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sábado, diciembre 30, 2000
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linkydink Aight, Jones, you asked for some good posting, and yer gonna get it! I've learned that I really do like skiing this Christmas, but I like novelty Jazz more. If you dig on Raymond Scott or Spike Jones at all, check out "Shorty Long", a band from Austin. I found out about them because my friends, the Barbour twins, are related to the singer, Mysterious John. Although john isn't singing the lead on the very fun song "Chicken Boxer," he does a fabulous Popeye impersonation at the end. Timmy, maybe you could post our Popeye fun?
viernes, diciembre 29, 2000
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linkydink The answer (go to #3) to my sometime headache is in and of itself quite a headache. But I got a B in the class, so I'm ok.
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linkydink re. Anger: Wow. Been delving a little too far into the realm of indy film producers, Jhaas? Meanwhile, I've been chilling to the haunting early music of another Aleister Crowley disciple: Oraison by Oliver Messiaen, off of the belowmentioned OHM compilation. Cthulhu is everywhere.
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linkydink Ohhhhhh, GrooveJet is evil. (And not just because of their awful overflashed webpage.) Book this for New Years Eve and charge US$150. What a cocktease.
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linkydink "Brooklyn Vito The Beard Vincenza" reporting here, back from a stircrazy week with the family. Silly Italian names remind me of Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai. A weird movie with a ludicrous premise... but it was genuinely one of the coolest movies I have seen in a long time. I heartily recommend it. Here are things I learned in Quebec:
Other interesting cobwebs in my brain suitable for blogging: I'm listening to Aphrodite and Peshay spin fantastic drum'n'bass live from Limelight in NYC over Digitalnoise.com. My mother gave me a 3CD set called OHM- The Early Gurus of Electronic Music- 1948-1980 that is totally fabulous. And, please, all y'all other posters better write some interesting stuff while Cmoore's on her crosscountry romp. Trust me, it's fun when you get into it.
jueves, diciembre 28, 2000
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linkydink i am so lone-a-ly with both timmy and jrandom away on vacation. but vengance will be mine when i'm in CA for a week and then on a road trip for another week. i'd better see some damn fine posts when i get back, gentlemen! here's a tip for today: don't buy steak from anyone going door to door. stupid animal tricks, anyone?
domingo, diciembre 24, 2000
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linkydink yeah, like tim said. and if you don't like clinton's baby steps, save your pennies and buy a prius or an insight. it's much easier to facilitate slow change than to be a revolutionary - and even mr. bill "bring on the popularity polls!" clinton couldn't pass a harsh anti-car bill. especially as a lame duck. although dave's right about money being the biggest (and/or only) motivator in our society - the opportunity cost is much greater than the monetary cost, but nobody seems to realize this, and it's getting to be too late. and: according to angelie, smog is "smoky fog", and soot is "particulate matter accumulated from smoke". or something like that. this is what they teach in smith engineering classes.
sábado, diciembre 23, 2000
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linkydink Man, experimental filmmakers are soooooo insane. Confuse D&D for the real world much, Mr. Anger? From now on, my magical weapon is the cinematograph, too.
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linkydink JRandom: I don't know if I buy your figuring. The article says that the diesel vehichles being limited "produce one-fourth of the smog-producing pollution and one-half of the soot." (Lord only knows what the technical difference between "smog" and "soot" is.) Supposedly the bill requires that such vehichles "reduce their emissions of soot and smog-producing material by more than 90 percent" by 2010. So, ignoring other factors, in 2010 we'll have 22.5% less smog and 45% less soot going into the air. That sounds good to me! I mean, yes, it's obviously not enough and not ideal, but I still think it's pretty impressive. An oil corporation needs to value its profit over our environment to stay in business; If one didn't, it would be quickly replaced by one that did. Legislation like this is the only way we can make begin to make a dent in the self-perpetuating death machine that is capitalism. It may ultimately make no difference, it may kill us all anyway, and we'll probably deserve it if it does, but I'd hardly call Clinton's approval "bullshit." Am I wrong? Perhaps I need to be schooled. It's just my US$0.02 before I depart to our smogless (and sootless?) northern neighbor.
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linkydink Outbox- Cool to see you post! Now perhaps you can school me when I least expect it. Either way, I'll probably be out of comission for the next several days while I chill at Mont Tremblant. Have a funky christmas, all!
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linkydink Another unlikely siting of the ubiquitous Funky Drummer tonight at CMoore's house: The theme music to Bomberman for the Sega Saturn!
viernes, diciembre 22, 2000
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linkydink Clinton's approval, or at least the New York Times' coverage of it, is bullshit. Read between the lines and you'll see that cars account for 94% of highway traffic, produce three-fourths of the smog pollution, and he rather increase the cost of public transportation! The big picture, though, is that we're valuing the monetary cost of goods/services over the environmental costs to our health/well-being at every turn. We certainly don't deserve this planet, but we sure as hell deserve what we get.
jueves, diciembre 21, 2000
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linkydink thanks for posting, kate. and welcome back, dave. we missed you. from the NYTimes: City Plans to Let Company Run Some Public Schools, in a First "I don't go into this with undifferentiated glee. I go into it with a good deal of skepticism." and halleluja, clinton is actually doing something to protect the environment before The Executioner assumes the throne.
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linkydink hi, it's me, hiphop-on-the-internet-ignorant outbox. kidding. that's the beautiful thing about stuff like this. i can post something off the top of my head. someone can take it and run with it, granted, run it headlong into a brick wall, but never-the-less.... and the whole point of me bringing up a digital divide is so that people will think and talk about it anyway. i mean, it's not like i can get on Oprah and be like, "hey, we should fix this!" and she'll give me a bazillion dollars to do it. because there's no one way to fix it. except to make people aware of what's happening. because if you're not outraged, you're not paying attention. whether it has to do with the socio-economic backlash of highspeed technological change, or anything else. and i am not a vigilante altruist. i'm not even suggesting that i know anything about anything. but i will bring up the things that i notice. and if i get schooled in return so be it. consider my head taken out of the sand. thanks for letting me post.
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linkydink Sorry, Timmy, but my brother told me that a friend of his will be opening for Rahzel and I'm lead to believe that tickets are already sold out!
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linkydink 01.06.01: Rahzel, self-proclaimed biomechanoid and Godfather Of Noyze, and the only man ever to succesfully convince me that he has like 6 throats, will perform at Greenwich, CT's Arch Street Teen Center. Word on the street has it that the awesome DJ Jimmy Tones is hoping to open for him...
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linkydink For those of you not yet subscribed to 0xdeadbeef: "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
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linkydink Ninja Tune Chart Action Mr. Scruff says: My special equestrian top 3 is as follows... 1 Donkey 2 Pony 3 Another Donkey Another good one: Skev of N-Tone lists "psychedelic electronic folk music" as his number one. Those crazy folkies are getting more and more innovative! Both Kurt Swinghammer's Vostok 6 and Andy Stochansky's Radio Fusebox have really made me happy in 2000 by pushing the boundaries of folk music, throwing synthesizers, theremins, turntables, and all manner of bizzare errata into the mix.
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linkydink Okay, so I've been a bit busy lately with Real Life, but let's see how much ground I can cover... Did you know Tron has a deleted "love scene"? Concerned about crime in my town? Check out the current crime pattern(s). And for those of you still confused: Solid Gold Token was satrie, Al Gore's party was real, and the beat-down was a humorous fabrication intended to test the Cambridge Police Department. As a member of one such nuclear Western culture, I'd have to say that it comes a no suprise to me that sexual repression, in general, is a Bad Thing(tm). However, where does he get off (no pun intended ;) saying that parenting has no effect on sexual behavior? Yeah, most porn is boring. Just "me too"ing. As for the report on the whole, it's pretty plain that pre-concieved notions and not logic was at the wheel. I won't bother to hit all the questionable statements, but I think I've made my point of view clear. The Digital Divide is really just another facet of the class war(s). I could rant with more depth about this some other time, but for now I think that description should suffice. The trick is to promote the Internet as an effective organizing tool for the under-represented. That should help the divide both online and off. As for racial consciousness being a hinderance to progress, all I can say is "duh"; it's bad enough that other people will define you as a color, but even worse that you would do it to yourself. Speaking of top-ten lists, here's The Onion's Best Albums of 2000. Good read, really. I'm not an art historian, but this factoid smells funny. I'm confident that if one ran similar numbers against the New York Public Library, you'd find a severe disparity between male and female authors and especially black authors. Should we then conclude that the library is to blame? Topic for a philosophy paper - Would you like fries with that: Applied Philosophy in Contemporary America. Discuss ;) And finally, as for your economic prospects, cmoore, keep in mind that that article focused only on telecommunications hardware companies, which last I knew, you had not expressed an interest in. The dotcom market is certainly hurting, but any analyst could have seen from the beginning that they were overvalued to begin with. And important thing to keep in mind is that the Internet isn't really about making money, but cutting costs. Anyway, that should keep us busy for a while, I hope.
miércoles, diciembre 20, 2000
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linkydink with these economic prospects, i feel like it's an unfortunate time to be a compsci major with only 1.5 years left...
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linkydink "At a time when the world is growing so complex no single human being can understand it; when information, and not the lack of it, threatens our lives; when users can no longer master bloated software, swarm intelligence offers an alternative way of designing computing systems. In swarms, autonomy, emergence, and distributed functioning replace control, preprogramming, and centralization." (attrib matt)
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linkydink matt asked me this question: "Can you think of a good topic to write a 25-50 page philosophy paper on? I need to choose a topic for my "sufficiency" in philos. actually, it doesn't even really need to be a paper. could be a movie...documentary....epic poem....whatever. Paper is the most straight-forward and least pain in the ass. 99% of them are papers. But it needs to be related to philosophy and needs to be done by March." any input?
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linkydink the Seen and Heard quote i tore out of the newspaper (Boston Globe, possibly?) this morning: "Basically, someone like Ricky Martin was probably popular in high school. And then you have folks like me and Beck, who were losers in high school. But when we couldn't et a date, we just spent our time learning how to write and play music." - Moby, techno star, when asked how he likes the new wave of teen pop stars i liked this because, well, despite having gotten over most of the social trauma caused by grade school, it tickles me when the "cool kids" get knocked. not like i need moby to tell me it's hip to be square (or triangular), but it's fun anyhow.
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linkydink just took my algorithms exam (whew!). i think i did okay, although i plumb forgot what a clique was, so that's 5 points off right there. but it's ooooooover. although if anyone can tell me a linear-time algorithm for finding the diameter of a tree, that'd be nice. i'm not convinced that mine is linear. hm.
martes, diciembre 19, 2000
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linkydink Rumor has it that both sequels to The Matrix are set to begin shooting March 2001... in Australia. Maybe I should borrow Margaret's PVC catsuit and if they need any good-looking extras. Seriously, I would like to do some theater at U-Melbourne when I get there, and I've never had an audition that I've been happy with. Anybody got any favorite auditionworthy monologues they could recommend?
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linkydink Well, I feel like a fool. Accordingly, here's a copy of the letter I sent to Outbox a few hours ago: Outbox- I want to apologize for going ballistic on you over at the cmoore blog. I wasn't trying to slam you personally, and I was perhaps taking your writing a little more seriously than I ought to take a diary-entry, as opposed to a research paper or something. I'm new to this whole public-weblog thing, and exams are making me cranky, and I forget that when I go off rambling to my friends about something I read on a webpage that I might actually publicly slandering someone who probably meant well. So I'm sorry for jumping to conclusions. I guess the folks at Dilated Peoples' website (http://www.okayplayer.com/) just did an awful job of getting their page in the appropriate search engines. The folks over there are usually pretty solid, so I made the assumption that you hadn't even bothered looking for it (or whatever), which was probably unfair. My rant came from a combination of that, my misunderstanding of the nature of a weblog (both yours and cmoore's), and my general unrelated stress and crankiness as of late. I'm kind of mortified that I've managed to cull an unfounded public insult out of this muddle, and hope there's no hard feelings. So I'm sorry. I'll post something to this effect on the blog later today. Thanks for reading. =timmy=
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linkydink this doesn't have to do with the digital divide per se, but rather to do with the unequal treatment of women vs. men. interesting fact: only 5% of the artists displayed in the Met are women, but 85% of the nudes are female.
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linkydink Even beyond using the internet to combat it, how do we get people to take advantage of the free terminals in libraries and universities, and how do we get people to not be afraid of making mistakes in the digital world. In an article I can no longer find online (otherwise I'd link to it), I read that children are more likely to succeed at computer gaming than adults because kids are less afraid of making mistakes. Doesn't it follow that if the color of your skin (or other random triviality that acrues hate) was a problem for others and for yourself sometimes, *and* you are (god forbid) poor, you'd be afraid of an awful lot, and making mistakes cheif among them?! So often I read or hear black people saying that the toughtest thing about being African American and succeeding is that you can't fuck up, or you'll set everything back for the entire race. That's what I call a learning disability.
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linkydink okay. let's forget outbox for a moment. i only posted that link because it's what made me start thinking about the digital divide. put aside thy bitterness about her treatment of the online hip-hop community. talk to me about the digital divide. obviously it exists, but since the internet has such potential as an equalizer and method of communication and distribution of information, how can we combat its dividedness? and, more broadly, how can we use the internet to combat the non-digital divide (the analog divide?)?
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linkydink re. the Digital Divide... It almost goes without saying that there's racial disparity in the internet. It's another thing altogether to say, as Outbox does, that "it is more difficult to find web sites on non-mainstream black artists. unless you visit the sites of their label or the biography page of cd-now or the like, you're somewhat at a loss for a community on the web." This is just wrong. I guess what bugs me is that it sounds like she's jumping to conclusions. The assertions she makes are so obviously wrong; non-mainstream hiphop sites and communities online are so ludicrously abundant that it doesn't seem like she actually bothered to look for any before asserting that they don't exist. It feels like she's thoughtlessly regurgitating a mangled version of something she heard on PBS. And you know what happens next, right?? EVILL!! SATANANN!!! RARARGHRAGHHAHRAARHARHHGHGHGH OOK OOK AGGH RAGH AGGGGHH AARGHH!
lunes, diciembre 18, 2000
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linkydink "i had a college professor once who was very committed to Mr. Rogers as the most evil man who has ever lived."
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linkydink first off, outbox is a she. secondly, i don't think her point is that there's no hiphop on the web (because, of course, there is), but rather that there's relatively little on the web that's created by people outside our racial and socioeconomic stratum. of course, saying there's a lack of hiphop community on the web was off-base. i'm not making excuses for that. but i didn't post it in order to throw her to the dogs... bear in mind that she's not a member of that community, and probably didn't put that much time or effort into trying to find it before writing about it. what i really wanted out of this was not A History of Hip Hop on the Web, but your thoughts on the racial disparity in computer and internet use.
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linkydink Wowie- D'Angelo's ludicrously soulful album Voodoo made it to the year-end top-10 list of every New York Times reviewer! It might be on mine, as well. If there's a shortage of soul in your musical life, I heartily recommend it.
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linkydink The digital divide?? What!?? "i feel the absence (on the web) of a LARGE PORTION OF THE PEOPLE OUT THERE. people to whom throwing together a web site about a local hip-hop artist is as far fetched as boarding the next space shuttle to the moon." NO HIPHOP ON THE WEB?? What web is this loony talking about?? I learned half of what I know about hiphop on the internet! In 1996 when most people didn't know what a URL was, I was on the IRC having detailed discussions about DJ Premier and X-Clan, and exchanging favorite beats and samples. Hiphopsite.com and Sandbox Automatic were among the earliest purely internet-based record distribution companies. Surprisingly bitter MC feuds between respected rappers have been fought entirely online! The now-annoyingly-mainstream Support On-Line Hip-Hop.com has been around since 1995, and twice sponsored the "Annual Online Hiphop Awards". That's 1995!! Okayplayer.com, home of the biggest names in underground hiphop (The Roots, Common, Reflection Eternal, Dilated Peoples), is one of the most cohesive, well-organized, knowledgeable, and enthusiastic online communities I've ever seen. A lot of fantastic hiphop artists owe their popularity to the internet. Straight up, underground hiphop is (weirdly) one of the most cohesive organized vibrant communities of activists and artists in the world today, and it would not be where it is without the internet. Hiphop heads have taken advantage of the internet like very few others. So either this guy's had his head stuck in the sand for the past half-decade, or somebody owes me a boarding pass to the next moon-shuttle. I think I'ma email him and say so. More politely, of course.
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linkydink ahrr, sorry - forgot you'd linked to the question. ten lashes with a wet noodle. and, y'know, everyone's entitled to crankiness around exam/xmas-stress time. new question: what are yr thoughts on the digital divide?
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linkydink Sorry if those last couple posts came out kind of antagonistic! It was late and I was crabby. Certainly, it's an article worth reading, and I'm glad you posted it. I thought the bit about societal reactions to punishing extramarrital sex had some interesting implications for the question you asked some time back about the human nature and love, etc. Just follow the linkydink! Breakfast now...
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linkydink thanks, timmy. :) first, re the Cleaver article: i'm pretty sure it was a parody. if it wasn't, haaaaail eris and pass the tofu. second, the Prescott report: i certainly didn't post that in a "look, guys, this article changed my life!" manner. i thought the guy was a little... overzealous in his conclusion-jumping, but interesting taken with a grain of salt nonetheless. that said, i agree with all your points, timmy (in fact, they're pretty much exactly what i was thinking when i read the passages you quoted). but... what question of mine were you answering? all i was asking was what y'all thought of the article.
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linkydink From the Sex-And-Dope-Are-Good article: "Some nations which are most repressive of female sexuality have rich pornographic art forms." Is it just me, or is most American porn fairly boring? I like looking at pretty women as much as the next straight man, but my reaction to most porn magazines ranges from "Umm, whatever..." to "Eww!" It all seems so boring and predictable. Sorry, it's 4am and I'm rambling. But do you know what I mean? "I also examined the influence of extramarital sex taboos upon crime and violence. The data clearly indicates that punitive-repressive attitudes toward extramarital sex are also linked with physical violence, personal crime, and the practice of slavery. Societies which value monogamy emphasize military glory and worship aggressive gods." Aha. I see. Guess that answers your question, CMoore. "Another way of looking at the reciprocal relationship between violence and pleasure is to examine a society's choice of drugs. A society will support behaviors that are consistent with its values and social mores. U.S. society is a competitive, aggressive, and violent society. Consequently, it supports drugs that facilitate competitive, aggressive, and violent behaviors and opposes drugs that counteract such behaviors. Alcohol is well known to facilitate the expression of violent behaviors, and, although addicting and very harmful to chronic users, is acceptable to U.S. society. Marijuana, on the other hand, is an active pleasure-inducing drug which enhances the pleasure of touch and actively inhibits violent-aggressive behaviors. It is for these reasons, I believe that marijuana is rejected in U.S. society. For similar reasons heroin is rejected and methadone (an addicting drug minus the pleasure) is accepted." Right, Prescott. Mr. Police Officer is AOK with my cocaine habit, but he best not catch me with any of those nasty pleasure-inducing cigarettes or valium, or I'ma catch a beatdown. Don't get me wrong, the man has some excellent points. But the fact that the report's findings conveniently coincide with a certain radical/liberal sociopolitical 1970s free-love mindset lends me to believe that the man made up his mind about these things a long time before he actually went through the experiments and research. So the report's pretense of scientific objectivity kind of pisses me off.
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linkydink re.Dreadlocked rascals: "Don't fuck with the Dalai Lama!"?? Perhaps I'm just overly-cynical, but in the same vein as Solid Gold Token and Al Gore's crazy dance party, I have to say: Huh? Did this actually happen to Mr. Cleaver, who just happens to be a columnist for Salon? Or is this another weird Onion-wannaba parody thingy? Somehow I'm more inclined to suspect the latter from the man who gets off on harassing Friendly's and Sundance. Do others find this guy kind of self-indulgent and trite, or am I just being snobby again?
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linkydink more from the Sexuality/Violence article: "We should recognize that sexuality in teenagers is not only natural, but desirable, and accept premarital sexuality as a positive moral good. Parents should help teenagers realize their own sexual selfhood by allowing them to use the family home for sexual fulfillment. Such honesty would encourage a more mature attitude toward sexual relationships and provide a private supportive environment that is far better for their development than the back seat of a car or other undesirable locations outside the home. Early sexual experiences are too often an attempt to prove one's adulthood and maleness or femaleness rather than a joyful sharing of affection and pleasure."
domingo, diciembre 17, 2000
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linkydink "We think we're occupying reality, but of course it's only our brain that tells us this."
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linkydink The Origins of Peace and Violence: Deprivation of Physical Affection as a Main Cause of Depression, Aggression and Drug Abuse interestingly: "Child rearing practices do not predict patterns of later sexual behavior." and: "The relationship between small extended families and punitive premarital sex attitudes deserves emphasis, for it suggests that the nuclear Western cultures may be a contributing factor to our repressive attitudes toward sexual expression." and: "These figures again raise the question of the special relationship between sexuality and violence. In addition to our rape statistics, there is other evidence that points to preference for sexual violence over sexual pleasure in the United States. This is reflected in our acceptance of sexually explicit films that involve violence and rape, and our rejection of sexually explicit films for pleasure only (pornography)." all of us being from one such nuclear Western culture, what say ye?
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linkydink Arrest those dread-locked rascals! Cambridge's wayward youths threatened to "get vegan on my ass."
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linkydink More Movie Fun! Last night was my own "Phonetically Similar" Film fest, featuring "Ran" and "Tron." While playing at two different venues, "Ran" was much longer, and so the two ended up dovetailing together nicely, timewise. I want to focus on "Tron" for a moment, though. This movie dates itself in the eighties, certainly with its animation, but more interestingly, with its anti-communist feel. All of the bad programs are red. Everything bad is bad because it is part of a centralized, KGB-type, over-organized and kind of scary Master Control Program. Free-thought and programming are not allowed. My favorite instance though, is that there is a religious angle to the film, giving us a christianity-like religion v. the "religion is the opiate of the masses" standpoint of communism. Check it out: Flynn is totally Jesus - a "user" who has been changed into a program in order to save them. He does save them by sacrificing himself in a way that will send him back to the land of the "user." Go rent it and see for yourselves.
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linkydink The weather outside right now is god-awful, which actually makes it cozier to be inside. The wind and rain are making really bizzare noises. It's kind of fun, especially with coffee and cheerios.
viernes, diciembre 15, 2000
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linkydink I know, Dave. Just being cynical and sharing some weird highlites that caught my eye. Cause, come on, Tipper Gore playing a drum solo? If that doesn't deserve its own post and a healthy questioning of the sincerity of the media, I don't know what does.
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linkydink Uh, Tim, that anchor is already href'd by the Al Gore img src below. Front page of the Daily News? I think it's real.
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linkydink Oh my god. "Gore high-fived some of the 200 partygoers, which included Jon Bon Jovi, Tom Petty, Naomi Campbell, Rob Reiner, Wyclef Jean, Stevie Wonder, photographer Herb Ritts and John Popper of Blues Traveler... Tipper (Gore) joined the band, even banging out a drum solo... With Popper on harmonica, Wonder, Bon Jovi and Petty did an impromptu medley of Beatles songs..." What? Wyclef Jean was too good for Stevie Wonder, Jon Bon Jovi, and Tipper Gore?? New poll: Did they make this up or not?
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linkydink can anyone help me figure out how many calories one would burn in one day in which one did the following: hike with a pack over uneven terrain for 8 miles, then set up camp and etc.? HOOK ME UP. stupid ESS exam.
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linkydink Check out my cool new poster and cool new URL! (Cool new poster for a limited time only...) http://www.jimmytones.com/
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linkydink "...a passionate kiss burns 6.4 calories per minute. A French kiss uses all 34 of the facial muscles."
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linkydink timmy, i often wish i had either chosen a different major at this school, or this major at a different school. but alas, i find i can't give up either one. so basically, i'm sucking it up until i graduate and then i'll find some way of doing what i want to do. at least you have the advantage of globetrotting to australia in the meanwhile, where doing pretty much anything would be more exciting than taking exams about turing machines here. or at least you get to listen to it in a different accent. ;)
jueves, diciembre 14, 2000
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linkydink binx: "it is dangerous to your physical or mental health to think, in intricate detail, about sex for 90% of your waking hours? can you explode, implode, spontaneously combust from it? just wondering."
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linkydink Nope. As I've learned it, the Halting Problem states that you cannot write a Turing machine to decide wether another Turing machine accepts a given input. The insidious problem below asks me to prove that you cannot write a Turing machine to recognize wether another Turing machine is itself a decider- that is, will it ultimately accept or reject its input, rather than just looping infinitely. I handed the final in at noon with that problem and one other comparable one left blank. I don't think I like my major. I should've gone to NYU and done ETW.
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linkydink 'The "aristocracy of our monied corporations," as Jefferson put it, had taken over the place, and Coca-Cola wanted to make sure that everybody knew it.'
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linkydink Eben Moglen, Professor of Law & Legal History at Columbia Law School and general counsel to the Free Software Foundation, on The Encryption Wars.
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linkydink Tim, unless I'm mistaken, your teacher is asking you to prove the halting problem. Here's what other CS classes have to say about it. Alas, this information is invaluable depending on what area of CS you want to work in.
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linkydink It's 4am and I'm trying very hard to wrap my mind around: Let A be a Turing-recognizable language consisting of descriptions of Turing machines, {[M1],[M2],...}, where every Mi is a decider. Prove that some decidable language D is not decided by any decider Mi whose description appears in A. This is due at noon and I hate school. This can't possibly be worth $120,000.
miércoles, diciembre 13, 2000
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linkydink howdy, Ian. i'm C.M.O.O.R.E.: Cybernetic Machine Optimized for Online Repair and Exploration (at least according to Cyborger. my Wu-Tang name is Radiophonic Oddity.). welcome to the blog. muahahaha! and, to kick some shit at a fellow Greenwich resident, the new Grinch movie is c-r-a-p with a capital C. the jokes are terrible and break the mood, what little of it is allowed to develop between grating Grinch scenes and irritatingly capitalistic and unhappy Whoville scenes. and the songs are pathetic. bah humbug.
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linkydink updated 12.14.0021h Mired.com is one of those places that just keeps saying things that I've been thinking. It's heartening to know that there are other people who share my perhaps-overly-sardonic appreciation/criticism for/of hiphop, politics, technology, and Star Wars. Their take on the woefully fallen-off Rawkus Records' dreadfully poor Lyricist Lounge 2 compilation echoes a whole lotta thoughts I've been having about hiphop lately, and why I've been turning to nifty electronic stuff more and more. Their Windex section has really cool links (check the Quicktime of some guy giving Mos Def's Black On Both Sides to Al Gore on MTV.) They also have good MP3s. OK, nevermind, I take it back!! These guys suck!! They're stealing all my ideas! They're already on the jock of little-known MC Wordsworth. Wordsworth was going to be my surprise underground rhyming hero! And now they've got Raymond Scott's really awesome Manhattan Research Boxset on their Windex page! That's my so-hip-nobody-knows-about-it obscure 1950s electronic music compilation! Go get your own ideas, ya lamers! Grrr. One day jimmytones.com will rule the world. As soon as Rich gets that vserver up and running...
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linkydink that was exactly my reaction to Solid Gold Token - so i read some of the other articles in the Sideshow section and realized they're trying to be jokey. they didn't do a particularly good job making the joke clear in Token; i just thought the issue of universities doctoring photos so that they appear more diverse (which is real) is... ridiculous. and horrible.
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linkydink Ok, is Solid Gold Token a joke or for real? I can't tell if it's an underplayed Onion-type spoof, or a weirdly-written poorly backed-up serious article.
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linkydink To catch up:
martes, diciembre 12, 2000
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linkydink "GraffitiWriter is a tele-operated field programable robot which employs a custom built array of spray cans to write linear text messages on the ground at a rate of 15 kilometers per hour. The printing process is similar to that of a dot matrix printer. GraffitiWriter can be deployed in any highly controlled space or public event from a remote location."
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linkydink Dave, dude, you suck. My cyborger name is "T.I.M.M.Y.: Transforming Intelligent Machine Manufactured for Yardwork."
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linkydink "But when you email a lot, the social navigation of the Web is really, really powerful. So you email people, and say go and look at this Web page, but then the frames will often break it, content management systems will often break it, even email itself will break it, because it puts a return in the middle of the URL. So that's one of the reasons you've got to alter all these things so that they're less than 76 characters long. And why does it have to be less than 80 characters? Because that was an IBM punch card, which was designed to fit into the filing boxes, which were themselves the size of the old dollar bills, for which they had spare filing cabinets back in 1890."
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linkydink DJ as search engine and comomodity What started out as posting a brief excerpt from a really good RealVideo interview with audiovisual dance hooligans John Moore and Matt Black of Coldcut turned into a full-blown appendage of my webpage. I think it's pretty dead-on and insightful, but that might be because they echo things that I've said myself in the past. Please read and discuss.
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linkydink Who wants a vulvaname when you can have your Cyborger name? My Cyborger name is D.A.V.I.D.: Digital Artificial Violence and Infiltration Device. Beat that, "Tuff Muff" ;P
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linkydink Design Rules Harmutt Esslinger says: "Legos embody pure simplicity. In many ways, they were the first digital toys -- all bits and bytes. But to experience the product, you have to interact with it. Part of that experience comes from what you bring to it. The word 'lego' is a combination of the Danish words 'Leg Godt,' which means 'to play well.' In Latin, lego means 'I study,' or 'I put together.' I remember my dad and I used to spend hours building these elaborate creations -- circuses, cars, planes, space stations. There was no limit to what we could make with Legos." "In a sense, playing with Legos is a lot like designing: The process is slow and requires focus. A joint is missing here or there. You make mistakes. So you try something else, and that leads you to a different form, a different connection, a new discovery."
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linkydink "Do you want to discard your patriarchy-derived name? Do you need to harness your vulva-centric power? Then shed yourself of oppression and view the beauty of your vulvaname!" (mine is "Tuff Muff". beat that, boys!)
lunes, diciembre 11, 2000
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linkydink why do i feel like such an activist when i post to this blog? i'm not an activist. even so, i find the ways in which the internet revolutionizes the way people organize extraordinarily interesting.
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linkydink Solid Gold Token "'I'll make Denny's look like the goddamn Freedom Train if you give me the chance,' boasted Roundtree, who granted us an interview from his mansion in Greenwich, Conn. 'I'll turn Jesse Helms into Harriet Tubman.'" eh heh heh. fun-ny.
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linkydink It makes me superhappy that Caroline's fish has been christened Mr. Scruff! You may know that Mr. Scruff (the musician, not the fish,) makes fabulous funky (and frequently fishy) dance music. But did you know that he also makes fantastically fresh Flash animations? You can check them at his really cool website. I especially love the one at his discography, where you can also hear snippets from his dope album Keep It Unreal. He also holds a special place in my heart because his Fish/Chipmunk EP was the first record I ever bought from my favorite record label. Finding his album on vinyl for a mere $5.99 at Kim's in NYC was one of my favorite moments of last summer.
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linkydink Gender Inequality Fact Sheet, brought to you by the wild women of the AAUW (the same ppl who gave me a book award in High School. i chose Catch-22.) as if we didn't know already: "While high school girls and boys take similar numbers of science courses, boys are more likely than girls to take all three core science courses-biology, chemistry, and physics. Of these, physics shows the largest gap. Girls make up only a small percentage of students in computer science classes. Girls are significantly more likely than boys to enroll in clerical and data-entry classes, the 1990s version of typing. Boys are more likely to enroll in advanced computer science and graphics courses."
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linkydink Land-Limited Japan Overwhelmed by Trash. (Trashzilla! the Movie) "In October, the Tokyo suburb of Hino eliminated neighborhood trash bins and required homeowners to use officially approved trash bags selling for the hefty price of 80 cents each. A month later it announced that the volume of trash had been halved."
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linkydink the Brunching Shuttlecocks had me rolling on the floor at work (no, not literally). how so, you ask? i was playing with their toys, such as the classic Porn or Pony? test. you, too, could be a Big Winner.
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linkydink in proper holiday spirit, i am thankful that my parents never sent me to boot camp in other news, i'm doing two cs presentations, one on string matching with finite automata, and the other on DNA computing. if anyone has any suggestions/information/etc on either topic, sling it my way.
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linkydink all right, so the fishster's name is Mr. Scruff (although bd reserves the right to call him 'Captain'). now there's a new poll up. remember, kids: vote early and vote often. and if you think of any polls you'd like to see, lemme know.
domingo, diciembre 10, 2000
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linkydink Well, I've begun my work as a pre-screener for the South by Southwest Film Festival, and I tell you, if you guys know any retarded monkeys with cameras, have them submit something next year. Also I wanted to link you guys to a Tom Palazzolo article, and to tell you that I've been eating a lot of Pez lately.
sábado, diciembre 09, 2000
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linkydink Sorry I've been away, mes amis. I got my furniture finally this week, and have been busy with getting my room set up etc. What I wanted to tell you all is that Wednesday night I saw documentary filmmaker Tom Palazzolo.If you ever have a chance to see him speak (he resides principally in Chicago), do yourself a favor and go see him. He was engaging, thoughtful and funny, just like his movies (track 'em down if you can, they're kinda rare). Also of interest, he was brought to Austin by The Austin Film Society. Here's a really interesting article on what the Society is doing with the old airport here. I'll be knocking on their door...
viernes, diciembre 08, 2000
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linkydink chinacat: "...they started talking about how my generation doesn't understand the value of "looking the part." I countered by saying that that was because we'd learned that *being* the part was the important thing, and that appearances are mostly worthless in determining a person's character. etc etc. they don't agree, which is not to say that they think that it's all about appearance. they just think that there's a certain professionalism that?s been lost, and that "sloppy" appearance usually leads to sloppy thought and lack of care given to appearance equates to lack of care in other places as well."
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linkydink McDonald's Sells, Beefless, in India "The Big Mac's beefless Indian cousin is a mutton burger called the Maharaja Mac."
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linkydink blog to blog: there's some pretty funny business going down at Signal vs. Noise. check out the Thursday posts. my favorites are the Jesse Jackson quote, and the one under it about sex at work.
jueves, diciembre 07, 2000
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linkydink For those of us who don't read Slashdot, mozilla.org has released Mozilla 0.6 for Linux, Windows and Mac OS. <soapbox>Behold the power of Free Software!</soapbox>
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linkydink If only it were as simple as moving! I seriously considered emigrating at one point, but it didn't take much research to impress upon me that, though things can get pretty bad here, they're already worse everywhere else. Of course, that's a rather sweeping statement, and one has to keep in mind my priorities may be quite different from yours or anyone else's. So what are we all looking for in an ideal country? Is it lacking here? Do you think you may have found it elsewhere? What, if anything, would you have to give up? Inquiring minds want to know.
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linkydink from matt leclair, who won't post anything even though he can: looking for the perfect holiday gift for that special someone? here it is.
miércoles, diciembre 06, 2000
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linkydink re. intelligence over social awkwardness in the presidential election.... My first reaction to that article was that it made no sense to me. "Coolness"? GWB isn't cool! What crack is the author smoking? But then I remembered Greenwich High School, and realized that GWB is in fact supercool. He's exactly what most Americans think cool is! How depressing. Maybe I'll just move to Australia.
martes, diciembre 05, 2000
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linkydink This post is gonna be link-free 'cause I don't want to run all over the Net trying to define "love" or "meant", but really, that's what you have to do first if you want to answer those questions. I don't know about you, but I have hard enough time defining love for myself much less defining love for everyone else. That said, we are social animals and The Media will play on that fact for all it's worth; that if we don't buy X, our friends/family/coworkers will shun us but if we do buy X, they'll embrace us. Remember: they're human, too, and are paid not only to know all the weaknesses, but to exploit them as well. As for the other, which isn't done much justice in anything shorter than a book, human beings aren't meant to be anything: you've got to decide for yourself what you're going to do.
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linkydink obligatory work post (in which cmoore admits to indulging her voyeuristic tendencies by linking to Other People's Diaries): this struck a chord today. reminds me of a conversation i had with matt: is the need for love inherent, or media-created? that is, biological, or environmental? (note: love as separate from sex. i suppose this question could also be, "are human beings meant to be mate-for-life animals or many-partner animals?") on a lighter note (and dkp, this one's for you), an entry about b&b's in scotland.
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linkydink "Is it possible to be adversarial anymore? Perhaps a better question would be: Is it necessary? Maybe rebellion is just one more familiar model. But if not that, what?"
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linkydink "Artists thrive on scorn--the right kind of scorn, public scorn--while Max thrives on approval."
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linkydink ummm... what? iundress: is this really a marketing scheme, or are these people just on crack? you decide.
lunes, diciembre 04, 2000
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linkydink re new years: i'll be in SoCalifornia before roadtripping across the country (CA -> VA -> CT -> MA). if y'all know anyone who'd like to let 3 crazy teenagers stay with them en route, lemme know. ;)
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linkydink a musical suggestion: Davinci's Notebook. an excellent, funny a capella group composed of four guys from Arlington, VA. i saw them recently at the Iron Horse performing with another excellent folkie, Vance Gilbert. if you're on the east coast, see if they're performing near you. three more weeks 'til Christmas!
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linkydink Trying to make-up for last year's lack-luster millenium, I'm trying to get tickets for this year's Hogmanay in Glasgow. Failing that, Celebration 2001 in Montreal. And what do you all have planned?
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linkydink ok, kids: i need some input. dan gave me a betta fish for my birthday, and i'm trying to figure out what to name it. since i don't know how to sex a betta, gender is not an issue. ;) post or email replies.
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linkydink kids: new, slightly better quality images, and permalinks next to each post. if you want to send someone directly to a post (or link from another page), use the url labeled "linkydink".
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linkydink My previous link to James Brown In Hell didn't work on some browsers. So: Now, witness the sounds of James Brown In Hell!!
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linkydink "Des Moines Police Department dispatchers estimate that 90 percent of the calls they receive are nonemergencies."
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linkydink bored? watch some pollution-deformed frogs! oh, the thrills. another fun toy: warp-a-candidate.
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linkydink this one's for everyone, but especially dave-o: outtakes from everyone's favorite childhood tv show.
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linkydink a decently humorous anecdote about trying to cross the Canadian border while in posession of a Steve Jackson Game.
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linkydink I'm not going to try to reply to all the new (for me) posts, but since cmoore is looking for input, I'll say that I think the banner should be flipped (w/cmoore on the left and the crumbling on the right), and that the text looks smuged; I suggest avoiding JPEG for anything other than plain photographs, which means either GIF or PNG
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linkydink Wow, you go away for a weekend and... So GHS lost to Shelton, but that's only second in importance to the honor of watching my brother play in the state championship. If you could see the front page photo on Sunday's Greenwich Time, you'd know what a devestating loss it was for him, but I'm just as proud of him none the less.
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linkydink i threw up a few graphics on the site; tell me what you think. maybe as my time gets more hectic, the layout/graphics will improve. (free time and procrastination time have an inverse relationship in cmoore's world...)
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linkydink Checking up on your "funky drummer" links, Timmy, I found that there are actually 169 uses of the funky drummer. They're missin Sinead O'Connor's "Strapped on your grave."
domingo, diciembre 03, 2000
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linkydink i know this site is supposed to be humorous, but i can't seem to laugh. i'm tired of the idea that the sexes have to battle.
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linkydink this one is for Eireann: Jason Kottke blogged about MUNI - thought you'd get a kick out of it. i did, and i've never even ridden MUNI.
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linkydink Timmy told me I could post about things other than molestation, so here it goes:
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linkydink It's funny, I thought about it the other way around. The FBI could design algorithms to do Claypoole's job: 'bots engineered to sniff out and incriminate pedophiles (though I think I prefer the British ZDNet's "paedophiles"). You laugh, but according to the article, internet pedophiles fit a fairly standard profile- I'm sure their methods are predictable enough that AIs could be used to at least make preliminary sweeps of AOL "OIderM4YoungerF"...
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linkydink Hmmm. I think that the FBI might be onto something. People pose as other people online all the time, right? What I'd like to see is Mark A Claypoole trying to chat up AOLiza. Or just a transcript of that conversation. I think that thing that I agree with Timmy the most about is that M.A. Claypoole has a really weird job. Jenigrrrl: I like football player cock. AOLiza: How do you feel about I like football player cock? Jenigrrrl: Wait, you like football player cock too? [this guy's a perv!] AOLiza: We're here to talk about your problems...
sábado, diciembre 02, 2000
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linkydink I thought about Jhaas' post a little more. "Court records show that police started tracking Stewart in May, after he made repeated contact with Baltimore County Detective Mark A. Claypoole, who was posing as a 14-year-old cheerleader in an America Online chat room called 'OlderM4YoungerF' as part of a police effort to identify potential child predators online." It struck me that Detective Mark A Claypoole has a really weird job. What must it be like to go undercover on AOL as a 14-year-old cheerleader? Evidently, (according to ZDNet's wonderfully-titled "WEB OF PORN!!" series), this kind of operation isn't that uncommon. Posing in a chat room is one thing, but it appears that the FBI's Operation Innocent Images also delves into private email. Folks like Mr. Stewart haven't gotten much sympathy, since they're obviously predatorial fiends. But does this sort of thing bother anyone else? This country (hell, this state!) has some ridiculously irrational laws. Even I could probably do some time if the law had free perusal of my emails. Jrandom's nigh-obsession with electronic privacy once seemed ludicrous to me, but I tend to see things his way more and more. Thoughts, anyone?
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linkydink Holy shit, Jhaas, that article is insane!! You used to take science classes from this guy? "After sending her a naked photo of himself that did not show his face, Stewart wrote, 'A teacher has to be careful,' according to court records."
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linkydink At some point in the latter-middle of the 20th century, James Brown and drummer Clyde Stubblefield engineered (arguably) the 22 funkiest seconds of recorded sound ever: the "Funky Drummer" break, which in the 1980s became (again, arguably) the defining drumbeat of a flourishing artform called hip-hop; the online Sample FAQ (formerly the awesomely-titled "Encyclopedia Breakannica") lists one-hundred-sixty-eight (!) known uses for this sample. Make that 169, friends, when DJ Jimmy Tones finishes his final project for Wesleyan MUSC109! (Which is incidentally taught by the doddering yet somehow formidably cool Alvin Lucier.)
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linkydink Hi. Timmy made me post here. He suggested that my first post be about my high school. Internet child-molesting has a face, and it is my old school...
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linkydink woo hoo! (a follow-up to one of my earlier posts) 2 Insurers Raising Big-Vehicle Rates (NYTimes; free login required)
viernes, diciembre 01, 2000
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linkydink since when do i trust our government? but it made interesting reading, nonetheless. some of my favorite parts were: "Survival of all dosed groups was generally significantly greater than that of the controls." maybe i should've been feeding Sebastian THC-laced corn oil all this time... "The incidences of mammary gland fibroadenoma and uterine stromal polyps were decreased in dosed groups of females..." not just good, but good for you, ladies.
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linkydink oh my lord, neither could i! while we're on the subject, what are the real long-term effects of marijuana? different sources say anything from addiction to no brain cells died in the making of this stoner.
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linkydink hey timmy, this one's for you: learn to talk like an aussie, courtesy of the croc hunter.
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