This is my collection of blatantly stolen text. All of it is under the copyright of the original author and all of it has been used without permission. If any of the below text belongs to you and you would like it removed, please let me know and I'll be happy to get rid of it.

The majority of my "library" is still on my old web site, spack.org. It's slowly getting moved over but in the mean time you can find many more interesting articles there.


As We May Think
Posted in the wee hours of Saturday night, August 1st, 2010 by Vannevar Bush

If
Posted in the wee hours of Wednesday night, July 29th, 2010 by Rudyard Kipling

The Lizard, the Catacombs, and the Clock
Posted terribly early Friday morning, July 23rd, 2010 by Sean Michaels

Joel Spolsky: Things You Should Never Do
Posted Wednesday evening, April 28th, 2010 by Joel Spolsky

Kurt Vonnegut: Letter Home From Repatriation Camp
Posted at lunch time on Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 by Kurt Vonnegut

Diet for Managing Psoriasis
Posted Saturday evening, January 2nd, 2010 by WomenFitness.net

Ozymandias
Posted Wednesday afternoon, December 2nd, 2009 by Percy Bysshe Shelley

How to help someone use a computer
Posted at teatime on Thursday, November 19th, 2009 by Phil Agre

SCUM Manifesto
Posted mid-morning Thursday, November 5th, 2009 by Valerie Solanas

GG Allin Manifesto
Posted mid-morning Thursday, November 5th, 2009 by GG Allin

Gopher Manifesto
Posted mid-morning Thursday, November 5th, 2009 by Bjorn Karger

In Praise of Idleness
Posted Wednesday afternoon, November 4th, 2009 by Bertrand Russell

21st Century Syndrome
Posted late Monday morning, October 26th, 2009 by Unknown

The Simplified Elimination Diet
Posted Tuesday night, August 25th, 2009 by Dr Anne R Swain, Dr Velencia L Soutter and Dr Robert H Lobley from Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Allergy Unit

Food Allergies & Intolerances
Posted late Tuesday afternoon, August 25th, 2009 by Dr Anne R Swain, Dr Velencia L Soutter and Dr Robert H Lobley from Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Allergy Unit

The Monkey Experiment
Posted Wednesday afternoon, August 12th, 2009 by Laugh It Out

Baby Bitch
Posted mid-morning Monday, July 27th, 2009 by Ween, "Chocolate & Cheese"

The Myth of Talent
Posted late Tuesday evening, February 10th, 2009 by Craig Tanner

Predictions of the Year 2000
Posted early Friday morning, December 5th, 2008 by The Ladies Home Journal

Red Head "Facts"
Posted early Friday morning, December 5th, 2008

A Cypherpunk's Manifesto
Posted early Friday morning, December 5th, 2008 by Eric Hughes

The Zen TV Experiment
Posted early Friday morning, December 5th, 2008 by Bernard McGrane

Sleep Jerk to Piss Shivers: 5 Body Mysteries Explained
Posted early Friday morning, December 5th, 2008

The Impossible Dream: Every Home Needs a Urinal, Doesn't It?
Posted early Friday morning, December 5th, 2008

1,000 True Fans
Posted early Friday morning, December 5th, 2008 by Kevin Kelly

Hard Times: A Letter from 2035
Posted early Friday morning, December 5th, 2008 by Bruce Sterling

Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets
Posted early Friday morning, December 5th, 2008 by Paul Hubbs

Hugh Downs Commentary on Hemp for ABC News in New York
Posted early Friday morning, December 5th, 2008 by Hugh Downs

Slashdot Interview with Neal Stephenson
Posted early Friday morning, December 5th, 2008

Digital Decay
Posted early Friday morning, December 5th, 2008 by Bruce Sterling

From Letter #43
Posted early Friday morning, December 5th, 2008 by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Internet Auditing Project (beta 1)
Posted early Friday morning, December 5th, 2008 by Liraz Siri

New Billion-Dollar Crop
Posted early Friday morning, December 5th, 2008 by Popular Mechanics

How to Disagree
Posted early Friday morning, December 5th, 2008

First Things First
Posted early Friday morning, December 5th, 2008 by Ken Garland and Unknown

Unhappy Meals
Posted early Friday morning, December 5th, 2008 by Michael Pollan

Why The Future Doesn't Need Us
Posted early Friday morning, December 5th, 2008 by Bill Joy

How I Roll: The Ten Day Rule And Other Consultingology
Posted early Friday morning, December 5th, 2008 by Stewe Boyd

The Debate Of King Milinda
Posted early Friday morning, December 5th, 2008

Logical Rudeness
Posted early Friday morning, December 5th, 2008 by Peter Suber

Aikido In Action
Posted early Friday morning, December 5th, 2008 by Terry Dobson

The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas
Posted early Friday morning, December 5th, 2008 by Ursula Le Guin

Surviving the Nippy Bitch
Posted early Friday morning, December 5th, 2008 by Mark Muro

Viridian Design
Posted early Friday morning, December 5th, 2008 by Bruce Sterling

Conspiracy of Dunces?
Posted early Friday morning, December 5th, 2008 by Douglas Rushkoff

The Death of Iridium
Posted early Friday morning, December 5th, 2008 by Bruce Sterling

The Birth and Death of Memory
Posted early Friday morning, December 5th, 2008 by Bruce Sterling

The New Renaissance
Posted early Friday morning, December 5th, 2008 by Doughlas Rushkoff

Beat Zen, Square Zen and Zen
Posted early Friday morning, December 5th, 2008 by Alan Watts

The Legend of Sleeping Lady
Posted early Friday morning, December 5th, 2008 by Native Alaskan Folk Tale

Napster.com and the Death of the Music Industry
Posted early Friday morning, December 5th, 2008 by John Perry Barlow

The Conscience of a Hacker
Posted early Friday morning, December 5th, 2008 by The Mentor

Everything Started with an E
Posted early Friday morning, December 5th, 2008 by Unknown

The Limits of Copyright
Posted early Friday morning, December 5th, 2008 by Lawrence Lessig

'Traffic
Posted early Friday morning, December 5th, 2008 by William Beaty

An Excerpt From "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"
Posted early Friday morning, December 5th, 2008 by Robert Pirsig

In the Beginning was the Command Line
Posted early Friday morning, December 5th, 2008 by Neal Stephenson

Secrets of the Little Blue Box
Posted early Friday morning, December 5th, 2008 by Ron Rosenbaum

The Last Viridian Note
Posted at midnight, November 18th, 2008 by Bruce Sterling

The User's Guide to Steampunk
Posted at midnight, July 11th, 2008 by Bruce Sterling

A Brief History of Christmas
Posted at midnight, December 21st, 2007 by John Steele Gordon

Critique of the "Semantic Web"
Posted at midnight, September 29th, 2007 by http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0712/msg00043.html

Keynote Address at the "Eleventh World Conference on Gifted and Talented Children"
Posted at midnight, July 31st, 1995 by Unknown

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