<a href="http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,57121,00.html">Radio: Where's the Diversity?</a> radio deregulation since passage of the 1996 Telecommunications Act has destroyed diversity on the airwaves <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=91&ncid=91&e=8&u=/bpihw/20030224/en_bpihw/senate_to_probe_payola_in_radio">The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee plans to launch an investigation into alleged payolalike practices by some of the big radio groups that also own concert venues.</a> 69LinksdanielWed, February 26, 2003publish<a href="http://www.wgtb923.com/webcast.html">wgtb georgetown u student radio</a> 68LinksdanielWed, February 26, 2003publish<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2801349.stm">power americana</a> 67LinksdanielWed, February 26, 2003publish<a href="http://fray.com/storyblog/">fray storyblog</a> 66LinksdanielWed, February 26, 2003publishsteal this styleI stole <a href="http://www.kottke.org/">kottke's</a> blockquote style. <blockquote>Stole it right out of the CSS. Copy and paste. And here we are.</blockquote> 65DesignDanielWed, February 26, 2003publish<a href="http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2003/02/24.html#a617">XML in Office 11</a> 64LinksdanielWed, February 26, 2003publish<a href="http://www.nealpollack.com/">neal pollack</a> 63LinksdanielWed, February 26, 2003publish<a href="http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/editorial/what_lies_beneath.shtml">New York and Washington have their differences, but the greatest disparity (at least to someone who just moved from Manhattan) is in their subway systems. Clay Risen reports from beneath two cities.</a> 62LinksdanielWed, February 26, 2003publish<a href="http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/stories/behind_the_scenes_cool_2b_real.shtml">paul ford. morning news. cool2Bbreal.</a> 61LinksdanielWed, February 26, 2003publish<a href="http://images.interscope.com/992/dec11dntbelive2crop.jpg">she does believe in plastic surgery though</a> 60LinksdanielWed, February 26, 2003publishsnowit's snowing again. it's <a href="http://www.weather.com/weather/svrtenday/22201">gonna snow until saturday</a>. (updated <s>2:19PM</s> 6:07PM) jesus, what's the deal? you know, it has never been the cold, or the hot, or the seasons that bothered me...it is the length of the seasons...i hated the fact that the butt-crack hot season in florida is 5 months long, and i hate that winter is 4 months long here. in december i liked the cold and snow. i could like it again in a few months if i had a break. in heaven it's not going to be just nice all the time, just each season will be shorter. Update: You know, this is the reason I left the north...totally not the cold itself, but the duration of the season...I have like no energy right now! My lifestyle doesn't even change that much now (before I was a bigtime bike racer so winter put a damper on it), all I do is stare at a computer or read or run errons anymore...but there's just something about a late Feb snowstorm that just drags me right down. By the way, I love when people dismiss global warming when the winter is bad...did you know that global warming <a href="">accounts for harsher winter storms as well</a>? <blockquote>global warming sounds fine - what harm could it cause, besides a decline in thermal underwear sales? As it turns out, plenty. Severe winter storms: Since the mid 1970s, the frequency of severe winter storms in Canada has nearly doubled. Models predict that future winters will boast fewer weak storms, but increasing numbers of very severe storms</blockquote>Update2: Got out and about this afternoon which helped tremendously. Also going to <a href="http://tomconlonmusic.com">Tom Conlon</a> concert tonight, which is cool. Should've been a double bill, me opening for him, but instead he's opening for another band and the gig is in the <a href="http://jamminjava.com">burbs</a>. Oh, well, can't have everything go your way.59MinutiadanielWed, February 26, 2003publish<a href="http://weirdassshit.com/comments.php?aid=304">copyright comes around and bites disney in the ass</a> 58LinksdanielWed, February 26, 2003publishsemantic bloggingoo oo oo oo oo. i have been researching and learning a lot in this area lately...my "to read" favorites folder, where i queue articles i need to read but don't immediately have time for, has 31 items in it right now ("to blog," incidentally, has 34)...and the idea behind SWM has always been for it to be a semantic-based CMS. well, of course i'm not the only one. something to keep your eye on: <a href="http://dannyayers.com/ideagraph-blog/archives/000850.html">JemBlog</a> The idea is to build the skeleton of a server-side blogging system along the lines of the core of Movable Type etc. The difference being that the model used behind the scenes is RDF, so true semantic blogging is possible. basically, i'm pushing back a public beta of SWM until i can get a handle on this stuff and a development partner. i'm hopeful for finding help in sarajevo, if the war/postwar braindrain isn't too bad, i'm sure there are some hardcore techies in need of some side gigs. if you want to run SWM for your site (like, if you like what you see here and think you could use it), i am still hoping for a private alpha late-spring/early-summer...basically it will be all the tools, but you'll still have to build the site up yourself. ...still, it won't be as laborious as MT. :)57DesignDanielTue, February 25, 2003publish<a href="http://cheerleader.yoz.com/archives/000419.html">Three degrees of separation, and rising</a> the kids have to be down with installing a metric arseload of supporting extras before they can get jiggy with the winking action. i am def a geek. i thought this was LOL funny. 56LinksdanielTue, February 25, 2003publish<a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0103807/2002/08/31.html">definition of font bitch</a> some of u bloggers should identify with that 55LinksdanielTue, February 25, 2003publish<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/story/60991p-57008c.html">A music industry case study</a> this is brilliant; read a lot of these already but this one is nice and succinct 54LinksdanielTue, February 25, 2003publishsweet PS lomo sim actionI linked to the lomo vs. coolpix thing a few days ago, what I never ended up linking to was <a href="http://www.redscreen.net/photolog/">this rad photoblog</a> (found via <a href="http://kottke.org">kottke</a>) which has <a href="http://www.redscreen.net/photolog/fun.html">tutorial</a> on how to do a fakie lomo effect in Photoshop...and not only a tutorial, but an <a href="http://www.redscreen.net/photolog/files/LomoEffects.atn">action file</a> for you downloading and abusing pleasure! How cool! (I link straight to the action file because you will want to go check out the site anyway.) (<a href="http://benbubar.blogspot.com/">Ben</a> u r particularly stoked.) Anyway, if you don't know how to use actions, like I didn't, just look in the Photoshop help file; it's easy. Anyway-anyway, here's the results with a shot I took yesterday: <img src="images/lomoexp/hydrant_orig.jpg"> ...the original shot <img src="images/lomoexp/hydrant_lomoaction_normal.jpg"> ...the "normal" lomo action <img src="images/lomoexp/hydrant_lomoaction_screened.jpg"> ...the "screened" action <img src="images/lomoexp/hydrant_lomoaction_extremed.jpg"> ...and the "extreme dark" action53ImaginingdanielTue, February 25, 2003publishvery very sad:The American Booksellers Association reveals that 8 of 10 Americans neither bought nor read a book in 2002. Indeed, nearly 3 out of 5 Americans haven't opened a book since high school, and 42 percent of college graduates haven't read any book since they graduated. (via <a href="http://www.jordoncooper.sk.ca/2003_02_01_archives.html#90373070">coop</a>) 52CommentdanielTue, February 25, 2003publishUpdated RSS feed(s):Said Links section is no longer part of the default RSS feed (that any of you reading this via RSS are subscribed to). To subscribe to the Links section, just pass ?cat=Links as a variable, for example: <a href="http://www.danielsjourney.com/rss.php?cat=Links">http://www.danielsjourney.com/rss.php?cat=Links</a> You can also subscribe to any category with the same variable, for example if you are for some very odd reason only interested in my daily mintia you can subcribe to <a href="http://www.danielsjourney.com/rss.php?cat=Minutia">this flavor</a>. This feature is also on the main site, by the way, that's how the links to each category work. However the customization of the feed doesn't stop there. Oh no. you also have: ?l=short -- <a href="http://www.danielsjourney.com/rss.php?l=short">get a short/blurb/teaser post with a link to the website</a>. this is how most peps do their feed, but a few weeks back i went to full posts because that's what i like to get in my newsreader. ?n=5 -- get specified number of posts at a time. the default is 10, same as it's been for some time. but you can do me a bandwidth favor if you hit the RSS feed more than once every 2 hours and get, say, <a href="http://www.danielsjourney.com/rss.php?n=5">5</a> (of course if your newsreader support LAST_MODIFIED then we're getting along, bandwidth-wise at least, already). if you have a really crazy newsreader polling every 10 minutes just get <a href="http://www.danielsjourney.com/rss.php?n=1">1</a>, max <a href="http://www.danielsjourney.com/rss.php?n=2">2</a>--really, i can't even post them that fast...or if, on the other hand, you never seem to fire up your newsreader but once on the weekend you can get <a href="http://www.danielsjourney.com/rss.php?n=30">30</a>. ?img=yes -- default is no images in the newsfeed, i find them kinda annoying when people use them in every post. i don't, though, so if you don't want to have to go to the site to see the occasional image, pass this variable as "yes" and <a href="http://www.danielsjourney.com/rss.php?img=yes">you will get the images</a> embedded in the post. still no media, flash, or anything else bandwidth-heavy and technologically-funnymoney. So there you have it. Mix and match RSS feeds. Just string together the variables with &'s to do any combination. Try any of these flavors for example: <a href="http://www.danielsjourney.com/rss.php?n=5&img=yes">latest five posts with images</a> <a href="http://www.danielsjourney.com/rss.php?l=short">latest 10 posts w/o full text</a> <a href="http://www.danielsjourney.com/rss.php?n=15&cat=Links">latest 15 Links</a> etc., etc.51DesignDanielTue, February 25, 2003publishUpdate on the sidebar category:It is now "Links." I didn't like the way "Elsewhere" was displaying in the archives, where Elsewhere often had wide images, comments, or full URL's. "Uber-Elsewhere" lived a short life as a category and is now back to plain-ol' "Elsewhere." Links is the new category for the right-hand sidebar action. 50DesignDanielTue, February 25, 2003publish<a href="http://www.back-to-iraq.com/">back-to-iraq.com</a> 49LinksdanielTue, February 25, 2003publish<a href="http://dear_raed.blogspot.com/2003_02_01_dear_raed_archive.html#89656471">raed has pics</a> ...<a href="http://www.pyxz.com/users/1045750412/1045750412-1045751669-4.jpg">this one</a> is my fav 48LinksdanielTue, February 25, 2003publishlasiki still haven't decided if i'm going to get the eye surgery, which if it is going to happen before we leave needs to be decided upon SOON, but right now, this very second?, <a href="http://www.vsdar.de/english/lasik/ablauf.html">having part of one's eyeball cut open and then having a laser shot into it</a> just seems a lot worse then <a href="http://www.perret-optic.ch/Lentille_de_contact/Prod_entretients/Prod_entretien_images/prod_entret_vch_mettre_2.jpg">touching one's eyeball</a> or <a href="http://hcs.harvard.edu/~alhuang/anime/thoughts/gendoug.jpg">touching the spot between one's eyes</a> all day. 47MinutiadanielTue, February 25, 2003publish<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2003/03/rauch.htm">Caring for your introvert</a>. Extroverts have little or no grasp of introversion. They assume that company, especially their own, is always welcome. They cannot imagine why someone would need to be alone; indeed, they often take umbrage at the suggestion. 46LinksdanielTue, February 25, 2003publish<a href="http://www.theonion.com/onion3906/girlfriend_stops_reading.html">Claire Thompson, author David Foster Wallace's girlfriend of two years, stopped reading his 67-page breakup letter at page 20, she admitted Monday</a>. Hillarious onion piece which includes a PDF graphic from the letter! 45LinksdanielTue, February 25, 2003publishin other news i had a most horrible and humiliating afternoon yesterday and i can't even vent about it on my blog because it is too personal and humiliating. don't ask. no, really, i'm serious, don't. 44MinutiadanielTue, February 25, 2003publishGrannies<a href="http://www.felbers.net/mt/archives/001493.html">Though you missed it, last night was the Grammy Awards. In case you've never heard of 'em, the Grammys for the past few years have been an unsuccessful reality show in which a group of graying music industry executives heap every conceivable award upon a just-out-of-high-school female singer in the hopes of demonstrating to the world that the recording industry is alive and well</a>... ...I was going to use my blog to pundicize about the Grammys and how they are such a fucking farce, a cog in the industry machine as predictable as the next single you are going to hear on your favorite radio station. (I can hear the Sony accountant now, "Sir, does payola go under 'Discretionary Fund' or the petty cash allotment for your Ferrari's detailing?") But Adam Felber did a pretty good job there of summing things up. I will say that at least Norah Jones is on Blue Note records; but her sweep just proves one again that it only takes one tune to take home 5 Grammys. Just go read the Felbers piece, kay? 43ElsewheredanielTue, February 25, 2003publishIf one takes the view that war is worse than tyranny and that the latter doesn't necessarily beget the former, there is a case to be made for global despotism. That case is unfortunately stronger, in the light of history, than the proposition that nations will coexist peacefully if we all try really, really hard to be nice to each other. <a href="http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200302/msg00186.html">more</a> 42LinksdanielTue, February 25, 2003publish<a href="http://www.nj.com/newsflash/international/index.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?a0440_BC_VolatileSerbia&&news&newsflash-international">In the shadows of a possible war with Iraq, another crisis is looming in this troubled corner of the Balkans, where ethnic Albanian militants are preparing a fresh challenge of Serbian rule.</a> <hr width="50" align="center"> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;&#36;sessionid&#36;2AIUGUGRICGAVQFIQMFSFFOAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2003/02/25/wserb25.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/02/25/ixworld.html">The Serbian ultra-nationalist leader Vojislav Seselj gave himself up to the war crimes tribunal in The Hague yesterday after hundreds of supporters bade him a tearful farewell.</a> Seselj, who once said his enemies should have their eyes gouged out, told the crowd at Belgrade airport: "I'll blast them to pieces. I will come back from The Hague victorious." On Sunday night, he told a rally of 10,000 supporters wearing traditional Serb clothing: "I go to The Hague to win, to defy them all, to speak for the slain Serb freedom fighters. "But, brothers and sisters, don't let any other Serb go after me. Don't give them Radovan Karadzic, [the former Bosnian Serb leader], and Gen Ratko Mladic, [Karadzic's military chief]." <hr width="50" align="center"> <a href="http://www.serbia.sr.gov.yu/news/2003-02/22/327864.html">Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic visited Banja Luka on Friday where he met with his counterpart from Republika Srpska, Bosnia-Herzegovina's Serb entity, Dragan Cavic. The two discussed economic and business cooperation and the exchange of students and experts.</a> <hr width="50" align="center"> There can be no justice...I wish it were possible to instantly share all the things I have been reading since August and all the subtext I have picked up on speaking with Bosnians, so you could read these news reports the same way I do. But I can't; so I just point to them and allow you to determine your own level of interest. I would say, Yeah, we (the United States, the United Nations, the West) are the world's police force, but we are the worst damn police force any juristiction has ever seen. 41BalkansdanielTue, February 25, 2003publish<a href="http://www.forbes.com/home_europe/newswire/2003/02/25/rtr889155.html">British American Tobacco said it is interested in buying one of Serbia's two tobacco plants</a> ...[they see] central and eastern Europe as strategically important and Serbia as a very important market ...no shit! because everyone freaking smokes! 40LinksdanielTue, February 25, 2003publishmore resources (as if we needed them)via <a href="http://www.theyblinked.com/blog/">theyblinked</a>, I find <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0890967709/qid=1046107911/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/103-8557930-2747830?v=glance&s=books">The Conceit of Innocence</a> by Stjepan G. Mestrovic (among others, Dan was <a href="http://www.theyblinked.com/blog/2003_02_23_theyblinked_archive.html#89614649">referencing</a> someone else), <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books&field-author=Mestrovic%2C%20Stjepan%20G./103-8557930-2747830">turns out he has a few more books on Bosnia, etc</a>. Interesting are the two reviews:<blockquote>Excellently exposes the pretence of post-Cold War morality, November 18, 1999 Reviewer: A reader from Washington The book is an excellent examination of the philosophical and psycho-social issues that the West now has to grapple with due to its (im)moral mishandling of the Bosnian crisis. Far from being a diatribe which serves the propaganda interests of any side, the authors explore the multiple implications that have arisen due to the loss of Western morality (or perhaps, the sham that was the West's previous pretence to morality) from various angles, and discuss not only what this means for the Bosnian themselves, but also its importance for today's Western societies.</blockquote>VS...<blockquote>Croatian Propaganda, October 9, 1998 Reviewer: nt@sentex.net from Toronto Mr. Mestrovic, an ethnic croat, writes a bogus, completely biased account ofthe civil war in Bosnia. He gets plenty of assistence to bash Serbs from a Muslim co-author. He rehashs the tired Zagreb-Sarajevo party line of a "land grab" by the serbs and completely ignores the fact that Serbs made up a full 33% of Bosnia before the war. He of course, completely ignores war crimes commnitted by Croats and Muslims against Serb civilians. Also, Mestrovic ignores the role of Croatia in fomenting war amongst the croats and Muslims. A good read for any student of propaganda. A poor work if one is searching for facts.</blockquote>Hmmm... Shed any light on the situation over there? Possibly more than the book itself... 39BalkansdanielMon, February 24, 2003publish<a href="http://www.artomat.org/">artomat</a>: don't go round artless! 38LinksdanielMon, February 24, 2003publishtemp. messing with the design. had to. as u can see. just doing my part. 37MinutiadanielMon, February 24, 2003publish<a href="http://www.kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/000290.html#000290">The Dept of Homeland Security would like to take this opportunity to explain the current political situation to you all</a>. 36LinksdanielMon, February 24, 2003publish<a href="http://www.ready.gov/biological_visual2.html">New DHS Mexican and Indian restaurant placards</a>. 35LinksdanielMon, February 24, 2003publishbug fixesJust fixed two bugs in this code...nobody point those out or anything. ;) Permalinks work again, again...they are slippery little things, those... Update: 13.00 ...Fixed yet another bug. <s>Pages with "more words" display a bit differently (but at least they display at all now), I think I'm going to go with it even though</s> I could easily change it back with one more line of code. 34DesignDanielMon, February 24, 2003publishthere is only one love<a href="http://www.christopherw.com/notes.php">Christopher Williams finds "Helen"</a> ... <a href="http://www.danielsjourney.com/index.php?file=blog_2002_11_18_new.xml&id=11">context</a>: he played the song for us at his show in Vienna last year... 33ElsewheredanielMon, February 24, 2003publish"I made a terrible fool of myself," I said. "You're almost a man now," she said. "And that is a man's privilege." --From my current read, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375727000/qid=1046052614/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/103-8557930-2747830?v=glance&s=books&n=507846">The Question of Bruno</a> by <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/nanatalese/bruno/index2.html">Aleksandar Hemon</a> 32QuotabledanielSun, February 23, 2003publish<a href="http://www.danwilsonmusic.com/">dan wilson</a> 31LinksdanielSun, February 23, 2003publish<a href="http://www.flakmag.com/music/2002/tunes/bullet.mp3">Bullet</a> <a href="http://www.flakmag.com/music/2002/5.html#track19">by</a> <a href="http://www.masonjennings.com/">Mason Jennings</a> 30LinksdanielSun, February 23, 2003publishre: the new lookI mentioned a relatively big change a few days ago; well, here it is. I am not trying to jump on the bandwagon with moving my links to another column, but there are just a lot of links I don't want to comment on, just point to, and would distract from the "main" column. Elsewhere is a new category (you might have already noticed) that contains commented-on links. I have little idea how this looks in Mozilla or Safari/on Mac. If it complete shite please contact me! I think that the design section of the site is going to suffer until I give it some attention. I changed by a lot the style sheet that all the site's pages reference. I'll get to that part of the site this coming week. I'm not too worried about it. Also of note is the amount of code and HTML eliminated in the new design. I consolidated both to about 2/3rds their former Kbytes. More optimization is yet to come. 29DesignDanielSat, February 22, 2003publish<a href="http://cafeshops.com/totalawareness">TIA gift shop</a> 28LinksdanielSat, February 22, 2003publishjust numb us<a href="http://www.cafeshops.com/amer_dream"><img src="images/americandream1ii.gif" border="0"></a> click above to buy the american dream. in an effort to achieve total information awareness, know this: the shirts and mug are marked up one dollar. the stickers and postcards are not marked up at all. buy this shit! 27ImaginingdanielSat, February 22, 2003publish<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/02/15/BU95644.DTL">salon can't pay rent</a> so <a href="http://webmonkeyblog.tripod.com/blog/index.blog?entry_id=14674">webmonkey offers some space</a> 26LinksdanielSat, February 22, 2003publish<a href="http://beebo.org/mischief/lomo-vs-coolpix/">lomo vs. coolpix</a> i have a coolpix but i still want a lomo. 25LinksdanielSat, February 22, 2003publish<a href="http://info.lindows.com/mobilepc/mobilepc.htm">lindows</a> 24LinksdanielSat, February 22, 2003publish<a href="http://www.kottke.org/photos/paris2002/index.html">kottke's france photos</a> 23LinksdanielSat, February 22, 2003publishBush is also up for the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,900496,00.html">peace prize</a> 22LinksdanielSat, February 22, 2003publishpromising. very promising<a href="http://www.semaview.com/">http://www.semaview.com/</a> Semaview is developing a personal information management platform using the power of The Semantic Web 21ElsewheredanielFri, February 21, 2003publishpoint-counterpointexhibit a: <a href="http://www.ready.gov/biological_visual2.html">ready.gov</a> OR.... exhibit b: <a href="http://www.idlewords.com/biological.html#">ready.gov</a> 20ElsewheredanielFri, February 21, 2003publish<a href="http://www.felbers.net/mt/archives/001490.html">The Boy Who Cried McCarthy</a> at <a href="http://www.felbers.net/mt/">Fanatical Apathy</a> Well now we've done it. Yes, liberals, I'm talking to you. For the past 40 years we've called every single bit of conservative penny-ante smear or casual demagoguery "McCarthyism." But we couldn't resist, could we? After all, until Watergate, it was the most prominent and useful bit of American lore for us to invoke - it was a chapter of our history wherein everybody agreed that those war-mongerin' repressive xenophobes had taken their narrow and dangerous definition of patriotism and gone too far. So we beat that drum, didn't we? Beat it and beat it with a regularity you could set your watch by. Rights curtailed? "McCarthyism!" The word "liberal" is being used against us? "McCarthyism!?" Benny's not allowed to sing "Satan's My Best Pal" in the school talent show? "McCarthyism!" Yeah, maybe we had a point, but there were other terms we could've used. We could have saved it for a rainy day,held onto it, so that when we really needed it, it'd carry some weight. Like, for instance, now. When we talk about the McCarthy era, we tend to remember blacklists and Communist Party members and doctored photos and Joe McCarthy's eyebrows. And most of us have probably conflated all that with poodle skirts and tiny televisions and Elvis getting wounded in Korea but being saved on the operating table by Alan Alda. We Americans get our history and our entertainment from the same device, which is about as sensible as keeping your compost heap in the fridge, right next to the fresh broccoli.... 19ElsewheredanielFri, February 21, 2003publish<a href="http://blog.mediacooperative.com/mt-tb.cgi/1478">more ben hammersley</a> excuse me if I seem all superior and embittered and intellectually elitist, but will someone please please please shut this idiot up before he gets the people I love killed? 18LinksdanielFri, February 21, 2003publishAh yes if only it were so simple ;)<a href="http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/stories/schrdingers_iraq.shtml">Schr&ouml;dinger's Iraq</a> Matthew Baldwin The Morning News Bush: ...I must confess that, until recently, I was vexed by this very point; namely, does Saddam have, in his possession, weapons of mass destruction? As our treatment of North Korea illustrates, the United States' policy towards a rogue nation is contingent upon the answer to this most vital of questions. But in the last few weeks, I have come to realize my folly in analyzing the issue of WMD-ownership in strict accordance with Newtonian-physics. Once I jettisoned my preconceived notions of reality, the matter became- Marlin: I'm sorry, did you say 'Newtonian physics?' Bush: Precisely. If you view Iraq in a classical Newtonian framework, then you must concede that they either do or do not have weapons of mass destruction. It is this narrow mindset that causes such confusion in the uninformed. But, over President's Day weekend at Camp David, I delved into the collected writings of Erwin Schr&ouml;dinger, and now have no recourse but to conclude that Saddam both has and does not have weapons of mass destruction. 17ElsewheredanielFri, February 21, 2003publish<a href="http://launch.yahoo.com/read/news.asp?contentID=212284">Bono of U2 has been placed on the short list of possible winners of this year's Nobel Peace Prize</a> 16LinksdanielFri, February 21, 2003publish<a href="http://fray.com/">fray.com</a> got a redesign 15LinksdanielThu, February 20, 2003publishthis is another testOh joy I think what I was working on is working for real. Coding sucks while yer actually coding but seeing results is just great. Really. Not, like, really great but just great. ... <blockquote>Suddenly I caught myself thinking about fruit and about how nothing had changed. We had thought that after the revolution peaches would be different--bigger, sweeter, more golden. But as I stood in line at a stall in the street market I noticed that the peaches were just as green, small, and bullet-hard, somehow pre-revolutionary... What did change were the faces of the politicians on TV, the names of the major streets and squares, the flags, national anthems, and monuments...as if forty-five years of living under communism cannot be erased from our collective consciousness with a substitution... I understand that in the West today 'the end of communism' has become a stock phrase, a truism, a common expression supposed to indicate the current state of things in Eastern Europe. It sounds marvelous when you hear it in political speeches or read it in the newspapers. The reality is that communism persists in the way people behave, in the looks on their faces, in the way they think...The end of communism is still remote because communism, more than a political ideology or a method of government, is a state of mind...[people] have so deeply incorporated a particular set of values, a way of thinking and of perceiving the world, that exorcising this way of being will take an unforseeable length of time... We may have survived communism, but we have not yet outlived it.</blockquote> --from M and my current evening read, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed by Slavanka Drakulic (a Croatian author) 14MinutiadanielThu, February 20, 2003publishthis is a testso here are two random thoughts: 1. me warning you that i'm going to get busy and might not update this blog is very much like our little homeland security warnings, so far just a buch of BS! despite that, i must say, i really am busy and am going to just stop. really. i mean it this time. go right now and buy some duct tape. 2. who the hell, what economist, thought up the word "foodstuffs"?? 13MinutiadanielThu, February 20, 2003publishbaghdad snapshot action<a href="http://www.nationalphilistine.com/baghdad/index2.html">baghdad snapshot action</a> On February 13, 2003, teams of artists and activists postered New York City with thousands of copies of snapshots from Baghdad. Quiet and casual, the snapshots show a part of Baghdad we rarely see: the part with people in it. 12ElsewheredanielWed, February 19, 2003publishyeah i like mine extra spicyI like my hosting company a lot, but while I was looking over their hosting plans again today <a href="http://www.featureprice.com/images/platinum_girl.jpg">this picture</a>, for their platinum plan, left me a little worried--hot chicks work in the server rooms! Update: just to clarify for the misinterpreting: stuff in italics is almost always quotes on my site, so "hot chicks work in the server rooms" is me putting words in the mouths of the marketing execs, as if we would buy webserver space for the same reasons we buy beer and buffalo wings...which, of course, might be the case... 11MinutiadanielWed, February 19, 2003publishbookpunk<a href="http://bookpunk.com/">bookpunk.com</a> so new media's new event arm 10LinksdanielWed, February 19, 2003publishmichael miller crusade<a href="http://www.michaelmillercrusade.com/">michael miller</a> two major recommendations in a row! i first found michael miller through <a href="http://jeansandatshirt.com/index.html">jeans and a tshirt</a>, their <a href="http://jeansandatshirt.com/monthlymix.html">monthly mix</a> to be precise, not this month's but last month's, but this month's has <a href="http://jeansandatshirt.com/music/track13.mp3">one of his songs too</a>, grace town (nice title, eh?). this month they also have an <a href="http://jeansandatshirt.com/archives/000169.html#000169">interview with him</a>. if you check out nothing else on his site, check his travel photos. he has a great eye. but he also does illustrations, <a href="http://www.heymikeyboy.com/">funny ass christmas cards</a>, and for a little added weirdness he used to work with <a href="http://www.charliepeacock.com/html">charlie peacock</a> of all people and recorded his first (of 2) CD's with Mike Roe and Bruce Spencer (from the 77's). the scariest thing of all? he sounds and looks a lot like <a href="http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/412/andy_zipf.html">andy zipf</a>. see also <a href="http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/180/the_michael_miller_crusade.html">micael miller at mp3.com</a> 9ElsewheredanielWed, February 19, 2003publishvagabonding.com<a href="http://www.vagabonding.com/">vagabonding.com</a> A while back I wrote about a travel-around-the-world site/book/marketing campaign that <a href="http://www.danielsjourney.com/index.php?archive=blog_2003_02_05.xml&id_pass=3">offended my sensibilities a tad</a>. Well a few days ago I found a travel-around-the-world site via <a href="http://www.dollarshort.org">dollarshort</a>, this time a "non-affiliated" one (unless you count moveabletype--ha ha), and oh what a difference it makes. Despite the kinda <a href="http://www.vagabonding.com/about/000017.html">uber-personal-branding</a> which is kinda skeevy, once you dive into this amazingly well designed and content-rich site, you too will become a fan. There are so many great quotes I couldn't just pull one to demo. In addition, photographs and video (well produced while on the road in places like Laos and India) that are second to none. All of it with little to no sponsorship. <a href="/miriam" title="she blogged about it too so you know it's good">Miriam</a> has been reading more of the site than I have even, and we're going to drop a fiver in the pail for the guy. Check him out. 8ElsewheredanielTue, February 18, 2003publishsnapshots from the week that was re: the title: when you work at home there is no concept of a week. i worked the most friday through monday; but today still feels like a monday. ... i have found nonsweatshop clothes. it was not that difficult. i am going to make a section under activism with all the brands i've found that are made in the States, or at least in a western country with some kind of labor law. but for now here is what i found: Carthart jeans and winter coat--winter coat was the hard one, but i searched and found! also Schott NYC has some coats that are made in the US. i love both my coat and jeans, they are way better than anything else. Carthart markets towards workers, but i feel a new blue-collar chic coming on; i do really like the style of these clothes. Red wing shoes. tough, insulated shoes were also an issue, but red wing, made in Michigan, came through big-time! i got these boots that i'm sure are going to last a very, very long time. also Campers are made in Spain. i have had a pair of those for a year now and love them. that's it for now; much more comprehensive list forthcoming. next challange is electronics, although that one is really difficult. forthcoming Wired magazine article link about that. ... there seems to be a huge outcropping of homemade blog systems as of late. but i'm actually encouraged, because SWM is turning out to be so uber-blog. i had the thought the other night that there are probably some brilliant coders in Sarajevo who could use some work, any work. this could be a really good thing. ... i never got the duct tape thing. advantage of not having a TV. it's amazing how fucked up the mainstream media is; i'm shocked and bewildered every time i encounter it, which isn't very often anymore. note to self: must educate people to ignore that shit. i think having to avoid the porn on the internet is better than the constant brainwashing of Fox News and The Next Dumbass Reality TV Show. the only intelligent things i've heard as of late i've read on the web. ... my advice to bloggers: never blog about your work. people have been fired for <a href="http://diveintomark.org/archives/2001/10/09/now_extremely_available.html">much</a> <a href="http://dooce.com/mtarchives/02_26_2002.html">less</a>. ... <a href="/miriam">Miriam</a> now uses the <a href="http://chami.com/html-kit/" title="HTML-kit rocks by the way--far and away the best">same HTML editor i do</a>. she modifies and uploads her own static pages. she's arrived. she's a techie. ... He: I wanna make love long time. 5 minutes later: Uh, I think I could go for a double. Just hang on a few minutes. 5 minutes later: Uh, I don't think that's going to happen.7MinutiadanielTue, February 18, 2003publishdan witz street art<a href="http://www.danwitzstreetart.com/">dan witz street art</a> 6LinksdanielTue, February 18, 2003publish2002 world press photo winners announced<a href="http://www.worldpressphoto.nl/index.jsp">world press photo winners</a> 5LinksdanielTue, February 18, 2003publishchangesI was going to roll out a (relatively) big site change but time and priorities have dictated a (relatively) small one. What is not immediately obvious: 01. The <a href="http://creativecommons.org/">creative commons</a> license for this site has changed. More importantly, the license is not for the entire site, only for the blog. I should have made this distinction before but didn't. For what it is worth, the "new" blog license is less restrictive (it can be found by clicking on the little icons to the left). For any other content you have to ask. :) The whole licensing-the-blog thing is pretty sketchy, since most of its contents are not even my original creation and often probably violate someone else's license that I haven't bothered to find. Alas, we work these things out as we go. Just continue to be respectful of others. Play nice. Don't run with scissors. Roll over. <a href="http://overtherhine.com/music/recordings/cd08/cd08e.html">Good dog</a>. 02. Fonts. I had been talking about it for some time, and finally, I stop controlling your fonts. I was held back by the fact that practically no-one else does so (not specify some font) and that most everybody in the world still has New Times Roman as the default font in their browser. So if you don't like New Times Roman, find your browser settings for fonts (in Internet Explorer it under Tools--Internet Options) and change your default font. Then use the text size option (in IE, View--Text Size) to fine tune your choice. If you want this site the way it was, it would be Verdana and "smaller" (in IE, in Mozilla I think it's 80%). "Wide latin" at the "largest" text size <a href="images/site_in_widelatin.gif">is also an intersting choice for those with visual impairments</a>. 4MinutiadanielMon, February 17, 2003publishfunniest things i have read in quite a while01. the end user license agreement for <a href="http://www.illegal-art.org/">illegal-art.org</a> (it will pop up when you go to the site. thinking about adopting similar agreement for this site. 02. <a href="http://www.dashes.com/anil/index.php?archives/005135.php">six apart buys a fax machine</a>. anil dash does it yet again. (02a. <a href="http://www.kottke.org/03/02/030217you_put_blog.html">Here's an early peek at what Blogger could look like now that Google has its multicolored mitts on it</a>.) 3ElsewheredanielMon, February 17, 2003publishall is goodFound out last night that there is broadband in Sarajevo. Other cool details about life there explained over at Miriam's blog. 2MinutiadanielMon, February 17, 2003publishsnow^nIt snowed a lot yesterday. Here's how much: <img src="images/febsnow1.jpg"> <img src="images/febsnow2.jpg"> <img src="images/febsnow3.jpg"> <img src="images/febsnow7.jpg">1MinutiadanielMon, February 17, 2003publish