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THIS IS SANDOU STYLE!! thanks, allaboutgeorge.

Robot Wisdom is hot right now, with over a dozen great links near the top.

if Gore really wants Green votes, he should trade for them, like, say, an end to Iraq sanctions!

It should help us all sleep a little better to know we're taking away violent criminals' taste for blood.

Curry addictive? I believe it – I can’t get enough of the stuff.

Igor Sergeev’s “Red Hair and Voice” (30x45, ink on paper) at the Outsider Art Museum in Moscow.
More from recent NPR programs:

• NPR100: John Coltrane's A Love Supreme
• Lottery referendum in South Carolina -- when the state needs more money, it's time to tax the poor.
• Barbara Kingsolver on writing about a place
• Lost and Found Sound: the Persuasions sing Grateful Dead (web page)
• URLs & email in the white pages -- a direct marketer's wet dream
• Rice as a main course
• Letters re: Witness to an Execution
• Quantifying information -- the How Much Information project at the University of California at Berkeley
• Satire: Nobody week on Biography
• Sleep apnea-induced psychosis and a holy war
• Other people's music
• NPR100: Jelly Roll Morton's King Porter Stomp
• Million Family March "exquisitely calm" -- imagine that!
• Commercial spoofs on mergermania
• Towards a multi-ethnic "British"
• Unique ways of interpreting the debates
• Inside the teacher's lounge -- must listen
• Master and servant
• Creating sacred spaces with architecture
• Moscow's Outsider Art Museum
• World-class Monopoly tips
• High speed electric train between DC and NY
• Encounter with a ram in the Grand Canyon
• Ralph Nader interview
• Anna Deveare on her book Talk to Me -- Listening Between the Lines
• 8-minute "Nano"dating service
• Olestra's distasteful side effects
• Diablo II: fighting and shopping
• Buddhist death penalty activist
• Changing Face of America: Flex Time
• Bamboozled review
• Grocery-gas stations

Speaking of things Indian, I’ve been wanting to read Edward Said’s Orientalism.

Found some words and pictures about Ishmael Reed and Mumbo Jumbo.

The secrets of Colombian currency counterfeiting operations. thanks, gulfstream.

This attempt to kill low-power FM behind closed doors smacks of everything that Americans have come to distrust about our democratic process.

A couple of randomWalks editors, (no, not me) and some friends and family members are running “The People’s Marathon” tomorrow. I should have made randomWalks t-shirts, but I doubt anyone would have worn them. Hell, I wouldn’t wear one. I would write randomWalks.com on my arm though… in real big letters in black magic marker. Right now.

New One Hundred Demons by Lynda Barry – this time it’s really about a demon.

What a Bodhisattva Does

True Food Shopping List - how to avoid genetically engineered food.

On September 14, Steve Yasko called me to a meeting with Pacifica General Managers. KPFK Manager Mark Schubb, expressed his repeated criticism that audiences don't want to hear graphic details of police brutality before breakfast, or as he said last year "before I have my coffee." He criticized our coverage of Mumia Abu-Jamal, East Timor and questioned why I asked Spike Lee about his affiliation with Nike. Pacifica's Chief Financial Officer weighed in with her criticism of American prisoner Lori Berenson in Peru, (we had just aired an exclusive interview with her that received widespread national press.) After the meeting, Yasko took me into the hotel lobby and shouted, "I am your boss! I am your boss!"

Marathon etiquette.

How to win at pinewood derby. Where was the Net when I was painting my car with my Mom’s nail polish? What the hell was I thinking?

What the Japanese are selling is nothing more than cabbage sprinkled with seasonings and artificial flavorings. This debate is not just about protecting our market share. We are trying to preserve our national heritage.

Working on Same Painting: Sorry I'm late.
Having a Breakthrough Day: That's all right. Time doesn't exist.

For the past four years, whenever Odenton resident Gwen Jones has found coins on the floor or sidewalk, she has put them in a pink piggy bank covered with polka-dotted pigs. Gwen says such saving is important because "you could get something if you save your money. . . . I could buy stuff from a bubble gum machine." Once, she took money out to buy some ice cream. Saving pennies allows Gwen to buy more than any individual pennies could buy. However, since piggy banks provide less-than-competitive interest rates, she isn't keeping up with inflation.

Even though Ralph Nader was not allowed to enter the debate floor, we managed to get him in the debate - if only sonically! You'll hear the three Presidential candidates debate issues from affirmative action, to the current Middle East crisis to universal healthcare. It's what we here at Democracy Now think democracy should sound like.

In last night’s debate, Bush reassured the American people that he has absolutely no idea what affirmative action is. If you think it’s got anything to do with quotas or with hiring less-than-qualified applicants then neither do you. Someone ought to send this info on pertinent Supreme Court decisions along to the Bush campaign for the governor’s edification. Yesterday’s New York Times carried an op-ed which examines a critical review of 200 scientific studies of affirmative action and concludes that the facts vindicate such policies. In fact, a Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded last week to an economist who developed methods of analysis which, among other things, demonstrated the effectiveness of affirmative action in integrating the textile industry. Little-known fact: the greatest beneficiary of affirmative action has been white women.

Void-of-course Moon charts for the year 2000, Eastern time. thanks, astrogirl.

USAT says that on who would better handle the Middle East crisis, Gore edges Bush 47-43 percent, but that when it comes to better handling the attack in Yemen on the U.S. destroyer Cole, it's Bush 46-41 percent. Somebody should tell the pollsters and the voters that the attack is part of the Middle East crisis.

I got my sexy Monkeyfist stickers in the mail this weekend. Thanks Kendall!