More art, less words!
This man is a genius. For anyone who ever ran
Norton Utilities just to watch Speed Disk make those pretty pictures of their (de) fragmented hard drives. (I'm not the only one, am I?) see also :
We need more of those.
But seriously folks
since the talk has turned to art, I'd like to digress for a moment. I went to art school for a whole host of reasons to dull to discuss here. I got two degrees; the first was my BFA, the second was teaching myself the web. I did the latter for some very pragmatic reasons -- if you're going to say stupid things like "I want to be a studio artists" you should have something to fall back on -- and because computers and The Network looked like they had matured beyond the gee-whiz factor. Surely, I thought, there must be something more interesting "out here" than just crunching credit cards.
Perl Wisdom : FreeBSD! For Music Lovers!
"My next three columns will look at a set of programs I'm writing for the FreeBSD machine that lives in my basement. I'm using the machine to play mp3 audio files, and I want my wife to be able to control the playlist through the web. While there are already programs to do just this, I thought it'd be instructive to see how to write it."
Dale Dougherty : Copy Right and Wrong
The architecture of the Napster service is such that users
download music files from each other's computers without ever storing
the files on the Napster server. Would you say that Napster allows
users to exchange copies for their own private use? Or would you say
that Napster is really acting as a publisher, not only distributing
the work but giving it away for free while making money in other ways
such as advertising? Or is Napster much the same as a commercial FM
radio station?
John Howe : Copyrighting the Book of Life
"With all the foresight and humanity Europe exercised when carving up Africa, biotech companies are rapaciously carving up your body in a sort of posthuman colonialism, racing each other and the government to gain exclusive rights over your genes. In the coming decades, our God-given traits may become as interchangeable -- and marketable -- as an Ikea modular home-entertainment system."
Remember, those who don't know history
are doomed to repeat it...or something like that.