Moon Farmer May 2001 Archive
« April 2001 | Main | June 2001 »Posted by at May 31, 2001 05:03 AM
Gordon believes that computers introduce a "strange disconnect" into social interactions, and that it is difficult for some young adults to understand that what happens on the end of a modem line to someone you can't see, hear, feel, or know can still have a genuine impact on a real person.
Hey, Wired, as fascinating as that article is, why have your assholes chosen to file it under 'women'? Why not file Bill Joy under 'men'?
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Posted by at May 29, 2001 06:55 AM
Communism.
Posted by at May 28, 2001 08:35 PM
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Posted by at May 27, 2001 09:42 AM
Oh, for pete's sake.
Posted by at May 26, 2001 01:13 PM
I have no idea what to do about it :)
I've also decided I'm thirty years old, I play Dungeons and Dragons, I love the game, I love to write for it, and I'm great with that.
Posted by at May 25, 2001 05:48 PM
Posted by at May 24, 2001 06:21 PM
I am thirty-five years old today. Is that old enough to have a midlife crisis?
Posted by at May 23, 2001 05:29 PM
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Posted by at May 23, 2001 06:26 AM
With a hack-hack here and a hack-hack there, Attrition.org, a company that tracks online vandalism, has been overwhelmed. It has announced that it no longer will archive vandalized web sites. Attrition has been operating "mirrors" of defaced sites, which preserve the damage for the benefit of security professionals, reporters and other interested parties long after companies have repaired their hacked home pages. But online vandalism has been mounting lately, and Attrition's staff has been unable to keep up. In the past month alone, the company has been faced with mirroring as many as 100 graffiti-splashed web sites a day--more than three times the total web vandalism in 1996 and 1995 combined. Attrition has been something of a labor of love, run by a small group of volunteers--lately at the expense of some Attrition members' day jobs. The Attrition.org web site will remain online, and its other sections, such as its statistical analyses of web vandalism, will still be maintained.
Posted by at May 22, 2001 07:41 AM
The study connects wrestling programs with such things as fighting, carrying a gun, roughing up a girlfriend/boyfriend, drunken driving and chewing tobacco.
Posted by at May 22, 2001 07:38 AM
Unfortunately one day the cameraman fell asleep on the job and the camera tilted down showing Ted turner masturbating to some communist porn.
Posted by at May 21, 2001 05:46 PM
Considering all this, you could choose to celebrate Victoria Day with a trip to church and a quiet family picnic by the lake. Or you could honour the memory of our greatest queen by buying a six-pack and some porn.
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Chinese police arrested eight members of a book club in Shaodong for reading books together without official permission from the government. Chinese law requires organized social groups to register with the state. One member of the club said the group only discussed books legally published in China.
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But the headmistress came upon the rodent inside the school, went into a tizzy, took the hamster out onto the playground and burned it alive in front of the children.
Posted by at May 16, 2001 07:17 AM
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Posted by at May 15, 2001 09:25 AM
If space ends, what's on the other side?
...nothing...
Posted by at May 14, 2001 03:55 PM
Right, like, so is it, is it spec'd to go through like tank armor...
Posted by at May 14, 2001 03:39 PM
Behold the greatness that is my library. Behold it again!
Posted by at May 14, 2001 02:59 PM
...maybe you had to be there.
Posted by at May 13, 2001 06:31 PM
Posted by at May 13, 2001 05:19 PM
A book by P.G. WODEHOUSE, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881-1975) Uncle Dynamite Didier 1948 New York . . First Edition.
Posted by at May 13, 2001 04:45 PM
Posted by at May 12, 2001 07:44 PM
Dr. Michael Welner, a forensic psychiatrist, asked more than 120 psychiatrists to help create a depravity scale which could be used by the courts to judge criminals.
Posted by at May 12, 2001 08:37 AM
Posted by at May 12, 2001 08:32 AM
Office Assistant can help you write your suicide note. First...
Posted by at May 12, 2001 05:27 AM
Posted by at May 10, 2001 12:50 PM
On the morning of April 25th, our office and the unique building in which it was housed were destroyed in a fire. In addition to the Baffler office, the building was home to a close community of artists, writers, nonprofit organizations, and small businesses. No one was injured in the fire, but the physical damage was extensive. Worse, however, was the devastation of a vital center of cultural activity.
We're struggling to cope with our losses and those of our friends. We have set up a temporary office and will do our best to publish Baffler #14 (which was sent to the printer a week before the fire) as scheduled. It now appears that our subscriber list is recoverable, so we are hopeful that everyone will get their copy of the magazine. For now, though, we have no computers, no contact lists, no rolodexes, no desks, and no desk lamps. We and our friends are determined to rebuild and recover, but we need help. For those who can, please send donations made out to The Baffler Recovery Fund to:
The Baffler Magazine
P. O. Box 378293
Chicago, IL 60637
Posted by at May 10, 2001 09:31 AM
Posted by at May 10, 2001 08:17 AM
The magnitude of these estimated costs suggests that regulations that would flow from proposed online privacy laws could have a substantial economic impact on consumers and businesses.
Let's keep making freon, too.
Posted by at May 10, 2001 07:34 AM
Using a well-known vulnerability in each operating system, the worm turns a Sun Solaris server into a robot which silently sniffs out Windows NT or 2000 systems running IIS and defaces their home pages.
Posted by at May 10, 2001 07:23 AM
The internet has emerged as a place to honor the dead, and a German man is catching flak, albeit indirectly, for having done so. Bernd Bruns, who is 53 years old, created a web site for his dear Mutter--and emblazoned the URL on her headstone, right beside her name. Cemetery officials in the city of Gladbeck have ordered Bruns to strike the web address from her gravesite. St. Lamberti Cemetery authorities consider the URL to be tacky and say it looks like an advertisement. Also, many cemetery visitors have spoken against the presence of the URL, saying that it trivializes a solemn place. So far, Bruns has not caved in to the officials' demands. Bruns complains that the cemetery's standards are too strict and that they have imposed a numbing uniformity upon the bereaved and that grieving relatives should be able to grieve how they see fit.
Posted by at May 10, 2001 07:21 AM
Masmacho.com is for men who are bold and women who are told.
Posted by at May 10, 2001 07:10 AM
"Hey, Vladu! There are some naked biker zombie chicks here to see you!"
Posted by at May 10, 2001 04:23 AM
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Posted by at May 09, 2001 07:05 AM
Welcome to Gang Land - the world's most comprehensive web site on organized crime!
Posted by at May 09, 2001 06:56 AM
Posted by at May 08, 2001 03:58 PM
"I hate world music" -- David Byrne
Posted by at May 06, 2001 05:36 AM
Daisy Fraser
Did you ever hear of Editor Whedon
Giving to the public treasury any of the money he received
For supporting candidates for office?
Or for writing up the canning factory
To get people to invest?
Or for suppressing the facts about the bank,
When it was rotten and ready to break?
Did you ever hear of the Circuit Judge
Helping anyone except the "Q" railroad,
Or the bankers? Or did Rev. Peet or Rev. Sibley
Give any part of their salary, earned by keeping still,
Or speaking out as the leaders wished them to do,
To the building of the water works?
But I--Daisy Fraser who always passed
Along the streets through rows of nods and smiles,
And coughs and words such as "there she goes,"
Never was taken before Justice Arnett
Without contributing ten dollars and costs
To the school fund of Spoon River!
Edgar Lee Masters
Posted by at May 05, 2001 03:46 AM
Fight your way through the early April bustle of Kiev's outdoor markets and you'll come across all sorts of local treats. There are pickled cucumbers, warm Easter breads and fresh hot copies of Windows 2000. Everywhere you look, young guys in leather jackets hawk Madonna's Music from portable tables. Pensioners sell CDs stacked on wooden dowels like digital shish kebabs.
Posted by at May 04, 2001 04:33 PM
Argentina may become the first country in the world to require all government offices to use open-source software, pending the outcome of a bill recently introduced in the nation's congress.
Posted by at May 04, 2001 04:31 PM
Posted by at May 04, 2001 04:00 PM
After using this sucker about five minutes, it has filtered 15 scripts, 9 ad frames, and 140 ads. I'm keeping it.
Posted by at May 04, 2001 03:29 PM
Posted by at May 04, 2001 03:25 PM
AndGor Toy Co., Inc. employees a team of in-house sculptors, trained at a professional level, with over half a century of sculpting experience combined! AndGor Toy Company can make YOU into the Action Figure of your choice, wearing whatever you want from casual clothes to formal wear, authentic military gear, football uniform, and more!
Posted by at May 04, 2001 02:12 PM
I never understood the mentality of rioters. They destroy their own communities because they are angry about something. That would be like us bombing Boise because Saddam Hussein took some hostages.
Posted by at May 04, 2001 02:11 PM
For family members, it is often the most difficult and painful decision they will face: to accept that a loved one -- a parent, a spouse, perhaps a sibling -- is technologically impaired and should no longer be allowed to live independently, or come near a computer or electronic device without direct supervision. The time has come to place that loved one into the care of an Assisted Computing Facility. But you have questions. So many questions. We at Silicon Pines want to help.
Posted by at May 04, 2001 01:52 PM
Perhaps the most curious was the site promoting a program that would bring about a 2- to 6-inch growth in sexual endowment. "No pumps, pills or weights are used," it said. "The only tool--your hand."
Posted by at May 04, 2001 09:33 AM
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How Cool Do you think it would be to have a 1:6 Scale Action Figure of Yourself!
Posted by at May 04, 2001 04:34 AM
Posted by at May 03, 2001 12:14 PM
Why, they wondered, is the White House Web site so lame?
Posted by at May 03, 2001 10:54 AM
Presidential aide Sidney Blumenthal filed a $30 million defamation suit against Matt Drudge, after the famed online columnist published an August 10, 1997 story in which he alleged Blumenthal "has a spousal abuse past that has been effectively covered up." Blumenthal vehemently denied the charges and Drudge retracted the allegations the following day. Also named in the suit is America Online, the online provider which hosts Drudge's column called the "Drudge Report." But on April 22, 1998 a federal judge dismissed AOL as co-defendant in the case, citing that an Internet service provider was not liable for content provided by them through a third party -- that is, Matt Drudge.
Posted by at May 03, 2001 10:53 AM
Researchers in Alberta have shown that pregnant mice that binge-drink on a particular day of their pregnancy give birth prematurely.
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