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[ http://www.cyberden.com/sleeves/ ]

Very cool archive of 5.25 disk sleeves.
Ah, when disks were disks and discs were for throwing.

[ via waxy links - http://waxy.org/links/ ]

This got through SpamAssassin (defense layer 1, not sure if
SpamBayes would have caught it once it got to my desktop) BUT LOOK!
Spammers are selling soma. It's like, Brave New World, is here... right
now!

Although, Klara has just told me that soma did actually exist and was used
by priests in India, hundreds of years ago. You know, like those priests
in those last few episodes of Reign: The Conqueror.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 20:35:34 +0300
From: mawtaqsvot@[xxx]
To: adam@[xxx]
Subject: btl

Burkett,


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[ evil url snipped ]

--
griffin,he said that.

oh god i have a beard, my hair is long, and i'm smoking cloves. what
the fuck happened?

Cloves?

That's fucking gross.

On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, dakota smith wrote:

> oh god i have a beard, my hair is long, and i'm smoking cloves. what
> the fuck happened?
>

The last episode of Home Movies aired on Sunday (sadly.)

However, the real Brendon Small has a web site
[ http://brendonsmall.com/ ]

And not one of those fake website-like entities, a real web site with a
Blogger-powered blog with actual words written by him, a whole album of
SECRET SONGS [ http://brendonsmall.com/music.html ] and my personal favorite,
an awesome picture of H. Jon Benjamin
[ http://brendonsmall.com/PHOTOS/hjonx.jpg ]

I hope they actually get to put out Home Movies on DVD. It was funny.

Also, somehow, at one point, I was like 2 degrees removed from Brendon.

Sort of.

A friend of mine (Allison) was dating someone who was friends
with Brendon. She said "oh, I was hanging out with this guy who does a
cartoon on Cartoon Network, Brendon something?" And I was like OH MY GOD
YOU WERE HANGING OUT WITH BRENDON SMALL.

But then she broke up with the guy. And I was all... WHAT ABOUT MY NEEDS!?
I WANTED TO MEET BRENDON SMALL.

It's sensitivity like that that makes me such a great friend.

-----Original Message-----
From: Craig [NOT THAT REMOVING HIS LAST NAME MATTERS]
[mailto:djsmoothawley@[xxx]
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 7:57 PM
To: fecalreport@[xxx]
Subject: Fecal Report 4-7-2004


Stools solid, relatively short "cleanup"

...a welcome respite after Puerto Rico, where the toilet in Lisa's condo was
woefully unfitted for my defecation. I had to flush three times to clear
the bowl on several occasions (which my girlfriend and her friends no doubt
took notice of), and as subscribers of this (near-daily) newsletter are
aware I am not someone who usually needs to flush more than once.

In fact (for those of you who missed the last "Fecal Report), on Monday I
shat in the Erikson bathroom and was extremely dissapointed that it all went
down in one flush...it was the kind of poop that gives you pause before you
send it to the sewers below; I gave a short nod before I compressed the
handle, impressed with the girth my bowels had expunged...my pride was only
exceeded by my surprise when it went down with ease, without subsequent
flushes or aid via the plunger.

These corporate office buildings are too well prepared for fat Americans on
fast food diets (or the Atkins fill-me-up-with-red-meat diets). I guess I
need to start shitting in old, run-down apartment buildings if I want to be
able to boast to my readers that I've been clogging toilets.

Always,
craig

[ http://www.drmenlo.com/home.html ]

"Six More Foreigners Reportedly Seized In Iraq

Why doesn't one reporter with balls get up and ask Bush if this is what
he meant when he said 'Bring it on'?"


[ non-working permalink
http://www.drmenlo.com/2004_04_04_archive.html#108153605662712503 ]

It sort of reminds me when Mel Gibson said "God made my bed!"


-----Original Message-----
From: Klara Y. Kim [mailto:klarakim@[xxx]
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 2:31 PM
To: Adam Mathes
Subject: stuuuupid

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0001N9WFK/qid=1081798189/sr=8
-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl15/104-2368538-3747904?v=glance&s=music&n=507846

i do not think elvis motherfucking presley wrote ANY of his songs due to
inspiration from Passion of the Christ.

Patron's name: Michael Ydigoras
=20
"You forced your way past the security guard after the library was =
closed, and demanded that you borrow a book, after being told earlier in =
the day that your account was delinquent. After staff told you that the =
computers were sut down, you went behnid the counter and grabbed the =
book and proceeded to take it from the library. This incident forced =
staff to call 911, and resulted in staff having to stay 45 minutes after =
closing while talking with police officers."
=20
"You disrupted and frightened patrons and staff by telling staff you had =
previously returned books with amphetamines in them, claiming that you =
had received two lethal injections by Friday Kahlo, and proceeded to hit =
the keys of a computer keyboard with unecessary force."
=20
"You made accusations that in the future you wouldn't be allowed in the =
library without a finger print test and retina scan. You also took up =
staff time while you made complaints that a dead body in your neighbor's =
apartment and insisted that staff change your address for that reason."
=20
"You were asked to not keep turning off the library computers, and =
replied that you 'were offended by Clifford BAxter being shot in the =
head.' You tehn asserted that it was staff's fault for allowing =
'Clifford Baxter to pop up like that' on the computer."
=20
"You got mad at a staff member for mipronouncing your last name of =
Ydigoras, after spelling your last name S-M-I-T-H. When a staff member =
asked you your name, you just kept repeating it was 'tragedy spelled =
backwards.'"

Fred is back (sort of)

[ http://metascene.net/weblog.html ]

"so anyway, it's good to be back. par tof the reason i weas away for so
long was ythat i wanted to, you know, re-invent and re-think my whole blog
thing and i think i have finally come up with the NEW format/design
(ahahahahaha. like i said before, blog you.) i dont have all the
particulars worked out just yet, but i am thinking something along the
linrs of posting lots of picutures of my cat. he is sneaky and mischevious
but damn if he's not good looking! you should see him when he like lounges
in the bathroom sink. boy, he loves that sink! that is going to be the
first picurtrde i post. of my cat. my crappu cell phone has a supre crappy
camera fweature and i alwyas thoyught that if i ever had a digital camera
i would do all sodts of cool stuff but it turens out THAT ALLS I VER DO IS
TAKE PICUTRES OF MY CAT. so we have that to look forward to."

The Greenstone digital library system is a user-interface nightmare on so
many fundamental levels it's hard even to know where to start.

Which is why I won't start, since one of the authors is giving his
demonstration of it in this class.

this is a test from that stupid pastel blue email thing all the kids
are talking about

(You are currently using 0 MB (0%) of your 1000 MB.)

[These are notes/ first draft of a daily/essay-ish thing on gmail and
the move towards information retrieval interfaces instead of file
management.]

There are lots of little "native application" tricks that gmail does
that make you go "aww" the first time you see them (address
completion, the auto-updating of the number of unread messages in your
inbox as they come in, the in-situ-spell checker is pretty astounding,
and others.)

Not to trivialize interface niceties, because they are important, but
the fundamental difference between gmail, other webmail clients, and
the standard email infrastructure in general is exemplified by the
"archive" button. Of course, you can do other things with your email,
but "archive" is given a special button and clearly has a place of
prominence.

It's worth noting.

One of the reasons people cringe at the thought of webmail, and
web-based applications in general is that there is a comfort and
perceived power in the direct manipulation of "files" and "messages"
in a GUI by dragging and dropping into folders. It leverages our
understanding of how things work in the physical world (there is a
physical artifact that is a file, it exists in a folder, which can be
put in other folders.)

When people were excited about the Macintosh it was not that the
*idea* of files and folders was a new computing paradigm - it wasn't -
having been around for decades and used in most computer systems. What
was different was that there was a visual, easily manipulable
representation of that paradigm that users could grok instantly.

Trying to replicate this feel in a web application is difficult. (Not
impossible, but difficult.)

The real question people should be asking now (and one that evidently
the kids at Google are smart enough to ask) is whether it is a good
mental model under which to organize and access large amounts of
information. As heavy email users are noting (see Adam Rifkin on
Fishers, Michael Sippey on having the archive and trash bins only in
Outlook) dealing with years worth of email in a hierarchial filing
system is hopeless.

So rather than emaulate a hopeless filing system, why not just create
a searchable metadata rich archive? (This is what I've been doing in
Outlook for about a year now, lately with the help of a program that
indexes email called LookOut.)

This is the main solution Google has taken. Don't file things - it's a
hopeless waste of time. Instead, just let it be indexed effectively.

Another way to look at the problem is that rather than create "real"
folders and rely on the one message/file one location paradigm, create
virtual folders based on author, thread, dates, etc. (Think iTunes
virtual playlists for your mail.)

I actually really like that idea as a complement to the searching
paradigm, and Gmail has a little bit of it with their metadata
"labels" for email and "starring" important emails. (Very classic Mac
OS like.)

Gmail is nice, but I'm not sure I'd ever want all my email's only home
to be on a server far away. Call me old fashioned, but I like to have
my own personal backups. But the fact that Gmail is a web application
(see previous Daily entry on Gmail as Sun's the network is the
computer) shouldn't take away from the fact that it represents a
profound paradigm shift in personal information management that users,
developers, and Information Science students/out of work software
designers should think about seriously.

(Sidenote - comparing Gmail to digital library software like
Greenstone would be an interesting idea. The idea is the same: take
large amounts of content and index it effectively as a way to
facilitate better user interaction with the content.)