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Happy Pi Day!Happy Pi Day!Happy Pi Day! 03/14/2003 01:09 PM Happy Pi Day! At 1:59 PST, the San Francisco Exploratorium kicks off its Pi Day festivities. If you can't make it, here are more activities or you can just sing a song to ?. This is a GrokNews Entry: (what is grok?)Happy Pi Day!Grok Headline matches for Happy Pi Day!Or Are You Just Happy to See Me?Or Are You Just Happy to See Me? 02/01/2005 10:10 PM Lorcan Dempsey posted some astounding numbers to his blog yesterday. Emphasis below is mine. Prepare to be amazed.
They’re all amazing numbers, but think about that iPod statement for a moment. What does it mean when a patron can carry around the whole, freaking WorldCat database? We’re not that far off from the introduction of the personal, mobile server in your pocket. HappyHappy 02/01/2005 09:44 PM It’s like this: you get a slightly-scary physical symptom and you go and tell your doctor and she frowns and says “well, we better run some tests and make a date with a specialist”, and you go to the specialist and he works you over and looks at the tests and says “yeah, that’s a weird one, it happens sometimes, we don’t know why, it might happen again, it won’t hurt you, don’t worry about it.” Happy PFD!...?Happy PFD!...? 01/16/2004 11:02 AM Anyone in the mood for a celebration!? Today is Personal Firewall Day! Who's bringing drinks? Very Very HappyVery Very Happy 05/26/2004 04:36 AM The Only Conservative Blogposts You Ever Have to Read .. Blogging: The State of the Art .. head over here .. He has veryveryhappy.blogspot.com/2004_05_23_veryveryhappy_archive.html
#108553067569781729 Are you happy now?Are you happy now? 03/13/2003 03:27 PM A 100-ton mech is the ultimate fishing machine. With upcoming titles like Steelhead Battalion and Cthulhu Karts, it's possible that Schadenfreude Interactive might be the next game industry juggernaut. Or they may be an April Fool's prank spotted in the pages of the April issue of Computer Games. If You're Happy and You Know It...If You're Happy and You Know It... 08/11/2004 01:58 PM Cisco's warning casts a pall over the entire technology industry. What took 'em so long? One happy, one sadOne happy, one sad 01/30/2004 02:04 AM Two things before breakfast, one happy, one sad. Happy: Downloadable MP3s from The Paris Review - including a great story by George Plimpton, read by himself. Sad: Weblog DDoS attacks, happening in the wild. not only there but here, and... .HAPPY.HAPPY 02/10/2004 03:00 AM The issue was a misnamed Form variable. :)~ Saw it in the first 5 mintues this morning. A fresh head always helps. .NET's code behind feature is great. I getting used to using it properly. One pet peeve. I learned VB purely from the Microsoft Documentation and a couple of books. The code samples are too complex in .Net's documentation. They need to provide smaller pieces of functionality. For example, to describe creating a web component, they try and take you through an entire application. Not very XPish of them. too much clutter. All I need for an example, is an example of the component and the component being embedded in the page. All the rest confuses the issue. Happy New Year to allHappy New Year to all 12/31/2003 07:20 PM InternetRetailer.com Dec 31 2003 6:12PM ET Happy New Year !Happy New Year ! 01/01/2004 03:18 AM Well we all made it through another year here at ActiveNetwork and our entire staff would like to thank all our viewers for your continued support since our conception back in 1997. With all the additions over the years we think we have certainly come a long way since then. happy new year!happy new year! 01/01/2004 11:07 AM I got to Madrid okay yesterday, but, in the end, I couldn't get the modem connection to work properly... and in truth I didn't spend that much time with it (I fixed that a few minutes ago problems with a DHCP connection that required some fixed TCP/IP settings)... ... but now we're about to leave, so I'll be brief: Happy 2004 everyone! PS: Digital life resumes tomorrow afternoon, after I get back to Dublin. :) HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 01/01/2004 05:09 PM Some Fun: Information Security Predictions for 2004! "happy ending""happy ending" 05/21/2004 03:49 AM An IT director's lot is not a happy oneAn IT director's lot is not a happy one 07/06/2004 01:18 PM Tense, nervous headache Happy New WormHappy New Worm 01/02/2004 03:42 PM ZDNet Jan 2 2004 3:27PM ET "Happy Independence Day""Happy Independence Day" 07/05/2004 02:40 PM "Browse Happy""Browse Happy" 08/23/2004 02:43 AM happy pencilhappy pencil 07/07/2004 09:27 AM happy pencil [note: flash, safe for work, portfolio] Happy Father's Day, Dad!Happy Father's Day, Dad! 06/22/2005 02:37 AM I'd like to take a moment on this beautiful Sunday morning to wish my dad a Happy Father's Day. I... Happy 2004!Happy 2004! 12/31/2003 09:37 PM Chances are, it's already 2004 where you live, or it will be in a few short hours. Here's to a happy New Year, full of geekery, a bit of gamin', and most importantly, family and friends. Happy B-Day Gary!Happy B-Day Gary! 08/07/2004 07:21 PM
I didn't find out about Gary Turner's b-day through Ryze, some classmates knock-off or even an email. I found out about it through RSS, which (I assume) he posted initially at Flickr and which then ricocheted into his blog. So first of all - congrats to Gary (hopefully I'll get to meet him Sept. 13th), and congrats to Stewart and the team at Ludicorp for evolving Flickr into what it is today. At first glance I thought of Flickr a predominanly an IM your photo kind of RIA. But it's much more than that. The Calendaring, the PhotoRSS, the Fotonotes, a more coming - I'm sure. Happy Sys Admin Day!Happy Sys Admin Day! 07/30/2004 05:05 AM Today is the 5th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day! Time to think of those who keep our favorite sites running. Happy HolidayHappy Holiday 12/25/2003 12:51 PM For those of us with ass jobs have a good day off until getting back to the grindstone tomorrow. Happy New Year!Happy New Year! 12/31/2003 04:59 PM Happy BirthdayHappy Birthday 07/08/2004 02:00 PM Happy Holidays.............Happy Holidays............. 12/24/2003 02:29 PM Happy Holidays from me to you! (yes that's me many many christmas's ago) funky huh? :)... Happy Birthday, D&DHappy Birthday, D&D 08/19/2004 11:42 AM BoingBoing reader Ateo says: Dungeons & Dragons turns 30 this year and tonight is the start of GenCon too. NPR did a story, and Gamespy is doing tons of articles on the history of the game this week as well.Link to the official D&D site Happy CommodoresHappy Commodores 08/20/2004 08:16 PM USA Today Aug 21 2004 0:52AM GMT Happy HolidaysHappy Holidays 12/18/2003 03:29 PM Mark Litchfield (Dec 18 2003) Happy 4th.. err... 5th of JulyHappy 4th.. err... 5th of July 07/05/2004 12:58 AM Even though yesterday was the "real" July 4th, today is a legal holiday for U.S. residents so most NewsForge staff people are taking the day off. We're updating NewsVacs, but that's about it. See you tomorrow! "Happy Earth Day""Happy Earth Day" 04/23/2004 10:59 AM Happy Earth Day!Happy Earth Day! 04/22/2004 05:32 PM happy birthday, camhappy birthday, cam 04/14/2004 02:41 PM gotta give it up for one of the OG bloggers Happy Spamiversary!Happy Spamiversary! 04/13/2004 11:46 PM Happy spamiversaryHappy spamiversary 04/12/2004 06:02 AM Ten years after the Internet first woke up to unsolicited marketing attacks, outrage has been replaced by growing resignation. But the war rages on. Mailsmith HappyMailsmith Happy 02/10/2004 02:45 AM
I used Mailsmith 1.0 and 1.5 when OS X was first released, because Apple's Mail.app was utterly horrible, and I received a free NFR copy because I was working for a small Macintosh news site at the time... and Bare Bones saw fit to give us a copy for review... so I reviewed it and fell in love (the review was never published). But then, Apple's Mail got better with Jaguar, and even better with Panther, but this past week something in Mail broke. I don't know why or what and can't really explain the problems I'm having with Mail other than to say that after reading and deleting 4-5 emails, Mail.app crashes for no apparent reason. Happens every time I fire it up. And the Junk-mail filters just quit working, so now, I'm getting 100+ junk mails in my in-box... perhaps MyDoom is to blame for Mail.app crapping out on me... So, I figured I'd switch back over to Mailsmith until I could figure out the problem with Mail.app. Within 5 minutes of using Mailsmith 1.5, I was in love again (and yes, I love BBEdit, and I think that's what drives my fascination with Mailsmith). So, I zipped over to Bare Bones.com to buy the latest version of Mailsmith, and guess what? It comes free with SpamSieve from Michael Tsai, too. Woohoo! And now, I'm Mailsmith happy again, and not getting any more spam, and loving it. I guess the coolest part is that Mailsmith 2.x picked up all of my old 1.5 settings and preferences, and imported all of my email from Mail.app with no problems... And now I don't have to read HTML email anymore either. What a bonus. Thanks Bare Bones. And no, folks, I don't think $99 is too much to pay for a mail client, espectially when you work 'in your email client' as much as I do. Further Reading: You Have New Mail [from daringfireball.net] and True Confessions of a Mailsmith Switcher [from Tidbits] Happy Cog 3.0 (Creme)Happy Cog 3.0 (Creme) 04/09/2004 04:09 PM Presenting Happy Cog 3.0, code-named "creme." Do Not Taunt Happy Fun BagDo Not Taunt Happy Fun Bag 02/12/2004 11:26 AM There's no better party favor than a free-range breast implant, according to Pessimistic.Com. Especially for men: "One by one they explored the unknown territory of breast ownership, previously inhabited only by women." (02-12) Happy Valentine's DayHappy Valentine's Day 02/14/2004 12:13 PM  Love is all that
matters.
(image: a snapshot I
took at Burning Man 2003 -- full size here). bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game.shtml Sony Begins Handheld-Game Adventure
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 The
Idea: Author
Laura Kipnis argues that monogamy is unnatural and unhealthy, and
possibly complicit in our emotional detachment from political life and
our ecosystem as well.Laura Kipnis, despite the title of of her 200-page "polemic", is not Against Love. Rather, she's against the trappings, the rules, the rituals that our culture imposes on love relationships. She goes even further -- she sees marriage, the institution, as every bit as repressive, suffocating and unnatural as our mind-numbing employment in modern hierarchical organizations, and draws strong parallels between the slavery of the workplace and the slavery of the matrimonial home. These two canons of civilization: our need and responsibility to devote our daytime hours to meaningless subordinate labour, and our need and responsibility to devote the rest of our hours to boring, stifling and unsatisfying monogamy, work together diabolically to keep us suppressed, and in our 'place' in society. Small wonder, she says, that one of our most enduring conventional wisdoms is that "a good marriage takes work". If this protestation against the rigours of monogamy, fidelity and marriage-slavery as the complement to wage-slavery sounds familiar, it's because it's very similar to the argument that Glenn Parton made in his essay posted first on these pages last year entitled "Love Politics". Glenn's argument is that we have become so emotionally numbed by our twin bondage to job and marriage that it has made our hearts cold and hard, uncaring of the plight of our planet and of others, and that this is a direct cause of the destruction of our world. "If I'm miserable, why should I care about anyone else?" Dare to love more than one person, he suggests, and the shackles of this self-imposed imprisonment are broken, and the inrush of emotion will shock us into awareness of, and eagerness to heal, the massive emotional and physical illness of our entire planet. Why should we, why do we subject ourselves to this one-love-partner-slavery as easily and as passively as we do to wage-slavery? This is the subject of much of Ms. Kipnis' book. Her prose is so adept and so powerful I won't attempt to paraphrase her arguments. Here are a few teasers: Is it the persistence of the
work
ethic that ties us to the compassionate couple and its workaday
regimes, or is it the ethos of compassionate coupledom that ties us to
sould-deadening work regimes...Resenting the boss? Feeling bored or
overworked or dissatisfied? Getting complaints about your attitude?
Whether it's "on the relationship" or "on the job" get yourself right
to the therapist's office, pronto. There are only two possible
diagnoses for all such modern ailments: it's going to be either
"intimacy issues" or "authority issues". You'll soon discover that the
disease doubles as the prescription at this clinic: You're just going
to have to "work harder on yourself"...
Take the modern consumer. Clearly, routing desire into consumption would be necessary to sustain a consumer society -- a citizenry who fucked in lieu of shopping would soon bring the entire economy grinding to a standstill. Or better still, take the modern depressive. What a boon to both the modern pharmaceutical and the social-harmony industries that such a social type would be. These are merely hypotheticals of course, since it's not as if we live in a society of consumers and depressives, or as if the best strategy for the latter weren't widely held to be strategically indulging in the former -- "retail therapy"...Love's proper denouement, matrimony, is also of course the social form regulated by the state, which refashions itself as a benevolent pharmacist, doling out the addictive substance in licensed doses...What about re-envisioning [marriage] or... insisting that social resources and privileges not be allocated on the basis of marital status? No. let's demand regulation! Not that it's easy to re-envision anything when these intersections of love and acquiescence are the very backbone of the modern self, when every iota of self-worth and identity hinge on them...Domestic coupledom is the boot camp for compliant citizenship, a training ground for gluey resignation and immobility... Ms. Kipnis suggests the same lack of innovation that permeates the workplace in the 21st century also permeates domestic institutions: Different social norms could
entail something entirely different: yearly renewable contracts for
example. And if we weren't so emotionally yoked to the social forms
we've inherited that trying to envision different ways of having a
love
life seems intellectually impossible and even absurd, who knows what
other options might present themselves?...It behooves [our] society to
convince its citizenry that wanting change means personal failure,
starting over is shameful, and wanting more satisfaction than you have
is illegitimate...As love has increasingly become the center of all
emotional expression in the modern imagination -- the quantity without
which life seems forlorn -- anxiety about obtaining it in sufficient
quantities and for sufficient duration has increased to the point that
that anxiety suffuses the population, and most of our cultural
forms...Uncoupling [then] can only be experienced as ego-crushing
crisis and inadequacy...[and] the grief of failed love is exacerbated
by inevitable feelings of personal failure...
Much of the latter part of the book is focused on the psychological
gymnastics of all three (or more) parties in the polygon of adultery,
from the rationalization that hiding the affair is to protect the
feelings of the cuckold, to the feelings of self-hatred and
self-flagellation of the 'sinner(s)'. She also discusses the awkward
mechanics of the ultimate break-up of either the marriage or the
affair
(or both), and the degree to which children of the relationship become
hostages, or excuses for deception, or excuses for the boredom that
gave rise to the deception. Of course the book also talks about famous
infidelities in high political circles, and the twisted hypocrisy of
conservatives' opposition to same-sex marriage, as well as the
equal-opportunity-for-misery desire of lesbians and gays to gain
access
to the sad and repressive regulation of 'official' marriage rather
than
'settling for' merely the legal and resource rights that come with
equivalent-to-married status. And there's also a discussion of the
pragmatic phenomenon of "serial monogamy" -- the fall-back that
there's
nothing wrong with marriage per
se, it's just that we were all married to the wrong person. All of this is complicated (even more) by the emergence of the Two-Income Trap, which imposes a financial prison on top of the emotional one in marriage. We have to stay together because we can't afford to live apart. I am convinced that this one factor is overwhelmingly responsible for keeping the rate of divorce from reaching astronomical levels. It is also probably helpful in keeping birth rates in the West below replacement levels -- Not only can we not afford children, we certainly don't want any (or any more) with the spouse we're economically shackled to. And having one with the secret love is just too messy. In my recent article predicting a baby boom, perhaps I underestimated the sheer perverseness of a socioeconomic system that not only makes parenthood financially reckless, it also suppresses fertility rates by its expressed moral repugnance for having a child by someone other than your boring spouse. A lot of people, some of their own free will, and many more who have been pushed, have recently broken free of wage slavery and are now working, mostly for much less income, for themselves. That's probably a good thing in many ways -- it reduces the supply of the remaining wage slaves, which might actually, in time, allow them to bargain from a position of at least a bit of power. It increases self-sufficiency. It reduces excessive consumption. What if there were a similar revolution against marriage slavery? What if a whole generation just refused to define themselves (in more ways than one) as married, or to live with the constraints of monogamy, and instead opted for a polyamory life-style? Paternity 'rights' and responsibilities would both probably suffer, as the new family unit would be a woman (or possibly, and more logically, a group of women, in self-selected community) and their children. They would have the power, and could strike whatever contract they chose with males who wanted the responsibilities and privileges of fatherhood. The nuclear family and the 'single-family dwelling' would disappear. Conjugal relations would not attach to parental responsibility, and could be negotiated between any two people as individuals on a one-shot basis, with no responsibility other than the responsibility to prevent unwanted pregnancy and disease. This would probably be bad for the oldest profession, as the supply/demand ratio for quick couplings would soar. Jealousy and the consequent domestic violence that is the scourge of our nuclear spouse-as-property society would, slowly (old habits die hard), disappear. I think the vast majority of men, driven by million-year-old biological imperatives, once they reached a certain age, would choose to attach themselves to one of the matriarchal communities (if so invited), and would do their share to provide for its well-being, in return for the company and sense of purpose that would bring. We are told it takes a village, a community, to raise a child. Perhaps the community is necessary, and sufficient, for far more: To break us all free from both the emotionally numbing subjugation of wage-slavery and the misery and boredom of marriage-slavery. The community would then become truly self-sufficient in every respect, and we would be happier and freer than we can, or dare, imagine. Cartoon: By Peter Steiner from The New Yorker, in the Cartoon Bank |
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