"Harry Potter may look like an intellectual with his glasses and his unruly hair, but once deconstructed he is only too clearly the hero of a political allegory for the triumph of the socially ascendant petite bourgeoisie. [...] Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw are the lower orders, hard-working but stupid. Slytherin represents the propertied-classes and Harry's house of Gryffindor is the ascendant class of the bourgeoisie. It is a shame that despite having studied in Paris, Miss Rowling failed to take critical theories of literature disseminated by higher education into account. She should instead have applied the ideas of such great French thinkers as the structuralist Roland Barthes and the unreconstructed Marxist sociologist Pierre Bourdieu to her work." -- Pierre Bruno

BooHoo -- "a relational database-backed link management system, provided as a service to the entire Internet by Philip Greenspun."

NFL + WWF = XFL

Dangerous Waves: Art of Sound, January 24 - February 4, 2001 at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, in Boston

Bruce Sterling: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackout

Harder to squish than even the heisenbug is the dreaded mandelbug.

"... an apparently harmless can of tea becomes a sword-wielding samurai of death. With Lunchbots, each meal may be your last!"

Tired: MS Visual Studio.NET; Wired: JBuilder Handheld Express -- a J2ME development tool for the "post-PC era".

British Medical Journal: Agnus castus is effective in premenstrual syndrome

Salon.com: Online and underground -- "Thanks to the Web, the sport of infiltration -- creeping through abandoned buildings and unused subway tunnels -- is thriving as never before."

As heard on NPR's Morning Edition: it's the Economy Song (14.4 | 28.8) -- Tom Chapin and John Forster put their view of the recent trends in the U.S. economy to music.

Time for a trip to the Mondrimat -- "Where you get to be the dilettante!"

If words have no meanings, then why do colorless green ideas sleep furiously?

Village Voice: Clear and Present Danger by James Ridgeway. "Democrats Have the Goods to Sink John Ashcroft's Nomination. Now the Question Is Whether They Have the Guts."

notproud.com -- "an anonymous online dumping ground for sin". Confess or be confessed.

Everybody sing the Houseboat Song!

A LAYMAN'S GUIDE TO THE SUPREME COURT DECISION IN BUSH V. GORE by Mark H. Levine, Attorney at Law

Boy turned into a yam by witchdoctor