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Hi. I'm doing this on time, which is scary. It helps it's been a relatively quiet relatively single threaded week, so hopefully this will be better than lat week's abomination. Matt Jones posted a time-cube-esque punishment link, which was followed up in his own inimitible fashion by Alex Robinson, while Steve Mynott posted about assination politics. http://www.spies.com/~gus/ran/0012/antiporn/ http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010305/034382.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010305/034393.html Those fun rating people at Capalert came under scrutiny. Tony Bowden mentioned their wonderful WISDOM scale, and introduced Guess the Movie, while Simon Batistoni suggested Blackstar use it as a rating system. Randal turned the quiz into a web column; his definition of (void) caused lots of debate, including a suggestion packed post from John Melesky. Chris Devers revived the FAQ. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010305/034405.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010305/034410.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010312/034572.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010312/034593.html http://bak.spc.org/void-faq/ The Westlife single prompted a flood on Holy Crap. Matt Jones said there'd be no revolution, Padraig Finnerty pointed out the new genre theory and Ashley talked about the business. Chris argued the next revolution in music would be in distribution not content, and Arp came back on that too. Mike Moran extrapolated the mainstream. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010312/034444.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010312/034447.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010312/034454.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010312/034499.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010312/034506.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010312/034517.html Simon Wistow picked up on the controversy around Tierney Gearon, while dissecting the papers, and argued with Alex Robinson argued over censorship and art. Simon Batistoni pondered what made Gearon an artist, while Mike Moran parried reductionist questions and Simon Kinahan [0] provided a touch of humour. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010312/034451.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010312/034456.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010312/034462.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010312/034472.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010312/034473.html On a tangent, Matt queried news priorities with respect to the Taliban. Kerr Rainey countered that human rights had made the news before, and Chris Devers pondered Buddhist attitudes. Alex Robinson provided links to country-specific news services and, responding to requests, information on US funding in Afghanistan. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010312/034482.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010312/034485.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010312/034489.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010312/034507.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010312/034505.html The obligatory games thread was started with a discussion of the Mojoworld 'creation' software, which turned into a discussion of real cities in games and the merits or otherwise of the PS2, including an inspiring rant from Simon Wistow, followed up by Arp. http://www.pandromeda.com/Page/What/What.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010312/034641.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010312/034656.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010312/034669.html Other threads I pondered including: hactivism, for Alex Robinson's net-time infobomb, help me obi-void for the useful anti-HTML mail advice and alternatives (he.net got a reasonable writeup), and the CD encoding discussion, which is useful for when you're deciding what format to compress your CDs with (mp3, mainly). Excerpts below. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010312/034614.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010312/034675.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010312/034556.html Links o' the week, from Ade, Matt (busy week, that lad) and Harl, as corrected by Magnus Bodin: http://www.rawvision.com/back/madness/madness.html http://www.bbspot.com/News/2001/03/perl_test.html http://www.crime.com/info/jailcam_redirect.html [0] ETOOMANYSIMONS |