Revisionism.
July 26th, 2004
I just got the most unusual piece of spam from palmOne about my essay, “requiem for having been”, about the acquisition of Be, Inc. by Palm, Inc.
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Archive for July 26th, 2004
Bookmarks, part XXI
July 26th, 2004
This afternoon’s surviving tabs: April 21 Doonesbury in which B.D. is revealed to have lost both his leg and his signature helmet in Iraq … Salon on Alan Moore: The Man Who Invented The Future … The Atlantic: A Jewish Palestine (H. Sacher, 1919) … Building a bridge to the 19th century … A Softer World … Sulfnbk Syndrome … OSX networking in detail … The Parrot Developers Give Up.
“his fiancee’s iBook was badly damaged when it was pried apart with a screwdriver…”
July 26th, 2004
“His online friendship with other Stargate fans across the globe was portrayed as an international conspiracy against the MPAA. And perhaps most disturbing of all, it was later revealed that the FBI invoked a provision of the USA Patriot Act to obtain financial records from his ISP.” Read about the brave new world of copyright law as applied to SG1Archive.com.
McSweeney’s 13
July 26th, 2004
Oh, by the way, in addition to Hackers &
Painters, I now need to pick up McSweeney’s
#13, The Comics Issue (which the Guardian has thoughtfully reviewed for our convenience).
CounterStrike Ladies, etc.
July 26th, 2004
Viddy these delicious gaming links. Girl gaming:
CounterStrike Ladies at the Electronic Sports World Cup finals [shown: team the Brazil (L) and Sweden (R)]; Women’s Gaming Conference announced; k5 detours into the world of professional competitive gaming. Also I would like to point out to Erin that I think I’m ready to take you on again in Soul Calibur II. (I’ll bring the katana; you bring the whip.)
Coming soon to a theater near you … rhubarb pie
July 26th, 2004
<darryl> | Recalling a bygone day when popular radio shows were often translated to the screen, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported Saturday that Minnesota Public Radio’s A Prairie Home Companion will become director Robert Altman’s next movie.
<em> yay Robert Altman!
<dsandler> A Prairie Home Companion?
<dsandler> It .. uh, it has no plot!
<dsandler> Unless it’s the silver-screen version of “Guy Noir, Private Eye”.
<ctate> Guy Noir, Private Eye
<ctate> grr timing
<dsandler> Possibly with Beep-Bop A Ree-Bop interstitials.
<dsandler> I’d pay $7 just to see a trailer for the Ketchup Advisory Board.
