Cat and Girl 179 http://catandgirl.com/index.cgi ("And you realize that the past is just the present with different technology and funny clothes. People are the constant. Their emotions, their motivations and stories." "That's not funny.") Mac OS X IRC client- Colloquy http://www.javelin.cc/portfolio/software/colloquy.html (apparently it's good) Field Programmable Gate Arrays, evolving circuits http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/ai/primordial.jsp (cf spin networks creating local time) Grammatical Man, Jeremy Campbell http://progressiveliving.org/grammatical_man_samples.htm via matt jones ("This book is an attempt to tell the story of information theory and how it evolved out of the ferment of scientific activity during the Second World War. The results of this wartime research were not simply to redefine a word which had long remained tantalizingly vague. Rather, an entirely new science was born, making it possible to examine intractable problems from a higher vantage point of knowledge. The laws and theorems of this science stimulated exciting ideas in biology and language, probability theory, psychology, philosophy, art, computers, and the study of society. Just as the principles of the new science of energy yielded fresh insights extending far beyond the horizons of engineering, so information theory opened windows onto a domain of knowledge as broad as nature, as complex a man's mind. Biologists as well as philosophers have suggested that the universe, and the living forms it contains, are based on chance, but not on accident. To put it another way, forces of chance and of antichance coexist in a complementary relationship. The random element is called entropy, the agent of chaos, which tends to mix up the unmixed, to destroy meaning. The nonrandom element is information, which exploits the uncertainty inherent in the entropy principle to generate new structures, to inform the world in novel ways. Information theory shows that there are good reasons why the forces of antichance are as universal as the forces of chance, even though entropy has been presented as the overwhelmingly more powerful principle. The proper metaphor for the life process may not be a pair of rolling dice or a spinning roulette wheel, but the sentences of a language, conveying information that is partly predictable and partly unpredictable. These sentences are generated by rules which make much out of little, producing a boundless wealth of meaning from a finite store of words; they enable language to be familiar yet surprising, constrained yet unpredictable within its constraints.") Cyberwar, God And Television- Interview with Paul Virilio http://www.ctheory.net/text_file.asp?pick=62 via matt jones Aristotle, Darwin, Watson, and Co. Now Online http://www.corante.com/loom/archives/001753.html ("On the Understanding Evolution site, we decided to lay out the history of evolutionary thought as a set of tangled branching vines, with plenty of links joining it all together.") http://evolution.berkeley.edu/ -- Understanding Evolution