Week of 5 August

The Great Gazoogle now has their own encyclopedia, ala Wikipedia, called Knol. Will this be the Wikipedia breaker...?

Interesting take on religion, Religious diversity may be caused by disease.

Whoo-hoo! The 5 Greatest Things Ever Accomplished While High. Maybe the sixth would be my first walk across Greenwich Village on acid....

Check this out. You don't have to be in Reno to appreciate the plan behind the
Reno Free Market. An-ar-chy!

More rock 'n' roll tragedies. Crowds are clearly something to avoid.

Hey, if you see this with a wild-eyed guy with kinky hair, can you tell him I miss my guitar. It has the sweetest sound of any guitar I've ever played.

If you're anything like me, you've sat & stared at a Rubik's cube knowing there was a trick to it, but just couldn't quite figure it out. Finally, the Rubik's cube secrets are revealed.

Want more?

One thing I love about the desert...

...and another thing.

Even some former Nazis have embraced Judaism: Sins of Our Fathers.

You won't see this magic act (so called) on Merka's Got Talent.

Speech is blasphemy, silence a lie. Above speech and silence there is a way out.
Some good reading at the Sacred Texts Archive.

Have a look at what the rich & "cool" are doing these days in NYC.

Another list: Eight Movies We Are Afraid to Criticize. Hell, I'll criticize any one of them. I'm not proud.

In the article -- which has nothing to do with this entry -- Hearing Is Believing, Terry Teachout of the Wall Stree Journal had this to say:

 Today's literary critics [& entirely too many others]
   have fallen into the unfortunate habit of using the word
   "voice" when they mean "style." It's easy to see why that
   metaphorical usage has become popular -- a writer with a
   strongly individual style often seems to be speaking
   directly to the reader -- but appearances can be deceiving,
   at times cruelly so.

Clearly, it's not a matter of finding one's voice, as there are entirely too many of us writing all sorts of crap that we don't know when to shut the fuck up. I say: Find this. The word that's escaped you is style.
English. It's a language. Dictionary. (Hopefully big book explaining what words mean. Use it sometime.

In looking at Multi-band radios, I find on this CB page the subject just isn't as simple as one might think. And, look at the index of radio-related technical docs -- whomever had written them, makes it all pretty clear to even the meer non-engineer.

Thinking of moving? I am. Well, I was thinking of moving well before I'd returned to Seattle. I'm sure glad Reno isn't on the list of America's Fastest Dying Cities. Is yours?

Muto, an ambiguous animation painted on public walls makes for one fine video.

These mug shots are clearly nothing like the mug shots we've seen from our current crop of crooks, murderers & fifteen minute stars & starlets.

Oh, Salma! Sigh.

This will not fool me into paying exorbitant prices of pretty food.