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| Friday Mar 16, 2007 | Tempo and duration aren't fixed in classical music. Conductors exhibit a fair amount of flexibility with tempos but they also tend to slow with age. From a statistical analysis of 363 performances of Beethoven's Eroica Symphony. to Music by borges |
| Tuesday Mar 13, 2007 | Medical mystery: A truly bizarre skin condition. to Health by borges |
| Friday Mar 3, 2006 | After 30 years, alternative press/bookseller Loompanics Unlimited is going out of business. On the upside, they're having a big sale on the remaining inventory. to Books by borges |
| Monday Aug 23, 2004 | Islamic kitsch was hard to come by, that is, until now. to Religion by borges |
| Wednesday Aug 11, 2004 | When a librarian encounters pornographic novels about librarians, one can only expect a catalog of pornographic novels about librarians will soon follow. to Sex by borges |
| Tuesday Jul 15, 2003 | While the Iraqis may have had to seek the aid of
foreign powers to get a hold of some Uranium,
I just buy mine on the web. to Science by borges |
| Friday Apr 4, 2003 | When a songwriter has run out of ideas, they can always rely on the Truck Driver's Gear Change to generate some false excitement. to Music by borges |
| Tuesday Aug 6, 2002 | Foodporn: porn for foodies.
to Food by borges |
| Wednesday Apr 17, 2002 | We may have Pez, but they have Kinder Surprise.
to Toys by borges |
| Monday Apr 8, 2002 | In celebration of the 75th Anniversary of the invention of television, efforts are underway to revive the name of Philo Farnsworth, an Idaho farmboy who is said to have conceived of the idea at age 14, and created a working model at age 21.
to Television by borges |
| Thursday Jan 17, 2002 | Your chances of finding the meaning of life at RockWisdom.com are rather slim. Please look elsewhere for answers.
to Music by borges |
| Wednesday Sep 19, 2001 | World New York assembles some of the best writing on the web about New York City, as well as other great cities.
to News by borges |
| Thursday Aug 30, 2001 | While we can only ponder what crimes Bush is committing against humanity, we know too well of his crimes against the English language.
to Linguistics by borges |
| Wednesday Aug 29, 2001 | Think the weather has been a little crazy lately? It has. to Science by borges |
| Sunday Jun 17, 2001 | Television and film actress Maura Tierney is just really fantastic, .so thinks this fan, who has also written a thoughtful analysis of the television show News Radio. to Television by borges |
| Tuesday Jun 12, 2001 | Echelon exists? The European Parliament seem to think so. They've issued a full report on its capabilities and limitations, and are warning Europeans to use encryption. In the US, the ACLU is leading the cause against the system. to Conspiracy by borges |
| Thursday Jun 7, 2001 | Grand Illusions
has some interesting optical illusions and home science experiments
as well as informative essays on art and science.
to Science by borges |
| Keep the New York Times honest - Read Smarter Times, a daily summary of errors and poor logic that appear in the pages of the newspaper of record. to Media by borges |
| Wednesday May 16, 2001 | Welcome to the weird world of Glen Baxter.
to Art by borges |
| Explore New York City's transportation infrastructure virtually at OldNYC.com. What was and what could have been. to Transportation by borges |
| Wednesday Jan 17, 2001 | When Dr. Bendon Kabo of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation offered me a cut of $45 Million, I suspected that it might be a scam. Sure enough, the scam is well-known and has been around for over a decade. The Crimes of Persuasion site documents this con, as well as many others, including boiler room operations, wacky investments, and the Ponzi Scheme that almost collapsed the Albanian Economy. to Internet by borges |
| Thursday Aug 31, 2000 | Need a gift for the system administrator or coder who has everything? Think Geek is the webstore you've been looking for. Of course there's plenty of stuff that you might find useful even if you're not geek inclined such as the Demotivators and the c.h.i.m.p., a rearview mirror for your desk. Consider yourself warned, caffeine and weapons don't mix. to Commerce by borges |
| Thursday Jul 27, 2000 | This one goes to 11. to Music by borges |
| Wednesday Jul 26, 2000 | The prolific, airheaded, actress Melanie Griffith offers us a rare (ahem) glimpse into her personal world with her very own website. While she seems to have no intention of answering her many critics on the site, she does take the tabloids to task. Anyway, it's kind of sweet, but the design suggests a mind that isn't entirely at ease. Oh yeah, don't forget the recipes. to Movies by borges |
| Sunday Jul 16, 2000 | My favorite radio station, WFMU is the long time host of the Incorrect Music Hour, a show dedicated to archiving obscure, underfinanced, and shut-in artists. As host Irwin Chusid would descibe it "A true 'Incorrect' artist must be sincere and lack self-awareness. A severe irony deficiency helps. Any humorous overtones to their work must be unintentional." Other exciting developments include a companion book and CD, which focuses on some of the the show's better finds. If you don't happen to live in the NY-NJ area, you can still listen on the web.
to Music by borges |
| Thursday Apr 27, 2000 | Glenn Gould Interviews Glenn Gould About Glenn Gould, among other things by and about the great Canadian pianist Glenn Gould. to Music by borges |
| Tuesday Apr 25, 2000 | It may be a personal home page, but it's also art and social commentary that embraces the limitations of the Web medium. That is languid. to Art by borges |
| Sunday Feb 20, 2000 | The New Yorker finally launched its website. However, the New Yorker Cartoon Bank is what I was really looking for. I was particularly excited to find Glen Baxter cartoons to Comics by borges |
| Friday Feb 18, 2000 | Take the hard line against spam and relay abuse! The Mail Abuse Prevention Center can provide you with a great tool: lists of open mail relay IPs. to Internet by borges |
| Monday Jan 24, 2000 | If you are willing to endure the radical blandness of eating the same two Subway sandwiches every day for 600 days, you might lose 245 pounds. to Food by borges |
| Friday Jan 7, 2000 | R. Stevie Moore may be the king of underground pop music. Most of his home-recorded output -- 232 cassettes -- has been released through his personal cassette club. If you don't have half a lifetime to wade through all that music, click this link for his indie release records. Then, taste a sample of his fractured genius. to Music by borges |
| Tuesday Jan 4, 2000 | The Culture-Jammers' Encyclopedia, is an awe-inspiring compendium of human mischief. to Culture by borges |
| Tuesday Nov 23, 1999 | A Gallery of GUIs shows off the history of GUIs, from the early Xerox to the most modern UNIX window managers.
to Computing by borges |
| Wednesday Nov 17, 1999 | Sam Sloan is a chess geek, ladies man, devoted father, and complete, utter fruitcake.
to Wackos by borges |
| Feeling manipulated by the media? Expand you critical toolset with this quick and dirty guide to semiotics or semiotics for beginners. to Linguistics by borges |
| Bumfuzzled? Spizzerinctum will help you spice up your vocabulary with real, yet disused words. to Linguistics by borges |
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