This isn’t May Day-related at all, since it refers to things which were all published before today.
Dan Savage is particularly interesting this week on the subject: try here for the regular column and here for the 8,000 words of supporting documentation.
While on the subject of things on The Onion’s site, do go and read “CIA: Syria Harboring More Than 15 Million Known Arabs and — even better — “Ashcroft Rejected By Newly Created ‘Bride of Ashcroft’“.
Raj recommends this fine animation sequence about the liberation of Afghanistan.
Simon, by contrast, is interested in collecting things.
Steve writes to the Stoa to recommend this link.
Tom adds [2.18.2003]: Steve either isn’t reading NTK, or thought that the link just after the one he sent in wasn’t worthwhile: “How Auburn, Massachusetts Got WMD Capability”.
Steve replies: “Tom is totally correct, I don’t read NTK regularly (the bastards never published anything I submitted) and got the link from somewhere else…”
Tom writes to the Virtual Stoa [24.10.2002]: Doesn’t quite qualify for Image Of The Week, and it’s hardly rapier-sharp satire. Still….
(1) The official Pierluigi Collina site (for those not paying attention, he’s the splendid - and splendidly bald - referee who officiated at England vs Argentina and the World Cup Final last month). (2) Naunihal recommends Word Perhect, a powerful new word-processing tool of sorts. (3) Michaele points us all towards the Philip Glass Engine, which looks extremely useful, although sadly I don’t yet have the right OS to make it work properly.
