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Archives for December 2005
Emerald Bile: I am very glad I am not foreign
Emerald Bile: I am very glad I am not foreign
Fuck Christmas
Fuck Christmas
Argh! No! who wastes cyberspace with this shit?
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Mona Lisa ‘happy’, computer finds
More on the Strike
Last week there was a vigil in Washington Square Park for the labour movement. I spoke to Manny Ness from CUNY about the context of the GSOC strike.
Listen to Earshot
Book of Lies
This week we read from Book of Lies.
Grant Morrison:: “Pop Magic!” All about how to do magic.
Best quote: “If I’d stuck with the clarinet and got nowhere would that mean there is no such thing as music?”
Mark Pesce:: “The Executable Dreamtime” All about how language obscures reality.
Best quote: “What I tell you three times is [...]
End of Primetime
Last week was the last class of Primetime: the Game of Television. All in all I had mixed feelings about the class. It was fun, but it got kind of tedious towards the end. I think the main benefit was the constant idea generation when we were producers - in both Seasons 1 & 3. [...]
Let There Be Markets: The Evangelical Roots of Economics GORDON BIGELOW /Harper’s Magazine v.310, n.1860, 1may2005
Let There Be Markets: The Evangelical Roots of Economics GORDON BIGELOW /
Harper’s Magazine v.310, n.1860, 1may2005
This is linked from the piece by Aaron Schwartz. A very good read.
Understanding Economic Jargon (Aaron Swartz: The Weblog)
Great stuff.
Understanding Economic Jargon (Aaron Swartz: The Weblog)
End of Privacy
I finished reading The Digital Person by Daniel Solove. The last section is all about government access to information stored by private companies. Database firms like ChoicePoint are making electronic profiles of us that they will sell to anyone prepared to pay for this data. Federal Agencies can buy information from ChoicePoint that they are [...]
DVD Flowchart
I made this flowchart for the DVD I’m making for my Video for New Media final. It’s pretty simple and it turns out the DVD I’m making will be even more simple as I’ve decided not to do a long glasto or bar them entry piece. I’ll just do short pieces for each of them [...]
