‘O CXICTIKON XAOC Fractal chaos: Gregg Geist’s gallery of original creations demonstrating some of the attractive possibilities of fractal art.

the Problems of Consciousness from David Chess and collaborators.

“Consciousness, or subjectivity, or the inwardness of human experience, or whatever we are going to call it, is a unique

problem. In fact, many of the features that make it unique are the very features that make it a problem in the first place.” This is tentative, but it’s good to see an attempt at serious philosophical musing on the web.

Advertising nonconsumption:

“Inspired at least partially by the Viridians and AdBusters and them sorts of folks, I thought it’d be fun, and

possibly even productive, to speculate about what would result if someone seriously tried to use all available

advertising and media tricks to produce non-consumption behavior of various kinds. This is a result of that sort

of woolgathering.”

The Progressive Secretary

“Most people don’t have the time to send these badly needed messages, because

they are doing other things. But our computers have the time, and want to go to work

for you. If you join us, we’ll send you proposed email letters. You can tell us to send

each one for you, and we send it out over your return address.”

Protest.Net: A calendar of protest, meetings, and conferences.

“Protest.Net is a site to help progressive activists by providing a central place where the times and locations of protests and

meetings can be posted. I can’t possibly keep up with all the actions, so if you find about a protest or meeting, please post that

information to protest.net.”

Science — Hofstadter 281 (5376): 512 Douglas Hofstadter worries about the future of rational inquiry. This is not so new — from July of 1998 — but the concerns are worthy of ongoing attention even in this brief-attention-span post-MTV world. I’m not sure, however, I totally agree with Hofstadter. While I’m a scientist, I am exposing my children to the joys of the pseudo-scientific, the eerie and unexplained. These two are not necessarily dichotomous.

-(SCRIBBLE)-(JOTTING)(weblogging: lessons learned) Some of this is trivially obvious, some worth listening to even if it has a chip on its shoulder.

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Molecules with Silly or Unusual Names

“Believe it or not, some chemists do have a sense of humour, and this page is a testament to that. Here we’ll show you some real molecules that

have unusual, ridiculous or downright silly names.”