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Saturday, June 12 1999

Shut Down the Computer via macintouch
The Words & Pictures Museum has announced that they are closing their brick-and-mortar facility and moving whole hog to cy...

Sunday, June 13 1999

I went to the Brooklyn Museum of Art website to get the dates for the "Sensation" show. I was pleasantly surprised to see the number of go...
In Svend We Trust
Does God Belong In the Constitution? Real Audio - live (check for local Canadian feed closest to you) & archived.

Monday, June 14 1999

Gil Courtemanche "Si l'on oublie l'aspect physique, c'est probablement une...
My car just broke down (again) I can't stand that my life so is dependant on the stupid thing!
The Street Performer Protocol and Digital Copyrights We introduce the Street Performer Protocol, an electronic-commerce mechanism to facilitate the...

Tuesday, June 15 1999

More reports of LinuxPPC 5 cd's shipping with the Autostart infection
N5 won't be backwards compatible with it's own Document Object Model (DOM). The good news is that it will fully support the w3c...
The Unbearable Lightness of Pool

Wednesday, June 16 1999

I AM TRACKING DOWN A BUG so stuff is lliable to be broken
The Rant-Line at the Montreal Mirror makes the threads at slashdot look a scholar's debate.
Flash 4 supports streaming MP3's. This is cool, very cool. Now I can write a streaming MP3 player for ...
The MoebiusShop how sick.
New Lucious Jackson real audio
The Holden Caufield Fan Club real audio

Thursday, June 17 1999

NPR on email eating it, drinking it, hoarding it.
The End of Violence in Vancouver Beyerstein said it is easy to place signs in banks or at building entrances to warn people t...
Bloc Pot "«On ne veut pas convaincre les gens de fumer un joint, précise ...

Friday, June 18 1999

Julie Doucet I got pointed to Rodney Greenblat's recent watercolours from the peterme site, and it reminded...
The Evolution of Computers Ends with Z um, someone might want to talk to the marketing people about this one. Is this like The End of...
With Liberty & Prayer For All Claiming to champion the right for prayer in school classrooms, it seems more like a call for ...
If you've gotten here from my.userland.com the script I wrote to generate the xml file was broken. The titles (and their links) weren't b...

Saturday, June 19 1999

Journée de libération du cannabis / Cannabis liberation day "On Saturday june 19th the Bloc-Pot would like to invite you to participate in Québec city's a...
Filtering Amendment Passes [US] House Why ban books when you can just filter them instead? See Jonathan Weinberg's Rating The Net fo...
Recent additions to the Online Slang Dictionary "Though Webster publishes a slang dictionary, it could potentially take years for a new word o...
Road Tripping Josey Vogels reviews the Bad Girl's Guide. "The BGG tells you how to come up with a road name ...
Aislin: Guns & Bullets
NetBSD 1.4 PPC port This is good because if the rumours of Disney buying Apple are true, I'll be looking for a new...

Sunday, June 20 1999

Charles Taylor: De la nation culturelle à la nation politique "Au lieu de chercher une sécurité illusoire dans la belle totalité...
That Void In Cyberspace Looks a Lot Like Kansas "The simulation has a way of going blank -- while underneath it lies not a void but human fles...
Terry Waite on using implants to prevent kidnapping "It is very dangerous because once kidnappers get to know about these things, they will skin y...
I'm going to see Picasso at the Lapin Agile
No updates on Monday I want to make sure the code does the right thing if nothing happens for a day (or more.) ...

Monday, June 21 1999

The House on Bubbles Galore Art, sex and government funding. real audio, starts at 34:13.
Comics 1 - Fine Arts 0 The blurb at memepool read "...this site questions the value society places upon fine art vs. ...
Peter Wheeland : From anglophone to vibraphone "Vibraphone: a person who speaks two or more languages and who believes each language provides...
I said that I would be debugging today but I found out what I needed to know, so on with the show!
Cool! I just got my BeOS 4.5 CD in the mail I hope that it is more stable than r4. I honestly felt like I was using MacOS 7.5.x some days....
Groove Collective, live in Chicago real audio

Tuesday, June 22 1999

Webhippie Someone, please, save us from ourselves!
Benoit Aubin "With the nationalist government facing mounting problems and revolts, and a ...
Rick Salutin "Maybe things will start to get interesting again after the stupid millennium."
The World on Yeska skafrocuban jazz, real audio
The World on La Bottine Souriante "Last year we went for three shows in Madrid, Bilbao and some big cities in Spain, and people ...
Senate Votes to Cut U.S. Contributions to United Nations "By U.N. calculations, that leaves the United States $1.69 billion in a...

Wednesday, June 23 1999

I've taken two Star Wars Personality Tests now In the first I ranked Yoda, the second Obi Wan Kenobi "No, not the brash, young Jedi currently...
Library Juice: ALA Is Like the Former Soviet Union "A somewhat facetious manifesto" ( ALA is an acronym for American Library Association. )
Sutton vs. United Airlines [U.S.] Supreme Court Decision
Ontario installs Internet filtering on government computers "Critics call the move a form of heavy-handed cyber-censorship, but the government says it is ...
Mozilla M7 is out The screen refresh sucks and it keeps crashing when I try to set preferences, but it's still p...
Handhelds Beaming Up a Coke "But one outspoken privacy critic said that advertising has just gone too far. Jason Catlett w...

Thursday, June 24 1999

Today is St. Jean Baptiste Day! St. Jean Baptiste Day is the national holiday in Quebec. For some people it's a heavy-duty day...
netomat "netomat is a meta-browser that engages a different Internet - an Internet that is an intellig...
Voix d'extinction? The imperiled anglophone community in Quebec. Yeah...that's a good one. The article points out...
Happy Saint Jean-Baptiste "Quelques coins de rue plus au sud, le défilé de nuit aura un petit air scottish. Au coeur du ...
Office porn cases raising issues of privacy, protection '' 'To me, the biggest issue in the Harvard case is why the technicians were not disciplined f...
Factoid Paranoia "However, my worry about the factoid system is about the "subpeona-bility" of the home data...
Thanks to Dave for the mention
WebOS Wow. It even has a dhtml web browser! Requires IE4 (windows) and a T-1. via <a href = "htt...

Friday, June 25 1999

The End of the Nation State Some of it may seem a bit dated, but it offers an interesting perspective on the frightening g...
William Neukom on The Law of Increasing Returns "The thing to remember is that we're engaged in a legal decathlon, and we're still at an early...
Me Mom & Morgentaler, together again for the very first time "It's like we're supposed to be mega-upset because we didn't become cocaine-sniffing, therapis...
Art at the Edge, panel discussion "An argument about contemporary art and its disappointed public." In art school, popular opini...
95bFM "Followed smell of cannabis down corridor 1983. All I want to do is listen to music, I love li...

Saturday, June 26 1999

Children's Books You Will Never See Daddy Drinks Because You Cry
Scott McCloud "But this wasn't what people were picking up from the book. They were talking about the nature...
Daniel Jacques : Des «conditions gagnantes» aux «conditions signifiantes» "Compte tenu de l'état d'esprit qui prédomine dans notre société, j'estime préférable de suivr...
An American's Guide to Canada I pulled this link off an especially boring article about how Canadians have gone from spendin...
Mondo Canuck Trivia Applet Mondo Canuck, the book, was co-written by a guy who to used to deconstruct American sitcoms o...

Sunday, June 27 1999

Hanoi, la nonchalante I had the opportunity to visit Northern Vietnam in 1996. Too dumb to keep a travel journal, al...
How To Succeed In Art "While modern art began as an assault on the academy, post-modern art might be described as a ...
Chaos theory can help with crowd control "The principle behind the software is that, by using chaos theory, the way large groups of peo...
Jill Cunniff on women in rock Discussing the way the image of women musicians has changed, she cited Salt'N'Pepa. They could...
The Patron Saint of the Internet "But we are not permitted to believe whatever we choose, nor to choose whatever someone else h...

Monday, June 28 1999

Wired on nextmonet.com "When I was ready to graduate from posters, I went to several galleries and was never more int...
Jean-Louis Gassée : Vu de la Silicon Valley "Je me demande, en particulier, comment nous allons réagir au sentiment diffus que nos moindre...
iCab 1.6 supports HTTPS "iCab (only the PPC version) now uses the [MacOS 8.6] system extension 'URL Access' to support...
Philip Gourevitch "The best reason I have come up with for looking closely into Rwanda's stories is that ignorin...
Anthony Housefather "I challenge all English-speaking business owners or those in positions of authority at corpor...
nextmonet.com "Research then confirmed that Claude Monet is the most recognized artist in the world – his na...

Tuesday, June 29 1999

Talk Back on nicknames real audio (starts 10:56)
The consumer incarnation of Microsoftiness "The Microsoft world is all about sushi-ginger stationery. It's synonymous with miniature Japa...
Doonesbury "Who's the teeny little man, poppy?" Cookies, registration & other games until next week. Comp...
Aubrey Keel 1902-1999 Morning Edition on the last of the Associated Press telegraph operators. real audio
Margaret Wente "And so, come September, the 1,700 students at Meadowvale will get 2 minutes of TV commercials...
Richard Morrison on the public domain "Then last year the US extended its 75-year copyright rule by a further 20 years - primarily b...
Le bal des cerfs-volants My friend JB's father is a kite-maker in Montreal. The story goes that the SRC asked him to do...
MacWeek on Photoshop 5.5 Call me bitter if you want, but I can't help but feel Adobe is just trying to raise capital to...

Wednesday, June 30 1999

Montreal Index "Number of complaints made against city snow removers in 1998: 913. "
Françoise Wyss-Mercier "People don't have religious or spiritual references any more, so they tend to create their own a...
Leah Lazariuk : Virtual Squat "Virtual Squat is intended to be a forum for experience and exploration about alternative living ...
Giordan on Photoshop 5.5 Well, I'm glad someone is happy about it but I fear that, rightly it wrongly, it will suffer the ...
My Most Scary Canada Day Here we go again. A chorus of anxious Canadians pleading to not break up "my" country. I can hard...
David Bunnell on boring crap "Asked by UpsideToday.com to provide documentation that the above chargse are true, the BoringCra...
Avril Benoit gets evolved off of This Morning Avril Benoit has been one of the best things to happen to radio in recent years. Listen while you st...

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