Tuesday, July 29, 2003

Surf's up - Carribean Water (Via Ottmar Liebert) Carribean Water. [Ottmar Liebert] 11:54:22 PM

poster / night in atlantis [tout va pour le mieux dans le pire des mondes!] 7:40:23 PM

Screenshot Nagara. Here is a screenshot showing this website project on my desktop, using new software for MacOSX that is produced by the Japanese "Anne Software" and is called Nagara Browser. There are already a few utilities that put a website on the desktop using Apple's WebKit (comes with Safari 1.0), but this is the first one that puts a lot of features in it, works in background mode, and comes with source code. Very nice. Also check out their WebStickies. [chaotic intransient prose bursts] 7:29:18 PM

More Futures Market Comment Question: Who has proven the "Efficient Market Theory"? Answer: No one. It's a theory. In fact, the financial markets over the last five years would lead us to believe that great externalities and inefficiencies can occur. Markets may move towards efficiency but let's ask Enron and Worldcom investors if the financial markets reflected an accurate picture of those enterprises. Sorry for getting a bit technical, but the blind acceptance of this unproven economic theory is a key issue. Terrorism will be defeated without this absurd commercial activity. 1:38:46 PM

Going Off the Deep End It's official. Our government has been hijacked by "free-market" idolaters. Apparently, the key to our national security is the futures markets. Absurd. Pentagon plan: Investors wager on terrorist attacks. WASHINGTON - The Pentagon is setting up a stock-market-style system in which investors would bet on terror attacks, assassinations and other events in the Middle East. [Arizona Daily Star: Front Page] 2:30:15 AM

Stones / Flashpoint / Toronto Stones roll into T.O. [The Globe And Mail: National] 2:13:17 AM

'Nature is What Nature Does' 'Unorthodox sculptor, Andy Goldsworthy's cairnoid objects dominated the Contemporary Art Museum in La Jolla: Broadbanded or patient readers can click the picture above (or here) to see a 1.5 Mb animation of a Goldsworthy video. [101-365] 1:06:07 AM

The Open Future Alan Kay. "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." [Quotes of the Day] 12:19:08 AM