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Ended up in Brooklyn last night at Pete's Candy Store, a nice little bar with a beautiful performance space in the back. Saw a one act play, and a reading of another longer play - both by Nora Breen. Great stuff. Ignoring the potential dangers of classing up the place too much, Tom and I are on the mission of bringing her to the site.
Lots of familiar faces in the crowd. Practically a class reunion from the old Nation coffee shop on avenue A. If it wasn't for that damn monkey man I'd probably venture across the river more often.
Stand together - the free software answer to the Mundie (microsoft) attack. Just looking at the list of signers I have to wonder if the victory isn't already clear. The obviously Stallman-esque wording of the document ("GNU/linux system", plus the repeated use of "free software" instead of the watered down - although not necessarily worse - "open source") represents an amazing case of what the title suggests - standing together. Stallman's ideas really do represent a huge shift in thinking, and under anything but the most extreme conditions I think cooler, more consession oriented voices would win out. But if microsoft continues to polarize the atmosphere I wonder if something a little more radical might be able to get up some steam. I think the GPL is pretty radical. It's the monkey wrench.
News from the left: liberal arts mafia.
Supposedly, DSL will be turned on in the office tomorrow. We'll see about that.
Telco: Vegas is hack proof
Hacker: "Vegas was easy"
And so IT goes. (via /.)
What are talkers?
Lots of interesting thoughts on, well, the future of the book.
Can you eat too many macadamia nuts? Where's the line?
From Harold Cohen's website:
"Harold Cohen, former director of the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA), was anWired has a story on Aaron which has recently got the attention of Ray Kurzweil who has backed a free downloadable Aaron screen saver. It only runs on Windows. I'd be curious if anyone checks it out. (via /. and in an unrelated story the screensaver site is completely unreachable at the moment.)
English painter with an established international reputation when he came to UCSD in 1968 for a
one-year Visiting Professorship. His first experience with computing followed almost immediately, and he
never returned to London. Cohen is the author of the celebrated AARON program, an ongoing research
effort in autonomous machine (art making) intelligence which began when he was a visiting scholar at
Stanford University's Artificial Intelligence Lab in 1973."