<a href="http://www.brentgambrell.com/html/promo.html">more</a> reasons to hate the church. as if we needed them. probably a great guy (just in case you think i'm judging a person and not a culture). 80072798daniel millerSaturday, August 10, 2002publish<s>Figured out that <a href="http://www.greenbelt.org.uk/festival/">Greenbelt</a> just isn't going to happen for me this year, for the third year in a row.</s> Two years ago I had a business trip to London that weekend, I got to the UK on Saturday so the only real option was Sunday, and Grnblt isn't exactly close to London, particularly if you have no vehicle and/or know NO one. Last year I'd just been fired from my company, so it wasn't exactly the time to go spending 100's of $'s on flights to the UK. <s>This year the schedule is just too full, and I have the other guys from <a href="http://christianpornmachine.org">CPM</a> coming through town that weekend, on their way to Boston. So I'm fkd. :*(</s> 80072751daniel millerpublishThat is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works on you, it does so in silence, in your dreams, in your wordless moments. Good words enter you and become moods, become the quiet fabric of your being. Like music, like painting, literature too wants to transcend its primary condition and become something highter. Art wants to move into silence, into the emotional and spiritual conditions of the world. Statues become melodies, melodies become yearnings, yearnings become actions. -- Ben Okri, "Beyond Words", A Way of Being Free found on <a href="http://overtherhine.com/home.html">Over the Rhine</a> 80071848daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.rejectionline.com/">Welcome to RejectionLine.com</a> 80070414daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.hyperorg.com/backissues/joho-jul24-02.html#marketing">http://www.hyperorg.com/backissues/joho-jul24-02.html#marketing</a> apparently many authors are upset that Amazon is offering used copies of their books on the very pages that offer their books for sale. It's easy to see why: Given a choice of buying Small Pieces for $17.50 new or $11.00 used, you may opt for the used book and deprive me of my $3.75 royalty (well, $3.19 after my agents get their well-deserved cut). I have thought long and hard about this and have a well-worked-out position that I believe argues irrefutably from first principles while also incorporating the relevant utilitarian and social-communitarian considerations. It argues the following to authors: Tough shit. Authors have never gotten paid by everybody who reads their books or else we'd shut down those dens of iniquity: libraries and used book stores. As a society, we want to encourage people to have access to ideas. So, yes, authors are going to lose some money they could have made if it were harder for people to find used books. But that's the nature of the business you're in. I.e., as I said, the fecal matter is sturdy and impervious. And the world is better for it. 80070218daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.sting.com/store/storelib.html">Sting - official web site -- Books</a> ...this by way of theyblinked, i plan on doing this (if you've seen the writing section) soon but haven't got around to it...but leave it to Sting to take advantage of all possible revenue streams! Still, it's cul to see what he's read... The site is either built or sponsored by <a href="http://www.tiscali.com/">Tiscali</a>, which also sponsors a professional bicycle racing team. 80069880daniel millerpublish<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/2173150.stm">Soldier toy disarmed at airport</a> <a href="http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?dir=70&story=320952&host=3&printable=1">Drugs are bad, unless Uncle Sam wants you to take them. Then they are required</a> <a href="http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/news/0802/09breastmilk.html">A woman says a security guard at Kennedy Airport forced her to drink from three bottles of her own breast milk to demonstrate the liquid posed no threat to other passengers</a> ...The number of middle-aged, lactating white women who passed through al-Qaida training is probably negligible all by way of <a href="http://www.12frogs.com/12/">http://www.12frogs.com/12/</a> 80040799daniel millerFriday, August 09, 2002publish<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2163666.stm">Kidnapping for kicks in New York</a> ...apparently NY'ers didn't get enough horrible reality last year... 80024320daniel millerpublishNote to self or other types (chuckle chuckle): <a href="http://www.soulspectrum.net/fonts.html">http://www.soulspectrum.net/fonts.html</a>. Found another kindred spirit/site today thanks again to the great folks at themorningnews.org (gotta remember to stick that in my links along with these aforementioned kindreds). His article <a href="http://themorningnews.org">there</a> is <a href="http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/personalities/the_personal_injury_files.shtml">here</a> and <a href="http://www.deeplyshallow.com/">his site</a> has some <a href="http://www.deeplyshallow.com/project/theory.html">cul</a> <a href="http://www.deeplyshallow.com/project/">stuff</a>. 80024203daniel millerpublishCurrently: trying to figure out an emoticon for the bird &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;D &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;D&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;o&nbsp;o &nbsp;&nbsp;D&nbsp;DD&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;{&nbsp;} O|_|_|_&nbsp;=---&nbsp;+ 80007828daniel millerThursday, August 08, 2002publishRequests: 1. Did anyone read Rob? Good? Shite? Let me know I've heard nothing except from my wife who doesn't have the patience or mind to read a script. Oh and since I'm not sure anyone found <a href="/johnny/">it</a>, here <a href="/johnny/">it</a> is, a storehouse of bonus shite including the script. Also almost no-one found all the emails that provide some context: <a href="mailto:a_snider@danielsjourney.com">-1-</a> <a href="mailto:james_r_rinehart@danielsjourney.com">-2-</a> <a href="mailto:j_r_donley@danielsjourney.com">-3-</a> <a href="mailto:e_snider@danielsjourney.com">-4-</a>. They're all off of <a href="/advert2">this</a> page, if yer inquisitive enough to find them. The one no one got was Tim's, which is in the same syntax as one of those four, but I'm not going to give it *all* away. SO 1b. Reading The Dialog? Should I bother? You know I'll write it for one person, I'm just a tad isolated up here. 2. Jeans. I need new blue jeans; but I can't think of a single brand available to me that's not sweatshop-made (off the top of my head: Pepe, Levi's, CK, Arizona, Hilfinger). Please let me know what common brand I can get that's not made in a sweatshop. Do I have to drive to New York and spend $100 just to get a pair of f-k-g jeans? Update: I also forgot to mention that I have <a href="http://www.sevenmagazine.org/index.php?archive=082002_02">an article in seven</a> this month. 80007337daniel millerpublishGot <a href="http://sevenmagazine.org">sevenmagazine.org</a> done last night in a fit of debugging. I call the architecture fearfully named XCMS v.0.10, and it will continue to be refined in the coming months. I've already found a couple of things missing on the site, but none of it has to do with the architecture or code. 79979520daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/790963.asp">Islam reading assignment draws fire...University faces lawsuit for assigning book to freshmen</a>... ...a national TV talk show host, Fox News Network�s Bill O�Reilly, compared the assignment to teaching �Mein Kampf� in 1941 and questioned the purpose of making freshmen study �our enemy�s religion ...some evangelical Christian leaders � including the Rev. Franklin Graham, who gave the invocation at Bush�s inauguration � have denounced Islam since Sept. 11 as an �evil� religion" the student body president sums it up: �At the very least, it starts a dialogue,� Daum said. �My feeling is that if you�re not prepared to read ideas that are not your own and that you might disagree with, you do not belong at an institution of higher learning.� Ok, this strikes me as un-f-n-believable.This is the result of lack of thinking and not media that is "liberal" or "conservative", but people who are just so used to consuming and puking back up mental material. As <a href="http://theyblinked.blogspot.com">Dan</a>/<a href="http://www.jordoncooper.com/">Jordon</a> (can't tell who's quoting who) says, this is the kind of stuff that makes the religious right in the USoA look so intellectually bankrupt... 79979072daniel millerpublishTurns out there are a <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=XCMS">couple "XCMS"'s</a> out there. No time right now to investigate them properly, because I'm too busy trying to get my version 0.10 to work for ::seven::, but I don't think it'll be a big deal; I can always throw "dwm" (say "doom") in front of anything; "doomsims" has a nice ring to it. 79945522daniel millerWednesday, August 07, 2002publish<a href="http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2002/aug/socalledlungs/index.html">NPR : My So-Called Lungs</a> This is a piece I heard on <a href="http://www.npr.org">NPR</a> Monday on my way back from Washington, PA. It is really moving, and an important glimpse into suffering. 79935611daniel millerpublishI hate it when images break. If you don't see the flag below, it's because their server is down. But I already put it above, so whatever. Today is a busy day of reprogramming <a href="http://www.sevenmagazine.org">seven</a>. I also have my <a href="http://www.islandwatersports.com">IWS</a> project ramping up in a major way. Both of these, plus the work I do in this little sandbox, will be universalized, dummy-proofed, and branded as XCMS (XML Content Management System ...say "x-sims"): "Blogging on Steroids" (both of those are TM'd if they aren't already by somebody else. I'm half putting that up here to prove that I've thought of it as of now.) More info later as I compile it. 79935206daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/ba.html"><img src="http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/b/ba.gif" height="200" width="400" border="0"></a> cuz i'm yer number one... <a href="/miriam">see also</a> 79906683daniel millerTuesday, August 06, 2002publish<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2175870.stm">BBC NEWS | UK | How Ned Flanders became a role model</a> 79898054daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.ftrain.com/">Ftrain.com</a> I have just been thrown out of the house and also recently had a kidney infection which I thought was VD, unfair, I thought, to have VD before I was kissed. 79894328daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.jordoncooper.com/2002_08_01_oldblogs.html#85311381">jordoncooper.com weblog</a> It's cul when u find out you have one more reader, even when u don't know who that reader is. Jordon mentioned a friend of his "is in conversation with Alan, Jason Evans, and Daniel Miller's weblog." And now that link has spurred me to check out <a href="http://www.vbcc.net/alancreech">Alan</a>. (<a href="http://myvalentine.blogspot.com/">Jason</a> and I already knew about each other [as of, like, two weeks ago] and he's now one of my regular reads.) 79889067daniel millerpublishI gave away my car today. I expected it to be a much more...intense? experience. I just don't drive that much anymore; haven't for a while, really. I don't see not having it as impacting my life in any major way up here. Anyway, less shite is good thing. Watching old Tour videos I borrowed from a friend back in PA and getting really excited about the bike again. I rode up in PA over the weekend with said friend and it was quite nostalgic. The Tour videos are of two of Lemond's wins, 86 and 89 (the other being 90). As much as I respect Armstrong, his story, and what he's accomplishing, Lemond is still my hero. He was big right when I was coming into the sport as a junior racer. Tomorrow is the big Flag Day, where we find out what country we will be going to and when. Stay tuned we will both be posting the result asap. 79871775daniel millerMonday, August 05, 2002publishHow do I keep having these gawddammed political discussions??? Yes, it happened again. And it seems I'm always pissing someone off, I'm either being called an intellectual liberal blah blah blah by a conservative or an simpleton conservative by a liberal. And I think I'll continue to use the word liberal, despite the fact that half the discussion was over the semantics of the word, because all I've figured out so far is that liberals think they have it figured out, but conservatives know they've figured it out. I, of course, will never figure it the f$$k out. But today I was comforted by some of the words over at <a href="http://theyblinked.blogspot.com">theyblinked</a>: ...one such questioner was incredulous at my verbal posture as if somehow my words and motivations were unnecessarily complex and situationally arrogant. my response is always rather simple. i don't think for anyone's pet constituency. i don't carry a banner of revolution for any particular messianism. i speak out of the stories within which i find myself for a community that, due to my trans-cultural mongrel upbringing, is a bit more diverse than many are comfortable with. in language that is perhaps less obtuse all the while pregnant with an ambiguity far more profound: it is all about the other kingdom. ...for the first time in my life i feel like it is truly inevitable that i will not only be disappointed by, but will be a very real disappointment to people ...the quickest way to not disappoint is to pretend. i am just not willing to do that anymore. 79826661daniel millerSunday, August 04, 2002publish