] Thanks to FTA, Kegs, and the online Apple community, you
] can now relive, play, and enjoy old Apple 2 games and
] other disks through the internet and web browser. This
] web site uses an ActiveX application and Apple IIgs
] emulator to automatically download and play most Apple 2
] disk images online.

Sux that they used fukn ActiveX.

Virtual Apple 2 - Online disk archive

skullaria wrote:
] Many agree- school sucks.

So, what do you guys think about home schooling... When I think of it, I think of reclusive people like the family in the Virgin Suicides and I think of slightly crazy fundamentalists of various variety. It seems like its something that would be impossible to do on two incomes, and it seems like its becoming more and more difficult for people to live the American Dream on one income, particularly in places like California or New York. Additionally, I find it hard to imagine teaching advanced subjects effectively. Do I recall all the details of high school level chemistry? I can do calculus, but can I teach it? Can most "home school" parents do calculus? Can I provide social outlets for my kids that are better then the admittedly bad one in public schools?

Just not something I've ever taken seriously. I was somewhat surprised by the tone taken by this site. Seemed more intelligent and less ideological then I expected.

What do you think?

RE: Nobel Prize winners hate school

[ I imagine the rabid right and the rabid left will be equally dismissive of this work, but the rest can, at least, find room for sensible debate. -k ]

I feel sure that Barnett has been discussed on this site in the past. In any event, my thoughts on this essay echo K's comment. Its somewhat relaxing to read someone who appears to be unconcerned with sacred cows of the present political spectrum.

Thomas P.M. Barnett: The Worldchanging Interview

MP3s from the 2004 Chill music festival, including T vs. T, which is Trancenden vs tspigot, a group I have implored many of you to listen to for years.

Cloud Factory Mixes - CHILLITS 2004 - t spigot

] The unspoken concern at the center of this episode: maybe
] loyalty is not enough. Maybe the president needs to vest
] his authority in someone who can actually help sail the
] ship of state on these two initiatives, someone with
] autonomous and irrefutable credibility in areas where the
] president - electoral mandates notwithstanding - could
] use a boost.
]
]
] The president, affirming Mr. Snow, has decided otherwise.
] Power, as Mr. Bush sees it, justifies itself. No boost
] required. It is undercut, in fact, by even a reasonable
] expression of need.

The Cabinet of Incuriosities

] In a demonstration that holds promise for future advances
] in nanotechnology, California Institute of Technology
] computer scientists have succeeded in building a DNA
] crystal that computes as it grows. As the computation
] proceeds, it creates a triangular fractal pattern in the
] DNA crystal.

[ Cool. -k]

Caltech computer scientists embed computation in a DNA crystal to create microscopic patterns

] The plane's owner of record, Premier Executive Transport
] Services Inc., lists directors and officers who appear to
] exist only on paper. And each one of those directors and
] officers has a recently issued Social Security number and
] an address consisting only of a post office box,
] according to an extensive search of state, federal and
] commercial records.

MSNBC - CIA's private jet an open secret in terror war

] The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was an undersea
] earthquake of moment magnitude 9.0 that struck the Indian
] Ocean off the western coast of northern Sumatra,
] Indonesia on December 26, 2004 at 00:58:50 UTC (or
] 07:58:50 local time in Jakarta and Bangkok).

Wikipedia has decent coverage of the tsunami...

2004 Indian Ocean earthquake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

] I always hated the fact that there was no good "push"
] mechanism for getting UPS shipment updates. I don't want
] to go to their website every hour to see where my package
] is. I want to be notified when it moves. Of course I
] immediately thought of RSS, but I couldn't find anyone
] who had turned the UPS data into a feed. I then decided
] to make it myself in ASP.NET!

[ Nice. -k]

UPS Package Tracking With RSS

But few politicians are consistently sly in reading accurately the crowd's daily and hourly shifts in passion, and those who are -- because of the fact of their slyness -- usually find it wiser to cave in to these shifts than to lead the crowd down the hard road elsewhere. Because even our best politicians are cowed by the electoral herd, we must look to another group for the true source of power in our age.

Robert D. Kaplan rocks. In this piece, he channels the Nobel laureate Elias Canetti, with McLuhanesque results.

The Media and Medievalism