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I was walking home yesterday down Essex street and I passed a very disturbed and rather large young man wearing a white t-shirt adorned with huge black letters, apparently written in marker, presumably by him (I'm equating his rather deranged aura with the impossibly bad penmanship.) True or not, the shirt was definitely a one-off home made piece. It said, rather to the point, "Kill all homosexuals. Die faggots die." We had a moment of eye contact in which I expressed my disapproval. Nothing too serious (I'm a bit ashamed to admit) but enough that I was a little scared he was going to start something with me (that sort of eye contact being a pretty aggressive act in some sub-cultures.) He decided to keep walking. Anyway, it sort of freaked me out, because I don't usually see stuff like that in NYC. Then today I found this story, which didn't particularly make me feel better or worse, but it made some sort of impression. There are a lot of fscked-up people out there, and a even more "normal" ones (peaceful ones?) rather scared of the first group. (Really nice design on that site too, as is usually the case with Derek Powazek's stuff.)
Yes, we were down for a little bit this morning. Nothing too serious. I guess it's the case that the database (Mysql) needs to be rebooted every so often. Since it does seem to keep its data intact I can live with this. As always, I'm very impressed by Hurricane Electric as a web host.
amsterdam (KLM) has a new airline that hubs out of london called ...Buzz Airline, my bosses bag was so heavy it had to be taged with a big label "Heavy Buzz" i saved it for a souvenier...the motto is "Fly With Buzz"??...and its a la carte you pay for air only, drinks food etc are all pay for on plane...
google now offers 12 language choises including "custom"??!!
might have to check this out!!-- Seven Hills Berlin 14 May -29 October-----"Move over Millennium Dome. Berlin trumps it all with their biggest futuristic exhibition ever at the Martin Gropius building. Fun for all, this is a high brow Disney World complete with a virtual voyage through an ancient library, dolphins and robots to play with and the chance to mix genes on a monitor.
It has cost a fortune - 28 million DM to be precise - so check out the extravaganza.
There are seven zones: Jungle, Outer Space, Dream, Civilisation, Knowledge, Credo and the Centre. Each has interactive exhibits, glorious special effects and the very latest in science and technology. The idea is to compete with the technological wonders on show at the Hanover World Expo. Decide for yourself on the winner!"
For the 12th of July, two sides of the deeply spiritual Irish coin. Maybe Clinton should have the IRA negotiate with the PLO, and Israel with the Orange. Might make more progress that way.
But why did I find the Spam Haiku site looking for this stuff?
Yet another journalist stumbles onto the cutting-edge. The Blogging Revolution. Pretty standard fare, but it's fun to watch people get all excited over something you found a long time ago <self-satisfied-grin/>. We'll see if he's still updating in six months (hint: if it hinges on his getting payed to blog ideas, he won't be.)
Little glitch on this page today (where it was printing out the whole page back to January, everytime.) Should be O.K. now. Sorry 'bout that.
I've got the mad skillz. This is the coolest flash yet. Click on the blue circle to enable maximum options. Then start cuttin' it up. Make sure you mouse around a lot to find all the potential for bomb droppin. Damn that s#%t is phat. (:)
is the nsa now admitting to echelon?
seeing lots of reporting today (nothing new, just what we've already heard) in The Independent, UPI and NY Times...)
Someone had this book at the bar last night (which bar? My bar, of course.) And then today, Rasterweb had a link to it. I guess everyone is getting ready for surviving some worst case scenarios. Interesting book; hopefully not too useful.
250,000 presold copies to be delivered around the globe by 9,000 Amazon.com ordered FedEx trucks? I'm gonna have to read one of those Harry Potter's someday. Until then, however, let me suggest one from a transplanted Brooklyner by the name of William Kowalski, his '99 novel, EDDIE'S BASTARD is a real fine "coming of age" story. Also I would like to express my regrets for not being at Bill's Fourth of July Bash and would like to be the first--or if not the first, the skinniest--to say, Happy Birthday Lady Liberty.
Frustration last night, as I kept getting busy signals from ISP Inch. Then I caught the TV news saying that Bell Atlantic had outages from Maine to Virginia. A cut cable. Couldn't post till this morning. Felt justified in fudging the date. The more we depend on this technology, the more reliability becomes an issue. I suspect we don't really have the fall-back positions we need. Where'd I stash that Y2K manual?
google pats itself on the back.
heres a pretty good napster article from inside regarding their impending legal strategies.
The "first draft" of the Human Genome Project is complete. Get me rewrite!
Beyond here there be dragons.
I haven't put too much time into it, but I'll bet I could waste a few hours (or worse) in here. Looks like a real attempt at a hypertext novel. This was a big idea in academic circles ten years ago (at least where I was at school,) but as far as I can tell, never really caught on with the people actually making the web (as opposed to the scholars just thinking about the web.) Anyway, this is what some people were saying was going to happen to writing. Think it will catch on?
I used to take my art-rock very seriously. Dr. Progresso still does.
Here's an article on the possibility of micropayments (the ability to charge a very small amount for web content.) This idea has been around for a long time, but hasn't ever caught on (for some technical, and maybe other reasons.) Now it looks like it might be almost ready for real use. Would this be a good thing? Or is it better for the web that people write things just because they want to? (from hack the planet, but now I see that Kottke is talking about this, and I guess it's hot on metafilter too. What comes around...)
I don't usually like to get cc's of joke mail, but I did get a funny one relating to the latest virus (which I've already received about twenty copies of, at work).
It's the Voluntary Compliance Virus: "please erase your hard drive, then send this message to everyone you know. Thank you for your cooperation."
foreward from gore vidals 1991 book about hl mencken.
How about this new sport (?): geocache. Thanks to the improved Global Positioning System (GPS) information now available to people without security clearances, all sorts of new opportunities have been opened up. Like this crazy sport (again: ?) where people hide caches of "stuff" around the planet (often in pretty out of the way, hard to get to places) and then players try to find the stuff. Not really a sport I guess, but sort of interesting. Somebody stop me if you hear I'm getting into this. From the site
"Geocaches are already located in many locations around the world. Many thanks go out to the geocachers that have placed geocaches. It's just as challenging to create a good geocache as it is to find one. If you find a good geocache and you enjoyed the adventure of the journey to find it, be sure to thank the geocacher by writing your comments in the logbook or sending them an email. Geocaching can be a fun and rewarding new sport that welcomes us to the 21st century with many new adventures."
Welcome to Mark, new author of roll your own one lap (although possibly that's not really the title.) I'm not exactly sure what this is going to be, but he comes with high recommendations. Not sure if he is reading this page, but feel free to introduce yourself Mark, if you want. Or not. Either way we'll check out what you are doing, which isn't too clear to me at this point, but I believe it involves some love of auto racing, combined with a (chronical of a?) sabbatical from the wild world of information technology. This may or may not become the future home of his page, so make real nice, and maybe we can add another to our strange little world.
this is kind of interesting, the presidential aircraft gallery at the usaf museum.