"simplify, reduce, oversimplify." – robert wyatt, "left on man"
odessa (ukraine) compiled: odessaglobe, odessaweb, unipress odessa city guide, from baltic to the black sea (a singaporean in eastern europe), româna pentru cãlãtori (romanian dictionary), odessa photo gallery, wiener zeitung: "die stadt als wille und vorstellung – die schwarzmeermetropole odessa ist vom verfall bedroht".
"die einen sind verführerisch; sie verführen immer. die anderen schwimmen so mit." – michel houellebecq, "l'amour, l'amour"
so this is where mr ken goffman is virtually residing today: revolting.com – the official home of the revolution®. goffman is probably better known as r. u. serious (clever name) and once upon a time was editor-in-chief of mondo2000 magazine. here's a good essay about latter. as far as i understand it, there is the official mondo2000 magazine website but the covers shown there rather look like yet another trendyzeitgeistfashionmusicartyfartymag (but hey! what won't go down the shitshoot after such a long time, especially when there are quite some eccentric people involved...?).
if you are lucky, you can meet one of the former editor's of the original mondo2000 in vienna: morgan russell did "a gonzo-esque account of the chaos computer club kongress in east berlin" which "also mentions the squatters' movement and the foundation for the advancement of il-legal knowledge (akilkno)" (computer underground digest of april 26, 1991). hello morgan, long time no see...
third international graduate and postgraduate conference of postmodern productions: text - power - knowledge. november 24-26, 2000 at university of erlangen. abstracts and papers to all conferences since 1998.
gosh, that reminds me of dean and nigel... (btw: i ordered one of their calendars. good gift for the next occasion).
jakob for president! – found via scripting news / webvoice.
latter has a really cool tool section: equill is a nice little utility to markup web pages and share them with other people. athoc adds a customizable toolbar to the browser. however, both seem to work only with win/ie (version 5 i guess)...
world-information.org – the effort of replacing one scary moloch of institutionalized information with another: "building the new information order" = new order, old habits. how does it feel to be "director general" (general? excuse me?) of a "world information organization"?
"power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." – lord j.e.e. dalberg-acton, 1834–1902
dots, lines, shapes and their algorithmic re-moves – interactive visuals (including political pop-up).