John Perry Barlow now has a blog
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John Perry Barlow 2.0.
John Perry Barlow 2.0.
08/14/2004 03:14 PMReason:
John
Perry Barlow 2.0. "We’ve got two distinct strains of
libertarianism, and the hippie-mystic strain is not engaging in
politics, and the Ayn Rand strain is basically dismantling government
in a way that is giving complete open field running to multinational
corporatism."
"John Perry Barlow"
"John Perry Barlow"
08/01/2004 08:33 AMJohn Perry Barlow on Spalding Gray
John Perry Barlow on Spalding Gray
01/17/2004 10:43 PM A sad, funny, beautiful response to Spalding Gray's absence....
Reason interviews John Perry Barlow
Reason interviews John Perry Barlow
08/12/2004 04:36 PMReason has published the best interview with John Perry
Barlow I've read. He talks about becoming a reality TV star, a
Democrat, and getting busted for marijuana possession at an airport.
I have grave misgivings about John Kerry, but I certainly don’t
have misgivings about Kerry that equal the terror I have about another
four years of Bush. What he’s done to aspects of the
Constitution that are there to assure individual rights is
breathtakingly bad.
...
I had a conversation with Kerry. It was pretty disheartening. I
asked how he felt about civil liberties. He said, "I’m for
’em!" That’s great, but how do you feel about Section 215
of the Patriot Act? He said, "What’s that?" I said, it basically
says any privately generated database is available for public scrutiny
with an administrative subpoena. He says, "It says that?" I say, "You
voted for it!"
LinkJohn Perry Barlow: From Burning Man To
Running Man
John Perry Barlow: From Burning Man To
Running Man
11/02/2003 07:35 AMdisinfo.com/site/displayarticle887.html
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Reason: John Perry Barlow 2.0: The
Thomas Jefferson of cyberspace reinvents
his body -- and his politics.
Reason: John Perry Barlow 2.0: The
Thomas Jefferson of cyberspace reinvents
his body -- and his politics.
08/13/2004 01:46 AMReason: John Perry Barlow 2.0: The Thomas Jefferson of cyberspace
reinvents his body -- and his
politics
reason.com/0408/fe.bd.john.shtml
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John Perry Barlow's new bl0g
John Perry Barlow's new bl0g
12/20/2003 07:37 AMBarlowFriendz
barlow.typepad.com
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John Perry Barlow's Trial Commences
John Perry Barlow's Trial Commences
12/17/2004 06:42 PM
John Perry Barlow's trial commences and is commented upon
by Seth David Schoen. A most interesting paragraph was:
"First follow-up question: If you think a bottle contains an
improvised explosive device, is it appropriate to shake it?
No, that's almost the worst thing you can do.
Second: Is it appropriate to open the bottle?
No, that's the worst thing you can do.
The defense then argued that Ms. Ramos could not really have believed
that the ibuprofen bottle in question contained an improved[sic]
explosive device, because she had testified that, on removing it from
Barlow's bag, she became suspicious of it, then shook it, and then
opened it. These actions were the most dangerous actions she could
possibly have taken if she really believed that the bottle might
contain explosives..."
Followup for
this
post.
John Perry Barlow's experience with VoIP
John Perry Barlow's experience with VoIP
12/27/2003 05:24 AMIt is very nice to see when someone has a similar experience with VoIp
as I have. The only difference...
RNC-NYC: report from John Perry Barlow's
dance protests
RNC-NYC: report from John Perry Barlow's
dance protests
09/01/2004 05:11 PM
Xeni Jardin:
Follow-up on this previous BoingBoing post from Cory:
Link. As he steps out the door to "lead another sortie of dancing
fools out into the streets of Manhattan," John Perry Barlow reports on
the dance protests he's been organizing this week in NYC:
After four missions, Dancing in the Streets has exceeded my fondest
expectations. It was my objective, as it usually is, that we afflict
the comfortable and comfort the afflicted, and this is what we have
been doing by all appearances. We generally make the credentialed
Republicans we encounter visibly nervous and spread good will and
humor to most of the rest, including the police, who could well use it
at the moment. People dig it when they see other people dancing in
incongruous places. The most surprising people will join in, falling
on the dance with a kind of hunger.
Republicans were hard to encounter at first. They are being
quarantined behind the blue membrane of the NYPD (for whom my
affection and respect has only increased through this experience). In
addition, they spend much of their time inside the Garden having a lot
less fun than we were. (As several of them told us.) Levels of
engagement have increased with fine-tuning. The results vary, ranging
from the Stepford husband whom we made so nervous that he walked into
a plate glass window to the sweet young delegate from Oklahoma who
tore off his tie and joined us for the balance of the evening.
We've had many interactions with the police. They certainly weren't
interested in arresting us, though they kept us moving. Several of
them said wistfully they wanted to join us. In general they only
interfered because they are trying to maintain as familiar a peace as
they can. Major variations from standard reality worry them. But not
enough to go maximum on us.
Link
"John Kerry for President Blog"
"John Kerry for President Blog"
03/08/2004 11:17 PMJohn Kerry for President Blog
John Kerry for President Blog
02/16/2004 11:54 PMSomething interesting .. John Kerry's
campaign
blog.johnkerry.com/sphere.html
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John Carmack's Blog - Recent Updates
John Carmack's Blog - Recent Updates
01/04/2005 09:18 AMId Software has started a blog .. John Carmack's got a
blog
armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/johnc/Recent%20Updates
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Understanding and Reading a Blog -- John
C. Dvorak
Understanding and Reading a Blog -- John
C. Dvorak
12/22/2004 01:06 AMUnderstanding and Reading a Blog (for Newcomers) .. John Dvorak has
your answers .. How to read a
weblog
dvorak.org/blog/primer/blogprimer1.htm
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John Cox's Blog: paFaq Multiple
Vulnerabilities
John Cox's Blog: paFaq Multiple
Vulnerabilities
06/22/2005 02:48 AMJohn Cox has posted a new security issue with the
paFaq FAQ/knowledge base
system from the
PHP
Security Mailing List today.
I have never used paFAQ, and in fact, I had
never heard of the application until today. However, in this security
announcement there is a very good explanation about how a SQL
Injection problem occurs:
The variable $username is taken directly from the submitted login form
and executed in the query, so if magic quotes gpc is off an attacker
can use UNION SELECT to bypass admin authentication!
He also notes that it seems like a lot of developers don't
quite understand what make a SQL injection and why they can be so
dangerous. He recommends this
article from Steve Friedl as a good resource. Also of note, the
response of the paFAQ
developers - none. They didn't respond or issue a new version on their
site (or even an announcement, for that matter). Definitely the wrong
way to handle it...
John Carmack's archived plan files
become bl0g
John Carmack's archived plan files
become bl0g
09/04/2004 10:03 AM
Xeni Jardin:
An anonymous BoingBoing reader writes, "This is a sort of retro blog.
I took John Carmack's archived plan files (finger johnc [at]
idsoftware.com) and put them into blog style, and will continue to do
so (I have plans starting from 1997)."
Link
French porn director John Root now has a
bl0g
French porn director John Root now has a
bl0g
11/16/2003 11:36 AMFamous French adult film director John B. Root,
nee John
Guillore, has launched a self-described "sexblog" about his life and
the porn biz:
Inkorrekt, the Diary of a Pornographer. Not
long ago, Root was the author of an open letter protesting a French
ban on TV porn organized by right-wing and "family values"groups.
"Porn's subject matter is physical love, a theme that has produced
countless masterpieces in painting, in sculpture and in literature,"
wrote Root.
"If celluloid sex has never succeeded in hoisting itself to the rank
of a cinematographic or televisual genre, it is because we have denied
it the right to be economically viable. We wouldn't be having this
debate if porn was what it should be: joyous, well-made, aphrodisiac
art, respectful of its actors and its audience, portraying real people
and making sense of its subject matter."
Link to John B.
Root's blog (written in French, and not worksafe),
Link to Guardian interview with Root (snip:
"There's no earthly reason why a porn film shouldn't also be a good
film. I want the product to respect me." )
"Recycler's bl0g where the video of John
Forbes Kerry's daughters are booed"
"Recycler's bl0g where the video of John
Forbes Kerry's daughters are booed"
08/31/2004 03:06 PMBarlow
Barlow
08/14/2004 11:39 AMWhether you like him or he drives you nuts, John Perry Barlow is
incapable of being boring. From his interview with Reason, on reality
TV, intellectual propetry, and his decision to leave the Republican
party: "If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an
intellectually regressive system that...
Barlow Farms
Barlow Farms
01/22/2004 02:13 AMFunked up remix of recent Dean speech .. The first Howard Dean remix
comes in .. Dean's speech set to music .. Barlow Farms .. re-mix ..
music .. best
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Barlow in Blogospace...
Barlow in Blogospace...
01/07/2004 02:18 PMHere I am, in the lobby of the highly attitudinal W Hotel in San
Francisco, creating my very first blog entry. Joichi Ito, a blog
sensei if ever there was one, is introducing me to the Blogosphere.
I'm wary. Am I too old a dog to blog? Am I actually too sick of things
virtual to plunge myself deeper into electronic immateriality? We'll
see. But, I am motivated. For years, I've been sending out BarlowSpams
and then privately enjoying the responses, both from friendz and
friendz of friendz. Now I will have a place to pass to these on to our
little community and, with luck, grow this into something besides my
own little personality cult....
Audio Barlow
Audio Barlow
03/06/2004 01:59 AM The audio blog of the Berkman center has an interview with John Perry
Barlow about the future and present of ideas...a reflection on his
"Economy of Ideas" article in Wired ten years ago....
Perry for Kerry
Perry for Kerry
08/13/2004 12:18 AM
A Libertarian
for Kerry. John Perry Barlow, co-founder of the
EFF and a former campaign manager for
Dick Cheney, is taking his libertarianism into the Democratic camp.
"...we need something -- and I think it’s governmental -- to
reregulate the market and make it free, because the multinationals
have taken it away." (More inside).
Barlow will be dancing in the streets
Barlow will be dancing in the streets
08/01/2004 05:05 AMThis just in from the BarlowFriendz mail
list......
DANCING IN THE STREETS: REVOLUTION WITH A
SMILE
I spent most of my political life as a Republican. While that's a
little hard to imagine now, I have sufficient experience to know that
the commonly held view that Republicans either can't dance or won't
dance is inaccurate. When I was a Republican, I was as dedicated to
dancing as I am now and there were others like me, as I recall.
Still, part of what drove me from the party - aside from a
categorical repudiation by the current administration of most
Republican principles - is a dour dancelessness that crept into
Republican "culture." It seems increasingly ironic to call the GOP a
party at all...
Maureen Dowd recently observed that the Republicans had become so
obsessed with rejecting the 60's ethic of doing it if it feels good
that they have taken up an ethic of doing it if it makes someone else
feel bad. Moreover, the GOP strategy of basing their root-level
organization on Hot Protestantism has infused their ranks with a lot
of chilly Puritanism, which, as H.L. Mencken defined it, is "the
haunting fear that someone, somewhere, is having a good time."
These were among the factors in mind recently as I turned my
thoughts to what I might do to vex the Republicans when they gather in
New York a month from now. Furious as I may be at their policies,
conventional protest is not an option.
If it were peaceful protest, they would ignore it even if two
million people turned up. They have a demonstrated capacity to do
that. Indeed, the administration consists of such fervent God-anointed
idealists that they would "stay the course" against any opposition
short of a majority too overwhelming to rig their electronic voting
machines against.
If the protests in New York should turn even a little violent, it
will be to Bush's benefit. This is so much the case that I rather
expect to see undercover agents provocateurs scattered among the
ragtag disaffected who will shortly descend on Manhattan. And the
NYPD, while generally my favorite police force on the planet, can get
themselves in a froth when they feel spooked. One thrown bottle could
result in days of riveting television, during which Bush would have
plenty of opportunity to pretend, convincingly to some, that he was
Gary Cooper.
Besides, anyone with an explicit intention to protest Republican
policies, anyone carrying an anti-Bush sign, indeed, anyone wearing a
neither a smile nor a Bush button, is likely to be corralled into one
of the remote "Free Speech Zones" that Mayor Bloomberg will graciously
provide his guests, there to vent his fury upon his fellow infuriated.
None for me, thanks.
I have another idea, and you can help. Indeed, as wild, fun-loving
BarlowFriendz, I'm counting on you to help.
I want to dance in the streets.
I don't want to confront the Republicans. I want to discombobulate
them. I don't want to argue with them, which would only convince them
further, I want to throw them off their game. I don't want to be
aggressive in my discontent. God knows there's been plenty of that on
all sides. I want to be genial. But disconcerting.
So, to that end, I propose the following: I want to organize a
cadre of 20 to 50 of us. I want to dress us in suits and other plain
pedestrian attire and salt us among the sidewalk multitudes in
Republican-rich zones. At a predetermined moment, one of us will
produce a boom-box and crank it up with something danceable. Suddenly,
about a third of the people on the sidewalk, miscellaneously
distributed in the general throng, will start dancing like crazy and
continue to do so for for about a minute. Then we will stop, melt back
into the pedestrian flow, and go to another location to erupt
there.
Perhaps if we enlist enough troops, we can have several platoons
simultaneously exploding into dance around Manhattan, so there will be
absolutely no way to tell where we might strike next.
I promise you, this will make the Republicans uncomfortable. They
will return to their partisan duties with a sense of disquiet that
will slightly but surely fuzz the intensity of their focus. Besides,
we'll enjoy it. That alone will irritate them. And we'll be doing
nothing they can arrest us for. Nor, for that matter, televise us
doing. By the time cameras arrive, we'll be gone.
I have to admit there's nothing terribly original about this idea.
I'm talking about forming a standard smart mob, similar to the group
my friend Reverend Billy convenes every Tuesday to wander around the
WTC PATH station, muttering the 1st Amendment. But it's a start, and I
think that once we get ourselves assembled, we will be able to cook up
a number of other creative pranks we might inflict on our thin-lipped
countrymen.
I may put up a web site that we can use to organize ourselves. In
the meantime, I will start a mailing list of everyone who wants to
participate. Furthermore, you can go to my blog
http://blog.barlowfriendz.net where this will also be posted and
participate in the discussion there.
Please e-mail me at once - at barlow at eff.org - if you're
interested. And pass this invitation to others who might be.
I've been thinking for some time that the problem with politics is
that doesn't know how to have a good time. And it certainly doesn't
dance enough. This is your chance to address both of these
deficiencies.
And remember the great Emma Goldman who said, "If I can't dance, I
want no part of your revolution." What she knew is that dancing is
itself a revolutionary act. Come revolt with us. And bring your
smile.
Yippie-ti-yo,
John Perry Barlow
AixtraTable by perry on 2002/08/14
AixtraTable by perry on 2002/08/14
08/15/2002 12:42 PMBarlow steps out of the echo chamber
Barlow steps out of the echo chamber
01/08/2004 08:06 PMFor those of you who continue to argue that most blogs and links
between blogs are an echo chamber, go to Barlow's blog and take a
look. Barlow has stepped out of his Barlowfriendz mailing list into a community
which includes the Barlowenemiez. Barlow eloquently discusses the experience of stepping out of
the echo chamber.
Barlow: Amelia takes a fall
Barlow: Amelia takes a fall
12/30/2004 02:45 AM
Xeni Jardin:
On his blog, John Perry Barlow writes about a serious accident that
his daughter Amelia just survived -- and the sense of hope that,
paradoxically, experiences like this can bring. Hope that transcends
the personal, encompassing the global. Our best wishes for Amelia's
safe and speedy recovery, Barlow.
Link
Barlow 4th Amendment fight update
Barlow 4th Amendment fight update
12/24/2004 12:47 PM
Barlow blogs about his day in court trying to defend his 4th
Amendment rights. The judge ruled against him, but it's just the first
step in a much longer process. Good luck Barlow.
EFF's staff technologist Seth David Schoen, danah boyd and Rob Kiser and also posted their accounts.
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:: John Kerry for President - John
Kerry's Official Naval Records ::
:: John Kerry for President - John
Kerry's Official Naval Records ::
04/22/2004 04:00 PMKerry camp posts military records online. Bush camp checking his
parents attic for his .. docs of his Vietnam service record .. this
gentleman's record .. 120 pages of records ..
his
johnkerry.com/about/military_records.html
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Meet Bob Perry, Friend of George
Meet Bob Perry, Friend of George
08/19/2004 06:34 PMThe credibility of the anti-Kerry Swift Boat Veterans for Truth took
another hit today as the Washington Post revealed military records
that contradict the story of one of the group's leading figures. John
Kerry, emboldened by the Post story,
unleashed his fiercest-yet counterattack on the Swift Boat
group and the Bush campaign, which he said was using the vets to do
its "dirty work." Today,
Texans for Public Justice, an Austin-based
consumer rights/civil justice advocacy and research organization that
tracks money in Texas politics, went through its files for information
on the Bush/Texas GOP donor behind the Swift Boat group.
..and Oh Sherry by Steve Perry wasn't
even mentioned!
..and Oh Sherry by Steve Perry wasn't
even mentioned!
07/31/2004 03:55 AM
The Top 50 Worst
Guitar Solos (revisited). On Jimmy Page's solo in Radioactive:
He pieces together an angular, steely synth-guitar catastrophe
that probably only the eunuchs in Yes could warm up to.
And Angus Young's solo on "Ballbreaker":
Take away the
hyperactive Chuck Berry duckwalking and frantic head- bobbing and
you're left with some extremely constipated rockabilly soloing. And
what the fuck is these guys' fixation with men's genitalia all about,
anyway? [more inside]
Perry waves biotech banner
Perry waves biotech banner
02/12/2004 10:18 PMThe Scotsman Feb 13 2004 2:40AM GMT
Radio Interview with John Brady Kiesling
and John H. Brown
Radio Interview with John Brady Kiesling
and John H. Brown
03/15/2003 06:05 AMKALW in San Francisco did an
hour
long radio interview with John Brady Kiesling and John H. Brown,
the American Foreign Service officers who resigned over Bush's Iraq
policy. Both are impressive speakers, and Kiesling is as articulate
and as convincing as his letter:
If we can't convince
our historical allies that this is a good thing to do, there is no way
we are going to be able to convince the Arab world.
People have to take a stand. War may be inevitable, but we need to do
what we can to keep our consciences clean.
There is a policy to make America safer, but this is not it.
"America is still the safest country in the world. The
administration is trying to scare people with this talk about terror
and duct tape. We should use our safety and prosperity and our
strength to do good and we can do good."
Brown said his resignation was "in part a result of Andrew Card's
comment, 'Never launch a product in August.' War is not a
product."
I learned a lot from listening to it. Recommended. Requires
Real Player.
Barlow proposes dancing flashmob to
protest RNC
Barlow proposes dancing flashmob to
protest RNC
08/01/2004 04:59 AM
John Perry Barlow, former Grateful Dead lyricist and Republican
city council chairman has an interesting idea.
BarlowFriendz
Dancing in the Streets: Revolution with a Smile
...Maureen Dowd recently observed that the Republicans had become
so obsessed with rejecting the 60's ethic of doing it if it feels good
that they have taken up an ethic of doing it if it makes someone else
feel bad. Moreover, the GOP strategy of basing their root-level
organization on Hot Protestantism has infused their ranks with a lot
of chilly Puritanism, which, as H.L. Mencken defined it, is "the
haunting fear that someone, somewhere, is having a good time."
...So, to that end, I propose the following: I want to organize a
cadre of 20 to 50 of us. I want to dress us in suits and other plain
pedestrian attire and salt us among the sidewalk multitudes in
Republican-rich zones. At a predetermined moment, one of us will
produce a boom-box and crank it up with something danceable. Suddenly,
about a third of the people on the sidewalk, miscellaneously
distributed in the general throng, will start dancing like crazy and
continue to do so for for about a minute. Then we will stop, melt back
into the pedestrian flow, and go to another location to erupt
there.
As always, the full text of his essay is a great
read, but this idea of discombobulation as protest is funny and seems
appropriate as well. I wonder if we can map "I don't think it's funny"
split. I wonder if this would constitute "terrorism". I guess it might
depend on what they were dancing to.
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Oracle's Perry Mason Moment
(washingtonpost.com)
Oracle's Perry Mason Moment
(washingtonpost.com)
06/08/2004 01:52 PM
washingtonpost.com - Will Bill Gates wind up being the star witness
for Oracle Corp.?
Barlow on Spalding Gray: "Is he finally
swimming to Cambodia?"
Barlow on Spalding Gray: "Is he finally
swimming to Cambodia?"
01/17/2004 10:57 PM
John Perry Barlow, a friend
of missing monologist Spalding Gray, writes:
I try to imagine him actually attempting a swim to
Cambodia. I see him swan-diving from the rail of the Staten Island
Ferry late Saturday night when he disappeared, rounding Sandy Hook by
dawn, and turning south for Cape Horn. He'd be well past the mouth of
the Delaware by now, strong swimmer that he is. What a great monologue
this is going to make. Or not. Spalding inhabits a magical reality
where such feats might actually be possible, but there is something
about the current state of New York Harbor that seems adamantly unfit
for human survival. In my less magical reality, it's easier to see him
beneath all that black water.
Still, it seems premature to write one of those eulogies that I all
too often compose for my closest friends. Part of me thinks I should
be out there looking for him rather than writing this. Perhaps, I
think, he just went out on one of his famous walks, walks that I
shared for many droll miles. Perhaps he was hit by a cab and is lying
comatose and unidentified in one of this perilous island's anonymous
hospitals. He left his wallet and ID at his loft and would thus have
been taken for another homeless drifter, as he frequently was. He
could be holed up somewhere, waiting for his mood to pass. But he
hates (or hated) to be alone. Neither seems likely, but where there's
no proof, there remains hope, however unrealistic. What is grief
without finality? A terrible confusion and an opportunity to celebrate
what one might still have.
Link
Creative Commons UK launch tomorrow
night -- now with extra Barlow!
Creative Commons UK launch tomorrow
night -- now with extra Barlow!
03/17/2005 03:56 AM
Cory Doctorow:
If you're in London tomorrow night, you should go to the Creative
Commons UK launch! Any party with Barlow in attendance is bound to be
fun.
Let us raise a glass to the arrival of the UK creative commons
licences, and start to ask the question - What does the Creative
Commons mean for artists in the UK?
* We are happy to announce that John Perry Barlow, digerati and friend
of CC, will be with us to celebrate this event.
* We will be meeting at the wonderful October Gallery in Bloomsbury to
mark the day with some poignant speeches and good wine.
* The event will take place on Wednesday the 16th, from 6pm until
9:30pm.
The event is jointly organized by William Heath and Christian Ahlert
(pls RSVP to Christian)
Link
Vodkapundit - John Stossel on John
Edwards
Vodkapundit - John Stossel on John
Edwards
07/26/2004 03:49 PM
problem with the segment ..
likevodkapundit.com/archives/006255.php
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The secret love-child of Rush Limbaugh
and Perry Mason
The secret love-child of Rush Limbaugh
and Perry Mason
12/05/2003 11:21 PM
The secret love-child of
Rush Limbaugh and Perry Mason gets his day in court. Vince Foster
conspiracy theorist nutjob challenges SCOTUS on whether the government
can deny a FOIA request on the grounds of invasion of personal
privacy. Amusing write-up by Dahlia Lithwick.
Grok Description matches for John Perry Barlow now has a blog
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