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Monday, October 4, 2004 |
According to Steve Ballmer, 'iPod users are music thieves'. Ballmer's company swindles millions of people with its below-standard, bug-ridden software.
As Adam Curry said: "It's going to get interesting when iPods are outlawed and assault rifles are legal."
Isn't it time to file a class suit against Ballmer for defamation?
4:33:29 PM 
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Art critic Reiko Tomeii describing the Experimental Party DisInformation Center: "This imaginary 'ministry' (US DAT) is a work of conceptualism. It offers not so much a self-righteous antigovernment protest as a humorous deconstruction of media culture, which we absorb (and we are made to absorb) in everyday life, often without knowing it. They literally pixelize the news media in their installations, providing an antidote to politics as spectacle."
Deconstruct and pixelize, keep that in mind.
"As a nation and a Party, we must continue to move forward in the 21st century. We must work to incorporate the avant-garde and the spirit of experimentalism into the fabric of our nation. The history of our next hundred years must emerge from the rich mosaic of alternative culture, from the lofts of San Francisco to the barrios of New York City. The Experimental Party is America's last, only hope to bridge the divisions of class, race, region, religion, ethnicity, and sexual orientation.
We will fail if we continue to embrace the principles perpetuated by our current Government of crackpots - the principles of arrogance, abuse of power, personal gain and a frightening lack of charisma. The Experimental Party is committed to a conception of art revolutionized to such a degree that it becomes a politically productive force, coursing through each person, re-ordering the senses, intoxicating the mind, re-shaping the present, in order to meet the tough challenges of tomorrow."
"The US Department of Art and Technology is the principal conduit for facilitating the artist's need to extend aesthetic inquiry into the broader culture where ideas become real action. It also serves the psychological and spiritual well-being of all Americans by supporting cultural efforts that provide immunity from the extension of new media technologies into the social sphere."
Set? Three, two, one... go!
3:20:49 PM
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Bush ponders his future during the presidential debate.
I heard Blair has been treated for a flutter in his heartbeat. To prevent further trouble Blair is envisaging removal of the whole heart. He has come to the conclusion that he functions even better without a heart.
2:54:20 PM
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Guardian: "As first lady, Laura Bush made it a mission to encourage a love of reading, but in her home state of Texas books are often viewed with suspicion, including such classics as Nineteen Eighty-Four and Peter Pan.
In its annual review of state schools and libraries, the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas this week identifies 62 titles that were removed from school libraries during the 2003-04 school year following objections from parents or teachers. Restrictions were placed on an additional 33 books, including George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, following objections from the parent of a ninth grade student."
In the 2002 Report challenged titles were To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee,
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien, A Midsummer Night's Dream by William
Shakespeare, Webster's Dictionary, The Bible, I Know Why the Caged Bird
Sings by Maya Angelou.
"When babies are born to sporting families, dedicated deer hunters start planning ahead for junior's initial trip to the woods. Whether junior is a girl or a boy, a suitable first deer rifle carries the same basic requirements."
Apparently it's easer to buy a gun than borrow a book in Texas.
1:51:43 PM
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