Knowledge Is Power

Bookmark dump

I have built up quite a few links that I'd like to pass along.

• I've been searching with no luck for very detailed maps of Iraq, but leave it to Mike Gunderloy, master Web-explorer to come through, finding these Iraq maps at the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at the University of Texas. Lots of links to follow there, including lots of other sources.
  
• Boilerplate:
  History of a Victorian era robot. "Even in an age that gave birth to the automobile and aeroplane, a functioning mechanical man should have been accorded more significance."
  
• We hate the PATRIOT Act's LiveJournal
  
• Textpattern is
  available for download
  
• wood-tang a good Chicago blog I hadn't seen before.
  
• lispman another worthwhile Chicago blog. This town is just chuck full of damn good blogs.
  
• Galen Rowell's final National Geographic assignment
  

Weblogging

The Chicago Bloggers are moving up in the world. You can tell by the bar tabs.

And for once I'll be the first to do the attendee list from our gathering at the Drake last night, but I'm going to use the much less personal weblog titles: absenter, audiblefrequency, golublog, anchulis, angst-indent prone, bells and whistles, did you know?, fuckcorporategroceries, me3dia, picturepicture, pickhits, planetshwoop, sourbob, smellen, thurifer