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Why We Will All Go To Jail by Ana Voog

because at 1am, when we are stoned, or drunk, or alone...we will have to go search for that song...that song that we heard when we were in our cool aunt's car floating down that country road at what seemed like a huge speed at age 7 or 10......and our cool cigarette smoking aunt said, "my favourite colour is ORANGE", and we thought and pondered and then after a slight consideration said "Me, Too!" and that time....for that first time we felt we belonged and we were rebels...both...at the same. For the first time we both separated and merged....and then that song came on the radio...like it was meant to be...like it was talking to YOU...to you and that moment...in perfect synchronicity....."someone saved my life tonight, sugarbear..." We have no idea what that means...but somehow we KNOW it has great significance to US, to our lives, and to what will become...

the car zooms, suddenly the car feels orange. everything does. orange like that year...orange like butterfly halter tops and tequila sunrises...who even know what tequila was? but sounds good. keep on truckin'

who knew that someday you'd be FORCED to find that song as if your life depended on it. on soulseek or kazaa or...

"it's 4'oclock in the morming , dammit! thank listen to me goooood i'm sleeping with myself tonight. sick and tired.

thank god my music's still alive!......"

"and butterflies are free to fly...fly away...."

i love you mysterious aunt of mine who disappeared years ago from the family, never to be seen from again. your brother and i miss you greatly.

thank you for the colour orange and elton john.

thank you for that perfect moment.

i'm so happy it holds so much energy that i can draw upon it now to make me smile even now, decades later...

---ana c voog

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3:03:24 PM    

Every few months I'll republish David Green's e-letter to remind you that you should subscribe to it.

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"We got an e-mail last week from someone saying 'How did you find me? I used Peer Guardian' and he thought that would save him from our spiders. There is nowhere to hide..." - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/3104281.stm ...though, for Tom Cruise, submerging himself in a bath full of ice-water almost did the trick: http://www.stomptokyo.com/filmboy/extras/summer2002/minority.jpg

>> HARD NEWS << och aye the EUs There's a bit in Dark Knight Returns where Harlan Ellison, appearing as a television pundit, calmly explains off-camera how we'll all "be eating our own *babies* for *breakfast*". For some reason, we always think of that cameo when reading ROSS ANDERSON's analysis of forthcoming laws. This year's horror: THE IP ENFORCEMENT DIRECTIVE, of which Ross paints a pretty picture. "Significant adverse effects on economic growth and innovations", he warns, "will undermine the European Single Market; and liberty will suffer in many ways". Sadly, he's not wrong: the Enforcement Directive seeks to turn all copyright-infringement in the course of doing business into a criminal act, EU-wide. EU prosecutors pursuing pirates (arr) will be able to seize bank accounts and do pre-emptive searches, and force companies to withdraw products at their own expense. In other words: more bullying of modders, and the criminalisation of even slight copyright infringement, from buskers to parody t-shirt sales. Or yet another example of how the EU is listening more to the corporations whispering in its ear than any of its inhabitants. The Enforcement comes before the EU parliament on the 11th September. A perfect date for adequate scrutiny and news coverage, of course. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/draftdir.html - "och, and zombies stalking the streeeeeeeets of London" http://www.sequentialellison.com/images1.html - of course, Ellison would be all for it... http://harlanellison.com/kick/kick_rls.htm - arr! http://www.broadbanduk.org/news/bsg_press_release_23_07_03.htm - either that, or p2p is broadband's real killer app Got a bit of spare time? Want to do something a bit worthy but find the folk at those big, bustling charities a bit ... well, creepy? FaxYourMP, our human->politician bridging service is looking for some new volunteers. OWEN BLACKER, who has been mostly handling constituent questions, and calming down MP's secreatries with his treacly words, is now more likely to be found authoring consultation documents, co-ordinating pressure groups, being quoted in the papers, and generally being a very important person. So much so that now we need a replacement Owen to do the dirty work. No money (unless you can work out a way to get some that doesn't make us Evil), not much coding (unless you find a script that makes your life easier), and not much glamour (unless you were born to sit in pubs and plot the rewiring of the British political system, then actually do something about it). Lots of hands-on techie experience with a high-profile Website, some nice people, and a few mails every day from shell-shocked citizens telling you how brilliant you are. Mail gizzajob@spesh.com and tell us CVish stuff. http://www.faxyourmp.com/ - read the faq! read the faq!

Speculation remains rife over the nature of CHARLIE "TV GO HOME" BROOKER'S new project. Is it some sort of collaboration with fellow enfant terrible Chris Morris? And, as the BBC incisively predicted, might it turn out to be the long-awaited spinoff vehicle for the popular "Joey Tribbiani" character from "Friends"? Brooker himself declined to be interviewed for this story, but a spokesman did provide this statement on his behalf: "We've been doing experimental shooting for a television programme and/or knitwear pattern featuring people and objects, some of which move and some of which don't. Any further information will be provided to NTK in advance of other outlets. Although that won't happen for some time, and might turn out to be a lie." http://www.ntk.net/2003/08/01/dohnat.gif - whaddya mean, "not really been accurate"? http://tvgohome.com/ - not quite the Nathan Barley joke we'd been hoping for

>> ANTI-NEWS << berating the obvious nowadays, no gadget complete without "accidental on/off powering": http://www.ntk.net/2003/08/01/dohpod.gif ... so which ... unfortunate URLs: http://top40.about.com/cs/80shits/ , http://www.therapistfinder.com/ ... "Ream" your disk now: http://www.execsoft.co.uk/html/downloads/diskeeper/update.htm ... Lothian and Borders police deem body found in suitcase "suspicious": http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/3105845.stm ... a torso, yesterday: http://www.ntk.net/2003/08/01/dohtorso.gif ... >> EVENT QUEUE << goto's considered non-harmful In yet another opportunity to combine the words "Linux", "piss-up" and "brewery", next week's LONDON LINUX USER GROUP meeting will be held at THE GREAT BRITISH BEER FESTIVAL (from 5.30pm, Wed 2003-08-06, Badger Beer stand #17, Olympia, event entrance fee UKP6). Although the fixture is technically a "friendly", it's come to be considered vital "limbering up" practice for those who'll go on to represent their country at international level at the LINUXBIERWANDERUNG the following weekend (Sat 2003-08-09 to Sun 2003-08-17, in and around the village of Tajov, Slovakia, basically free though obviously you have to pay for accommodation, beer, etc). Check it out before SCO decide they've patented the idea of getting drunk, and/or walking. http://www.lonix.org.uk/tnet-cgi/Lonix?CODE=userMeetings - mmm: "Italian Focaccia Breads", "Olives and Things" http://lbw2003.anteus.hu/ - where a pint costs just 0.5 Euros (ie, about 35p) http://www.ccc.de/camp/2003/index.en.html - drop by Berlin's Chaos Communication Camp on the way >> TRACKING << sufficiently advanced technology : the gathering VIM reached 6.2 last month. It's a pretty boring version jump (unless you're worried about Bram's Amiga), but NEED TO KNOW THEY STOLE OUR REVOLUTION. NOW WE'RE STEALING IT BACK. Archive - http://www.ntk.net/ Unsubscribe? Mail ntknow-unsubscribe@lists.ntk.net Subscribe? Mail ntknow-subscribe@lists.ntk.net NTK now is supported by UNFORTU.NET, and by you: http://www.ntkmart.com/ (K) 2003 Special Projects. Copying is fine, but include URL: http://www.ntk.net/ Full license at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/1.0 Tips, news and gossip to tips@spesh.com All communication is for publication, unless you beg. Press releases from naive PR people to pr@spesh.com Remember: Your work email may be monitored if sending sensitive material. Sending >500KB attachments is forbidden by the Geneva Convention. Your country may be at risk if you fail to comply.
2:57:20 PM    

From today's GVSM:

Dammit, Jim, it's a format, not an industry: Bit of a dust-up going on in the blogging world these days -- a backlash of sorts against the creeping institutionalization and commercialization of the blogosphere. The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School is hosting BloggerCon 2003 ("Celebrating the art and science of weblogs") on Oct. 4, and attendees will hear from moderator Dave Winer and panels including some familiar A-listers like Glenn Reynolds, Doc Searls and Adam Curry. What rankled some of those invited was that they were also invited to pay $500 for the privilege. Cartoonist August Pollak comments: "Apologies to the 90% of the audience at this thing who will likely be reporters for magazines and websites, their fees paid by their respective editors to Find Out What The Kids Are Up To These Days, but I not only am not going to this thing, but publicly and pre-emptively pity anyone in that remaining 10% who would actually pay that much to do so." Explains Jesse Taylor of Pandagon.net, "The 'art and science' of weblogs generally boils down to getting one and blogging." And Andrew Orlowski at The Register closes out an acid rant by noting: "The medium is not the message. Imagine how tedious newspapers would be if every other story proclaimed 'We use INK!!!' The writers don't care, and the readers don't care, how this message was delivered: but readers do care about quality."

Then check out Orlowski's comments in full: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/32315.html

Hell, I'm a blogger, and Dave Winer's friend too. And I know that all he's trying to do is cover the cost of staging the conference. In this economy, not every institution - not even Harvard, can afford to underwrite the full cots of conferences. The question is, is $500 too much for a one-day thing? And for that matter, how do those other events cover the nut when they charge $75? clearly, someone is either underwriting it or eating it.

Still, I too get nervous about the self-referencing nature of the professional blogging community. I started this blog because I was mad as hell about Bush and the neo-fascists he calls his cronies that a blog was a great medium for spouting forth, the proverbial soap box at Hyde Park corner....

And I was around for the DTP revolution, and the sea of bad typography that it spawned initially, and the heated arguments about it at the time - not so different than what is going on today, only that its the bloggers themselves that are fighting with each other, rather than the NY times duking it out with the Instapundit. Blogging will grow up and become an important alternative medium - in the meanwhile, so what if the majority are the not so inspiring diaries of teenage girls trying to compete with each other by upping the confessional erotic content to new levels. I have a teenage daughter who blogs - I'd rather her be doing that to the wee hours than running around with boys in hot cars.

My advice to everyone - get over yourselves and just get on with your life and your blog.
2:34:54 PM    

DirecTV Defense http://www.directvdefense.org/

Another case of corporate zealotry in defense of intellectual property - and an organization trying to do something to stop it.
1:50:34 PM