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Go to google.com. Type in “dumb motherfucker”. Click “I’m Feeling Lucky” (to go the first search result). It will take you to The George W. Bush Store. (Note: this no longer works because Google re-indexed the page) There’s a Wired article about it. They explain that it’s not a “easter […]

My sister got a weblog! The life and times of Pat Smith (a pseudonym) began Tuesday. Ever since I went to college, she’s been using the computer a lot more. Maybe she would have used it more while I still lived at home, except I was on it all the time.
Bethany is so […]

Did you know that Cake has a song called “Jolene” that sounds just like “Save Tonight” by Eagle Eye Cherry?Neither did I.That’s freaky.
The Cake song out first, by the way.

MacOS vs. WindowsRealizing that I have been rather prolific lately, I figured I’d take a fifteen-minute study break between reading Hobbes and Nietzsche to share with you my opinions about popular operating system interfaces. (Hobbes and Nietzsche - I love this school.)
I’d never really used MacOS before I came to U of C, which […]

“Is the universe a great mechanism, a great computation, a great symmetry, a great accident, or a great thought?”–John D. Barrow
“The universe is made of stories, not atoms.”–Muriel Rukeyser
[Quotes from Kurzweil’s Age of Spiritual Machines]

What would Plato think of computers?Last September, I read Plato’s Republic, which seems to be a defining part of a U of C education and provides the over-arching context for my social sciences and humanities classes. Of course, the point of the book is to define and understand the nature of justice. Justice, […]

Ruthie, a friend of mine from the 6th floor of Pierce, just got a weblog: Ruthie’s Top Secret Diary. The exhibitionist revolution is spreading!

Protest in Washington, DCThis morning, I returned from a weekend in Washington, DC protesting the inauguration of President Bush. Several organizations on campus (International Socialist Organization, The Campaign to End the Death Penalty, Youth Democratic Socialists) had organized with other liberal groups in Chicago to send four coach buses to the rally. For news […]

Pictures from the protest

Dave, Ben, some girl from NYC, and Lucinda hold a banner supporting 10 men still on death row after a Chicago police commissioner was found to have tortured them into confessing.

Al Sharpton speaks at a rally prior to our march to the Supreme Court building.

Thousands of protesters, led by Al Sharpton, march […]

Learn toLive toLove theLife thatLeaves usLaying here
- AnonymousThird-floor Men’s Room,Regenstein Library, U of C

Melissa Lo’s functions is back up! The new design is very elegant and well done - making me even more conscious of how much I missed it.

Welcome to the redesign, which is a variation on the old motif. As with the last design, I am striving to make the design as simple as possible - maximizing the aesthetic effect of typography, layout, color scheme, etc without distracting from the content. In the back of my mind, I’m worried that I’m […]

Marshall Mcluhan is awesome! I’ve read two of his books - The Medium is the Massage (out of print) and Understanding Media - for my web design class - and they blow me away.
Mcluhan might even be cooler than Kurt Vonnegut.

To Bethany:
Don’t eat yellow snow.
At the Chicago Maroon office, listening to random mp3s from the eclectic collection downloaded by the eccentric people who use the computers, Baz Luhrmann’s Sunscreen speech (8.2MB) started playing (the whole story of this piece is quite interesting).
I remember that you have this text taped to your bedroom door. In […]

It’s me.

I put my picture on Am I HOT or NOT?, because, you know, I am an exhibitionist.

John Cage: “They told me to continue what I was doing, and to spread joy and revolution.”

My local newspaper intereviewed me about this web site. The article, Dear e-diary, runs today. Welcome to any who are visiting via the article. I encourage you to sign my guestbook.
I should say, however, that I’m pretty disappointed with this article. Being “personal” online doesn’t mean being morbid and depressing, which […]

The Economist has an interesting article about Microsoft’s .NET strategy. Microsoft made billions by realizing that computer hardware would become a commodity, and software (namely, the operating system) would truly be of value. Now, with the Internet becoming more ubiquitous, Microsoft realizes that operating systems will become commodities as well (which, fortunately for […]

Happiness is my new Intellimouse Explorer. No, not really, but it’s pretty cool.