seriously bored? (or boring?) talk to artificial life's alife bots. and try to be polite. or better: try asking luci to "get naked" one or two times...
no clouds across the moon tonight here in vienna, so i can see it very well: the total eclipse of the moon january 9, 2001.
reminds me of a tacky tune my sister liked so much when she was younger:
"now when i look at the clouds across the moon here in the night i just hope and pray that soon oh baby, you'll hurry home to me" – the rah band, "clouds across the moon"
a nice collection of windows software programmed by gregory braun.
pind's dot com: "why macromedia director sucks and what to do about it (oct, 1999)" – and many more challenging thoughts about software technology.
bse in europe – waiting for the first case in austria. waiting for the first bse symptoms at pork, sheep, chicken, horses, cats and dogs (humans get creutzfeld-jacob, huhuh). waiting for milk products being under suspect, too. waiting for chocolate (beef blood as color pigment) and many other sweets (gelatine made of beef bones) to be analyzed.
does it make anybody nervous that of all human body parts it is the brain that gets desastrously damaged by bse? is this the consequence of its ever-growing intellectual engagement to create, control and extinct, the debt of its saturnine ideas to be paid with its own existence? sell my soul but keep me rational – nevermore!
alternatives? artificial intelligence? might be too late then (any progress since 1941?)... genetic engineering? promising, at least another havoc... space, the final frontier? it is already 2001 and we're still stuck in the orbit...
preaching the body apocalypse and drinking the beast's blood. irony's child.
is this online journalism? and if it is: is it a good example? bettina röhl is ulrike meinhof's daughter. ulrike meinhof was a member of the raf, the german "city guerrilla" of the sixties. joschka fischer sympathised with the raf and just recently admitted what everybody knew already: he once was a militant leftist. now bettina röhl knows how to compare a picture of fischer with a picture of hitler. no doubt, germany is still captured between the terror from the right and the terror from the left. however, it's not a question of left or right, it's a question of terror. die deutsche frage continued (not solved).
i prefer reading magazines when they are available as print: most of their online siblings are really crappy (especially de:bug and der spiegel). that's as far as i can support arne boecker's memento (and that's as far as i can link to le sofa blog).
good online journalism is scarce, but maybe weblogs were born out of quite a different idea. means: "the net is not a journalistic medium" only if a few weblogs do make the whole net. but that is crap just like most of the puns in that epic statement. understanding media today means understanding that there is way enough space for the individual and that every peculiarity is just one of an infinite number of niches in the web (commercial sites are no exception).
weblogs about "red haired women", "the disappearing of boredom" or "myanmar" (whatever it might be) are easy to imagine. maybe they are already somewhere out there (i suggest only the "tappsys" blog has to be created, yet). one just has to find them. and that's again a reason for weblogs to exist. because they can help searching. they are here. but they are hard to see if one still is looking into the bright flashes of mass media myth. blog is pop popo is a blog!
there is help helping blogger: hannes already has a working paypal account and offers to use it for local bloggers who do not want to go through the paynful registering process or who own a mastercard. just mail to hannes and let him know how much you want to pay and how he is getting the cash from you in return.
btw: the first of the two new servers is already there – meg, matt and helge schneider with their new linux box. speed is just around the corner.
christine zmönig's articles gain some momentum in the web world: tim orchard mills refers to "skip intro" in his research project's bibliography about "authoring and design". quintus.org once included a link to the same article in their list of sites about flash usability (i just wonder why they removed it later). and even philosopher's are happy to link to "copyright or the right to copy?" when it's about locke and intellectual property. greetings to london, it was nice to talk!
"due to changes we are making to our site, we are currently unable to process your mastercard registration. we expect to have this functionality fixed by the first week of january. we apologize for the inconvenience." – how grrrrreat! this way i cannot help blogger funding their money! paypal is really cool but this turns me off completely.