Like all the artificers of the Database, I have traveled in my youth; I have wandered the nodegel in search of a particular node, perhaps that imagined node of nodes; I have sculpted the freegel into various forms. Despite my own insignificant efforts, both creative and destructive, I believe the number of nodes to be uncountable, the volume of freegel infinite. The idealists argue that nodes are the essential form of absolute thought or, at least, of our ability to reify thought. They conject that nodegel without form is inconceivable. The mystics claim that their ecstasy reveals to them a great chamber containing a number of nodes precipitated, compressed, and bound on edge; but their testimony is suspect; their words, obscure. (This assemblage of thoughts they call a Book.) Let it suffice now for me to repeat this dictum: the Database is a sphere whose exact center is any one of its nodes and whose circumference is inaccessible.
Ξ Ξ Ξ Ξ Ξ
Crumbs left by TheNodeFairy
- your favorite sock puppets and mine, Sifl and Olly
We have dispatched Klaproth riding a pale horse as our envoy
- Chris Isaak by Kung plagarism will not be tolerated
- Albiorix by bozon superseded
- Synchronicity by Roommate superseded
- Synchronicity by botono9 superseded
- Carnies are evil, maniacal goblins who want to kill us all andsacrifice us in the ring of fire by whereami arguing with a nodeshell is stupid and pointless
- the physics of underwater assassination by Zucha
toss in a hand grenade
- Into the Woods by Eternal Shroud superseded
- Ancient Greek eating habits by Warthog this did not describe eating habits as much as specific instances of cannibalism in mythology
- TV's Frank by lunchstealer superseded
- TV's Frank by pokey superseded
- wanker by Safiiru MtG slang
- Reasons why you need at least 5 hours of sleep. by ruse rambling digression
- the small fuzzy world of nothing by a new noder who was referred to read me first: getting started on E2
- cp, df, gzip, ls, and make by viterbiSearcher
at the noder's request "it was wrong to node man-pages" agreed
- ls by flup see above
- social issues by viterbiSearcher at the noder's request
- Bugbear by Wagstaff unnecessary
- Hobgoblin by Wagstaff unnecessary
- Cogito, Ergo Hormel by jagger one-liner
- the stupid questions i have been asked by PMD there are no stupid questions only stupid answers
- the stupid questions i have been asked by jagger as above, so below
- Mary Magdalene by jagger one-liner
- what the virgin mary's erect nipple would look like by jagger there are counseling groups that might help you work out your issues with Catholicism
- the tripimality by jagger another one-liner
- Mint julep by zoebaby "tastes like mouthwash"
- Your Weirdest Cocktails by piq G*T*K*Y* you ain't got no alibi
- Your Weirdest Cocktails by gahachino next verse, same as the first, a whole lot louder and a little bit worse
- CowboyNeal by DarkGamer said nothing that wasn't already discussed at the obligatory CowboyNeal option on every Slashdot poll
- The ritualistic cannibalization of ones own savior is weird by bozon responsorial
- The ritualistic cannibalization of one's own savior is weird by sgs what if one's own savior were one's weirdest cocktail?
- The ritualistic cannibalization of one's own savior is weird by shokwave would those noders who self-identify as "recovering Catholics" please report to node_id=1402260
- Puck by Muerte no one cares to read a node for every person to have been on MTV's The Real World
- Sifl and Olly by otopico superseded
- Sifl and Olly by everyone out of date call for a letter writing campaign
- Sifl and Olly by waterhouse off topic
- I'm just reading it for the articles by danlowlite "People such as Bobby Fischer would would [sic] write articles for the magazine"
- I'm just reading it for the articles by pealco " I heard that Brian Aldiss recently wrote a couple of articles in Playboy that were sequels to his short story . . . "
- I am., I shift., I divide., I see., I want., I love., I fear., I hide. by Gemini at the noder's request
- Maroon 5 by Muffalicious no content, possible mistake
- Steel Reserve by notanerd superseded
- Steel Reserve by ToiletDuk superseded
- List of SWCCG Reflections Foils by Ben Figgin a listing of premium foil cards from the StarWars CCG
- Who is that on the road at 4am? by Superunknown_GP maybe they do rule the world
- global brain by emills one-liner, observation, see also
- How to say toasts around the world by a new noder who was advised to take a look at toasts from around the world
- The International Top-of-the-Pops Conspiracy by arieh at the noder's request
- My computer won't let me turn it off! by glindsey at the noder's request
- neologism by dimpster examples
- The Coronation Tap by Chilliwilli a very short list of people who might be found at this Bristol pub
- soulmate by Trevoke low rep
- food by jotajota a draft of a poem for children
- European Central Bank by sauron cut and paste from www.ecb.int/about/escb.htm which is copyright by the European Central Bank
- The Art Of Insulting - FAQ by Trevoke responsorial WUs to older E2 nodes need to be much better than this
- Dream Log: March 18, 2003 March 29, 2002, April 1, 2002, May 13, 2002, Fletcherize, Worms, Bob's Yer Uncle, Newport Beach, California, Bocksbeutel, William Carlos Williams, What is Central, Bumble and bumble, Black-and-white to color, Fog in The Channel, Outside of Grand Central Station, Afloat with Primo Levi, Perfecting your titles by JohnnyGoodyear at the noder's request
- strictly inferior by a new noder
- I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts by FishHead superseded
- June 14, 2003 by mcd at the noder's request
- Gentoo by MrSmith superseded
- A horrid memory from my childhood by zot-fot-piq getting to know you, getting to know all about you
- A horrid memory from my childhood by jessicapierce getting to like you, getting to hope you like me
- A horrid memory from my childhood by Gypsy getting to know you, putting it my way, but nicely
- A horrid memory from my childhood by muegge you are precisely my cup of tea
- Making my little brother throw up by NSA this was actually "my little brother making me throw up", but please spare us "throwing up my little brother up"
- Relena by a new noder who was referred to for the spunky new user
- Gundam Continuity by VAG duplication of this noder's WU under Mobile Suit Gundam
- Auror by psydereal superseded
- striker by cabin fever who was repremanded
- The Whore of Mensa by Datsun superseded
- Anime: the lazy-man's animation by holloway a poor argument
- pseudoporn by Tony Tastey one-liner from E1
- skinemax by Tony Tastey one-liner from E1
- BLS by Tony Tastey a "see also" replaced by a firmlink
- Chimaera, Conquest, Devastator, Stalker, Thunderflare, Tyrant, Vengeance by Ben Figgin Imperial Class Star Destroyers
- Star Trek Toilets by Ratoslov Lenev a sinlge-line allegation that was disproven by a later WU
- Aeon Flux by Ratoslov Lenev "Aeon represents the birth-death-rebirth cycle, and is alive because she dies"
- Star Destroyer by Hai-Etlik superseded
- Imperial Star Destroyer by Dialogue a "see also" replaced by a firmlink
- Gravity Well Generators by laguna72 "further adding to its awesome aresenal of strategical and brute weaponry [sic]"
- Miracles of the Bible by shyHyena at the noder's request
- The Abolition of Work by botik32 a link to an external site
- Scarberia by a new noder who responsibly asked for a deletion
- College Dorm Life by crayz the goals of this site have gone beyond being a repository of email forwards
- Everything MUD by moJoe some can withstand the test of time
- NCR by Superunknown_GP a town in Fallout II, in case you care
The opening pastiche is based on a passage from Jorge Luis Borges's The Library of Babel.
ALGEBRA Ξ FIRE