As if you didn't have enough to read about it, Guilty or not, here we come.

A short piece on the terrorist attacks from Noam Chomsky.

Found through Cheesedip.

Bury the dead. Bury the dead and tell each one of their mundane American stories, all with the same ending, and make everyone read all 10,000 or 30,000 or whatever, and see if that makes people thirst for more blood, when it's all told out, when they've heard the stories of all the dead, and when they understand that America will go and put the ending on tens of thousands of other stories, in Afghanistan or wherever we decide, then ask if they want that to happen, or if they want to figure out some way around it.

Paul Ford of F Train mourns the loss of two skyscrapers and those inside.

Amazon.com has set up a page to accept donations for the Red Cross.

ALL donated money will go to the Red Cross to help victims of this and other tragedies--Amazon.com is waiving its usual fees.

They've already collected over a million dollars.

World New York is excerpting reports from the weblogs of NYC-area bloggers.

I read Lee Adam Herold's online comic Chopping Block regularly. He keeps an open letter at the bottom of the page. Like so many other web denizens, he has a little rant about the "Day of Terror". Although I don't really agree with his tone, it's still very cathartic. Be warned that it uses vulgarities.

The article is a little disjointed, but the Village Voice reminds us that Arabs in America are Americans.

The only acceptable racial enemies are things like orcs, kobolds, and gnolls. And maybe the occasional elf.

Breaking news, photos, and personal prayers, Blogger-style. A positive use of the tool, I think.

I've got friends in New York and Washington, and I'm sure you do, too. My sincerest sympathies to those with bad news or no news.

I believe that most people who perceive themselves as having stable aesthetic ideals and convictions regarding how these ideals are to be met live within a false picture of things.

A thoughful essay on free improvisation, by Christian Munthe of Stockholm University. Although free improvisation is generally considered to be a form of musical expression, I find that theories of improvisation often have interesting repercussions for artists in general.

To choose to play (and compose), for example, bebop in this way involves a commitment to the rules and limitations - the conception of (good) music - of which this idiom consists. This kind of choice is the normal one among musicians. The free improviser, however, refuses to make any binding choices of this kind.

Found through The Magnificent Melting Object.

My university, the University of Illinois at Chicago, has just opened a Center for New Media Studies.

That center is working in conjunction with the Electronic Literature Organization to put on a series of events called Interactions, which seek to "bring together authors of electronic literature with critics who study it, and to share their discussions of the works and the ideas involved in their creation and in the work with a live audience."

The first event, last Friday, was with the Newspoets, a writing collective that posts a new poem every day, based on current events.

The reading was a complete mixed bag, encompassing everything from raps about the Iran-Contra affair to strange vingettes about White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer. Entertaining and interesting.

The next event will feature the women behind 'kinetic poetry' site Poems That Go.

Feeling a little out-of-sorts? Time for a reality check.

Good grief, I'm somebody's demographic: Digs Magazine, "a home + living guide for the post-college, pre-parenthood, quasi-adult generation."

Usually it's Apple that's spouting off about the "Megahertz myth", but now it's AMD's turn.