Israel's WOMD

Secrecy in the Executive Branch

"We would like to make all the sensors invisible and absolutely unobtrusive" --You are being watched

Cosmopolis by Paul Bourget

PreCC: A Prettier Compiler Compiler is an infinite-lookahead compiler-compiler for context dependent grammars. It "can be thought of as yacc with parameters, arbitrarily complex compound expressions, infinite lookahead and a neater way of dealing with attributes"
The Cocktail Compiler Toolbox
Lrc is a system for generating efficient incremental attribute evaluators. Lrc can be used to generate language based editors and other advanced interactive environments.
Micro Attribute Grammar System
FNC-2 Attribute Grammar System
Lecture on Attribute Grammars, more
Attribute Grammars Home Page

Universal Basic Income

ExtroTech Webring

Transhumanist Politics

"It overcrowds us. We organize it. It falls apart.
We organize it again and fall apart ourselves."

--"The Duino Elegies", Rainer Maria Rilke

Word of the Day:
anacoluthon - A grammatical interruption or lack of implied sequence within a sentence
(Thanks to James)

"Only someone completely distrustful of all government would be opposed to what we are doing with surveillance cameras." -- NYC Police Commissioner Howard Safir, 27 July 1999

Hiding the killing in the Gulf War

Katinka Matson

Let Freedom Reign

"He who learns must suffer.
And even in our sleep
pain that cannot forget
falls drop by drop upon the heart,
and in our own despair,
against our will,
comes wisdom to us
by the awful grace of God."
Aeschylus, 525-456 BC

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Thought Police

"In ancient Greece it was a custom to break a slate of burned clay into several pieces and distribute them within the group. When the group reunited the pieces were fitted together (Greek symbollein). This confirmed the members belonging to the group."

Words of the day:
autocthonous - indigenous
quiddity - essence
telos - goal
threnody - mournful poem or song

"an outrageous attempt by the US to mislead": only 3,000 of 11,000 pages of Iraq report left uncensored

"The Bush administration is planning to propose requiring Internet service providers to help build a centralized system to enable broad monitoring of the Internet and, potentially, surveillance of its users."