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Friday, October 01 1999

KCRW : Luscious Jackson real audio
I will enjoy watching as pranksters and n'er-do-well's figure out how to abuse virtual advertising.
Peter Drucker : Beyond the Information Revolution
This American Life comic book Beautifully illustrated by Jessica Abel. Someone remind me why I work with computers all day.....

Sunday, October 03 1999

Brad L. Graham : Day Without Weblogs

Monday, October 04 1999

The Nando Times on the Chair Wars
Dale Chihuly went to Jerusalem and built a 64,000 ton wall of ice.
Richard Martineau : La barbarie à visage humain "...[Lafond] interroge le rôle des médias à l'ère des génocides organisés. À quoi sert un rése...
City of Montreal : Top 10 Garbage Crimes In the last 30 years, Montreal has had three mayors. The first built the <a href = "http://...

Tuesday, October 05 1999

Qui maîtrise les images maîtrise les esprits Cette prophétie de Bill Gates accueillait le visiteur d'une exposition récente à Bonn consacré...
Jean Paré "Words are powerful. They are the DNA of thought. Philosophers have taught us that he who name...
As It Happens on the goodness of nose-blowing Everything you know is wrong. real audio (starts 19:40)
TidBITS is 500 this week Congratulations!
PHP Knowledge Base <a href = "http://e-gineer.com/e-gineer/phpkb/view.phtml/qid/657">How can I check if the...
Bernard Buffet 1928 - 1999 "C'était l'un des peintres français les plus connus, et probablement le plus contesté. Bernard...

Wednesday, October 06 1999

For Seven Generations Final Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
Cyberia : Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace Douglas Rushkoff has put the complete text of his third book online. I tend to think that Rush...
Canadian Medical Association Journal Slapping and spanking in childhood and its association with lifetime prevalence of psychiatric d...
Perlmonth : MacPerl at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention
We are one people, one resolve, one orgasm. quicktime

Thursday, October 07 1999

Douglas Rushkoff on mandatory technology real audio
NY Times on the dirty tricks that webmasters play "From my experience, [pornography sites] were definitely the ones leading it," Daniel Glovich,...
David Bowie is hosting the entire Sensation show on his website "All 141 pieces will be on virtual display, complete with artist biographies/photos and David ...
The Apper is a cool launcher utility that brings some level of file-name completion to the Mac. (I reall...
Mœbius "Avec l'ordinateur, on peut faire une révolution dans la BD, comme Fred Beltran dans Megalex, ...
Danny Goodman : Getting Ready for the W3C DOM

Friday, October 08 1999

When Good Smurfs Go Bad
Andy Oram : The Lexus, the Olive Tree, and the Internet This is not the sort of thing I would have ever expected to see in web review. Good for them. ...

Saturday, October 09 1999

Charles Taylor "La question est de savoir si on veut garder le français comme langue publique commune ou si o...
Mr. Bill on federalism It's difficult, after reading something like this not to feel sad. Maybe [he] accomplished mor...

Sunday, October 10 1999

In a fit of stunning unoriginality the 9th grade SPH (I don't know either) has decided to call their website aaronland.com. I am ...
Michael Kimmelman : The Importance of Matthew Barney "Matthew hates anything obvious," Chelsea Romersa, his assistant, says. "Like the color red. T...
My friend Bill wrote a poem about one of the Island locals. I saw her the other might, at the movies, and tho...
I saw Three Kings tonight When the Gulf War started, I had the luxury of spending my days and nights painting and drawin...

Monday, October 11 1999

Palm Infocenter considers entire OS modules for the new Visor PDAs. Neat! via ars technica
What is up with TIME magazine's love affair with Steve Jobs?
Builder.com Chris Lilley on SVG.

Tuesday, October 12 1999

randomcam news Over the weekend, I did a bunch of backend stuff, most too dull to explain here. One of them w...
O'Reilly Sample Chapter <a href = "http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/realbasic/chapter/ch03.html"> REALbasic : Chap...
Cerebus.org version 4.0
Web Informant : Don't let shoppers name their price "I found another way to get online bargains, though. It involves a simple hack to web shopping...
Randal Schwartz : Have You Ever Meta-Index Like This? I had the opportunity of attending the Boston Perl Conference in April and one of the best par...
There's been a lot of naked gift solicitation on the blogs these days, so I thought I'd chime in and mention that I'd love to get one of the...

Wednesday, October 13 1999

LinuxPlanet : Setting up a MySQL Website
via Slashdot comes good news that Monsanto won't sell their, so-called, Terminator seeds. see also : Monsanto CEO Robert B....
Webmonkey has redesigned their website complete with little <a href = "http://saturn.org">Jack Saturn pictures</a>. I lik...
L. Everett : Church of the All-Night Donut "He hands me a booklet with a picture of a happy, white family, hugging and kissing each other...
The Internet for Assholes : Voting Fraud for Assholes "As the meaningless dollops of demagoguery fall time and time again to whichever autocratic as...

Sunday, October 17 1999

A picture from the wedding I attended this weekend, of two boys scaring swans in the company of their babysitter. I thoug...

Monday, October 18 1999

The Times : Salon at the cutting edge "Each computer is networked so that you can play with up to six other people in the salon. Sty...
Eye : There's a lot of money in dick
Andrei Codrescu on Idiot Guides "I am working on an Idiot's Guide to Myself." real audio

Tuesday, October 19 1999

Salon : Same old worm in the Apple "So how could Time have been proved wrong so fast? The answer is that, increasingly, in a time...
O'Reilly Sample Chapter <a href = "http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jscook/chapter/ch01.html">JavaScript Applicati...
The only thing worse than censorship is self censorship.
Globe & Mail : UVic refuses to honour Bill Gates "[Other] senators took issue with a 1998 Microsoft deal that offered professors $200 if they m...
Katharine Mieszkowski champions Third Voice and, by the sounds of it, the tyranny of the majority. real audio.
The search engine at TAL is up and running, and this morning I was able to find Sarah Vowell's most excellent pi...

Wednesday, October 20 1999

Introducing the iCar "Why settle for an opaque automobile when you can get the iMac on wheels?"
The Comics Journal : Superman Opens Can of Copyright Worms "Due to the split between the trademark and the copyright, if the Siegels decided to publish t...

Thursday, October 21 1999

Dolly the sheep meet Wooly the mammoth.
Doom as a tool for system administration "The application is very touchy and development is hindered by guys with shotguns killing my s...
Champ libre : 4ème manifestation internationale vidéo et art électronique Requires all the bells and whistles and is near impossible to actually navigate. Fortunately t...
Art Buchwald : Ventura vs. Buchanan "Pat would wear a robe embroidered with "Mein Kampf," and Jesse would have one that says "Ther...

Friday, October 22 1999

Web Review : Cross Browser Events for Dynamic HTML "As I mentioned earlier, using events to perform functions on your web site sounds great in th...
NY Times : Silicon Valley Work Ethic Crosses the Atlantic Is it a work ethic, or just anxiety? If all you do is work then all you know is work; eventual...
Dan Shafer : The Truth About XML
The Global Culture and Arts Communities Symposium may have come and gone, but the panel discussions and keynotes are available on-line.
Lawrence Barichello needs to get a life "When you read that people are winning damages for forced sterilization, for botched surgeries...

Saturday, October 23 1999

Globe and Mail : Chrétien considering gamble on referendum law Let me tell you a story: During the last referendum campaign, I was studying in Toronto. At th...
Le Devoir : La loi 101 est nécessaire, selon Alexa McDonough "Mme McDonough estime qu'avec la prédominance de l'anglais en Amérique du Nord, «c'est évident...
Has Ron Harris got a deal for you "This is Darwin's natural selection at its very best. The highest bidder gets youth and beauty...

Sunday, October 24 1999

Oh, how the mighty will fall "Understanding women is harder than figuring out the hardest computer game, harder even than s...

Monday, October 25 1999

William Safire : Bagels vs. Doughnuts "In the bagel's adaptive triumph lies the poppyseed of its self-destruction. For the bagel has...
The World This Weekend on the resilience and resurgence of the printed book. real audio (starts 20:00 - twtw doesn't ...

Wednesday, October 27 1999

Well, if you end up buying a car atleast let me give you a bumpersticker.
Brian J. Reardon : Laundry, A Quantum Mechincal Approach or "Why You Should Never Empty the Lint Trap"
Le Devoir : Wal-Mart «adopte» 163 écoles "Je trouve d'une naïveté éhontée les gens qui oeuvrent dans l'éducation et qui croient que tou...
Everyone loves his work but how many know what he sounds like? real audio.
AppleScript SourceBook : What's New in AppleScript 1.4.0 I wish I knew more AppleScript than I do but the truth is that the "easy to use" English-like ...
Mmmmm...scrambled eggs on a stick "Macaroni & Cheese and Scrambled Eggs are two of America’s best-loved meals – but, until n...

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