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leave of absence
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Life on the Edge
froom:
Life Among The Mammals: The Witch's Hat:
"we live on the brim of the hat. We don't wear hats for the point, fashionable though it might be at the time; we wear them for the brim because it is the brim that protects our eyes from the sun and our ears from the rain. It is the brim we can curve up or down or flatten as the seasons and the styles change. It is the brim we hold in our hand when we say hello or wave goodbye. The brim is the reason for the hat."
The Brim defines the Hat
Under Cover of the Blog
They are coming. Under cover of the blog. There are more and more of them cloaking selves with blogs. Pretense ladened. Links disquised as conversation. They are here. There are more of them every day. Whoring for traffic under cover of the blog. And their name is Kombinat! and by Their Links you shall NOT know them for they are Trojan Blogs. Jukeblox machines. Mechanical contraptions to WIN your traffic under cover of the blog.
And Should the Lie be Revealed
Phil in comments at
Gift Hub [I set some words in bold]:
Reality is that the many have the real power, though they are atomized, and somnolent, sleepwalkers. Giving in the sense of getting active in conversation with one another, and in common efforts for the public good are a way back to a truly civil society
Colonize The Colonizers.
Kombinat! The Movie: 15 seconds of Fame
Harry at Scratchings created a Quicktime Movie as a Public Service Announcement. (I uploaded the
movie to Kombinat server)
Our success is ensured. IPO next month. Let's move this product. Schnell.
Hysterectomy Blogging
Listen ladies, if you've had a hysterectomy, I want to hear good things from you.
Listen men, if your wife has had a hysterectomy,
Go over to Jeneane's and lend a voice of support.
Gonzo Participation
"A writer must be a participant in the scene while he is writing it" - HST
"You must participate in the spam as you are hacking it..." -
Rageboy"Bloggers must participate in Kombinat! while they are blogging it..." - Kombinat!
Trojan Horse. In the Belly. Swimming in excrement . Messiness. Carnival. Grimace. Masquerade. This is how to hack Kombinat!
Cluetrain Number 92
Hey Bloggers!
Who are your friends? allies? sparring partners? Who are you arguing with for better future? Are you delivering commitment or content? Are you creating a space for engagement or space for Advertising?
92. Our allegiance is to ourselves—our friends, our new allies and acquaintances, even our sparring partners. Companies that have no part in this world, also have no future
Who are you?
Jukeblox: The new money booth
Blogs are now becoming a new Money Booth, a Money Blooth. Mechanical Dash for Cash contraptions. A kind of Jukeblox to be stuck inside for a short time when the hot air around you blows bills and your job is to grab them while the audience cheers and laughs.
Let a Thousand Olive Trees Bloom in a dumpster
Capital does not have a citizenship. As a citizen it would foremost make a stand for Public Good over Private Profit. Lacking that commitment it owes alliegience to noone but to itself. It blooms for itself.
Listen. I didn't say Public Good instead of Private Profit. It's not an Either Or Logic. It's AND Logic. In a context of Public Good Capital constituting itself as citizen can be considered a kind of glue that binds our shared existence to build a better future.
Instead what we got is a bag of glue to sniff alone in a dumpster.
The above I wrote as a comment after Harry's "Let a thousand olive trees bloom" pointer to
Limited Inc. It's is a continuation of my thinking of Bloggers Making Money. The AND Logic. Blogs AND Money and not OR. Yet I believe Blogs are moving more towards building a grand feel good justification of Blogs AND Money without any thoughts of Public Good and Citizenship if such a thing can be even thought of on the Net.
Netizen, Blogzenship, Citblogyen and any other words describing such a thing will be snatched soon by marketers as unique search strings on Google so even if a new conversation is possible with new vocabulary it will quickly be consumed by the marketers and sold back to us for traffic generation.
New conversation is possible. We might begin by adopting an already existing traditions and reuse the old vocabulary by giving it a new context.
Kombinat! Manifesto Continues
Listen. You are not a consumer. You are a Producer.
Listen. In Kombinat! you are the Actor and Kombinat! is the Audience. Kombinat! consumes you.
Listen. "All the World's a Stage" is NOT. For Kombinat! You are the World and the Stage Kombinat! is - "wherein men walk up and down in one another's disguises and act their respective parts", till Kombinat! finds no further use for them for Kombinat!
Yet Kombinat! is not a spectacle.
Boomboom
Boomboom
Boomboom
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We'll see how it goes.
Kombinat! The Interview by Mayosan
Hi, I am
Kombinat! and I approve this Interview by Mayosan.Some Quotes:
Peekaboo! Are you hearing what I say? Shit gets said and flies all over. This is voice. It is messy and fucked and human. Passion, comrad. Anger and the all consuming fire
This blog thing is dead.
Time to go to the dumpster. Time for engagement and talking about real shit and real life and going back and forth
Time to breed and talk about life and help each other out. I grow tired of salespeople and marketers doing it to all of us. Ones with no voice. No passion. No want of engagement. Time for us to do it to ourselves. And, btw, no fucking ads that are standing on the outside the gates of our place just waiting to be clicked. Screw them. They made no effort to Kombat or to heal wounds or to bicker. They are all clean sitting up in glass houses. Sterile.
Mayosan also points to a bit of news about weblogs inc:
"The fact that Calacanis has never blogged does little to enhance his credibility in the blogosphere".
I think it's ok that he never blogged. Had he been a blogger he would have have not started Weblogs Inc with it's business model. He might start something like Kombinat! so it's ok because now we can have a conversation to create how this might evolve further.
Thank you Mayosan
Kombinat! enlarges the logic on money and blogs
The Doc Searls Weblog : Tuesday, December 14, 2004:
Fact is, I have nothing against making money with blogs. (...) enlarge the conversation beyond making money with blogs, into making money because of blogs. (...) the logic is AND, not OR.
Let's talk about it. shall we?
Isn't it about time bloggers started talking about it? Money and Blogs, not Money OR Blogs.
And no, Weblogs Inc is not my idea of that. Their idea is Jukeblox, "I make money because I have a jukeblox and you don't".
So, let's talk about it.
HST Died in Kombat! and We go on Living
Hunter S. Thompson Died in Kombat!
'in a gun fight with his worst enemy' - himself. [via
Frank]
Some More Links:
Frank Paynter
Chris Locke
Tom Shugart: Adieu Dr. T
Jeneane: Shotgun Golf
Craig: Spewing Venom
Also Living People's Concerns.:
Jeneane:These are the stories I want to hear. You must tell them. They shouldn't be a secret just because the whole thing is a bloody mess. Those kind of secrets kill us. Shame is their lock
Caveat Lector:
what I’m supposed to do is duck into the nearest phone booth and turn into Perfect Plastic Person. I then appear before the Ruritanians, who search me obsessively for flaws that (as Perfect Plastic Person) I gamely try to pretend I don’t possess. The Ruritanians aren’t supposed to see my warts until they’re stuck with ’em, because who hires a person with warts?
Is Gordon Gould a complete Idiot?
This recent post from Gordon Gould of Weblogs Inc network popped an innocent question in my head: Is he a complete idiot?
Gordon Gould, your post is a disappointment, sir. You could do a bit of homework before posting your shit to generate traffic for the Weblogs Inc bosses.
The post in question points to a site SaveToby.com where some asshole is saying he will off a bunny and eat him if you, yes you dear reader, don't do something about it, and that means paying this dude money.
It only takes 30 seconds to know SaveToby.com is a scam. There is no user support@savetoby.com as shown on the site. The link to paypal leads to donate@savetoby.com and there is no user Save Toby, Inc. and no it's not Verified by Paypal. The entire PayPal info displayed on a site is a fake. The site is rendered in Flash made with SWISH, not a bit of text in body but meta tags loaded for search engine keywords, the domain is Private with private DNS so there is no way to know who runs this grand scam. If there is enough stupid fuckers on the net the guy is gonna get his money and Gordon Gould is a complete idiot for pointing to it. I expect a post like his from some high school immature boy but not from a grown man who's job it is to generate traffic for Weblogs Inc.
Hold on.... Maybe I am an idiot for pointing to him and generating traffic for Weblogs Inc.? Oy, maybe I am an idiot for even writing this in the first place. (Update: I removed the links from this post and use one nofollow link )
Google currently shows no links to
savetoby but
11 thousands links to gould.weblogsinc.com mostly from other Weblogs Inc properties. I can see Weblogs Inc guys have found way to put a lot of trashlink on google. Is this why they are getting 20 million hits a month?
OK, let me reiterate again. Gordon Gould is an idiot.
Good night.
a quote to ponder
Well, several quotes.
sarcasm and satire, are as much an artform for the writer as for the reader
the above line is from the interaction with my man Mayo. I think he is right. The readers are invited to the game.
From Eric Norlin's post on Hateration.I keep noticing this "anti-marketing" stance in weblogs and developer communities lately -- often by those that think they're somehow thinking in the "cluetrain" vein of things. Quite frankly, I don't get it.
me neither but we are going to talk about it here.
Marketing is not a four letter word. Fuck is a four letter word. And good marketers aren't afraid to say "fuck" (when appropriate - god knows i do)
BMO in comments of that post:
Read Locke's chapter on value in Gonzo Marketing. I've read it thirty times and I still don't get it
YES. Value. YES, That Chapter.
YES. This is what Kombinat! is now gearing up to. Stay tuned.
Selflessness as a Selfish Motive
David Weinberger at Corante:"The problem with too many social networks is that they presume we're selfish"
And this from Phil at Gifthub:"So much planning for wealthy people today assumes that they are basically selfish, and that even their giving is really a disguised way to get more of something good, like tax deductions or status, or political power for themselves. Actually, I am sick and tired of that assumption, however true it may be in many cases. A few people are musical, some are poets, some are spiritual, most are parents, many are concerned (deeply concerned) citizens, not just consumers and pigs happy with their swill, and wanting more"
connecting the dots.
Capital Has No Citizenship
Something about permanece and identity:"Why choose to constrain oneself? Faced with an unexpected turn in a relationship, the easiest thing to do is to reinterpret one's earlier commitment as a mistake, and 'move on'. (...) At a time when it is difficult to sustain a coherent identity over time, it is reassuring to be told that it doesn't matter. Instead of lamenting the absence of stories through which to make sense of our lives, we should celebrate our liberation from narrative (not to mention metanarrative) and get on with our lives."
I am bringing these quotes to connect the dots. One of the dots is "Capital has no committment to anything other than itself". Other dots are just floating around. Connect them.
Casting Bloggers for Corporate Marketing
From Animals in advertising:"Penguins are popular actors in advertisements. That is because they are so cute, so human, so funny. Penguins aren't good messengers, though. Because unlike lions, horses, owls ..., penguins stand for no specific feature. It makes them difficult to cast."
Kombinat! congratulates all the popular bloggers recently hired by corporations.
Cuckcootrain Manifesto
Markets are Conversations where you and I produce Noise so the Market can Profit from our "Conversations"
When blogging in 2005 we are not
"writing ourselves into existence" any more as
David Weinberger says. We have progressed beyond that, we are now dismantling our existence and selves we sell as spare parts for Conversations machine.
Kombinat! Profits Machine Conversation Waste Disposal is.
Google Click Fraud and My Purple Hat
OK, make sure you read about my Big Purple Hat but first what does
Google Click Fraud and
AC/DC lyrics. have in commont? Well, nothing really - but there is this Purple Hat.
Who made Who
Who made You
Ain't nobody told You
Who made Who
If You made Them and They made You.
Who picked up the bill
Who made who?
OK, seriously,
Google CFO George Reyes is concerned when he says:
"I think something has to be done about this really, really quickly, because I think, potentially, it threatens our business model."
I can totally understand him. I would be too since 98% of Google's revenues come from Paid-Search Advertising.
OK, I have to think about this a bit. -- So let's say I have a nice fabulous hat, purple, BIG Purple Hat and there is no one in town with a Big Purple Hat like mine and people are fascinated and almost everyone in town knows me and is eager to stop by and chat with me and Hat Design and Colors and FaSHION; and along comes a marketer who says "Hey you Beautiful Beast! why don't you make some money with that Big PURPLE hat of yours?", and I say "HOW????, I am ALL Ears, my MAN!!!"
So he says "You can advertise Shirts and Underwear and Ties and (fill in the blank) as you walk around town with your PURPLE HAT, and every time someone comes over to see your PURPLE BIG nice Hat they will also see your carrying around other items worth having and if they but touch any of the items on your person that we provide for you we will pay you a 'per touch' fee for it, and you don't have to do shit my man, just let them touch the items, see the label maybe and that's it, your 'per touch' fee will be paid".
OK, there is a couple of things to go with that, ok, maybe three or four.... SO
1) I will say "Fuck, I aint' carrying any shit that's gonna impede my Purple Hat Bigness"
2) I can say "OK, I will carry some items on my person then but --- not too many 'cause I don't want to sell out you know, -- I don't want people in this town saying 'Look, here goes the Hat guy carrying all that shit on him'", or
3) I will say "Brother, give me as much shit as I can carry on my person, then I am gonna run around town telling people to touch it until everyone of these people touches it at least once and if there is still time in the day I am gonna ask them to touch it again and if they don't want to I am gonna grab their hands and touch it for them" -- G00d G0d this is the greatest thing that ever happend to me, I will be able to stop walking around this town and get me a car and get rid of that fucking Big Heavy Purple Hat. After all this is done people are gonna start talking about my CAR and then I can carry more shit with me for them to touch in my trunk."
ok there is one more I think.
4) I can tell the marketer to bring as much shit as possible, as much as it will fit in my house. Then I am going to get all my friends over to my house and tell them this: "OK, see this shit all over my house? GOOD, NOW - Get NAKED, then start rolling around and touch as many items as you can with whatever part of your body you want, I DON'T Care as long as you touch it, Just fucking keep touching it cause we are getting paid Per-Touch fee here and next month we are buying a Lear Jet and getting the fuck out of this town"
Of course Google has AdSense Policies in place of course that uphold the reputation and quality its advertising program so scenario 3 or 4 would never happen, of course!
In unrelated news a blogger is
kindly requested to remove all content and links to a newspaper's site in a city of Tulsa.
Trailer: WEBLOG : The Movie
Stavros provides a trailer to:
WEBLOG : The Movie: [via
Allied.]
Kombinat! Manifesto
Listen. In Cluetrain = Markets are Converstions. In Kombinat! = Kombinat is The Market and Conversations are its byproduct.
Listent. What is Essential is clearly visible to the eye. It is only with the heart that one can not see. Just like the Little Prince who did not tame the Fox. It was the Fox who tamed the Little Prince. And so is Kombinat! Conversations Disposal Machine is Kombinat!
Listen. Human Being Meaning Making Machine Is. It doesn't mean anything for Human but for Kombinat! it means profit.
Listen. Kombinat! gives birth to conversations for no other reason but to dispose of them right after birth. It is by the constant generation of conversations Kombinat is able to make profit from the noise of conversations. The conversations themselves don't matter at all. It is only imortant that they get born and then die. As to how they live Kombinat does not care. We treat all conversations equally. It matters not if they are inspirational or full of hate. As long as Human Beings vomit language out of their mouth Kombinat is profitable.
Listen. Kombinat! does not explain. Kombinat! profits when you are explaining. Explain that.
Kombinat! Business PlanOur Premise: Human's Insatiable Hunger for New Conversations
Our Method: Develop structures to Manufacture Conversations
Our Profit: Monetize THEIR Talking to Each Other
Our Output: Disposal of Conversations
Kombinat! Pure Profit. Harmless Waste.In developing our Kombinat! we must not be like those who don't know how to monetize the waste.
"Social Software" toys with Humans desire to be connected. To know others and to be known by others. Conversation is currency. We Are Kombinat! We are profit driven. In Kombinat! Conversationas are Waste, a byproduct. Kombinat! keeps profit, conversations we throw away.
We begin with Finished Goods. We make profit by Breaking Up the Signal into Noise.
We break up the Noise into Profit to keep and Conversations to throw away.
There In The Marketplace.
There The Garbage Dump.
There You = Talking
Listen. You are not a consumer. You are a Producer.
Listen. In Kombinat! you are the Actor and Kombinat! is the Audience. Kombinat! consumes you.
Listen. "All the World's a Stage" is NOT. For Kombinat! You are the World and the Stage Kombinat! is - "wherein men walk up and down in one another's disguises and act their respective parts", till Kombinat! finds no further use for them for Kombinat!
Yet Kombinat! is not a spectacle.
Boomboom
Boomboom
Boomboom
What Others are sayingJeneane explains Kombiant! business plan:
"Conversations --> Waste --> Commerce --> Conversations"Gary Turner has created a Kombinat! mathematica formula:
k! = mc²
JukeBlogs bleeding Inc
The Doc Searls Weblog : Saturday, February 19, 2005:
I love weblogs, but I hate what's happened to it," Kombinat! said recently in his Jesus Bunker. "Weblogs became Weblogs Inc., a juke blogs, the idea being to post shit load of posts and not say anything. The Good Guys had fun on the weblogs. We never took ourselves seriously
Well, Doc didn't say that. We did. If you can see what happend to radio and you don't like it then just watch what's happening to weblogs.
We have a new name for these blogs. We gonna call them Jukeblox or Jukeblogs. I am sure some marketer is going to go out there and get all the domain names and drive some keyword traffic to it. Have at it dude and after that just go
Kill Yourself!
Let's Colonize the Colonizers
This I wrote a year ago as a comment on wealthbondage. A friend sends it in an email to me to remind me about Kombinat! mission:
Posting it here as a reference to update some thoughts on this:
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Let's colonize the colonizers.
Can we create a Public Domain Corporation, some kind of a corporate structure that would employ the Creative Commons license for the property it amasses? (since amassing private property is the reason for the existence of a corporation, no?)
Carnival creates no value in the eye of an economic beholder for, seen throught that eye, it does not amass property whose value can be measured (with money of course) but if Carnival becomes a legal corporation then would the value it creates become a legal property that can be measured and managed? (and therefore show up in the radar of those who forgot where to look?)
Could the saying "You can't manage what you can't measure" be relevant in the situation where an Incorporated legally Carnival Inc. entity be a context where we could manage the measures of Carnival in a Culture. why not?
Can Carnival colonize Business using the structures of Business? (Serpent devours its own tail comes to mind as an image). Instead of fighting, resiting, protesting the devourer can we collaborate, incorporate, transform him? But not in a NewAge feel good kind of way and not 'we are the world, we are the children' goofy emotional gatherings and instead as a Corporate Entity equal to other Corporate Entities? In Partnership: completely different but not divided, having completely different goals but using the similar means. ("I hate what you stand for but let's work together" type of Partnership.) Can such a thing be possible? Can Carnival become an Equal Partner with Business to create culture, maintain culture, measure culture, manage culture, expand culture, be a partner in culture making
So, again thinking outloud: Can we create a Corporation dedicated to enriching Public Domain, accountable to its shareholders with Income and Cash Flow statements? Why not use the Business Measures to manage the culture? What if Business does not devour Culture? Can we have a busines entity that makes culture? (Apple comes to mind with their iBook, Mac OS X, iPod.)
Instead of a business designed to colonize our Public Domain for its own private use, can we create a business designed to colonize the colonizer's private use and turn it into Public Domain.
The laws on the books are not allowing us to do that. I can't incorporate Mickey Mouse. The copyright law prevents that. (as Kombinat! says: "Mickey has not become a waste to be turned into a new conversation yet")
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In Defense of Inability to Execute
If the year is 1954 and you are a blind man but you know that one day people will take pictures with digital cameras and you can explain to someone how to build such a device so it can be available in 1955 but no one listens and you are tired of telling the world about it - then does your inability to start a company by yourself since you are blind make you a procrastinator or mad or what?
Friendly Fascism
Amazon.com: Books: Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America: by Bertram Gross,
Get it while it's still legal to read it.
Getting Things Done. Slave Efficiency Improvement
Steve Pavlina's Blog: The Essential Missing Half of Getting Things Done:
"The lack of a GTD [Getting Things Done] personal leadership element is also prevalent in David Allen’s second book, Ready for Anything. Take note of the title. You’re ready for anything. But what is that anything? You’re ready to act, ready to get stuff done. But what’s the stuff? Who chooses it? Where does it come from? What kind of person would value the state of readiness above all else? Perhaps a martial artist. But perhaps a slave too."
Slaves need to have a very good system for Getting Things Done. Their Masters have great plans and someone has to do it efficiently at the lowest cost possible. Judging by the success of the book and the entire movement of
'Getting Things Done' there are a lot of slaves preparing themselves to be 'Ready for Anything' their Masters will envision.
I think good help is going to get a lot easier to find in 2005.
Detoxification
I have just got out of detoxification ward where I have been in the last 3 months learning how to be human again. My mind has been toxificalicated a bit bit bit there and there a drop of this and that and a splash of MTV and over CNN-o so so too much TVeeee time. TVeeee Time.
I am sorry you had to endure the horrible posts here in the last few months. I simply could not tell you I was sick. The Cancer was spreading fast. MTV and CNN tumors grew quite large large large and they pressed my healthy grey matter which could not be used. The doctors also discovered the FOX toxins in my bloodstream and NYTIMES virus growing strong in the presence of WALLSTREET.JURNO daily dippings.
I had to quit cold turkey. Turned myself in for detoxificationalization. It appears it is beginning to work work work. Yes, there is still hope hope hop hop hop hope.
I am happy you are here reading this. There is still time to make some culture together. Great. Thanks for stopping by. bye bye for now. for now now is the time to dream and breathe and floss too, it's very important for your gums.
Oil-for-Women and Iraq's Purple Finger
Naomi Klein: Sorry George, but Iraq has given you the purple finger:
"Iraq's elections were delayed time and time again while the occupation and resistance grew ever more deadly. Now it seems that two years of bloodshed, bribery and backroom arm-twisting were leading up to this: a deal in which the ayatollahs get control over the family, Texaco gets the oil, and Washington gets its enduring military bases (call it the "oil-for-women programme"). Everyone wins except the voters, who risked their lives to cast their ballots for very different policies."
Sniff that Revolvelution
the revolution will be a teacup in a storm
or a bottle in a message
or a door to a key
the revolution will always come with fries
because the revolution will be advertised
The revolution will be televized
You will play yourself
or Brad Pitt playing you
or you playing Brad Pitt playing you
or you playing Kombiant!
playing Kombinat! playing you playing Brad Pitt
the revolution will show pictures of hopefulls
queuing overnight for the latest auditions
with Kombinat! providing sms updates
the revolution will be smoked, snorted, injected, chased or vaporized
It will be recorded --- digitized ------ !!!
then transferred to all available formats
it will appear on your favorite CD as the bonus track
You will be able to procure it cheap on VHS
or pay a little more for the extra footage on DVD
the revolution will be scratched
span back and sampled as a loop
It will appear as the red button on your remote control
so you can have it at your leisure
the revolution
will have its own award ceremony with its biggest winners
unable to attend except for via the satellite link
because of their current revolutionary commitments
the revolution will be a teacup in a storm
or a bottle in a message
or a door to a key
the revolution will always come with fries
because the revolution will be advertised
The REVOLUTION! inside ronald's happy meal box as a free gift
A world where everything is possible
will be advertised.
Kleptons have released a new album
"From Detroit to J.A". The last track is titled "Revolvelution". Lyrics from this track were used in making of this post.
Sniff.
Content in the Trenches
It seems what we create here on these pages is called Content. It's like when you go to a site and you say "Content" and you say that because it's Kombinat! that makes you say that. It's all the toxins in you make you say that. Content, Content. -- But you used to say 'Great writing' or 'what a great person' and 'I love the this shit these people are exploring here' -- but now everybody says Content. --- it's beginning to hurt in my head, head ooozziiooowwii a bit bit bit, and I just got out of detoxificalitatiozation and I need some support to stay healthy and Content Free but I don't know how long how long how long I can hold on hold on, baby hold on, baby hold on hold on...
Maybe this Content is like when you take a shovel and go out on a farm and start digging a trench and there you are in the trenches working your ass off and then somebody looks at you and says that you are out there in the trenches making some great Content.
I was wondering if it's worth it to go out there and just make trenches in your front lawn or your back yard or your ranch, just imagine miles and miles of trenches so that people can write about you that you are there in the trenches making Content. Working hard in the trenches making Content. I mean, what good is it to fuck up the nice looking meadow and just riddle it with trenches so you could be famous for your Content and your trenches?
Ruby. Language of Humans to speak with Computers
"My conscience won’t let me call Ruby a computer language. That would imply that the language works primarily on the computer’s terms. That the language is designed to accomodate the computer, first and foremost. That therefore, we, the coders, are foreigners, seeking citizenship in the computer’s locale. It’s the computer’s language and we are translators for the world.
But what do you call the language when your brain begins to think in that language? When you start to use the language’s own words and colloquialisms to express yourself. Say, the computer can’t do that. How can it be the computer’s language? It is ours, we speak it natively!
We can no longer truthfully call it a computer language. It is coderspeak. It is the language of our thoughts"
Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby :: 3. A Quick (and Hopefully Painless) Ride Through Ruby (with Cartoon Foxes)
RFID tagging of school children
Hannibal at ArsTechnica points to
silicon.com article on RFID tagging kids in CA:
"It's a little known fact that the familiar public school bell system has its origins on the factory floor. The original pre-industrial classroom model, in which students spent their entire day in a single room with a single teacher, didn't do a very good job of socializing youngsters to work on a timed schedule that was broken into shifts by the sounding of the bell or whistle. So it was recognized quite early on that the public school, the attendance of which is mandatory and in which youngsters spend the majority of their week, is one of the primary vehicles of socialization
(...)
With these facts in view, I want you to imagine what sort of society that the constant, mandatory electronic monitoring of the physical whereabouts of school children via RFID is supposed to prepare our youth for..."
Kombinat! applauds the school officials. There is nothing wrong with being monitored and watched all the time. I think we should implant little radios in their heads, maybe implant a little chip behind an ear that speaks to them reassuringly throughout the day.
I think only through Surveillance Society can we really speak of Ownership Society's success. Kombinat! wants to be at a forefront of this wonderful movement.
In unrelated news RFID tagged credit cards - where payments are made by holding the card near a reader - has been found to increase sales by 30 per cent.
In another unrelated news RFID tagged children can be better protected from inappropriate corporate advertising by personalizing ads for their age and taste and interests.
Questions for the Future - in association with Shell
Questions for the Future - in association with Shell:
"The role of independent tradesmen and merchants as intermediaries for spreading a society’s wealth was first described by Aristotle, who taught that a healthy middle class was essential to a country’s stability and social contract."
Who paid off Aristotle? Which asshole wrote this shit?
Words come back to haunt you
Yelvington.com:"The challenge for media companies is to understand this radical shift from information scarcity to surplus, and craft both a new role as guide (not gatekeeper) and a business foundation that will support that new role
(...)
I don't think we've made much progress toward understanding the role shift or the new business mode"
Why should those assholes make any progress on creating that new role?
Chief Blogging Officer May be on Fire (soon)
"To recap and retreat to McDonald's for a very early breakfast before the crosses burst into flames on my front lawn"
More on Racism, Asatru, Anglo-Celtic people, Jesus Online etc... at
Chief Blogging OfficerSimply a must read.
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Wealth Bondage: Guide to Color-coded Bracelets:
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The Copyrighting of Public Space
(via
wood s lot)
New (sub)Urbanism: The Copyrighting of Public Space:
"Hence, Millennium Park--a nascent destination for countless citizens and tourists that was built with $270 million in city funds--is slowly emerging as Chicago's most privatized public space. Photographers beware!"
I wonder if I can copyright my aura, you know the aura that emanates from my presence. Anyone attempting to bask in the glow of my aura would have to pay me some fucking dollar bills. Can you believe this shit? Does it remind you of the stuff about 'linking policy' when few years back websites put up these stupid ass copyright notices that you have to gain permission to link to their site. Fuck you Chicago! I ain't linking to your Parks.
Double Negative Magazine
Double Negative Magazine of Creative Arts. 19 issues in over 10 years. Great stuff.
Michael Heizer: NY Times Magazine Artcle
The New York Times Magazine: Last, Lonely Cowboy: by Michael Kimmelman
In 1972, Heizer acquired land in Garden Valley and began work on the first part of ''City,'' his own version of Easter Island or Angkor Wat: a modernist complex of abstract shapes -- mounds, prismoids, ramps, pits -- to be spread across the valley. It was to be experienced over time, in shifting weather, not from a single vantage point or from above but as an accumulation of impressions and views gathered by slowly walking through it. Artists in the 1960's and 70's -- Donald Judd, Andre, De Maria, Smithson, others -- were pushing sculpture off its pedestal. This was sculpture pushed all the way into the Western desert, the sort of work that you couldn't buy or sell even though it was very expensive to produce. Its materials were dirt and rock and cement and rebar, not marble or porcelain or bronze, and its tools were not chisels but heavy machinery
Awesome Madness of an Artist. Great story in NYTimes. It's too bad it will go behind the Moneywall soon. 11 pages long. Take some time to read it. It's worth to draw analogies from it to apply to what's happening in life, in general.
Update:
this is a no moneywall link from Harry's comments. I completely forgot about this deal with nytimes.
Discourse Pollution. Bullshit solution.
Discourse Spammers and Blog Theft | Personal Democracy Forum:
The strategy of the right is not to argue, but to pollute discourse so that the public has no choice but to delegate its decision-making role to a small group.
Welcome to Kombinat! The strategy hiere is not to argue. We could never win this way, are you fucking kidding? Democrats could fucking wake up and start learning from Spammers on how to enstill fear into the little fuckers we call Citizens. The End Justifies the Means you fuckers. Even Jesus knew that. The cross, nails and death was far better to launch a worldwide brand called Christianity. Now go and do some of that discourse polluting if you want to win your next election. But don't come knocking here. We're already full of shit, don't need no more.
Welcome to Everywhere and Nowhere
Colors Magazine Issue 63 "Frontiers".
Welcome to the World of Borders. Cross at your own risk.
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Eyes on the Prize right after Eyes on the Money
Daily Kos :: WTF?:
The teacher who was planning a February 8th screening of Eyes on the Prize (...) has been forced to cancel after a threat of lawsuit from the "licensee level". We absolutely cannot believe this - we had never anticipated that anyone would try to stop students and community members from watching a film about the Civil Rights Movement. Apparently, the law firm that contacted them says that the school district does not have the proper licenses.
It's the Law you fuckers. You have to pay to play. Freedom isn't free.
Q&A session on getting paid to blog
The Question: "If we paid you to blog how would that affect your blogging?".
The Answer: "Fuck you. Give me the money first!"
Webcred: Last Rites and Personal Jabs
Jeneane writes about webcred. She mentions
Jon Garfunkel has written "a summary on some of the touchier issues around the conference".
One of the things Jeneane points is Jon saying that "Outsider participants need to figure out ways to get their attention without dropping into personal attacks" to which Jeneane responds.
"If three or four years of fine writing and thinking -- of humor and horror, of piss and passion -- on the part of the excluded aren't enough to get the "insider's attention," then it's just not going to happen"
A note on blogging discourse, If not 'ad hominem' posts then why fucking write at all? If I can't tell you that you are full of shit then you can't tell me that either and we can't be friends. Back to being Objective.
Our New Dumpster: Rules of Engagement
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Rageboy goes to Westpoint
At least the American Army is excited about
Cluetrain.
The news coming from Rageboy aka Chris Locke aka Chief Blogging Officer is pretty incredible. He is Unleashing the Power of Army Profession. Definitely must read.
