Links
In this issue: travel update
Web site recommendations: IT/politics/fun
I’ll be visiting the following places in the next month or so, please let me know if you’d like to meet up: Princeton, NYC, Minneapolis.
There are numerous fun links in this batch, be sure to take some time to explore them, you won’t be sorry that you did (well, unless you have several deadlines to meet immediately:).
Software for free intl telephone calls (over the Net) - I’ve tried it, it’s great!
http://www.skype.com
Draft paper on political blogging (not the one I’m working on)
http://www.crookedtimber.org/archives/002223.html
FCC moves to ban spam on mobile phones
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=5874148
Google queries provide stolen credit cards
http://news.com.com/Google+queries+provide+stolen+credit+cards/2100-1029_3-5295661.html
Who Backs Nader? Dems Claim Independent Candidate Gets Backed by GOP to Divert
Votes
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/WNT/Politics/nader_040724-1.html
Owning Up to Abortion (guest column by Barbara Ehrenreich in NYTimes)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/22/opinion/22ehre.html?ex=1248235200&en=7ee5df6afe3c92cd&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland
A must-see short film about the the design of the alert system 
http://www.zefrank.com/redalert/index_better.html
[requires Quicktime plug-in]
Presidential campaign commercials since 1952 - very interesting,
well-organized site
http://livingroomcandidate.movingimage.us/
Like stats and geography? All sorts of US town top 10 lists
http://www.epodunk.com/top10/index.html
Some Texts From Early Modern Philosophy (full texts online)
http://www.earlymoderntexts.com
Calculate your risk of certain diseases
http://www.yourdiseaserisk.harvard.edu
Government documents on a P2P network
http://www.outragedmoderates.org/DownloadForDemocracy.html
The history of movie credits
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/film/features/story.jsp?story=542645
Huge collection of Rubik puzzles
http://prevalence.com/puzzles/index.html
A neat Flash movie
http://tokyoplastic.com/drummachine.html
Some really neat interactive visualizations:
http://www.zefrank.com
In particular:
Snowflake:
http://www.zefrank.com/snowflake/
Kaleidoscope:
http://www.zefrank.com/shelda/index.html
Make your own Kaleidoscope:
http://www.zefrank.com/dtoy_vs_byokal/index.html
The Scribbler:
http://www.zefrank.com/scribbler/gallery/index_ran.html
University Implicated In Checks-For-Degrees Scheme 
http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4028&n=3
Law & Order: Artistic Intent (for other L&O enthusiasts)
http://brandonbird.com/artisticintent.html
Compare US cities
http://www.bestplaces.net/city/ccompare.aspx
Today’s quote:
“Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional
rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.”
— Dwight David Eisenhower, 1963
I now blog at http://www.crookedtimber.org .