclear submarine Kursk, which sank in the Barents Sea last August, killing all 118 crew members.
http://news.excite.ca/news/ap/010518/06/int-russia-nuclear-submarine

CIA Inspector General Report on MKULTRA 1963

http://cryptome.org/mkultra-0003.htm

Internets Last Page

http://www.1112.net/lastpage.html

Good Pic of Mars Volcano

Pic of Apollinaris Patera.
http://a805.g.akamai.net/f/805/331/8h/www.cosmiverse.com/iod/0518800.jpg

New Final Fantasy movie pics

The games were great... the movies looking good too.
http://www.polykarbon.com/news/ffpics.htm

New Red Meat

http://www.theonionavclub.com/avclub3718/redmeat3718.html

EU condemned over planned snoop laws

More about the EUs digital privacy decision... this time from the BBC.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1334000/1334371.stm

Hilarious old little gamers

http://www.little-gamers.com/daily.gamer?date=20010107

EU to Give Access to All Data

I cant believe the EU would be that short sighted. This will just give rise to off-shore datahavens, just like in Stephensons Cryptonomicon.
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2001/may/03Aenfopol.htm

Directed-Energy Weapons

Directed-energy weapons, including lasers and high-powered microwave (HPM) devices, continue to trickle out of the Pentagons classified research and development programs. The latest is a non-lethal, millimeter-wave, anti-personal ray.
http://www.sightings.com/general10/pentagonray.htm

AI Trailer

This one will either be great or really, really, bad.
http://homepage.mac.com/pvad/.Movies/ai320tv1.mov

Letterman Apologizes

David Letterman has been forced to apologise for jokingly claiming Miss Colombia had a talent for swallowing balloons full of heroin -- I wish I couldve seen this one.
http://www.crowdsurfer.com/index.php3?id=20010516160252

Great Suck today!

http://www.suck.com/daily/2001/05/16/

Mystery force tugs distant probes

It could be just a tiny unnoticed effect in the spacecraft themselves, but scientists warn it could also be the first hint that modifications need to be made to our understanding of the force of gravity.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1332000/1332368.stm

Depeche Mode Interview

Interview with Depeche Mode, talking about their new album Exciter. I just picked it up today -- it sounds groovey. Very moody and eclectic. Id rate it kind of a mix of Black Celebration and Violator.
http://uktop40.about.co.uk/aboutuk/uktop40/library/weekly/2001/aa042301b.htm

Trailer for Lynchs New Movie

Originally slated as a pilot for a proposed TV series, David Lynch?s Mulholland Drive is currently in competition at Cannes and should hit the big screen very soon. A four-minute trailer for the movie has now surfaced online and suggests that Lynch may have returned to the form of Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks. The main thrust of the plot concerns a woman (Laura Herring) who is abandoned on LA?s Mulholland Drive following a car accident and is suffering from amnesia. She makes her way to an apartment where she meets an aspiring actress (Naomi Watts) who helps her put the pieces of her life, and the mystery of it all, back together. Of course, this being Lynch territory, there?s lots more to it than that.
http://www.bacfilms.com/site/mulholland/teaser/teaser.htm

Pics of the Kursk

Excellent pics of the Kursk. Images of the recovery plan are also here.
http://www.kurskfoundation.org/photo/photo.html

New Bu Jin Design Catalog

Bu Jin Design (martial arts supplies) has a new catalog out. I've always found their stuff to be good. Expensive, but good.
http://www.bujindesign.com/catalog.html

New Curve Album On It's Way!

Finally - new album, 'Gift', is due to be released in North America soon. They also have an album of mp3's 'Open Day At The Hate Fest' available to buy. However, it'll cost ya $40 CDN to get it in your hands.
http://www.curve.co.uk/news.htm

Light-Based Computer Runs at Quantum Speeds

Researchers at the University of Rochester have created a computer that combines the power of quantum mechanics with the ease of manipulating light. The computer proves that a specific quirk of atoms, which allows scientists to conduct huge computations almost instantly, can be perfectly mimicked by light, which is much more practical to control than individual atoms.
http://www.cosmiverse.com/science05150106.html

Why the Universe Isn't Full of Antimatter

Interesting... it would seem that the universe likes matter more than antimatter. Looks like antimatter decays quicker, and so isn't found in abundance anywhere.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1330000/1330190.stm

Judge asks new questions in DVD-copying case

This is a good sign that the judge is actually starting to ask the right questions in the CSS/DeCSS 2600 case.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/nb/nb3.htm

Monkey Man Haunts New Delhi?

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Fear gripped some suburbs of the Indian capital on Tuesday after dozens of residents reported attacks by an ape-like creature able to leap from roof to roof.
http://news.excite.ca/news/r/010515/09/odd-apeman-dc

Star Wars Episode II Pics!

New pics of episode II - some are quite interesting.
http://perso.club-internet.fr/willow/E2_004.html

Godel for Dummies

Excellent rant on Godel's inconsistancy theorem and it's abuses.
http://www.santafe.edu/~shalizi/notebooks/godels-theorem.html

Jaron Lanier's One Half of a Manifesto

Interesting rant on "cybernetic totalism," or a dissent on the medias current hype on technology as a silver bullet.
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/lanier/lanier_p1.html

Selections of CIA MKULTRA Documents

These are documents from the Central Intelligence Agency's formerly Top Secret MKULTRA program which conducted what CIA Director Allen Dulles characterized as "ultra-sensitive" research in behavioral modification and assassination studies from the 1950s to the 1970s. MKULTRA was revealed during Congressional hearings in the mid-1970s.
http://cryptome.org/mkultra-0001.htm

Alien Microbes Brought Back to Life

According to a recent report in the Italian Daily, Corriere della Sera, Italian researchers have found and revived traces of life in a 4.5 billion- year-old meteorite.
http://www.cosmiverse.com/space05140102.html

Douglas Adams Obit

Good Douglas Adams (RIP) Obituary
http://www.themediadrome.com/content/news/may_2001/adams_tribute.htm

Bitchin' Romulan Render

Sweet pic, nice subtle motion blur.
http://morrison.easynet.fr/~scifiart/_upload_/kerchanweb01.jpg

Businessmen hope to clone Dracula

A group of US businessmen have announced plans to clone Dracula by digging up the body of Vlad the Impaler who inspired Bram Stoker's original novel.
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_289926.html?menu=news.latestheadlines

Computer Creates Art?

Wired has a story about Aaron, a computer program under development since 1973 that is supposed to creatively make art.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,43685,00.html