Confronting Empire. Confronting Empire “Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness  and our ability to tell our own stories. […]

So what I'm working on right now is a cut down of my paper for DAC in Melbourne. I went to the one at Brown two years ago, and it was quite fun. The paper is about the political ontogenesis of vision in computer games. which means, in short, that the visual experiences in computer […]

Kapor's Open-Source PIM. 3 Feb 2003: Extreme Tech tells us aboutChandler.”Kapor, the co-founder of Lotus Development Corp. and principal author of the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet application, first disclosed his PIM plans last October, as part of an ongoing blog on the Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF) web site. The OSAF employs nine paid members and […]

Translucent Databases. 3 Feb 2003: Unix Review takes a look at the bookTranslucent Databases.”There's actually more to “translucency” than the idea of programmatically encrypting individual items or classes of data. One of the values of the book, in fact, is that it goes to the trouble of enumerating related ideas and their consequences. I'm particularly […]

Net ranks as top information source. A UCLA study reveals Americans who go online rank the Internet as the most important information source, outpacing TV, newspapers and radio.  [CNET News.com] [[ t e c h n o c u l t u r e ]] hmmm, i kow that i use it, but as for […]

From Good Morning Silicon Valley: TIA+John Pointdexter. TLF: The Senate may have choked off government funding for John Poindexter's Total Information Awareness program (TIA) — a Defense Department research project that aims to identify terrorists by analyzing personal data collected in computer databases — but that has done little to stop its progress. Indeed, according […]

The PacketPC. Something that's slipping in underneath the radar from Sony: a 60GB, WiFi-enabled, portable hard drive called the PacketPC that's the size of an iPod and comes with an LCD touch screen for text entry, GPS, and an MP3 player. David Galbraith points out what is really amazing about the PacketPC though: Sony's enterprise […]

Weblogs and instruction – Brown Daily Herald. Quote: “Blogs — the much−talked about Internet trend — can serve as invaluable tools for their inventors, said Brian Weatherson, a Brown professor of philosophy and creator of a philosophy blog. ” Comment: George Siemens is right .Ê A very brief piece.Ê The prediction at the end is […]

Funny Latin Phrases. Quanto putas mihi stare hoc conclave ? That's “How many prostitutes does it take to change a lightbulb?” in Latin. No, actually it's “How much do you think I paid for this apartment?”. Here's hoping, in the wake of the BBC's superb The Roman Way series, written and presented by David Aaranovich, […]

sxsw web awards. ladies gents and babies, the 2003 sxsw web awards finalists have been announced [MetaFilter] looks like a good mix…