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What's New (Thursday 17, December 1998)
While preparing some documents to be published next week, I've put two new links --World Civilization Reader and Savage Earth. Visit them if you want and enjoy! Also, a new billboard.
What's New (Saturday 14, November 1998)
Four new interesting links and a renovated billboard!
What's New (Friday 30, October 1998)
A revolution has come to my desktop, and I've been fully blown away by it. Not that it's over by now --quite on the contrary, it's in its very beginning, and I don't know how long it'll take until I can get a grasp, and breathe in. In the meantime, I'm enjoying this furious ride --very much.
What's this thing that has put my beloved routines upside down and that has made me neglect my home page? Which kind of what has made me almost forget my friends, stop my email and take my studies to a halt? [...]
Check this new entry in My Life as Myself.
What's New (Friday 2, October 1998)
I know that you "may wanna take a nap while this loads" so I've made a graphic-free, text-only version of this page. I've tested it with Netscape 4.5, Opera 3.5 and Internet Explorer 4.0, and I've made my best to ensure it works well in all screen resolutions. It loads almost instantly! And it's also banner-free. I plan to include a link to the graphic version in every page, so it will be easy to go from plain text to the graphics (which are quite good, aren't they). You can't miss it. It's here
What's New (Saturday 26, September 1998)
I've updated the Books section with a collection of poems by Sappho, both in English and Catalan. This is just one, to make you interested in the other:
May you sleep on the breasts
of your tender companion ....
Si reposar poguessis blanament en el pit de la tendra companya....
(Sites that I love today)
World Civilization Reader A superb place for those interested in History and Literature. Here you can find otherwise hard to reach historical documents. For instance, you can click for anOfficial Account of the Revolt of the City of Suru of Bit-halupe, which is an excerpt from the state archives of Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian Empire --it documents a revolt by a city that was under Assyrian control against the imperial rule of the emperor Ashurnasirpal in the seventh century BCE. Or you'd rather read the Hymn to the Aton, a lyrical poem celebrating the universal beneficence of the sun, written during the reign of the pharaoh Akhenaten. This site is worth a frantic downloading.
Savage Earth Volcanoes, landslides, earthquakes, tsunamis... everything that mother Nature is responsible for and that may erase you just in seconds is reported here, clearly and beautifully explained to adults (thanks god someone thinks of us non-children population of the world anxious to know about disruptive geological phenomena).
HyperHystory Online Just choose a date in History and wait for the the right chart to display. What you get is a neat synoptic timeline, covering the main events for the period considered, in all the major areas of human activity: science, culture, religion, war, arts, politics... Also, there are links to in-depth articles related to the period and place you're interested in. The site is beautifully designed, loads in quite a reasonable time and is very useful. Whenever you have a History-related enquiry, try HyperHistory first.
The GNU and the Free Software FoundationFree software means that it can be freely copied, modified and distributed, and that you can even try to make a profit by redistributing it or selling it. The only restriction it imposes is that you can't restrict others to do the same (i.e., copy it, modify it and redistribute it), so you can't hide the source code. It's based on the premise that software has no owners, the same way neither has science; your output is my input --that's the way progress is made of. What a radical different approach to software this is, compared to what we're used to --proprietary software who forbids us to make a simple copy and pass it to a friend in need; powerful organizations cracking down on individuals who dare to share their programs with others; secret code which make impossible to set to the task of improving it or customizing it... and so on. Visit the site to learn more about the philosophical issues about free software, and to learn how copyleft opposes copyright, or what's the GNU General Public License, or how the proprietary software industry tries to criminalize the sharing of information. All essays are clearly and intelligently written.
Snoopy . The best place I know about Charlie Brown and his ineffable friends. Learn about every member of the gang: Snoopy, the factual dreamer; Peppermint Patty, the school dreamer, with Marcie in the desk behind waking her up to the cry of 'Sir'; Woodstock, that endearing little bird; and Lucy, Franklin, Linus, Sally, Schroeder, Pig Pen and Rerun. In their profiles, you can see the strip in which they first appeared, along with other outstanding moments (don't miss the first time Linus wears his securityblank, or when Snoopy quits walking on his four legs). Also, the Timeline section highlights the most important moments in the history of the Peanuts, beginning with the inaugural comic strip, appeared on October 2, 1950, which can be seen online! Last but not least, the site it's updated daily with the current day's strip. Get intimate with the Peanuts, while we Charlie Brown's devotees prepare to celebrate his 50 years making us laugh every day. Thanks a lot, Mr. Schulz!
(Personal homepages, for better or for worse)
Little Shadows This is Morgan's genuine place. She belongs in here more than in the outer world, because she owns the words and the feelings, which she uses to escape from, or to seek, solitude and disclosure. She's like the universe just one second before banging. She loves life while thinking she hates it. She's only fifteen and what an adult she will be.
Eric Raymond's Home PageEric's a bright programmer and a fine, influential thinker in the computer world. His main contribution, as a hacker, to the open-source community has been the ubiquitous and widely acclaimed fetchmail program. He has written two insightful essays. In The Cathedral and the Bazaar he analyzes and compare two different ways of producing software --that of the proprietary industry (the cathedral model) and that of the free software world (the bazaar model). It was after reading this paper that Netscape's browser team decided to submit its source code for everybody to hacker. The second one is Homesteading the Noosphere, in which Raymond looks into the community he's been working in for more than twenty years, in order to grasp, formulate and expose the way it really works. Both essays I recommend you to read. And only a couple of weeks ago, he was sent two internal Microsoft documents, in which the software firm laid plans to attack Linux. He named them The Halloween Documents and vigorously replied them (with some gratuitous offenses, in my humble opinion).
SexyKitty's Lounge . Nice page with good humor, good links, an excellent design and an intelligent young woman behind —a convinced BITCH ( B eingI n T otal C ontrol of H erself).
Asia Carrera's HomePage . Asia's a porno-film star with a great website and a sharp mind. She's nice enough to have written a highly valuable FAQ (Frequent Asked Questions) about the porno business, in which she gives us clues about dimensions, earnings, shootings and anything related to the sex business. She also speaks about herself: why she does porn; what is like to have sex at home after the shootings; her plans for the future; if she really comes or not in the scenes; what her husband thinks of her job, and some more interesting thoughts. And yes, you'll find beautiful pics of her as well.
MickJen's HomePage . Jen loves her two cats, Snickers and Adolphia: "Adolphia looks like Hitler, but she's est femme", so she had to add the ia ". Read her essay about Kurt Cobain —what he and his music meant to her. And enjoy her two poems: I specially like the first one,Perchance to dream .
Toni Font . He's one of the leading astrophysicists in the world, although he's modest enough to deny it. But it happens that before making his way to the heights of the scientific community, he used to play drums, and never came to acknowledge the obvious superiority of Supertramp over Pink Floyd. He feels a little constrained now in his homepage, but if you want to feel the breeze of top science, find some good links and even know about Frank Zappa, click above.
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