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viernes, agosto 31, 2001
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linkydink unity! congratulations! silly, i knew it was coming any day now. i was actually just wondering where you'd disappeared to. anyway, good luck with your move, and a speedy recovery to the new hub.
jueves, agosto 30, 2001
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linkydink I'm stuck at home grappling with the evil D-Link DWL-920 USB Wireless Home Networking Kit. I cannot leave for school until it's working. This sucks.
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linkydink "It's supposed to be the sedate home of book lovers, coffee drinkers and the chattering classes, but Borders, the high street bookseller, has been attacked by human rights organisations for using high-tech surveillance equipment to spy on their customers."
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linkydink "But this doesn't explain the fears. Society at large fears us because the media says they should, and this is reinforced with inane and technically inaccurate portrayals of what a hacker is in television and movies. But we have law enforcement and government agencies that appear to fear us. Of course, we could simply say they are stupid or just "don't get us", but I'd like for you to think about this for a minute. They are not stupid. They track down criminals using the most minute of clues. They have developed sophisticated technologies. They actually are smart. So why are they telling the media to fear us, and that we are all bad? I'm serious, we need to think about this."
miércoles, agosto 29, 2001
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linkydink Meeting people may be easy... but it's more fun to build personality profiles based on my neighboors' mail, most of which sits in a pile in the hallway and not our actual mail boxes. P.S. Yeah, this is dkp, retiring an old name. Le roi est mort, vive le roi.
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linkydink hey folks...remember me? so yeah. i, too, have a younger brother entering college. i wish i could tell him not to stay with his high school girlfriend (mostly because she's a snob), but i figure he'll come to that on his own terms. mostly i want him to have a lot of fun. he's a very driven individual, but i think he's got a good sense of balance. i never had enough drive...wish someone had told me to go to class more...:) what else? i'm moving. i also (cmoore, sit down...) got married, surprise surprise! think you're surprised? my parents will be even more so when i tell them. yikes! anyone who wants my new contact info as of saturday (cmoore), drop me an email...unitykinkaid@hotmail.com my sweetie had acl surgery on friday. ugh. i slept at the hospital friday night. the people there were so nice...they were supposed to kick me out at 8pm, but they got me a foldout recliner cot thingie and a blanket and pillow. my sweetie was in a lot of pain. but the past few days have been better, and he's supposed to be able to go back to work in about two weeks. we're moving on saturday, but we have a bunch of big burly friends with trucks and broncos to help us out, so it should be okay. babe just gets to sit in a chair and direct the flow of traffic through the living room. can't wait to see what he does in our new kitchen; he's been watching mario and emeril....
martes, agosto 28, 2001
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linkydink Our Dorm Storm happened yesterday and we got 600 freshman online in 16 hours with 20 people. Well...1 & 1/2 hours of those hours were spent boozing and listening to bad pop music and the next 4 hours were spent fixing computers drunk. Look for Mo's Fruit and Garden near the Middletown Goodwill...it's my new favorite building.
lunes, agosto 27, 2001
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linkydink And on a totally different note, I have many pets that are currently in need of good homes, and i figured this blog might be a good place to start looking. my family simply does not have the time or the energy to take good care of them anymore and my parents are fed up with having all these critters in the house. we've got a white rat, a guinea pig, a lovebird, and a chinchilla that need homes. they've all got thier own cages and supplies, which would come with them. ask around, if you find any interested parties i will be more than happy to tell them about the care, feeding and personality of their animal of choice. if i can't find them good homes, my parents may resort to taking them to a shelter, so I'd be happy to see them go off with just about anybody. if you've got any ideas or questions, just e mail me. thanks.
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linkydink "Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Characters on Star Trek - how much longer will we have to wait?"
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linkydink I was going to post this yesterday, but my computer had one of it's most spectacular crashes ever. And I didn't have the energy to deal with it until this morning. I obviously cannot give any advice to people entering college, but I came up with a bunch of things I wish I had been able to tell myself before entering high school. -take a lot of pictures, you never know who you'll stay in touch with and who will disappear, sometimes the pictures will be all you have left. -then remember to keep those pictures in a place where you can find them, you will save yourself a lot of agony later. -learn how to say no to people early on ... it will save you a lot of time and trouble working on projects you hate, or simply do not have the time to finish. (a simple "no", is much kinder then a "maybe" that really means no.) -stop worrying that your friends secretly hate you, there are very few people masochistic enough to spend a great deal of time with people they despise. -doing something for all four years of high school can be really satisfying, but make sure you pick something you won't get bored with. -go to gym. -and as long as you're in gym class, make sure you change and participate. it won't kill you. (and then you won't ever have to take it in summer school, ick) -hold on to the really important stuff, and get rid of the rest. the longer you keep a piece of paper, article of clothing, picture, news clipping etc......... the less likely you will be to get rid of it. By senior year, your room will look like an archive. -it's good for you to have one teacher or other adult at school that you can trust and talk to. Your friends are not your shrinks, and when things get bad among them, remember that a guidance counselors job is to listen to your problems without going behind your back and telling everyone something that was supposed to be a secret. -Hating your teachers is a waste of time and energy, there is very little that you can do that they haven't seen or heard before, and doing poorly in a class is not a from of "revenge"; you're the one who's stuck with an "e." And eventually, you'll see other kids giving the same "school is bullshit" speeches from freshman year, and you'll realize how incredibly immature that whole attitude sounds. frequently school is bullshit, but you've got to do it anyway; you might as well be kind to those nice, underpaid, people who help you along. -oh, and nothing in middle school really mattered. most everybody's got some seventh grade skeleton, and the sooner you forget old nicknames and bad habits, the happier you'll be.
sábado, agosto 25, 2001
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linkydink Several of my friends learned these lessons the hard way. 1.) Do not pack twenty-six people into your closet-sized single. 2.) Should you fail to regard rule 1, do not serve your guests alcohol. 3.) Should you fail to regard rule 2, do not encourage said guests to jump around your room while singing "If the Kids Are United" by Oi Polloi in round for a half hour on end. 4.) Should you fail to regard the previous three rules, do not give said guests a bucket of fried chicken. 5.) Again, failing to regard the aforementioned rules, do not allow them to throw said chicken out of your window at passerby. 6.) Failing to regard the previous five rules, encourage your guests to be discreet and not hit the building manager's bald head as he leaves on his way to a date. 7.) When the RA's come to break it up, co-operate. Do not yell "it's the pigs!" and then proceed to fill the bathtub with every incrimating bottle, can, and piece of chicken in a laughable attempt to cover up you and your guests' misdeeds. You have been caught; be polite and maintain a graceful composure and the length of your housing probation may be reduced on account of your cooperative attitude. Remember: you are an adult now and your parents won't be contacted, and in all likelihood, neither will the authorities.
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linkydink ...though I daresay, Toby, that there have been times in my life when your advice, applied to theatrical drama, would have done very well by me.
viernes, agosto 24, 2001
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linkydink word up to the studiousness... also, surround yourself with people who truly make you feel good and special. if you don't know any, then remember that it is sometimes better to be lonely than to hang out with people who make you feel like crap. in my humble opinion... as for college...i wish they had told me that once you toss that first box down on your unmade dormroom bed you can never go home again. well, you can go back to that place you lived while you were growing up, but it will never feel like "home" again. that was a big ol' sock to the gut for me. and remember...(repeat after me) sleep is better than drama...celibacy is better than drama...homework is better than drama (but sleep is the best). NO DRAMA!!! (except the theatrical kind)
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linkydink My answers to Question 1:
... of course, I don't think I would've been able to appreciate that advice at that point in my life (since I didn't appreciate any advice at that point in my life, really), but I think given an extended dialogue, I could have been convinced. After getting over the initial shock of meeting a potential future self, that is. I don't have any advice for someone just going off to college (even though my own brother just left for Brown a couple of days ago) 'cause I think it is highly dependent on the individual as to what advice they need to be given, dig?
jueves, agosto 23, 2001
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linkydink I just watched then pull a stuck parasailer off the statue of liberty on the news this morning. Somehow, this guy flew too close and wound up dangling off the extended arm, with his parachute draped over the top of the torch. Was this a genuine accident or strange attempt at fifteen minutes of fame?
miércoles, agosto 22, 2001
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linkydink  My father has been using E-Bay to explore his and my Jones-family heritage as genius inventors. He is the lucky high bidder on two separate Hoot-Nannies. This wacky children's toy was a 1930s predecessor to today's cheap-ass Spirograph machines. It was, if I may direct your attention to the photo at right, manufactured in Chicago, Illinois by the illustrious Howard Bevan Jones, father to Howard B. Jones Jr., father to Michael B. Jones, father to Timothy W. Jones. We haven't gotten them to work yet, but I fully expect hours of family entertainment once we figure them out. That, or a big check from Hasbro for totally ripping off our idea.Apparently, E-Bay sells a lot of Hoot-Nannys. Go figure.
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linkydink Ok, after careful consideration, basically everything I said in my last post is dubious.
martes, agosto 21, 2001
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linkydink my very first blog. i have many words of wisdom for my mid-teen self. most of which boil down to: you're a little overweight, you're a big geek. deal with it, roll with it, don't try to be something you're not, and realize that people will always love you. oh, i'm a little dorky, what can i say?
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linkydink Dear Me - I have some advice for you. You won't pay attention, because you already know these things, and if you paid any, then you would not learn them, but I will tell them to you anyway. So here you go: Puberty/High School Advice College Advice: -You
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linkydink "Hey, Tim! That's right, 9th-grade Tim, you! This is 21-year-old Tim. Here's what you need to do:(Incidentally, I've found that almost any piece of advice I've wanted to give my past-self can [and usually should] be equally-well [if not better] applied to my present-self.)
lunes, agosto 20, 2001
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linkydink question #2: what advice would you give someone just going off to college? (since it's that time, and i know i'm not the only one with a sibling in that situation...) what do you wish someone had told you to bring, or do, or not do? any getting-along-with-the-roommate advice?
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linkydink question: what advice do you wish you'd gotten at the onset of puberty? what do you wish you'd known then that you know now? if you could go back and tell your young adolescent self something, what would it be? do you think you would've been able to appreciate that advice at that point in your life?
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linkydink back from costa rica am i, with a couple rolls of pictures to be developed. not much to say about it here, except that costa rica was absolutely gorgeous, and i'd love to go back someday and spend more time there. i saw lots of indigenous (and endemic) wildlife - often up close and personal, thanks two the two biologists (and their very cool wives) who climbed trees and crawled through bushes to catch all the lizards, snakes, salamanders, spiders, and whatnot that they came across. i held a humongous iguana, and have the scratches to prove it. i picked up a tarantula we found under a rock in the jungle, slogged through calf-deep muddy water, hiked along a pitch-dark beach in the pouring rain to see a sea turtle lay her eggs... in short, it was really neat. hopefully i'll have some pictures up for y'all shortly.
domingo, agosto 19, 2001
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linkydink Musicians I dig right now: Old guy: David Axelrod (new album!) Young guy: Scott Herren, aka Prefuse 73
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linkydink The Radiohead show was good. It was more funkless than my usual concert fare, and there was much less dancing than I like to have at a show (ok, there was no dancing at all), but overall I dug it. I agree with JR that a lot of Radiohead is better suited for home-listening, but some tracks (like Iron Lung and Paranoid Android, for instance) have always felt to me like they needed to be heard live, and I'm glad that I now have. Woohah! (plus, they did FOUR encores. whoah.) Plus Kid Koala still rules the world. The man opened his set with a beat-juggle of the theme from Monty Python And The Holy Grail. He's dreamy.
sábado, agosto 18, 2001
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linkydink *sniff sniff* MP3's? Two tools: KaZaA for fun Napster-like downloading... and Hotline. Hotline's been around for ages, and is slightly more difficult to use. Basically it's just an index of servers. This way you're more likely to find servers catering to your specific genre... but it also means you have to put up with snooty sysadmins.
viernes, agosto 17, 2001
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linkydink jimmy: The best way to get quality illegal MP3s really is (and always has been) via quality-obsessed friends with their own servers, a la Huey. A distant tied-for-second, thanks to Steven Bellovin's talk I attended at Usenix 2001, is OpenNap (an alternative centralized server to napster.com) and Gnutella (a decentralized network alternative to Napster). Like mail readers, all file-sharing programs suck. Some just suck less than others.
jueves, agosto 16, 2001
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linkydink If you get bored in Greenwich there will alway be a couch in my apartment for jimmy tones, and any one else from the old school whom I haven't seen due to semesters in Australia, or otherwise.
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linkydink So now that Napster has finally been more or less destroyed, what's the best way to get quality illegal MP3s?
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linkydink jimmy: Yeah, The Beta Band - for reasons unknown, Radiohead has two opening acts. Go figure. Anyway, welcome home!
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linkydink Once again back is the incredible! Maxin and relaxin in Connecticut, I have been reuinted with my parents and vinyl. Friday, I see Radiohead with Kid Koala (and the Beta Band?). Wowsers. If you're in the area- call me call me call me!
miércoles, agosto 15, 2001
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linkydink xenodice and I saw Radiohead at Suffolk Downs in East Boston last night. Didn't get there nearly as early as we should have, but I'm wet behind the ears when it comes to concert-going. Arrived just in time to hear (but not really see 'cause of the crowd) Kid Koala jam with The Beta Band for a song and then on to his own (too short!) set. What can I say about Radiohead? The music, of course, was great, but... the live experience left something lacking. Perhaps it was the crowd, that seemed more into some kind of "scene" than the music, or just their sheer number that blocked any real view of the stage. Most likely, though, it's that Radiohead's music is more appropriate for studio apartments & attic bedrooms than stadiums or concert halls.
martes, agosto 14, 2001
lunes, agosto 13, 2001
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linkydink JR: You really don't want a mix CD based on Kool Keith's 9 Favorite Places to Pleasure Himself In Public.
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linkydink I've been amusing myself in Austin with Ego Trip's Big Book Of Rap Lists, which must be the nerdiest hiphop book ever written. It is 352 pages of more senseless hiphop trivia than I've ever seen in one place, including such priceless information as 28 Hiphop Songs About Keeping It Real, 15 Hiphop Songs That End With Explosions, 12 Pieces Of Suggested Evidence That Tupac Is Still Alive, Kool Keith's 9 Favorite Places To Pleasure Himself In Public, and the essential DJ Mister Cee's 10 Best Ways For DJs To Get Ass.
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linkydink Corporate control of public space becomes just a little more ubiquitous... New York, NY-- Landmark live music venue and activism center Wetlands Preserve will be turning out its environmentally-friendly lights on September 15th, 2001. After close to thirteen years at 161 Hudson Street in TriBeca, the gentrification of the Manhattan loft set has caught up with the venerable club. The building is being sold and turned into residential condos and the venue is being converted into office and lobby space.The Wetlands was special. Despite being a bit cramped, it had one of the most chill vibes I've ever found in the ordinarily megastressed NYC, and the people who run (ran) it worked hard to make cool shit (like Black Lily, The Roots' fresh weekly hiphop/poetry/R&B jam session) happen. Unsurprisingly, it isn't the only NYC club in danger from this sort of thing. One of the last shows there will be The Spooks opening for Spearhead tomorrow (Tuesday) night.
miércoles, agosto 08, 2001
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linkydink It's good to see the caste system in India really begin to break down, familes of different castes setting aside their differences and working together to- hey, wait, that's not how it's supposed to work!
martes, agosto 07, 2001
lunes, agosto 06, 2001
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linkydink i finally have unlimited internet access!!! yay! only one problem, the computers keep crashing, and thus loses posts before i post them. first thing: wife, who just broke up with their s.o.? second: comforting them depends on what are the exact circumstances. third: poll: which is worse? a) breaking up with a long term s.o. b) not being able to be with someone who you're really attatched to and should be with, except for the fact that the timing sucks or c) being in a state of forever loneliness???? I think that i'm currently in both a and c. it sucks. jimmy tones and folkgurl: did cmoore tell you that i know someone that you guys know from wes.? his name is gabe, he's a geo/theatre junkie, he's dan size, super funny, and yeah, that's about it. anyways, he's at the same place i am right now. the world is getting ever smaller. i'm done with groups! the more i'm with large groups, the more and more depressed i get. this is not good for me. i'm starting to think that i need therapy, scary eh? my isolated little geo world is lacking many things, but here's a few that have appeared: more than 5 moose, 1 bear, tons of bison, 1 coyote (heard many others), several foxes (the animal, not the lookers), lots of elk, hummingbird moths (they're crazy looking), lots of geysers including Old Faithful, tons of rocks, lots of beer, lots of great scenery, one car crash, one additional shattered window, 6 large vans (only 3 really work, the rest like to smoke going up hills, or the have no a/c), 22 other students, 2-3 profs, 2 egyptians, 24 days in, 10 to go, 3 days off, one s.o., now one ex s.o., and a partridge in a pear tree. sounds like fun, well... it is, but i need a vacation. so much so that i've now written my third ever blog post (my second one was demolished by these crashing computers) c'est la vie
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linkydink cmoore: Don't take hir to The Cell, that's for sure! It was an amazing film, but man, did I ever see that at the wrong time! Generally speaking, though, there are only two or one thing(s) to be done: pour one's self into one's job and hanging out with one's friends or, if not one's first reaction, have a friend who will get one to do so. The rest, I leave as an exercise to the reader.
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linkydink question: how do you comfort someone who's just broken up with hir long-term significant other? what would you want if you were in that situation?
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linkydink Simon Reynolds' Unfaves of 2000: The remorseless, ruthless, invincible precision with which this vidpop is programmed, edited, choreographed, groomed... definitely verges on the militaristic. And the "artists" involved, whether it's Aguilera or Aaliyah or whoever, are like figments spun into existence by squadrons of technicians--make up artists, hair stylists, lighting crews, postproduction special effects, recording engineers who tint and pitchshift the vocals, chop up the best takes down to single words and re-stitch them together... The amount of energy and effort and money and micro-management that goes into one 2 second shot in a video, or one bar of the record, it's staggering... These stars are cartoons, robots, ciphers, logos, branding devices.... and while I suppose there's a sort of Baudrillardian hyper-real/posthuman/simulation-pop buzz to it... I dunno, is it backward of me to prefer the early Eighties New Pop era?... This faux-animation element to modern vidpop, the way that the choreography and film techniques are designed to make humans move in ways that resemble the characters in videogames, is why you've got this spate of pop groups taking the next logical step and hiding themselves behind cartoons: Gorillaz, Daft Punk's anime-style promos and robot shtick. William Gibson's Idoru--the purely computer-generated star-as-figment--is just around the corner.
domingo, agosto 05, 2001
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linkydink "Claiming a violation of First Amendment rights, a lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court to compel the National Park Service (NPS) to remove a cross from Mojave National Preserve, California. The lawsuit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California (ACLU/SC) on March 22, argues that the presence of a cross, the predominant symbol of Christianity, is a violation of the First Amendment's separation of church and state." This was Sunday Morning's "cover story" this morning, but strangely, the CBS website does not have an article about it yet.
sábado, agosto 04, 2001
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linkydink Hey Kids, long time, huh? First it was the last semester of college out-of-my-mind-crazy-busy thing, recently it's been the underemployed-and-without-internet-access thing. Now presenting the tired-bored-board-oping-at-WNPR thing... (insert drum roll or other percussive interlude here)... In addition to the great American heartache otherwise known as the Bush administration, forging a so-called career involves negotiating the balance between preserving my idealistic integrity and paying the rent. In the months of June and July I have worked as a receptionist for a geriatric psychiatry clinic, telemarketed for the Hartford symphony, become a city horticulturalist, joined the WNPR company softball team, and settled upon building stages for an event production company and pushing buttons so that the public radio listeners of Connecticut can get their Prarie Home Companion. I kindof like being the only chick on the stage crew, and one of the few on the softball team. Lord I am turning into a big Dyke to Watch Out For.
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linkydink Jimmy; it is your birthday tommorow right? but wait, tommorow here is today in OZ... so happy birthday today! or something, this time zone thing is not helping my allready befuddled brain. either way, i wish you much happiness, and you will get something nifty from me when you get home.
viernes, agosto 03, 2001
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linkydink hello everyone! I am now back home, and rather tired and disoreanted. my house is very noisy which is freaking me out because I got used to the lack of television and loud music at snow farm very quickly. I have 181 e mails to look through, not to mention the blogs and various websites which have been updated in my absence. I missed the internet. I've got a few bits and pieces of things I meant to post on scraps of paper and on my computer (which i brought with me so that I could keep writing) but i'll put them up later since i'm still in the process of unpacking, and my family seems less than pleased with me spending time on the computer so soon after I get home.
jueves, agosto 02, 2001
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linkydink "I am Criswell," he states, his eyes focused on some distant, unseen dimension. "For many years I have told the almost unbelievable, related the unreal and showed it to be more than fact. Now I tell the tale of the Threshold People, so astounding that some of you may even faint."
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linkydink From the corporation-are-evil desk: Hannibal of ars-technica has written a really interesting take on the Intellectual Property debates. Not only does he concisely and accurately summarize the two major extant positions in the debate, he then goes on to suggest that really we're debating on the wrong front. If you wish Napster wasn't dead, or are just interested in IP law, check it out.
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linkydink ooh... at&t will let you dynamically generate .wavs from text with their natural voices software. of course, the first thing i entered was "shut the fuck up, bitch whore", followed closely by "pedro is a man-whore" and "pedro sucks eggs." nothing like the internet to make me revert to adolescence.
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linkydink here's a story that's close to home for me: the FTC gave Pepsi the go-ahead to buy Quaker. it's a little weird to read stories like this after hearing idle dinner-table chat about it at home. it's weird that my mom talks about laying the smack down on the chairman of PepsiCo. and it's weird to be the uber-liberal, sometimes anti-capitalist, pseudo-hippie, green-voting daughter of two fiscally conservative, republican, corporate brains. i feel like a big hypocrite sometimes, since i get to reap the benefits of the system, which is what allows me to then think about rejecting it. sigh.
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linkydink " 'Discussions about sexual orientation do not have a place in Scouts,' said Brock Bigsby, Scout executive for the Massachusetts Minuteman Council. 'The Scouts will not inquire into a person's sexual history, and that person will not expose their sexual orientation one way or the other.' " (this link and the previous attrib. NextDraft)
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linkydink "Of the high school girls, ages 14 to 18, surveyed in the study, about 20 percent reported that they had been hit, slapped, shoved or forced into sexual activity by a dating partner... 'Unfortunately," Dr. Silverman said, 'the prevalence estimate is not surprising considering what we know about intimate partner violence with adult women.' "
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linkydink for all the boston-area blogsters: shakespeare's 12th Night is playing - free! - in Boston Common.
miércoles, agosto 01, 2001
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linkydink well well well. looks like Christie Whitman's sticking to at least one of the Clinton administration's eleventh-hour environmental plans: she's making GE clean up the Hudson.
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