www.robotwisdom.com "For readers, the Internet is an embarrassment of riches, with thousands of pages of new text t sift through daily. Thank goodness, then, for "weblogs," sites that scour the Web for interesting prose and data. What elevates Robot Wisdom above other weblogs is the catholicity of its creator, Jorn Barger, who has a healthy appetite for everything from literature to science. The result is a world defined by Barger's curiosity, in which an article about a grand plan to film all nineteen Beckett plays sits comfortably alongside a report on post-Chernbyl cleanup efforts."

"Keywords Adamstown, Pennsylvania; All Music Guide (www.allmusic.com); Architects, Architecture; Architectural salvage; Barger, Jorn; Civil Liberties, Civil Rights; Communications ABSTRACT: WEB SIGHTINGS reviews of NYC Surveillance Camera Project (www.mediaeater.com/cameras); Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus (www.plumbdesign.com/thesaurus); Inside.com ( www.inside.com); The On-Line Books Page (digital.library.upenn.edu/books); Ed Donaldson Hardware Restorations (www.eddonaldson.com); All Music Guide (www.allmusic.com); Rotten Tomatoes (www.rottentomatoes.com); Robot Wisdom (www.robotwisdom.com)."

Keywords Blogs; Internet; Communications; Hourihan, Meg; Kottke, Jason; Pyra; E-mail ABSTRACT: DIGITAL CULTURE about Meg Hourihan, and blogging (making a diary-like hyperlinked log) one's discoveries on the net. . . Meg is one of the founders of a company called Pyra, which produces an Internet application known as Blogger. Blogger, which can be used free on the Internet, is a tool for creating a new kind of Web site that is known as a "weblog," or "blog," of which Megnut is an example. A blog consists primarily of links to other Web sites and commentary about those links. . . Jason Kottke, a Web designer from Minneapolis who maintains a site called Kottke.org, is widely admired among bloggers as a thoughtful critic of Web culture. (On the strength of the picture transmitted by his Webcam, he is also widely perceived as very cute. If you read around..."

"George Price killed himself in a squat near Euston station in the winter of 1974.: William Hamilton, who identified Price’s body, has described the scene: "A mattress on the floor, one chair, a table, and several ammunition boxes made the only furniture. Of all the books and furnishings that I remembered from our first meeting in his fairly luxurious flat near Oxford Circus there remained some cheap clothes, a two-volume copy of Proust, and his typewriter. A cheap suitcase, and some cardboard boxes contained most of his papers, others were scattered about on ammunition chests." The deathbed of an altruist can be a terrible place. Both Price and Hamilton were theoretical biologists, a discipline about as mathematical and abstruse as may be imagined; yet it was Price’s discoveries in the field which had led to his despair and death. He had reformulated a set of mathematical equation that shows how altruism can prosper in a world where it seems that only selfishness is rewarded. The equations had been discovered ten years before by Hamilton, but Price’s reworking was general and more elegant. It provided a general way to measure the direction of any selection process: this ,makes possible, in principle, a Darwinian analysis of any process you can find or imagine."

"Susan and I had a wonderful dinner with Heather Anne Halpert and Tiffany Lee Brown in Williamsburg (the new trendy part of Brooklyn). We talked about New York, Portland, and Los Angeles; relationships and hangups; sibling dynamics; work in new media; age and self-confidence; and other subjects. Heather Anne and Tiffany were both recovering from the flu, but Heather Anne was delightful as usual (despite her protestations that she is not much for socializing), and Tiffany was much more up than she thought she might be. She was relieved to be transitioning to the world of freelance work after having some conflicts in the world of working as an employee. She is still doing work for the same Internet company: but now as a freelancer."