This is a very interesting op-ed piece that I feel applies to a number of
the threads that have been circulating on the list lately.

Cheers,
Lee

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NY-Times
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July 15, 2004
OP-ED COLUMNIST

All Together Now
By BARBARA EHRENREICH

heir faces long with disapproval, the anchors announced that ...

NY-Times
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July 15, 2004

Conventioneering.com

H. L. Mencken is said to have guffawed and slapped his thigh in delight at
times as he would write about a typical day at a presidential nominating
convention. Those long-ago times are enviable for their unpredictability

"What is important in this new initiative, is that if these so-called
guidelines were to be adopted, the Administration would technically be able
to postpone or cancel an election, 'with the stroke of a pen,' and without
resorting to far-reaching emergency procedures and/or martial law."

http://globalresearch ...

I just read an editorial by Barbara Enrenreich in today's New York Times* which discusses the maladies of "Groupthink".

I tend to think of these types of commentaries as dealing with "Them" as opposed to "Us"; after all, we are all pretty open-minded, right?

Then again, if there is a ...

Wigged Productions (http://www.wigged.net) an organization dedicated
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and Web-based presentations is pleased to showcase online Miyuki
Kobayashi's dance on camera video, Fragile. A link to the video can
be found on Wigged's homepage (http://www.wigged.net).

Miyuki ...

I was reading an article in the current issue of Leonardo Magazine called "Intellectual Property: A Chronological Compendium of Intersections between Contemporary Art and Utility Patents" by Robert Thill. The article references Lisa Schmitz's installation "World Artistic Property Organization". This piece was shown as an installation in 1993. A Google ...

Hia,

I am currently in the process of finishing my masters, and one of the issues I want to explore are the boundaries (or no :) between net art and the documentation of net art. The main area of the work I am currently researching, is in regard to textual narratives ...

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Mes chers amis,
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Wednesday, July 14, 2004

Regarding Kevin McGarry's post on the upcomming FCC hearings:
There will be several free public workshops in the Monterey Bay area this
week hosted by media-alliance. The first is tonight and I will be there to
check it out. There are only six of these hearings in the country and ...

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—just in case you want to roll your own



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July 2004
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Simple algorithmic pseudo-random image creation (in this case, a dynamic PNG) using php's gd library

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posted today on Lessig blog:

Fair Use or "Fair and Balanced"
Lawrence Lessig
Variety, July 14, 2004

Robert Greenwald's latest film, "Outfoxed," is a political documentary
about Republican bias at Fox News. It is also, as the New York Times
Sunday Magazine dubbed it, a "guerrilla documentary."

In ...