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Monday, May 13, 2002
Fuckin' A! 
| | Check out the top Google results for fuck weblogs. Discovered by Dean in his referer logs. |
Happy Birthday Jan!
| | It's my sister's birthday. She's a Taurus from central casting and a retired Commander with the U.S. Navy. Got her master's degree from the War College, and knows lots of stuff about How The World Really Works that I call upon from time to time (and that sometimes calls upon me, if I blog something wrong, dumb or both — yes, it happens). |
| | She's a good'n. We only sibs should all be so lucky. |
The ultimate advance on the MUTE button
| | I've written about TiVo before. But, some have observed, I seem to have missed the Linux connection. Meaning: there is some serious TiVo hacking going on, invited by the fact that TiVo is in fact a Linux system. |
| | Interesting stuff. Would be more fun if TiVo boxes worked with DishTV, but they only seem to hook up with DirecTV and cable. |
Cintralating stuff
| | After the reality check of Sept. 11 and its sobering aftermath, many people looked at the glitterati of Hollywood and said, "Can you explain why the fuck any of us ever thought YOU were so important?" |
| | It is the gargantuan, ass-licking brainwash of the year, and We, the People With Televisions, are supposed to watch and enjoy it. |
| | Not finally, but still mercilessly, on Tom Cruise: |
| | I must warn the world about Tom Cruise. I feel he is an utterly terrifying Superior Life Form, with the power to melt heads and braid spines. His eyes are as hard, shiny and brutally penetrating as diamond drill-bits. The new braces on his teeth suggest that he is erasing all that remained of his tiny imperfections, and he is now metamorphosing into Ultra Super Perfection Man 3000. I fear his intense, mind-beating politeness, his titanium imperviousness to human weakness, his barking power-laugh. |
JOHO mojo
| | The latest JOHO is out. Among other things, Dr. Weinberger goes into personal stuff (mostly other people's, but still) in that enviably knowing and insightful way of his. Here's a keeper paragraph I'd like to repeat for the benefit of all those reporters and students doing papers who are calling and emailing lately, wondering how to compare blogs with more traditional forms of self-expression: |
| | So what's the difference between these blogs and 'zines online and old-style confessional articles? It's not just the immediacy of it. The old publishing model has us writing to a faceless mass of readers while the new one has us writing to faces, albeit faces we haven't seen yet. The form of speech and the topics are direct not as a rhetorical device but because the connection is real: a line connecting us, not a gap of space and time through which waves propagate. We don't feel that we're shipping content from us to others. We're not publishing, we're not broadcasting. We're connecting. |
| | Good stuff, as usual. Dig it. |
Neither here nor there
| | Another travel day. This time I'm driving up to the Bay Area for the O'Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference, along with some other meetings, all tomorrow. This will all probably inconvenience the blogging process, but ya never know. |
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