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Root

• about.php : The site's history.
• bt_public_key.txt : My public key for PGP verification.
• credits.php : Credits for the site.
• filter.ram : Small RealAudio clip of a song by the industrial band Filter.
• findben.php : Various places to find Ben online.
• index.php : Splash page for the whole site.
• main.php : Main menu.
  • contact.php : Breakdown of 'contact'.
  • content.php : Breakdown of 'content'.
  • exposed.php : Breakdown of 'ben, exposed'.
  • other.php : Breakdown of 'other'.
  • site.php : Breakdown of 'site'.
• mainarchive.php : An archive of past introductions for the main menu.
• new.php : New stuff (to keep the bored (everyone) interested).
• oldnews.php : Old news.
• quote.php : Random quotes.
• rand_link2.pl : Random links to pages on the site.
• shantel.ram : RealMedia of Shantel's "Bass and Several Cars".
• simple.ram : RealMedia of Simple Minds' "Don't You (Forget About Me)".
• simple.txt : Lyrics of Simple Minds' "Don't You (Forget About Me)".
• sitemap.php : Sitemap.
• takeback.txt : Lyrics of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, "They Can't Take..."
• vast.ram : RealMedia of Vast's "Touched".

Design

Might as well make money off the Web. Doesn't everybody else? I can guarantee you one thing about my services though -- it'll hold the quality of someone who truly believes in the goals behind the Internet. I won't give you a half-baked effort. More...

• index.php : A web designer's sales pitch.

Forums

Contribute to the benturner.com forums if you have something to say about how stupid or brilliant my ideas are, or for whatever else that's on your mind. More...

• index.php : Forums' front page.

Link

Some sites on the 'Net truly make me think, feel, and stay up to frigging late hours at night. Usually those sites are personal, disclosing too much about the author's personality, designed in a beautiful and graceful manner. How could I use the 'Net knowing I didn't give these people credit for their role in my procrastination?

• index.php : My favorite links to other sites.
• rand_link.pl : Perl script to send you to a random link.

Mine

I've written a few things since I discovered I like writing. I even have some stuff from beforehand, but it consists of mainly boring drivel intended to be so technically sound that it would be impossible for the teacher to give me a bad grade on it. But these essays, poems, and pictures are better, I promise.

• begone.php : "Begone!"
• index.php : Listing of stuff I've created.
• mohammad.php : "Not Unlike Mohammad II's".
• puddle.php : "A Dirty Puddle".
• skin.php : "Mendax Cavus".
• suffering.php : "Late-Night Talks With Cruelty".
  
  
• desktop.jpg : Desktop background.
• wallpaper.jpg : Another desktop background.
• origben.jpg : Random pseudo-art.

MUD

Okay, so the name of the directory does not exactly fit the page name. That's because the 'Net's grown so exponentially over the past two years that games and online chatting have developed at phenomenal rates. On the MUD page, I tell you about the things I've tried and what I think of them. Oh yeah, and there's plain information and references, too.

• index.php : Information related to MUDs and online games/interaction.
• ozy.zip : Area writing documentation for ROM-style MUDs.

MUD Help

Starting out on MUDs for the first time is an ambitious task, indeed. The MUD Help page provides the necessary commands to help get you started on Merc style MUDs.

• index.php : MUDs and online networks.

RobScript for zMUD

I've been working on a script for mudding which uses the MUD client zMUD. It automates plenty of mudding hindrances. I recommend getting them to learn MUD scripting.

• download.php : Download the RobScript.
• faq.php : Frequently Asked Questions about the RobScript.
• features.php : The best features of RobScript listed for your convenience.
• index.html : The start page for the script.
• main.php : The menu.

Music

Music is such an integral part of my life that you'd think I play an instrument. Well, I used to. Yeah, I didn't go into band or choir like all the other impressionable middle school kiddies. I played the violin. *ahem* But anyway, the music page gives viewers my rant on the music industry trends, and offers the largest compilation of Dallas band links anywhere on the 'Net. Got a small band? Advertise here.

• index.php : The music page.

Other

Ever run across miscellaneous documents which don't fit in any category? Me too. They go here. You go here. You might find something you'll like.

• angst.php : "angst, and it isn't quite right."
• audiostocker.zip : A volume normalization plugin for WinAmp.
• bloom.php : "The Closing of the American Mind".
• circumlocution.php : "Exercises in Circumlocution".
• conversion.php : A page of conversion scripts.
• corbies.php : "The Twa Corbies".
• cow.php : "Cows and World Governments".
• details_quiz.txt : An interesting quiz to give you some perspective into your life. Cheese alert, though.
• door.php : "Get Up and Bar the Door".
• english.php : "A Brief Look at the Evolution of the English Language".
• fuck.php : "Fuck: A Guide to a Wonderful (Obscene) Word".
• hardy.php : Thomas Hardy's philosophy.
• index.php : Listing of stuff I really enjoy rereading and experiencing...
• introvert.php : "Uncomfortable Subtlety".
• krough.php : A poem by Richard Krough.
• mood.php : Ben's December mood patterns.
• online_relationships.html : "The Internet's Effects on Relationships: Detrimental or Beneficial?"
• patrick.php : "Sir Patrick Spens".
• philosophy.php : "Philosophies of Life".
• plan_archive.html : The .plan Project of 1997.
  • .plan8_16_97 : "Exordium."
  • .plan8_17_97 : "Exponible Rationale."
  • .plan8_18_97 : "A Philanthropic and Entropic Something."
  • .plan8_19_97 : "Inextricable Talents."
  • .plan8_20_97 : "Ecstasies of Raw Cookie Dough."
  • .plan8_21_97 : "Rapt in Limerance and More."
  • .plan8_22_97 : "Innocuous Timestamp."
  • .plan8_23_97 : "Uh. (just a note)"
  • .plan8_26_97 : "Revision of Said Goals."
  • .plan8_28_97 : "This .plan, My Flue for Misease."
  • .plan8_30_97 : "Deliberation and Rumination."
  • .plan9_1_97 : "The Lachrymatory State of the Domicile."
  • .plan9_2_97 : "Dreams of Her Mellifluous Voice."
  • .plan9_3_97 : "The Importance of Celerity."
  • .plan9_5_97 : "A Latin Salve."
  • .plan9_8_97 : "Semblable to a Spark's E-mail."
  • .plan9_9_97 : "The Filament of Comfort..."
  • .plan9_11_97 : "Weaselangelism."
  • .plan9_17_97 : "Id Intellego."
  • .plan9_18_97 : "Felicitation."
  • .plan9_20_97 : "Discontentment, a Waif to Me."
  • .plan9_22_97 : "Simple Trigonometry."
  • .plan9_24_97 : "At Home in the Ethereal Void."
  • .plan9_30_97 : "Whineding Down, a Continuation."
  • .plan10_1_97 : "EGNAHC-FLES."
  • .plan10_5_97 : "Subcutaneous Feelings."
  • .plan10_9_97 : "Brunching with a Squid."
  • .plan10_11_97 : "Cognizant of Cognizance."
  • .plan10_13_97 : "Tantamount to Cultism."
  • .plan10_19_97 : "Wondrous Momentlets Approacheth."
  • .plan10_22_97 : "Incalescent, Love-Struck Teen..."
  • .plan10_26_97 : "Sex."
  • .plan10_28_97 : "Diurnal Divarication."
  • .plan10_31_97 : "Pestilence and E-mail."
  • .plan11_2_97 : "Flagrant Harakiri."
  • .plan11_18_97 : "Stagnans Scriptura."
  • .plan11_19_97 : "Abort All Acceptance."
• prometheus.php : "The Prometheus Syndrome".
• rescue.txt : Guerilla volunteers.
• snow.txt : "Snow".
• source.php : "Look to the Source of Your Problems".
• swear.txt : A breakdown of how often I swear on my site.
• team.txt : "Dictionary Editors Revise Spelling of 'Team'"
• tm-nytimes.txt : E-mail from a NY Times reporter regarding the Trenchcoat Gang Mafia reference on my "PESH: Why?" page.
• tm-time.txt : E-mail from a Time Magazine reporter regarding the Trenchcoat Gang Mafia reference on my "PESH: Why?" page.
• veronica.txt : "A Little Girl's Web Site"

Personal

I don't know what I was thinking when I wrote my online autobiography, but I certainly said too much, and it'll all probably be interpreted incorrectly. Some people think I'm arrogant, some people think I'm hard to figure out, some people think I'm modest and sweet. People are a frigging pain, aren't they? Oh well, you figure it all out.

• index.php : Ben's autobio.
• intj.txt : A description of INTJ personalities.

PESH

Aww, isn't Ben nice? He, along with his amazing sidekick roommate, Daniel, provided a place on IRC for students of Plano East Senior High School to come and chat. PESH Online gives you the information you need for this channel.

• index.php : Main menu -- find out what's available.
• irc.php : How to get onto IRC.
• list.php : What are former PESH students up to?
• story.php : PESH stories; nostalgia!
• why.php : Questions left unanswered.

Resume

Perhaps by now, you're thinking to yourself, "Man, I should hire this guy!" See if my skills meet your needs. Written up with stylesheets and available in several formats.

• index.php : Ben's resume.
• resume.txt : A text version of Ben's resume.

Robin Hood

This has been far and away the most popular collection of pages on my site. For some reason, no one's dared to write a biography of Robin Hood for the Web except for me, so I'm the person people come to for Robin Hood information. These people include high school students, college students, actors, and even the Discovery Channel. The Robin Hood pages contain clear and concise information on every aspect of the Robin Hood legend. Contribute if something's missing.

• book_quest_lees.txt : Dr. Frederick Walker's review of Jim Lees's book, The Quest for Robin Hood.
• book_robinhood_holt.txt : Wrapping up with some thoughts.
• hut_curiosity.txt : Hood's Hut: "Faith in the Absent."
• hut_rescue.txt : Hood's Hut: "Rescue from the Sheriff's Castle."
• index.php : The RH menu.
• menintights.txt : Lyrics from the "Men in Tights" theme song.
• pic_adventures.jpg : Poster of "Adventures of Robin Hood".
• pic_boar.jpg : Old picture of "Robin and the Tinker".
• pic_escape.jpg : Old picture of Robin escaping.
• pic_flynn.jpg : Movie poster of Errol Flynn in "Adventures of Robin Hood".
• pic_foodlabel.jpg : A Robin Hood food product label?
• pic_hood.jpg : Statue of Robin.
• pic_page.jpg : Old page out of a book.
• pic_painting.jpg : Famous painting of Robin.
• pic_poster.jpg : "Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood".
• rh_bio.php : A biography of Robin. Who was he?
• rh_england.php : Robin's England, the time period and atmosphere.
• rh_hut.php : The Hood's Hut, interactive writing.
• rh_media.php : Robin in movies, books, etc. Plus multimedia files.
• rh_men.php : The Merry Men and associated characters.
• rh_sites.php : Other Robin Hood sites on the Web.
• sound_clannad.wav : A clip of Clannad's Robin Hood theme song done for a TV show.
• sound_mit.mp3 : MP3 version of the "Men in Tights" theme song.
• sound_mit.rm : RealAudio version of the "Men in Tights" theme song.
• sound_mit.wav : WAV version of the "Men in Tights" theme song.
• story_3squires.txt : "Robin Hood Rescuing the Three Squires."
• story_tanner.txt : "Robin Hood and the Tanner."
• tidbit_friartuck_anon.txt : Some info about Friar Tuck.
• tidbit_littlejohn_purganon.txt : A story about Little John meeting Robin.

Soapbox

I had a great idea back in 1995. I decided I would create a page where I could write new articles every week about the most controversial issues in my life at that time. I guess I wasn't really doing much at the time I thought of the idea. Was probably watching a rerun of Sledgehammer or something. The Soapbox has, surprisingly, turned out extremely well, gaining praise from some of the other writers on the 'Net. Let me know how the articles strike you. Like a Daily Texan editorial or like a well-crafted poem by John Dryden?

Chronological order (YYYY/MM_DD) for dated filenames.

• 1995/index.php : List of Soapboxes written in 1995.
  1. 1995/10_08.php : "The Telecommunications Decency Act and Censoring the 'Net"
  2. 1995/10_15.php : "Life in a Snobby City"
  3. 1995/10_22.php : "Suing Because of Stupidity"
  4. 1995/10_29.php : "Abortion: Not a Simple Issue at All"
  5. 1995/11_05.php : "Police at School: Earning Their Pay?"
  6. 1995/11_12.php : "Book Censorship in Schools"
  7. 1995/11_19.php : "How Many People Live in Your House?"
  8. 1995/11_26.php : "The Word of God?"
  9. 1995/12_03.php : "Religion Completely Taken Out of Schools?"
  10. 1995/12_10.php : "For and Against Mudding..."
  11. 1995/12_17.php : "My Gift to You"
  12. 1995/12_24.php : "My Christmas Wishlist"
• 1996/index.php : List of Soapboxes written in 1996.
  1. 1996/01_01.php : "Bye, Calvin and Hobbes!"
  2. 1996/01_07.php : "New Year's Reviews"
  3. 1996/01_14.php : "Government Shutdown"
  4. 1996/01_21.php : "Democratic Learning?"
  5. 1996/01_28.php : "Bandwidth in the Future"
  6. 1996/02_04.php : "Culture Differences in...Boardgames?"
  7. 1996/02_11.php : "Celebrating the Dallas Cowboys..."
  8. 1996/02_18.php : "The Latest Bill Proposition for Technology in Schools"
  9. 1996/02_25.php : "The Internet: Declining in Performance?"
  10. 1996/03_03.php : "Unsung Heroes on the Dallas Cowboys"
  11. 1996/03_10.php : "New Features for the World Wide Web"
  12. 1996/03_17.php : "A Quick Look at Current Events"
  13. 1996/03_24.php : "Truthful Charity"
  14. 1996/03_31.php : "Getting Rid of the Robin Hood Image?!"
  15. 1996/04_07.php : "Lack of Patriotism Leads to Defeat"
  16. 1996/04_14.php : "Cynicism"
  17. 1996/04_21.php : "Something's Wrong When Our Smartest People..."
  18. 1996/04_28.php : "Media Frenzy"
  19. 1996/05_05.php : "Sierra On-Line's 'The Realm'"
  20. 1996/05_12.php : "Happy Mother's Day!"
  21. 1996/05_19.php : "The Almighty Book vs. the Newcomer Technology"
  22. 1996/05_26.php : "Graduation"
  23. 1996/06_02.php : "Michael Jordan"
  24. 1996/06_09.php : "Individuality: Where is it on the Web?"
  25. 1996/06_16.php : "What I've Gotten from Latin IV"
  26. 1996/06_23.php : "Suthun Relijun"
  27. 1996/06_30.php : "evolution."
  28. 1996/07_07.php : "Why Text is Better Than Graphics"
  29. 1996/07_14.php : "The Mercenaries"
  30. 1996/07_21.php : "Olympicture-Perfect"
  31. 1996/07_28.php : "I Don't Need Your Love"
  32. 1996/08_04.php : "fEaR"
  33. 1996/08_11.php : "Anonymity"
  34. 1996/08_18.php : "Lower-Mid Life Crisis"
  35. 1996/08_25.php : "Stop Killing the Dang Visionaries!"
  36. 1996/09_01.php : "Freshman Discoveries"
  37. 1996/09_08.php : "Melancholera"
  38. 1996/09_15.php : "Pick Up a Pen and You're a Writer..."
  39. 1996/09_22.php : "Begone!"
  40. 1996/09_29.php : "Vulnerability"
  41. 1996/10_06.php : "Dear Ben,"
  42. 1996/10_13.php : "No More Oppression!"
  43. 1996/10_20.php : "Keeping My Distance"
  44. 1996/10_27.php : "Backlash!"
  45. 1996/11_03.php : "Gener(e)alizing"
  46. 1996/11_10.php : "Belief, O Cursed Blessing!"
  47. 1996/11_17.php : "Oh go away."
  48. 1996/11_24.php : "The Funniest Joke Ever Written"
  49. 1996/12_01.php : "Examining Abstractness While Sipping Iced Tea in a Junk Floating Over the Edge of the World"
  50. 1996/12_08.php : "Don't You Get It Yet?"
  51. 1996/12_15.php : "Your Past Doesn't Leave You"
  52. 1996/12_22.php : "Guess We'd Better Get a Tree"
  53. 1996/12_29.php : "Two Paths? I Went Through the Bushes Instead"
• 1997/index.php : List of Soapboxes written in 1997.
  1. 1997/01_05.php : "Hear ME Roar"
  2. 1997/01_12.php : "Wishlist Revisited"
  3. 1997/01_19.php : "The Ebonic Plague"
  4. 1997/01_26.php : "Temporary Unavailability"
  5. 1997/02_02.php : "Clique Here for Identity"
  6. 1997/02_09.php : "But...But, It's the Sinciple of the Thing..."
  7. 1997/02_16.php : "Out With the Old, In With the New"
  8. 1997/02_23.php : "Puff the Tobacco Carton, from Dawn Until Three..."
  9. 1997/03_02.php : "The Brain Mapped Into the File Directory"
  10. 1997/03_09.php : "Killers Aren't Born"
  11. 1997/03_16.php : "Justification for Procrastination (Sort of)"
  12. 1997/03_23.php : "HTML Bickering"
  13. 1997/03_30.php : "I Spit on Walter Cronkite"
  14. 1997/04_06.php : "Who's the Victim Here?"
  15. 1997/04_13.php : "WYSINWYG"
  16. 1997/04_20.php : "Indulgence"
  17. 1997/04_27.php : "Strengthened"
  18. 1997/05_04.php : "Carbon Burn and Putrification of Anything Even Remotely Pragmatic"
  19. 1997/05_11.php : "Honestly, Mom?"
  20. 1997/05_18.php : "Getting My Shit Together"
  21. 1997/05_25.php : "Where Have All the Writers Gone?"
  22. 1997/06_01.php : "Happens So Slow One Doesn't Notice"
  23. 1997/06_08.php : "Adjustment"
  24. 1997/06_15.php : "Gee, Thanks!"
  25. 1997/06_22.php : "Nocturnal Pleasures"
  26. 1997/06_29.php : "Religion as Entertainment and Other Things"
  27. 1997/07_06.php : "Vast Distances Defeated"
  28. 1997/07_13.php : "A Happiness Unequaled"
  29. 1997/07_20.php : "Mass Cramsit"
  30. 1997/07_27.php : "Sorry I'm Late: A Vituperation"
  31. 1997/08_03.php : "To Some, Cacophonous Entropy"
  32. 1997/08_10.php : "He, It, They, or Nothing?"
  33. 1997/08_17.php : "Radio Static"
  34. 1997/08_24.php : "henry"
  35. 1997/08_31.php : "Achieving Perfection"
  36. 1997/09_07.php : "Stress-Related Injury"
  37. 1997/09_14.php : "Self-Imposed Racism"
  38. 1997/09_21.php : "You Lust for It and You'll NEVER Get It"
  39. 1997/09_28.php : "Proposition 7.9.12.17a"
  40. 1997/10_05.php : "Charismatic Icon Animal Man"
  41. 1997/10_12.php : "A Stroke of Genius (No, Not Mine)"
  42. 1997/10_19.php : "Immortality: Dammit, People, Don't You Get It?"
  43. 1997/10_26.php : "Rich Content, My Ass"
  44. 1997/11_02.php : "Being Biracial"
  45. 1997/11_09.php : "Boredom Setting In"
  46. 1997/11_16.php : "School Spirit"
  47. 1997/11_23.php : "Growing Up"
  48. 1997/11_30.php : "Motivation Evaluation"
  49. 1997/12_07.php : "The Earth Shakes, the World QUAKEs"
  50. 1997/12_14.php : "Weightlessness"
  51. 1997/12_21.php : "Damn the Site!"
  52. 1997/12_28.php : "Rebellion"
• 1998/index.php : List of Soapboxes written in 1998.
  1. 1998/01_04.php : "Motivation"
  2. 1998/01_11.php : "Our Reward"
  3. 1998/01_18.php : "Ben Calls the Shots...and Calls Them Right"
  4. 1998/01_25.php : "Goodbye to the Already Dead, or, I am Leksa, WebGrrl"
  5. 1998/02_01.php : "Let 'Em Hang, er, Fry, er Lie Quietly on the Table and Wait..."
  6. 1998/02_08.php : "MSIEnformed and Naive(gator)"
  7. 1998/02_15.php : "The Music Industry Finally Takes It Seriously"
  8. 1998/02_22.php : "Letting Them Play Instead of Letting Them Bitch"
  9. 1998/03_01.php : "More on Microsoft"
  10. 1998/03_08.php : "Small-Time Sites Meet Major Corporations"
  11. 1998/03_15.php : "The Next Generation"
  12. 1998/03_22.php : "In the News"
  13. 1998/03_29.php : "De Familiaritate Scientiaque"
  14. 1998/04_05.php : "It's Inconsequential"
  15. 1998/04_12.php : "It Begins"
  16. 1998/04_19.php : "The New Hierarchy"
  17. 1998/04_26.php : "Love for the Personal Site"
  18. 1998/05_03.php : "Ignorance and Elitism"
  19. 1998/05_10.php : "Stuck Around St. Petersburg"
  20. 1998/05_17.php : "The Hard Life of a Celebrity"
  21. 1998/05_24.php : "Dreams"
  22. 1998/05_31.php : "The Magic of Jobs"
  23. 1998/06_07.php : "An American Gothic"
  24. 1998/06_14.php : "Blowing It All Out of Proportion"
  25. 1998/06_21.php : "Conversation with Kitty, #1"
  26. 1998/06_28.php : "College Applications Revisited"
  27. 1998/07_05.php : "Opinions Elsewhere"
  28. 1998/07_12.php : "Tennis: WTA vs. ATP"
  29. 1998/07_19.php : "The Neo-Nazis"
  30. 1998/07_26.php : "Access is Power"
  31. 1998/08_02.php : "Buying a Computer"
  32. 1998/08_09.php : "TV and Radio Across the Pond"
  33. 1998/08_16.php : "Intel's Celeron: The Blunder or Wonder Chip?"
  34. 1998/08_23.php : "The .plan Project of 1997"
  35. 1998/08_30.php : "Anna"
  36. 1998/09_06.php : "Domain Name Theft"
  37. 1998/09_13.php : "Self-Less"
  38. 1998/09_20.php : "Apple Elitism"
  39. 1998/09_27.php : "Pre-Millennial Tension"
  40. 1998/10_04.php : "Miss Intoinette, Tale of a Young Debutante (I)"
  41. 1998/10_11.php : "This Semester"
  42. 1998/10_18.php : "Finding Myself"
  43. 1998/10_25.php : "Trust Me"
  44. 1998/11_01.php : "Men and Women and 'The Joke' "
  45. 1998/11_08.php : "Translating and the Meaning of Words"
  46. 1998/11_15.php : "Nec Me Miserum Cibus Iuvaret Nec Somnus Tegeret Quiete Ocellos"
  47. 1998/11_22.php : "Nappy Hair"
  48. 1998/11_29.php : "Web '98: Prognostication"
  49. 1998/12_06.php : "Online Relationships"
  50. 1998/12_13.php : "'Thief: The Dark Project', A Personal, Unabridged Review"
  51. 1998/12_20.php : "The Unsettling Presence of Man"
  52. 1998/12_27.php : "A One-Car Accident"
• 1999/index.php : List of Soapboxes written in 1999.
  1. 1999/01_03.php : "Re-Evaluation"
  2. 1999/01_10.php : "The Dallas Christmas with Anna"
  3. 1999/01_17.php : "Spring '99 Semester"
  4. 1999/01_24.php : "Glowering at Local Bandwidth Empery"
  5. 1999/01_31.php : "Denial of Self"
  6. 1999/02_07.php : "De Vita Morteque"
  7. 1999/02_14.php : "The NBA: They Still Milk This Game!"
  8. 1999/02_21.php : "Web Design, Stagnation of"
  9. 1999/02_28.php : "Something Nice for Me to Think About"
  10. 1999/03_07.php : "Knowledge and Opinion"
  11. 1999/03_14.php : "Call to Power"
  12. 1999/03_21.php : "That Was Such a Nice Thing You Did for Me"
  13. 1999/03_28.php : "Seeing It for What It Is"
  14. 1999/04_04.php : "The Goofiest Game"
  15. 1999/04_11.php : "The Next 'Threat' to Entertainment"
  16. 1999/04_18.php : "The Trenchcoat Media"
  17. 1999/04_25.php : "Massacre of the Different"
  18. 1999/05_02.php : "The Online Melting Pot"
  19. 1999/05_09.php : "Summer, 1999"
  20. 1999/05_16.php : "Popping Thunder and Fateful Towers"
  21. 1999/05_23.php : "David Brin's 'The Transparent Society': My Thoughts"
  22. 1999/05_30.php : "Summer, 1999: Update"
  23. 1999/06_06.php : "Ben Turner Storms 'The Real World'"
  24. 1999/06_13.php : "On Relationships with Women"
  25. 1999/06_20.php : "The Government's More Subtle Approach"
  26. 1999/06_27.php : "Sn1pe and Hax0r"
  27. 1999/07_04.php : "Backing Off"
  28. 1999/07_11.php : "Computer Components at a Bargain"
  29. 1999/07_18.php : "RHAT: Sharks and Geeks"
  30. 1999/07_25.php : "Where Will It End?"
  31. 1999/08_01.php : "Fahrenheit 2577"
  32. 1999/08_08.php : "200 Weeks Ago"
  33. 1999/08_15.php : "Ubiquitous, Endless Bandwidth"
  34. 1999/08_22.php : "JIT"
  35. 1999/08_29.php : "Another Minor Disturbance for Microsoft"
  36. 1999/09_05.php : "Hitting Pirates Where It Hurts Them Least"
  37. 1999/09_12.php : "Growing Up"
  38. 1999/09_19.php : "Our Boy Graduates to Broadband...for Good"
  39. 1999/09_26.php : "Reviews"
  40. 1999/10_03.php : "Harsh Comparison"
  41. 1999/10_10.php : "The Love of Money"
  42. 1999/10_17.php : "Daytrading Restrictions"
  43. 1999/10_24.php : "Friendships Bounce Off Me"
  44. 1999/10_31.php : "Roots and Reintegration"
  45. 1999/11_07.php : "A Day of Accomplishment"
  46. 1999/11_14.php : "Respect My Authori-tay!"
  47. 1999/11_21.php : "February Sauna"
  48. 1999/11_28.php : "The Nodal Point"
  49. 1999/12_05.php : "A Wild End to an Important Year"
  50. 1999/12_12.php : "The Wrongful Execution Argument"
  51. 1999/12_19.php : "Market Divergence"
  52. 1999/12_26.php : "She Would"
• 2000/index.php : List of Soapboxes written in 2000.
  1. 2000/01_02.php : "The Year I Graduated"
  2. 2000/01_09.php : "A Call for Sports Fans to Lighten Up"
  3. 2000/01_16.php : "Voluntary Gun Control"
  4. 2000/01_23.php : "Why Intel Sucks"
  5. 2000/01_30.php : "It Feels Right"
  6. 2000/02_06.php : "Due Diligence"
  7. 2000/02_13.php : "Learning the Bottom Line"
  8. 2000/02_20.php : "Breaking Point"
  9. 2000/02_27.php : "Metallica, Greedy Capitalist Pigs"
  10. 2000/03_05.php : "On Love"
  11. 2000/03_12.php : "Dr. Laura Sucks"
  12. 2000/03_19.php : "My Few Nocturnal Dreams"
  13. 2000/03_26.php : "The University Days Wind Down"
  14. 2000/04_02.php : "Market Divergence (again)"
  15. 2000/04_09.php : "Catabatic Ecphrasis"
  16. 2000/04_16.php : "Anatomy of a Vicious Correction"
  17. 2000/04_23.php : "The Internet in the Near Future"
  18. 2000/04_30.php : "Trader in Securities"
  19. 2000/05_07.php : "The Human Drive"
  20. 2000/05_14.php : "Merry Bear Markets!"
  21. 2000/05_21.php : "My High School Yearbook! (Four Years Later)"
  22. 2000/05_28.php : "First Amendment File Sharing"
  23. 2000/06_04.php : "CNBC's Trading Pit Survivor?"
  24. 2000/06_11.php : "Quest for a Court in Crowley Park"
  25. 2000/06_18.php : "Foreign Chicks"
  26. 2000/06_25.php : "Italy at Last!"
  27. 2000/07_02.php : "Ma Faiblesse"
  28. 2000/07_09.php : "Queasy Market Sentiment"
  29. 2000/07_16.php : "Review of My Summer Trading"
  30. 2000/07_23.php : "The Last Days"
  31. 2000/07_30.php : "Camfederacy of Blogging Dunces"
  32. 2000/08_06.php : "Brevity is the Soul of Wit"
  33. 2000/08_13.php : "East Coast Clubbing"
  34. 2000/08_20.php : "Internet Arms Race"
  35. 2000/08_27.php : "Biofeedback"
  36. 2000/09_03.php : "A Trending Life"
  37. 2000/09_10.php : "Dreams and Hopes"
  38. 2000/09_17.php : "Confessions of an Online Writer"
  39. 2000/09_24.php : "Napster and MP3s, Digital Crack"
  40. 2000/10_01.php : "It Has Yet to Play Itself Out"
  41. 2000/10_08.php : "The Rise and Fall of a Sheeple Guru"
  42. 2000/10_15.php : "Moulting and Metamorphosis"
  43. 2000/10_22.php : "Feminine Mystique"
  44. 2000/10_29.php : "Pass the Rock, Yo!"
  45. 2000/11_05.php : "Thoughts on Cysts"
  46. 2000/11_12.php : "The United States Goes to Pot"
  47. 2000/11_19.php : "Off!; Off! Again"
  48. 2000/11_26.php : "New York City"
  49. 2000/12_03.php : "Tattoo"
  50. 2000/12_10.php : "How I'd Greet Gwyneth Paltrow"
  51. 2000/12_17.php : "The Bear!"
  52. 2000/12_24.php : "Astray in Suburbia"
  53. 2000/12_31.php : "Review of the Best Game Evar!!"
• 2001/index.php : List of Soapboxes written in 2001.
  1. 2001/01_07.php : "New Millennium and Xmas Excitement"
  2. 2001/01_14.php : "Best Albums of 2000 Recap"
  3. 2001/01_21.php : "Paris 2000"
  4. 2001/01_28.php : "Alan Greenspan Drinking Game"
  5. 2001/02_04.php : "23rd Birthday"
  6. 2001/02_11.php : "Italy 2000"
  7. 2001/02_18.php : ""<ScuZzy160> ska is what happens when something goes terribly wrong with your mix""
  8. 2001/02_25.php : "Company X Proudly Announces Record Levels of Lies and Deceit in 01Y"
  9. 2001/03_04.php : "Media Hating"
  10. 2001/03_11.php : "Hawai'i 2001"
  11. 2001/03_18.php : "On Being Nondescript"
  12. 2001/03_25.php : "Quick Thoughts on Customer Service and the Economy"
  13. 2001/04_01.php : "Corpus and Other Shit"
  14. 2001/04_08.php : "Survivor Application"
  15. 2001/04_15.php : "Online Atrophy"
  16. 2001/04_22.php : "Force and Intimidation"
  17. 2001/04_29.php : "Post-Matrix"
  18. 2001/05_06.php : "Privacy: Get Over It"
  19. 2001/05_13.php : "Authenticity"
  20. 2001/05_20.php : "Mihi Insolentia"
  21. 2001/05_27.php : "Inoffensive Pop Music"
  22. 2001/06_03.php : "Leading Indicators"
  23. 2001/06_10.php : "Estella"
  24. 2001/06_17.php : "Tales from Tejjjas"
  25. 2001/06_24.php : "No Bell Rings at the Bottom"
  26. 2001/07_01.php : "Irresponsibility"
  27. 2001/07_08.php : "Soapbox #300!"
  28. 2001/07_15.php : "Asshole Sending Hate Mail"
  29. 2001/07_22.php : "Last Mile"
  30. 2001/07_29.php : "Hella Angstful Blogger!!!"
  31. 2001/08_05.php : "Packing Up and Moving BenTurner.com"
  32. 2001/08_12.php : "I'd Like to Thank..."
  33. 2001/08_19.php : "Defeating Fanatics"
  34. 2001/08_26.php : "Destiny, Males, and Heroes"
  35. 2001/09_02.php : "Visiting the NYSE"
  36. 2001/09_09.php : "Counter-Terrorism"
  37. 2001/09_16.php : "A Sleeping Giant"
  38. 2001/09_23.php : "Triumph of the Dragon!@#"
  39. 2001/09_30.php : "Muzak for America"
  40. 2001/10_07.php : "The Pentagon Requests Ideas"
  41. 2001/10_14.php : "Thinking About the Army"
  42. 2001/10_21.php : "Estonian Gangsta Slammin'"
  43. 2001/10_28.php : "Sports Blackouts"
  44. 2001/11_04.php : "You Could Win!"
  45. 2001/11_11.php : "She Walks Towards Me"
  46. 2001/11_18.php : "Big (Tech) Business at Work"
  47. 2001/11_25.php : "ERISED"
  48. 2001/12_02.php : "Remembering Nina"
  49. 2001/12_09.php : "Everything's Okay!"
  50. 2001/12_16.php : "Accountability"
  51. 2001/12_23.php : "Artists and Patrons"
  52. 2001/12_30.php : "Inflection to Militarization"
• 2002/index.php : List of Soapboxes written in 2002.
  1. 2002/01_06.php : "Virtuality, A.I., and Human Panic"
  2. 2002/01_13.php : "Mandatory Service"
  3. 2002/01_20.php : "The Subway/Jared Fogle Conspiracy"
  4. 2002/01_27.php : "Man with Briefcase"
  5. 2002/02_03.php : "Enron Gets Gang-Tackled"
  6. 2002/02_10.php : "Online Reputation Systems"
  7. 2002/02_17.php : "The Drive to Win"
  8. 2002/02_24.php : "Setting a Good Example"
  9. 2002/03_03.php : "Bloggers Go to SXSW to Try on the Glass Slipper of Journalism"
  10. 2002/03_10.php : "The Web is Boring"
  11. 2002/03_17.php : "Wetware Personae"
  12. 2002/03_24.php : "The CBDTPA and DMCA"
  13. 2002/03_31.php : "Blackness, Exploitation of"
  14. 2002/04_07.php : "Vanishing Text"
  15. 2002/04_14.php : "Killing Machines"
  16. 2002/04_28.php : "Basic Combat Training and More"
  17. 2002/05_05.php : "Letters from Basic, 1"
  18. 2002/05_12.php : "Letters from Basic, 2"
  19. 2002/05_19.php : "Letters from Basic, 3"
  20. 2002/05_26.php : "Letters from Basic, 4"
  21. 2002/06_02.php : "Letters from Basic, 5"
  22. 2002/06_09.php : "Letters from Basic, 6"
  23. 2002/06_16.php : "Letters from Basic, 7"
  24. 2002/06_23.php : "Letters from Basic, 8"
  25. 2002/06_30.php : "Letters from Basic, 9"
  26. 2002/07_07.php : "Letters from Basic, 10"
  27. 2002/12_22.php : "Kelb Shaitan"
  28. 2002/12_29.php : "On Happiness"
• 2003/index.php : List of Soapboxes written in 2003.
  1. 2003/01_26.php : "Monterey"
  2. 2003/02_02.php : "Groundhog's Day"
  3. 2003/02_16.php : "Beauty: An Episode"
  4. 2003/05_11.php : "The Atkins Diet"
  5. 2003/07_06.php : "Surf: Dropping In"
  6. 2003/07_13.php : "The Hans Wehr Dictionary Arabic Fortune-Telling Game"
  7. 2003/09_21.php : "Mini Bull Market"
  8. 2003/11_23.php : "Next Wave of Tech Stocks"
• 2004/index.php : List of Soapboxes written in 2004.
  1. 2004/03_28.php : "San Angelo"
  2. 2004/08_01.php : "Airborne School"
  3. 2004/08_21.php : "Adjusting to Change"
  4. 2004/11_14.php : "Being Socially Retarded"
  5. 2004/11_21.php : "H3O"
• 2005/index.php : List of Soapboxes written in 2005.
  1. 2005/01_02.php : "Resolutions for Maturation"
  2. 2005/02_27.php : "De Exercitu"
  3. 2005/03_06.php : "March 2005 Stock Market Review"
  4. 2005/04_03.php : "Hot Product Stickiness"
  5. 2005/05_29.php : "Love and War"
  6. 2005/06_12.php : "At the Movies"
  
  
  
• ascii.txt : Some ASCII art Ben made.
• bombay.txt : Discrimination...NOW!
• god.ram : A small RealAudio clip of "Heresy" by Nine Inch Nails.
• index.php : The current Soapbox and menu.
• petition.php : Petition to add hours to each day!
• rescue1.html : "The Rescue", frame 1.
• rescue2.html : "The Rescue", frame 2.
• rescue3.html : "The Rescue", frame 3.
• rescue4.html : "The Rescue", frame 4.
• rescue5.html : "The Rescue", frame 5.
• rescue6.html : "The Rescue", frame 6.
• rescue7.html : "The Rescue", frame 7.
• rescue8.html : "The Rescue", frame 8.

Software

I keep referring people to certain programs. And they are impressed with the recommended items. So I figured I'd just expand a bit and share with you what I've found to be the best software apps available, mainly for Windows95 platforms.

• index.php : Starting point.

Stick in the MUD Status Page

I was raised in the mudding community at Stick in the Mud, a place very friendly to those new to MUDs. Stick in the Mud is rarely down, so when it is, its players want to know why. The status page was designed just for answering players' questions about SitM's status.

• index.php : The Stick in the Mud status page.
• stickies98.txt : Log of the '98 Sticky Awards.
• tempus_font.zip : Tempus Sans ITC font for viewing of the Stick page.
• why.txt : Some answers to questions regarding why you can't log into Stick in the Mud.

Theirs

I've been inspired in life by many things, but I cannot place them on my site. I can, however, provide some of the essays and songs I've found in textual formats so you can see perhaps where I derive some of my motivation to do the things I do.

• athens.jpg : "The School of Athens" by Raphael.
• bull.jpg : "Hallucinogenous Bullfighter" by Salvator Dali.
• burst.php : "Burst" by Anthrax.
• estranged.php : "Estranged" by Guns'n'Roses.
• fredturner.php : "Virtual Reality Makes Everyone Principals" by Fred Turner.
• geeks_spooks.php : "Geeks and Spooks" by Bruce Sterling.
• index.php : The index of their stuff.
• infopocalypse.php : "Net Apocalypse!" by Keith Ferrell.
• kinsley.php : "The Morality and Metaphysics of Email" by Michael Kinsley.
• munch.jpg : "The Scream" by Edvard Munch.
• november.php : "November Rain" by Guns'n'Roses.
• porphyria.php : "Porphyria's Lover" by Robert Browning.
• proposal.php : "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift.
• robinhood.php : "Nottingham Sheds the Robin Hood Image?" by Maureen Johnson.
• roosevelt.php : Roosevelt's speech on George Washington's birthday, 1942.
• song.php : "Song" by John Donne.
• sonnetx.php : "Sonnet X" by John Donne.
• world.php : "Until the End of the World" by U2.

Value

Some things can't be said any better. This isn't one of them.

• index.html : Profoundly simple.