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August 22, 2005

Spacing, a magazine covering Toronto's urban space. The archives yield a number of short essays on a variety of subjects. The monthly photoblog also has some nice stuff.
Engadget: 1985 A page from the venerable Engadget BBS service from 20 years ago today.
Curious George: Science Gone Amok? An editorial in my local daily paper this weekend used the idea of Roe v. Wade's "original intent" (i.e., they thought abortion would only be used in emergencies) vs. how it turned out (according to the writer, it is now the defacto method of birth-control among the easily villified lower classes) to launch into a diatribe about how we can't trust scienists with stem cell research, because we know we can't count on them not to take the "next step", leading to a nightmare world of science gone mad. Now, regardless of your stance on abortion rights, I was wondering--how many real cases can you think of where science has, in fact, gone amok? more inside
Kittens from clones! Wildcat clone kittens at that. We're all doomed more inside
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Going to Burning Man? ? more inside
Absurd.org. Absurdity finally has a website. You will go here, and wish to tear out your eyeballs, scream, and rool on the floor. You will feel your braincells committing hari-kari. The creators of the site even have a mission statement: "this page(s) serve(s) as a vehicle for our own criticism of the modern technology in the specific area of profanation commonly known as "web design", proving us as an established champions of visual destruction and textual deformation, true möngers of the real[Dimension HÄtrÖss]." more inside