Meditation: Wildmind's Online Guide

Bodhipaksa's online meditation classes - starting to look pretty awesome, Bodhipaksa just keeps filling this site with great content! Meditation: Wildmind's Online Guide

New Zealand News - NZ - Poll: Maori equal, special

Maori want to be equal, but more equal than others. NZ Herald

BBC NEWS | Programmes | wtwtgod

BBC's religion page - very interesting to see what a Godless bunch the Poms are. BBC

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This site has a long bio of Kūkai based on a Chinese film, including pics from the film, plus great pics of the Garbhadhatu mandala. Temple of the Lotus

Player, Attack Thyself - Why Japanese gamers love avenging Pearl Harbor. By Clive�Thompson

Apparently Japanese gamers love a game in which players avenge the dastardly attack on Pearl Harbour. Slate
Reminds me of all the Chinese that used to hang out at the Dorje Chang Tibetan Buddhist Institute where I lived for a while.

transgenic art - cactus growing human hair - laura cinti 2002

Laura Cinti's website - ick. transgenic art

New Scientist

Art? Laura Cinti implants a human gene in a cactus that then sprouts human hair as it grows. New Scientist There's a picture on the New Scientist front page. It's a bit icky really.

Three-Toed Sloth

Rather serious - takes time and effort to read - but good blog. Three-Toed Sloth (from whence comes the Weinberg thing).

A Designer Universe?

Steven Weinberg doesn't believe in God. And good on him I say. (essay). A Designer Universe?

Yahoo! Groups : fwbo

I decided to start a Yahoo Group for the FWBO - open to anyone who is involved. It's about time we had a forum that is not 'order only'. I'm moderator but only as far as membership goes, after that it's up to you to observe the precepts as you feel able to.
Yahoo! Groups : fwbo. Sign up today!

Davezilla.com Come for the clean humor, stay for the filthy comments

Do you suffer from pixel leak? Davezilla.com

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Amazing list of academic writing about Buddhism. Digital Buddhist Library

MahaBlahBlah

Created Wikipedia entires for Thomas William Rhys Davids and Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys Davids Pāli scholars and translators. The dynamnic duo of early Buddhist scholarship.

Alex Polier, Insta-Celebster

Naomi Wolf has accused Harold Bloom of sexual harassment - 20 years ago. NY Observer... what to say about this sort of thing?

AncientScripts.com: Writing Systems

Nice writing and language site. AncientScripts.com (but missing info on Siddham).

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Killer fish hits boat in Thames

Killer fish hits boat in Thames. BBC
Oh yeah right. And a Kiwi women being rescued by a cow doesn't get mentioned.

new anouncement

I added a "what I'm reading thingy with amazon links down on the right there somewhere... just incase anyone is interested. Chocolat is good, but I think the film was better in this case.

New Scientist

Humans hard wired for empathy (presumably many of us are over-riding it with software?) New Scientist

CELEBRATOR (9606): U.K. Beer Drinkers Love Their Wanker

A blog entry on Double Chocolate reminded me of Wanker Beer... so I tracked down some sites on it... celebrator

Commentary. Sonnet XXIX.

Sonnet 29 - from "The amazing Shakespeare's Sonnets site. Sonnets. A girl once sent me this as a kind of consolation when she rejected me. Thanks Gail, hope you are well and happy out there somewhere.

Rebecca Saxe: Reading Your Mind

Article about how we develop a 'Theory of Mind'. long. Reading Your Mind

FOUND Magazine

Another old-ish favourite of mine, found by serendipity of course. FOUND Magazine. I keep a found photo on my desk...

New Zealand News - NZ - Woman towed to safety by cow after being swept away

NZ Woman rescued from flood by cow. NZ Herald Sometimes I'm just so proud to be a Kiwi. I don't know how the BBC overlooked this one (after the elephant story).

Dharmapala Thangka Centre - School of Thangka Painting - Kathmandu / Nepal

A very good site for info about Tibetan thangka painting. Dharmapala Thangka Centre

YETI SPORTS by chris hilgert ## powered by edelweiss medienwerkst.at

Yeti sports photo gallery - for anoraks only. YETI SPORTS

YETI SPORTS by chris hilgert ## powered by edelweiss medienwerkst.at

DoubleChocolate scores again! Now play the sequel to Penguin Baseball
at YETI SPORTS. Where do these guys find the time? And where do we find the time to play it?

New Scientist.com - Print edition contents

Only paid subscribers can get them online, but you really should look at two of the featrue articles io New Scientist this week. 1. MIND OF A FLY, and 2.WHEN ROMANCE GOES WRONG. New Scientist contents. I usually just read it in Borders, but actually bought this one.

MahaBlahBlah

Not much blogged this week, but I have added links to all the Wikipedia pages I've created. Some of them have benefitted from others copy editing, and some have other modifications, but I wrote the basic text for these ones. Look down the right-hand side of the page for links. I made quite a few contributions to the Buddhism page as well and bits and pieces elsewhere.

Mmmm Nice

This one is for all serious biscuit lovers.Mmmm Nice via DoubleChocolate.

Guhyaloka

Jagara's new website. Jagara

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An old favourite froma couple of years back - the fake passenger announcements from Heathrow. twilight3d
(There are multiple copies of this around now.)

National Do Not Spam Registry

National Do Not Spam Registry (tee hee hee). TheSpeciousReport.

Gerry Anderson's U.F.O.

Anorak site for Gerry Anderson's UFO... gotta love it. U.F.O.

FANDERSON

Official Gerry Anderson Fan Club website. FANDERSON
I'm watching UFO on DVD at the moment and loving it!

RELIGION GOD THEOLOGY JESUS BELIEF SYSTEMS Christian Science Conservative Christian Humanist Liberal Christian Unitarian Universalist Bah�'� Neo-Pagan

Which moral philosopher do you relate most strongly to? Find out.Smart Alec
Warning this means Western moral philosophy only. Still interesting though.

Alan W. Pollack's Notes on ... Series

Alan W. Pollack's Notes on ... Series. Detailled notes on all the Beatles songs...outstanding! Plus heaps more if you dig around on the site including essays on popular music, and The Beatles, and Media Studies

Kukai - Wikipedia

My new updated biography of Kūkai at the Wikipedia. Kukai.
Have you considered writing something for the Wikipedia?

Metele al ordenata! pero con ganas, eh!

Frustrated with your PC? Try this, but watch out for overuse syndrome. Metele

Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Into the cuckoo's nest

How to fake your way into a mental hospital - interesting that this should turn up just as I discover that Janet Frame has died...she also faked mental illness. Guardian via Pathologically Polymathic .

Janet Frame, 79, Writer Who Explored Madness, Dies

I must have missed seeing this in the Herald... Janet Frame, 79, Writer Who Explored Madness, Dies. NY Times
RIP. One of NZ's greatest creative talents.