R Allan Baruz: Hostage to CrapMe and the media.The Dark Side to the Internet- July 15, 2003 My Usenet server only holds posts for a week, so I almost missed this in the latest digest. (I believe it was Ron who introduced me to these or Dave or Ron) Date: Mon, 07 Jul 03 12:34:37 -0500 From: Internet Oracle Subject: Internet Oracularity 1326-01 Selected-By: "Alyce Wilson" The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was: Oracle most wise, Is it true people use the Internet for other things besides porn And in response, thus spake the Oracle: ...http://radio.weblogs.com/0105058/categories/hostageToCrap/2003/07/14.html#a1300 (Untitled)- July 13, 2003 Pop culture images, rendered in the isometric perspective. I just thought it an interesting concept. Also expropriated from David Morford.http://radio.weblogs.com/0105058/categories/hostageToCrap/2003/07/12.html#a1297 Malling!- July 13, 2003 In poetry collection news, I picked up Anne Carson’s Glass, Irony and God on the strength of “The Fall of Rome” and Hayden Carruth’s Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey. I forewent Louise Gluck’s Vita Nuova and Geoffrey Hill’s Speech! Speech!, but will probably reconsider in the next week. The Apple Store is offering an “Apple Store Pro Card.” Sigh. I don’t know how much, but the one day of ten percent off on software is looking attractive,...http://radio.weblogs.com/0105058/categories/hostageToCrap/2003/07/12.html#a1296 (Untitled)- July 13, 2003 Recently started searching for my old copies of Elementals and Coventry after picking up the graphic novel Fables: Legends in Exile, collecting issues one through five of Williamson’s new Vertigo series. I keep seeing little things in the dialogue and panel layouts that remind me of his earlier work, like Colin running around in the foreground and background while the main action is happening elsewhere in the scene. I couldn’t find anything, though, to verify my thoughts. Sigh. I...http://radio.weblogs.com/0105058/categories/hostageToCrap/2003/07/12.html#a1295 (Untitled)- July 12, 2003 Wilde on diaries and memory: CECILY. I keep a diary in order to enter the wonderful secrets of my life. If I didn't write them down, I should probably forget all about them. MISS PRISM. Memory, my dear Cecily, is the diary that we all carry about with us. Wilde on three-volume novel, plaguing us even then: CECILY. Yes, but it usually chronicles the things that have never happened, and couldn't possibly have happened. I believe that Memory is responsible for nearly all the three-volume...http://radio.weblogs.com/0105058/categories/hostageToCrap/2003/07/11.html#a1291 (Untitled)- July 10, 2003 DOS Computers manufactured by companies such as IBM, Compaq, Tandy, and millions of others are by far the most popular, with about 70 million machines in use wordwide. Macintosh fans, on the other hand, may note that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans, and that numbers alone do not denote a higher life form. —New York Times, November 26, 1991 by way of inluminenthttp://radio.weblogs.com/0105058/categories/hostageToCrap/2003/07/10.html#a1287 (Untitled)- July 9, 2003 Though I’ve picked up everything she’s ever done since Girly Sound, hm. But then again, huh.http://radio.weblogs.com/0105058/categories/hostageToCrap/2003/07/08.html#a1283 |