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End of the Animal Kingdom

End of the Animal Kingdom 12/21/2003 01:19 PM

It turns out the wackily ponderous movie made in Pompignan last year (shooting of which complained about here, brief review by Herself of hometown showing here) isn’t going straight to TV after all – we’d heard it was going to show on Arte sometime around now – it’s been rele ased in cinemas.

If you’re near a major French city and possessed of nothing better to do, you can head out see our very own little red-haired kid in his star turn as “little red-headed kid in schoolhouse”, Noël the vigneron as “guy in baseball cap”, the old guy on a bicycle leading his white horse down the main street as he does every day, lots of purdy haute garrigue scenery, and much else besides, in a largely unsatisfying study of longing, sensuality, death and sheep.

It’s not that bad. In many ways it’s like a two-hour love letter to our little village.

"there is homosexual behavior in the
animal kingdom"

"there is homosexual behavior in the
animal kingdom" 02/10/2004 03:20 AM

Cologne bomb may not have been
terrorists

Cologne bomb may not have been
terrorists 06/10/2004 01:10 PM

Are we borrowing too much?

Are we borrowing too much? 07/29/2004 04:45 AM
The Bank of England is set to reveal on Thursday how much money UK consumers owe. Send us your comments and experiences.

UK ID cards: Not as unpopular as you
might think

UK ID cards: Not as unpopular as you
might think 04/16/2004 03:30 AM
Silicon.com Apr 16 2004 7:47AM GMT

Ethical Wi-Fi Borrowing

Ethical Wi-Fi Borrowing 02/10/2004 02:40 AM
The Ethicist endorses borrowing a neighbor's Wi-Fi signal: In a fairly one-sided debate of the issues, the mention of Time-Warner's Roadrunner threat letters to purposeful Wi-Fi sharers aside, The New York Times's columnist Randy Cohen says that unless you inconvenience the unintentional service provider you're borrowing from, you're not going to ethical heck. His summary of Time-Warner's issue is specious, though. The company argues, in effect, that while you may have a glass of water at a neighbor's, you may not run a pipe from his place to yours. Actually, because the service is unmetered, it's more like saying, we're providing you unlimited water for personal use, and guests are okay, but you can't run a pipe to a neighbor's house. (Cohen quotes Mike Godwin, the formulator of Godwin's Law, which is infallibly accurate.) (I like the sound of "unintentional provider." I've been trying to find a term to cover the difference between community wireless nodes run by individuals who aren't necessarily bound to keep them running and community wireless nodes and other free nodes that are designed and "advertised" as available all the time. I was thinking purposely persistent provider, but perhaps the distinction is "unintentional provider" and "intentional provider.") [Nods to Cory D. for prompting this digression.]...

UK borrowing 'set to increase'

UK borrowing 'set to increase' 06/02/2004 02:20 AM
Britons plan to borrow more money than they save in the second quarter of this year, research by the Alliance and Leicester shows.

Microsoft Borrowing From Apple Again?

Microsoft Borrowing From Apple Again? 10/29/2003 12:13 AM

Want to Be Unpopular? Start With a
Cellphone

Want to Be Unpopular? Start With a
Cellphone 06/28/2004 11:00 PM
A backlash has formed against cellphone talk on trains, planes, buses and in other public spaces.

Postponement plan unpopular

Postponement plan unpopular 07/13/2004 12:09 PM

[s2n] Borrowing or stealing panel

[s2n] Borrowing or stealing panel 04/08/2005 12:47 PM
Terry Fisher runs a panel. Bill Alford wrote a book about the Chinese views of "intellectual property," called To Steal a Book Is an Elegant Offense. He says that the Chinese have a sense of the past as a living, shared context. One makes one's mark not by breaking from the past (as our Romantic geniuses do) but by making it one's own. "Copying doesn't carry the same dark implications as in the West." Unfortunately, I missed most of what Matthew Pearl, author of The Dante Club, had to say. When I came in, he was speaking charmingly about noticing...

Back by unpopular demand

Back by unpopular demand 12/22/2004 01:34 AM
Come next month, Bush's Inauguration Day approval ratings may be the worst of any president in modern-day history.

Treasury cuts estimate of U.S. borrowing

Treasury cuts estimate of U.S. borrowing 05/03/2004 04:33 PM

Unpopular boy makes valedictory speech

Unpopular boy makes valedictory speech 12/28/2003 05:23 AM
an account of a valedictory speech .. "A lot of you were jerks." .. Revenge of the Nerds

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Oppression & Expolitation Unpopular
Shock!

Oppression & Expolitation Unpopular
Shock! 04/25/2004 03:26 PM
The Wal-Mart Myth (or, why higher wages mean higher profits.)

Idea shelves borrowing plan on DOT
objection

Idea shelves borrowing plan on DOT
objection 04/15/2005 04:39 AM
ZDNet India Apr 15 2005 7:50AM GMT

Borrowing From Biology to Make Nano
Railroads

Borrowing From Biology to Make Nano
Railroads 05/27/2004 06:11 PM
Space.com May 27 2004 9:20PM GMT

California Pays Dearly for All That
Borrowing (Los Angeles Times)

California Pays Dearly for All That
Borrowing (Los Angeles Times) 07/24/2004 04:56 AM
Los Angeles Times - California has paid $230.7 million in fees to Wall Street investment firms over the last year — a largely hidden cost to taxpayers of the huge borrowings needed to keep state government afloat.

Ditching Copy Protection Increases
Profits... For Unpopular Artists

Ditching Copy Protection Increases
Profits... For Unpopular Artists 07/30/2004 07:09 AM
Ernest Miller points to a very interesting study on the impact of copy protection on profits for online music stores selling downloads. The study finds that the optimal (most profits) amount of copy protection is none in cases where a band is not hugely popular. In cases where the musical act is extremely popular and there are "network externalities," then (the study claims) it makes more sense to put in some DRM, basically because people will make an extra effort and deal with that "cost" just to have the music. It's an interesting study and even notes BMG's recent decision to offer tiered CD pricing to support the findings. Questions can be raised, though, over how accurate the results really are, in that it appears there are many other factors that would come into play. In a world where most artists have no copy protection (since most artists, at least as they start out, won't have the popularity levels to make copy protection worth while), suddenly any artist who does go with copy protection is seen as being much less fan-friendly, which is likely to impact those externalities, dropping the artists' popularity, and perhaps making it unwise for them to use copy protection. Either way, copy protection is an offering that is specifically, and purposely consumer unfriendly. It serves no additional value, but makes a product worse, decreasing its value. All this study is showing is that there may be some cases where the overall value of the copy protection outweighs the negative impact of the copy protection itself, but those are likely to be fairly few and far between.

Listen In: Insight Out: Simplified
music-sharing debate, unpopular
subscriptions, Starbucks as tastemaker

Listen In: Insight Out: Simplified
music-sharing debate, unpopular
subscriptions, Starbucks as tastemaker 04/12/2005 09:00 PM
The NY Times simplifies file-sharing discussion, survey finds little support for subscription music services, and Starbucks as a musical tastemaker.

Virtual Reality made easy: at Photokina
2004 in Cologne, more3D will introduce
morpheus3 mobile, a new universal and
yet mobile 3D projection system that
works on any white wall with any 3D
content.

Virtual Reality made easy: at Photokina
2004 in Cologne, more3D will introduce
morpheus3 mobile, a new universal and
yet mobile 3D projection system that
works on any white wall with any 3D
content. 08/28/2004 02:44 AM
Combining two internationally patented technologies, more3D has created a compelling and powerful device that enables true 3D stereo projection not only onto any enironment with a white surface, but also using almost any 3D application, 3D video or stereo image material. [PRWEB Aug 28, 2004]

The Kingdom Of God Is Within You

The Kingdom Of God Is Within You 06/17/2004 10:14 AM
Dear Leo, Dear Mohandas "The longer I live -- especially now when I clearly feel the approach of death -- the more I feel moved to express what I feel more strongly than anything else... the doctrine of the law of love unperverted by sophistries. Love... the highest and indeed the only law of life". The Kingdom of God Is Within You (full text available) is Leo Tolstoy's tractatus of "Christianity Not as a Mystic Religion but as a New Theory of Life", a primer of (among other things) the doctrine of non-violence. Among the many fans of the 1894 book was an impr isoned Hindu barrister, a "half-naked fakir" if you want, a certain Mo handas K. Gandhi who was fascinated by "t he independent thinking, profound morality, and the truthfulness" of the b ook. So he ended up writing fan letters to the great Russian man: who warmly wrote back to his young Indian "friend and brother". The old wise Christian anarchist literary giant and the shy, insecure young man who sparked a revolution: to paraphrase another wise, badly-dressed , pacifist old man, "Generations to come, it may be, will scarcely believe that such men ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth."

possum kingdom

possum kingdom 06/17/2005 04:28 PM
I signed, and Anne helped me pack, label, and stamp the remaining fundraiser book orders this weekend. We just got...

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom 01/03/2004 07:20 PM

I finally got around to reading Cory Doctorow's novella, "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom." It's quite good, and he's got it posted for free on his Web site (in no less than 17 different formats). You may know Doctorow know from Boing Boing fame.

If you've been to the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World in Orlando, the book will mean more to you because it revolves around the park. It's set in a future where bodies are cloned and if you die, you just restore a clone from backup. Consequently, you lose everything since your last backup. I have to admit that I'll never look at backups quite the same way again.

Another central concept (borrowed from blogrolls, perhaps), is "Whuffie." There is no money in this world, everything is bought by reputation. The more people like you, the more Whuffie you have, the more power you have. When you meet someone new, you "ping their Whuffie," to see if they're worth your time.

The actual plot revolves around The Haunted Mansion at the Magic Kingdom and the "ad hoc" political groups that have formed to manage them like little countries. The group managing the Hall of Presidents has designs on taking over The Haunted Mansion. Intrigue ensues.

It's short — you can put it away in a couple of hours. It's winning some great sci-fi awards as well. Worth checking out.

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Honors for Down and Out in the Magic
Kingdom

Honors for Down and Out in the Magic
Kingdom 12/14/2003 11:01 PM
My novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, has made the Amazon and Chapters/Indigo editors' picks lists for best science fiction novels of 2003. Also, it's only three recommendations short of making the preliminary Nebula ballot (any SFWA members out there who dug the book?). Oh yah, and the Livejournal people are considering adding Whuffie to their system. Killer news, all 'round. (Thanks, Amanda and Bo and Micah!)

Books on MP3: Down and Out in the Magic
Kingdom

Books on MP3: Down and Out in the Magic
Kingdom 04/13/2004 05:10 PM
I watch the Internet Archive's Open Source Audio area for material that could be used for legal remixes including spoken word audio. In wonderful news, this morning's postings include Andrew Levine's audio reading of the first chapter to Cory Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. The book had been available online under a somewhat restrictive CC in text format for a while but Cory recently loosened the reins and the artistic community seems to be responding.

"people it's somehow understandable how
some people might be driven to kill
"activist" Judges who make unpopular
decisions"

"people it's somehow understandable how
some people might be driven to kill
"activist" Judges who make unpopular
decisions" 04/06/2005 03:07 AM

Pickup Games, Vol. 4 - Kingdom of
Loathing

Pickup Games, Vol. 4 - Kingdom of
Loathing 06/17/2004 07:33 PM

MATT GALLANT -- Today's pickup game is a web game— that is, one implemented entirely through HTML and Javascript that's generated by a lot of clever server-side scripting and database manipulation. It's Kingdom of Loathing, a turn-based RPG. The main focus of the game is humor, with send-ups of popular RPG conventions, as well as internet culture. But unlike a lot of other comical games you can play over the internet, the game underneath the humor is actually very full-featured and has a lot of content. A lot of very funny content.

Click the MORE link below, or suffer a joyless life bereft of comfort or understanding, like a dog in a museum.

"Divided Kingdom" by Rupert Thomson

"Divided Kingdom" by Rupert Thomson 06/24/2005 07:30 PM
Part literary fiction, part social satire, this genre-bender from the author of "The Book of Revelation" offers a unique look at modern Britain.

Tocando fondo en el Magic Kingdom

Tocando fondo en el Magic Kingdom 06/24/2004 09:39 AM
There's a collaborative project underway to translate my novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom into Spanish. The core volunteers have put their efforts to date on a Wiki so that others can play along. Link (¡Gracis, Francisco!)

Does Google Hold the Key to the Internet
Kingdom?

Does Google Hold the Key to the Internet
Kingdom? 09/16/2002 08:41 AM
Google is considered to be the search engine with the largest reach on the Internet. Indeed, the company's ever-expanding breadth, depth and consumer reach lead to the question: How does Google's role as a major gateway to Internet content affect users?

Masai, Whites and Wildlife: No Peaceable
Kingdom

Masai, Whites and Wildlife: No Peaceable
Kingdom 09/22/2004 02:28 AM
Masai herders in Kenya have begun cutting fences and marching their livestock onto the private ranchland of white settlers, where wildlife thrives.

A Reality TV Twist as Kingdom Bares Its
Secrets

A Reality TV Twist as Kingdom Bares Its
Secrets 04/15/2004 02:31 AM
New York Times Apr 15 2004 6:55AM GMT

Sun Strikes Software Deal With United
Kingdom

Sun Strikes Software Deal With United
Kingdom 12/08/2003 01:10 AM

His Former Kingdom for a Parking Spot
(Los Angeles Times)

His Former Kingdom for a Parking Spot
(Los Angeles Times) 07/13/2004 05:13 AM
Los Angeles Times - RIGA, Latvia — The conqueror stands conquered in a parking lot.

lifelines.html'Alipio: Wanted: Servants
in the kingdom

lifelines.html'Alipio: Wanted: Servants
in the kingdom 04/09/2004 04:10 PM
Sun Star Network Apr 9 2004 1:03PM GMT

Saudi's Al-Jubeir: Al Qaeda Weakened in
Kingdom

Saudi's Al-Jubeir: Al Qaeda Weakened in
Kingdom 06/19/2004 04:48 PM
Reuters via Wired News Jun 19 2004 7:43PM GMT

Apple Holds Keys To Music Kingdom

Apple Holds Keys To Music Kingdom 06/19/2004 11:01 PM
I have seen the future of music on the net -- and it works. It's the Apple iTunes store. By John Naughton, The Observer (via MyAppleMenu)

Osler's Bob Bell moving to the United
Kingdom

Osler's Bob Bell moving to the United
Kingdom 03/24/2005 11:38 PM
Canadian Healthcare Technology Mar 25 2005 4:17AM GMT
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