news, ezines:
Arts & Letters Daily
Drudge Report
EDGE
HackerNewsNetwork
Pgh. Post-Gazette
SalonHerringWiredFool
Slashdot
Salon
shift
Solar Data
USGS Quake Info
Wired
Yahoo! Top Stories
webcams:
my cam
BC's Cam
magic 8 ball
Popocatepetl
SETICam
S.F. Bay
UCLA Solar Tower
Vegas Wedding Cam
meta:
mind uploading
transhumanism 101
transrealism 101
technorealism.org
weblogs:
abuddha's memes
alamut
Barbelith
Blogthis
Bubble Chamber
Camworld
dumbmonkey
FactoVision
GirlHacker
intention
KeithBrown.com
kottke.org
linkwatcher
memepool
metafilter
metascene
pith and vinegar
Robot Wisdom
scribble
Scripting News
stating the obvious
texting
Tomalak's realm
Subterranean
usr/bin/girl
Weblog Monitor
weblog nation
wetlog
xblog (visual thinking)
03.28.2000
03.23.2000
2 wired articles on the sudden popularity of e-books (1, 2)
rolling stones lyrics, tablature [gimmie shelter]
windows eye candy
03.20.2000
french paraplegeic walks for first time
A paralyzed Frenchman took his first steps for ten years after a revolutionary operation to restore nerve functions using a microchip implant, newspapers reported Sunday.
more bryce play
03.16.2000
how to speak & write postmodern
"We should listen to the intertextual, multivocalities of postcolonial others outside of Western culture in order to learn about the phallogocentric biases that mediate our identities." Now you're talking postmodern!
(from my meta-sweetie :)
"Practice safe sex? They wouldn't even rent me the shoes!!" - Freaky
t.v. turn-off week: april 22 - 28
t.v. turn-off 99 info (both via adbusters.org)
review of Last Flesh: Life in the Transhuman Era (via abuddha's memes)
03.13.2000
cosmic fantasia - techno & electronica web directory
technologix.org - dj broadcast archives
03.12.2000
"Orange roll vitamins," huh?Is that what you're calling "pints of cheap vodka" this week, Eazie?
from the inexplicable object of the week
playing with bryce 3d
03.11.2000
underground rivers on mars (from my life-science partner, Doofy. heh.)
jeff buckley links:
lyrics
grace tablature
more tabs
03.09.2000
astro:pic of a huge coronal mass ejection in feb. 2000
vibe:
drum & bass arena (reviews, d.j. interviews, news, .wav samples)
grooveradio.com - live streams, guest d.j.'s
03.08.2000
meme?review of The Meme Machine
The point is that the notion of a meme is much too broad to be useful in explaining human thinking and behavior. A meme is little more than a peculiar terminology for saying the obvious. Who can deny that cultures change in ways independent of genetics, ways involving information that is spread throughout society mainly by spoken and written words?
03.07.2000
stones, bones:meoamerican archaeology links to plunder
03.06.2000
net:ZDnet article on the 5k webpage design contest
With the increase in the number of handheld devices and cellular phones that feature Internet content, many designers are already being forced to return to their roots to create low-bandwidth Web content. Butterfield said he plans to post contest entries so they can be used as guides for designers in the future. "Designers will pull out all the stops to do something cool in that size, so there will be lots of examples people can learn from," he said.what on earth to do w/5k?
Brewster Kahle, co-founder of both Alexa and the Internet Archive, points out that the greatest libraries in human history have collected only a tiny fraction of what humanity has to offer. Alexa's namesake, the Library of Alexandria, Egypt, compiled about 500,000 scrolls between about 300 BC and AD 400. Today's Library of Congress, with some 17 million volumes, boasts only 34 times the holdings. The public portions of the Web are already vastly larger.
- 75% of respondents abandoned their cart without making a purchase — Bizrate.com
- $6 Billion dollars in sales may have been lost during the holiday season — Creative Good
- 27% of all web transactions are abandoned at the payment screen — Forrester
(last 2 links via Tomalak's realm)
03.03.2000
net:jakob nielsen slashdot questionnaire/article on web usability & design
If the pages download fast, people return. If they can find the products, then they can buy the products. If people understand the site, they use it.word
from a review of william s. burrough's last words:
Thinking is not enough.
Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience -- any fucking thing. No Holy Grail, no Final Satori, no final solution. Just conflict.
Only thing can resolve conflict is love, like I felt for Fletch and Ruski, Spooner and Calico. Pure love.
What I feel for my cats present and past.
Love? What is It?
Most natural painkiller what there is.
LOVE.
03.01.2000
movin:registered a domain name ... not saying what it is till its all been processed... will be moving stuff around, not sure how I'm going to restructure everything that I've got going, need to do some thinking, draw up a plan. I don't have much content to rework (the blog, a minimal directory for my freelance/design info {I really need to get that whole thing together - that's another story}). try to plan ahead with reason, sure. anyway, the blog will be moving soon... I may rename it, I dunno what I'm gonna do!
psycho:
semi-random shooting spree in pittsburgh today went down a few blocks from both friends and family... got a phone call from my sister, talked to my 3 yr. old niece who wanted to
know "why did that man want to hurt people?" ugh.
the guy freaked out about a broken apartment door, shot a building maintenance guy in the neck... set fire to the apartment, then ran through 2 fast food joints shooting people. jeez man... it's just a freaking door! NBC downplayed, CBS picked up the "hate crime" angle ... the guy who freaked was black, and left a message on someone's machine going on about killing some white people because no one on the maintenance crew was black. tragic irony.