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walk
Took a walk in the 19th century this morning. Women wearing hats and children in what may have been 'Sunday Best'. Wondered aloud why western society gets all condesceningly superior in regards to Islamic 'primitivism' regarding attitudes to women and what they should wear in public. It was only recently that public day-time bathing on beaches was ( Read more... ) -
happenings in the world
Some recent event links I stumbled upon while checking up some things on Wikipedia ( Read more... ) -
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Drinking Baltic beer and eating Austrian radishes, the room smells of sewage. The silhouette of a fly on the window plays across the primary monitor ( Read more... ) -
Via Modesta Valenti
Am reading Baudrillard's "Simulacra and Simulation" at the moment.
An example of a simulacrum?:
Via Modesta Valenti (vrml .wrl file, browser plugin required)
c.f : photo apparently from 'the real world'
But What is Via Modesta Valenti? A 'virtual' Italian street that exists within the bureaucracy in order for the physically homeless to obtain ( Read more... ) -
one of those lj meme things
Never bothered with these before, seems like only one actual meme exists -- the mislabeled idea of an 'lj-meme', which persists. The individual examples peter out pretty promptly ( Read more... ) -
absinthe and old friends
I had forgotten what a great drink is absinthe the combinations of fire water sugar and green ( Read more... ) -
found photo..
Found a photo of me on Flickr from Crossings performance last year in chch:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/84583767@N00/47934217/I'll write up something about the performance at some point, and about how I used vrml for background projections ( Read more... ) -
points, 2yrs old
January 02 2004 10:44:28 ( Read more... ) -
streaming chaos
The other day I managed to get http://www.wasp-factory.com/chaosapproved/ streaming through my xbox (xbmc v1.1 - non M$) and stereo. It was a bit of work, live365 requires pw login with sessioning and redirects, so a channel can't be streamed directly unlike other providers ( Read more... )