other logs:
Bubble Chamber
linkwatcher
memepool
Robot Wisdom
etc:
Arts & Letters Daily
Drudge Report
SalonHerringWiredFool
Slashdot
Wired
October 29, 1999
word:William Gibson's new novel - All Tomorrow's Parties. characters from 'Virtual Light' and 'Idoru'
October 28, 1999
installed a random quote perl script (that's the output above).wondering what's the best way to efficiently handle text using html, css, xml, perl ? what are the conflicts/ redundancies/ available options? one of the points here is to find a programming solution that in combination will make it easy to control the typographic & stylistic design of an idiot-proof, dynamic, client-updated site.
recovered links:
€CA marijuana record seizure (yahoo)
€pilot whale tracking site, Mystic aquarium - tagged whales transmitter data posted on web (whales were rescued from a beaching in June) see where they are from day to day (transmitter batteries will quit in Feb. 2000)
€NOAA significant event image server - awesome images from GEOS satellites of man made and natural events (fires, floods, severe storms, volcanoes, anomalies, etc.)
€rioting at Rachel's tomb (yahoo)
420:
Feds Want Marijuana Ruling Reviewed: "The Justice Department on Wednesday [10.27] asked a federal appeals court to reconsider a ruling that could allow seriously ill patients to use marijuana without being prosecuted. [...] In its ruling last month, the appeals court said the government has offered nothing to contradict "evidence that cannabis is the only effective treatment for a large group of seriously ill individuals."
October 26, 1999
word:from the article 'The Decline and Fall of Literature': "But it is also true that many "traditional" students (the new term for those who used to be referred to as "college age") are turning away from literature in particular and from the humanities in general already in high school. Among the millions who take the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test (PSAT), usually given in the tenth grade, only 9 percent indicate interest in the humanities."
wonder what would happen if we asked, 'how many have an interest in Tommy Hilfiger'?
October 23, 1999
420:a breakdown of the major presidental candidate's views about medical marijuana: "George W. Bush's comment in support of states' rights on medical marijuana makes him the second most supportive [Republican] presidential candidate. The most supportive declared candidate is Pat Buchanan [no longer a Republican!]. During the last presidential campaign, Pat Buchanan was asked, "Would you support the medical use of marijuana?" He responded, "If a doctor indicated to his patient that this was the only way to alleviate certain painful symptoms ... I would defer to the doctor's judgement." Donald Trump, who is considering a bid for the Reform Party nomination, would be the most supportive candidate if he formally declares his candidacy, in that he has come out in the past in favor of marijuana "decriminalization," thereby opposing the policy of jailing sick or healthy marijuana users. Unfortunately, Bill Bradley, a former marijuana user, recently said he wouldn't change the medical marijuana laws now, thereby endorsing the status quo of arresting and incarcerating seriously ill people. And there is little hope that Al Gore, also a former marijuana user, will be much better. Vice President Gore, who has been with the Clinton administration for more than six years, has not separated himself from the views of the administration, which has waged the most vicious war on medical marijuana users of any presidential administration." [undernews]
October 19, 1999
losing it:"President Clinton played a full 18 holes of golf on Sunday evening -- all by himself in the rain!
Clinton completed a full round in pitch dark at a deserted Army Navy Country Club in Arlington, Va., in a development one Clinton insider called: "odd." [via drudge]
...I suppose if Bill were a total schizophrenic it would have shown up by now, but this, if nothing else, makes room for doubt as per the man's personal togetherness.
hacking happens:
"The low cost of computer crime software and hardware
combined with the dramatic expansion of the Internet into new, lesser-
developed regions of the world promises to exacerbate the
hacking problem. There are roughly three times as many people using
wireless phone services as there are people on the Internet, so there is
possibility for an online explosion once a wireless Internet is established.
" (business news)
lots of helpful hacking tips in the article.
October 18, 1999
420:marijuana arrests still high
duh:
Yo-Yo Ma leaves his $2.5
million cello in the trunk of a NYC cab. maybe he was high?
please unplug during electrical storms:
you knew this was
coming sooner or later
October 16, 1999
tune:
bigfreakinserver.com's
trippin' goa/trance mp3 stream
(from shoutcast)
October 15, 1999
.cgi madness:after 2 weeks of looking for .cgi shopping cart scripts, a week of installing & removing scrips that didn't fit my needs for flexibility of design and ease of management, and a final 16 hour caffeine push, I've found the script I need with commerce.cgi. it supports hundreds of products (broken down into categories), the cgi generated shopping cart pages are relatively easy to control for appearance, and editing the product database is a breeze compared to other script packages.
October 14, 1999
Donate CPU's:screensaver to make predictions of earth's global warming by processing climate model data. register to take part in the experiment (they're taking queries about which OS and processor speeds we're using - much like seti@home before they launched)
October 13, 1999
Micro$lop:Microsoft's annual report written on a Mac. Go figure.
New
CTheory:
The
Anxiety of the Network Society - "Y2K fears and anxieties are situated
firmly within the idea that we live in a network society, where money,
property, community, organization, and identity are increasingly as 'virtual'
as they are 'real'. According to Manuel Castells, the network society constitutes
a new mode of material existence..."
R.I.P.
- Wilt the Stilt:
Wilt
Chamberlain died
last night. On my first trip to California in 1972 (I was 4) my great uncle
took me to see him play ... it's one of my first memories.
e-law:
deep
linking - don't
do it, we'll sue you
e-wallpaper,
e-fabric:
Electronic
paper -- an ultra-thin, lightweight screen that can be rolled or folded
like a newspaper -- may soon materialize.
Y2K
waxes nostalgic:
the
state of Maine's dept. of transportation computers printed 2000 new vehicle
titles referring to cars as "horseless carriages" before the Y2K related
error was caught.
The
Force:
hidden
stuff in The Phantom Menace.Qui-Gon's
communicator? That's a Gilette 'Sensor Excel For Women' razor in there,
jazzed up with a few glue-on parts.
Quote:
"Who
are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star
lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in
which there are far more galaxies than people." - Carl
Sagan
October 12, 1999
Word:thanks to New York & Hollywood, the US is a literary black hole.
Grey
Matter:
caffeine
changes
brain structure
Way
VR:
cat
brains visual center wired - "These are the first pictures from an extraordinary
experiment which has probed what it is like to look through the eyes of
another creature." the
view
Big
Brother:
high-res
satellite photos commercially available
Hackers
happen:
AOL
passwords
ripped off by the 10,000's - responsible trojan has an estimated 45%
propogation rate.
420:
day
64 - DEA hempseed embargo
Recurring
Memes:
cyberpunk
timeline
VR:
webcam
- control your view - la
tour eiffel & seine
420:
why
herb eases pain
VR:
Mt.
Shasta Cam - buy some real estate, catch
the next UFO outta here
More
VR:
Seattle
traffic is like, totally wired
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