Posts from — December 2004

Internet to ITU: Stay Away from My Network: “The backbone of the ITU’s contention rests on the premise that something called the Next Generation Network and the contention that this network will act as one big bug fix for all the problems created by current inter-networking technology.

http://www.circleid.com/article/842_0_1_0_C/“

(Via Information Policy.)

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umm, i think Ross fundamentally missed several issues here. it isn’t that ITU wants control and management, it is that someone will have to and no one is doing it now in any real sense, and if no one is doing it now, no one is going to do it in the future so instead of having a standard governance regime, internationally based, what we will have is thousands of feifdoms, it isn’t there yet, but it will be.

Pulp Xmas: “Xeni Jardin:

Video mashup of Pulp Fiction with vintage Rankin-Bass holiday animation. Link (Thanks, Perry E. Metzger, also spotted on Adam Fields)”

(Via Boing Boing.)

a must see…..

The Morning News – 2004 Holiday Survival Guide for Slackers: “So let’s sum up: Christ, our lord and savior, up and got himself nailed to a cross to expurgate the sins of all mankind, whereas you haven’t been able to summon the wherewithal to visit your local Circuit City and buy a $5 gift card for your mother. If we were comparing you and the Messiah in terms of selflessness, I’d say you were coming in a distant second.
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(Via .)

yep, a very distant second.

T.H. Huxley: “Thomas H. Huxley. ‘Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.’ [Quotes of the Day]“

(Via The Mediaburn Radio Weblog.)

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yep… that’s a good one. i keep forgetting it.

Generation Debt: The New Economics of Being Young: I, Breadwinner?: “Your dad had a job, a wife, a house. You’ve got loans and fear of commitment. Hello, manhood.”

(Via Village Voice Most Popular.)

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yep, what america dream?

Taste-tests of crazy Asian drinks: “Xeni Jardin:
Comrade Todd Lappin says, ‘A friend just sent me this link to a site that offers hilarious taste tests of unusual Asian canned drinks. Take, for example, this review of basil seed drink (which, BTW, I happen to enjoy, despite the fact that it is indeed sort of like drinking sweetened tadpole larvae).’

‘Basil Seed Drink with Honey may just be the epitome of non-thirst-quenching drinks. Mmmm… very sweet, with nary a bit o’ liquid. Instead, the tongue is met with an onslaught of slick gelatin capsules that, through a nefarious mixture of slipperiness, honey, and yes, sheer numbers, forcefully override the throat’s core instinct not to swallow tadpoles, or chilled vomit. And yet, I can’t say it wasn’t fun. Yes, yes I can.’

‘Though I don’t always agree with their evaluations,’ Todd says, ‘I am personally grateful to the intrepid souls who compiled this resource, if only for their candid review of Grass Jelly Drink, which even I have not yet mustered the courage to sample.’
Link“

(Via Boing Boing.)

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for some odd reason…. i like to read things like this and the bad candy site….

Computing-Related Sessions at MLA: “Courtesy of John Lavagnino: The ACH Guide to Humanities-Computing Talks at the 2004 MLA Convention. Broadly defined, from cultural studies to linguistics….”

(Via Matthew G. Kirschenbaum.)

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some good and interesting works here. i wish i could get hold of some of them to see them complete.

classic jeep pulls out hung up hummer.

Maybe I’ve Been Asleep for a While…: “

…but when did Amazon start tracking blogs? It’s weird to see a screenshot of my old template, but it’s also interesting to see their ‘recommendations,’ i.e., people who visit my website might also enjoy Liz Lawley, Unfogged, Culture Cat, and Arts and Letters Daily. At least I’m in good company.

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(Via the chutry experiment.)

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amazon bought alexa alexa archived the internet, the archive they made became archive.org, the company and tools went to amazon, so, amazon has had, other than a9, a search engine, site analysis and traffic analysis tools. internet history this is… coming back to remind us. amazon has integrated alexa.com tools into their site. neat, but not new. not even new that they do blogs, because they do tons of stuff, if you have a unique url, you are probably in alexa.com.

ACLU: New Documents Show Bush Order Authorizing Inhumane Prisoner Treatment: “The ACLU reports that new documents it received from its Freedom of Information Act request on Iraqi prisoners contain a shocking revelation: A document released for the first time today by the American Civil Liberties Union suggests that President Bush…”

(Via TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime.)

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if this is true, it should be impeachable. or at least i would hope.