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May 22, 2003
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let me make something clear, since it's already come in email. oona didn't get banned for being naive, stupid, or childish. the regular commenters fall into those categories 3-4 times a day. oona got banned for doing something she was told not to. told a few times. told in private and public. the law was laid down, and she chose not to listen. oddly enough, it pissed me off more to have to ban her. it's been suggested that i just suspend her for a while. i fail to see why. if she was told 3 times not to do something, what''s going to stop her from doing it again after suspension? she already agreed to not do it three times...
i'm not running the bathroom wall at pergolesi or no exit. i'm running and publishing a small newspaper. i don't own the press, i borrow someone else's press. and i (strangely enough) have a world wide readership. there's a wealth of things i can't talk about, in terms of todays political climate, in terms of a web spider that scans this site regularly and violates our intellectual property in the name of preserving and protecting other peoples brands and intellectual property. i can't afford to put my borrowed presses in jeopardy. back in the day, i would have pointed her at the netiquette faq, that lovely little amy vanderbuilt guide to online behaviour (archived at eff.org.) but the net got hit by 11 billion 747's full of oonas (well, to honest, with a lot of oonas, and much more of much worse). so i told her what not to do. it's been suggested she did it out of naivete, but i can't see how. not listening isn't naivete. it's maliciousness.
so it goes.
opera released version 6.02 for mac os x today. bout time...
one of the things you can use a blog for is your own personal annotated footnotes/bookmarks.
her's some of mine swiped from various blogs.
Roxio Buys Pressplay, Napster Lives.
AP: Roxio Buys Pressplay, Napster Lives. What a sad end for the Napster name. [Hack the Planet] pressplay was the DRM crippledmusic download site built by a consortium of big record companies. thsi should give apple a run. this might also tank, pressplay had no market share, and the napster name, also owned by roxio is synonymous with free...
love is in the air: some of the blogosphere's main men are getting married. zeldman (jeffrey zeldman presents), daniel berlinger (archipelago,) have anounced and mark pilgrim who just got married (diveinto mark.)
FCC deadline nears
In any other western democracy, it would be the subject of intense public debate and 72pt newspaper headlines. But this revolution is not being televised...
One more presidential accomplishment
Here's something else W can add to his presidential resume: He is the first president to know how to roll a joint with one hand....
NY Times on Blogging and Privacy
Warren St. John has a good article in the NY Times today about what blogs are doing to privacy....
Name Go Boom
NASA's Deep Impact crashes into the Comet Tempel 1, in July of 2005. Now you can have your name inscribed on a disk that gets incinerated in the explosion. It's a can't-fail gift for both the complete egotist or terminally depressed loved on! [Thanks for the link, Mary Lu.]...
Who else is blogging about this link?
Luke Hutteman: SharpReader 0.9.0.2 has been released. I love this new
feature. I see Jon is blogging about Lupy. Who else has been talking
about Lupy recently? Why Abe Fettig, of course. Sort of a local cosmos
at your fingertips.
Weblog Search
Looks to me like Dave Winer's Weblog Search effectively behaves the same
as Intertwingly's search. Compare: ScriptingNews with Intertwingly.
Dave's search is based on Google. Mine on Swish++. Both display the full
weblog entries of any matches in reverse chronological order.
Serval, an aggregator with Whuffie
John Beimler: I've given the aggregator a concept of whuffie. I can give
any item that has been aggregated a thumbs up or thumbs down, increasing
or decreasing the item and site's wuffie. I sort the sites out as I
display them by their whuffie. It is a simplistic way of keeping the
sites I'm interested in at the top of the list. I'd like to wire in a
Bayesian classifier too, and see if that helps me get the items I like
to the top.
NewsGator 1.2
Greg Reinacker: Tomorrow, May 20, 2003, everything changes. Drool...
Posted by parody at May 22, 2003 10:45 PM
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. . . BUTT, everything people write is so boring of babbling technical nothing-ness in this non-existenting life. where are the jacks & nelsons who are lost in their own cities? do the jacks & nelsons still exist or am i too lost, myself, to find them? am i a "lost cause" (beck) who will never find the reality of my dreams? all i really want is a little poetry in this mundane "world of monsters" (the drovers).
i'm sorry to dream of poetry, finding the love of words from strangers' mysterious lips.
au revoir.
Posted by: lost soul at May 23, 2003 08:33 AM
reminds me of a few stories...
a guy i knew when i was a kid who went with me to another friends house to watch monster movie week ont eh 3:30 movie (a former staple of daytime tv.) all week he griped non stop about the movies, how stupid they were. finally on friday he tried to get our host to change channels, during the climatic mothra vs the creeping blortch battle. our host exploded at him, he yelled back that he hated monster movies. i asked him why the hell he had spent all week coming over to watch monster movies. he also hated italian food, specifically pizza. guess who was always going out for pizza with us...
the other story is much longer, but can be shortened to this: another guy i knew got busted in highschool for cribing. every paper he had handed in for years had been stolen from somewhere, sometimes not even rewriting. his excuse was that all the good words were taken. that struck me as original and nifty, and i told him so later. he told me he had cribed that line form a movie, but never told me which one...
either way, o looker for love in all the wrong places, when someone asks you to knock it off, knock it off. anything else is just malicousness. it's not dreaming of poetry, it's smearing shit on wall.
Posted by: yawn at May 23, 2003 10:59 AM
We all do worse then live through someoneslese's words. Although poetry should be created by one's self and not wait around for someone else to do it for them.
Change. Coos Bay never changes. It pretty much stays the same. It sucks, but it makes for a real relaxed lifestyle, but also petty mediorcre people and culture.
Posted by: Oakey at May 23, 2003 02:25 PM
sigh. i'm probably going to have to ban all of iit except for hairball. talk about moronic and malicious. "your a doody head who has a boring technical website, so i'm not going to listen to you!" and "your a poo poo dictator!"
yup.
and your a nasty little girl who came over to my house and wrote on the walls, and kept doing it when your were told not to.
Posted by: ffej at May 25, 2003 02:40 AM
i'm sorry.
Posted by: sad girl at May 27, 2003 06:57 PM