<a href="http://www.whatdoiknow.org/">what do i know</a> 74LinksdanielSat, April 05, 2003publish<a href="http://www.kitchensink.org/">the kitchen sink</a> 73LinksdanielSat, April 05, 2003publishDerrida the movie in SoFla! <img src="http://www.gravattville.com/blogpictures/derridabanner400.jpg">72ElsewheredanielFri, April 04, 2003publish<a href="http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/index.html">talkingpointsmemo</a> and <a href="http://www.warblogging.com/">warblogging.com</a> essential reading these days 71LinksdanielFri, April 04, 2003publish<a href="http://www.thehorsehospital.com/">the horse hospital</a> brilliant--and with an RSS feed 70LinksdanielFri, April 04, 2003publish<a href="http://www.briangriffin.co.uk/">brian griffin</a> 69LinksdanielFri, April 04, 2003publishLast night I had two parties, two concerts, and an open mic to go to. I didn't make it to any of them. Woo. :P 68MinutiadanielFri, April 04, 2003publish<a href="http://integration.danielsjourney.com/">new iteration of integration research site</a> many more coming soon 67LinksdanielThu, April 03, 2003publish<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/03/war.concert.walkout.ap/index.html">cnn.com</a> Eddie Vedder took a mask of President Bush and impaled it on a microphone stand 66LinksdanielThu, April 03, 2003publish<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A31438-2002Nov23?language=printer">washingtonpost.com: material witness law has many in limbo</a> 65LinksdanielThu, April 03, 2003publish<a href="http://www.freemikehawash.org/">free mike hawash</a> 64LinksdanielThu, April 03, 2003publish<a href="http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/editorial/the_nonexpert_threesomes.shtml">the morning news - the non-expert: threesomes</a> 63LinksdanielThu, April 03, 2003publish<a href="http://www.venusberg.org/">venusberg</a> 62LinksdanielThu, April 03, 2003publish<a href="http://www.collectiblestoday.com/ct/product/prdid-912316001.jsp#">lord bless this defender of freedom figurine</a> 61LinksdanielThu, April 03, 2003publishexactly<a href="http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1035780186499&call_pageid=968867495754&col=969483191630">Dwindling book reviews hurting publishers</a><blockquote>The main problem is simply letting the world know that a book exists -- "there are so many new books coming out, it's a constant struggle," says Douglas Gibson, publisher and chief executive at McClelland &amp; Stewart. "The bad review is better than no review at all. Traditionally the newspaper review has been the main way to alert people and continues to be -- that may change over time. The Internet is an interesting new opportunity to get at specific markets." B.C. publisher Karl Siegler, owner of Talon books, which specializes in poetry, plays, fiction and translations, says he looks to the Internet rather than newspapers for reviews of specialized titles. "The reviews Amazon solicits and publishes are of more exotic books. I am quite happy with what happens there. We get more and more requests from people who have seen our Web site and the dotcom sites like Barnes & Noble and Amazon in the U.S. The best way of promoting books is word-of-mouth and the Internet sites tend to be the closest of that kind of discourse." Marc Cot&eacute;, is owner of Cormorant Books in Toronto, which last year published nine titles. "The Vancouver Sun ran reviews of three of them, the Saskatoon Star Phoenix and the Toronto Star, also reviewed three, the Globe &amp; Mail reviewed five of nine, and the National Post did zero of nine," he says.</blockquote>Enter Integration Research. thanks <a href="http://www.jordoncooper.sk.ca/">jordon</a> 60ElsewheredanielThu, April 03, 2003publish<a href="http://www.theyblinked.com/blog/2003_03_30_theyblinked_archive.html#91729145">theyblinked</a><blockquote>shut up and do something real without explanation. let the event be narrated in retrospect.</blockquote> 59QuotabledanielThu, April 03, 2003publish<a href="http://www.relevantmagazine.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=946&mode=&order=0">i think i'm a communist :: relevant magazine</a> interesting discussion 58LinksdanielThu, April 03, 2003publish<a href="http://www.thismodernworld.com/index.rdf">this modern world RSS feed</a> 57LinksdanielThu, April 03, 2003publishben hammersley on arnett<a href="http://www.benhammersley.com/archives/004444.html">ben hammersley.com: peter arnett and treason.</a><blockquote>...what seems to be escaping everyone's attention is that people are only interested in this because he was being interviewed on Iraqi television. Implying that such a statement is treasonous only if spoken on Iraqi television, but not if spoken on TV, Radio, or in the press elsewhere. This is nonsensical. Iraq has just as much access to the other satellite stations as we do in the rest of the world. If an American correspondent on US soil had expressed the same views to a BBC journalist in London, and such views had been broadcast on BBC World and viewed in Iraq, would that be treason? By definition, yes. What about newspaper editorials published on the internet? Against Bush? Is that comforting to the enemy? Well, yes. Coverage of anti-war marches on US television? The editors are giving succour to the enemy there, I'd say. Such a law, if upheld in the manner being talked about for Arnett - describing 'comfort' as psychological, rather than material - is completely meaningless in a world of internationalised media. Any view, other than that of impending total defeat, could be classified as treason - no matter who made it, or where it was expressed. Ultimately, any view made public contrary to that of the government could be expressed as such...</blockquote> 56ElsewheredanielThu, April 03, 2003publishIraqi embargo breach forces key Bosnian official to resign<a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/5545373.htm">the miami herald | 04/03/2003 | iraqi embargo breach forces key bosnian official to resign</a><blockquote>bosnia's top directly elected official resigned wednesday after being implicated in a local company's violation of the u.n. arms embargo against iraq, the speaker of the bosnian serb parliament said. mirko sarovic, a bosnian serb who was the chairman of the country's three-member multiethnic presidency, knew about and failed to stop the illegal export of refurbished engines for iraq's military aircraft, according to a team of international investigators. the team's report was presented last week to bosnia's top international official, paddy ashdown.</blockquote> 55BalkansdanielThu, April 03, 2003publish<a href="http://home.attbi.com/~no-spam/Beer.swf">beer is good for you</a> 54LinksdanielWed, April 02, 2003publish<a href="http://www.nancies.org/news/?id=542">nancies.org: news</a> awesome april fools joke!! 53LinksdanielWed, April 02, 2003publish<a href="http://www.benhammersley.com/archives/004433.html">ben hammersley.com: i'm going to get socks. this is a good thing</a> <blockquote>hell, as the saying goes, when mozart was my age he'd been dead three years. (well, ok, not really, but my opera isn't coming on as fast as i'd like.)</blockquote> 52QuotabledanielWed, April 02, 2003publish<a href="http://www.firethistime.org/">the fire this time</a> 51LinksdanielTue, April 01, 2003publish<a href="http://www.notinournamemusic.com/home.php">not in our name music</a> saul williams, coldcut, dj goo and dj spooky... 50LinksdanielTue, April 01, 2003publishI love bragging about M<img src="images/DSCN0588_web.jpg" /> I know this might get old for the rest of you not married to her, but I just have to tell you about this one thing: Miriam right now is reading like her 4th <a href="http://kiosk.mdlf.org/estore/product?id=231">book</a> written entirely in Bosnian. This latest one is written by a Bosnian, but it is presented as the translation of letters written between an American aid worker in Bosnia and his gay lover back home, complete with translation notes. Take that David-Foster Wallace. Here is a bit from when the American found a note written in English on his windshield:<blockquote>...dont park andr maj balkoni. If aj dont let to san of maj nejbrs tu parking hije, vaj aj &scaron;ud let ju? I nou det ju mejk fri maj kantri, and aj nou det ju a kipers of auer bradrhud end junihud, but this is maj andrbalkoni teritori. Aj &scaron;el fajting for that teritori... Bat, if ju ask mi for premi&scaron;n, aj vil eloud ju tu parking andr maj balkoni. Bikouz, aj em -- merhametli. Ther is nou ingli&scaron; vord for merhametli, ajem &scaron;ur. It is min det aj hev a gud soul.</blockquote>Just keep reading it outloud until you start getting it. It's totally funny. 49MinutiadanielTue, April 01, 2003publish<blockquote>France is considering changing its name to Freedom.</blockquote>from <a href="http://mpt.phrasewise.com/2003/03/31#a487">mpt</a>. just realized this belonged in quotable. 48QuotabledanielMon, March 31, 2003publish<a href="http://www.blackjackinc.com/subcatmfgprod.asp?0=203&1=210&2=-1"><img src="http://www.blackjackinc.com/images/products/ihb_stkr_usmellbutt_b_white.gif" border="0" /></a> 47ElsewheredanielMon, March 31, 2003publish<a href="http://www.20things.org/">20 things. 20 people. 20 days.</a> 46LinksdanielMon, March 31, 2003publish<a href="http://benbubar.blogspot.com/WWN.jpg">ben bubar is f*ckin famous man!</a> 45LinksdanielSun, March 30, 2003publish<a href="http://www.iraqometer.com/">iraq-o-meter</a> 44LinksdanielSun, March 30, 2003publishpostcardJust in case you didn't think he was for real: <a href="http://www.vagabonding.com/"><img src="images/india_post1.jpg" border="0"> <img src="images/india_post2.jpg" border="0"></a> One of the coolest things about online interactions is when they go live. In other news, it is snowing like crazy today. Woo. 42MinutiadanielSun, March 30, 2003publishRSS feeds in MTSo I did my first <a href="http://moveabletype.org">MT</a> install yesterday, and realized that a lot of people who don't advertise their RSS feed, but use MT, probably do have them residing on their server. For example, here are two sites I've subscribed to without their advertising their feeds: <a href="http://www.lt-smash.us/">Lt. Smash</a>: <a href="http://www.lt-smash.us/index.rdf">RSS 1.0</a> <a href="http://www.lt-smash.us/index.xml">RSS 0.91</a> <a href="http://jeansandatshirt.com/">jeans and a t-shirt</a>: <a href="http://jeansandatshirt.com/index.rdf">RSS 1.0</a> <a href="http://jeansandatshirt.com/index.xml">RSS 0.91</a> In case you didn't figure it out, if a site doesn't show an RSS feed link, just look for "index.rdf" or "index.xml" depending on which RSS version you would like. 41ElsewheredanielSun, March 30, 2003publish<a href="http://www.christianpornmachine.com/index.rdf">the christian porn machine RSS feed</a> 40LinksdanielSat, March 29, 2003publishIn observance of exactly 1 month to our departure, the flag and a slightly modified version of the countdown clock once again make their appearance. <a href="/miriam">Miriam</a> posts pictures from our racing experience that was part of my birthday celebrations. 39MinutiadanielSat, March 29, 2003publishmore editing, more solemnnessIf you want a really bizzare, humbling, depressing, startling, and bewildering look at humanity, just repeat my last night of consumption: Start with <a href="http://pennebakerhegedusfilms.com/films/startupcom.html">startup.com</a>, a documentary about the rise and fall of a dot com, govWorks.com. Then watch <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/iraq/">this frontline program</a>, which is entirely online, an amazing and highly informative look at how US foreign policy has changed in the last 10 years. Finally read chapter 5 in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393040127/qid=1048529987/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-6897918-8080130?v=glance&s=books">our current read, Cafe Europa</a>. Excerpts:<blockquote>...But the myth of the advantage of living in the West has not lost its power since the demise of communism. Bringing presents is not only a social habit, the nice and expected gesture of someone who has 'been there' ...There is also a psychologocial mechanism at work here, namely the egalitarian principle with which we all grew up. It reminds me of a little boy of about seven whom I met in Bucharest. My taxi had stopped at some traffic lights. He ran up to me and said: 'Speak English?' When I nodded, he stretched out his hand through the open car window. 'Give money!' he said. 'Why?' I asked him, not really expecting him to understand me. To my astonishment, he looked at me as if surprised by my stupidity. 'You have, I not have,' he explained seriously in his rudimentary English. There was nothing wrong with the boy's logic. It was obvious that he had no money, otherwise he would not have been asking me for it. It was obvious that I had money, otherwise I would not have been driving around in a taxi. Even at his age he knew that there are basically two categories of people in a society: those who have, and those who have not. But according to the egalitarian principles of any communist society, those 'haves' should share with the 'have nots'. And because there is not much to share anyway, in the end that egalitarianism boils down to the equal distribution of poverty. At least it would in theory--in practice it did not quite work.</blockquote><blockquote>Class differences were established immediately after the communist revolution, first by those who themselves promoted the idea of a classless society, that is the leaders or the 'red bourgeoisie', as Milovan Djilas called them. But the egalitarian ideology survived in different forms, for example in codes of behaviour. The equation in my case looks like this: I live in the West. I have, therefore I am obliged to share.</blockquote><blockquote>My secret is that I do not like what they see as my great luck, I do not like living abroad all that much.</blockquote> 38CommentdanielSat, March 29, 2003publish<a href="http://ftrain.com/pittsburgh_rachel.html">ftrain: pittsburgh, pa</a> 37LinksdanielFri, March 28, 2003publish<a href="http://www.disenchanted.com/">disenchanted - opinions and ideas</a> cul stuff with an <a href="http://www.disenchanted.com/channel.xml">RSS feed</a> and <a href="http://www.disenchanted.com/recent-dictionary.xml">another one for their "dictionary" section</a>--"a non-linear editorial"--get definitions of words like "Corpus callosum" "Tabula rasa" and "<a href="http://www.disenchanted.com/dis/lookup.html?node=1847">Ductile</a>" right in your newsreader, and not just yer typical 1.2.3 either, paragraphs of explanation, commentary, and deconstruction. 36ElsewheredanielFri, March 28, 2003publish<a href="http://www.eldritchpress.org/">eldritch press</a> 35LinksdanielFri, March 28, 2003publish<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/16/arts/music/16WALK.html">NYT: do arrangers destroy or create?</a> Isn't a composer's music his or her personal property? And isn't it a form of theft to appropriate it? If that were the case, many of the greatest composers in history would be guilty of grand larceny. And as for those artful dodgers Bach and Handel, we would have to dismiss them as musical kleptomaniacs. They and others never took the slightest interest in the "moral" point of view. Music, for them, was there to be recycled, time and again if necessary. For the rest, since all good arrangers put in more than they take out, and since nothing is destroyed, the whole of music benefits. 34LinksdanielFri, March 28, 2003publish<a href="http://www.dashes.com/anil/index.php?archives/005640.php">anil dash</a> secrets of music promotion 33LinksdanielFri, March 28, 2003publish<a href="http://www.vagabonding.com/gallery/archives/000081.html">vagabonding</a> the newest vid is tre cul 32LinksdanielFri, March 28, 2003publish<a href="http://www.markfiore.com/animation/liberation.html">Fiore - congratulations! - 3/26/03</a> (flash) 31LinksdanielFri, March 28, 2003publishyes yes these are good<a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.12/netflix.html">wired 10.12: the netflix effect</a><blockquote>Netflix doesn't just deliver DVDs, it tells subscribers which ones they'll probably like, thanks to the Netflix recommendation engine &#45;&#45; a combination of 29,000 unique lines of code and a database of 180 million film ratings known as CineMatch. It's based on the assumption that movie viewers all watch the same narrow range of big-budget films only because they don't know any better. When it comes to mainstream movies, huge billboards and expensive TV spots are the most efficient way to drive the masses to theaters. With off-center movies, studios spend almost nothing on promotion; mass marketing is too pricey, so they just put the film out there and hope for the best. Indie films, meanwhile, often get lost in the noise. The rental market only reinforces this pattern: The hits get promoted while the smaller films are ignored. The average video store generates 80 percent of rental activity from 200 titles. It's called Blockbuster for a reason. CineMatch doesn't focus on the mass market; it caters to the individual. Netflix encourages subscribers to rate the movies they've viewed, and CineMatch recommends titles similar to those well liked &#45;&#45; regardless of a film's popularity at the box office. As a result, the average renter expands his or her tastes. Seventy percent of the movies Netflix customers rent are recommended to them on the site; 80 percent of rental activity comes from 2,000 titles. This decreases demand for popular new releases, which is good for Netflix, whose revenue-sharing agreements require larger payouts for such films. Such customization is foreign to Blockbuster, which has a massive database of rental data and no idea which films customers enjoy. But the concept is hardly unique...CineMatch may not be as ambitious or as well-executed as Amazon's engine, but it's more effective, because customers are more likely to accept the suggestions. Amazon's tool has the feel of a slick Circuit City salesman engaged in the hard sell. On Netflix, the recommendations are included in the cost of a subscription, making CineMatch seem more like the geeky clerk at a small video store. He sets aside titles he knows you'll like and tells you to return them whenever. ...Today's Hollywood produces films for Middle America. If our tastes truly are so homogenous, then Walmart.com and Blockbuster, which have flourished by catering to the masses, should topple Netflix. But if Middle America has been a caricature &#45;&#45; a market of convenience &#45;&#45; all along, then CineMatch could be a real weapon.</blockquote>I finally was reading this issue of Wired last night and was like YES. This is it. This is Integration Research. Not the business plan, not providing a service, but the innovation in distribution and education--YES. 30ElsewheredanielFri, March 28, 2003publishyup yup yup<a href="http://wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,58253,00.html">wired news: what's so free about this dvd?</a> 29LinksdanielFri, March 28, 2003publishgimmie gimmie please please<blockquote>Whenever I talk to a band who are about to sign with a major label, I always end up thinking of them in a particular context. I imagine a trench, about four feet wide and five feet deep, maybe sixty yards long, filled with runny, decaying shit. I imagine these people, some of them good friends, some of them barely acquaintances, at one end of this trench. I also imagine a faceless industry lackey at the other end, holding a fountain pen and a contract waiting to be signed. Nobody can see what's printed on the contract. It's too far away, and besides, the shit stench is making everybody's eyes water. The lackey shouts to everybody that the first one to swim the trench gets to sign the contract. Everybody dives in the trench and they struggle furiously to get to the other end. Two people arrive simultaneously and begin wrestling furiously, clawing each other and dunking each other under the shit. Eventually, one of them capitulates, and there's only one contestant left. He reaches for the pen, but the Lackey says, "Actually, I think you need a little more development. Swim it again, please. Backstroke." And he does, of course.</blockquote><a href="http://www.arancidamoeba.com/mrr/problemwithmusic.html">steve albini: the problem with music</a> Be sure to read the sample budget at the bottom of the article... Think about this next time you buy a CD from the majors. Think about alternatives. 28ElsewheredanielFri, March 28, 2003publishBoo-ya!Today was a monumental day in the writing career of Daniel Miller. He got paid. He got his first ever royalties report. (With the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00007FYBD/qid=1048811482/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-6897918-8080130?v=glance&s=books">other book</a> he did, he just got paid in one lump sum. It was a great take, but he doesn't want to see the sales reports...He'll just thank the Internet bubble and presently stop talking about himself in the third person.) Thank you <a href="http://www.relevantmediagroup.com/">Relevant Media Group</a>! <a href="http://www.relevantmediagroup.com/">We love you</a>! Everyone, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0971457603/qid%3D1048811907/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/102-6897918-8080130">buy I Am Relevant</a>! Help me pay another 6 days rent! Every long journey begins with one small step. Or something. I think I'm going to start just making silly titles for every entry. 27MinutiadanielThu, March 27, 2003publish<a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58219,00.html">wired news: when a free download isn't free</a><blockquote>It's like I gave away the contents of a bookstore and then realized I had to pay the rent.</blockquote>I only put this here because it is a valuable lession for Integration Research's plans. This author was inspired by an editorial by O'Reilly that I quote in my Integration Research introduction. 26ElsewheredanielThu, March 27, 2003publish <a href="http://www.marchofdeath.com/">march of death</a> Holy shit! DJ Shadow and Zack de la Rocha! Although honestly it just makes me mourn the breakup of RATM. Not the same but a cul collaboration nonetheless. Mp3 on the site. <div style="background: black;" align="center"> <img src="http://marchofdeath.com/images/lyric2.gif" /> </div> 25ElsewheredanielThu, March 27, 2003publish <a href="http://www.remhq.com/finalStraw/finalstraw.html">r.e.m.: final straw</a><blockquote>Now love cannot be called into question. Forgiveness is the only hope I hold. And love--love will be my strongest weapon. I do believe that I am not alone. For this fear will not destroy me. And the tears that have been shed It's knowing now where I am weakest And the voice in my head. In my head. Then I raise my voice up higher And I look you in the eye And I offer love with one condition. With conviction, tell me why. Tell me why. Tell me why. Look me in the eye. Tell me why.</blockquote>The link goes to a page where you can choose between Windows Media or Quicktime. Via the newly redesigned <a href="http://jeansandatshirt.com/index.html">jeansandatshirt</a>.24ElsewheredanielThu, March 27, 2003publishKung Fu Grippe <blockquote>Given the din of enthusiastic bloggers who have switched from being experts on cheese sandwiches and kitty cats to full-on public policy wonks, you'd have to infer that there's a whole lot of ravenous web surfers changing sides one way or another and back everyday. You know, from the persuasive arguments, and the links, and all. But I don't think it's happening...</blockquote><blockquote>For myself, my short-term, war-time MRE will be a nice big helping of "shut the fuck up" while I seek some less noisy--and less arrogant--voices on an incredibly complicated matter. The choir on both sides is pretty well preached out at this point--now, how about climbing off the comfort of the soapbox for a couple days and talking about some ways of understanding each other's position better?</blockquote><a href="http://www.kungfugrippe.com/previously/002231.php">Merlin Mann</a> Hopefully that is what we're doing.23QuotabledanielThu, March 27, 2003publishMellencamp I've never talked about Mellencamp before, I actually don't have a single record of his, and maybe it's at the risk of sounding campy (heh), but he is one of my fav musicians. His next record is supposed to be more 'folk' ...if the new song released on mp3 is any indication, it is going to be a great album. <a href="http://www.mellencamp.com/news/old_news/John_Mellencamp_To_Washington.mp3">To Washington</a> (2.5M mp3)<blockquote>What is the thought process To take a humans life What would be the reason To think that this is right From heaven to Washington From Jesus Christ to Washington</blockquote>22ElsewheredanielThu, March 27, 2003publish<a href="http://www.ftrain.com/cgi-bin/l_operation.cgi?num_ops=10">ftrain.com: "american military operation name generating device"</a> 21LinksdanielWed, March 26, 2003publishlove it!Turns out my little temporary installation did get some response out of people. I got a few emails about it, but online it did make one small ripple. It was <a href="http://www.nccc.org.au/signposts/archives/2003_03_16_archives#91095855">mentioned on signposts</a>, and a nice discussion followed (thanks Dan for defending me!), which led to <a href="http://arguewithsigns.blogspot.com/2003_03_23_arguewithsigns_archive.html#91347533">a warblogger talking about it</a>, and another nice discussion. I of course love any reaction that my art creates, so I was stoked to see this. I only have one response: My "Thou Shalt Not Kill" installation was art. It wasn't a complete treatise on the position of the Old Testament in regards to killing. It was a simple statement. I did not even know if there was a translation of the bible that put it that way--although I thought the fact that it was the King James would appease the conservative crowd (ha ha). Please do yourself a favor and take art for what it is. Give that left brain of yours a rest and take the right side out for a walk every now and again.20ElsewheredanielWed, March 26, 2003publishOpen letter to CNN re: Sites <a href="http://www.kevinsites.net/">kevinsites.net</a>: <blockquote>I've been asked to suspend my war blogging for awhile...</blockquote><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12179-2003Mar22.html">washingtonpost.com</a>: <blockquote>CNN told Sites to suspend the blog Friday, with spokeswoman Edna Johnson saying that covering war "is a full-time job and we've asked Kevin to concentrate only on that for the time being."</blockquote> Dear CNN, You are full of shit, and you have shot yourself in the foot. Personally, I gave up on your network during the post-Sept-11 media chaos, mentally grouping you with Fox News and Miami's Channel 7. Kevin's blog, however, was the start of a new respect for your organization, based on the fact that one of your employs had the character and foresight to blog his experience. His blog does not divert from your coverage or distract him from his work--it gives credibility to your service, and completes the narrative arc in a way your super-cheesy achors could never do.19ElsewheredanielTue, March 25, 2003publish<a href="http://www.meshcap.com/">meshcap.com</a> 18LinksdanielTue, March 25, 2003publishDaniel is 28 today...Hi, this is <a href="http://www.danielsjourney.com/miriam">Miriam</a> (Daniel's wife). I'm secretly posting this to his blog to let you all know that it's his birthday today!! Please be kind and let this wonderful, creative, thougthful, honest, intelligent, and kind person know how much you appreciate him. Thanks! 17CommentmiriamTue, March 25, 2003publish<a href="http://www.gatheringmyway.blogspot.com/2003_03_01_gatheringmyway_archive.html#91353938">::..:: gathering my way ::..::</a> ...sydney in ethiopia ...read and stay tuned to the saga of adopting 4 kids at once (when you already have 8!) 16LinksdanielTue, March 25, 2003publish<a href="http://www.unknownnews.net/google.html">google refuses our ad, from unknown news</a> 15LinksdanielTue, March 25, 2003publish<a href="http://discover.npr.org/rundowns/segment.jhtml?wfId=1200993">npr : commentary: american in paris</a> 14LinksdanielMon, March 24, 2003publish<a href="http://www.ladyinterference.com/assorteds/nineties.html">your personality has come home</a> my personality is living in the 90's 13LinksdanielMon, March 24, 2003publish<a href="http://www.fakeheresy.blogspot.com/">fake heresy : bible truths you never knew...</a> 12LinksdanielMon, March 24, 2003publishSigur Ros picsSomeone went to the Sigur Ros show last week. Someone squeezed their way up to the stage. Someone had their digital camera. Someone made a lot of other observations and was going to write them all down, but now is not the time. Like their music (1st record sung in Icelandic, second in their own made-up language), words cannot do the experience justice. All images beyond: <img src="images/sigur_ros/ticket.png" /> <img src="images/sigur_ros/balcony.jpg" /> <img src="images/sigur_ros/stage1.jpg" /> <img src="images/sigur_ros/stage2.jpg" /> <img src="images/sigur_ros/stage3.jpg" /> <img src="images/sigur_ros/stage4.jpg" /> <img src="images/sigur_ros/stage5.jpg" /> <img src="images/sigur_ros/stage13.jpg" /> No flash on any of these pics. On that last one, I had already gone back to the bar to stand with <a href="http://boboroshi.com">John</a>...I had been stageside for at least half of the set, waiting for the singer to come back to this microphone...I gave up, but when I saw him finally go back to it during one song of the encore, I marched back up there, propped the camera on a speaker (above my head and at arms length, I could barely see the LCD), and shot the rest of my memory card. Lovely that they saw fit to use a lot of white lighting during that song as well... 11ImaginingdanielMon, March 24, 2003publishaww f*k itwhat difference does it make anyway? here's something we read last night:<blockquote>The war in the Balkans is the product of that 'us', of that huge, 20 million-bodied mass swinging back and forth in waves, then following their leaders into mass hysteria. Individuals who were against the war, who saw it coming, where could they turn? To what organization or institution? There was no organised political alternative. The individual citizen had no chance to voice his protest or his opinion, not even his fear. He could only leave the country--and so people did...As a consequence of this 'us', no civic society developed. The little there was, in the form of small, isolated and marginalised groups, was soon swallowed up by the national homogenisation that did not permit any differences, any individualism. As under communism, individualism was punished--individuals speaking out against war, or against nationalism, were singled out as 'traitors'.</blockquote>Slavenka Drakulic in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393040127/qid=1048529987/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-6897918-8080130?v=glance&s=books">Cafe Europa</a>, 1996 10CommentdanielMon, March 24, 2003publish<a href="http://www.thesimon.com/">the simon magazine</a> 9LinksdanielMon, March 24, 2003publish<a href="http://cagle.slate.msn.com/working/030319/breen.gif">the flag</a> 8LinksdanielMon, March 24, 2003publish<a href="http://www.dashes.com/anil/index.php?archives/005482.php">anil dash</a> explaining trackback 7LinksdanielMon, March 24, 2003publishOn hospitality <a href="http://www.danielsjourney.com/index.php?archive=blog_2002_12_02.xml&id_pass=2">historical</a> I am constantly amused and intrigued by American's wealth, and their fear of poverty. In fact, very few Americans know poverty, nor will they, no matter how foolish they are with their resources. But many people I have met in other countries that are poor display the greatest amount of generosity and hospitality. So why? I think it is another product of fear (not to get too Donnie Darko or anything). We are afraid we won't have enough money for next month's car payment, next year's mortgage payments, retirement. Which is funny: the car is fancier than you need, the house is bigger than you need, and how many people die every year and leave their adult children a sizable inheritance? (A: all those who are afraid of running out of retirement money.) We are afraid to be generous in the present moment because we are afraid of our own future. We are afraid of wanting ourselves, so we are powerless to give to those who are wanting now. The wealthiest, most secure nation in the world lives in total fear of poverty and insecurity. Comedy. No wonder we can't be hospitable. We are eating ourselves alive. Lazyweb: Anyone have a sound clip or transcript of Marilyn Manson's interview in Bowling for Columbine when he describes the American media as trained to keep us in fear so we consume more? He nailed it on the head with that one comment. It's not included in the video clip on the BFC website.6CommentdanielSun, March 23, 2003publishOn acceptance That thing we call community, that place of acceptance, it is a tricky thing. This weekend I realized that I get more of it from hundreds, maybe thousands, who read this site than I do from the people I either once considered part of my physical community, or from whom I have forever longed understanding and acceptance. [<a href="http://danielsjourney.com/index.php?file=blog_2002_12_02.xml&id=26">historical</a>] <hr> On cussin <a href="http://danielsjourney.com/index.php?archive=blog_2002_12_15.xml&id_pass=55">Yes it happens to all of us</a>, but--and here we go, so please stop with the flattery, it gets you nowhere*--<a href="http://waterbrain.blogspot.com/2003_03_01_waterbrain_archive.html#91152652">we do so love hatemail</a>! Whoot! *But I do like it.5CommentdanielSun, March 23, 2003publish<a href="http://www.phototropos.com/stateofsecurity/index2.html">state of security</a> (2.5 M flash but way worth it) 4LinksdanielSun, March 23, 2003publishOn Photography 01. On photography: I was taking pictures in the Pennsylvania countryside today and had these thoughts: 01a. My approach to photography is actually backwards: my first concern is the subject, then the framing, then the light (I don't even know more technical details than just light). Sometimes there isn't enough light, or not the right angle, and I will try for a while; but I still shoot the thing because it interested me. 01b. My joy and hope in photography is to notice something that the rest of humanity is passing by (these types of photos are also the ones that I enjoy the most). All day we go about our business, passing hundreds or thousands of objects and people of great beauty. To actually stop, notice, and record that beauty is an act of great meaning.3ImaginingdanielSat, March 22, 2003publish<a href="http://jacksonville.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/stories/2003/03/17/daily14.html">dixie chicks axed by clear channel</a> 2LinksdanielSat, March 22, 2003publish<a href="http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15418">alternet: the media companies' fcc wishlist</a> 1LinksdanielSat, March 22, 2003publish