here are some links that i just shared with the uwebd group when someone asked about sending an html email. as everyone knows, i hope, I'm against html email .
http://www.favreau.info/display.php?page=html_email
http://www.georgedillon.com/web/html_email_is_evil_still.shtml
http://www.metacon.ca/ascii/
http://www.geocities.com/thduggie/ascii/asciitxt.txt

Let's Put It This Way ….

Short of a really serious, all-stakes-on-the-table World War (which is not an option, nor thinkable, really) …

 the only way that there will be real and substantive change to the current plutocracy's rule of both the USA and (by economic domination) the rest of the world will be through purposeful and concerted action enabled by wired-together people and information.

Any other form of real change that conceivably could happen involves collapse, I think – of the economy, or the environment.  And neither of these should be the target of purposeful and concerted causative action.

[wirearchy News]

You are a Theory Slut. The true elite of the
postmodernists, you collect avant-garde
Indonesian hiphop compilations and eat journal
articles for breakfast. You positively live
for theory. It really doesn't matter what
kind, as long as the words are big and the
paragraph breaks few and far between.

What kind of postmodernist are you!?
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Users Drive Policy (Ross Mayfield). From a simple request, a wonderful thread has ensued on technology, policy and the market inbetween. I was on vacation while it grew, so let me capture the thread before making some points…… [Many-to-Many]

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i wish users could drive policy, but alas it is really interests and constituencies that drive policy, and those categories may not be reducable to users.

Yuka made me… buy it.. A 3/4 size Ovation 2003-vn…. [Just differently intelligent.]

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marriage disproves the existence of free will, next at 11

And About Your Car Alarm.

And About Your Car Alarm

Read this. You've got time. [Halley's Comment]

Taliban take over National Park Service

In a series of recent decisions, the National Park Service has approved the display of religious symbols and Bible verses, as well as the sale of creationist books giving a non-evolutionary explanation for the Grand Canyon and other natural wonders within national parks.

Also, under pressure from conservative groups, the Park Service has agreed to edit the videotape that has been shown at the Lincoln Memorial since 1995 to remove any image of gay and abortion rights demonstrations that occurred at the memorial.

[Politics in the Zeros]

Hacktivista Broadcast. Ron Deibert's new documentary series Hacktivista, co-produced with Mike Downie, will air on TVOntario December 26th, 29th, and 30th at… [Just differently intelligent.]

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this looks like it could be an interesting documentary, has anyone seen it yet?

“too many topics, too little time” is 1 year old today. it started with the now completely forgotten post “well, this is a start” last year and was quickly followed with two other posts on unrelated topics

well after a trip to ohio to see the relatives, i'm back in blacksburg to perpetrate more mischief.