A website that shows the relationship, in movies, between skin condition and evil. Albinism really has been given a bad name.

Design eye for the usability guy. A usability expert redesigns his website and 5 web designers break down the elements making it look simple.

Found on the website: Jakob Nielson's Alertbox, a bi-weekly design column running since '95

I like this new blogger system. Under the old system you had to publish all your unpublished entries when you clicked the "publish" button. Now you must publish individual entries, so you can leave alone an earlier entry that requires more work but keep moving onto newer entries.

Ex ante vs. Ex post justifications for Intellectual Property. The example about selling paperclips is helpful. A very readable law paper. It argues against an author retaining the rights to his works.

Found via boingboing

He kills people under its orders, sometimes fails in his missions and is punished, falls in love and then wonders if his beloved has betrayed him on behalf of the organization, gets old, tries to investigate his own death at the hands of the organization. Nothing is conclusive, of course.

A brief review of Laird Hunt's The Impossibly

While your at that website, check out the post "Sympathy for Lynndie England".

Shaviro is a cultural critic who posted his book of theoretical fiction called "Doom Patrols" on his website.

Chomsky: And now the terrible Orcs invade Balin's tomb. Let's be clear about a few things here. The Orcs are fighting a war of self-defense against the invading Fellowship. They basically busted in on the Orcs' place here. It's fairly clear that the Orcs are hiding there because if they go outside they have every reason to believe that they will be massacred by Gandalf.

Zinn: The Orcs certainly don't seem to be very good fighters, do they? If they're such a terrible, evil, warlike culture —

Chomsky: They can't kill even one of these little Hobbits who just received their swords only a few days ago. One would think that if the Orcs were as bad as the corrupt Man-Elf coalition says, they would be a lot better at fighting. It lends credence to the farming hypothesis — that they were trying to scrabble out a meager existence in the land in Mordor.

Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky's "unused" audio commentary for The Fellowship of the Rings

Also: Anne Coulter's "unused" commentary for Aliens

I still don't have anything worthwhile to contribute yet, but I've dropped by to let everyone know about my new weblog:

Mightier Than the Sword.

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I am excessively curious to know if any old ISKLers read this blog. Apart from us.

If you do, leave a comment or send us an email.

SOrry, just plain old curiousity.

My boss gave me a letter of poor performance yesterday, came up to me and told me to have a look at something and gave me the letter detailing how I was unprepared to deal with the responsibilities attached to my job, mentioning examples from last weekend.

After trying to take the criticism professionally, I have become officially despirited. While not a great place to be, it's fun to work myself back up to a stable level of confidence. I've done it alot. Something I've learnt over the years is that depression is more like a natural defense than something that should be avoided like moldy produce. Your brain is telling you something long-standing in your life isn't right. That's all.

Hitting a wall (make sure your thumb is outside of the fist) and listening to Type O Negative is excessive and then you secretly enjoy feeling shitty.

I didn't feel like quitting, I feel like toughing it out, I feel like changing my lifestyle so I get more out of my daylight hours, I'm certain looking back 6 months from now, I'll be astonished and say, "Slap my knee, it was all so easy!".

And now...

rap sane things between meals
my gold comes in piles my man don't diss
my swank wheels after it's been
taken out for trials

I want to implement comments and republish the whole blog under a new template.