ring around the rosey blah blah blah&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://jonnybaker.blogs.com/jonnybaker/emerging_church/index.html&quot;&gt;Reading&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://moot.uk.net/blog/mootblog.htm&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jenlemen.com/&quot;&gt;conversation&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://aidanslegacy.blogspot.com/2004/05/uk-vs-usa-battle-royale.html&quot;&gt;is&lt;/a&gt; like reading about the plague. As opposed to &lt;a href=&quot;http://withadot.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;getting into the lab and running cell targeting experiments&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sevenmagazine.org/index.php?archive=122002_06&quot;&gt;I wrote the last thing I wrote about this topic&lt;/a&gt; a long time ago. (Most links to my site broken in there...any danielsjourney.com/index links can be fixed by inserting blog/.)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I feel like everything that is being said is just long-winded versions of what I said there a year and a half ago:&lt;blockquote&gt;That culture is different than US culture (really, wow, I didn&apos;t know that). &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;...Those of us exploring these ideas in the US will likely never enjoy much of either. For every 100 still digging the hole deeper, there is only 1 of us trying to bury the rest alive. If you feel some dirt falling on your head from above, count yourself lucky, and climb up out of there! &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;...The US is the biggest, baddest game in town, in many respects, culture being one of them. Our culture is like a train: really hard to stop and not planning on doing so until it reaches the end of the tracks. Alt.worship grew up in a car: the passenger is free to grab the steering wheel and give it a hard turn at any moment, driver or no. We cannot really hope to redirect the train, we just have to find the empty freight car where the hobos hang out.&lt;/blockquote&gt;I feel like asking, &quot;What did you expect?&quot; It was a &lt;strong&gt;conference&lt;/strong&gt;, after all. A programatic event for people who expect programs. You &lt;strong&gt;presented&lt;/strong&gt; on alt.worship programs and disliked the programmatic worship. If it looked like UK alt.worship would you have liked it more? Because it still wouldn&apos;t have worked because it would have been out of context. We simply need to be creative within our own contexts, but the overpowering context of programmatic worship has not yet been shed, and that paradigm is antithetical to the ethos of alt.worship. Stop showing US evan&apos;s how to loop video and start convincing them that there is no reproducible method for authentic worship. (Yet alone a sustainable model for the same anywhere in our near future. &quot;...setting up an emerging church for a maximum of 50-100 people for not very much salary or working part-time in Pizza Hut does appeal very much at all to pastors.&quot; So why are we still talking to pastors?)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;If I sound frustrated it is because I am. And this frustration is the reason I gave up on this conversation a year and a half ago. Re-entering it for one morning it seems like all the words are the same, just the people saying them are different (save the full-time people). And so I will again exit stage left and get back into the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bluejake.com/archives/2004/05/29/cortlandt_alley_2.php&quot;&gt;alley&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;Steve: i guess the other thing is that in england alt w got a very public kick-start from NOS... &lt;p&gt;Me: well i guess if what we need to make it over here is a good sex scandal, we all need to move into the catholic church!&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://integrationresearch.org/images/confessional1.png&quot;&gt;irony&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Riddell did say at Greenbelt last year (paraphrasing), &quot;They&apos;re not &apos;post-evangelical,&apos; they&apos;re just &apos;pre-Catholic.&apos;&quot;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;all...talk and no do.&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;Later: &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theyblinked.com/blog/2004_05_30_theyblinked_archive.html#108602386727146303&quot;&gt;it is getting words around this discontent that i am finding difficult. perhaps, it is simply that i am impatient with the places people choose to settle.&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;558CommentDaniel2004-05-31T14:30:45-05:00publishwhen you live on a bridge...&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;the shiverian&quot; href=&quot;http://www.camplongridge.org/weblog/blogger.html&quot;&gt;the shiverian&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;when you live on a bridge, you are exposed to all the elements all the time. there is very little rest.&lt;/blockquote&gt;557QuotableDaniel2004-05-31T13:28:57-05:00publishpeople using their mobile phones to find Mecca&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Intel study upsets ideas of how products are used&quot; href=&quot;http://www.oregonlive.com/business/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/business/1084017497220270.xml&quot;&gt;Intel study upsets ideas of how products are used&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;In the West, one of the critical metaphors we use to divide up our time and our space is the idea of the negotiation between work and leisure. Those are the two categories into which most of our activities fall, and when you think about the kind of models people assume for technology use, it&apos;s one of those two things. But what if there&apos;s a third set of activities that are really important? What if there are things around play, or religion or health and wellness that don&apos;t neatly fit into the work or leisure category? &lt;p&gt;One of the things that became clear in Asia, and is becoming true in the West, but we&apos;re not really good at seeing it, is that people are using these technologies for those third activities. In Asia, it&apos;s visible in the way people use mobile devices to support religious activities. The nicest example is people using their mobile phones to find Mecca. LGE, a Korean handset company, has produced a Mecca-finding handset with GPS technology in it. So it&apos;s a tool of religious devotion. They anticipated selling 300 million units in the first couple years.&lt;/blockquote&gt;I&apos;ve always been disappointed by Christianity&apos;s lack of daily ritual as truly integrated experience. The &quot;disciplines&quot; constructed by modern iterations--&quot;quiet time&quot; et. al.--are so cheesy and lack the physical or interruptive qualities that might induce meaning (&quot;QT&quot; usually induces sleep). &lt;a href=&quot;http://smallritual.org&quot;&gt;Others&lt;/a&gt; have of course &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.btinternet.com/~smallritual/spiritual_signage.html&quot;&gt;given thought&lt;/a&gt; to such things (that&apos;s just one example of many from one person of many).&lt;/p&gt;556SocialDaniel2004-05-31T12:54:54-05:00publishDoors&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;images/2004_05/cityi.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I am a man without a home. I live in this city. I enjoy its company, its textures, its bright days and stormy nights. I have glorious brick walls and huge windows and ancient wood floors. I stumble across beauty with equal frequency as always. And it is in the response to this beauty that I find what I am missing. For at the moment that my heart swell should be pouring from the top of my head like a fount, I hear but a squeak. Life should be Godzilla crashing through the walls, but it is only a mouse hiding in the corner of the closet. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;images/2004_05/roofi.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I am a man without a home. I am displaced. I know many who are misplaced. We gather around, our damaged souls nod quietly. We will be here, we will be together, but we will never be home. Its pieces are strewn around the globe. A living room in Europe. A kitchen in Asia. A bedroom in Australia. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I read her words of happiness, of being at the center, of freedom. I wonder if they equal being happy, centered, and free. I read her words of it, as if it was a thing that happened to us, a weather event, an invading nation, a hostile takeover. Such detachment. I wonder how they do that.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;images/2004_05/doori.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I&apos;m at a door, and while it feels just a step or two away, no matter how many steps I take it remains just that step or two away.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;images/2004_05/doorii.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;It is like I&apos;m in an endless hallway, and each door leads to a different time, but so many of them lead to a past life. I keep opening them, but I keep seeing the past. And I so desperately wish for that door that opens to things of which I do not already know.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;images/2004_05/dooriii2.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.danielsjourney.com/media/Innocence_Mission-Tomorrow_on_the_Runway.mp3&quot;&gt;The Innocence Mission - Tomorrow On The Runway&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.danielsjourney.com/media/Sufjan%20Stevens%20-%20The%20Dress%20Looks%20Nice%20On%20You.mp3&quot;&gt;Sufjan Stevens - The Dress Looks Nice Nice On You&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.danielsjourney.com/media/Iron%20and%20Wine%20-%20Jesus_the_Mexican_boy235.mp3&quot;&gt;Iron and Wine - Jesus the Mexican Boy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;555FictionDaniel2004-05-30T23:25:09-05:00publishWWW2004 Semantic Web Roundup&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;XML.com: WWW2004 Semantic Web Roundup [May. 26, 2004]&quot; href=&quot;http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/05/26/www2004.html&quot;&gt;XML.com: WWW2004 Semantic Web Roundup [May. 26, 2004]&lt;/a&gt; by Paul Ford&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;second article. I referenced the first &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.danielsjourney.com/blog/index.php?file=2004_05.xml&amp;id=530&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;The Semantic Web focus was not without its critics. Elliotte Rusty Harold posted the following to his site after listening to one of the many Semantic Web-related presentations at the conference: &lt;blockquote&gt;I feel like I&apos;m a mechanical engineer in 1904 listening to a bunch of other engineers talks about airplanes, but nobody&apos;s willing to show me how they actually expect to get their flying machines into the air. Maybe they can do it, but I won&apos;t believe it until I see a plane in the air, and even then I really want to take the machine apart before I believe it isn&apos;t a disguised hot air balloon. A lot of what I&apos;m hearing this morning sounds like it could float a few balloons.&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;Both Berners-Lee and Harold are asking the same question from different vantages: where are the applications? There is a framework, not yet fully proven, for a massively distributed, world-wide database, glued together by ontologies -- and now what?&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;If the answer to &quot;what can I do with the WWW?&quot; was Mosaic 1.0, the question &quot;what can I do with the Semantic Web&quot; has no corresponding killer app. Indeed, Berners-Lee asked the assembled group to forget about killer apps totally&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;However, it does seem as if the Semantic Web has left its childhood and entered its adolescence...As with any adolescent, it is difficult to know exactly what sort of adult it will become: a set of interlinked desktop tools? A component on the server side? A tool for scientists, or one for publishing TV schedules? While the destiny of the Semantic Web is impossible to predict, one thing was made clear at WWW2004: the next 12 months will be the Semantic Web&apos;s chance to stand up and prove itself, if it is going to do so.&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bibster.semanticweb.org/&quot;&gt;Bibster&lt;/a&gt; does indeed look promising.&lt;/p&gt;552DesignDaniel2004-05-29T17:00:50-05:00publishNasty Worm<p>I got a particularly evil worm housed in a particularly evil socially engineered email. No it never executed...I just want to warn others who might fall prey to its scheme. It&apos;s targeted at people who have their own domains, and I know a lot of people who have domains and might not be keen enough to catch this one. No offense of course. Just looking out for you. The email is a spoofed email warning you about spoofed emails. Here&apos;s what mine looked like:<blockquote>----- Original Message ----- <br /> From: {fake}@integrationresearch.org<br /> To: {my email}<br /> Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 9:37 AM<br /> Subject: Email account utilization warning.</p> <p>Dear user of Integrationresearch.org,<br /> <br /> Some of our clients complained about the spam (negative e-mail content) outgoing from your e-mail account. Probably, you have been infected by a proxy-relay trojan server. In order to keep your computer safe, follow the instructions.<br /> <br /> Please, read the attach for further details.<br /> <br /> For security reasons attached file is password protected. The password is "56800".<br /> <br /> Sincerely,<br /> The Integrationresearch.org team http://www.integrationresearch.org</blockquote>Like I said. Evil. Attached was a zipped file and in the zip was a worm.</p>551DesignDaniel2004-05-29T13:33:51-05:00publishThe Cardigans on Morning Becomes Eclectic&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;KCRW Music: Morning Becomes Eclectic&quot; href=&quot;http://kcrw.com/cgi-bin/db/kcrw.pl?show_code=mb&amp;air_date=5/24/04&amp;tmplt_type=show&quot;&gt;KCRW Music: Morning Becomes Eclectic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;later: &lt;a href=&quot;http://thecardigans.olleprojects.net/en/Music/&quot;&gt;mp3&apos;s already avail on the &apos;net&lt;/a&gt;...gotta love that &apos;net.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I had been waiting for this, and it is amazing! Well worth your 40 minutes to watch this...&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I didn&apos;t even realize that the record hadn&apos;t come out yet in the States...&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.danielsjourney.com/blog/index.php?file=2003_08.xml&amp;id=51&quot;&gt;I got my hands on a copy last June&lt;/a&gt; thanks to &lt;a href=&quot;http://freshworship.org/who.html&quot; title=&quot;Adam will be found admist the cables and flashing lights of Grace&quot;&gt;Mr. Baxter&lt;/a&gt;. I also got &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005NV26/qid=1085786887/sr=1-5/ref=sr_1_5/103-4001206-5984634?v=glance&amp;s=music&quot;&gt;A Camp&lt;/a&gt; in November. Between those two records I became a bona fide &lt;a href=&quot;http://thecardigans.olleprojects.net/en/Band//Nina&quot;&gt;Nina Persson&lt;/a&gt; starfucker.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://cardigans.com/microsites/tourdiary/ustour2004/img/live/maxwells_23.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;hello!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cardigans.com&quot;&gt;Their website&lt;/a&gt; is a blog! {&lt;a href=&quot;http://cardigans.com/index.xml&quot;&gt;RSS&lt;/a&gt;} And now I see the US release has a bonus DVD...guess I&apos;m picking it up!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Lots of good media on the site...&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;later: ah well &lt;a href=&quot;http://thecardigans.olleprojects.net/img/images/216.jpg&quot;&gt;she&apos;s taken&lt;/a&gt; (that&apos;s her husband there...it took some doing to find this out though :)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;later still!: &lt;a href=&quot;http://thor.prohosting.com/bac2/&quot;&gt;11 aug. Dallas!!&lt;/a&gt; with liz phair!!&lt;/p&gt;550MusicDaniel2004-05-28T19:31:13-05:00publishDeluxe Printing&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://byrdhouse.typepad.com/photos/standard_deluxe/dsc01419-thumb.jpg&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; /&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Byrdhouse: Deluxe Printing&quot; href=&quot;http://byrdhouse.typepad.com/byrdhouse/2004/05/deluxe_printing.html&quot;&gt;Byrdhouse: Deluxe Printing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;There is a sleepy town in rural Alabama that boasts a population of only 255. It is home to one of the best silkscreen print shops in the country...&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;I&apos;m constantly intriqued by these artist communities (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.danielsjourney.com/blog/index.php?file=2004_04.xml&amp;id=408&quot;&gt;see also&lt;/a&gt;) that exist in what might seem geographically odd places. But it makes sense. And it&apos;s great to see precident for the kind of environment that my community here is trying to build, in our own context, and within our own timing.&lt;/p&gt;549DesignDaniel2004-05-28T17:46:00-05:00publishAdding Music to Serious Chat&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Full Circle Associates Online Interaction &amp; Community Blog: Adding Music to Serious Chat&quot; href=&quot;http://www.fullcirc.com/weblog/2004/05/adding-music-to-serious-chat.htm&quot;&gt;Full Circle Associates Online Interaction &amp; Community Blog: Adding Music to Serious Chat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;A year or so ago some folks in my &quot;Facilitating Online Interactions&quot; workshop did an experiment. We had a chat window open in one window, and loaded...harp music in another window. In effect we were all listening to the same music at the same time as we were chatting. &lt;p&gt;...It changed the experience of the chat. Thinking about bridging communications modalities as a way of improving/deepening and enriching online communications...Not only do we bridge across technical platforms, but we bridge senses and modalities.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;548SocialDaniel2004-05-28T12:32:25-05:00publishslowly converting the masses&lt;p&gt;David Hopkins and Ben Bubar now &lt;a href=&quot;http://monkhouse.blogspot.com/atom.xml&quot;&gt;both&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.benbubar.blogspot.com/atom.xml&quot;&gt;have&lt;/a&gt; Atom feeds. &lt;/p&gt;547LocalDaniel2004-05-28T01:31:18-05:00publishTheology Studio&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;The Theology Studio - Welcome&quot; href=&quot;http://www.thetheologystudio.com/main.cfm&quot;&gt;The Theology Studio - Welcome&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Friend John Wallis is on the panel for this event.&lt;/p&gt;546LocalDaniel2004-05-27T16:07:16-05:00publishTop-Selling Record Albums of All Time&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Top-Selling Record Albums of All Time&quot; href=&quot;http://www.infoplease.com/ipea/A0151020.html&quot;&gt;Top-Selling Record Albums of All Time&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;545MusicDaniel2004-05-27T03:33:54-05:00publishthe atom bonds that do it all&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;angermann2 » Caffeine molecule&quot; href=&quot;http://angermann2.com/109&quot;&gt;angermann2 » Caffeine molecule&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;543ElsewhereDaniel2004-05-26T15:07:05-05:00publishthe way the music died&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;frontline: coming soon: the way the music died | PBS&quot; href=&quot;http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/music/&quot;&gt;the way the music died&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Tomorrow night on PBS Frontline. Anyone in Dallas have a TV I could watch this on? Please let me know.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Update: It sucked! The only good parts were with &lt;a href=&quot;http://kcrw.com/show/mb&quot;&gt;KCRW&apos;s Morning Becomes Eclectic&lt;/a&gt;&apos;s Nic Harcourt, particularly his quote, &quot;...art and commerce colliding...it&apos;s a train wreck,&quot; (paraphrasing). But overall the program was completely unorganized, made no point, gave too much screentime to completely idiotic industry talking heads, etc. The only thing it accomplished was to prove, once again, that the music industry sucks, is run by soul-less people, and they pretty much know it and don&apos;t care and want to blame internet P2P filesharing for everything.&lt;/p&gt;542MusicDaniel2004-05-26T15:01:07-05:00publishAIFIA<p><a title="AIFIA | Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture | Home" href="http://aifia.org/">AIFIA | Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture | Home</a></p>534DesignDaniel2004-05-25T04:18:38-05:00publishnew zeldman.com&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: Goodies&quot; href=&quot;http://www.zeldman.com/goodies/&quot;&gt;Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: Goodies&lt;/a&gt; ...useful resize scripts.&lt;/p&gt;532DesignDaniel2004-05-24T03:36:32-05:00publishDesign Eye for the Usability Guy&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Design by Fire: Design Eye for the Usability Guy&quot; href=&quot;http://www.designbyfire.com/000094.html&quot;&gt;Design by Fire: Design Eye for the Usability Guy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(via the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.meticulous.com/sandbox/ballpit/&quot;&gt;meticulous ballpit&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;531DesignDaniel2004-05-22T15:15:17-05:00publishBerners-Lee Keeps WWW2004 Focused on Semantic Web&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;XML.com: Berners-Lee Keeps WWW2004 Focused on Semantic Web [May. 20, 2004]&quot; href=&quot;http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/05/20/www-timbl.html&quot;&gt;XML.com: Berners-Lee Keeps WWW2004 Focused on Semantic Web [May. 20, 2004]&lt;/a&gt; by Paul Ford&lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;&quot;People ask,&quot; he said, &quot;so what&apos;s the Semantic Web killer app going to be? That&apos;s not the right question.&quot; The real proof of the Semantic Web, he said, is when new connections are made, and new links between information emerge.&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;It took me about a solid year of on-and-off learning and working to finally get my head around RDF, and that was with a background in XML (I mention this to differentiate between XML and RDF, even though my use of RDF ATM is entirely within XML). Of course, once I did get my head around it I realized it was quite simple.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I have been outputting all my weblog data as RDF since last summer, in the RDF format of RSS 1.0. You&apos;ll also notice I only offer an RSS 1.0 feed for this site, in my subtle attempt to show support for the semantically &quot;correct&quot; RSS version. The only HTML I create is the index.html page, when you go to &lt;a href=&quot;index.php&quot;&gt;index.php&lt;/a&gt;, the page is reading from the RDF files stored on the server. This is all still with MT as the authoring tool.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;SWIM creates RDF data by default...and not just that but RDF modelled after your specs. You want an &quot;author&quot; field? It uses &lt;a href=&quot;http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/&quot;&gt;dc:creator&lt;/a&gt;. Want a &quot;whatchamacallit&quot; field? It creates a new namespace for ya. Like I said, once I realized that RDF in theory is very complex but in it&apos;s XML practice not, I just went for it. I&apos;m still banking on a promise about something which I only partially have my head around. The first comment to this article nails it on the head with just about every issue surrounding RDF. For example, &quot;If it&apos;s difficult for technical users to grasp the RDF model, then highlighting the benefits of RDF to managers and senior decision makers is verging on impossible.&quot;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I think the SW&apos;s power (at least to start) is going to be in personal data mangement. And SWIM is architected on this belief. Once versions 2 and 3 of SWIM are out there and being used, perhaps a version 4 (we&apos;re talking late 2005 here) will begin to take some of the data-mining heuristics developed for personal data sets and apply them to larger, collective data sets. It&apos;s logical, but that first working prototype feels a long way off.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;At that point, and correct me if I&apos;m wrong, SWIM will be a SW app. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Anyone with the W3C wanna throw IR some money so we can move forward with this? Heheh.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;See also: &lt;a href=&quot;http://haystack.lcs.mit.edu/&quot;&gt;haystack&lt;/a&gt;. same idea, different execution. Random Update: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.danielsjourney.com/blog/index.php?file=2003_03_14.xml&amp;id=12&quot;&gt;found this entry&lt;/a&gt; re haystack.&lt;/p&gt;530DesignDaniel2004-05-22T14:43:32-05:00publish&lt;blockquote&gt;and for these daughters, they think that all these expectations are going to be fulfilled, when they aren&apos;t, and never will be, no matter how many boys they marry.&lt;/blockquote&gt;529QuotableDaniel2004-05-21T06:34:26-05:00publishgrr&lt;p&gt;I just want to take the world and shake it.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;images/2004_05/shaker.gif&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;527MinutiaDaniel2004-05-21T04:51:27-05:00publishAnil on moving to SF...&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Anil Dash: Moving Forward&quot; href=&quot;http://www.dashes.com/anil/2004/05/19/moving_forward&quot;&gt;Anil Dash: Moving Forward&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;...and also a lot on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.danielsjourney.com/blog/index.php?file=2004_05.xml&amp;id=491&quot;&gt;the whole MT3.0 thing&lt;/a&gt; (also &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.danielsjourney.com/blog/index.php?file=2004_05.xml&amp;id=516&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;)...&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;...this post, as far as I&apos;m concerned, is the piece of &quot;corporate communication&quot; that won them over with me. it&apos;s brutally honest, takes ALL the blame for EVERYTHING (which is obviously too much)...basically is very human and instantly sheds all the light needed on the sitch and also redeems the whole thing.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;this is what i want for &lt;a href=&quot;http://integrationresearch.org&quot;&gt;IR&lt;/a&gt;. i want our communications to be honest without being cheesy. &quot;be honest&quot; is basically our &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.danielsjourney.com/blog/index.php?file=2004_05.xml&amp;id=516&quot;&gt;don&apos;t be evil&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, except it is actionable, it is something we can do. it is the &lt;em&gt;right&lt;/em&gt; thing &lt;em&gt;to do&lt;/em&gt;, not just a vague set of words.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;i am reading &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cluetrain.com/&quot;&gt;cluetrain&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0738204315/qid=1085127879/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_1/103-0054816-0103007?v=glance&amp;s=books&amp;n=507846&quot;&gt;Amazon&lt;/a&gt;) right now and it says a lot of good things about how we have to communicate as organizations come this century. &lt;blockquote&gt;We listen to individuals differently than we do to organizational speech. When a company publishes PR, it&apos;s trying to give us a complete message about who they are and what they do. We have to decide to trust or distrust the company based on a single statement.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;...On the other hand, when I converse with people inside a company, I hear stories from individuals. They&apos;re all grains of sand, their combined voices richer and more diverse than the univocal speech of corporate mouthpieces...A single &quot;corporate story&quot; is a fiction in a world of free conversation.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;we have been holding our cards pretty close with IR so far, but i want to start talking more openly, if only to populate the air with more of our story. we&apos;ve been preparing the gates for some time and the floody floody is about to come.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;one example in &lt;em&gt;cluetrain&lt;/em&gt; is &quot;mock magazine reviews of the product.&quot; i like this and might try it. i like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.danielsjourney.com/blog/index.php?file=2003_12.xml&amp;id=26&quot;&gt;the dynamic of &quot;lying&quot; fiction (as in &quot;a single &apos;corporate story&apos;&quot;) vs. &quot;true&quot; fiction&lt;/a&gt; (as in the mock reviews).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Anil Dash: Moving Forward&quot; href=&quot;http://www.dashes.com/anil/2004/05/19/moving_forward&quot;&gt;Anil&apos;s post&lt;/a&gt; proves what we already knew: he&apos;s clued in.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;one last interesting observation: Anil is moving to 6A&apos;s HQ so he can communicate better. geographic proximity and physical contact are very important. still. we&apos;ve learned that as well.&lt;/p&gt;526ElsewhereDaniel2004-05-21T04:26:47-05:00publish3 recent flicks&lt;p&gt;1. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/NowhereinAfrica-1120916/&quot;&gt;Nowhere in Africa&lt;/a&gt;, a German film about a jewish family that flees to Kenya before WWII. Generally just a good film if you can tolerate European sensibilities. Part of the story deals at times foolishly with notions of faithful/faithlessness, but it later redeemed itself by playing out a difficult but righteous reality in its plot.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;2. Shrek2. Really funny. Worth seeing in the theatres even if you don&apos;t have kids to take, as long as you&apos;re in the right mood. We were.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;images/2004_05/shrek2_i.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;images/2004_05/shrek2_iii.jpg&quot; title=&quot;abercrombie and witch&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &quot;abercrombie and witch&quot; ...also check out the adult humor in this screen shot from the website game (pinocchio&apos;s nose grew right after he said this)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Best part of the film by far, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=farbucks&quot;&gt;as mentioned plenty&lt;/a&gt;, is where the giant gingerbread man is destroying a &quot;Farbucks&quot; and all the people come running out--and straight into the Farbucks right across the street.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Not to mention the plot parallels with real life!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;images/2004_05/shrek2_iv.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;images/2004_05/shrek2_ii.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.shrek2.com/&quot;&gt;shrek2.com&lt;/a&gt; is a really well done Flash site with games and goodies aplenty.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.crosswalk.com/fun/movies/1263559.html&quot;&gt;best review of Shrek2 EVAR&lt;/a&gt;...amazing how fundie evans can display their total ignorance even in a simple family film review:&lt;blockquote&gt;The most brilliant part of the film is its deconstruction of our materialistic postmodern culture.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;3. This is one I&apos;ve seen before, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/BobDylanDontLookBack-1006102/about.php&quot;&gt;Don&apos;t Look Back&lt;/a&gt;, the 1967 documentary following Bob Dylan through a UK tour in 1965. Absolutely brilliant. Lots of little tidbits in there that you will only get by exploring all the info avail on the DVD. The video for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/subterranean.html&quot;&gt;Subterranean Homesick Blues&lt;/a&gt;, later &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=INXS+mediate+video&quot;&gt;famously copied&lt;/a&gt;, features &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.danielsjourney.com/blog/index.php?file=2004_01.xml&amp;id=102&quot;&gt;Allen Ginsberg&lt;/a&gt;. That&apos;s him on the left.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;images/2004_05/dylan1.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://boss.streamos.com/download/sonicyouth/mp3s/end_vietnam_war.mp3&quot;&gt;Here&apos;s a clip from Ginsberg (6M mp3)&lt;/a&gt; (via &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archives/002296.html#002296&quot;&gt;large hearted boy&lt;/a&gt; via &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.protest-records.com/mp3/index.html&quot; title=&quot;check out this site! i&apos;m taking you straight to the mp3s&quot;&gt;protest-records&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;525MinutiaDaniel2004-05-21T03:31:49-05:00publishmaury i love your show&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;twist of fait accomplis: Maury&apos;s Blooper&quot; href=&quot;http://www.laze.net/fait/archive/2002/07/28/maurys_blooper.php&quot;&gt;twist of fait accomplis: Maury&apos;s Blooper&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;All I&apos;ve ever wanted in life is for people to stop calling me Maury. Posted by: Ryan on September 24, 2003 02:22 PM &lt;p&gt;i love your show maury! its off the hook&lt;br /&gt; Posted by: sadie on September 24, 2003 07:34 PM&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;It might take a second to figure out what&apos;s so funny on this post...it&apos;s not the post itself...just start reading the comments...&lt;/p&gt;523ElsewhereDaniel2004-05-19T18:40:02-05:00publishmore reasons to raise one eyebrow at dashboard&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://publish.hometown.aol.com/kakaku/myhomepage/dashboard.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;images/2004_05/dashboardi.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; LOVE the signature along the front quarterpanel! (click for the full ad)&lt;/a&gt; I pity the fool who drives this car. You&apos;re just ASKIN&apos; for it. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wireimage.com/GalleryListing.asp?navtyp=CAL====54141&amp;nbc1=1&amp;str=&amp;styp=&amp;sfld=&amp;sortval=3a&amp;PageNum=2&quot;&gt;More&lt;/a&gt;. (via &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.summerblanket.com/&quot;&gt;the binkster&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Soundcheck : NIKKI SIXX : Bassist :: The Cleveland Free Times :: Cleveland&apos;s Premier Alternative News Arts &amp; Entertainment Weekly&quot; href=&quot;http://www.freetimes.com/modules.php?op=modload&amp;name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=1467&quot;&gt;Nikki Sixx&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;Have you ever thought of writing songs for an emo band?&lt;/em&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No, because there&apos;s no crying in rock &apos;n&apos; roll.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;518MusicDaniel2004-05-19T13:36:02-05:00publishsummer blanket and calvin cearley of CPM tonight at the Red Lion Pub, Boyton Beach, FL&lt;p&gt;Don&apos;t miss what is to be a great show tonight! (Of course in light of my residence in a different time zone, I will be missing it.)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I wanted to get these up yesterday as an enticer to get FL peps out to the show, but perhaps if you come across this afterwards it will be a bonus.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I have a few rare Calvin Cearley solo-project tracks, four of which (at least I think these four) were recorded in my apartment in Hypoluxo, Florida, during a 7-month time when I lived about 2 miles from Calvin. These are beautiful songs, and I&apos;m still amazed at the sound quality we achieved on my little Korg D-12. I remember he recorded all the vocals in the bathroom.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;All songs are of course (c) Calvin Cearley and used with implied permission.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;../media/Too_Many_Ways.mp3&quot;&gt;Too Many Ways&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;../media/Youre_Mine.mp3&quot;&gt;You&apos;re Mine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;../media/The_Second_I_Let_Go_Dr.mp3&quot;&gt;The Second I Let Go&lt;/a&gt; (drumless mix)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;and finally a song that makes me cry a little bit inside every time I hear it now, those of you who know why will know why, a song recorded for a Christmas installation of the People withOut nO Resources...&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;../media/Im_Mr_Christmas.mp3&quot;&gt;I&apos;m Mr. Christmas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;...I think as summer approaches it is a perfect time for sad Christmas songs...&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Enjoy and go see Calvin play!&lt;/p&gt;522AnnouncementsDaniel2004-05-19T12:50:53-05:00publishlinkage wrapup&lt;p&gt;I have a &apos;to blog&apos; queue and I need to empty it out:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I don&apos;t know anything about this church but this was interesting: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ucc.org/ucnews/mar04/welcome.htm&quot;&gt;UCC Home: UCNews: March 2004: Welcome to the show&lt;/a&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;The two professionally-produced commercials—created with feedback from almost 200 participants in nine focus groups held in January in Harrisburg, Pa., St. Petersburg, Fla., and Cleveland—emphasize themes of extravagant welcome and inclusion, topics raised consistently by research participants who said, above all, they wanted a church that welcomed everybody.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The debut 30-second commercial stars two muscle-bound &quot;bouncers&quot; who stand guard outside a fabled, picturesque church where they discriminately choose which persons will be permitted to attend Sunday services. Then a tag line touts the UCC&apos;s different approach: &quot;No matter who you are, no matter where you are on life&apos;s journey, you are welcome at a United Church of Christ congregation.&quot;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.telltaleweekly.com/&quot;&gt;telltaleweekly.com&lt;/a&gt;. Don&apos;t ask. Just go there. Just sign up for BitPass. Just buy audiobooks for 1 clam or under.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://webjay.org/&quot;&gt;webjay.org&lt;/a&gt;: listener created playlists of songs on the web.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://commoncontent.org/&quot;&gt;commoncontent.org&lt;/a&gt;: when the CC concept gets interesting.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://dsankt.brisurbex.com/&quot;&gt;sleepy city&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/abandoned/index.html&quot;&gt;abandoned stations&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://oboylephoto.com/ruins/&quot;&gt;modern ruins&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.siberart.com/untitled%20pages/untitled_home.html&quot;&gt;the untitled project&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.orangecone.com/archives/000096.html&quot;&gt;making modernism&lt;/a&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;...It&apos;s quite remarkable and it&apos;s not clearly not just that Picasso had the chutzpah to proclaim himself as such and have some gut-level savvy coupled with luck, but that he carefully managed his reputation (and his contacts, and his image--while he and Paul Rosenberg carefully controlled his inventory and the prices for his work) to make the most of his position at all points. He was an active shaper of his reputation, dispelling all of the art-for-art&apos;s-sale mythology of the French Academy and taking the final step to bringing his art to the open market as the Impressionists had wanted.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;From a corporate standpoint, it was a classic CEO-CFO marriage: he was the CEO, whose job it was to maximize revenue in the long run through innovation and brand-building; while Rosenberg was the CFO, maximizing profit (which generally means controlling costs and carefully pricing). There&apos;s an interesting story in the book about how worried gallerists--especially Rosenberg--were after WWII as government started auctioning off large quantities of 1930s Modernist work that had been confiscated by the Nazis from Jewish dealers; the worries came true and the auctions depressed prices for Picasso&apos;s paintings until the late 40s because everyone who wanted a Picasso was able to get it at bargain prices right after the war.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;It&apos;s also interesting to contrast Picasso to Duchamp. Duchamp is the Steve Jobs to Picasso&apos;s Bill Gates (and Rosenberg&apos;s Steve Ballmer?) and he was never able to achieve the same level of market penetration or popularity, despite the fact that he was the more innovative and radical by far (at least when their careers are compared after Cubism). Duchamp&apos;s brand identity rested on constant radical innovation, which is a much more difficult position to maintain than Picasso&apos;s, which was mainly built on being consistently Picasso. Picasso had to produce interesting work that was understandable and appreciable by his target audiences, and in sufficient quantity to keep interest high but without overheating or alienating the market...&lt;/blockquote&gt;...&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.commonground.org.uk/&quot;&gt;commonground.org.uk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Common Ground is internationally recognised for playing a unique role in the arts and environmental fields, distinguished by the linking of nature with culture, focussing upon the positive investment people can make in their own localities, championing popular democratic involvement, and by inspiring celebration as a starting point for action to improve the quality of our everyday places.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.demos.co.uk/aboutus/default.aspx&quot;&gt;demos.co.uk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Demos is a greenhouse for new ideas which can improve the quality of our lives. As an independent think-tank, our aim is to create an open resource of knowledge and learning that operates beyond traditional parties, identities and disciplines.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cpanda.org/&quot;&gt;cpanda.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;An interactive digital archive of data on the arts and cultural policy in the U.S., available for research and statistical analysis, with data on artists, arts and cultural organizations, audiences, and funding for arts and culture.&lt;/blockquote&gt;...&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.craigclevenger.com/&quot;&gt;craigclevenger.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;Craig Clevenger was born in Dallas, Texas, and raised in Southern California, where he studied English at California State University, Long Beach. He has traveled extensively and lived in Dublin and London. He resigned from the high-tech industry to pursue a writing career and currently resides somewhere in California where he is at work on his second novel. &lt;p&gt;&quot;I swear to God this is the best book I have read in easily five years. Easily. Maybe ten years.&quot; -Chuck Palahniuk&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;I quit the bookstore (at least for the remainder of the year) to tend bar downtown; slinging drinks is more suited to my vampire bat body clock and provides a little extra tattoo and gas money.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;I saw a bumper sticker today that said &quot;I Love My Wife!&quot; It&apos;s a noble sentiment, I guess, but it got me wondering about the circumstances under which this guy would buy such a thing. Apparently legally binding himself to another person till death-do-they-part in front of his friends and family wasn&apos;t enough, he had to notify public transportation commuters of his commitment as well. &lt;p&gt;Maybe the driver bought this in lieu of a second honeymoon: &quot;I wanted to take you to Hawaii for our thirtieth anniversary but finances are kinda tight, so how about I put this on our SUV instead?&quot; Or maybe it&apos;s the opposite: the guy is having an affair and is trying to craftily throw his wife off the scent. &quot;I know I&apos;ve gotten home late from work three times this week, Hon, but if you go out in the driveway and look at the back of the Trailblazer, I think you&apos;ll be in for a pleasant surprise!&quot;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.defectiveyeti.com/archives/000875.html&quot;&gt;defective yeti&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;508ElsewhereDaniel2004-05-19T12:30:08-05:00publishlargeheartedboy.com&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;largehearted boy, a boy, a girl and his radio&quot; href=&quot;http://blog.largeheartedboy.com/&quot;&gt;largehearted boy, a boy, a girl and his radio&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;520ElsewhereDaniel2004-05-19T01:31:37-05:00publishOMG&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;gapingvoid: millionaire or artist&quot; href=&quot;http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000750.html&quot;&gt;gapingvoid: millionaire or artist&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;517ElsewhereDaniel2004-05-18T17:10:00-05:00publishben and mena trott on itconversations.com&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail121.html&quot;&gt;ben and mena trott on itconversations.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;sheds some more light on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.danielsjourney.com/blog/index.php?file=2004_05.xml&amp;id=491&quot;&gt;the whole MT3.0 thing&lt;/a&gt;, neither good or bad.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;last night &lt;a href=&quot;http://theyblinked.com/blog&quot;&gt;dan&lt;/a&gt; and i were talking about how the trott ethos of the 6A-of-old or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=18681&quot;&gt;Google&apos;s &quot;don&apos;t be evil&quot;&lt;/a&gt; are almost antithetical to the pre-IPO or buyout postures necessary in the market.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;the most telling part of this interview was the part where they said (paraphrasing), &quot;we can&apos;t afford to keep giving it away, we&apos;re responsible for a company now.&quot; it wasn&apos;t the words they said (and i think this was recorded before the 3.0 pricing announcement), it was the tone and emotion behind them. you can feel the tension...&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;because it is not that there are only two options...the other options just haven&apos;t been figured out yet. maybe they won&apos;t be any time soon. maybe an org like IR will die in the process of trying to work them out. but somewhere there are other options and these companies feel that tension.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;i had never heard of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.itconversations.com/index.html&quot;&gt;itconversations&lt;/a&gt; before and it looks really good...must check out more of the stuff there.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Update: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.corante.com/many/archives/2004/05/18/mt_30_addendum.php&quot;&gt;shirky makes lucid observations of broader issues around the MT thing&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;516ElsewhereDaniel2004-05-18T11:04:07-05:00publishdan hughes interview on jordoncooper.com&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;jordoncooper.com :: telling stories, throwing parties.&quot; href=&quot;http://www.jordoncooper.com/2004/05/interviewing-dan-hughes.html&quot;&gt;jordoncooper.com :: interviewing dan hughes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;the IR stuff practically brought a tear to my eye and the other stuff, especially the last bit, is amazing...do read!&lt;/p&gt;515ElsewhereDaniel2004-05-18T01:11:15-05:00publishpivot!&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Pivot&quot; href=&quot;http://www.pivotlog.net/&quot;&gt;Pivot&lt;/a&gt; mCMS&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;I like this one a lot...it looks a lot like SWIM with some of it&apos;s execution...may have to test drive this one since it&apos;s free.&lt;/p&gt;514DesignDaniel2004-05-18T01:10:00-05:00publishThe Letters of Gary Benchley, Rock Star&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;The Morning News - The Letters of Gary Benchley, Rock Star: The Coming of Indie Prog&quot; href=&quot;http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/new_york_new_york/the_letters_of_gary_benchley_rock_star_the_coming_of_indie_prog.php&quot;&gt;The Morning News - The Letters of Gary Benchley, Rock Star: The Coming of Indie Prog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;Kyla had very large, full breasts and a little belly, and kept her brown hair cropped to an inch long. We discussed our mutual dislike of the objectifying male gaze.&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;Later: Oh no! You must read them all starting with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/new_york_new_york/the_letters_of_gary_benchley_rock_star_coming_to_new_york.php&quot;&gt;the first&lt;/a&gt; (which I am now in the middle of and LOL often) and then plan on making time for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/gary_benchley/&quot;&gt;the rest&lt;/a&gt; as well.&lt;/p&gt;512ElsewhereDaniel2004-05-17T16:08:09-05:00publishRLP&lt;blockquote&gt;If you define faith as certainty of belief, then mine is very weak. If you define faith as faithfulness, mine is strong and has stood the test of time. Somewhere in the middle is the truth, I think, which makes me both weak and strong.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.salon.com/0001772/2004/05/17.html#a333&quot;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;511QuotableDaniel2004-05-17T14:58:29-05:00publishi'd like to go driving and, well, just go&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;consumptive.org&quot; href=&quot;http://consumptive.org/weblog/blog.html&quot;&gt;consumptive.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;i once had a car, and the best part was driving with for no reason -- this was in arizona, so it wasn&apos;t hard to find nowhere and go there. i&apos;d just drive for hours at night, speeding forward in the darkness with the radio cranked loud playing old hits, the soultrain dusties, and album oriented rock. i kind of feel a lot like that these days. i&apos;d like to go driving and, well, just go.&lt;/blockquote&gt;I did the same thing around the same time when I was also going to the UofA.&lt;/p&gt;506QuotableDaniel2004-05-17T12:13:53-05:00publishShould Graduates Start Their Own Businesses?&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;: : Speak Up &gt; Should Graduates Start Their Own Businesses? : :&quot; href=&quot;http://www.underconsideration.com/speakup/archives/001948.html&quot;&gt;Speak Up: Should Graduates Start Their Own Businesses?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;505ElsewhereDaniel2004-05-17T03:24:52-05:00publishcollins&lt;p&gt;via email:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;a blog where the readers &lt;br /&gt; &gt;&gt;&gt;tell the writer where to go &lt;br /&gt; &gt;&gt;&gt;and what to do so they can &lt;br /&gt; &gt;&gt;&gt;read about it and live vicariously&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&gt;&gt; Not a bad idea....&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&gt;it would soon end in death or jail&lt;/p&gt;504QuotableDaniel2004-05-17T03:23:40-05:00publishmusicmaker.org&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;He tends the roots of American music | csmonitor.com&quot; href=&quot;http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0514/p13s02-almp.html&quot;&gt;He tends the roots of American music | csmonitor.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;&quot;Tim has really worked individually with these people,&quot; says Taj Mahal, who has produced, recorded, and toured with Music Maker musicians. &quot;Beyond just him seeing them as artists, he&apos;s seeing them as people and [has] sought to stabilize their lives so they can continue doing the great things that they&apos;re doing.&quot;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://musicmaker.org/&quot;&gt;musicmaker.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;via &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.idealist.org/&quot;&gt;idealist.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;503ElsewhereDaniel2004-05-17T03:21:47-05:00publishsuperdrome&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Superdrome - Track Racing @ the Velodrome in Frisco Texas -&quot; href=&quot;http://www.superdrome.com/&quot;&gt;Superdrome - Track Racing @ the Velodrome in Frisco Texas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.velodrome.com/&quot;&gt;www.velodrome.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;502MinutiaDaniel2004-05-17T02:59:41-05:00publishoh joy&lt;p&gt;peps who got atom feeds: &lt;a href=&quot;http://tjsoutlet.blogspot.com/atom.xml&quot;&gt;TJ&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://shannononoccassion.blogspot.com/atom.xml&quot;&gt;Shannon&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.integrationresearch.org/gravatt/atom.xml&quot;&gt;Gravatt&lt;/a&gt; (albeit the only one w/o full posts), &lt;a href=&quot;http://goforthethroat.blogspot.com/atom.xml&quot;&gt;Emily&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;500LocalDaniel2004-05-16T12:24:23-05:00publishvarious&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rearviewwindow.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;images/2004_05/rudd1.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;images/2004_05/harem1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;the harem. yes life is good when it is just you and five women in a bed (even if you&apos;re not in the bed and suggestions of declothing were not well received :)&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.danielsjourney.com/blog/index.php?file=2004_05.xml&amp;id=472&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;images/2004_05/spree1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;the polyphonic fucking spree!&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;499ImaginingDaniel2004-05-16T02:59:59-05:00publisha year ago&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;He says that the Bible says that it is harder for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to gain the kingdom of heaven. He said that it is good that we came to Slovakia because it will be easier now for us to get to heaven now that we&apos;re with the poor people, so to speak...&lt;/blockquote&gt;Mostly I&apos;m mad at myself for not asking more questions, for not listening more intently, for not grasping each moment last spent with him.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.danielsjourney.com/blog/index.php?file=2003_05_02.xml&amp;id=20&quot;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Right. So. How&apos;re my tomatoes going to come out this year? &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;{jovial laughter...}&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.danielsjourney.com/blog/index.php?file=2003_05_02.xml&amp;id=21&quot;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;images/2003_05/sk_pet.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;the legacy&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;Last night we talked about what happened in Bosnia for the first time...our hosts lost a father and a brother...had a father in a concentration camp...innumerable friends lost. He worked at the hospital and watched the cars bring in people all day every day. Every car he looked for his family. He said there were sometimes 20 to a car. They&apos;d throw them down on the sidewalk like wood. &lt;blockquote&gt;It&apos;s amazing what humans can endure.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.danielsjourney.com/blog/index.php?file=2003_05_26.xml&amp;id=3&quot;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;images/2003_05/DSCN0895.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;miss you guys&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ellensjourney.org/stranger/archives/001073.html&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; set off this bit of rememberance. i watched it last year from a hotel room in Croatia.&lt;/p&gt;497HistoricalDaniel2004-05-15T15:08:02-05:00publishthe new blogger + MT's new pricing&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m finding a lot of people&apos;s problems with the new &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogger.com&quot;&gt;Blogger&lt;/a&gt; very interesting. It seems that the most novice users hate it...when it was redesigned to be more usable by the novice. The middle-ground techies like it for the new features. And the rest of us true geeks appreciate the look and features but have already moved on.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;But mostly I&apos;m just amazed at how many people &lt;em&gt;don&apos;t&lt;/em&gt; like it &lt;a href=&quot;http://goforthethroat.blogspot.com/archives/2004_05_09_goforthethroat_archive.html#108437598484695217&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://selfdeconstructingtext.blogspot.com/2004_05_01_selfdeconstructingtext_archive.html#108414934083701149&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://selfdeconstructingtext.blogspot.com/2004_05_01_selfdeconstructingtext_archive.html#108415548006594452&quot;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt; (there were more just can&apos;t find them). Just goes to show that people get used to their tools and don&apos;t like them to change.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.veen.com/jeff/archives/000533.html&quot;&gt;more&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2004/05/10/self_promoti/index.php&quot;&gt;more&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stopdesign.com/log/2004/05/09/blogger.html&quot;&gt;more&lt;/a&gt; on blogger.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://kbimages.blogspot.com/dashboard.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The only thing I don&apos;t like is the &quot;dashboard&quot; {I hate use of the term in technology--we call car dashboards &quot;cockpits&quot; and stupid UI widgets &quot;dashboards.&quot; Perhaps proper &quot;cockpits&quot; (what a name though eh?) are now called &quot;user interface widget collections.&quot; Or maybe I&apos;ll call SWIM&apos;s UI the &quot;cockpit.&quot; The &quot;new entry&quot; button could be a tachometer that revs up when you hover over it.} display of the blogs--similar to &lt;a href=&quot;http://moveabletype.org&quot;&gt;MT&lt;/a&gt;&apos;s, but the most intuitive &quot;default&quot; (click on the blog name) behavior, IMHO, is creating a new entry. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Of course, MT &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.powazek.com/2004/05/000401.html&quot;&gt;is creating issues all their own as well&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (plenty of addit&apos;l links in Derek&apos;s post). What I don&apos;t get is why it is called &quot;developer&apos;s edition.&quot; I&apos;m a developer. I have three active blogs through MT on this site (would still be free), but I have two more that are dev blogs (would put me over the free limit)...being able to create a new blog to test behavior, new templates, etc...that would be part of the point of non-limiting licenses. I guess it&apos;s called &quot;developer edition&quot; because there are more hooks into the system, improved API, blah blah blah. But just lower the price point for personal users and I think you&apos;re still reasonable...now the price goes Blogger free, Radio 30clams, MT 100clams???.....not sensible. If I&apos;m going to pay I&apos;ll pay for Radio TYVM. {Of course their&apos;s is a yearly license, so crap.}&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Later: for more just check &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sixapart.com/corner/archives/2004/05/its_about_time.shtml#trackback&quot;&gt;the trackbacks on sixapart&apos;s blog entry about MT3.0&lt;/a&gt;. I found &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.onepotmeal.com/article/80/licensure&quot;&gt;onepotmeal&apos;s&lt;/a&gt; especially entertaining {considering &lt;a href=&quot;http://integrationresearch.org&quot;&gt;IR&lt;/a&gt;&apos;s upcoming release(s)}. Also &lt;a href=&quot;http://weblog.burningbird.net/archives/2004/05/13/for-those-about-to-move-to-wordpress-or-textpattern/&quot;&gt;Shelley Powers&lt;/a&gt; comments are good. The most interesting post title I saw was &quot;Movable Shite.&quot; Heheh. Not an interesting rant followed though, go figure. &lt;a href=&quot;http://archive.scripting.com/2004/05/14#playingRealGoodForFree&quot;&gt;Dave Winer&apos;s comment&lt;/a&gt;, &quot;Yesterday we saw people complain about spending $60 for a big useful piece of software like Movable Type. I paid $60 for a cab ride in Geneva. A good dinner is $100. A hotel room $150,&quot; makes me more angry about the price of taxis, meals, and hotels than anything. Then again, I would never drop $100 for dinner. {50 a head for a very rare, exceptionally inebriated night out, maybe.} &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ambiguous.org/archive.php3/2004/05/15#quinn2004515.2&quot; title=&quot;it&apos;s not like the voices of the rich and influential are finally being heard through the medium of blogs after a history of silent frustration.&quot;&gt;It rubbed someone else wrong too&lt;/a&gt; (and they said it better).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;It will be interesting to see how &lt;a href=&quot;http://ben.stupidfool.org/&quot;&gt;Ben&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://mena.typepad.com/&quot;&gt;Mena&lt;/a&gt;, forEVAR the darlings of the entire WWW it seemed, respond to this amount of backlash and justify their pricing structure (or if they even feel the need to). I somehow can&apos;t believe between B, M, &lt;a href=&quot;http://joi.ito.com/&quot;&gt;Joi&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://dashes.com/anil/&quot;&gt;Anil&lt;/a&gt;, this was the best solution they came up with for pricing/licensing. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.drunkenbatman.com/drunkenblog-archives/000274.html&quot;&gt;This is an interesting thread&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Next day: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sixapart.com/log/2004/05/movable_type_30.shtml&quot;&gt;Very good. I think they saved their skin quite nicely&lt;/a&gt;. Still a PR fiasco, but this site, for example, would just squeeze under the free limitations according to the new definitions.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;{Just for the record, SWIM 1.0, due Q2 2004, far from feature complete, many COOL features in store for Q3-4 and into 2005, will: have multiple blogs, multiple authors, free for personal use (at least through the 1.x&apos;s, and even once the aformentioned cool features get tacked on, I can&apos;t see going over 100 clams for a personal version--but it will be much more than blogging software by then!), no database required, and one very simple feature that no other weblogging product has (that i know of)...but i&apos;ll keep that one secret for now...}&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;{Later: OOPS...little more digging off of these MT posts and found out &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pmachine.com/expressionengine/&quot;&gt;it&apos;s been done&lt;/a&gt;...i&apos;ll let you figure out which feature it is though. Looks like EE would be my recommendation at present. Can&apos;t decide if the Schoolhouse Rock name is cool or not. Just gave the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pmachine.com/expressionengine/cp_demo/index.php&quot;&gt;online CP demo&lt;/a&gt; a test drive and it&apos;s ok...SWIM will do some things differently.}&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;{I&apos;ve been talking about this product so much, off and on, for so long, I&apos;ve been hesitant to talk about it anymore, for fear it will be shelved YET AGAIN. But alas. It&apos;s come up.}&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I&apos;m going to have some official things to say about this entire space soon. I&apos;ve seen software that did little more, practically speaking, than MT and cost 100,000 clams, so I have some experience...&lt;/p&gt;491CommentDaniel2004-05-14T12:45:04-05:00publishetoy re: ideas&lt;blockquote&gt;He has his opinions, but what about ideas? Ideas are mobile. We can work with those.&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;a title=&quot;etoy.TALK-TANK - Guaraná Power hangover? Superflex review in LA Times.&quot; href=&quot;http://feed.etoy.com/p319.html&quot;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt; 490QuotableDaniel2004-05-14T11:55:41-05:00publishlatest musical find&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;The Mountain Goats : Tallahassee&quot; href=&quot;http://4ad.com/tallahassee/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00006YXH6.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The Mountain Goats : Tallahassee&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;Tallahassee is an album by the Mountain Goats. Its fourteen songs document the decay and eventual collapse of a house in the city of Tallahassee, Florida, as well as the concurrent decay &amp; collapse of the two people who lived inside of it.&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/m/mountain-goats/tallahassee.shtml&quot;&gt;pitchfork&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;The result is the pleasant musical equivalent of a slow, deliberate character study, rich with symbols like circling crows and a house in disrepair, more concerned with in-depth observation of the protagonists than with narrative movement.&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.4ad.com/mp3/audio/mount-cad2215cd-07.mp3&quot;&gt;Tallahassee mp3&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;I hope that our few remaining friends give up on trying to save us / I hope we come up with a fail-safe plot to piss off the dumb few who forgave us&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=the+mountain+goats+tallahassee&quot;&gt;more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;..&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://4ad.com/weshallallbehealed/index.html&quot;&gt;The Mountain Goats : We Shall All Be Healed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;..&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;various mp3s: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.3bos.com/label/label_mp3.html&quot;&gt;3 here&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.beggars.com/us/themountaingoats/&quot;&gt;2 here&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://fivetools.com/pix/spring2004/1.htm&quot;&gt;1 at the end of this&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Update: OK now I can&apos;t tell which song is &quot;Tallahassee&quot; and which &quot;No Children&quot; and one of the mp3&apos;s I point to is not the Mountain Goats atall. I&apos;ll figure it out when I get the record. Which may be never. Ah well. Good stuff nonetheless.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Two days later: Still obsessed, I found out in &lt;a href=&quot;http://flakmag.com/music/tallahassee.html&quot;&gt;this excellent review at the always splendid Flak magazine&lt;/a&gt;. The song is &quot;No Children.&quot;&lt;blockquote&gt;I hope I lie / And tell everyone you were a good wife&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;489MusicDaniel2004-05-13T14:14:31-05:00publishblurbism&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;noflash&quot; href=&quot;http://www.blurbism.com/&quot;&gt;blurbism&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;amazing work&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;via morning news &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/stories/sugar.php&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/stories/salt/23.html&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;488ElsewhereDaniel2004-05-13T11:29:53-05:00publishSocial Networking Services Meta List&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com/entry/5214444809933077/&quot;&gt;Social Networking Services Meta List&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;484SocialDaniel2004-05-13T04:05:31-05:00publishRumsfeld Poetry&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;NPR : Rumsfeld Poetry&quot; href=&quot;http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1314813&quot;&gt;The Existential Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.npr.org/display_pages/features/feature_1761585.html&quot;&gt;Set to Music&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;483ElsewhereDaniel2004-05-13T02:17:06-05:00publishreminded of...&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lowresolution.com/archive/000204.php&quot;&gt;this picture&lt;/a&gt; would make a great image for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.danielsjourney.com/blog/index.php?file=2003_04_14.xml&amp;id=25&amp;showcats=1&amp;displayarchive=all&quot;&gt;the second story of this&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;481ElsewhereDaniel2004-05-12T20:02:38-05:00publishnew style&lt;p&gt;...called &quot;sotto&quot; not because it looks like &lt;a href=&quot;http://sotto.org/&quot;&gt;sotto&lt;/a&gt;&apos;s site (yet) but because it was inspired by it. i was unhappy with the viusal predominance of the titles, but not ready to forego them. also finally remembered to put the MT link (bottom of menu)...when i&apos;m planning on moving off of MT w/in the month...ah well...&lt;/p&gt;480MinutiaDaniel2004-05-12T18:30:12-05:00publishMy message to Creative Commons&lt;p&gt;I like what you do. I get it, I really do, and appreciate it. I haven&apos;t bothered licensing any of my blog under such a license because these things are only as important as their ability to be enforced, and blogs have always had the &lt;em&gt;spirit&lt;/em&gt; of CC licenses...And if anyone steals from my blog and makes enough money for it to be worth me going after them, then we probably both still win. Otherwise a polite request for use will always be granted. {The stuff I do want to license in more commercial ventures, images, music, etc., I also haven&apos;t specified. Use may have to be more formally requested, but will again most likely be granted.} Everything is protected by default under the law and free under my own sensibilities and abilities to pursue plagiarists legally.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;But I get it. And your thing fits nicely alongside what my own org, &lt;a href=&quot;http://integrationresearch.org&quot;&gt;Integration Research&lt;/a&gt;, is doing.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;But what I don&apos;t get is why, as a non-profit &lt;strong&gt;required&lt;/strong&gt; to make your records public, you balked at my request last fall for copies of your IRS request for nonprofit status. You treated me with indignation, as if I was out to try and &quot;get&quot; you, when all I was looking for was some samples from nonprofit org&apos;s similar to IR, as I prepared our own submission to the IRS. &lt;a href=&quot;http://osafoundation.org&quot;&gt;OSAF&lt;/a&gt; was more than happy to &lt;strong&gt;abide by the law&lt;/strong&gt; and provide me a copy of their IRS filings (they didn&apos;t even ask for postage, which the requester is obliged to pay if asked).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://turbulence.org/&quot;&gt;turbulence.org&lt;/a&gt; also never sent me the info, although never really refused to do so, as you did...but what gets me is the irony of the situation given your purposes--to make information and creative work more open and free--that you would take offense at a simple, legal request for information about your own organization.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I&apos;m still impressed by your purposes and your board, but COMON!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;479CommentDaniel2004-05-12T17:45:07-05:00publishYet Another Friendster Rip Off: pictures taken by soldiers on the frontline in Iraq&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;&quot; href=&quot;http://jhong.org/frontline.html&quot;&gt;Yafros on the frontline&lt;/a&gt;...pictures taken by soldiers on the Frontline in Iraq.&lt;/p&gt;478ElsewhereDaniel2004-05-12T13:14:55-05:00publishseth godin on joi ito&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Fast Company | The Blog of Things To Come&quot; href=&quot;http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/76/sgodin.html&quot;&gt;Fast Company | The Blog of Things To Come&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;476ElsewhereDaniel2004-05-11T16:21:35-05:00publishthe denial of the resurrection&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.btinternet.com/~smallritual/resurrection.html&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.btinternet.com/~smallritual/resurrection/revelation.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;475ElsewhereDaniel2004-05-11T14:20:59-05:00publishpictorial&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;images/2004_05/DSCN2497.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;images/2004_05/DSCN2499.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;images/2004_05/DSCN2501.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;images/2004_05/DSCN2510.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;images/2004_05/DSCN2514.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;images/2004_05/DSCN2518.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;images/2004_05/DSCN2527.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;images/2004_05/DSCN2547.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;474ImaginingDaniel2004-05-11T14:18:36-05:00publish...&lt;blockquote&gt;We can&apos;t let our president stand up in front of us and say, &quot;These people are pure evil,&quot; and expect people not to treat them that way. We can&apos;t take away their humanity and expect our soldiers to treat them with respect.&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Leah - Rumsfeld et al&quot; href=&quot;http://www.livejournal.com/~rue10/70239.html&quot;&gt;Leah - Rumsfeld et al&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;There is not narcissism and non-narcissism; there are narcissisms that are more or less comprehensive, generous, open, extended. What is called non-narcissism is in general but the economy of a much more welcoming, hospitable narcissism, one that is much more open to the experience of the other as other. I believe that without a movement of narcissistic reappropriation, the relation to the other would be absolutedly destroyed, it would be destroyed in advance...Even in the experience--if there is one--of death, narcissism does not absolutely abdicate its power.&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hydra.umn.edu/derrida/narc.html&quot;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt; But I&apos;m drawn to you And that still small voice is talking too And that&apos;s the voice that so seldom can get through &lt;p&gt;You can&apos;t put no bandaid on this cancer&lt;br /&gt; Like a twenty-dollar bill&lt;br /&gt; For a topless dancer&lt;br /&gt; You need questions&lt;br /&gt; Forget about the answers&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://overtherhine.com/music/recordings/cd11/cd11b.html&quot;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;You will have to choose. And you will find the answers you need in the living of the life you choose.&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.salon.com/0001772/2004/05/11.html#a331&quot;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;473ElsewhereDaniel2004-05-11T13:40:44-05:00publishthe polyphonic spree&lt;p&gt;saw the polyphonic spree for the second time tonight. last time was last greenbelt festival, and i never blogged one bit about it. rough time period in my life, that was. the spree came right before all the horror, and good thing too. i have very fond memories of that weekend. i meant to talk about TPS on here, just never did.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;but tonight was different. i was ten people back from the front. i was seeing them in their hometown of dallas. it should make this city proud that something that beautiful came out of it.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;two thoughts about the spree. 1. they perform for the audience; they are all about the audience; they play for us. 2. if jesus was around in 2004, his favorite band would be TPS. oh and 3. the next record is going to be very good. oh and 4. i liked the new colored robes.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.danielsjourney.com/blog/images/2004_05/spree1.jpg&quot;&gt;see this band&lt;/a&gt;. buy their music.&lt;/p&gt;472MinutiaDaniel2004-05-08T02:50:49-05:00publishgary jules june 2&lt;p&gt;Wed&lt;br /&gt; 6/2 Gary Jules / Matthew Ryan &lt;br /&gt; In the Tea Room... &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;don&apos;t let me forget!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;also possibly: &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Mon&lt;br /&gt; 6/7 Ron Sexsmith &lt;br /&gt; In the Tea Room... &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Wed&lt;br /&gt; 6/9 Alabama Thunderpussy / Rwake &lt;br /&gt; In the Tea Room... &lt;/p&gt;470MinutiaDaniel2004-05-07T06:14:23-05:00publishtwain&lt;blockquote&gt;Man is a religious animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn&apos;t straight.&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;--Mark Twain&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;frontline: the jesus factor: join the discussion | PBS&quot; href=&quot;http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/jesus/talk/&quot;&gt;via frontline&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;462QuotableDaniel2004-05-06T16:10:24-05:00publishThe Freakin' Hott Loves Your Mom&lt;p&gt;Mom is the person who loves you best, but The Freakin&apos; Hott loves you...all...night...long.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; You&apos;re probably wondering, with Mother&apos;s Day bearing down on you like Maggie on any random Osmond, what would Mom like this year? How can I set myself apart this Mother&apos;s Day? What&apos;s every Mom&apos;s fantasy gift?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Well, we recently conducted a survey of over five trillion moms. See results below:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;strong&gt;89% of moms surveyed stated that they wanted to see The Freakin&apos; Hott for Mother&apos;s Day&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The remaining 11% stated that they wanted one of those pearl g-strings, but we really don&apos;t think that would be an appropriate gift coming from her child. And the fact that you would even consider it is completely skeeving us out right now. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Clearly, if you have any real devotion to your mom, you&apos;ll bring her out at 11PM on Saturday, May 8th, to Dada for Popscene. Our set will certainly go past midnight, so &quot;technically&quot; that&apos;s a Mother&apos;s Day Freakin&apos; Hott Celebration. Do you really want people to think that you HATE your mom? Is that what you want? &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; And if your mom lives out of town, the least you could do is set up a video camera so she can watch the show via satellite. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Dada is located in downtown Delray Beach on Swinton Avenue. Just take Atlantic Ave to Swinton, go north on Swinton to your first light, and it&apos;s right there on the southwest corner of the intersection. And if you&apos;re not a mom yet yourself, I&apos;m sure you can find some willing individual there that would be glad to impregnate you for the occasion. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; As always, no cover, and DJ Mana and DJ Aaronnious Monk will be spinning only the finest in &quot;Sing Along with Mitch&quot; albums, so get there early. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Word,&lt;br /&gt; TFH Enterprises&lt;br /&gt; www.thefreakinhott.com&lt;/p&gt;461AnnouncementsMaggie2004-05-06T14:57:59-05:00publishpimpin' it<p>email: daniel at underde.com ... IM: dealingwith at hotmail.com (MS) dealingwith at yahoo.com (Y!) Cloud9Mil (AIM)</p> <p><a href="http://www.jordoncooper.com/2004/05/interviewing-daniel-miller.html">My interview at jordoncooper.com</a>.</p> <p>I should never become famous. I&apos;ve re-read this thing more times than I like to admit. But some new info/terminology regarding IR, etc...</p> <p><hr /></p> <p>now maintained here for posterity:</p> <p><strong>What&apos;s your age and occupation? How long have you lived there? Where did you come from, and where do you live now?</strong></p> <p>29 year old artist, entrepreneur and web developer. I&apos;m originally from Pennsylvania and over the last 10 years have lived in Tucson, Ft. Lauderdale, Washington DC, Sarajevo, Florida (again), and now Dallas, where I&apos;ve lived for one month so far.</p> <p><strong>You are a well traveled American. How does the rest of the world see America right now compare to how you see your country? If there is a difference? What is causing it?</strong></p> <p>I feel like I should ask you that question since you are not an American. :) I&apos;ve become un-nationalistic in my approach; I&apos;m more interested in broader trends in power-based relationships, social dynamics, and the like. I actually hate politics, and have observed how it corrupts even at its lowest levels, so I try to keep my own personal politics to the voting booth.</p> <p>To answer your question, in my experience many people would prefer to see a different president in the next term, and in that we agree. But there are bigger things at work, and I think we are in a unique time where we can all, travel or no, get a better idea for the world&apos;s common values and concerns and work collectively to try and address them.</p> <p><strong>What is the coolest gadget that you have ever owned?</strong></p> <p>I&apos;m a pretty low-tech geek; my two main gadgets are a 3 year old Dell laptop and a very pedestrian pair of headphones. I have a <a href="http://www.korg.com/gear/info.asp?a_prod_no=D12&category_id=3">Korg D-12 digital recorder</a> that&apos;s nice; we&apos;re about to be reunited after 10 months apart.</p> <p><strong>Can you tell us a little about <a href="http://integrationresearch.org/">Integration Research</a>? Can you give us a glimpse at some of the projects you are working on?</strong></p> <p>I&apos;ll try to make this brief without giving the standard line. Integration Research (IR) has been fashioned to try and work out new ways for creative people to approach the processes of cultural production and dissemination. We&apos;re specifically looking at technological solutions that facilitate a cultural dynamic that benefits all. The web, blogs, digitization of cultural artifacts, ubiquitous broadband, and the low entry price for professional-level creative technologies have all contributed to a rapid de-centralization of cultural control; but we have yet to develop models that successfully reward these new creators, because culture industries are historically so centralized. We are in a transitional moment, and IR is trying to examine this space and create solutions that work within its new landscape.</p> <p>Our first project is a piece of personal library management software. It will allow you to enter in anything from books to blenders and then attach metadata to those items--lent out or borrowed and to/from whom, queued for future interest and/or added to your Amazon wish list, for sale and/or added to your Amazon sale items--and keep a historical record of those artifacts. It will also support publish/subscribe via RSS, so that, for example, you could easily publish information about your cultural choices on a blog, and, most importantly, find out what resources are available within various<br /> communities you participate in.</p> <p>Another project that is in the works is what I call creative management software. It is like blogging with a twist, and will hopefully retain the power of micro Content Management Systems (mCMS) while making all that data more useful and navigating it more intuitive.</p> <p>We&apos;re in the middle of developing some white papers on all of these topics, so stay tuned in the next few months for that.</p> <p><strong>What&apos;s the coolest part about living in the Dallas megatropolis?</strong></p> <p>Decent weather and people. I&apos;ve lived enough places to find my niche anywhere, and know that having community is essential to making a city one&apos;s home.</p> <p><strong>Your blog has seen a couple different programming languages and content management systems over the years. What has been the best you have worked with? The worst?</strong></p> <p>Every language and system have their good points and their bad, and they are usually opposite characteristics across platforms. Blogger is simple but feature poor and inflexible; Moveable Type is more flexible but convoluted. One programming language makes X hard and Y easy, the other Y hard and X easy. I&apos;m never going to develop a programming language, but I hope the mCMS that I&apos;m building strikes a good balance between simplicity and flexibility.</p> <p>There hasn&apos;t been a best and worst yet. This space is still young.</p> <p><strong>What&apos;s the worst airline or train traveling experience ever?</strong></p> <p>I&apos;ve spent so many nights in airports or negotiating with sketchy cab drivers that they all blur together. The physical act of traveling is rarely fun or relaxing, but the payoffs and surprises are well worth it. I got lost once walking back to <a href="http://jonnybaker.blogs.com/jonnybaker/">Johnny</a>&apos;s at 4am, and it was cold and I was tired, but at one point it was like a music video--there were people falling headfirst out of pubs onto the sidewalk in front of me, a car pulled up and a gang of people jumped out of it, ran into an alley beside me, and two of the guys started fighting. It was frightening and invigorating and I remember that 2 hour walk fondly.</p> <p><strong>9pm, Wednesday night - what are you doing?</strong></p> <p>Sitting at my computer answering your questions. :)</p> <p><strong>Mac or PC?</strong></p> <p>Both if I could only afford a Mac.</p> <p><strong>If Integration Research could get any celebrity spokesperson in the world, who would it be? Why?</strong></p> <p>Madonna. She personifies success under the old/established structures of cultural dissemination, so there would be a beautiful irony there. She&apos;s the most powerful relevant public figure I could think of and her pocket change could fund IR forEVAR.</p> <p><strong>If you could summer anywhere in the world, where would it be?</strong></p> <p>Dang these are good questions! I&apos;m going to have to go with......Vienna. Beautiful, diverse city to begin with and a hop-skip to a lot of interesting places. Wait. Or Sydney, for the same reasons.</p> <p><strong>Best three weblogs you are reading right now?</strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.corante.com/amateur/">Amateur Hour: the me in media</a>, <a href="http://www.purselipsquarejaw.org/">Purse Lip Square Jaw</a>, <a href="http://www.dooce.com/">dooce</a>.</p> <p><strong>What is one thing that the National Hockey League could do to make you into a diehard hockey fan (for the Canadian readers of my blog)</strong></p> <p>Um, go back in time, transplant my DNA, and drop me in Saskatchewan maybe?</p>460AboutDaniel2004-05-06T14:34:09-05:00publishgandhi&lt;blockquote&gt;First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;- Mohandas Gandhi&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;via &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.glitteringgenerality.com/default.aspx&quot;&gt;lenn...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;459QuotableDaniel2004-05-06T02:51:28-05:00publishok i have to see this ASAFP&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;G I G A N T I C (A Tale of Two Johns) | A movie about They Might Be Giants&quot; href=&quot;http://www.giganticfilm.com/&quot;&gt;A movie about They Might Be Giants&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;see also &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.giantkid.net/indexKill.html&quot;&gt;the coolest flash ever and for a record&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;458ElsewhereDaniel2004-05-06T02:29:53-05:00publishMedia Lab Europe Human Connectedness research group&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.danielsjourney.com/blog/index.php?file=2004_01.xml&amp;id=122&quot;&gt;I&apos;ve already mentioned this&lt;/a&gt;, but I was at MLE&apos;s &lt;a title=&quot;Human Connectedness&quot; href=&quot;http://www.medialabeurope.org/hc/&quot;&gt;Human Connectedness&lt;/a&gt; site for about the 10th time today and just freaking out over the similarities between IR, my interests, and what they are doing. Everyone who works there has my dream job. I need to go back to school. IR needs to happen.&lt;blockquote&gt;Humans have a fundamental need for contact with other humans. Our interactions and relationships with other people form a network that supports us, makes our lives meaningful, and ultimately enables us to survive. A variety of personal factors, such the need to travel or live in a different place apart from family and friends, threaten our ability to form and attain balance in the kinds of relationships that we want and need to have with others. The impact of customs and trends that exist at a societal level, such as the widespread use of certain technologies that may have isolating effects, is a subject of increasing study. These conditions put our mental and physical well-being at risk and, in turn, jeopardize the health of our communities and civilizations as a whole.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The Human Connectedness research group explores the topic of human relationships and how they are mediated by technology. Our mission is to conceive a new genre of technologies and experiences that combat the effects mentioned above and allow us to build, maintain, and enhance relationships in new ways. We also aim to enable new kinds of individual bonds and communities that were not possible before but may be beneficial or fun.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Beyond imagining new forms of social interaction, we wish to explore how new technologies change the way people can be related to each other -- in the same way that, for example, we feel related to people in our families, attached to things that are important to us, or bonded to friends and loved ones. Some other key research questions for the group are:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;# How can we convey a sense of presence and togetherness over space and time?&lt;br /&gt; # How can we promote and support collaboration between different groups of people?&lt;br /&gt; # How can we share a sense of intimacy and closeness in new ways?&lt;br /&gt; # How can we enable new forms of cultural exchange?&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;We aim to build a technological framework for applications in this domain, taking advantage of the infinite bandwidth and processing-rich computing environments of the future and the opportunity to extend these networked media environments into our physical and architectural surroundings. We are equally interested in forming a design framework that includes an understanding of sociological and psychological factors to help shape these systems in a fashion that reflects the needs and sensibilities of the groups within which they operate.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;We gain inspiration for our projects from a variety of sources that include the results of scientific studies, observations of people and how they interact, ongoing dialogues with potential users of new technologies, as well as personal experience in relationships. While we wish to project ourselves into the future to the greatest extent possible in imagining new technologies, we place emphasis on building working prototypes, the use of which we can study and learn from.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;456ElsewhereDaniel2004-05-06T01:54:04-05:00publishlittle bit different&lt;p&gt;Apologies to anyone who visited in the last 10-15...had a few template issues there.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;New: &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;verbage in announcements...going to leave it at that...new and more official announcements coming soon...&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&apos;aesthetically customize&apos; ...not only is the header more descriptive, but you can now move the menu to the left or right at will. i was going to let you float the whole thing left - center - right but decided it wasn&apos;t worth it. move your darn window.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;blogroll: don&apos;t be mad if i took you off...i&apos;m sticking to: list 1--peps i know IRL, and list 2--my current fav reads...those with domains get to use their online identity, blogspot etc. doesn&apos;t count, and last name usage seems completely random ATM. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;as always everything looks better in standards-compliant browsers than non (i.e. IE).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;also updated my OPML blogroll.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;flames and complaints are welcome as always! jk.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;UPDATE: just updated the &lt;a href=&quot;http://danielsjourney.com/design&quot;&gt;design&lt;/a&gt; section, under cv and especially under &lt;a href=&quot;http://danielsjourney.com/design/portfolio.html&quot;&gt;portfolio&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;hope u like. i love you long time!&lt;/p&gt;448AnnouncementsDaniel2004-05-05T05:02:41-05:00publish"mature" heheh&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Darryl&apos;s Blog Archives&quot; href=&quot;http://www.dashhouse.com/darryl/dsd0405.htm#001218&quot;&gt;Darryl&apos;s Blog Archives&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;Most churches would view the following as characteristics of a mature disciple: &lt;p&gt; 01. Careful students of the Scriptures&lt;br /&gt; 02. Zealous and active in their stand for God&lt;br /&gt; 03. Desire for worship and prayer&lt;br /&gt; 04. Consistent in worship attendance&lt;br /&gt; 05. Practice scripture memorization&lt;br /&gt; 06. Not afraid to pray in public&lt;br /&gt; 07. Active in the local church&lt;br /&gt; 08. Fast regularly&lt;br /&gt; 09. Desire to stand against ungodliness&lt;br /&gt; 10. Firm grasp of basic, foundational theology&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Not a bad list until you realize that this is a list describing the Pharisees.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;447ElsewhereDaniel2004-05-05T03:15:33-05:00publishYANEWFMITM443MinutiaDaniel2004-05-04T13:00:22-05:00publishkids i love (and one i don't even know IRL!)&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;dooce&quot; href=&quot;http://www.dooce.com/archives/daily/05_04_2004.html&quot;&gt;dooce: Benevolent Dictator&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rearviewwindow.com/blog/archives/000634.html&quot;&gt;rearviewWindow blog: We were out of town&lt;/a&gt; ...i like that my friends would think to put the baby in the overhead compartment so she could wave goodbye to all the passengers on their way out... she&apos;s cute as getout in a very cool shot toboot!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.integrationresearch.org/gravatt/&quot;&gt;aj&apos;s.eight!&lt;/a&gt; very cool story and pics. i love you aj and ransom!! (&lt;a href=&quot;http://integrationresearch.org/gravatt/aj&apos;s8thbirthday/&quot;&gt;this shall be the closest we get to a permalink on scott&apos;s blog&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;442ElsewhereDaniel2004-05-04T12:36:44-05:00publishcicadas -- yum!&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;New Scientist&quot; href=&quot;http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994916&quot;&gt;New Scientist&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;A widespread resurrection, orgies on a biblical scale, and births and deaths numbering in the billions will all soon be on display in the eastern US as a uniquely enormous population of insects known as 17-year cicadas bubble up from the ground.&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;i lived in the PA countryside when these guys went to bed.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;read to the end of the article to get my title.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;via &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ambiguous.org/archive.php3&quot;&gt;ambiguous&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;441ElsewhereDaniel2004-05-04T00:59:07-05:00publishmonday night&lt;p&gt;chillin in &lt;a href=&quot;http://selfdeconstructingtext.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;bintang&lt;/a&gt;&apos;s for &quot;writer&apos;s group&quot; ...&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;blink 182 is LIVE in the HISHOUSE with Cypress etc. &lt;a href=&quot;http://theyblinked.com/blog/2004_05_02_theyblinked_archive.html#108363943166892390&quot;&gt;check theyblinked for links&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://selfdeconstructingtext.blogspot.com/2004_05_01_selfdeconstructingtext_archive.html#108363964560230746&quot;&gt;They say that what you mock Will surely overtake you And you become a monster So the monster will not break you&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lyrics007.com/U2%20Lyrics/Peace%20On%20Earth%20Lyrics.html&quot;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://integrationresearch.org/scott&quot;&gt;scott&lt;/a&gt; sent me this, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=meanies+site%3Awww.danielsjourney.com&quot;&gt;re&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://danielsjourney.com/art/music/media/song_4_t_meanies_ii.mp3&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;images/2004_05/meanies2i.jpg&quot; height=&quot;192&quot; width=&quot;330&quot; alt=&quot;meanies&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;439MinutiaDaniel2004-05-03T23:26:22-05:00publishthis is even cooler&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;marlathemovie.com&quot; href=&quot;http://www.marlathemovie.com/&quot;&gt;marlathemovie.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chuckpalahniuk.net/fan/thecult/fun/monsterscomic/&quot;&gt;invisible monsters comic book&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,1168227,00.html&quot;&gt;guardian UK interview with Chuck about Guts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;images/2004_05/interviewmainpic_small.jpg&quot; height=&quot;275&quot; width=&quot;199&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;434ElsewhereDaniel2004-05-03T00:12:13-05:00publishthis is cool&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;The Sect of Homokaasu - The Rasterbator&quot; href=&quot;http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/&quot;&gt;The Sect of Homokaasu - The Rasterbator&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&quot;The Rasterbator is a web service which creates huge rasterized pictures out of relatively small image files. The pictures can be assembled into extremely cool looking posters up to 5 meters in size...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;433ElsewhereDaniel2004-05-02T22:38:50-05:00publishIndependent Arts & Media&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Independent Arts &amp; Media&quot; href=&quot;http://www.artsandmedia.net/&quot;&gt;Independent Arts &amp; Media&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;432ElsewhereDaniel2004-05-02T21:48:51-05:00publishFL peps&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;images/2004_05/s_i_g_6.jpg&quot; width=&quot;123&quot; height=&quot;151&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.helenhoral.com/&quot;&gt;helen horal dot com&lt;/a&gt;. start with &lt;a href=&quot;http://bigtimbo.com/HLH/audio/Helen%20Horal%20-%20Keith&apos;s%20Song%20-%20April%202004.mp3&quot;&gt;keith&apos;s song&lt;/a&gt; from the sounds section and then peruse at will.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;also &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pete-stein.com&quot;&gt;pete stein dot com&lt;/a&gt;, aka player pete. has his own character in a PS2 (or whatever) fighting game at Maggie&apos;s place (thanks to Aaron who puts local musicians into fighting games--you should see Timb in Celebrity Death Match).&lt;/p&gt;431ElsewhereDaniel2004-05-02T17:04:02-05:00publishno comment&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;images/2004_05/sword_service_w_a_smile_small.jpg&quot; height=&quot;300&quot; width=&quot;225&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://monkhouse.blogspot.com/2004_05_01_monkhouse_archive.html#108347056537330028&quot;&gt;the aftermath of...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;430ImaginingDaniel2004-05-02T16:47:40-05:00publishnude at a church social&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Weez Blog: meeting someone nude&quot; href=&quot;http://weez.oyzon.com/archives/000049.html&quot;&gt;Weez Blog: meeting someone nude&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;When I asked her about meeting her blogger friends IRL she said it was overwhelming. To which I replied, &quot;Kinda like meeting someone you drew nude at a church social.&quot;&lt;/blockquote&gt;428ElsewhereDaniel2004-05-01T16:29:39-05:00publishK5{or insert your thing here}{not THAT thing you sicko}ism&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;K5ism || kuro5hin.org&quot; href=&quot;http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/4/20/22388/4622&quot;&gt;K5ism || kuro5hin.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;This morning, it became clear to me that Kuro5hin functions in my life as a church.&lt;/blockquote&gt;427ElsewhereDaniel2004-05-01T16:28:38-05:00publishwarning: geek cool stuff&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;APA Newsletters 98:2 - Social Strategies for Software&quot; href=&quot;http://www.apa.udel.edu/apa/archive/newsletters/v98n2/computers/dorbolo.asp&quot;&gt;APA Newsletters 98:2 - Social Strategies for Software&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;Despite constant pressures and challenges, Old Order Amish communities in Pennsylvania, the Midwest, and around the world survive and thrive. Their success stems partly from social strategies for selecting and adapting the technologies that enter their lives. If technology is, as Frederick Ferre defines it, &quot;the practical implementation of intelligence,&quot;1 then the Amish have developed a meta-technology to conduct such implementations.&lt;/blockquote&gt;426ElsewhereDaniel2004-05-01T16:19:09-05:00publishvarious bidtitties i mean tidbitties&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;images/2004_05/chef.jpg&quot; width=&quot;300&quot; height=&quot;225&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Last Tuesday my friend &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jasonbrome.com/blog/&quot;&gt;Jason&lt;/a&gt; was in town on business and we went to what was arguably the best sushi I&apos;ve ever had. Thanks Jason! I took the first pictures with my new camera phone. Not bad for low light and still having the quality setting on the default &quot;normal.&quot; Not a great camera but good for what it is, and always on my person.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Jason introduced me long ago to &lt;a href=&quot;http://portorico.com/&quot;&gt;Porto Rico Importing Co. coffee&lt;/a&gt;, which I have now again obtained, and it is so darn good. Organic Fair Trade &amp; Bird Friendly Alex&apos;s Blend is on sale and I recommend it.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;That funky smell of used, damp coffee grinds remind me of the Episcopal Church for some reason. Not metaphorically at all, no, quite literally. I must have been standing next to my dad 100 times when he was making fresh coffee in the narthex. Or something.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.danielsjourney.com/blog/images/2004_05/maggieparty/may.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;images/2004_05/maggieparty/DSCN0230i.jpg&quot; width=&quot;300&quot; height=&quot;225&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;This is the way TFH parties. Photos by &lt;a href=&quot;http://tjsoutlet.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;TJ&lt;/a&gt;. Click for May calendar.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Last Sunday there was a string trio playing in the restaurant where we had our Sunday brunch, and I stood there listening in awe, enraptured. It took me back to a moment in my past life, I can&apos;t quite remember which city but I&apos;m pretty sure it was Sydney, and a nice moment with the spirit of someone I used to know.&lt;/p&gt;424