Yeah, I know, long time no post. It’s tricky, though, with no net at home and being crazily busy at work. Anyway, here’s some links I’ve been collecting over the last coupleof weeks.

Ewww. Apparently, now that tokens are dying out in New York, so are the hopelessly desperate Token Suckers, who used to jam up the token slot on the turnstiles and then suck the tokens out, getting $1.50 each time. That’s a good thing, I think.

Apparently representing members of a terrorist organisation at court also makes you a member of said organisation. US Government: ‘Excuse me sir, I’d like to forcibly sodomise you with this large, sharp pole. However, it will stop terrorists from killing you, so that makes it OK.’

Whitehouse officials have admitted that the war in Iraq was retribution for 9/11. Not really much more to say about this one.

Very relevant these days are the recently released transcripts of the anti-Communist hearings held by Senator McCarthy. I’m sure the US will be blacklisting everyone who’s ever read the Koran (or Quran, or however it’s spelt) soon enough.

Slightly more upbeat:
There’s a number of interesting articles on ‘Philosophy and The Matrix‘ on the Matrix web site. Particularly interesting for me was the stuff about Gnosticism – my education is somewhat lacking in the area of religious studies.

A lesson: ‘If you’re going to videotape your Star Wars fighting skills on a school camera, remember to remove the cassette when you’re done.‘. Poor guy, but the remixed version with visual and sound effects is classic.

Indiana Jones is coming to DVD! It will be out in November in the US.

An interesting piece about the differences between working in the physical sciences and working in the humanties. Basically, in the humanities, if you aren’t well known, you’re ignored, whereas in the physical sciences, if you do good work, you are known and respected.

A long but very interesting article about the remnants of Hitler’s Library. Apparently there are all sorts of interesting marginalia in the books he read.

Apparently the NSW Police are looking for computer security experts for anti-terrorist work. More interestingly, they’re looking for a Q.

The Zen Garden of CSS is a great example of how much you can change the look of a web page with CSS.