What's important?

(Kind of a rough guess at priorities...)

• Glimpses of Familiar Japan is an attempt to consolidate some of my observations and strange thoughts of Japan over the years.
• My anti-Dubya pages are really just negative spleen venting, but they're very seasonal and for now are getting more hits than any other part of the site. No thanks to the shallow hypocrite for the negative motivation.
• My autostereogram page has samples and also tells how computer-generated autostereograms work and how to see them. It took me some years to get the knack.
• Links about friends and such.
• My pseudo-mathematical philosophy page with special acknowledgments to Rudy Rucker. Entries are:
  1. "Mindscape and Landscape"
  2. "Origin and Uses of Religion"
  3. "The Death of Copyright"
  4. "Usenet: Not with a Bang, but with a LONG Whimper"
  5. "Computer Aided Learning -- Good or Bad?"
  6. "The Battle of the Bulge in American Politics"
• Commentaries and philosophic ramblings on various quotations that I've heard and thought about over the years, as indexed here:
  1. "There's no such thing as a self-made failure."
  2. "Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art."
  3. "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good you'll have to ram them down people's throats."
  4. "Don't teach Granny to suck eggs."
  5. "The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."
  6. "Don't argue with a fool. People won't be able to tell the difference."
  7. "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo."
  8. "Figures don't lie, but liars figure."
  9. "Beggars can't be choosers."
• A few pages and comments about seti@home.
• Recursive stuff about this Web site, basically its history and a few technical notes.
• Stuff about me, but the most interesting item there is probably the little search engine of all the books I've read since 1971... Actually, most of the old version of my home page is in this category. This later but somewhat experimental version can also search for books based on the authors, and has some display enhancements.