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| Wednesday Dec 19, 2001 | Project Gutenberg: Good guys? or Bad Guys?
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| Thursday Aug 2, 2001 | Jane and Michael Stern visit amazing Roadfood sites around the U.S. -- focusing on cheap but well-made regional food (they have a particular soft spot for Barbecue. hot dogs, and diners). Jim Leff's ChowHound has a similar take, but focuses largely on the New York region, which still manages to cover the world and make for plenty of evocative writing. to Food by keiths |
| Internet Industry Partnerships: They come and they go.
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| Thursday Jul 12, 2001 | You can go bionic the hard way by having solid devices implanted or attached.. But why not do it the easy way, with artificial fluids such as tears, saliva, blood, semen, urine, perspiration, and mucous? to Technology by keiths |
| Tuesday Jul 10, 2001 | Where kudzu grows. Higher ratios of homicides to suicides. States mentioned in country music lyrics. All of these are partial answers to The South: Where is it? What is it?, a landmark cultural geography essay by John Shelton Reed. Which raises a few issues: Where are people most likely to eat dirt (pica)? Where are Hooters restaurants? Where are NASCAR tracks? Why are so many Presidents from the south? to Cartography by keiths |
| Academic and non-scholarly writing about lynching is well and good. But nothing brings home the brutality like photos and postcards. to Art by keiths |
| Friday Jul 6, 2001 | The Feds (well, the Centers for Disease Control) have really been doing their job. Look at state-by-state leading causes of death. . Similarly, try to find your favorite Sexually Transmitted Disease in the state of your choice (click on "anonymous user" to search by state). It takes a little while to construct the queries, but it still makes you wonder why "Homicide and Legal intervention" is so popular in Texas (81% of those homicides -- 1,570 between 1995 and 1998 -- are firearm-related deaths) when George W. Bush was Governor, and suicide is a favorite in Minnesota as Jesse Ventura takes charge. (These last few links are direct database queries and may take a full minute or two). To see a glorious selection of interesting disease- and death-related queries, go to the CDC WONDER selection page. Select "anonymous user," then go nuts. to Government by keiths |
| Thursday Jul 5, 2001 | Some folks who care enough to devote themselves to paradise-engineering. For all sentient life -- and the whole family! Life in dopaminergic overdrive with quite a list of (largely) psychoactive substances. to Drugs by keiths |
| Tuesday Jul 3, 2001 | The religious community of the Shakers (no, not the Quakers), commendable in many ways, and creators of practical and influential (i.e. oft-ripped-off) objects (and a few good tunes -- also used by others) was reduced in number largely by doctrine. One Shaker
down, six to go. Makes you wonder about contemporary utopian communities that haven't lasted so long, some of which should watch out for dysentery during the July 4 week. (Hint: Boil your water. It's not a new idea.) to Religion by keiths |
| The single best-known eating contest (spawning odds-making, protests and flash poetry) is Nathan's Hot Dog eating Contest. Other gustatory challenges include crawfish, cheese curd, crepes, onion rings, conch fritters, fasolatha, kolacky, durian, corn dogs, pawpaws, rope, lutefisk, long-running french toast and miscellaneous contests and on and on and on -- sometimes leading to death or precious Saudi memories. With competition like this, thank God for the guiding hand of the International Federation of Competitive Eating.
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| Sunday Jul 1, 2001 | There are plenty of psycho stories in the news today. But is anything from the past century more freakish than the story of Otto Sanhuber , the Bat Man, who lived 10 years in the attic of his mistress -- in two cities (Milwaukee and Los Angeles) --then killed her husband?
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| There is more than one way to tune a musical instrument (or a MIDI score). Or make your own. Or sample them all. to Music by keiths |
| Some people are obsessed with finding (or farming) the perfect turd. Yet folks prefer to name their babies Dingleberry over Turd
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| Yes, those monarchs were crazy. But not just Caligula and "Mad King" George III. Sample many others, including Murad IV, who hated women -- a lot!, and Ludwig II of Bavaria -- who build some crazy castles (Why do all roads lead to Disney?) to Wackos by keiths |
| Saturday Jun 30, 2001 | Now placing bets on the next Fungus of the Month. to Science by keiths |
| People have played some strange instruments: bones, sackbut, Jew's harp, many strange harmonicas like the pipeolian and the rolmonica, the ukelin, sitar guitar, ophicleide, orchestrion, and even the glass harmmonica (armonica), which Ben Franklin invented. NYC's Metropolitan Museum of Art, has a strong musical instrument collection.
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| Friday Jun 29, 2001 | Dictionaries that don't define words: nonverbal human communication (body language), Sign Language (non-vocal but verbal) and symbols. to Linguistics by keiths |
| Decumbiture? Anasarca? There are quite a few pages that list archaic medical terms, but Dr. Paul Smith has mined the mother lode.
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