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May 26, 2003
a growing excited show
see o'malley as you've seen seen him before: e-x-t-e-n-d-e-d.
more things we've recently missed:
the eu wants to track all the euros. literally, using those soon to ubiquitis RFID tags. yup. little radio trancievers on all your money. yeah, to fight counterfiting. sure.
wired on tim berners-lee father of the web, and the word wide web consortium's meeting in Hungary. patents and webs standards.
anatomy of the FCC ownership rules change. who wants the new rules, why, how it effects you. executive summary: single ownership of the media is easier for government control of content. fight the power, er, powell.
this from the NY times:
"But more than jobs have been lost. To listen to Mr. Engelbart that day almost five years ago was to realize that the computer industry, when it started, was not simply about becoming a chief executive or retiring on stock options at 35. It was to remember that real innovation — the stuff that made computers so much more than "crummy factors of production" — comes from mysterious places, wild people, dreamers and tinkerers, and to remember all the skepticism they had to endure."
aaron is good today.
NY times on dating a blogger.
news you can abuse:
Acclaimed Honda ad in copycat row
Media: Two artists threaten legal action against Honda UK, saying the company's latest ad is a rip-off of their award-winning film.
EU awaits charter of rights
More constitutional proposals to be published - including rights charter likely to be opposed by Tony Blair. {the rest of the world hasn't caught up to what we just abandoned.}
Refugee sews up his lips, eyes and ears
Refugees: Iranian Kurd given asylum three weeks ago protests at Home Office appeal against the ruling. {everyone wants to be in showbiz.}
US 'pays offshore firms $1bn'
Firms which have moved offshore to avoid US taxes net a billion dollars a year from US government contracts, an AP investigation finds. {your tax dollars at work}
phil is talking about the best email virus delivery system yet. just wait until someone develops a blog comments delivery system...
Posted by parody at May 26, 2003 09:23 PM
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The scientific community has changed our life more in this century than any parliament, and yet it feels obliged to justify nothing.
Posted by: John Ralston Saul at May 27, 2003 10:45 AM
Nope. Nothing can't be justified, you need something to justify. Then you can left, right or center justify.
Posted by: Nullen Void at May 27, 2003 10:59 AM
Funny how touchy those artists get about their creations. In the case of the Honda ad, they claim rights in the very concept of filming a long chain reaction of objects, 'though they acknowledge the objects involved are entirely different.
They're wrong, of course. Unlike, say, Madonna, who is well within her recognized rights griping about file-sharing.
Posted by: Jerry at May 27, 2003 04:16 PM
Fuck those guys, and fuck Honda. I did it first, and funnier too.
Posted by: Rube Goldberg at May 27, 2003 05:05 PM
i'm sorry.
Posted by: sad girl at May 27, 2003 06:58 PM
oona, by posting "i'm sorry" to all this weeks posts, you haven't endeared yourself to me, you've actually gone and pissed me off royally. i consider your behaviour malicous harrasement.
grumble. against my better judgement, you and i are going to have to sit down and have a short conversation about this, which means i talk and you don't run away in the middle of the sentence.
Posted by: ffej at May 27, 2003 09:36 PM
But, Hondas definately beat Toyotas.
Posted by: Car Dealer at May 29, 2003 12:21 PM