News You Can Bruise for 2002 May 19

Sun May 19 2002 11:36: Wolfram mania obtained via HTP:

• Monumental Steven Levy article from Wired, which I haven't read yet. Did you read that in Wired? No, not yet.
• Article by Ray Kurtzweil, who, Gafni-like, is yet to be convinced.

Sun May 19 2002 21:15: Tonight's Episode: The Deadly Cure (thanks to Jason Robbins, the only person I know who still thinks up TEs on a regular basis).

Sun May 19 2002 22:00: Wine, women, song: pick two.

Sun May 19 2002 22:27: I forgot where I saw this, but it's pretty funny, in a looking-at-a-big-Illuminati-layout way, and it reminds me of the stick-figures-on-graph-paper thing I did in high school: the Grand Unified Conspiracy Theory (I think that's also what it was called by the site where I found it, which is a clue to where I found it). Caution: huge (~1 megabyte) image.