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for more information about my "blog circle", see mthology. (this is how it works, no?)

Hey, Hubble works again: An Expanding Bubble in Space. It's probably the most expensive camera ever built for taking photos for desktop backgrounds.

hello everyone! today will be a good day.

New York Times: "Dan Rather, the CBS News anchor, called the decision to superimpose a digitally created CBS logo to block out an NBC-sponsored sign in Times Square during CBS's news coverage of New Year's Eve celebrations 'a mistake' that he regrets." [via offhand remarks]

Like megnut, I took the dog test. It told me I was a german shepherd. It's funny because part of my family is originally from Germany. how does it know? ;)

kip has some great photos of Lincoln, NE.

thinking of starting your own weblog? Is your name up to the task? Better get a hip, happinin' weblogger name. [via Dan "Now that's a weblogging name" Hartung]

oh dear.

oh, and I forgot to mention, Brill's Content's cover this month is disgusting. I don't care what sense of "irony" or "superior irony" they think they have. (that's my superior ironic sense of "inferior morality" talking.)

BRILL'S CONTENT: Why We Look Different: "A magazine's design--or, in this instance, its redesign--pretty much has to speak for itself. Nothing I tell you about how we chose our color palette, or why we've changed fonts, will determine whether our new design works for you."

It doesn't work for me at all. It sucks. Brill's Content now looks like every other crappy magazine on the rack, and I really used to enjoy the look of this magazine when it arrived in my mailbox. What a disappointment.

megnut needs new hair. I voted for blonde, but encouraged her to include the "shave it all off" option. I seriously think it would look good. Kind of an old Ani Difranco/Buddhist Monk look.

I wrote a rushed, mediocre paper about y2k in April of '98. It was for my Belief Systems class, otherwise known as Anthropology 431 (or something). It's interesting (to me) to go back and read it now. My thesis was: "...a new millenarian revitalistic movement is emerging in the wake of the 'millennium bug.' It is an attempt to deal with cultural stress associated with increased reliance on technology and an attempt to revive pessimistic views of the future." huh.