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Thursday, July 01 1999

It's Canada Day : French fries were the most-ordered item in Canadian restaurants in 1998. About ten years ago, I reme...
M.J. Milloy on the St.Jean parade "After that it dissolved into nothing more exciting than acres and acres of marchers holding u...
It's Canada Day : which means it's Garbage-picking Day in Montreal. Most of the city rents, and about an overwhe...
It's Canada Day : and everyone is talking about child pornography. " 'Making it an offence to possess expressive mater...
It's Canada Day and Lucien Bouchard is trying to show the nurses in Quebec who's Big Daddy. Meanwhile, Martin ...

Friday, July 02 1999

Children's Books You'll Never See was the Cruel Site of the Day for July 01, 1999. (Thanks to Gordon for the pointer.)
Thomas Friedman : Was Kosovo World War III? Mr. Friedman defends the Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention.
Daniel Pinkwater on Mensa. "I don't think I have to make an argument in support of how cool I am." real audio.
Roberta Smith on The Un-Private House "Riley's first premise is that the best, most adventurous architecture of the last decade has ...
Alistair Cooke : Letters From America
Right here, right now I've found a fairly significant bug in the code that generates the xml for the my userland cha...
This is a test to see if things are working the way they should be in all possible situations.
Neil Leach : The Anaesthetics of Architecture "In this culture of aesthetic consumption, this "culture of the cocktail," meaningful discours...

Saturday, July 03 1999

The Comics Journal is back online. Darren Hick writes : "...one of our many mandates was to resurrect the long-si...
Lysiane Gagnon : Does anyone care about Radio-Canada? "Radio-Canada is the French equivalent of the CBC -- and much more. During its first decades, ...
Cowboys Junkies : Live From the Archive Courtesy of the nice people at the <a href = "http://www.virtuallycanadian.com">Virtuall...
ViewSource : Writing a VRML Modeler in DHTML JavaScript "In this article I'll tell you how to combine VRML and DHTML JavaScript in an application that...

Sunday, July 04 1999

Quebec anglos : 'Divided we stand' "Listening to them, you'd think we are completely repressed, undergoing some sort of ethnic cl...
Melamid on art and religion "I truly believe that art has become a religion. . . . If you like the Mona Lisa, God bless yo...
Komar and Melamid on Canada "If these paintings are anything like what Canadians most want and hate to look at, then our a...
Professor Rusi Taleyarkhan "I've always been a huge fan of Star Trek and wanted to see if the knowledge I have of energy ...
Me Mom & Morgentaler reunion in Montreal at Metropolis! Forget Flag & Fireworks Day and get thee to the border! ...
It's America Day : I have dual U.S. and Canadian citizenship. Some years ago I was flying to Boston from Montreal...
Kelly Hagerton, Product Manager Elron Software "It's only Orwellian when organizations spy and don't tell employees." And 2 + 2 = 5.
It's America Day and I'm reading Benjamin Barber's Jihad vs. McWorld. "Yet Jihad and McWorld have this in commo...

Monday, July 05 1999

Spider Robinson : Stop Listening to the Future People "The technoweenies honestly believe what you want, and will pay a fortune to acquire, is a hom...
Patricia Leigh Brown on truck stops : "In a design trend as yet unheralded by Architectural Digest, a new building type has been bor...
Eli M. Noam : Will the Internet Be Bad For Democracy "My skepticism about the Internet as a pro-democracy force is not based on its uneven distr...

Tuesday, July 06 1999

Brian Myles : Le jazz façon techno "À ceux qui soulignent que les musiques électroniques ne sauraient être représentées dans un F...
Try This Non-Wash, No-Iron Cyberfuture For Size I'm not sure what I find more interesting: the article, or the fact that it was written by som...
Jon Katz on "Geek Unions" "Aaron says he was watching the movie "Dune" one light last week 'It occurred to me that what ...
Help out and sign the petition asking Adaptec to release the necessary code for Be to write a driver for 2940UW SCSI card. ...
MOSR on MacOS X Developer Preview 1 Bless them for their enthusiasm, but take it with a grain of salt.
Jeff Howe : Artistic License, Creating a Space for Net-art "[He] likens the obstacles net-art faces in finding a museum audience to those faced by artist...

Wednesday, July 07 1999

The Negro Problem real audio. via the loot.
CPAST Comprehensive Perl Arcana Society Tapestry
Joaquin Rodrigo 1901-1999 real audio. see also : reports from the BBC and All Things Considered

Thursday, July 08 1999

N.Y.Times : High-Speed Lines Leave Door Ajar for Hackers Meanwhile, the new ( and as yet unpublished on-line ) issue of Web Techniques has a piece by ...
Matthew Mirapaul : An Attack on the Commercialization of Web Art "Rinehart said: 'Is $52.50 the true value of the work? Well, it doesn't need to be, because I ...
While I attended art school there was a retrospective celebrating the role the College played in the heyday of 70's concep...
Since we're on the subject be sure and check out G.H.Hovagimyan's Barbie Meets Richard Serra, an obvious precursor to the...
Meanwhile, Rob Moritz has a mission : to "protect cultural icons from Web exploitation, which he says makes the Web safer for everyo...
Bob Rogers I was thinking about the various stories on intellectual property and art, and Bob's work seem...
Clive Thompson : Why Your Fabulous Job Sucks "Chained to their keyboards, working far longer hours than they are paid for and blurring the ...

Friday, July 09 1999

Philip Gourevitch & James Young on "The Holocaust in American Life".
M-J Milloy on the Cirque en CA$H “Dans notre quartier/ On chauffe pas de gros chars/ Dans notre quartier/ On reste pas dans des...
Web Review on PHP PHP also has one of the best <a href = "http://php.net/manual">docs / manual sites</a...
Ontario judge bans spam for breach of Netiquette Michael Geist, a law professor at the University of Ottawa, said the legal ruling is troubling...
Michael Kimmelman : How Photography Makes Celebrity So Irresistible "The show's unspoken question is whether something that has become so commonplace is still mea...
Falling Through the Net : Defining the Digital Divide "This is our third report examining which American households have access to telephones, co...
Perlmonth Issue #3 is out, sporting a new column called X Marks (up) the Language.
Supreme Court of Canada : Dobson (Litigation Guardian of) v. Dobson See also : Newsworld : Fetus can't sue mom, top court says.

Saturday, July 10 1999

Updates may be a bit spartan this weekend while my mother is on-Island. ( She brought real bagels too! Yay! )
David Bornstein : Reshaping Society Through People Power "What is different today, however, is not only the increasing number of these groups worldwide...
Department of Discretionary Data "Another in our occasional series of fascinating data that washes up off the Internet." ...
Christie Blachford : This bird won't take flight from the city "There are always miles of highways temporarily working as mere roads and crammed with sport-u...

Sunday, July 11 1999

Joe Lelyveld "While literally billions of speculative dollars are being amassed, invested and turned into o...
Sunday Times : Water company ready to launch wind farm at sea I've always thought wind farms amazingly beautiful.
Phillipe Queau : Unequal terms of electronic trade "The "invisible hands" of networks and the market are naturally at work weaving a single fabri...

Monday, July 12 1999

Liberals to promote 'Canada' as a brand "In a postreferendum environment -- and some say prereferendum as well -- the Maple Leaf and t...
As It Happens : The dark heart of Flipper "Recently scientists off the coast of Scotland watched an adult dolphin whack a dolphin calf a...
Institute for Higher Education Policy : What's the Difference "A Review of Contemporary Research on the Effectiveness of Distance Learning in Higher Educati...
Alicia Neumann : The Overtime Stigma "The start-up culture has taught many to think of work as a hierarchy-free team effort with di...

Tuesday, July 13 1999

Jean-Louis Gassée : Câble contre DSL "Pour donner une dimension du grouillement, pardon, du potentiel de cette nouvelle vague d’acc...
Jeffrey Zeldman : Looking into the Web Crystal "There are two ways forward. (1.) We can begin building alternative networks of worthwhile con...
The People's Photos "The Archive of pictures found on the street by me and you."
Jean Paré : A trap for journalists "The issue raises grave questions for young apprentice journalists to ponder. Should journalis...
Jorn Barger : The First-Cut Manifesto "The goal is to make at least one full pass over a document, and classify every character into...
Dan Lyke : Newwwsboy2: Newwws Harder? "I need my formatting engine to be smart enough to extract more information out of my standard...

Wednesday, July 14 1999

It's Bastille Day Yes, it took them a while to get it right (the No-fun police took over and decided that women ...
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr "Je ne crois pas que notre idée puisse être comparée à la taxe Tobin. Cette proposition visait...
NY Times : Tough Rules Stand Guard Over Canadian Culture " 'This isn't just cars or refrigerators for sale; this is ideas,' [Norman] Jewison said. "And...
It's Bastille Day and Sarah Vowell is going to Paris Las Vegas.
Wired : 'Web Seance' Summons Art " 'In showing the IP numbers of Web participants, we're stating the authenticity of the piece'...
LA Times : Ventura Will Referee a WWF Match "The perception is that people need to be professional politicians and that therefore being a ...
The World on Djelem "Bienvenue a Montreal." real audio.

Thursday, July 15 1999

Reuters "Television personality Hugh Downs plans to join iNEXTV Corp., a newly formed Internet video n...
Gavin McNett on "The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace" "But then, if you look at the notion of "cyberspace" in rigorously historical terms, the idea ...
Larry Wall "These days it's popular to demonize Microsoft, but I think of Microsoft more as a spoiled chi...
Spider Robinson : Senator Socksdryer and the Two Million Dollar Boondoggle
I finally got my copy of Yeska's "Skafrocubanjazz" Sizzling! see also: a good article from May 1998 in LatinoLink.
Wired : Real Agents fro Virtual Models "The Elite modeling agency has created a new division to manage the careers of computer-genera...
John Katz : The End of the Amazon Era "Jeff Bezos newly-revealed once-revolutionary website has been revealed: a tacky online K-Mart...

Friday, July 16 1999

Gil Courtemanche : Merci les femmes "Mais plus profondément, ces femmes vivent au cour de toutes les distorsions de la société néo...
Madeleine Bunting : They're just cannon fodder "There is no time to query why life has to be such an exhausting and demanding obstacle race, ...
Mordecai Richler "The ineffable Bernard Landry, digging into our pockets, has found money to service a $100-mil...
I had no idea that "Mary Hart's legs have their own fibreoptic lighting setup."
David Post "We always look to the community to ask ourselves what is reasonable conduct. The Internet is ...
While you were sleeping a dozen or so galaxies got together and merged. Just part of what one scientist calls "the gen...
Deconstructing Ira "He appears to be normal."

Saturday, July 17 1999

Hour on CBC Radio-3 "What will guide this youth-oriented programming? Is it going to be family values, urban stuff...
Chris Crawford on hypertext "Let me explain that last sentence in real English. Your branchpoints are all treated equally;...
Radio Free Martha's Vineyard Cool. Maybe they can do Clinton-traffic reports while the big guy is here. There are only a ha...
Philip Greenspun on the $100B mark "Maybe this will convince my students they shouldn't work so hard to become rich. Because they...
More rumours of Apple and Disney getting into bed I'm sorry, but I just have a problem with a company that sues day care centers for copyright v...
I had no idea that when Julie Synder was "on a shoot in the Caribbean, she fed tofu to sharks, hoping she could t...

Sunday, July 18 1999

Gregory Baum : Nationalisme et mouvements sociaux contre l'hégémonie du marché "Les gens qui participent à ce mouvement, en grande partie de façon gratuite, ne regardent pas...
Takashi Murakami ""We have our traditional arts, whose rules are strict, but in a contemporary context there is...
On Friday, I saw "Why Are My Eyes Still Open?" and watched as Tom Cruise wrestled with the ghost of action-movies past.
Cameron Barrett : I Live in a Wired World "It's not about giving away all your secrets, habits, or personal information. It's about putt...
The other day Jeff sent me some kind words about the aaronland site (thanks!) He commented that it had a "ni...
CBC : Viagra keeps flowers from wilting "They believe Viagra could revolutionize packaging and storage of produce."

Monday, July 19 1999

As It Happens : Valerie the Hen, R.I.P. real audio (starts 07:15) Meanwhile, never one to be outdone, This American Life has made some...
perl.com has redesigned their website It's very blue and the type is very small (in that Mac-ish sort of way) but it does seem to ma...
In case you needed a reason to get more exercise office towers in New York, Boston and Chicago will start airing "content" (read : advertising)...
Michal J Wallace : The PHP Snurk Nice!
Wired on The Digital Pecking Order There have been a lot of these stories lately. I wonder if it's the just the feature of the we...
Jon Katz : The Net - Boon or Nightmare? sigh.

Tuesday, July 20 1999

George Lucas "We are moving into a different era in terms of cinematic experience. I liken it more to the m...
Must...fight...inner...consumer If for no other reason, than that we all hold out hope there will be something better to blow ...
Le Monde : Internet, le déstabilisateur incertain des médias "Au moment où les nouvelles technologies de la communication bouleversent l'univers des médias...
L.A. Times on the Tree People "Now they want the trees they plant and the houses they retrofit to be part of a total system-...
Mark Stevens on the MOMA's "Fame after Photography" "As fame yields to celebrity, so does art to artist, character to personality, and memory to n...
First Monday, July 1999 Includes a rebuttal to David Noble's critique of "distributed learning technologies" (my mouth...

Wednesday, July 21 1999

The Suffragists Oral History Project
Globe & Mail on "green bullets" "The U.S. Army has developed an environmentally friendly bullet -- one that will still maim an...
Mr. Purple on The Network "In effect, he was suggesting that the Web could grow self-aware, live off human fetuses, and ...
Geeks In Space : Live from Martha's Vineyard For a complete multimedia experience, load this flash animation in another browser window whil...
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Thursday, July 22 1999

Lauren Weinstein on Bright Light Bright Light is a free, POP-based spam-filtering service.
Matthew Mirapaul Art as a Games, Games as Art
Why does it matter whether or not Steve Jobs wears a belt or not?
Vincenzo Natali "Listen to this: It's the world's first Luddite slasher film, where the Bell employee's actual...
If I dig a hole through the Earth from Montreal I'll wind up here.
Michael Dertouzos thinks brain implants are a "lousy idea".
Does anyone know whether the AirPort can, does, or will support encryption? MOSR is saying there is 40-bit enc...
I had no idea that America is running out of pennies. real audio.
I wandered over to the website for Saturday Night magazine and discovered a feature called "Canadian Letters". Every issue they get a half dozen or so pe...
Web Review on QuickTime A good overview if you're new to QuickTime. Better, check out The Little QuickTime Webl...I me...

Friday, July 23 1999

Few updates on Friday or Saturday for the next few weeks while I work at Morning Glory Farm (I ran the herb garden, during the s...
The moped is a popular method of transportation among tourists on the Vineyard, much to the consternatio...
Pork the one you love Do optometrists in other cities do these kinds of things?
Do you hate this website? Go ahead then, fork me in the head.

Saturday, July 24 1999

Montreal Mayor Pierre Bourque wants to give 200-year-old streets newfangled high-tech monikers like "pixel."
I had no idea that in 1995, the Big O got the Good Feng Shui Seal of Approval.
Apple's AirPort uses the IEEE 802.11 Standard, which means :"...802.11 embeds the WEP mechanism within the MAC that covers ...
Squishdot "Squishdot is a news publishing and discussion product for Zope. It creates a place in your we...

Sunday, July 25 1999

Robert at bump.net (or <a href = "http://www.dalai-lama.com/">dalai-lama.com</a>, depending on what y...
The National Film Board's CinéRobothèque
Dimanche magazine "Le fumeur et la cigarette sont-ils en train de devenir les boucs émissaires de toutes les int...
This is Not CNN (unusually large) flash animations
slashdot has pointed people to the Stan Lee site so now I feel obliged to point people to this interview with Dave Sim. Notwithstanding his wor...
Pictures from Morning Glory Farm for anyone interested in where I was on Friday and Saturday.

Monday, July 26 1999

I had no idea that the iMac is really just a swollen PowerBook. Now I can't get the image of inflatable iMac...
Andrew Shapiro "In the context you mention -- protecting kids from sexual material while safeguarding the fre...
NY Times : High-Technology Sector Unmoved by Labor's Song "I never think about unions, because they were never part of my life." Meanwhile, slashdot has...
BBC : World's biggest flower blooms "Last Monday, delighted botanists discovered that it had developed a 106 cm flower bud. On Wed...

Tuesday, July 27 1999

I re-read John Dvorak's iBook commentary this morning. Perhaps he was just trying to be funny, but it reminds me of the day, in eighth ...
John Maeda on digital art "Without being able to know how to program, you can't break out of the technology -- just like...
Hemp News a hemplog. Meanwhile, the Globe & Mail asks : Do you know what's in your hempburger?
Wired on the Anti-Weblog
O'Reilly's MySQL & mSQL <a href = "http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/msql/chapter/ch10-beta.html">beta sample chapt...
Web Reference : PHPhoo How to build a Yahoo-style site using PHP and MySQL. "As Spider Man always said, with Great Po...

Wednesday, July 28 1999

Le Monde on transporters "Il y a deux ans, l'Autrichien Anton Zeilinger et son équipe ont réussi à faire ce que Charles...
Gail Collins on Woodstock '69 "Circumstances that nobody anticipated had left us in the middle of nowhere, the roads clogged...

Thursday, July 29 1999

Wired on Genetically modified trees "The Michigan team figured out a solution by engineering aspen trees with 45 percent less lign...
Neuromancer : the movie I wonder if this will translate well to the screen. For me William Gibson's books have always ...
The Annotated Watchmen
The MacPerl Mailings Lists online, archived and <a href = "http://bumppo.net/lists/sherlock/macperl.src.hqx">Sherlo...
ArsTechnica reviews BeOS 4.5

Friday, July 30 1999

The Cult of the Palm Pilot "It was also something of a postmodern moment. I had done this, at least in part, so that I co...
Morning Edition on KPFA and a brief history of the Pacifica Radio Network. real audio.
Talk of the Nation : Ani DiFranco "Oh no, not callers!" I was listening to [her] last solo album this evening, and I remembered ...
iboy.aaronland.net now points to abhb. Because it was easy and because I'm trying to do my small part to help ren...
Seattle Weekly : Pottery Barn Nation "It's all about seeing the red. I see and am sold. I walk out of the store with a bag containi...

Saturday, July 31 1999

There is a god, and it is fresh pesto. I had business cards made last year and they included the...

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