This may not be appropriate to post to Nettime, but I stumbled across this
book and was so amazed I had to check the website of the publisher to be
sure it wasn't a parody. And it's not. Rather, it's an actual new release
from Oxford University Press. Here's the catalog copy from the website, and
Further comments by Benjamin Mako Hill fwed with permission...
(from the SummerSource list)
From: Benj. Mako Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Summer Source List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SummerSource-L] [Fwd: European Commission publishes its
guide to OSS migration]
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003
Following is the text I read in one of those rather disagreeable
places to which art circles sometimes lead you. This time, the Tate
Modern.
The conference, held this Saturday October 25, was called Diffusion:
Collaborative Practice in Contemporary Art. Also present were Bureau
d'Etudes,
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 15:45:25 +0100
From: pixel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Missing Sub Routines
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1 LET VAR =3D COORD
2 LET VAR WRITE 0,0=20
5 LET WRITE =3D xy xy / xXy
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10 CLS
20 PRINT at X400, Y300 Welcome to the Game
30 PRINT CHR$ 1 - read instant
40 IF CHR$
But the world is complex and turbulent, and there is also a certain
power-politics worldview holding (no doubt rightly) that Europe would
really be better off in the long run having the euro at least on a
par with USD, in a typically European vision of a multilateral,
codependent sharing of