J-Son & Jeremy Insisted that I try this. You are a Grassroots Activist. Anti-capitalist,anti-patrist, anti-authoritarian, whatever,you're just fuckin' anti. You probably tellpeople you hate postmodernism, but thatassertion elides the complex interdependenciesamong academic poststructuralism and street-level activism. You don't bathe regularly, andknow at least one person who has scabbies…. [Flailing in the Surf] ——- i had […]

well not from blogging, but from work, mainly cause its new year's eve, which isn't a real holiday, but then i have 370 hours of accumulated annual leave so any day is a holiday. so my plan for today is to give my tv and vcr to the ymca thrift store then go get some […]

PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR PAPERS MobiQuitous 2004 Home The First Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services August 22-25, 2004 Boston, Massachusetts, USA (ACM sponsorship pending) *********************************************************************** The combination of mobile and ubiquitous computing is emerging as a promising new paradigm with the goal to provide computing and communication services […]

Papers Written by Googlers. Papers Written by Googlershttp://labs.google.com/papers.html A partial list of papers written by people now at Google, showing the range of backgrounds of people in Google Engineering. Very interesting resource of papers in the information retrieval and related fields! [Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker] ——- some interesting research here.

Osama Fin Laden. The fish that threatened national security. Lara Hayhurst, a student at Pace University, needed to take one small thing through the checkpoint at LaGuardia Airport: her pet beta fish MJ. This was, however, an apparent threat to the security of the airport and Lara's flight home to Pittsburgh for winter break. Flush […]

International Computers and Philosophy Conferences — proposal deadline for next summer's conference in Italy is in January. [A blog doesn't need a clever name]

Call For Submissions: Digital Media Project. Can a digital rights management (DRM) standard support the rights that users have in traditional media? The Digital Media Project is planning the first conference to bring DRM architects and user rights experts together. [Linux Journal]

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 […]

You are a Theory Slut. The true elite of thepostmodernists, you collect avant-gardeIndonesian hiphop compilations and eat journalarticles for breakfast. You positively livefor theory. It really doesn't matter whatkind, as long as the words are big and theparagraph breaks few and far between. What kind of postmodernist are you!? brought to you by Quizilla