July 2001 archive: markpasc.org weblog

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1 Celebrate Canada Day with good old American Top 40 My friend in the game	2 MindShareWare Ajay Naidu in Pi and Office Space Rollerball delayed Web comics Kurzweil on A.I. Google search trends	3 Let Us Imagine A New City: Bogota’s Car-Free Plans (Plastic) New Planet Found Past Pluto (Plastic) New issue of Blather Patient gets first mechanical heart (BBC) Who cares if the customer adds salt? (Disenchanted) The Sudden Silence of BBC Radio Keiretsu Ghost in the Machine Day	4 [Rand] Miller makes a mountain out of Mudpie (Red Herring) Man’s journal ruled obscene (Columbus Dispatch, Metafilter) The People’s Net by Douglas Rushkoff (Yahoo! Internet Life) BBC on web statistics Merry 4th	5 Furry fandom article: Critter Camp Out (Pitch Weekly) In which I natter about Canada, music, and nostalgia “e/n” What annoys you about weblog software?	6 Happy Canada Week. World New	7 An end-of-Canada Week fable A Return To Storytelling: Will Advanced CG Put Plot, Characterization In Vogue? (Plastic)
8 A pair of music notes Nascent Jabber tool for Radio Caffeine and the Body (TomPaine.com)	9 Prices and dirt on Wal-Mart (inessential.com) Bad distributed.net, bad Radio weblog archive calendars Canada: Things I learned (Half-empty) Brent on cheapskate Americans Where Are the Intelligent Sci-Fi Films? (Plastic) “Today is Nikola Tesla’s birthday. Glow in the dark in his honor.” (dot-communist) JapaneseSnacks.com vs the spammers	10 Wayne Pygram clones around as Scorpius on Farscape (Science Fiction Weekly) It’s Time To Fix The Constitution, Again: Amendment Proposed To Ban Gay Marriage (Plastic) Where’s The Clash when we need them? (Disinformation) Japan’s Baby Bust: Children Seen As A Bother And A Nuisance Welcome to Tuesday. So, last	11 What’s an RSS channel and why? (MetaTalk) Chuck Palahniuk interview (Powells.com) Street violence figurines MovieHeadlines.net (newsfeeds) Crushlink: The most annoying email I’ve ever gotten (Metafilter) The Forrest Gump Morality Massacre (dorrk.com) The Internet is the root of all evil (The Register)	12 When should webloggers freely quote from private e-mails they’ve received? (JD Lasica) Library “radicals” targeted in latest copyright battles (cnet News.com) Divorce by SMS People think Evil is glamorous dLoo BlueBox [Drupal] import.module updates and a new module, “blog” (drop.org) How We Got to Two Million (Mother Jones) and population growth	13 Higher Order Programming in Javascript (w3future) The Dozen Hottest Cartoon Babes (ifilm) NUblog interview with the “worldwide master-daemon of multilingual Web authoring” Orson Welles is watching “Enterprise” enthusiasm from Brent Simmons That sinister Julian Bond	14 Confessions of a middle-aged Ecstasy eater (The Guardian)
15 Faking It: The Internet Revolution Has Nothing to Do With the Nasdaq (NYT) Frell CMS + RPG = WTF? Flayrah.com article removed	16 From Netscape to Nightclub (Wired News) Review of reviews of “Akira: Special Edition” DVD (digitallyOBSESSED.com, DVD Review) Why Michael Schwern is not a Java programmer (O’Reillynet) PySTL “New” greeking The Internet general ledger The Do-It-Yourself Supercomputer (Scientific American) All natural EarthDot	17 Exploring New Musical Genres With Help From Rootnode (rootnode.org) Napster to ditch MP3 for proprietary format (The Register)	18 Ego stroking and MTV Casting stones about web standards Flag-burning and the power of the Web	19 The Sound and the Furious (AlterNet) Tennessee Colleges, Universities Boost Fees, Add Others (The Tennesseean) How to Live in a Simulation (Robin Hanson) Spoke card longetivity issues (rec.bicycles.tech)	20 S’A’Alis Steps Down as FM Admin (Flayrah) Kristian Wilson quote Robocop: Prime Directives Interactive fiction: “For a Change”	21 Ashcroft announces new cybercrime units; Genoa IMC raided The Norrathian Scrolls: A Study of EverQuest Seanbaby’s Fourth markpasc.blog in NewsIsFree A Casino Odyssey (kuro5hin)
22 Review of Barcelona’s ZeRo-oNe-INFINITY (War Against Silence) A Casino Odyssey: Parts Three and Four, and aftermath Game Studies academic journal	23 [Chattanooga] Tennessee judge [Walter Williams] faces impeachment (CNN.com) FBI becomes Copyright ‘911’ (The Register)	24 Ask Bruce Sterling (missingmatter) Employment, Aisle 3 (Disenchanted) Interview: [Zork co-author] Dave Lebling (Adventure Collective)	25 Be revenues rise 615% to $715,000 (The Register) More on Dmitry vs The House Quoth Hack the Planet: "Well, Is Information “Real?” (Brian.Carnell.Com) Nuclear rockets in Chattanooga Brent says: “I dream sci-fi.” The truth about Fight Club Bruce Schneier on Dmitry Sklyarov Arrest (Politechbot)	26 Bruce Sterling interview still (missingmatter) OpenCola (“F’d C”) Passing the savings on to you Video for Kenna’s “hell bent” is Mark Osborne’s “More”	27 SongMeanings.net Angry meditation on globalization and Carlo Giuliani (ftrain) Shareware rules A $10 cab ride apart (DaveNet) Stupid people open email attachments (Wired News) Michael Moore “Makes The Case For State-Owned Media” (Murmurs.com) The Tick in November	28 Cloudmakers’ guide to the AI web game Animefringe online anime magazine Integer division in Python, “circle is-a ellipse” (Lambda the Ultimate)
29 Giants make better chemists, relatively, Software [game] piracy on the rise [in the UK] (BBC News: sci/tech)	30 Boardgame Geek The End of Linguistics by Mark Halpern	31 Scoble vs The Moose in uber-cage-match, SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY! Daft Punk anime at Toonami.com When I Grow Up on the Fallacy of Linguistic Autonomy

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