This is very interesting: http://www.vmore.org.au/%7Edamon/cm/xerox.html A "Xerocracy" is where YOU choose. Like a democracy, but no leaders are elected. Like a collective, but everybody's involved. EVERYBODY chooses and then the MASS DECIDES.So how does it work? If you have an...
March 2003 Archives
Ape Man
by The Kinks (Though I'm thinking of the reggae version which appears in the Robin Williams movie "Club Paradise") I think I'm sophisticated 'cause I'm living my life like a good homo sapiens But all around me everybody's multiplying and...
Lawrence Lessig's presentation at SxSW2003
Heath Row's Media Diet Thanks to Heath (whom I briefly met at Bruce Sterling's "end of SxSW" party - nice guy!), we have what I guess is a verbatim trasncript of Lawrence Lessig's brilliant presentation. Thanks Heath!...
L'anarchie c'est l'amour
Le conditionnel de variétés par Léo Ferré Je ne suis qu'un artiste de Variétés et ne peux rien dire qui ne puisse ètre dit "de variétés" car on pourrait me reprocher de parler de choses qui ne me regardent pas...
Real dummy?
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Would the real George Bush please stand down Bush's main vocal technique - the bewildered pause - is only too easy to imitate....
EEG
Wired News: Brain Music: Not Much to Dance To Wired article about the DECONism events i also attended last weekend in Toronto. Update (2006-11-12): Mark Federman posted pictures (I was also at the Stellarc thing, featurd in the previos entry...
Still waters
It's been quiet on here lately. It will continue to be so for a bit longer. Too many things going on and too many thing in my noggin' needing attention in other places. Come by once in a while. Skip...
Kansei Engineering
incorporating affection and emotion into the design process. "Kansei is a japanese term where the syllable kan means sensitivity and sei means sensibility. It is used to express the quality of an object for producing pleasure through its use."...
Internet Law event in Rio
Copyfight: Intellectual property politics and issues. Print. Read later. Looks very interesting....
One war post
Al Jazeera - Now in english and sticking it to The Man Look at this picture America. This is one of your sons. He is one of many MANY dead. Most of the dead are not your children. But all...
Learn to love Trackbacks
movabletype.org : A Beginner's Guide to TrackBack Trackbacks are, IMHO, vital to future wikkidness of weblogging. If you use Movable Type (or any of the supporting systems), turn on TrackBacks NOW. And use them. Often....
Recent travel pics
These are temporary "galleries" of pics I took while on my recent travels. There are no comments, no stories no metadata of any kind. Why? Becasue I have yet to find a tool that does an acceptable job. ;) Enjoy....
Mou-turd?
THE ONLY THING FRENCH ABOUT FRENCH'S MUSTARD IS THE NAME! Thank god! Let them keep their toxic shlock....
Shhhh
Been quiet lately. Spent the weekend in Toronto. Will write later. For now, consider this: explodingdog 2003....
Swimming treadmill
This is an example of one of those things which you'd never have thought of in a million years (and evidently no one had) until you see it and you smack yerself on the forhead and think: "duh.. of course..."...
<<What are your thoughts on Lily Chou-Chou?>>
<< [[ some thoughts about the movie "All About Lily Chou Chou" ]] >> <<Erm... Not sure... I found it very difficult to follow (who is who, who does what, what are the relationships between the characters... When is what...
Mouahahahaha
Roly-poly fish balls! please.. make.. it.. stop... must... stop... laughing... (see them all)...
A Letter from Michael Moore to George W. Bush on the Eve of War
Michael Moore.com : Mike's Messages Dear Governor Bush:So today is what you call "the moment of truth," the day that "France and the rest of world have to show their cards on the table." I'm glad to hear that this...
Like I said...
kuro5hin.org || New Zealand's Mixed Member Proportional electoral system Mooooving right along......
Cheap quick videocams
Here is why a videocamphone could potentially be a TON of fun. My friend Louis recently bought a $150 "webcam" with integrated Flash memory, which means he can run around with it. Here is his document of a trip to...
I need to go
I can barely stand it anymore.. or is it just today? I need to find a way that will allow me to be on my way. What will I do? I don't know. Where will i go? Well, let's start...
F*%k this, I'm moving to New Zealand...
Fifteen Times Scarier than Saddam and Top 11 signs you are either George W. Bush or Kim Jong Il. (Thank you Lia)...
Re-arrange
"Time was when the art of arrangement" -- the creative reinterpretation of songs -- "occupied an honored place in musical composition." Read. Understand. Act. Rip. Mix. Burn....
Finally the "R" word...
Joi Ito finally said it; the R word: Revolution. In his case he speaks of Japan and it's political/economic systems, but I've been itching to hear it lobbed about here in North America, and more specifically, in the U.S. Helloooo...
If you can't find a solution, change the rules.
And: 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.- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo Inc, 1989...
George W. Bush's War on Women
(copied from the latest CWHS e-bulletin) "Bush's secret war" IPPF, 22 January, 2003 London - Shielded by the smokescreen of an imminent war, President George Bush is waging another stealth campaign, systematically working to undermine reproductive freedom around the world,...
Café
Mmmm... I just opened a new package of Lavazza coffee grinds and made myself some with my stove-top espresso maker. I usually only make myself coffee on weekends, so one of these freeze dried packages tends to last me for...
Digital Identity
This is a hot topic with many implications and applications. Most of the time when DigiID is mentioned, it is in context of government programs to give everyone universal identification. The fear there is of course centralized governmental control of...
Le Web c'est des humains
"The Web is humans" Indeed, when one considers the Web as a force for expression and communication, especially in the context of Weblogging, we can begin to not only see the truly biological characteristics of the Web, but also gain...
Daddy dearest
Bush Sr warning over unilateral action So George "A Thousand Points of Light" Bush Sr. is now saying Jr. should chill just a bit. Sing a song. Thx Warren....
Toc toc toc drrrrr
This is a couple of years old but well worth seeing/listening: Symphony for Dot Matrix Printers - [The User] I saw a performance of this about three years ago. It was really quite something. A lineup of old dot-matrix printers...
WarBlogging in Iraq
Kevin Sites Blog CNN reporter in Iraq sets up blog. Can you say "career move"? Let's see if he's any good. Wish he'd picked Movable Type tho......
FOAF & trust/authority
Six Log: Fun with FOAF Good. This came up during their panel "The Future of Weblogging". Let's see what we can do with this. Of connexe interest, David Galbraith provides his bio in RSS 1.0 format using the "bio" namespace...
Videocam Cellphone
Gizmodo : Japanese videophone This is one heck of an awesome gizmo. Anything that allows us to record and document and annotate our lives now digitally is wicked cool. IMHO....
Do you want some freedom fires with that sir?
CNN.com - House cafeterias change names for 'french' fries and 'french' toast - Mar. 12, 2003 Are americans "idiot semants"? Has western culture really become so engrossed with "the word" that it supercedes not only sanity (the clear apprehension of...
WiFi nation
It is 7:15 pm, it is dark, the sky is menacing rain. Karl, another hard core geek and I are sitting on the sidewalk outside the closed Schlotzky's Deli on Congress St. In Downtown Austin. We are stealing bandwidth. Ah...
Go east, young man.
Tout au long d'un souper sushi avec Karl, celui-ci me torturait: "Jaaaaapon... Jaaaaaaapon... tu dois aller au Jaaaaaaaapon... Jaaaaaapon..."...
© —> CC
Lawrence Lessig shook the very foundations of the Manufactured Reality. Hallelujah. A trully powerful and engaging orator, masterful presentation giver, he had the room enthralled, shocked, scared, outraged and entertained. This was THE historic event of the convention I felt....
Between the (style) sheets
One of the best panels so far was this morning's "Between the (style) sheets" featuring Jeffrey Zeldman, Tantek Çelik and Eric Meyer. All three did a great job of showing off the power, and yes the relative ease of using...
À la mer
Carole Guevin & hubby, J-F, took Karl and I to "Jazz", a cajun restaurant/bar, for lunch. After a half-pound of "u-peel" shrimp (served cold and covered in cajun spices. Yum!) three of us were simply blown away by our chosen...
User style sheets
I asked Tantek about how easy it would be to develop a web-browser for web developers / designers where one could really see what was going in terms of the positioning and the layout (rollover highlighting of boxes, coloring of...
Necessary evil.
Name dropping is a necessary evil when attending a schmooze-fest such as SxSW. In fact I've always felt it to play a rather significant role in initial contact with a new person. It allows the other to quickly get a...
Pho
First meal in Austin, Texas and what do I order? A vietnamese beef satay soup. And oh my what a soup it was. Standard soup-meal bowl size: I managed half of it. I had not eaten since the day before,...
Free software & copyright
I attended the first presentation at SxSW. It was by Richard Stallman: the founder of the GNU (free) software, erm, movement. I left after about 45 minutes because I grew tired of his longwinded and really quite silly (with no...
Hot legs
Forgive me but I must say this: I have never seen so many hot chicks driving hot cars in my life. Rock on, ZZ-Top!...
Off I go...
Running a tad late but eh. Just hope this chest cold that is developping doesn't get too much worse... :\...
Dumplings!
Boiled Pork Dumplings to be precise Oh I love these. I could live on only these. Interesting to note: in Northern China they are called "Jiaozi", whereas in Japan they are known as "Gyoza"....
The village elders
Or "(wisdom + character) * concensus = authority" Or "Weblog Trust Indexing" Traditionally, small communities have always had "the village elder(s)": a person or persons who, through experience and intelligence aquired wisdom, who's character brought them into the forefront of...
Goin' to Texas
without being as critical or diamond jewelry judgemental. It didnt have to jewelryinolog be sublime - it was fun. It didn't jewelry have to be profound - it was religious jewelry social. I bring this up because christian jewelry...
There's a song in my head
DECONFERENCE This is somehow hugely interesting to me and I do think I'm gonna head down the 401 for this one....
Rate me.
What's all this now? I've built a proof-of-concept WebBlog rating system for my RowBoat. Visitors (you all!) can rate entries on my weblog by clicking the [+], [=] or [–] symbols below. The idea: - Visitors can rate individual weblog...
Alexa = Amazon + Google
Alexa Web Search This is... interesting. A webservice combining Amazon-style services with Google search functionality. Users can rate search results... they also have some stats screens.. Top500, Movers & Shakers... I wonder if DayPop, Technorati et al may not be...
Knowledge, language and cultural erosion
Steph forwarded me an email from the archive.org mailing list. It raises concerns regarding the degradation of global culture due to the alarming rate of extinction of many of the world's languages......
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