That’s right, I’ve refashioned all my credentials, etc.
Archive for July, 2005 Page 4 of 6
The US Coast Guard makes some great media. Do hurricanes generate more.
Should I sell my car? is the bluebook value. It only has 38,000 miles on it. I think its time to shed the car.
You know you want to read it: http://planet.inkscape.org/
Kees idea is brilliant! It would’ve worked well for Alan Turing and others when working on Enigma back during WW2. 
Hahaha…when reading about Enigma, I found a sidebar postulating about the original Apple logo. Are the stripes for gay pride?
I’m not normally into this type of art, but this is freaking funny.
This is an excerpt from my forthcoming book, CVS: Concurrency, Versioning, and Systems:
I prefer to exist in close proximity with various networks of interaction and structures of participation which enable people to understand complexity and relate to one another. The modern Western world, and particularly, American sentiment of the self-made individual, the epistemic subject and the myth of individual author is a dominant theme of the twentieth century. [1] This has been famously critiqued by Herbert Schiller in the 1970s as a primary media myth of the modern consumer’s “individuality” structured by mass media. [2] Also, Jack Stillinger in his book Multiple Authorship and the Myth of Solitary Genius notes that “the Romantic notion of single authorship is so widespread as to be nearly universal.” [3] This still echoes into these first years of our new era. The view espoused in this text however is both a practiced critique and a reshaping by network of the present hegemony of sole authorship; for it is provided in this book that all authorship is collaborative. This critique does not deny the importance of strong individuals. Hence, why I state that I, emphasis on self, prefer to exist closer to these networks of interaction. While a standard book might have one person’s name embossed onto the cover, or an artwork might be signed by an artist in Duchampian recognition of final versioning rights, this is an obfuscation of the multitude of events and associations providing the emergence of one version of a shared project, typically called a “final product.” [4]
Footnotes
[1] We should ask EO Wilson or Steven Johnson (Emergence. New York: Scribner, 2001.) what the ant is looking for.
[2] Geof Bowker and Susan Leigh Star. Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequence. (Cambridge: Mitpress, 1999).
[3] The tree structure is routinely used by projects like CAIDA (Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis) and representation of computer file hierarchies.
[4] Jack Stillinger. Multiple Authorship and the Myth of Solitary Genius. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991).
[5] Herbert Schiller. The Mind Managers. (Beacon Press, 1973), 8-11.
This is a novel way to hyperlink in print (from article by David Foster Wallace).
Man, I wrote an email to linuxfund inquiring about funding for the OOo SVG Import/Export feature support. In this article you see that money from the linuxfund credit cards has accumulated to $126K!!! That is astounding! Get me in there, I’ll admin the project! Distribute those funds yesterday! There needs to be major headway in this type of funding organization to help out all the independent developers out there. UPDATE: Patrick Mochel of Open Source Development Labs indicated a willingness to ensure a positive future for LinuxFund. Bryce…can you give a coffee room nod at OSDL please. You can drop him my card…
Man, every morning I wake up and get all these lovely gifts from my rss feeds: http://www.bbc.co.uk/opensource/.
This person, Rob Myers, wrote about this topic I wrote about, Open Source Art: http://homepage.mac.com/robmyers/weblog/C1592552572/E174945776/index.html
What! http://www.sonyericsson.com/rob1/main.asp?LangID=1
Check out http://fundable.org/ as a great way to pool funding for a common need. If the goal is not received, then the funds are returned. Sounds like the star trek community could have used this for trying to get funds to support enterprise. 
Ok, I finally figured out what I want to write an article about for Linux magazines. I want to write an article about why all these magazines use closed source software, but espouse open source. I want to start a campaign to get the various Linux magazines to use Open Source software: Inkscape, OCAL, Scribus, ghostscript, etc. I want it! I can taste it!
http://www.onto.be/ta/mo/archives/2005/06/27212447.php
http://www.onto.be/ta/mo/archives/2004/07/05043811.php
Me in Japan. (I found this at my friend Tadashi’s website)
That’s right! Check out this new Firemonger graphic treatment. The author used Inkscape to create this imagery. Firemonger releases CDs with Firefox on them.
Here is my friend Tadashi’s blog.
