Week 66
02.03.03
Nice thick nexus of gossip on the Bollywood Mafia here. It's not enough
that the all-singin' all-dancin' thespians have got organized crime on
their backs, now they get shaken down by Moslem terrorists, too. If
there's a difference. Which there isn't.
http://server1.msn.co.in/completecoverage/ mafia/
The extensively talented Ajay Devgan's best role ever, as a Bollywood mafia
don in Ram Gopal Varma's "Company." You might say the guy is getting a
little too close to his material here, but he is genuinely scary in this
film.
http://www.planetbollywood.com/Film/ Company/
02.04.03
Woah! This Brooklyn guy's got a homemade desktop that monitors the
whole, uh, universe. It's like the Watts Towers of streaming Internet
mediosity.
http://www.formandcontent.net/projects/ worldview/worldview.htm
02.05.03
Can you be a scientist goth? How about a scientist perkygoth? Maybe
there will be a sudden run on black leather labcoats and chrome-studded
pocket protectors.
http://slashgoth.org/stories.php? story=03/01/13/5956791
You know, why do scientists dress so badly? White shirt, gray pants, black
shoes
Do they think that makes them look more "objective,"
somehow?
http://www.hojo.org/index.php? page=visual
They are trying to loosen up, but
http://www.labwear.com/mens.html
http://www.alight.com/11220800.html
http://www.labwear.com/fashionscrubs.html
02.06.03
Boy, that's weird. Running a Linux desktop, live, on a Java applet,
inside a Microsoft browser, through a dead and discontinued AT&T
app.
http://www.workspot.com/screenshots/ images/cleandesktop2.gif
http://www.workspot.com/screenshots/ images/filleddesktop2.gif
Y'know, for ten bucks to mess around with Linux for a month, I may have to do
this. Ten bucks, that's like a hamburger and fries. A small price to pay
for a computer that doesn't get "total information awareness" and DRM
built into it.
http://www.workspot.com/faq/
It's not just a commercial decision, any more.
http://www.buyolympia.com/crimethinc/ sid=945586438/misc.html
02.07.03
Y'know, I've been hanging out with the Adbusters crowd for years. I have
never seen them so chuffed and fired-up and blatantly gleeful as they are
during this dark time. Will they finally put ol' Kalle Lasn into that
sealed train for Moscow? Is The Revolution at hand?
http://adbusters.org/creativeresistance/ jamgallery/index.html
http://adbusters.org/campaigns/bnd/
http://www.theyrule.net/
http://www.thehacktivist.com/
http://www.billboardliberation.com/actions/ new_economy.html
Visualize a world without any goddamn advertising.
http://adbusters.org/magazine/45/articles/ ad_spending_predicted_for.html
Bruce Sterling writes books like Darwin watched animals. Find out more about him,
and read tattered electronic copies of Cheap Truth, at the
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He lives with his wife Nancy and their two daughters in Austin, Texas.
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