06/26/04 01:19 - ID#34119

bring a hankey

that is all

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04/19/04 11:07 - ID#34118

konspire[2b] crafty

has ne1 tried MUTE or konspire[2b]? MUTE is a super secure and anonymous P2P filesharing client and konspire[2b] is a broadcast solution. exciting stuff. here's a link...

Konspire[2b]http://konspire.sourceforge.net/

MUTE

Oh yeah, and the more crafty among you may be interested in this thing I just heard about: the iTMS-4-All Script.

Downhill Battle (http://www.downhillbattle.org/itmsscript/index.html) has released a script that allows users to surf the iTunes music store as if they're using iTunes. The creators want people to use the script in developing opensource applications. They suggest adding the ability for people using opensource filesharing clients like MUTE to use the iTunes interface to call up album and artist information as well as 30 second preview clips of songs found on P2P networks. Wow.

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03/25/04 10:36 - ID#34117

Torrential

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04/01/04 11:09 - ID#34116

the passion of shawnR

In 6th grade I was kicked out of the Catholic church and CCD in my hometown for drawing cat butts in the CCD workbooks and asking provocative questions in class. But it was the cat butt that pushed me over the limit...

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03/30/04 10:56 - ID#34115

Google Poems

Sarah and I are playing with Google a lot these days. I just started playing around with the Google Web API and created this Google Poem Generator. Check it out here:


Have fun with it...

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03/25/04 11:35 - ID#34114

Fat Bush

I wanted to make a banner for (e:strip), so I thought, well, who should be on it except the president? Of course! So I made him good and porky and put it into the banner. But then it got little and I thought I'd post the bigger version. Took me about 20 minutes to make the president fat like this... whee! No clone, stamp, or brush tools used...

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03/10/04 10:32 - ID#34113

controVERSEy

Wow, drop out for a week and the whole world goes topsy-turvy. I just got the whole rundown from Paul the other night, and I have to say that on the one hand I'm incredibly shocked at some folks' vindictive behavior, and on the other hand, it's just like the Internet. While I don't discount the technical hassle of dealing with trolls (people out to start problems on a website or forum), I do wonder about the appropriate ways to deal with this. Of course, I'm not writing this to criticize anything, simply to engage the issue...

Andy Cline wrote this great essay that used to be available on his website ( ). Unfortunately, it looks like he's left that school and the document is unavailable.

I'll summarize based on an essay I wrote discussing his approach. He endorsed the Platonic (read: Socratic) approach to dealing with flames and inappropriate posts on class-based discussion groups. I think the same principles can work here. If (e:s) is a site based on building community and social interaction, then the Socratic method of questioning the offending poster could be of some use. The idea is that the group self-censures based on group desire. Rather than deleting or ignoring an inflammatory post, the poster is questioned by members of the group until they either give a legitimate explanation of their view (hard to do in cases of pure trolling) or else they will eventually recant in the face of group pressure.

I'm not saying that this approach can satisfy all situations. And there is the possibility that a more technically savvy attack could be executed against (e:s) in response to topics posted here, and then the Socratic method isn't going to be of much help. But I think it's useful to contemplate all forms of dealing with issues; not just technical restrictions, but group behaviors we could work to develop, too...

my $.02...

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03/09/04 09:59 - ID#34112

Beware the Ides of March

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03/01/04 11:11 - ID#34111

Bill Murray was ROBBED

Man, what kind of moron could vote Sean Penn over Bill Murray?!? I think Lost in Translation was an amazing film, incredibly well-done on all parts, and Bill Murray deserved it. Did you see the look on his face just after they called Penn's name? He was crushed. You could see it from the longshots... The man did good.

I love that my affections this year were split between the cheapest film in the Awards and the most expensive. I'm very glad Peter Jackson got his due recognition, although I'm also sad that Coppola didn't get Director - sure, it's a dynasty, but how can you argue with Virgin Suicides and Lost in Translation? The woman is doing good things. I guess we haven't seen the last of either of these two.

OK, back to being pissed about Bush...

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02/26/04 06:50 - ID#34110

the good old days my a$$

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