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flautista de hamelín
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44/365, Mark
Mark was the two years older football player brother of a girl my age, and the first death of a person I'd met on my own. He had a heart attack his Junior year in high school, after a practice. 40 words, 40 years 365 days, 365 people http://www.logolalia.com/40x365/
Re: flautista de hamelín
wow, this is fantastic! unrelated, but I just watched the version where Donovan plays the p.p. recently.. the midi-eval, the plagues in the setting, the alchemy of desire, and the info-automatism, even the paedophilic angle, not to mention the objectifications and mappings.. neat! very evocactive at this juncture.. thx lq flautista de hamelín http://www.geocities.com/supermiembro/iconografia/w_ico_flautista_hamelin_09 _00.jpg
clarification
when in need of creating a file it is always better to chose the .txt format instead of the .doc format because many of my .doc(s) are just not working anymore and that can be frustrating, at times. i consider myself a gentle person, very patient, but sometimes i get cranky with the computer especially when one is having a bad day -- not to mention when one is menstruating, because women are hysterical by nature, or maybe it is because today i'm wearing my dancing shoes. my dancing shoes are tacky but sexy (therefore beautiful) but they are new and have high heels so they're uncomfortable, but i'm trying to get comfortable in them by wearing them at home, so when i go dancing tomorrow, anyway, where was i? and the whole microsoft thing is just a piece of crap, so please, take my advice and go for .txt and not for .doc
Re: clarification
and there's nothing worse than word y no hay nada peor que la palabra hijole, que es lo que acabo de decir ? john At 09:54 AM 2/24/2006, you wrote: when in need of creating a file it is always better to chose the .txt format instead of the .doc format because many of my .doc(s) are just not working anymore and that can be frustrating, at times. i consider myself a gentle person, very patient, but sometimes i get cranky with the computer especially when one is having a bad day -- not to mention when one is menstruating, because women are hysterical by nature, or maybe it is because today i'm wearing my dancing shoes. my dancing shoes are tacky but sexy (therefore beautiful) but they are new and have high heels so they're uncomfortable, but i'm trying to get comfortable in them by wearing them at home, so when i go dancing tomorrow, anyway, where was i? and the whole microsoft thing is just a piece of crap, so please, take my advice and go for .txt and not for .doc __ Dr. John M. Bennett Curator, Avant Writing Collection Rare Books Manuscripts Library The Ohio State University Libraries 1858 Neil Av Mall Columbus, OH 43210 USA (614) 292-3029 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.johnmbennett.net ___
Re: clarification
On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Ana Buigues wrote: so please, take my advice and go for .txt and not for .doc preferably with unix line breaks
nznl.com digest, Feb 16, 2006 - Feb 24, 2006
nznl.com digest Feb 16, 2006 - Feb 24, 2006Posts 1361 - 1369http://nznl.com1361. Feb 16, 2006FOUNDATION, 2010, FOUNDATIONphotoshop/fireworks filehttp://nznl.com/geert/pop.php?dag=200602161362. Feb 17, 2006FOUNDATION, 2010, FOUNDATIONweb pagehttp://nznl.com/geert/pop.php?dag=200602171363. Feb 18, 2006ROOM, 2010, ROOMphotoshop/fireworks filehttp://nznl.com/geert/pop.php?dag=200602181364. Feb 19, 2006FOUNDATION PROBLEM, 2010, INSTALLATION AT THE NZNL.COM EXHIBITION HALL BUILDING SITEfireworks filehttp://nznl.com/geert/pop.php?dag=200602191365. Feb 20, 2006STUDY FOR A DETAIL OF THE NZNL.COM EXHIBITION HALL, 2010, DETAILphotoshop/fireworks filehttp://nznl.com/geert/pop.php?dag=200602201366. Feb 21, 2006PROVISIONAL HEAD, 2010, INSTALLATION AT THE NZNL.COM EXHIBITION HALL CAR PARKphotoshop/fireworks file, googled imagehttp://nznl.com/geert/pop.php?dag=200602211367. Feb 22, 20063 RELICS, 2010, PLYWOOD, PLASTER OF PARIS, ACRYLICSphotoshop/fireworks filehttp://nznl.com/geert/pop.php?dag=200602221368. Feb 23, 2006INTERLUDE, 2010, INTERLUDEweb pagehttp://nznl.com/geert/pop.php?dag=200602231369. Feb 24, 2006INTERLUDE, 2010, INTERLUDEweb pagehttp://nznl.com/geert/pop.php?dag=20060224 Geert Dekkershttp://nznl.com
Re: beasties, a debacle c
Hi Dan. I got a real kick out of your beasties. I thought you might like this one I came up with a bit ago. No text just a beatie. http://k41.pbase.com/v3/06/512806/2/48609976.hitchhiker.jpg All the best, -Peter Ciccariello ARTIST'S BLOG - http://invisiblenotes.blogspot.com/ -Original Message- From: Dan Waber [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA Sent: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 10:52:31 -0500 Subject: beasties, a debacle c One more new project: beasties: monsters made up from made up monster names's names (teachers and kids (of all ages) take note! Yes, I'm making them to order. http://www.logolalia.com/beasties/ and a seasonal delight, the complete and unaltered exchange between online support for a tax preparation company and yours disgruntled truly: http://www.logolalia.com/block-debacle/ also, for those of you following along at home, untranslatable continues to grow, thanks to all who've sent things in. Keep 'em coming, please. http://www.logolalia.com/untranslatable/ Whee! Dan
Fallen Idols
Fallen Idols*Rise up again you bits of exploded stone. Pumice by the furnace of time. Re-inhabit the bodies you once represented. There is nothing to admit or exclude. Own my crisis or yours.What we remember... What will you forget? What can we offer The snake in his box? Difficulties anent thighs. Take yourself home, now.Jump into bed but remember your dreams. They make the sun rise tomorrow. Plug up the holes in our lives. Our relatives are dead now So we can breathe. The guest room in your soul is waiting. Your text is gone, Looking for higher quarters. Adults will never understand a child's world.Look over my shoulder And what you will see Is more than a fashion statement. If you only have one name, How did the other one die? Be careful what you say Especially to yourself.Do anything against rage. The interest in intimacy has been exploited But not here. We make one another who we are. Restore the print to flesh Then wean us.Tom Savage 2/22/06*Written while watching The Fallen Idol by Carol Reed and Graham Greene Brings words and photos together (easily) with PhotoMail - it's free and works with Yahoo! Mail.
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NASA's Next Leap in Mars Exploration Nears Arrival (fwd)
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 12:00:59 -0800 From: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: NASA's Next Leap in Mars Exploration Nears Arrival MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICE JET PROPULSION LABORATORY CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION PASADENA, CALIF. 91109 TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov Guy Webster (818) 354-6278 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Dwayne Brown (202) 358-1726 NASA Headquarters, Washington February 24, 2006 News Release: 2006-026 NASA's Next Leap in Mars Exploration Nears Arrival As it nears Mars on March 10, a NASA spacecraft designed to examine the red planet in unprecedented detail from low orbit will point its main thrusters forward, then fire them to slow itself enough for Mars' gravity to grab it into orbit. Ground controllers for Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter expect a signal shortly after 1:24 p.m. Pacific time (4:24 p.m. Eastern time) that this mission-critical engine burn has begun. However, the burn will end during a suspenseful half hour with the spacecraft behind Mars and out of radio contact. This mission will greatly expand our scientific understanding of Mars, pave the way for our next robotic missions later in this decade, and help us prepare for sending humans to Mars, said Doug McCuistion, Director of NASA's Mars Exploration Program. Not only will Mars Science Laboratory's landing and research areas be determined by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, but the first boots on Mars will probably get dusty at one of the many potential landing sites this orbiter will inspect all over the planet. The orbiter carries six instruments for studying every level of Mars from underground layers to the top of the atmosphere. Among them, the most powerful telescopic camera ever sent to a foreign planet will reveal rocks the size of a small desk. An advanced mineral-mapper will be able to identify water-related deposits in areas as small as a baseball infield. Radar will probe for buried ice and water. A weather camera will monitor the entire planet daily. An infrared sounder will monitor atmospheric temperatures and the movement of water vapor. The instruments will produce torrents of data. The orbiter can pour data to Earth at about 10 times the rate of any previous Mars mission, using a dish antenna 3 meters (10 feet) in diameter and a transmitter powered by 9.5 square meters (102 square feet) of solar cells. This spacecraft will return more data than all previous Mars missions combined, said Jim Graf, project manager for Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Scientists will analyze the information to gain a better understanding of changes in Mars' atmosphere and the processes that have formed and modified the planet's surface. We're especially interested in water, whether it's ice, liquid or vapor, said JPL's Dr. Richard Zurek, project scientist for the orbiter. Learning more about where the water is today and where it was in the past will also guide future studies about whether Mars has ever supported life. A second major job for Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, in addition to its own investigation of Mars, is to relay information from missions working on the surface of the planet. During its planned five-year prime mission, it will support the Phoenix Mars Scout, which is being built to land on icy soils near the northern polar ice cap in 2008, and the Mars Science Laboratory, an advanced rover under development for launch in 2009. However, before Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter can begin its main assignments, it will spend half a year adjusting its orbit with an adventurous process called aerobraking. The initial capture by Mars' gravity on March 10 will put the spacecraft into a very elongated, 35-hour orbit. The planned orbit for science observations is a low-altitude, nearly circular, two-hour loop. To go directly into an orbit like that when arriving at Mars would have required carrying much more fuel for the main thrusters, requiring a larger and more expensive launch vehicle and leaving less payload weight for science instruments. Aerobraking will use hundreds of carefully calculated dips into the upper atmosphere -- deep enough to slow the spacecraft by atmospheric drag, but not deep enough to overheat the orbiter. Aerobraking is like a high-wire act in open air, Graf said. Mars' atmosphere can swell rapidly, so we need to monitor it closely to keep the orbiter at an altitude that is effective but safe. Current orbiters at Mars will provide a daily watch of the lower atmosphere, an important example of the cooperative activities between missions at Mars. Additional information about Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is available online at: http://www.nasa.gov/mro The mission is managed by JPL,
Four Dances: Screen, Bait, Abu Gharayb, Electric
Four Dances: Screen, Bait, Abu Gharayb, Electric 1. Screen Projected video with dancers before the image - as if it's a multi-media performance, dancers 'inserted' into on-screen narrative - but they're out of sync, they don't match up - the narrative falls apart, it's a mess - they stumble on-screen as well - it's amateurish, a poor attempt - it's trying to compete with the big multi-media companies - reaching beyond what the company can do - the dancers are angry - they're really angry - they're in front of an audience in a production which is falling apart - they didn't sign contracts for this - one of them walks off - there's a gap in what's left of the narrative - this continues until the projection comes to an end - The video is poor, hand-held, amateurish, shaky - with some of the same dancers - they speak a bad pointless dialog - along the lines of Where's Dmitri? I don't know. The Revolution is about to begin. I love you, Martya. I love you too Johannes. But we can't wait forever. No, we can't wait forever. They're looking for us all over the city. Are you sure they're looking? No, I'm not sure. But then... I'm not sure of anything anymore... That is why I love you, Martya. [...] There is some action - anxious walking about the city - nervous, they look behind them, they're watching - they think they're being watched. And yes, they dance all of this, on-screen, off-screen. The live dancers may speak, try to make sense of the dialog; they can't. The live dancers may be the same as the on-screen characters; it would be best, however, to split the company - half on, half off, as if they're trying to come together across an impossible ontology. Bad film music from the screen, 'programmatic.' The live dancers simply don't understand. 2. Bait Either projected video or live - a nude man and woman masturbate stage left; they are nude, exposed; the dance ends when they cum. They observe two dancers - Either dressed or nude - ballet positions, lifts, contacts, splits (facing audience and masturbating couple) - the dancers sexually aroused - if nude (preferable) Masturbating constantly during their movements (the man clearly erect, the woman with her hand increasingly wet, the audience close enough to smell the scent of sex) - if at all possible they cum simultaneously with the masturbating couple. Swan Lake or some such music. 3. Abu Gharayb Dancers act out positions of prisoners in Abu Gharayb photographs. Lyndie England is played by a prima ballerina, her fiancee by the lead male. The dance should move from position to position. At first it appears opportun- istic; it becomes increasingly uncomfortable to watch, as if England and her fiancee were becoming too involved in the violence. Faked blood, bruising, should be used, as well as leather masks, ropes, etc. . In other words, a series of iconographic figures. The lead dancers try their best to behave as beginners - in dance, in torture. The rest of the company is appears reactive; they're uncomfortable in their roles (often nude) - broken, scraped. The audience wants more; the audience wants none of it. The prisoners are arranged by the lead dancers. They resist weakly at best. The lead dancers appear simultaneously American and Imperial (i.e. of any emblematic power). The prisoners appear as Other, signed as Other; nude, they are the same. The prisoners have nothing. (Perhaps, but only perhaps, the lead dancers carry Bibles. Or there are Bibles at hand. Or there is a cross at hand. Or a crown of thorns.) 4. Electric The dance-floor is covered with wire - grids, meshes, barriers. This acts as an antenna for VLF (very low frequency) radio. The antenna is fed through heavy notch filters cutting back on the local (60hz, 50hz) power grid; it leads to a NASA VLF-3 radio whose output is fed back into the space vis-a-vis loudspeakers. For one to five dancers. Dancers should be nude or with little clothing; they interact with each other, with the wires. Actions include sliding fingers and palms along the wires, wrapping the body (limbs, neck, penis and breasts if nude, fingers, waist), moving in and out of contact with other dancers. Performers should try to maximize sound production as inductance, etc. change. Stage lighting is sinusoidal, i.e. lights slowly increasing to maximum, then decreasing to darkness, and back again. At first this appears as 'effect,' but it soon establishes the rhythm of the dance. The dancers 'worry about' the wires, about dancing among the wires, between the wires, on them. This may not have been in the contract. (The contract might have specified, however, 'any and all.') The dancers behave as ionizations, lightnings, atmospherics, insects, dead and live wires, environments. Tech runs a sound-board with effects, including the possibility of sending the sound through AudioMulch or other similar programs. The dancers establish and contradict their own rhythms. The sounds screech and roar. == The dances
New cross-stitch by Maria Damon
spend a moment with the new cross-stitch by Maria Damon based on a vispoem by mIEKAL aNDSeveral weeks before Lyx Ish died suddenly of pancreatic cancer she suffered a stroke lost the ability to speak. The original visual poem was made for her at that time.http://spidertangle.net/liquidtext.com/lyxstitch.html
BacterioPoetics
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Cheney's Coup
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,402588,00.html SPIEGEL ONLINE February 23, 2006 Opinion Cheney's Coup By Sidney Blumenthal A three-year-old executive order that vastly expanded his powers illuminates how the vice president and his minions led us into war. President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney arrive in the East Room of the White House. President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney arrive in the East Room of the White House. After shooting Austin lawyer Harry Whittington, Dick Cheney's immediate impulse was to control the intelligence. Rather than call the president directly, he ordered an aide to inform White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card that there had been an accident but not that Cheney was its cause. Then a host of surrogates attacked the victim for not steering clear of Cheney when he was firing. Cheney attempted to defuse the subsequent furor by giving an interview to friendly Fox News. His most revealing answer came in response to a question about something other than the hunting accident. Cheney was asked about court papers filed by his former chief of staff, I. Lewis Scooter Libby, indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice in the investigation of the leaking of the identity of an undercover CIA operative, Valerie Plame. (She is the wife of former ambassador Joseph Wilson, a critic of disinformation used to justify the invasion of Iraq.) In those papers, Libby laid out a line of defense that he had leaked classified material at the behest of his superiors (to wit, Cheney). Libby detailed that he was authorized to disclose to members of the press classified sections of the prewar National Intelligence Estimate on Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. (The NIE was exposed as wrongly asserting that Saddam possessed WMD and was constructing nuclear weapons.) Indeed, Cheney explained, he has the power to declassify intelligence. There is an executive order to that effect, he said. Had he ever done that unilaterally? I don't want to get into that. On March 25, 2003, President Bush signed Executive Order 13292, a hitherto little known document that grants the greatest expansion of the power of the vice president in American history. The order gives the vice president the same ability to classify intelligence as the president. By controlling classification, the vice president can in effect control intelligence and, through that, foreign policy. Bush operates on the radical notion of the unitary executive, that the president has inherent and limitless powers in his role as commander in chief, above the system of checks and balances. By his extraordinary order, he elevated Cheney to his level, an acknowledgment that the vice president was already the de facto executive in national security. Never before has any president diminished and divided his power in this manner. Now the unitary executive inherently includes the unitary vice president. The unprecedented executive order bears the earmarks of Cheney's former counsel and current chief of staff, David Addington. Addington has been the closest assistant to Cheney through three decades, since Cheney served in the House of Representatives in the 1980s. Inside the executive branch, far and wide, Addington acts as Cheney's vicar, bullying and sarcastic, inspiring fear and obedience. Few documents of concern to the vice president, even executive orders, reach the eyes of the president without passing first through Addington's agile hands. To advance their scenario for the Iraq war, Cheney Co. either pressured or dismissed the intelligence community when it presented contrary analysis. Paul Pillar, the former CIA national intelligence officer for the Near East and South Asia, writes in the new issue of Foreign Affairs, The administration used intelligence not to inform decision-making, but to justify a decision already made. On domestic spying conducted without legal approval of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, Addington and his minions isolated and crushed internal dissent from James Comey, then deputy attorney general, and Jack Goldsmith, then head of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel. On torture policy, as reported by the New Yorker this week, Alberto Mora, recently retired as general counsel to the U.S. Navy, opposed the Bush administration's abrogation of the Geneva Conventions -- by holding thousands of detainees in secret camps without due process and using abusive interrogation techniques -- based on legal doctrines Mora called unlawful and dangerous. Addington et al. told him the policies were being ended while continuing to pursue them on a separate track. To preserve flexibility, they were willing to throw away our values, Mora said. The first vice president, John Adams, called his position the most insignificant office ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived. John Nance Garner, Franklin D. Roosevelt's first vice president, said it was not worth a
Numbers Up at U.S. Soup Kitchens
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/duluthsuperior/news/nation/13940566.htm?source=rsschannel=duluthsuperior_nation DuluthNewsTribune.com February 23, 2006 Numbers up at U.S. soup kitchens, Second Harvest says By Stephen Ohlemacher Associated Press WASHINGTON - When Lisa Koch asked several people at a Chicago soup kitchen to complete a survey of the people who eat there, she got a surprising response: They asked how long it would take because they had to get back to work after lunch. A national survey of people eating at soup kitchens, food banks and shelters found that 36 percent came from households in which at least one person had a job. In the Chicago area, it was 39 percent. Even though the economy might be changing, it isn't creating the kinds of jobs that allow people to make ends meet, said Koch of the Greater Chicago Food Depository. More than 25 million Americans turned to the nation's largest network of food banks, soup kitchens and shelters for meals last year, up 9 percent from 2001, says the report by America's Second Harvest. Those seeking food included 9 million children and nearly 3 million senior citizens, the report says. The face of hunger doesn't have a particular color, and it doesn't come from a particular neighborhood, said Ertharin Cousin, executive vice president of America's Second Harvest. They are your neighbors, they are working Americans, they are senior citizens who have worked their entire lives, and they are children. The organization said it interviewed 52,000 people at food banks, soup kitchens and shelters across the country last year. The network represents about 39,000 hunger-relief organizations, or about 80 percent of those in the United States. The vast majority are run locally by churches and private nonprofit groups. The surveys were done before Hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit the Gulf Coast in 2005. After the hurricanes, demand for emergency food assistance tripled in Gulf Coast states, according to a separate report by the group. The new report, being released today, found that 35 percent of people seeking food came from households that received food stamps. Cousin said the numbers show that the government program, while important, is insufficient. The benefits they are receiving are not enough, Cousin said. Government reports also show the number of hungry Americans increasing. A U.S. Department of Agriculture report released last year said 13.5 million American households, or nearly 12 percent, had difficulty providing enough food for family members at some time in 2004. That was up from about 11 percent in 2003. (c) 2006 Duluth News Tribune and wire service sources. http://www.duluthsuperior.com *** http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060223/ap_on_re_us/hunger_glance_1printer=1;_ylt=AiJksTJdjkIHHv8hFnUzqdBH2ocA;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MXN1bHE0BHNlYwN0bWE- Associated Press February 23, 2006 Some Characteristics of the Hungry America's Second Harvest, the nation's largest network of food banks, soup kitchens and shelters, served 25.3 million people last year, a 9 percent increase from 2001. Here are some of the characteristics of those seeking emergency food assistance: - Thirty-nine percent were white, non-Hispanic; 38 percent were black; 17 percent were Hispanic. - About 9 million were children. - Nearly 3 million were 65 or older. - Nearly 70 percent had incomes below the official poverty level, which is $15,067 for a family of three. - Twelve percent were homeless. - Forty-one percent said they have had to choose between buying food or paying for utilities. - About a third said they had to choose between buying food or paying for medicine or medical care. - Nearly 30 percent had at least one family member in poor health. ___ portside (the left side in nautical parlance) is a news, discussion and debate service of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism. It aims to provide varied material of interest to people on the left. For answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.portside.org/faq To subscribe, unsubscribe or change settings: http://lists.portside.org/mailman/listinfo/portside To submit material, paste into an email and send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (postings are moderated) For assistance with your account: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To search the portside archive: https://lists.portside.org/pipermail/portside/
Re: BacterioPoetics
thx for sending this Miekal! http://socialfiction.org/gettags.php?tagski=BacterioPoeticssubmit=send here's an interesting one I found recently: http://www.discover.com/issues/mar-06/cover/
