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groupThink. SJMerc: Net2gether.com launches group Web-surfing program: "The user can then 'beam up' one or more Net surfers in addition to being able to instantly message each other in ICQ or AOL-style. One person becomes the 'leader' and controls the Web surfing for the group."

today's secret word is "Transmeta".

overheard in wetlog's bathroom:

"geez, I gotta quit picking up material for my weblog in Pyra's bathrooms."

I'm really feeling the pressure to redesign now. jake did it. brig did it. prol did it. another blog circle theory: when someone from your blog circle (jake, in this case) redesigns, everyone in the circle will redesign within a certain period of time. let's say, umm, 2 months. yeah. I'll start testing the theory now. yep.

according some server stats, someone is using spyonit to spy on this page. Hey, I'm spying on spyonit!

I saw Winona Rider's Girl, Interrupted this weekend. They had to "dumb it down" quite a bit to turn the book into a movie. I think it would be tough to translate this book directly to film, especially a mainstream hollywood film. I thought they did a fine job of bringing some of the ideas in the book to the screen, though. And Angelina Jolie was fun to watch. I don't think this film will be very successful at the box office. it's a tough one.

kill your tv. again. Network anti-drug messages. Do free societies advance political agendas covertly through popular entertainment? As the brilliant George Clinton once said, "there is more money to be made from pretending to stop it than there is to be made from selling it."

Here is the full text of his last speech. The most moving part of this speech, to me, starts with this sentence: "You know, several years ago, I was in New York City autographing the first book that I had written..." (about 3/4 of the way down the page.)

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s speeches are moving and inspiring. Especially his last speech.

I guess it's time to brush up on some lunar photography techniques.

In about a week, there will be a total lunar eclipse around 8:00 PST.