Sorry, Leea, but I’m ganking this one for photo ref… it totally distills a feeling I’m after for a new project…

• the bowerbird cyberspace library
  demo for a “cyberlibrary”
  (tags: web)
• Fall Down Six Times
  (tags: futurism thinking)

Jamais Cascio has moved from the fine Worldchanging (which he cofounded) to Open the Future, a combination personal-site and futurism log. Jamais is a fine writer. Add this to your list.

You’re still reading Worldchanging too, right?

Lana Guerra’s journal has been one of my favourite reads for ages — probably since I met her back in 2004. You should read her too.

Bruce Sterling surveys Danube-related damage in Beograd:

• LA Woman Hospitalized With Bubonic Plague
  the first confirmed human case in Los Angeles County in more than two decades
  (tags: medical)
• LegendsoftheDkKnight208
  Adam West Batman appears to be back
  (tags: covers)
• Secret rivers found in Antarctic
  Antarctica’s buried lakes are connected by a network of rivers moving water far beneath the surface
  (tags: eco)
• BBC World Service | The Triads and the Hong Kong Film Industry
  Sarah Passmore investigates the extent to which links remain between film-makers and actors and the underworld
  (tags: audio)
• ARTESIA BESEIGED #1
  10pp preview
  (tags: comics)
• Soft Cultural Interface: What a fun and sexy time this will be!
  (tags: mp3)
• The Pinocchio Theory » Blog Archive » A McLuhanite Marxism?
  the mutations, or changes in social spacetime, that are grouped under the categories of neoliberalism, postmodernism, post-fordism, the network society, the society of control, etc
  (tags: thinking)
• No Hurry in JC: Peep Show
  Marie Javins is back in Jersey City, and microwaving shit
  (tags: people)

Police in the US state of Kansas say they have foiled an attack on a school on the seventh anniversary of the Columbine massacre.

Five boys, aged 16 to 18, were arrested after a message on a website warned students at the school in Riverton to wear bullet-proof vests on 20 April.

Police said they found guns, bullets and knives at the home of one suspect.

In 1999, two pupils shot dead 12 fellow students and a teacher before killing themselves at Columbine in Colorado.

The alleged plot at Riverton High was foiled after a message was posted on My Space.com, a website popular with teenagers. The message said the attack would target a dozen students and a member of staff on 20 April, which is also Hitler’s birthday. A student e-mailed a friend in North Carolina with the rumours and she rang the police.

Authorities said the suspects planned to wear black trench coats just as Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold had done when carrying out the Columbine massacre…

Xanga appears to have finally gotten its act together, with an overhaul of its networking system and a “profile” front-end that looks like it’s going to turn into the kind of modular user panel Tribe had.

With LiveJournal moving to a partially ad-supported framework, and Loudwire still left for dead, this might be a smart move on Xanga’s part. If a little late.

Shannon, you should not have tempted me like that. Heh.

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I am amused to learn that I have an IMDB entry.

(Mind you, so does J-Bolt, so I’m not too excited or anything.)

Photo taken by Nico D. in Brooklyn:

I was standing in line for the bus… when I spied a young guy with two squealing girl toddlers who was wearing baggy pants with a strange design on the back pockets.

Both of them are pictures of the same stitched-on geisha or prostitute… on the pocket I took the picture of, she’s clearly lifting up her kimono and showing off what is definitely her crotch… I’ve seen some strange gangsta clothing whilst living here in NYC but that took the cake…

A team of thieves that broke into an abandoned missile silo not far from the Russian city of Kostroma in search of nonferrous metals was shocked to find the shaft packed with Soviet money bills, Regnum news agency reported on Tuesday.

The incident would have remained secret, had the wind not blown hundreds of banknotes all over the countryside.

Four men from Nizhny Novgorod found the silo that had had missiles dismantled and put on maintenance decades ago in accordance with the Soviet disarmament program. They targeted the metals inside and said they had had no idea about the money hidden in the shaft. The men opened up the silo, neglecting the possible danger of ripping open a high radiation and toxins level enclosure…

All details here