Thursday, March 27, 2003

A White Person's Guide to Eminem (Blogcritics.org) To further facilitate greater understanding between the races, we here at "The Institute of Racial Harmony and Understanding" have been hard at work translating Eminem's lyrics for white people who might otherwise be confused by his sometimes highly literate, yet paradoxically streetwise allegoric, words. Our staff of highly paid, well-trained, white men over fifty years of age has only begun to "crack the Shady Code" so to speak. But, now, we bring you what has been translated thus far. We hope it helps older white folk understand, and truly appreciate, the genius that is Eminem. [ From "The Way I Am" ] EMINEM: "The most meanest emcee on this - on this earth / Cause since birth I've been cursed with this curse to just cursed / And just blurt this bezerk and bizarre shit that works / And it sells and it helps in its self / To relieve all this tension dispensing me" TRANSLATION: I am a rap "artiste" / Sometimes my mouth gets me into trouble / Ironically, it has also made me a lot of money / Go figure Like Johnny Carson liked to say: "Funny funny stuff!" 8:28:49 PM    comment [] The Fetish Roadmap Mommy, what's a furvert? Metafilter, as ever on the um, ball. 8:22:59 PM    comment [] Whuffie Watch: May I Introduce You to Social Network Analysis? A very brief, cogent introduction to an area of research and software that will only grow more important in an ever increasingly wired and interconnected world. "Social network analysis [SNA] is the mapping and measuring of relationships and flows between people, groups, organizations, computers or other information/knowledge processing entities. The nodes in the network are the people and groups while the links show relationships or flows between the nodes. SNA provides both a visual and a mathematical analysis of human relationships." 8:08:59 PM    comment [] ART: African Art (metafilter) The G.I. Jones Photographic Archive of Southeastern Nigerian Art and Culture. 'This is an archive of digitized photographs depicting the arts and cultures of southeastern Nigeria. The collection includes examples from Ibibio, Igbo, Ijo and Ogoni speaking peoples. All of the photographs were taken in the 1930s by the late G.I. Jones, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge. The majority of the images are from the Igbo speaking regions where Jones conducted most of his research. The materials included here represent only a sample of the complete Jones collection. The photographs are unique for the creative brilliance of the art represented, the quality of the photography itself, and the cultural and historical significance of photographic records from this time period in Nigeria.' Some related links :- American Museum Congo Expedition 1909-1915. A truly interesting site, which includes field notes, photographs, watercolours, historical maps, anthropoligical objects, and so forth. A Clickable Map of the Art of the African Continent, via Africa: The Art of a Continent. The Woods Collection of African Art, with another clickable map. Nigerian Stories. 7:53:10 PM    comment [] World Subway Hubway For all your subway needs. Metafilter rules! 7:46:39 PM    comment [] I'm On An Internet Radio... With apologies to Stan Ridgeway. But you can lookup radio stations on der web at these fine fine superfine websites: Radio Locator, Virtual Tuner, and Radio Tower. 7:38:29 PM    comment [] SPAM: How Spam Works "... a raft of smarter filtering techniques - from rules-based analysis to artificial intelligence - promises to better shield your inbox. Here's how the most effective software works." A nice short overview of the most promising techniques. 7:29:10 PM    comment [] It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. Voltaire 6:46:00 PM    comment [] EPIC Online Guide to Practical Privacy Tools EPIC, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, maintains this nice set of links to privacy enhancing tools for your computer. Snoop proof email, anonymous surfing and emailing, html filters, voice privacy, secure instant messaging, web/telnet/disk encryption, privacy policy generators, password security, firewalls, crytography, anti-spyware, and more. 6:44:00 PM    comment []

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