wednesday, october 29, 2003
thirteen and twenty-one
in the september/october issue of LA Youth: a review of “thirteen”, by lizzy.
in the october 21 issue of the Yale Daily News: a stable iraq requires u.s. aid, by sarah.
yeah. my sisters are smart.
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enjoy
book: oblomov - hehe, oblomov anticipates weblogs (via oblomovka).
cd: copy me remix me - i like “lost” by emma’s mini best.
eccentricity: 24 hour timestamps - mental arithmetic is fun!
font: bitstream vera - install it and refresh this stylesheet. :)
movie: memento - that was cool.
os: panther - vicariously, anyway. need. need. mmm.
site: delicious - bookmarks meet friendster. sort of.
tv show: south park - yay for piracy, so i don’t have to actually watch it on tv.
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monday, october 27, 2003
up in is it on of or my if
winona’s got some neat drawings going on, and erin has new comix: max #11.
the latest lizzy mov: rawkin’ out to “(i didn’t mean to) stalk u” by los abandoned.
according to the gematriculator (via jason), sarah’s livejournal is more evil than jeweled platypus…interesting…
go admire mister kyle’s uberphotos (again)! : )
(the wiki link is to the latest crappy poem for you to remix.)
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tuesday, october 21, 2003
the war over music
i went to see larry lessig and hilary rosen talk about music tonight at usc. wow, it was cool.
my biased, subjective, lengthy notes are at LessigRosenDebate. closer to a “retelling” than “notes”.
soundbites:
rosen - “the dmca doesn’t take away fair use.” “creative commons is pro-choice…i’ve always been pro-choice.”
lessig - “fuck fair use; free culture.”
they’re doing it again tomorrow night.
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thursday, october 16, 2003
part of an old hard disk
mmm, toothpaste. which should i submit to the mirror project?
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tuesday, october 14, 2003
snails & jalapeños and you
unpleasant things:
- objective: 4 kidz - for extra fun, view source. (via d)
- vatican: condoms don’t stop aids - this made me realize that my catholic-school religion teacher was wrong on yet another count. yay for blogs, or else i’d still be believing her.
- a turkey in hand (via #joiito)
- my schoolfriends’ chatter about blogs during lunchtime - [insert geek angst here].
- weblogterview - “And you aren’t just surfing the bloody web all day hoping to find the Holy Grail of weblogs, the link no one else has (yet).” yay, that’s me! i like my writing-less blog, though.
pleasant things:
- escex dot com - weirdly neat blog (via #joiito)
- amoeba man painting
- los abandoned - catchy independent music from los angeles
- bass junky - mixes by propaganda
interesting…unpleasantness generally stems from religion and school. pleasantness generally stems from the internet and friends (lizzy told me about los abandoned).
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wooo
so i was looking through the “cherries” archive tonight, clicking links i had forgotten about, and i thought, hmm…this random justice link, from months ago, sounds familiar. o yeah, mr. journalism teacher mentioned them in class today! weird! wait…this was one of the bands on a flyer a guy in the class was handing out. mr. journalism teacher was poking fun at him because they were actually marvin’s flyers & the guy didn’t know the bands. then, mr. journalism teacher asked marvin about the flyers.
apparently, random justice & marvin’s band (dead norman) played some show somewhere this weekend. his music even sounds decent.
mmm serendipity.
update: haha cool, random justice is pseudo cyborg’s band! i’ve been reading his blog for a while…yet more crazy coincidentalness…
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monday, october 13, 2003
periodic table mnemonic fun +
hi! he lies because boron can not oxide fluoride *
new nation might almost sign peace security clause *
arctic kings can secure their volvos
crazy men feel cold neither currents
zevon gave gerbils as semantically broken kronor
ruby seniority, you zither-nibbling mob!
could indians send strongbad telephones in xena?
linkage: poetic table of the elements, ichem (nice little os x app), pretty-ized periodic table (swf).
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wednesday, october 08, 2003
pretty like pancake batter
i semi-blindly hacked at my usemodwiki installation for a few hours and now text almost looks like the rest of jeweledplatypus. you might need to refresh the stylesheet.
sort of inspired by css wiki zen garden.
oh, and in the process of messing with crap, i broke saving. and there’s a bunch of structure & styles i have to fix. and it’s not nearly valid. so. yeah.
but now it is time for some chemistry homework. wheee.
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five more things i find interesting
(possibly loosely related to each other.)
The problem is not that ASCII is too restricted a medium - the problem, if anything, is that text says too much, and that the medium is too intimate!
marshall mcluhan meets william gibson in “cyberspace”
Gibson’s neo-realistic cybervision creates a possible reality that scientists can model as plausible and which (according to Timothy Leary) technophiles can use to reinforce their identities.
Semantic Web researchers, in contrast, accept that paradoxes and unanswerable questions are a price that must be paid to achieve versatility.
The cut-up technique is a specialised literary form in which a text is cut up at random and rearranged to create a new text.
and then you die and they follow you down the street demanding that you grimace and say “brains” again.
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sunday, october 05, 2003
some more little-sister fun
lizzy: what are you listening to?
me: right now?
lizzy: yes
lizzy: what’s a vermon?
me: anything you say may become the internet’s amusement
lizzy: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
lizzy: cool11111111111111
lizzy: oops
lizzy: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
lizzy: all i have ever wanted is to be a
lizzy: ……
lizzy: how do you spell mime/meem/or whatever
me: meme
lizzy: yeah
lizzy: i knew that
lizzy: only embarrassing quotes go up on you and sarah’s blogs
lizzy: none of me being my truly intellectual self
me: say something intellectual
lizzy: *cough**cough**gag**curdling spit bubbles**tastes like my breakfast*
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thursday, october 02, 2003
five
things that make my mind go “mmm”:
- weblogs as literature
- using personas
- rise of the robots
- how to avoid the almost certain end of sun microsystems
and, in anticipation, larry lessig vs. hilary rosen (october 21).
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wednesday, october 01, 2003
high school
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harmonicas play skeleton keys and the rain
roj’s universal problem solving toolkit reminds me of my friends’ theory of the world…i’m curious about other similar theories now.
serotogis is a text experiment where things are linked by titles. sort of like something i saw a long time ago on gnod where every word in these poems linked to other poems with those words…hmm.
turbo has a new[ish] song! “fabuloso california”…it’s as crazygood as the other ones i posted about. and more yummy music: the telegraph hill sessions.
and three things that made me smile today: existential crunch (via), the end matter (via), and the freemont troll (via).
