A death photographed: one patient's story -- O'Connor et al. 327 (7408): 233 -- BMJ

A death photographed: one patient's story -- O'Connor et al. 327 (7408): 233 -- BMJ
Michael Willson remembered.

anti-telemarketing script

anti-telemarketing script
brilliant script for discombobulating telesales people. But in the Uk we can register with a gvt site to have calls blocked: telling the (now very few) cold-callers who still hit on us that they are infringing this always makes them back off. So I'm unlikely to need to use this.

Welcome to The Internet Archive Wayback Machine

Welcome to The Internet Archive Wayback Machine all our yesterdays

Webjay - Playlist Community

Webjay - Playlist Community
play or download the mp3s! Some weird, some v nice (eg hour long ambience culminating in Arvo Part), Beatles Xmas messages to fans....

blinkx

blinkx: "Get blinkx desktop 2.0 with Smart Folders" New version - this has immediately proved useful for me in searching for errant files, and I can see real potential as an engine to searchh large archives.

Error Messages as Poetry

Error Messages as Poetry haiku? tao?? true!

Museum of Hoaxes

Museum of Hoaxes
nicely organised into user-friendly categories - but is it all one big hoax? Hmm - Grauniad is spelled wrongly.

NMAI - Indian Humor - Table of Contents

NMAI - Indian Humor - Table of Contents
Native American humour - illustrations and sculptures. Strange, almost all make political statements!

Firesign Theatre on the web

Firesign Theatre on the web Lots more Firesign, incl some video and animations

Fourmilab

Fourmilab
There are many interesting things on this site - earth from spce, an original theory of UFOs, downloadable classic SF novels and more recent material, hints on making your DVD multiregional under Win98.... lots of good science and computing...

Black People Love Us!

Black People Love Us!
Irony not dead. Read the letters though.

NPR : Firesign Theatre, Now Playing on NPR

NPR : Firesign Theatre, Now Playing on NPR
A series of new performances: great stuff!

Google Scholar

Google Scholar
This seems to work really well. I tested by putting in my name, very modestly. It came up with books and papers in order of citation, one click to find who cites.
There are some anomalies. Often a book/article appears under several variant headings. A working paper that came up in ISI/World of Science as my most cited publication didnt appear - maybe its listed as "I Miles" not "Ian Miles".
But this is quibbling. Its a great resource!

BTW, new versions of Firefox (excellent browser) and Thunderbird (email) are now downloadable from Mozilla. Try them!!

Supervolcano conspiracy theories
While looking for information on supervolcanos (don't ask) I cam upon this smashing site - it has secret societies, government conspiracies against patriotic Americans, the Russians beaming Tesla rays, and everything execpt UFOs (aah). The author claims to have been asked for help by the BBC! and seems to think that a "volatile area" will be affected (as opposed to most of the planet getting devasted when it blows).

Two motifs in the style of Arvo Part

Two motifs in the style of Arvo Part
well, not quite - Part never has such a beat! Rather like Michael Nyman does the Partsman Contract. I like it.

Index

Index
Not only is this a good article about online music, it provides many links to useful sites.

Morpheus Music

Morpheus Music
Log on to Miorpheus Radio for an ambient sampler that at least doesnt get in the way of work!

NewsForge | Can open source software free your mind?

NewsForge | Can open source software free your mind?

This refers to a free Java tool for "mind management". I'm not one of those who uses such tools for note-taking or composition, but I have been extremely impressed bv others' use of the methods for summarising group discussions...

The new system is at http://freemind.sourceforge.net/
previously I've played wioth early and thus free versions (from cover discs) Of Mind managers for Windows at:
http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/download/dldcat/450/0/All/Mind+Manager.html

NPR : Creators at Carnegie : Randy Newman

NPR : Creators at Carnegie : Randy Newman
Some all-time favourites here (Good Ol' Boys etc) along with nice commentaries by the man himself - and many fewer interruptions than poor Caetano suffers.

NPR : Creators at Carnegie : Caetano Veloso and David Byrne

NPR : Creators at Carnegie : Caetano Veloso and David Byrne
two one hour concerts (with annoying intros) Amazing to hear Caetano singing Davis' "The Revolution" - which BTW was featured on a fantastic live concert on BBC4 TV a while ago, when will this be repeated? Good enough reason to get a DVD recorder...