Help Afghan Women > Stop Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan

Washington Post: Thousands Fill Streets Of D.C. to Protest War

The right not to fight

ActForChange: Tell the Taliban What You Think

Black Vault: U.S. is urging Afghans to rise up

ReliefWeb: Donor Alert: To Support an Inter-Agency Emergency Humanitarian Assistance Plan for Afghans in Afghanistan and in Neighbouring Countries (Oct 2001 - Mar 2002)

Slashdot: Hackers are 'Terrorists' Under Ashcroft's New Act. Unless, of course, they're Patriot Hackers Against Terrorism.

Support the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee and United Muslim Americans Association.

American Friends Service Committee > NO MORE VICTIMS Campaign > Boston Area Events

The World Federalist Association and World Federalist Movement are both members of the Global Governance Webring.

Must read: Planethood: The Key to Your Future, by Benjamin B. Ferencz, Ken Keyes Jr., Robert Muller

Indymedia: Bomb them with butter, bribe them with hope

Vijay Prashad on Christopher Hitchens on "the Chomsky-Zinn-Finkelstein quarter"

CounterPunch: Resources on the Events of 9/11 and the War on Afghanistan

CNET: New worm exploits terrorist attacks: W32.Vote.A@mm, also known as WTC.exe

International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies > Help Now

From today's Executive Order Blocking Property and Prohibiting Transactions With Persons Who Commit, Threaten to Commit, or Support Terrorism :

[...] the term "terrorism" means an activity that -- (i) involves a violent act or an act dangerous to human life, property, or infrastructure; and (ii) appears to be intended -- (A) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (B) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (C) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, kidnapping, or hostage-taking.

So... are Bush, Cheney, Powell, Rumsfeld, O'Neill, and Ariel Sharon all going to turn each other in, or what?

And does this mean I'm now legally prohibited from paying any more Federal income tax?

Tikkun Magazine: "A World Out of Touch With Itself: Where the Violence Comes From", by Rabbi Michael Lerner

"The Sept. 11 attacks on the Trade Center spread far beyond America's borders, with at least 63 countries counting their citizens among the missing."

Al-Awda (Palestine Right to Return Coalition) > Adopt a Family in Palestine

AlterNet: We'll Name Him Osama, by Muddassir Rizvi

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees > AFGHANISTAN HUMANITARIAN UPDATE

Refugee crisis worsens on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border

The first 3 verses of "America the Beautiful", Illustrated by Third, Fourth and Fifth Grade Students at Tabb Elementary School.

Rule of Law vs. Rule of War: Are Media Missing the Lesson of Oklahoma City?, by Jeff Cohen

Coalition for an International Criminal Court

An Afghani Perspective, by Tamim Ansary

Peace.Protest.Net -- listings of anti-war and anti-racism events that are being organized around the world.

Portland Press Herald: Not a contest of terror vs. democracy, by John Chuckman

RMS on Slashdot: Thousands Dead, Millions Deprived of Liberties

Some rational commentary from BuzzFlash on Thomas Woodrow's hideously Strangelovian editorial in the Washington Times: "Time to use the nuclear option"

Pat Robertson defends Jerry Falwell’s remarks about attacks. Here is a superb reply by William Rivers Pitt.

CNN: American Red Cross warns of online donation scams

Boston Globe: Saudi family accuses agents of abuse in case of mistaken identity

NY Times: Attacks and Harassment of Middle-Eastern Americans Rising

ACLU Decries Reported Violence Against Arab Americans; Joins Authorities in Urging Tolerance and Respect

Hiding in Brooklyn: Afghan American Fears for Safety, by Fariba Nawa

Sense and Nonsense About September 11, by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St Clair

"I fear what may have been awakened in the US" -- dpilot, in a post to Slashdot.

Developers! You've seen the MPEGs -- now buy the T-shirt while you still can, monkeyboy!

"Heroine Barbarian", by Kevin Wald (sung to the tune of Gilbert & Sullivan's "I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major-General")

IS NOTHING SACRED??? English National Ballet signs Barbie for Nutcracker.

Latest word from Dr. Benjamin Allanach of CERN, in his lecture on "Quark Catastrophes", as part of the Cosmic Threats to Life session of the British Association for the Advancement of Science Festival of Science is that the universe must be perched on an unstable vacuum and could suddenly condense into jelly at any moment! Better get out while you still can!

Tired: The World Bank Group
Wired: The Whirled Bank Group

Tired: WIPO WORLD WIDE ACADEMY (WWA) International Essay Competition
Wired: WIPOUT Intellectual Property Counter-Essay Contest

Oh, woe unto Britain, where not only is Christ being replaced by music, New Age beliefs, the environmental movement, the occult and the free-market economy, but increasing numbers of children are spending hours alone browsing the Internet in search of satanic websites! (As reported by those spawns o' Satan, drudge and NTK).

"Bioinformatics and Genomics-Based Drug Discovery", a talk to be given by Tim Clark (VP for Informatics at Millenium Pharmaceuticals), Wed. September 12, 6pm, at the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, Broadway St., Cambridge, MA.

Technology Review: Breaking Microsoft's e-Book Code

Must read: The Perfect Heresy: The Revolutionary Life and Death of the Medieval Cathars, by Stephen O'Shea. Chapter One: Languedoc and the Great Heresy

Workers World: Statement on the assassination of Abu Ali Mustafa

The John Lennon Artificial Intelligence Project is "recreating the personality of the late Beatle, John Lennon...". Imagine! Meanwhile, those cheerful folks at Triumph PC are hard at work recreating a different sort of Jack (see below). This could be the start of a whole new "psychobot" industry. Who/what will be next? The Open Jack Project? Lucrezia Borgia? The Emperor Caligula? You?

Tired: Leather Biker Barbie -- Wired: Food Chain Barbie

"Nothing like this has ever been attempted. We're evaluating thousands of people worldwide as if they were one collective individual. We don't know if it is possible to build a normal personality out of millions of little pieces. This experiment will tell us how reasonable the idea is."
-- Dr. Robert Epstein, describing the application of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2) to evaluate GAC (Generic Artificial Consciousness) (pronounced "Jack" -- see above). You can register yourself for a closer walk with Him...
... and if this reminds you a bit of Doug Lenat's venerable Cyc project, let them set your tiny human mind at ease.

"A number of recent books by leading neuroscientists have argued that emotion plays an integral role in creating consciousness, including Susan Greenfield's The Private Life of the Brain and Antonio Damasio's The Feeling of What Happens. [...] All the leading indicators suggest that the next great world-transforming technology revolution will be genomic, but the wave due to roll in after that one looks to be the rise of genuine artificial intelligence. Can the Flesh Fairs be far behind?"
-- from "Dreaming of Electric Sheep" by Steven Johnson, in The Nation.

"I feel depressed today, I don't want to be used."
-- a message generated one morning by MAGNUS (Modular Array of General Neural Units), as described in an essay on artificial intelligence and artificial consciousness by Diip Guha.