dsandler.org/wp

What is this crap?

NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of
America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution
and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim October 26 through
November 1, 2003, as Protection From Pornography Week. I call upon
public officials, law enforcement officers, parents, and all the people
of the United States to observe this week with appropriate programs and
activities.

OK, here’s my appropriate activity for the week:

Look, it was art, but now, because I said so, it’s been reduced
to just pornography! Protect yourself now, while you still can!

I dressed up dsandler.org a little bit for the holiday. (It’s kind of
a tradition for websites to put on costumes for Halloween.) I think I’ll
leave it up for a few days. [If you’re using a browser that lets you pick
from multiple alternate stylesheets, like Mozilla, you can switch between the
Halloween theme and the usual theme at any time. In Mozilla, click on the
crayon box in the lower left-hand corner of your browser window.]

daapd, a server
for the iTunes music sharing protocol. Share your music library without
running iTunes!

Wondering what happened to bOING
bOING?

We’re having server problems and working on them — I hope to be
up in a day or so again, but it’s exacerbated by my crazy travel
schedule.

Please direct your friends to this note, and ask for their forebearance
in sending email asking what’s up with Boing Boing. I’m getting several
hundred of these a day, and it’s gotten so that answering those
messages is actively interfering with my efforts to reestablish
service.

In the meantime, we’re still blogging, and the mailblog still works:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boingboing-mailblog/
posted by doctorow at 1:36 PM

PST
on October 30

15:44:00 up 3 min, 1 user, load average: 0.93, 0.46, 0.18

10:18:02 up 4 min, 1 user, load average: 1.08, 0.56, 0.22

Nick Montfort: “I must promote the new slogan I came up with for
beleagured voting machine company Diebold: ‘Live Free or
Diebold’.”