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Monday, March 18, 2002
Death by bureaucracy 
| | Here's The Daily Texan on what the DRPA, DMCA and CARP Report will do to Internet radio. It's the best piece I've seen so far, and it's by a college sophomore. |
Perhaps it's a new mistake
| | So the Board firmly and enthusiastically supports the right of individuals and noncommercial organizations to organize themselves into groups that have nothing to do with ICANN, and to offer advice about ICANN policies, so long as those individuals and noncommercial organizations have no role in choosing ICANN directors and the people who are chosen as ICANN directors have no obligation to listen to them. Now that's "meaningful participation." |
| | I'm sure there's another side to this. Maybe Esther can explain. |
Orthoganalities
| | I've often thought the names of gender genes — X and Y — ought to be helpful when we get around to talking about Women vs. Men. Female would be the X axis and Male would be the Y axis. The rest would be trig. |
| | But it's much more fun to just go see Defending the Cave Man, the one-comic show by Rob Becker that ran on Broadway for a long time and continues to tour the country. |
| | The whole show is an answer to a question "Why are men assholes?" Some insensitive woman asked Rob that question at a party, and his answer was "Men are still hunters" and "Women are still gatherers." Men are not in charge of the cave (women are), but they do keep the cave safe from bad TV channels. Their spear is the remote control, and they use it to kill off channels. Get that off my TV, they'll silently say, over and over. |
They oughta call it "Stringer"
Listen up
| | In the middle of stuff going wrong this mornging, I had a great conversation with Paul Jones, the director of Ibiblio.org, which you might remember as MetaLab and Sunsite, at UNC.( I love Paul's vitae.) |
| | Ibiblio hosts many Internet radio stations, including WUNC, WCPE and the first one ever, WXYC. All are endangered by this CARP crap I've been carping about. Put simply, CARP is a nuclear-tipped SCUD targetted at Internet radio, but frankly intended to bring down the rest of the Net. |
| | Paul points us to Save Our Streams, which lays out the issues in urgent terms. Check it out. |
The dog ate my packets
| | We got back last night, and the Net promptly went down. Cox had an outage. Natually I was the first to report it ("We need packets to live and if we don't get some soon we're gonna die"). By the time it came back up sometime this morning, the laptop had crapped out. When I finally got tech support on the phone, the unit came back to life and I couldn't replicate the problem. (I suspect it isn't fully recovered from being dropped on the floor while I was having coffee with Deborah, Dan and Jakob the other night in Palo Alto). Meanwhile, work had backed up all over the place. Also, the office had carpentry done over the weekend, so nothing was where it belonged. |
| | Anyway, I just pulled down 340 emails and have no idea what's been going on. So I'll just point to what Cory says about Google while I start catching up. Great, great shit. He fuckin' nails it. Funny, too. |
And it creeps me out
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