motz
dimarts, 12. de març 2002

midnight phenomenon

rollling stone spacewar article from '72 by stewart brand about the academic computing community.

Reliably, at any nighttime moment (i.e. non-business hours) in North America hundreds of computer technicians are effectively out of their bodies, locked in life-or-Death space combat computer-projected onto cathode ray tube display screens, for hours at a time, ruining their eyes, numbing their fingers in frenzied mashing of control buttons, joyously slaying their friend and wasting their employers' valuable computer time. Something basic is going on ...

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magic squares

the crossword puzzle was invented by Arthur Wynne in 1913.

Wynne's puzzle first appeared in the December 21, 1913 edition of the World, as one of the "Fun" section's "mental exercises." It was diamond-shaped, without blackened-out squares, and with easy clues

irene greif. "former" (as mit calls her, but actually:) director of the lotus research group, "founder" of cscw (computer-supported cooperative work).

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bcn-l´europa

noch is es ruhig. keine helicópteros über unserem dach, obwohl ums eck wieder das koordinationszentrum für die manifestaciónes ist. molesto solamento por los choches und verstärktes polizeiaufkommen seit dem wochenende.15.000 sollen es noch werden. 2500 werden für "infiltrados en los movimientos antiglobalización" abgestellt.

generalitat empfiehlt: "as far as possible, avoid travelling during this period." und wenn, dann nur, indem sie auch an ihre kollegen, nachbarn denken und sie mitnehmen.

dazu passt die spanische nummer für den eurovision song contest, die gestern im verlauf der sendung operación triunfo (grauenhafte website) gewählt wurde: europe's living a celebration no corazón, pero ue es el tema del castellanos. seit monaten gibt es diese sendung, die dem schema nach taxi orange entspricht, die erfolgreichste sendung des öffentlich rechtlichen ist und die siegerin - rosa - darf nach tallinn fahren. der rest hat bereits platten- und konzertverträge in der tasche.

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