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Needed: a new age of enlightenment: “You’d think that every possible angle would already have been covered by people writing about the events of September 11th. So why am I writing this, and why now? Because in all the media coverage I’ve seen so far, nobody has been asking the right, the important, questions. Like: why did this happen, what circumstances got us into a de facto state of undeclared war with the Islamic world, and what can we realistically do to prevent those circumstances from ever recurring.” [link via Prolific]

Cool: Hadn’t noticed this before. Go to Webmonkey and hover over the little monkey’s wrench!

When you are bored and have nothing to do, you do stupid stupid things. This is actually the result of following a tutorial on teaching oneself complex Photoshop operations (although god knows you can’t tell by looking at it):

Lie of the Day

Today on Barbelith: New York: On the Ground – “I could feel the heat three hundred yards away; everything on four or five floors, people and office equipment, came raining down on the crowd. We all ran north while it fell and got away before it hit because it was high up. As I glanced back I saw the contents of the floors: all on fire, people and building, killed without a second to reconsider their life. George Minarik was in New York.”

Fray.com: Missing Pieces.

From the Guardian’s letters pages, via linkmachinego: The omnipotence of American culture and childhood innocence ended in our house on September 11. I sat with my young son watching the images from the World Trade Centre. Suddenly we saw people hanging from the windows at the top of the stricken tower. “Mum,” he said, “where’s Spiderman? He could save them.” Later, as I tucked him up in bed, he asked sleepily, “Is Spiderman not real, mum?” [link]

8.30am: Tom awakens on the sofa in the sitting room. He has spent the night there and feels stiff, cold and creaky.

Pete, The Cat That Looks Like Hitler.

Check your level of mental health.