AMATEUR DESIGN
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From: "Curt Cloninger" <curt@lab404.com>
To: <list@rhizome.org>
Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 3:53 PM
Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: shine on you crazy diamond


> There's a very thin line between "professional" design and good
> "amateur" design, and the line is getting ...

The Stolen Presidency.

The BBC's _Newsnight_ report on it can be seen at:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/cta/progs/newsnight/palast.ram

Transcript at:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/events/newsnight/newsid_1174000/1174115.stm

There's also one on the Bush/Bin Laden (remember him?!) family connections ...

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::s.parks of lost hu][bris ...

Mostly, the story below is just plain silly: It's just a legal ruling that
was once necessary because ToyBiz wanted X-Men action figures classified as
toys, not dolls, in China, to pay lower import duties. On the other hand,
it's an interesting angle on the kinds of legal (and ethical ...

"Man's greatest good fortune is to chase and defeat his enemy, seize his
total possessions, leave his married women weeping and wailing, ride his
gelding (and) use the bodies of his women as a nightshirt and support."
Genghis Khan - or is it George Bush?


http://www.furtherfield.org
http ...

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Sincerely

jimpunk





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> Hi jimpunk,
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> Your Rhizome.org membership has just expired. :-(
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> Please renew ...

Database Logic(s) and Landscape Art
Brett Stalbaum, C5 corporation

http://www.c5corp.com

Fordable: The body and place in GIS practice [5/5]

The confluence of the body with place, (and their data), is the final
aspect of C5's research into landscape. Treating the body and its position
relative ...


You can see online the WEBARTSHORTCUTS:
http://www.cyberpoiesis.net/shortcuts/

interviews with net artists, theorists and producers.
the online version in both german and english of the book:

Webfictions. Zerstreute Anwesenheiten in elektronischen Netzen. (Dispersed
Presences in Electronic Networks)
Manfred Fassler, Ursula Hentschlager, Zelko Wiener,
Springer: Vienna / New York ...

Reign of Terror Redux: From Bush to Bonaparte

Here's the situation: The nation's leadership is taken over by a secretive
group of elitists who profess democracy while dragging the country into a
totalitarian nightmare. Confusion and fear take hold, civil rights are
eroded in the name of fighting a terror ...

The branches run like veins, like
looming cracks; the human is
prismatic with shattering.

Another day a rock flings itself
across the windshield. We have to call
the insurance company amid so much
dryness and spitting of the mud of our
skin. Okay, we'll fix it Saturday, they
assure us ...

There's a very thin line between "professional" design and good
"amateur" design, and the line is getting thinner all the time.
Those who spent the cash and time on a design education feel
themselves to be on the "professional" side of the line, and are
obliged to make a great ...

George W. Bush's Dubious Friends

Texas governor George W. Bush's campaign to become the Republican candidate
in this November's presidential ballot could shortly run into turbulence
because of new information about his past. Indeed, among the figures Bush
dealt with indirectly when he ran oil companies was Saudi banker Khaled ...

Flight And Imagination
Chris Hall talks about the dark side of capitalism
and the deceptions of reality with J.G. Ballard


Walking along Oxford Street the day after I finished reading JG Ballard's
new novel, Super-Cannes, it struck me, literally, the total acceptance of
the substrate of violence in consumer ...

**NewMediaArtProjectNetwork
**January/February 2003 Program - part I

1.
JavaMuseum -
Forum for Internet Technologies in Contemporary Art
(JAVA = Joint Advanced Virtual Affairs)
www.javamuseum.org

New!
Call for submissions - LatinoNetarte.net
Netart from Latin American countries, Spain and Portugal
deadline 28 February 2003
entry form on startpage of www.javamuseum.org ...

"You raise some good points and ask some excellent questions"


there is only one teeny tiny problem

okay not a "problem"

a "challenge"

it's this:

came up gambit to contribut it would {:::LOVE ME!:::} venues{::::READ MY
WORK!!!!!::::}and{:::LOVE ME!:::}depending Spanish-and other works, amount
more largest programs current ...