Saturday, May 11, 2002

as i was saying ......

... made up of dust mite faeces
posted by a hymn in g to nann , 10:02 PM Þ 

kipple fact ( ta barrie ) : half the weight of a two-year old pillow is likely to be made up of
posted by a hymn in g to nann , 9:50 PM Þ 

RC2 doesnt break Mozblog or Enigmoz, thankfully.

Electronical sounds good...what are you doing with this stuff chris?
posted by Irdial , 8:56 PM Þ 

Mozilla 1.0rc2 is out! Get! gpg 1.0.7 is out! GET!!! NOW!!!
Popular nicknames for me have been "The Blade," "Barrel," "Barreh," "Bear," and "Burgermeister." I don't know why.

The kipple theory, which is in the book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?," states that no matter how much humans try to build on nature and keep things clean, kipple - dust, garbage, dandelions growing in the cracks in concrete, etc - will always win.
posted by Barrie , 7:12 PM Þ 

ChrisCrisis (old g/f fave)
Oi! (dads fave)
posted by chriszanf , 5:53 PM Þ 

it seems so!
tried to clear cache from browser and moved files from HD but still comes up ok. called friend to check but he says its dead as well. i'm not a coder by trade
posted by chriszanf , 5:41 PM Þ 

chris, your audio links are dead

BigEars
posted by a hymn in g to nann , 5:38 PM Þ 

Nicknames:

JamJar
Jarbag
CombineJarvister
posted by chriszanf , 5:19 PM Þ 

I just got my Team Blogdial shirt, very nice.
I don't need a morgenbajer, I choose to sleep it out. Was here yesterday: http://www.groeften.dk/engelsk/startframe.htm

My favourite nicknames are as follows:
▪ Tossen
▪ Es (not ecstacy related)
▪ Morfar

I havn't been posting a lot lately, I know. Been too busy at work and romantically involved. Take care out there.
posted by Claus Eggers , 5:14 PM Þ 

My site is now up and I would appreciate your feedback. cheers!!

www.electronical.org
posted by chriszanf , 4:39 PM Þ 

my brother calls me jason and mike o j simpsons for some reason. other than that, i dont really have a nickname.
posted by Mikkel , 4:08 PM Þ 

I need a morgenbajer/frühtrunk/reparationbeer. YES.
Hair of the dog.

My nicknames over the years:
  • Beep
  • Basil
  • longdrawnview
    • posted by Irdial , 2:56 PM Þ 

    CUBICLE MAN: Able to ignore work at the speed of light.

    Holy shit, I was drunk last night. Me, me bro & a common friend got 2 bottles of cheap vodka and proceeded to chug it down in the course of 4 hours. And beer. Beer beer beer. ARgh.

    Nicknames rule. We dont do that the same way here. No bobbing the roberts or dicking the richards. The nicknames are like so, there's boxer martin, mulle (martin), little-johnny, taxa-johnny, copenhagen-johnny, etc. hehe. shit.

    I need a morgenbajer/frühtrunk/reparationbeer. YES.
    posted by Mikkel , 2:39 PM Þ 

    goodness, we almost collided mid-air
    posted by a hymn in g to nann , 11:26 AM Þ 

    "Baz" is something that people with the name "Barry" get called by people who have lived too long in the UK. It is in no way related to "Spazz" though someone named "Baz" could of course be a Spazz.

    The double "Z" should really mean that "Spazz" is prounounced "Spatz", the plural of "Spat", (fight not spit). But then, thats for Italians.
    posted by Irdial , 11:25 AM Þ 

    Chris

    no, I haven't ; i think something would be needed to distract people from the barren situation into which they'd been dumped, maybe a gang of genetically engineered kylies, but really thought the whole premise of colonisation could be used as a smokescreen for a general clearing out of an over-inflated population, without actually landing anywhere .... maybe you could promote mars as a retirement colony ....... now that we're getting pretty good at measuring the precise trajectories of asteroids, we could send people into the paths of those that might present a danger to Earth at some point in the future, thereby providing a solution to two problems simultaneously .... i wonder if anyone is costing it as we speak ?

    what's the kipple theory mr b ?
    posted by a hymn in g to nann , 11:25 AM Þ 

    Thanks for the reccommendation, akin. It's on my list.
    "Baz?" That's weird, someone I chat with from Australia calls me "Bazza."
    Mikkel, the double post has been removed... blame blogger or my isp for acting completely flaky, just like your sorry ass. *kiss*

    As for Philip K. Dick... I think the "kipple theory" is one of the most true observations every made.
    posted by Barrie , 10:53 AM Þ 

    Anthony,

    A while ago you posted about the rich using us 'mere minions' to colonise space.
    Have you read Philip K. Dick 'The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch'?
    It's about colonising the moon and various planets and the pacification of the colonisers with drugs (and then a consequent drug war). Even a 'Barbie' type doll, called 'Perky Pat', gets a look-in!
    posted by chriszanf , 10:31 AM Þ 

    Chiptunes ]I[ is the sequel to Chip Tunes ][.
    And it is totally awesome.


    Please and Thankyou:

    No posting of ANYTHING RELATED TO STAR WARS "ATTACK OF THE CLONES" UNTIL AFTER IT IS OUT.

    If you want a shortwave radio Baz,



    This one is $170 and does everything you need.
    http://www.rnw.nl/realradio/icf-sw7600gr.html
    posted by Irdial , 9:05 AM Þ 

    Bravo barreh fuckjar (love you). Doubleposting punk.
    posted by Mikkel , 4:26 AM Þ 
    Friday, May 10, 2002

    May I ask, pray tell, what is Chip Tunes ]I[ ?

    Also, may I ask, what can one recommend what SW Radio would be best for me (w/ SSB)? I am considering the low-cost Sangean model. I ask because I need to start saving and making a budget *now*.

    I noticed that some of the stuff on my "Numbers" mp3 is actually what I think to be CB communications - sounds like conversation, but is so badly distorted it loses any coherant meaning. Sounds VERY cool.
    posted by Barrie , 10:27 PM Þ 


    I just got the master tape for Chip Tunes ]I[
    It's a true masterpiece.
    I whooped.
    I wept.
    posted by Irdial , 8:26 AM Þ 

    posted by captain davros , 12:18 AM Þ 
    Thursday, May 09, 2002

    http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/gi/hepB.html

    Treatment
    Alpha-interferons were the first drugs approved in the United States for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B. Interferon treatment is recommended for individuals who have "replicative disease" (HBeAg positive). About 40% of such individuals will lose serum HBeAg after 16 weeks of treatment with interferon-alpha. Loss of HBeAg is correlated with an improved prognosis. A few treated patients (less than 10%) may even be cured as assessed by the loss of HBsAg.

    Patients treated with interferon-alpha should have evidence of infection with hepatitis B virus, documented by the presence of hepatitis B surface antigen in the blood, for six months. The patients should also have evidence of virus replication, documented by the presence of hepatitis B e antigen in the blood. Ongoing inflammation of the liver should also be present as documented by an elevation in serum aminotransferase activities. A liver biopsy should also be performed prior to treatment. Patients with severe, decompensated liver disease (eg. encephalopathy, ascites, very high serum bilirubin, prolonged prothrombin time, etc.) should not generally be treated with interferon alfa except in the setting of an approved clinical study.

    The recommended dose of interferon alfa-2b for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B is 5,000,000 units daily, administered by subcutaneous or intramuscular injection, for a total of 16 weeks. The patient must be monitored carefully during the treatment period for side effects including flu-like symptoms, depression, rashes, other reactions and abnormal blood counts.

    A meta-analysis of several randomized trials of interferon alfa-2b in the treatment of patients with chronic hepatitis B showed such treatment to be cost-effective (Wong et al. Annals Intern. Med. 1995;122:664-675). This analysis showed that treatment with interferon alfa-2b decreased viral replication, documented by loss of serum hepatitis B e antigen, in about 45% of patients compared to less than 10 % of untreated patients. About 8% of patients also lost hepatitis B virus surface antigen (cured) within one year of treatment compared to a rate of about 1% a year for untreated patients.

    Other promising treatment options for chronic hepatitis B include nucleoside analogues. In December, 1998, the United States Food and Drug Administration approved lamivudine , also known as 3TC and is also effective against HIV, for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B (patients who are HBeAg positive). Lamivudine is taken orally at 100 mg/day for chronic hepatitis B. In studies where they were compared, lamivudine was equally effective to interferon-alpha in inducing a loss of serum HBeAg. It also has been shown to improve liver biopsy results in patients treated for one year. At the present time, other nucleoside analogues are being studied in clinical trials. The combination of interferon-alpha and a nucleodide analogue such as lamivudine is also under investigation.
    posted by Irdial , 11:58 PM Þ 

    ADJ just emailed me this news. Need to think.

    Hepatitis B
    posted by Irdial , 11:49 PM Þ 

    don't you run into issues with an editable database that any user can manipulate? has that been considered? there are people out there who might just want to flush the entire link files...just because they can.

    Ummm we are smarter than that.
    posted by Irdial , 11:48 PM Þ 

    [ht] all database manipulation will be performed by the script. the user has no direct influence, all his actions are sent to the script, which makes sure they aren't dangerous, and then performs the relevant actions on the database. this is not wiki. an entry can only be deleted after having amassed enough downvotes, and i intend to make it hard for the same user to abuse the voting system. it will depend on testing to see what it takes.
    posted by Mikkel , 9:15 PM Þ 

    posted by Mess Noone , 9:01 PM Þ 

    From Andrew McKenzie on the Hafler Trio list:-

    I have been diagnosed with Hepatitis B, which at the present time of
    writing is incurable. the treatment I need is unobtainable without
    money. due to the machinations of the people I have worked for, who
    will not recognise the state I am in, I'm forced to accept this
    situation, and make alternative arrangements. the prognosis it 3
    months from now. the end. how sad. never mind.

    in order to attempt provide a modicum of support to my three
    children, I am offering my extensive h3o archive for sale. any
    interested parties please email me as soon as as is convenient.

    in dulce jubilo

    /a
    posted by Mess Noone , 8:27 PM Þ 

    Thanks for the link, Akin! I'm planning to get, among other things, an SSB radio this summer so i can actually make usefull recordings/notes.
    And I must re-iterate that "The Buzzer" is the scariest thing EVAR.

    What the hell? They cut out a 1 second headbutt to make it PG? That's fucking retarded! Is a headbutt going to make kids cry or something?
    posted by Barrie , 8:00 PM Þ 

    hey george george, you suck.

    george lucas lost me a long long time ago. left me hanging! the entire
    underbelly of the wonderful starwars episode IV(1976) was lost to advertising
    revenues and suburban sellouts. even with the empire strikes' it
    lost so much vibe so much of what made it mysterious. my good friend
    back then "stan"(i miss him with his super wry sense of humor) said that
    starwars was nothing but "cute vs evil". and after those
    pathetic ewoks, i tend to agree. I DON"T NEED MY SCI-FI TO PANDER
    TO ME!!!!! no offense but i could care less about this new 'attack of the
    clones'. actually wait....attack of the clones; my sentiments exactly!!!

    bite it george you rich sellout! why do we have to settle for crap just because
    the effects are so great. so what!!! i want story!!! isn't that the problem with
    the creative arts. no substance? how can i support the same thing on such
    a grand scale. and on top of that it's 15$!! they can fuck off because that is
    not a part of society i want to be a member of. burn hollywood burn!!

    HT>>don't you run into issues with an editable database that any user can
    manipulate? has that been considered? there are people out there who
    might just want to flush the entire link files...just because they can. perhaps
    i am not too sure on how it works exactly. also is it keeping a database? like in a text
    file or something....like dns; a mapping? or is it just searching meta content better?
    forgive me but i am very unclear on these points.
    posted by john , 7:59 PM Þ 
    posted by Irdial , 5:33 PM Þ 

    This is an amazing time line leading up to and then following sept11 with facts that are just too INSANE to believe:

    http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/02_11_02_lucy.html

    27. September 6-7, 2001 - 4,744 put options (a speculation that the stock will go down) are purchased on United Air Lines stock as opposed to only 396 call options (speculation that the stock will go up). This is a dramatic and abnormal increase in sales of put options. Many of the UAL puts are purchased through Deutschebank/AB Brown, a firm managed until 1998 by the current Executive Director of the CIA, A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard. [Source: The Herzliyya International Policy Institute for Counterterrorism, http://www.ict.org.il/, September 21; The New York Times; The Wall Street Journal.]

    28. September 10, 2001 - 4,516 put options are purchased on American Airlines as compared to 748 call options. [Source: ICT - above]

    29. September 6-11, 2001 - No other airlines show any similar trading patterns to those experienced by UAL and American. The put option purchases on both airlines were 600% above normal. This at a time when Reuters (September 10) issues a business report stating, "Airline stocks may be poised to take off."

    30. September 6-10, 2001 - Highly abnormal levels of put options are purchased in Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, AXA Re(insurance) which owns 25% of American Airlines, and Munich Re. All of these companies are directly impacted by the September 11 attacks. [Source: ICT, above; FTW, Vol. IV, No.7, October 18, 2001, http://www.fromthewilderness.com/
    members/oct152001.html. ]


    it just goes on and on...
    posted by Josh Carr , 4:35 PM Þ 

    posted by Irdial , 1:57 PM Þ 

    For those that are interested (and can find the picture I loaded below), I made the third skull print on the right using OpenOffice - it has a drawing program which is pretty cack but allows you to render nearly everything in 3d, which is not so cack. It's not Blender, but it's a whole lot easier!
    posted by captain davros , 1:51 PM Þ 

    Speed.
    posted by Irdial , 12:12 PM Þ 

    At the risk of sounding stoopid.... can I get a quick summary of what's going on with the HT thing and what the final aim is, if any in particular.


    The aim of HT is to create a human made linked database of all objects on the web, where every picture, website, sound and file is linked to another, by virtue of its being related to another object.

    For example, there are many pictures of Marylin Monroe online, all of them with different, non descriptive filenames. If they were all linked together with HT, then once you found one of them in our database, you would then have a linked list of all pictures of Marylin Monroe.

    Searching for any file, idea or website with HT returns lists of related objects for you to sift through. This means that when you search for "schoolgirl clothing" with HT, and hit a result that deals with exactly that, you will only have a list of sites related to that exact subject, without any unrelated results, like japanese upskirt porn, that uses the same wording.

    A database like this would be very valuable, and we can rent it to search engines so that they can filter results. People will add to it to help thier sites visibility. If only webmasters use HT, it will become hugely powerful.

    Since the public can rate, add and delete from the database, we will not have millions of dead links like other hand made and maintained databases.

    We need to:

    We need to build a windows client that works like the Google Toolbar or the Iwon toolbar.

    We need to build a Mozilla client to include the millions of MacOS and Linux users.

    And finally,

    We need to put everthing on a co-lo server (we have this) so that the stress testing and further development can be done.
    posted by Irdial , 10:56 AM Þ 

    "Get your fucking poop in a group man. Straight your shit up."
    slang of the day
    posted by Irdial , 9:53 AM Þ 

    A couple of things. At the risk of sounding stoopid.... can I get a quick summary of what's going on with the HT thing and what the final aim is, if any in particular. Is there anything for a bored immunologist to do? Testing?
    Mary 13, I like the semiotics thing. There are so many (physical) signs in my labs, and at least 95% of them are ignored...

    Familiarity breeds contempt. Or, you learn what you can get away with in dealing with a perceived 'risk'.

    Er. There was more, but somebody is kicking the inside of my head with hob-nailed boots and its a tad difficult to concentrate. Which is a shame, as I have to write a paper now.

    I will get my hi-fi back (replaced) in a couple of weeks. Oh the yearning.
    posted by Alun , 9:53 AM Þ 

    http://rover.vistecprivat.de/~signals/DIG_intro.htm

    Barry, take a look at this site...

    Some fantastic recordings...
    posted by Irdial , 8:00 AM Þ 

    From my homepage:

    5.08.02

    About a year ago, I couldn't sleep one night because it was very, very hot. Actually that was very contrary to the current very cold for the season weather. I was up at around 3 AM, exhausted and dripping with sweat, I decided to troll for Numbers Stations on the only shortwave radio I had (and still have) access to - a shitty JVC "compact stereo system." I recorded the stations with my Sony mini-tape recorder. Here is the full 2-hour tape, which you can download here. It's a nice 53 megabyte file in mp3. Some of it is actually number (morse or noise) stations, while some is just shortwave noise that my heat-addled brain thought had patterns to them. Anyway, it was interesting.
    posted by Barrie , 3:07 AM Þ 

    i hear you mikkel. i rant; i know it. i should
    try not to show it...**a bbpuh hah!**(beat box style)
    sorry i k-now we are all on the same page. true
    though cars=bad. carbon in the atmosphere=bad.
    "just say know©" to oil!

    but hey->

    Phillippe Diederich for The New York Times:
    "SUPERSIZE": A McDonald's is to open at Brentwood
    Baptist Church in Houston this month, to give teenagers
    jobs and a safe, controlled hangout on church grounds.
    ->"word eminem, let's hang at mickeyd's and pray, yo!"
    perhaps we should fear joe schmoe!
    posted by john , 1:47 AM Þ 

    fearing america was figuratively speaking. I "fear" the consequences of their government's actions, so to speak. I don't fear joe schmoe.
    posted by Mikkel , 1:27 AM Þ 
    Wednesday, May 08, 2002

    I look forward to it, bunny.

    Yes, our canadian government is very apathetic. Jean Chretien is a fool - he doesn't know what to do, he just goes along with whatever. not really much else to say, really. The amount of kow-towing (I HATE that term) to corporations is disgusting, too. We're not passing the Kyoto accord (as little or as much as it would do) simply because the oil companies are too greedy to tolerate anything.
    Blah!!
    fuck, my head hurts.
    posted by Barrie , 11:50 PM Þ 

    yes, the skulls! took me from disposables to semiotics, and further to consciousness. fantastic!

    I'll be happy to lend my newbie eyes to HT for QA, its a super project.
    posted by mary13 , 10:41 PM Þ 

    isn't that what is happening barrie? isn't the apathetic
    canadian government just paving the way for the us to come
    up here and take over. you know that duke energy just bought
    westcoast energy. even the westcoast emails are now @dukeenergy.com.
    we know lots of newly appointed duke employees. soon and mark my
    words soon it will be the euro vs the us dollar which canada will enlist
    to compete. did you hear about the bombing at gordon campbell's wife's
    school? he has pissed off so many people in this province, the beautiful
    BC(and it is truly stunning) that there is a palitable sense of revolution
    in the air. he is hated here now esp in east van where we live with all
    the crunchies. he is really hated among the doctors and the teachers
    and the unionists et al. the only ones who are for him now are the money
    class looking to make a profit on us buyouts. btw: this is the second
    bombing directed at g campbell's regime. and you know what? i support it
    however crude an attempt it might be. down with the rapists...DOWN FORCEFULLY!!!

    sorry about that i just get heated sometimes. haven't made it up to alberta yet
    barrie. perhaps when we do we can all have dinner together. i know
    we have some friends up there and hey i make a wikked pasta sauce.
    the beer is on us!!!

    lemon and honey if it dosen't hurt your tummy too much. i think anthony had
    a great recipe for an elixir too a while back.
    posted by john , 10:31 PM Þ 

    Nice art, Davros. I like. So that's what the textual skull the other day was for, hehe.

    I think I posted something earlier on "class war," and I'm rather ill so I don't feel like typing it out again - hopefully blogdians can remember.
    I think I posted something about apathetic sheep like pyro in that post too. Blaaah. Stomach infections suck...

    I'm amazed the US isn't all over my province, Alberta, like a middle-aged man over an 18-year old blonde rollergirl. I'm also amazed that most people don't know that Alberta has more oil than anywhere else in the world. We kick Texas' ass, and we kick the Middle-East's ass when it comes to the amount of oil we had. If GW really wanted, he could easily destroy the city around the oil fields (Ft. McMurray, my birthplace), and milk all the oil sands till they're dry. God knows why he's interested in something that's almost on the other side of the global sphere.
    At least he's staying out of my country.
    posted by Barrie , 8:43 PM Þ 

    'The skull pictures are 4 feet high.'
    -oh yeah!!

    comments:
    NO WAR BUT CLASS WAR
    america is NOT to be feared directly...........
    and this is important. PEOPLE are not to be
    feared directly. $ intrests ARE however. $ intrests
    in any country. people for the most part are just sheep.
    and yes these sheep feed the machine but i am very
    sceptical when people bad mouth a country. as if all
    the inhabitants are of the same milk. be careful not to
    jump on a bandwagon blindly. people are the same bascially
    everywhere. they just want to go to work and put food
    on the table. the problem is when SOME people will
    kill to get food for spot the dog. and honestly if you drive
    a car you are to blame. if you live in the west you are to blame
    if you live in the east you are to blame. blame, seperation, and
    fingerpointing will NEVER get us anywhere. the only business
    the WORLD not america only mind you but
    the world has in the middle east is oil. plain and
    simple. if the $$(and yes, in texas mostly) found it more profitable®
    (this is another story entirely as you all know) to run another
    energy source then the middle east and arab oil producing/servicing/
    ***pipelining*** countries wouldn't be so enslaved as they are in many
    ways. but remember that the PEOPLE in many of these countries
    DO NOT i repeat DO NOT benefit so
    directly from this oil production. the money is hoarded....JUST
    LIKE IN AMERICA    . see my point?

    last i checked cars ran in every country....in every language!!!!!!!


    that is something to be fearful of. please don't jump on a bandwagon.

    "i just live here" -sheeple!!!!!!
    Carthag: lame excuse. -good point!

    how is mankind going to ever get their hands around an advanced concept
    like anarchy when we can even handle the easy one like capitalism. capitalism
    is like step one or two. anarchy is an advanced concept demanding the highest
    level of personal responsibility; demanding the most virtuous of human behavior.
    and i will say it now. capitalism is not bad in fact. not bad at all....nothing wrong with it.
    it is just basic; simple minded and narrow. it is the manipulation without regard for
    others that is the problem: the human failing. not the structure. imagine if anarchy
    swept the lands. most sheeple fucks would be wandering around looking for someone to
    tell them where to go to get more fucking crack. RESPONSIBILITY!!

    /rant over
    posted by john , 7:55 PM Þ 

    I was going to buy that "Private Eye"...
    posted by Irdial , 7:26 PM Þ 

    comments?
    IRC Rulez.
    posted by Irdial , 7:25 PM Þ 

    pyro: we cant be afraid of every terrorist
    pyro: its pointless
    Carthag: im not afraid. i dont live in a country that fucks over the middle east on a daily basis
    Carthag: im more afraid of america
    pyro: heh
    pyro: i just live here
    Carthag: lame excuse. are you old enough to vote?
    pyro: yes but i dont
    Carthag: jesus fuck.
    Carthag: why the hell do you think your government sucks?
    pyro: because only idiots live in this country
    Carthag: idiots who dont vote, that is
    pyro: and they FAR outnumber me
    pyro: idiots that VOTE
    Carthag: the idiots who vote vote from ignorance, from seeing all the shit on tv. they dont know better. you have the responsibility to outweigh them
    pyro: 1 vote wont do shit
    Carthag: and thats because you all say that.
    Carthag: take france
    Carthag: fascist le pen got a high percentage of votes in the preliminary
    Carthag: the people took a stand, and republican chirac got 80% of the vote at the final election
    Carthag: not that chirac is that good, but thats beside the point
    Carthag: apathy is the root of all evil
    pyro: whatever
    Carthag: ...
    pyro: heh
    Carthag: im hoping that was on purpose
    pyro: hehe
    comments?


    (HTTP pros: stable, simple, works with firewalls, HTTP cons: not designed for this, somewhat insecure)
    posted by Mikkel , 6:27 PM Þ 

    posted by Alun , 6:17 PM Þ 

    the basic premise seems like a pretty sound one to me ( top think mr fernandez ), and on the face of it fairly simple to implement ; it'd certainly be an interesting learning experience ........ i'm bogged down with figuring out linked lists, serialised elements & relating it all to persistent data at the mo ; once i've cracked it ( i can feel comprehension crystalising slowly somewhere at the back of my skull ) i can complete my little MemoryAid client then start looking into http client classes
    posted by a hymn in g to nann , 1:58 PM Þ 



    Seeing as how I choked Blogger earlier, here's a shot from what it was celebrating: my latest exhibition. The skull pictures are 4 feet high.

    And now here's the details.

    3jay at the X-change


    Six artists exhibit sound art, video and painting
    at the X-change Gallery, Gloucester Green.

    The artists’ group 3jay was founded in 1997 to promote the work of young
    artists with an Oxford connection and to show work both in regular
    exhibitions and on a thriving web site.

    In their latest exhibition, members of the collective will show video
    animation, 3D virtual sculpture, painting and sound art.

    Highlights of the exhibition include Alun Ward’s Sub-orbital Harmonic
    Resonator, which will be playing throughout the show. Recently seen at the
    Po Na Na nightclub, this aluminium structure displays a view of
    interplanetary space, criss-crossed by asteroids which generate real and
    imagined sounds from space. James Davies (that's me) will be exhibiting four works on
    the theme of reification while James Read laments the passage of time in
    collaged sound pieces and paintings. Meanwhile visitors can watch computer
    generated sculpture and footage of land art created around the world from
    Corsica to the Hudson River Valley, by Andrew Senior.

    The exhibition also incorporates the work of two new members: Sushil
    Mangaonkar, currently artist in residence at Radley College, will exhibit
    a series of prints and video projections based on the mudras or hand
    gestures of Indian dance, while Ioan Humphreys will show studies of ocean tankers
    in Swansea bay alongside an animation highlighting the process of
    transformation from photograph to abstracted painting.

    This is the first of several special exhibitions organised by Oxford
    Artweeks running during the 2002 Festival. See the Artweeks guide (Special
    Exhibition No.1), and www.artweeks.org
    The exhibition is supported by Oxford City Council in partnership with
    Clear Channel Entertainment and by Southern and South East Arts.

    Contact Alun Ward for further details: Tel: 01865 865115 alun@3jay.com
    Exhibition details: X-change Gallery, Gloucester Green, Oxford
    May 7th to May 18th
    Tues - Sat 10.30 - 5
    Sun 11 - 4
    Gallery enquiries: 01865 297170
    3jay enquiries: 01865 865115
    info@3jay.com
    www.3jay.com

    Should any of you lot who can make it to Oxford come along, the gallery is situated in the corner of Gloucester Green bus station, where the Oxford Tube and X90 coaches from London Victoria terminate. It's groovy - come to the exhibition and then go and see the shrunken heads in the Pitt Rivers Museum.
    posted by captain davros , 1:51 PM Þ 

    Mikkel>> i'll run the SQL here on 1433 no problem. how
    big a directory do you think would be needed? what would the
    load be during testing? and during launch? my dns is pretty
    solid here and i am planning on turning one machine out into a
    dmz so it could run on that. a couple of months down the line
    i could probably dedicate a machine to it totally. pIII 866. if
    it really took off too we could pool in and dedicate a line to
    it as well.

    so yes, 4 +......i do know an SQL developer quite skilled³ but that
    is pulling from outside the lines, no? if needed i could ask. i work
    with him often; daily infact now. he is always down for tweaking
    stuff around.

    HTTP>> (the protocol used at the moment, it might be necessary to change
    it if the requirements are too steep) -could you elaborate on what you mean
    exactly? what else would it use?

    i have to go to bed......it's getting early again. :)
    posted by john , 10:48 AM Þ 

    Alun>> Credit where credit is due: Akin got the idea for the whole thing, I've just implemented a prototype of the server-side.
    Anthony>> The basic premise is, that there will be a HT server running somewhere, and the plugin will contact that server, asking for urls and whatnot, then parsing the output. The script I have running at the moment is a prototype, but should work for development & testing purposes with regards to the plugin. The timeframe is as elastic as we make it, I suppose.

    --

    I'm positive we will need more people than we are now (what, 4?).
    posted by Mikkel , 10:22 AM Þ 

    plugin : ok ....... i'm assuming the timeframe for this project is fairly elastic ( it's going to take me a little while to get up to speed with this particular area - could you link the cgi script into the C++ code in the form of a simple call to an external function ? if so, the client should be a fairly slender one once i get to grip with the relevant mfc ) ....... how far away is a working model of the cgi script, or is the code that you linked to the finished article ?
    posted by a hymn in g to nann , 10:18 AM Þ 

    Barrie, we ARE all sitting round that table with laptops/desktops, and it IS interesting - or we wouldn't post. The ability to drop in sound clips, make visual points, insert references..... WOW!!!!!!
    As I said, I don't know on a personal level if, or what, I could do, but it might be interesting to try. There is a lame internet ad that goes 'What would you like the internet to be?'. Could we decide and try and make it? I'm almost excluding myself here since I have no programming skills whatsoever. Anyway, it's just a possibility..... And Mikkel and dr B seem to be getting something going... Maybe I need to start learning something, but the idler in me says just apply what you've got...
    posted by Alun , 10:08 AM Þ 

    yes it did work btw. soon the break will
    be made to a more efficent os here but
    for now it's appz with corny names like robocopy.
    it works however; albeit with some tweaking as
    usual. thanks for the link too i was/have been
    using notepad.

    "I often wonder why so many people spend their
    entire lives consuming what is fed to them, without
    knowing if they are consuming anything at all," the
    letter said. "All of my family and friends were raised
    to believe . . . to be gullible . . . to be materialistic .
    . . to fear authority . . . to blindly follow.

    "Do you wonder why people blow themselves up to
    hurt others?" it continued. "Do you wonder why you
    are here? Do you wonder what is out there . . . way
    out there? I remember those days of uncertainty, and
    I can't tell you how great it is to know, to know eternally,
    and to be."
    posted by john , 9:20 AM Þ 

    Akin>> Yeah. They didn't like my written report, though (too short, only 40-some pages, should have been 55-60). They liked the concept, and the code/db.
    posted by Mikkel , 8:57 AM Þ 

    "bunny":
    Rsync under Linux does that, and of course, you can simply copy everything intact if you are root.

    If you want to edit and read perl, you might want to download Ultraedit if you are on Windose. It has syntax highlighting. Jedit is cool also.

    http://www.jedit.org/index.php?page=screenshots

    http://www.ultraedit.com/

    I'm looking over the script now...did you get a passing grade for this Mikkel??!!
    posted by Irdial , 7:53 AM Þ 

    bunny>> yeah, it needs a bunch of modules, notably DBI and DBD::mysql, as well as a working database, the location & log/pass to which are obscured by the "SECRET" (it looks sorta like this: "mysql:dbname:host", "log", "pass").
    anthony>> the plugin would need to do this: when the user visits a site, it grabs the url of the site and asks the cgi script if there are any links, it then inserts the results into the cached site, so the new links are visible. it should also be possible to add links, and send them to the database, and "moderate" links (give them scores if they are good/bad). I've strived to make my perl readable, I'm assuming I could cut the script down to half size or less by using more funky syntax, but thats not nice. :)
    posted by Mikkel , 7:37 AM Þ 

    hey check this out: speaking of imaging, i have a good
    friend who(just today) called and said he wanted to copy
    his dc's only harddrive and didn't want to mirror it on
    the new one. he tried a bold move of just ctrl+c/ctrl+v
    but the file permissions on ntfs didn't work out obviously
    they inherited the new permissions on the destination.
    this obviously would render the copied domain controller
    install inoperable; ***breath*** however.. a tool called
    robocopy 'i hear' saves the day. it's in the resource
    kit if anyone has it around. running it with an /secfix will
    restore ntfs file permissions after a copy. so, as long as
    you boot from somewhere else that c you can copy/paste entire
    installs completely intact and ready to go. better than
    ghosting it would seem if true. supposedly it maintains the tree
    perfectly! i'm going to try it out now and see. it just dosen't sound
    possible with how shakey windose is. esp. a domain contoller.
    posted by john , 6:35 AM Þ 

    doing

    certainly ...... i'd love to exercise some C++ skills ...... http isn't something i've dealt with yet but, looking through the msdn library, i could probably figure it out with a bit of trial & a lot of error ....... actually, it'd be a great exercise, would hook in neatly with my gathering interest in net clients ......... hey ........ maybe i could even build the front end with C# in .net, if that'd be relevant ( do you know if it would be ? ) ...... an excellent excuse for looking into it properly .... i found a page on microsoft's site a few days back relating to free 60-day trials of visual studio.net, then lost the reference by installing an old drive image ....... anyway .......... yes ....... the browser plugin wouldn't be all that complex, i'm guessing, it'd just pass/receive url & user info to/from the perl script ?

    that's the first perl script i've looked at : i see what you mean about the readability of the language, far less arcane than the stuff i'm whittling at the moment
    posted by a hymn in g to nann , 4:31 AM Þ 

    whoa that's nice!

    i tried to run it from a command line but it's looking for
    dbi.pm which i do not have.
    oh, i guess this would be the reason htDatabase = DBI->connect(SECRET);
    no? i'll go to the site.....

    this is a great way to learn perl!
    posted by john , 1:29 AM Þ 
    Tuesday, May 07, 2002

    sounds good, bunny. Anyone else up for some doing? The skills required are one or more of these: Perl, HTML, HTTP, MySQL, C++.


    • Perl + MySQL + HTML for the serverside.

    • HTTP (the protocol used at the moment, it might be necessary to change it if the requirements are too steep)

    • C++ + HTTP for the clientside (the browser-plugin/mozilla module/whatever).



    If you want to see the sourcecode (with obscured passwords, of course), visit it.
    posted by Mikkel , 8:27 PM Þ 

    Could Blogdial do?
    I don't know. If were were all to sit around a table and bullshit forever, would it be the same?
    Blogdial involves thoughts and ideas yes, but many many of them are culled from the internet. If were were sitting around that table, would bunny livingston III be able to just randomly pull that hilarious picture out of his ass? Would I just be able to drop a USB Audio funkbomb on you all?
    I think, Blogial is essentially a group of internet discussion, and could not exist without random cultural bytes to comment, discuss, and mock.
    If we sat around the table, even with laptops, it would be a different beast altogether - which might be interesting.
    posted by Barrie , 8:21 PM Þ 

    ah, bring it back!
    posted by john , 8:07 PM Þ 

    Eh, where's my big skull gone?
    posted by captain davros , 7:59 PM Þ 

    if you every need some space and bandwidth to
    share the load on an HT database engine, i am more
    than willing to host anything you deem necessary.
    posted by john , 7:44 PM Þ 

    but look at this poor gentleman:
    posted by john , 7:36 PM Þ 
    posted by Irdial , 7:30 PM Þ 

    MMR
    Maybe Might Retard your chile.

    Yes or no is the correct answer, at the moment.
    There should be a choice, since there is a hint of doubt.
    If I had a kid, or if it was me, I'd go single.

    Then its "No", for sure. But WHERE can you get single jabs? Its like TWO YEARS WAIT now.

    That's the immunologist in me speaking and a mechanistic immune system thing about how memory responses are generated.

    Do we need a vaccination against chicken pox, which is the next big moneyspinner. Aparently measels is nothing more than a bad cold to most, and its only because a vaccination was possible that it was done, not because it is like smalpox or cholera.

    It's not to say either that MMR doesn't work or that MMR is unsafe.

    Very responsible.

    Unfortunately, like most things, this is being argued on a monetary platform and all kinds of irresponsible science is being thrown around as 'proof'. So its difficult to come to an informed decision as to Yes or No.

    Its a no brainer. Every aspect of delivering these vaccinations is reduced by 1/3 if you give them all at once. Its bad medicine to do vaccination in the most monetarily expedient way.

    Im going to post later about vaccination in general, now that I know that you know about it in great detail, and you are, "An Honest Guy®" I will be needing some clarification If you know what i mean...
    posted by Irdial , 5:26 PM Þ 

    MMR
    Yes or no is the correct answer, at the moment.
    There should be a choice, since there is a hint of doubt.
    If I had a kid, or if it was me, I'd go single. That's the immunologist in me speaking and a mechanistic immune system thing about how memory responses are generated. It's not to say either that MMR doesn't work or that MMR is unsafe.
    Unfortunately, like most things, this is being argued on a monetary platform and all kinds of irresponsible science is being thrown around as 'proof'. So its difficult to come to an informed decision as to Yes or No.
    posted by Alun , 4:07 PM Þ 

    Do? HT. I've made a somewhat solid foundation (based on Akin's work at higherthought.sourceforge.net), but it needs a lot of work before it can be unleashed on the net populace. Who's up for that?

    It needs front-end work, a working plugin (see the sourceforge site), more documentation (I'll translate the relevant parts of my Danish report - I did this implementation as a school project).
    posted by Mikkel , 1:19 PM Þ 

    MMR: Yes or no?
    posted by Irdial , 1:01 PM Þ 

    I analyse entire biological systems, using biological tools, to see how things function as a whole. I have become very sceptical of the use of looking at individual components and drawing conclusions. I've been fed that crap all my scientific life and only in the last 2 years have I come to see it clearly. Its the butterfly/tornado thing. Interactions, with the emphasis on both inter and actions.

    http://www.jimmunol.org/cgi/content/abstract/166/11/6802

    The above is one of my most recent 'products'.
    As to what I will/could do in the future, I'd like to think I'm open to ideas. What one does should be what one knows to be necessary, and what one did/does in the past/present need not define what one does in the future. I used to be unemployed and grow plants on the moors of the peak district. It was entirely necessary, at the time.
    posted by Alun , 11:24 AM Þ 

    To do, or Mountain Dew?

    When you do stuff, this means what exactly?

    Making stuff,
    Destroying stuff,
    Moving stuff,
    Changing stuff.
    ...in general:
    $verb $things.

    As you know I am interested in software and network effects. I like to connect stuff. This is what I have been working on.
    posted by Irdial , 10:32 AM Þ 



    NB Three posts got n00k'd cause of an illegal character that was choking blogger; apologies Davros!...
    posted by Irdial , 10:19 AM Þ 


    What to do? Improve something? Evolve something? Or head straight into outer space?
    I'm a bit of a space cadet myself. One-way mission to Alpha Centauri? Oh YES PLEASE!

    And if dr bunny livingston III isn't a name destined to rank amongst the future icons of 21st century progress then.... well, we're all doomed. 'bill gates'! Shit, the man hasn't even got the decency to use an interesting nom de plume (or, perhaps, nom de souris).

    And, one last and, Irdial Discs are major doers. Major. Breaking dogma, however small and timid the dog, takes King Kong balls (been thinking of CB3 (3?? 7?? no matter) but repays imeasurably just when you see how much you can mess with peoples heads.
    4!! It's CB4. Numbers never were my strong point...
    posted by Alun , 10:14 AM Þ 

    do what? i'm game. i have at least a 'mostly' functioning
    brain and some freetime to put twards efforts. as well as
    some bandwidth and hardware.
    posted by john , 9:47 AM Þ 

    I'm going to write something I thought about, wrecked and radio-station surfing, this fine long weekend. It could sound lame, it could sound stoopid, it could sound pompous, immature, dull or just plain unfeasible. Anyway, I thought about it and here it is.

    Listening to radio, hitting a talk station, some discussion going on involving one of the geeks mixed up in the early days of microsoft and how they used to have these 'Thursday night meals' where they'd all bullshit for however long it took for one of them to come up with a plagiarism. Sorry, idea. Anyway, the point that stuck was that they were probably not the only group doing this kind of shit-mixing, but they were one of the few that Got Things Done. And we all know where this led.

    So. Blogdial. As Akin points out, although modesty prevents me from blithely neither agreeing nor protesting but simply giving a knowing smile, We Are The Best (TM). Contributors sift, discuss, find nuggets of purest digital gold within the silicon dung-pile. Contributors are learning and, more importantly, willing and eager to learn. Anything. So. All this boiled around in my addled neural network until this thought was brought into focus... Could Blogdial evolve from an observational, internally functional organism to, for want of a better description, a Do Group? The equivalent of embryonic MS meal nights occur here, every day, all day. And this is where thought processes began to run freely - I'm nothing if not an optimist with a hopelessly unshackled imagination. What would such a group actually Do? More to the point (on a personal level), what would I Do? Could Blogdial Do? Does Blogdial want to Do?

    From there things got a little wild, but the basic premise has stuck for 3 days, which is longer than a lot of thoughts I have. I still have no answers for any of the questions, of which the above are just a sampling. But, as a scientist, in biological system terms groups such as BlogDial should be strong should they possess enough specificity combined with enough diversity, enough will, access to nourishment and stimulation.... And synergism is a wonderful thing.

    Maybe all the above is a result of a heavy weekend. Maybe I'm jealous of these bastard freaks who sit on piles of blood-stained money and fuck up the working lives of millions on a daily basis just because they were best at fucking people over. Fuck them. Maybe I just need/want a change. Maybe its Monday. Shit! No, maybe its Tuesday. I am addled. Anyway, this thing has been rampaging around my skull for a while and, if nothing else, maybe the fucker will lie still long enough to put it out of its misery.


    For millions & millions of years I lived as a mineral.
    Then I died and became a plant.
    For millions & millions of years I lived as a plant.
    Then I died and became an animal.
    For millions & millions of years I lived as an animal.
    Then I died and became a man.
    - Now what have I ever lost by dying?
    - Rumi
    posted by Alun , 9:28 AM Þ 
    Monday, May 06, 2002

    All lovers of Conet, the song "Bravo Charlie Radio" by eighties band Kliche will definitely be worth acquiring.
    posted by Mikkel , 8:18 PM Þ 

    uunet's lines:

    ck the skitter graph ->
    posted by john , 7:36 PM Þ 

    here in canada we have what is called blocking. a policy of
    domain name registration where if you purchase say
    blah.on.ca noone can use blah.ca or blah.bc.ca or any
    second, third, fourth etc level domain name with the word blah
    in it. basically they are selling words and not domain name spaces.
    their reasoning is that they are trying to do away with third level domains
    here. such as the on for ontario or bc for british columbia. at least that is
    what i was told when i was screaming and yelling after purchasing XXXXXX.ca;
    having the deal go thru/my credit card charged only to get a notice dayz later
    that someone owned XXXXXX.on.ca and i would have to get their permission
    to use the word XXXXXX. permission??!! anyway there has been NO
    public push that i have seen at all to entice owners of third level domains to move
    their presence to just a second level namespace. so basically you can buy a word
    and block any use of it under the .ca namespace. amazing!

    ciranet/uunet/skynet/nazinet! "False Info". but how would anyone know? couldn't
    you just say....."oops! i must have made a mistake". ????? people are STILL
    human aren't they. you could burst into song: 'i'm only human...of flesh and blood
    i'm made. only human...born to make mistakes!" oopsie, so sorry.

    shouldn't this have been sorted out long ago??
    posted by john , 7:04 PM Þ 

    [DOMAIN NAMES]

    Bill Criminalizes Providing False Info for Domain Registrations

    Internet users who knowingly submit incorrect contact information when registering
    Web addresses could face up to five years in jail under legislation introduced
    in the House of Representatives. Proposed by Reps. Howard Coble (R-N.C.)
    and Howard Berman (D-Calif.), the legislation would make it a crime to --
    "knowingly and with intent to defraud" -- submit false information to an
    Internet domain name seller.

  • Read the article: Newsbytes

    •
    posted by Irdial , 6:49 PM Þ 

    GORE VIDAL, AUTHOR:
    What I've done, in a little book that is just out called, Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace or How We Came To Be so Hated.
    Most Americans are astonished; why are we hated? We're the ones we're the
    good guys. Well, I list in there; these are five essays, and one of them
    is about Usama bin Laden and what happened in 9/11. What I do, I list something
    like 300 or 400 military strikes that we have made without provocation, unilaterally,
    against other countries.
    http://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,50335,00.html
    posted by Irdial , 6:13 PM Þ 

    http://www.parentstv.org/main/publications/reports/deadly/main.asp
    'Thank you' Mikkel :-P
    posted by Claus Eggers , 12:09 PM Þ 
    posted by Irdial , 2:30 AM Þ 

    posted by john , 1:28 AM Þ 

    With his back to the wall, Reed found therapy in feedback. “I didn’t initially do it with the idea of making a record,” he says of Metal Machine Music. “I was doing it for fun.”
    “The Sessions, such as they were, took place in Reed’s New York apartment over a couple of weeks. “I would record tracks of guitar, at different speeds, playing with the reverb, tuning the guitars in unusual ways,” he recalls. I would tune all the strings, say, to E, put the guitar a certain distance from the amp, and it would start feeding back. The harmonics would start mixing, going into something else. It was as if the guitar was hitting itself.”
    ...
    “I can still visualize those amps in my mind,” Reed says fondly. “The were big. I would have one guitar leaning against one amp, and another leaning against the other. I had always loved that sound. I did tons of shows with the Velvet Underground where we would leave our guitars against the amps and walk away. The guitars would feedback forever, like they were alive.”
    ...
    The strange thing about the locked groove is that it is the very poing at which the squall suddenly becomes structure: a circular lopsided wave of rhythm and distortion. Stranger still, if you go back through the rest of Metal Machine Music, you start to hear a certain oblique cohesion, patterns and effects that surge in and out of the chaos ... And there are moments when the stereo halves of the mix suddenly erupt into a combined burst of feedback sunshine. It is a clarity that hurts; it leaves you blinded and shaken.

    -David Fricke, 2000

    Before Merzbow, before Industrial music ever thought of being, there was 1975’s Metal Machine Music. If you don’t own it, or at least have the mp3s, where the hell have you been?
    Get it and many other mp3 I have collected/am currently downloading from mac.vectorx.org:10700, using the lovely KDX by Haxial (on Mac and PC). Guest access is on... for now.
    Buy buy buy from Buddha Records.

    http://www.haxial.com/products/kdx/
    http://www.buddharecords.com/noflash/newindex.html?pages/masters/loureedmetal.html
    posted by Barrie , 1:21 AM Þ 

    Hey, anyone with a broadband connection and a few hours to kill right now ought to check out my friend's show, Radio Savage Houndy Beasty on LSR - http://www.lsrfm.com/ - real audio and all that. It's very funny.
    posted by captain davros , 12:23 AM Þ 
    Sunday, May 05, 2002

    MYSTERONS!!!!
    posted by Barrie , 9:45 PM Þ 

    memory wipers!=beer
    thankfully.

    and now that we can search the archive, we can prove that you posted it!!
    posted by Irdial , 12:04 PM Þ 

    posted by Irdial , 12:03 PM Þ 

    hey lay off the memory-wipers, akin ;) I posted about the BoC track (Gyroscope) ages ago.
    posted by Mikkel , 11:43 AM Þ 

    :D

    Btw, this was from www.aquariusrecords.org if you didn't know. It's in their record picks of the week Damn good record store, too. Everyone stateside should adore them.
    posted by Barrie , 4:14 AM Þ 

    Actually, no, I didn't see this, and didn't know about the Boards of Canada, so you win the gold pen!
    posted by Irdial , 12:47 AM Þ 

    I didn't know about this, but everyone else probably does. SCREW YOU ALL. AHGLUAHGLAUHGlAUghLAU


    [4] CONET PROJECT ALERT: Hey all you fellow Conet lovers! Didja notice the title of this record? Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Yankee... Hotel... Foxtrot... Yes folks, this record was named after a track on the infamous Conet Project, the 4cd set that collects mysterious shortwave numbers station broadcasts. (We're kind of proud to have sold more copies of this than any other store -- 387 and counting!) And yep, there's a Conet Project sample buried near the end of the record. It's uncredited, which is kind of lame -- I mean if Wilco are such ardent fans of the Conet Project, wouldn't they want to turn other people onto it? Nor did we find Conet credit given on Boards of Canada's Geodaddi, for that matter, but the makers of Vanilla Sky did!
    posted by Barrie , 12:09 AM Þ 
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