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domingo, diciembre 30, 2001
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linkydink Timmy, Since cmoore is not in the country right now, it is in my fullest duty to tell you this. You MUST go to Chu Chai. It is a cute little veggie thai restaurant on St. Denis. The food is 100% amazing. Cmoore raged about it for months before she took us up there. It's not terribly cheap, but with the canadian-us exchange rate, it's not too bad and the food is well worth the price. Anyhoo- happy new year to all.
sábado, diciembre 29, 2001
viernes, diciembre 28, 2001
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linkydink q: what does the bush administration, dave brubeck, jean-luc picard and dueling banjos all have in common? a: guerilla news -- decently lengthy (but modem-tested) quicktime video, regarding the war. watch this. =)
jueves, diciembre 27, 2001
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linkydink Hey, I'm going up to Montreal for a few days after New Years! Anyone know anything fun to do there or on the way?
martes, diciembre 25, 2001
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linkydink merry christmas to all y'all, even those of you who don't actually celebrate the holiday. it's still fun to have the day off work (or the month off of school, as it were) and get to eat immense quantities of tasty food. hope you're all having fun. i'll check back in in a month.
sábado, diciembre 22, 2001
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linkydink Lawrence Lessig in a recent Slashdot interview: We need translators. We need to translate the values of the network into terms that nontechnical people get. And we need to watch for changes in the architecture or mix of technologies layered into the network, and raise warnings about how those changes will alter the environment for innovation and creativity. As one of my heroes in the law, James Boyle, puts it, we need an environmentalism for the Internet. You are the environmental experts. You can credibly show the world how changes in the ecology of the Internet will destroy the environment for creativity, innovation, and freedom that it produced.
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linkydink "The essential facts in this case are undisputed. Defendants 2600 Enterprises and Eric Corley, a/k/a Emmanuel Goldstein,1 are the registrants of the domain name “fuckgeneralmotors.com.” When an Internet user enters this domain into a web browser, he is automatically linked to the official website of Plaintiff Ford Motor Company (“Ford”), which is located at “ford.com”.2"
viernes, diciembre 21, 2001
jueves, diciembre 20, 2001
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linkydink i am spending New Years somwhere in europe. perhaps barcelona? if anyone knows of any cool destination in europe that's closer to Berlin, please do let me know.
miércoles, diciembre 19, 2001
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linkydink I am spending New Years in NYC with a whole bunch of my friends. I'm not sure more specifically than that. Anyone in the area who is bored should drop me a line, all are invited.
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linkydink Reuters story via Slashdot: Locking in a key piece of its 2002-03 development picture, Fox Broadcasting Co. is finalizing a big-bucks deal with Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon for a new sci-fi adventure drama... Whedon said Firefly would in some ways be a sort of "anti-Star Trek" with no regular aliens or other monstrous creatures. "There'll be scary-ass humans," he said. "I can make people that are scarier than anything you can put in latex."Yum! This season's episodes of Buffy (and spinoff Angel) have been painfully flat and formulaic. I think it's reached that twilight in a television show's life where its content is determined more by commercial concerns than artistic ones. Hopefully Firefly will have the mojo that's been missing from Buffy.
martes, diciembre 18, 2001
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linkydink "After the falsified samples were exposed by a Forest Service colleague, the employees said they were not trying to manipulate or expand the lynx habitat, but instead were testing the lab's ability to identify the cat species through DNA analysis, said Joel Holtrop, a Forest Service official. 'Even if that is the case, it was inappropriate,' Mr. Holtrop said."
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linkydink "Staff at one of the largest cathedrals in the world - St John the Divine in New York - are assessing the damage of a massive fire just a week before Christmas."
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linkydink "What's behind the password protection of hotlink.mtvn.com is the advertiser network for the MTV family of channels. Click on Research then Audience Profiles. See what role MTV Is taking to classify and profit off you. MTV is big business, and big brother. And for all who love satellite pirating, theres a special hidden treat with sat info below as well."
lunes, diciembre 17, 2001
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linkydink I am in Greenwich. If anyone else is feeling bored out there give me a ring. Operators are standing by.
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linkydink "Family isn't a word, it's a sentence": My high expectations w/r/t the new Lord Of The Rings movie have almost completely overshadowed my high expectations of nigh-genius Wes Anderson's latest production, The Royal Tenenbaums, which promises to provide enjoyment of at least comparable if not superior quality to Anderson's previous films, Rushmore and Bottle Rocket, (though it seems to have been [tRT, that is] curiously underadvertised [though this perception is perhaps skewed by my unusual media-consumption habits] despite having received very good reviews) both of which are good movies, especially Rushmore, which should be seen by you if it hasn't been already, as should tRT, which is playing now in New York and Los Angeles, and is presumably going to open soon someplace less inconvenient.
domingo, diciembre 16, 2001
sábado, diciembre 15, 2001
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linkydink After four "Star Wars" films, alarm bells should have gone off, even among those who don't look for morals in movies. When the chief feature distinguishing "good" from "evil" is how pretty the characters are, it's a clue that maybe the whole saga deserves a second look. Full Story
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linkydink "Were the critique limited to the media’s affection for O.J.-Monica-Condit scandal-mongering and the triumph of Nike in the pantheon of American values, it would be hard to complain. But behind the sepia-toned nostalgia for the war years, one finds a longing to pretend the 1960s never happened, to turn back the clock to a simpler time before Vietnam poked holes in the perceived infallibility of American Empire, before the civil rights movement and feminism ruined everything, back when family, work, God and country formed the four corners of American life."
viernes, diciembre 14, 2001
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linkydink Picasso felt that the point of making art is to exercise your inner demons. There's a whole modernist school of thought that points to art as therapy. Channeling energy towards creativity and expressivity, and thus making you less likely to become a threat to both yourself and society. Later generations saw the whole point of art as a tool for finding aesthtic value in the everyday. Street performances, happenings, found object sculpture, all of this functioned to remove art from its golden frame and make it accesable to everyone. Personally I think art, and artmaking, come from being disatisfied with the norm. I mean if you're satisfied with being a telemarketer and brushing your teeth with colgate toothpaste, or what have you, than that's great! A lot of the times I wish I was, but I'm not. Why buy into the bullshit that someone else is selling you when you could be creative and idealistic? Critics of art, like my roomate, see it as being self centered and masterbatory. Well, whatever, I guess you could say that about anyone who went into the history books, and attempted to better humanity, or at least make a statement that might inspire someone else down the line. If you're interested I recomend the movie "Painters Painting." It will teach you fuck all about art, but you get to see Robert Rauschenburg drunk on a ladder talking shit about the abstract expressionists. quality entertainment.
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linkydink Scott McCloud has a great definition of art in his book Understanding Comics (which is really good). He writes that Art is anything that humans do that does not result from our basic instincts to survive/reproduce. It's a problematic definition in some ways, but fun to think about. Make of it what you will. Xenodice: I think that's a useful myth to perpetuate. I like it when people act like they have free will.
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linkydink I agree. Anything else just perpetuates the myth that human beings are any less programmed than machines
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linkydink A1: "the conscious use of skill and creative imagination especially in the production of aesthetic objects; also : works so produced" -- m-w.com A2: Yes (yes), yes, and no.
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linkydink question: what's your working definition of art? question: can programs be considered art? (interactive art?) are some programs art and some not? does it depend on the programmer's intent?
jueves, diciembre 13, 2001
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linkydink Breakcharmer helped me with some of the finer points of my final project for COMP360. It's an exploration of a vulnerability in Horde IMP email software. Check it, yo, I'm an information anarchist.
miércoles, diciembre 12, 2001
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linkydink "WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 — Federal law enforcement agents seized computers and raided computer networks at M.I.T., the University of California at Los Angeles and other large universities today in shutting down what they described as one of the Internet's largest and most sophisticated software piracy networks. The Customs Service, which led the investigation, said that the network had distributed things like the latest Windows software and digital copies of the hit film "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." The ringleaders may include university students and employees and executives in the software industry, the officials said."
martes, diciembre 11, 2001
lunes, diciembre 10, 2001
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linkydink Music appreciation. Scroll down to find a list of vinyl sold via the Internet by John Walker Lindh. Y'know... he's that American Taliban guy. The more I hear it, the more I think shitty 70's pimpstyle kung fu TV show.... Johnny Walker, American Taliban! Oh well. Maybe it's just me. More things should be shitty 70's pimpstyle kung fu TV shows. MY JOB should be more of a shitty 70's pimpstyle kung fu TV show. End rant.
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linkydink  Go figure. These tests really give you more of an idealized version of yourself than anything really real, eh? Maybe we should all create a cool test like this. Any ideas? I think a "What famous rapper would you be?" test would be dope.
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linkydink Advocates for AIDS patients in Connecticut are opposing a state policy intended to track the illness by requiring that names of HIV-positive residents be reported to the state's health department.
domingo, diciembre 09, 2001
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linkydink Edwards said the county has one of the best Internet filtering systems on the market. However, the filter does not block access to Web sites unless there is a reference to sex in the address or the site's text. This leads to situations where kids can get to Boobtropolis but not information about HIV or Anne Sexton. A better solution: don't spend a fortune getting a friggin' iBook for every kid in school just to look good for the local voters.
viernes, diciembre 07, 2001
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linkydink "Federal agents have gone out of their way to shut down Dr. Mollie Fry and attorney Dale Schafer of the California Medical Research Center in Cool. Their crime: providing marijuana to the seriously ill."
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linkydink "Crime pays. Those who question this only need to look at recent events surrounding a software company and one of their products."
jueves, diciembre 06, 2001
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linkydink when headlines go weird... is it just my over-active imagination or have there been a lot of things going on in the media lately that paint funny pictures in ones head?
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linkydink what's up with this artsy-fartsy nonsense test? Sheeit howz about putting some others in the selection aside from the established? Actually I'm probably just bitter cause they said I was Monet's Waterlilies.
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linkydink "All evidence suggests Disney meant well. He produced movies and television shows and opened some amusement parks. He gave us Mickey Mouse, which brightened mankind's long and symbolically fraught relationship to rodents. Mickey is a perfectly benign character, lacking completely in personality or persuasion, just completely happy and fun. About 60 million people visited Disney's theme parks last year, and seemed to like it. So why this need to turn Mickey, which is to say Walt, into evil incarnate?"
miércoles, diciembre 05, 2001
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linkydink Space science takes aim at a ruined Monet. Given breakcharmer's art test result, this seems appropriate.
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linkydink Folk musicians have called on a government minister to apologise after he described listening to folk singers as his idea of hell.
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linkydink timmy: i would go with the beard & mohawk thing, and if you don't like that, then you can always shave it off and go with the shorn head/scruffy beard thing, which i would approve of. :) also: i think the internet is already a sort of bizarre combination of cable-television-on-speed (produced by people looking to make money) and boring crap (produced by people who don't know how to write and yet think they are interesting enough to be read about). now that tech stocks have crashed, i think it's going to be harder for budding internet businesses to get funding to do interesting and radical things; VCs are going to want to see results. i mean, Amazon.com, the world's biggest and most successful internet-based business, hasn't turned a profit yet. what does that say? i think the joy of the internet as a creative medium is its capacity for user-interactivity (and, to a much lesser extent, its multimedia capabilities). if people started taking more advantage of that (or perhaps if audiences were more willing to think in non-linear ways), i think the could be diverted from its current mindless-television-like-entertainment path.
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linkydink It is time for Timmy's hair to change! But I'm not sure how. Right now I have not shaved in a few weeks, so I have a thick beard and a full head of hair. I might shave all off of my head save a few eyebrows, or some camps have recommended a mohawky type thing. Any suggestions? Email me if you don't feel like posting.
martes, diciembre 04, 2001
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linkydink An offshoot from my previous post: 'All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations. This revolution has produced the most powerful and diverse spur to innovation of any in modern times. Yet a set of ideas about a central aspect of this prosperity–“property”–confuses us. This confusion is leading us to change the environment in ways that will change the prosperity. Believing we know what makes prosperity work, ignoring the nature of the actual prosperity all around, we change the rules within which the Internet revolution lives. These changes will end the revolution.'An excerpt from The Future Of Ideas, a new book by Lawrence Lessig. I wish to use this quote to spark some discussion: I'm not sure if I think it is inevitable or merely likely that the internet will turn into cable-television-on-speed. Also: I'm not sure what can be done about it by mere mortals like us. Finally: Why I am writing this at 4am? Please let me know what you think.
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linkydink "The big story about crypto is a power struggle between two American tribes: geeks and spooks. Occasionally innocent people blunder into this situation, but they get lost, either because they don't understand the technology (that's what geeks say) or they're not to pry any further into stuff beyond the reach of mere civilians (that's what the spooks say). "Geeks and Spooks: a nifty rant from Bruce Sterling (via Slashdot)
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lunes, diciembre 03, 2001
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linkydink hehe. i get to write an economics paper the topic of which is: "Analyze and critique Microsoft's past and present business strategy. Make suggestions for how they can succeed in the future given the threats of (1) The Internet, (2) Linux, (3) Java, (4) Non-PC devices and (5) Network Computers. Attempt to be creative in some of your suggestions." i'm psyched. anyone got any good points to think about on this topic? i know you do.
domingo, diciembre 02, 2001
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linkydink mr. tones has introduced me to the procrastination which is kickups. and now i shall do my part in spreading it on to you.
sábado, diciembre 01, 2001
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linkydink "Horsley said he didn't know why Waagner chose 42 as the number of people he allegedly intends to kill."
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