But the weather is wonderful, as usual

August 18, 2003

Fcuk. Julie on Perpetualkarma uses this word occasionally — I first saw it in London on t-shirts made by ‘French Connection United Kingdom,’ but she means it in the sense of you-know-what — and it sums up perfectly what I feel right about now. fcuk. Just like that. * haven’t had a good night’s sleep […]

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Fresh laundry

August 16, 2003

Two weeks more or less until Betsy Burke’s latest book is released! Way to go, BB — I’ve pre-ordered my copy!

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A Natural History of Entropy, or, How to Refute Eternal Recurrence

August 15, 2003

I’ve been reading Jorge Luis Borges lately, and was blown away by his 1934 essay, “The Doctrine of Cycles.” Since this is my blog and I can post anything I want, I’m going to write about it. Too bad if anyone thinks it’s too esoteric or too long. First, I don’t know whether I should […]

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Grid

August 14, 2003

“We all pay the price when we’re interconnected. There’s no way of avoiding that because all the jurisdictions in the northeastern part of North America interchange power.” Officials said late Thursday they were particularly concerned about a potentially dangerous surge once power was restored that could cause further blackouts as far as Manitoba and the […]

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Conrad Atkinson

August 14, 2003

This is a story that Conrad Atkinson tells: “[S]omeone asked me to say something about culture, and I told them about an incident that occurred when I was in Moscow for the second time, in 1991. I was a guest of Moscow News [the English-language weekly newspaper of Moscow], so I got all the scoops […]

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The Lovelump

August 13, 2003

British Columbia it seems is tying if not starting to beat out Ontario as a high tech centre. Most of the action is in the Lower Mainland (Vancouver region), and much of it is also focussed on biomedical research (via UBC especially). It therefore seems fitting that one of the Canadian winners of Adbusters’ memefest […]

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Winning or truth-telling?

August 13, 2003

Song for the day? How about Back in the USSA by Andrei Sitov, the Washington Bureau Chief of ITAR-TASS News Agency of Russia. (This one, too, via Wood’s Lot.) Reminded me also of my imaginary poll question.

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Trails to sleepless nights

August 11, 2003

Via Wood’s Lot, a pointer to Aug.10’s As We May Incinerate by Jonathan Delacour. Apparently, the US is using Napalm in Iraq, although it prefers to call it Mark 77 now. Delacour picked this story up on jill/txt, by a blogger who happens to be a hypertext theorist. The result is Delacour’s amazing post, linking […]

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Offtrack

August 11, 2003

My trackbacks really don’t work, as Pax Nortona pointed out a couple of days ago already. Wood’s Lot pointed at the fashionista (Avengers) post, and it doesn’t register. They have worked in the past, but don’t seem to do so consistently. How does trackback work and why would it work sometimes, but not at others?

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Quiz: R U Contradictory?

August 11, 2003

Doc Searls points to the World’s Smallest Political Quiz, which scored him “libertarian.” It’s rather interesting, if spooky, to be profiled on the basis of so few questions: I came out “left-liberal,” what else? They didn’t have a Rosa Luxemburg category. But I’m still going to leave that imperialist Union Jack from yesterday waving about […]

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