Christian Crumlish (xian): x-pollen

Null post across all categories

Sat, 26 Oct 2002 00:07:46 GMT

delete this

Moving Day

Fri, 25 Oct 2002 20:59:17 GMT

If my upstreaming changes today work correctly, then this may be the final post to Radio Free Blogistan at the http://blogs.salon.com/0001111/ address, in which case, I want to make it very easy for any future readers directed here by old links (sorry, everybody!) to get to the new home page at radiofreeblogistan.com. If I were really cool, I'd redesign this page so that it contained the moving message and then loaded the new page at http://radiofreeblogistan.com/ automatically, or immediately redirected to that page, or something cool like that. Instead people ending up here will have to follow a link like this one or the one in the title of this entry. If the move fails, then this message will seem kind of lame and embarassing in retrospect. For the technically minded, I will continue to use the Salon hosting and address for my salonika category, and possibly for hosting images and other large files within my storage quota. The blog-related categories (knowhow, metablog, radioactive, syllabus), along with a few knew ones (uh, i don't know... bloggerz, stereomovabletype?) will also be upstreamed to sections of radiofreeblogistan.com. The others will be squirted off to more appropriate hosts (for completists: fireweaver will show up at Dreamweaver Savvy once I get the templating integrated, memewatch will migrate to memewatch.com, outspoken will fold back into Bite Media, and x-pollen will go to x-pollen.com). I'm starting another new category today, unrelated to blogs. It's called "Agent7," it's about my clients and colleagues in the worlds of technology and publishing, and especially their instersection, and it will end up at waterside.com once we get the server-side includes inserted into the appropriate page. Update: The first try failed. I tried to copy the old #upstream.xml file into the subcategories that I didn't want coming over to radiofreeblogistan.com but that somehow resulted in a strange out-of-date rendering of the home page. To fix that I'm editing this file and reposting after throwing away the bad upstream files and restoring Radio to community upstreaming. If things get back to normal, I'll try the FTP approach, possibly by publishing yet another change to this cross-category entry.

What's Sullivan for Instalanche?

Thu, 24 Oct 2002 19:17:30 GMT

ShortStrings (no permalinks, but it was posted Tuesday, October 08, 2002), says Andrew Sullivan reports that Christopher Hitchens's new book on Orwell went from 1,074 to 4 on Amazon's best seller list after he chose it for his next book club discussion. (More...)

White folks agree!

Thu, 24 Oct 2002 16:17:55 GMT

It's Otis! He looooves us!. White liberal guilt has never been so deliciously skewered.

(via MZ)

War of the worlds

Tue, 22 Oct 2002 20:18:54 GMT

We are the alien overlords. I am reading in the New York Times our detailed plans for laying seige of cities in Iraq. We will attempt to control the minds of the inhabitants (demoralizing the fighters, calming the civilians), and systematically in our now infinitely superior ways conquer each city. (more)

Is evil too strong a word for netsol / verisign?

Tue, 22 Oct 2002 18:18:07 GMT

veriSign / netsol evil. this new two-tiered password scheme of netsol's, surely it is designed primarily to once again entangle passive Internet domain holders into staying with verisign out of inertia or, short of that, stuck like flypaper to the new authentication scheme until the inevitable renewal deadline passes.

what is the easiest way to get all of my netsol domains transferred en masse to my preferred (or any other) domain-name registration provider?

Wed, 16 Oct 2002 22:17:46 GMT

Question I just overheard me ask myself. "Where is my not-bag not-going?"

New work from Swigart and Niss at WORD CIRCUITS

Wed, 16 Oct 2002 21:29:31 GMT

New work from Swigart and Niss at WORD CIRCUITS

This just in. Robert Kendall announces two new works at the Word Circuits Gallery:
* About Time by Rob Swigart
* The Dancing Rhinoceri of Bangladesh by Millie Niss

(www.wordcircuits.com)

[artsflow {category: hypertext literature}]

Plutocrats not conservative? I'm shocked, shocked!

Wed, 16 Oct 2002 21:17:48 GMT

Right fringe notices that Republicans are not conservative. Kevin Tuma hates FDR and Lincoln, favoring Goldwater and Reagan. What's interesting about this article is that he voices the "dirty little secret" of the Republican party. It is not now and has never been a conservative party, especially not in the sense of small-government conservatism.

[Bite Media]

The last refuge of scoundrels

Wed, 16 Oct 2002 21:17:46 GMT

Conason: Ralph Reed, unpatriotic coward. Joe Conason calls an ad against Senator Max Cleland (D, Georgia) "[a]nti-American, unpatriotic and cowardly":Speaking of Osama and Saddam, their images provide the backdrop for what may be the single most nauseating, cynical and un-American political advertisement of the midterm campaign.

[more at Bite Media]

To don't

Tue, 15 Oct 2002 18:17:36 GMT

Things that won't get done today:
review tapers addendum for dead letters magazine
finish installing pmachine
install and test rss monkey
set up godetia and wildflowertrips domains for b
set up virtuser mail forwarding for antiweb.net
send book promised to friend
make household budget
plan/prepare for moving site root to radiofreeblogistan.com
*set up rss monkey*
learn opml
final notes on j-school panel
jump menu for sidelists
http://www.onfocus.com/snap/cats/
http://www.onfocus.com/bookwatch/index-media.asp
http://www.onfocus.com/bookwatch/
rush to judgement mediajunkie.com/rush
don't know if suexec or cgiwrap available <==figure out!
Please Notify in my event log. Does that mean rss feed received? How notify?
possible to do e-mail list, just send summaries?
Also, how about "Mail this entry..."
w.bloggar
kung-log for MT
make blog books page, link from masthead
make colophon
. typography
. software, radio, dreamweaver, fireworks, textedit, palm desktop, eudora, ie, mozilla, opera, omniweb, netscape
. hardware: mac, speakers, camera, handspring visor, pen and paper
xmltree
PEP is my codename for my dream application, the Personal Expression Platform
start blog directory process
include blog reviews
blog books
required reading
by tool
blogger
radio
movabletype
livejournal
other
respond to blog-related e-mail
try out manila
consider bbCMS for ezone/thedeadbeat/mediajunkie/memewatch
Type design, bold vs italics vs quot marks, not having a style sheet or set design, semantic <strong>? it's more like <span class="thoughts"> and defining that to look italic? accessibility and standards sometimes feel like an infinite regress
traction
people have died of exposure
http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/nation/crawford/index.html
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=28609
http://mcns10.med.nyu.edu/intro/brain.tumor.primer.html
turing test for spam arrest
q: how to use short listings in rss feed instead of entire post?
abude brazil ins story meme

Your warehouse eyes your arabian drum

Mon, 14 Oct 2002 02:17:50 GMT

Dylan @ the Greek 2002.10.11 notes.

first impression of the band:

a little more detail:

the moon was going down

the greek without the people

...and some raw notes
scribbled during the show:

Old man take a look at my life

Sun, 13 Oct 2002 01:17:04 GMT

Dylan rocked the Greek, yea verily. ...and mightily he smote them. the rumored covers (Zevon's "Accidentally Like a Martyr," "Brown Sugar," Neil Young's "Old Man"), the reinterps of classics (just like a woMan, i ain't ME babe), the recent material rousing the audience (Summer Days with its Charlie Christian, Django, old-timey feel with Charlie Sexton and Larry Campbell trading eights in their long maroon zoot suits looking reet pleet), the Berkeley crowd cheering that line "Even the president of the United States must sometimes stand naked" in "It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding," the everlasting resonance of the lonesome death of Hattie Carroll. Now is the time for your tears. Business they drink my wine... Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Scans of notes and sketches to follow.

File under 'sauce for the goose'

Sat, 12 Oct 2002 00:17:21 GMT

Accuracy.org fisks Bush. Find here a point-by-point refutation of Bush's big speech....[Bite Media]

Save the (other) mouse!

Fri, 11 Oct 2002 18:18:29 GMT

The (other) mouse that roared. From Court News and Monster Weirdo come this report by DeVon Nolt of a lawsuit against Pixar and Disney on the part of Stanley "Mouse" Miller:

The lead characters of the movie Monsters, Inc. were illegally copied from characters drawn by cartoonist Stanley Miller in the early 1960's, according to a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against Disney Enterprises, Inc. and Pixar Animation Studios, Inc., the producers of the movie. ... Disney and Pixar allegedly came into contact with Miller's work in 1997, when they reviewed a treatment for an animated movie Miller had proposed.

Soothing the savage breast

Fri, 11 Oct 2002 17:17:22 GMT

Saw New Orleans piano genius Henry Butler last night with Amy DeNaio at the tiny 21 Grand performance space in Oakland.... Wow! [more at Bodega]

50 most loathsome

Thu, 10 Oct 2002 21:17:59 GMT

The Buffalo Beast names the 50 most loathsome people in America, 2002. Pretty over-the-top (fairly vulgar too), but funny and much of it is hard to argue with.

A sampling:

13. SEAN HANNITY

Misdeeds: Without question one of the most smarmy, vile, hypocritical talking heads on television. Has the uncanny ability to vilify and generalize those who disagree with him, and then state that he's not a partisan person. Exploits his devout Catholicism and patriotism to the point that it makes you think he's selling something—like his book, whose cover features his giant head in front of one of the glossiest, waviest American flags ever. Much of his wrath can probably be traced to his displeasure that Reagan still can't remember his name although he's met him many times.

Aggravating Factor: Since 9/11, pretends to be genuinely convinced that anyone who disagrees with the Bush administration does not want America to be safe.

Aesthetic: Repressed kid from Long Island who got to college, was scared of sex, discovered other repressed white kids in conservative student group, joined them, devoted rest of life to blasting people who didn't.

12. EMINEM

Misdeeds: Expecting people to care about his shitty childhood because he is white. Dissing his mama. Lifting weights after he got famous. Is the official voice of white teenage suburban boys. Has already worn out his shock value to the extent that his next album will have to include slurs against parapalegics and land-mine victims just to raise eyebrows.

Aggravating Factor: For someone who sells millions of records partly due to making fun of other people, has no sense of humor about himself.

Aesthetic: Trailer-trash cracker with just a hint of Down's Syndrome.

(I never said it was PC!)

a tree falls (Trad., arr by Wm. Beaver)

Thu, 10 Oct 2002 17:08:46 GMT

Beaver covers Borges covers Burton: 'a tree falls...'. Check out William Beaver's a tree falls amidst a forest of eyes, a branching hypertext we believe will be of... [artsflow] Playing with MT today, also catching up on some deadlines. Expect sporadic blogging with a chance of showers.

artsflow.ezone.org

Thu, 10 Oct 2002 07:19:08 GMT

artsflow is moving

Geez...

Thu, 10 Oct 2002 07:17:47 GMT

Could they possibly cram any more ads into The Onion?

One theory about why I didn't get Beck/Flaming Lips tickets

Wed, 09 Oct 2002 17:18:07 GMT

I blame Ev.

Wed, 09 Oct 2002 16:17:33 GMT

Fog's in. After two three days of blazing heat peaking in the midafternoon, it started to cool off yesterday and this morning the sky is totally socked in cloudy from the window of my breakfast nook. It's a relief. The ultrahot weather has its charms, especially in the evening when its just balmy outside, but I can get a lot more work done in this cooling fog.

Mon, 07 Oct 2002 22:17:12 GMT

Groan from Uncle TJ. Please don't kill the messenger!

Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little, which made him rather frail and with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath.

This made him ....what? (Oh, man, this is so bad, it's good.)

A super calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis.

Take the 1990s lyrics quiz

Mon, 07 Oct 2002 20:17:41 GMT

from Art of the Mix (via MZ):

Do you remember a band called Blind Melon? Can you still rattle off the words to "Shoop" by Salt-n-Pepa? Visit this site to test your knowledge of pop and rock lyrics from the 1990s. Hint: look out for appearances from a few hip-hop and country crossover artists. From Ace of Base to Alice in Chains, they're all here, along with a few acts you'd probably rather forget. Step back in time. It's harder than you think!

I doubt it.

Mon, 07 Oct 2002 19:18:46 GMT

Tickets impossible. After spending sixteen frustrating minutes on the phone and on the web a few Sundays back, failing to get Elvis Costello tickets. I asked a friend to deal with getting us all tickets to Beck with Flaming Lips at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland. No such luck. He got in after a few minutes and everything was already sold out. It smells rigged to me.

He got an offer from Craigslist, good tickets for $100/ea. (they were between $40 and $50 with added "convenience"). I just don't feel rich enough for that.