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Another busy week on (void) as people continued following US politics. Isabelle Whitman forwarded a comment piece apparently from a Canadian commentator; Ashley Pomeroy and others pointed out that the Europeans had built decent planes, and Chris Devers pointed out the author had been dead for seventeen years. John Melesky posted a URL to its original home, in, um, 1973. There followed come Concorde stuff. Meanwhile, Robin Houston posted Noam Chomsky's response, and Alex Mclean cheered us up with a picture of a kitten. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010910/045741.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010910/045767.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010910/045795.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010910/045794.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010910/045768.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010910/045783.html Ashley complained a bit about the way the archives worked, and Patrik Nordebo followed up. Daynal joked, but no-one suggested removing the cancerous pus that is Pipermail and replacing it with, say, MHonArc. Not that I care at all. Oh no. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010910/045750.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010910/045752.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010910/045760.html Daynal couldn't sleep. Ian Malpass, on the other hand, was rediscovering the joy of duvets, and Chris Heathcote noted that a warm bed makes a nice home. Victoria McDonnell noted that it was warm enough anyway in California, and there followed a (small) pissing contest over hot places. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010910/045755.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010910/045771.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010910/045776.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010910/045826.html Alex Robinson and Daynal continued a debate over war grave photos, that started last Thursday or so, continued over the weekend, pulled in more people (notably Chris Devers) over the middle of the week, and finally died down. It was full of very long messages debating fine points of how to doctor images and provenance, and Ashley and others satirised it a couple of times. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010910/045779.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010910/045813.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010917/046020.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010917/046037.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010917/046217.html Todd Larason posted the piece by Tamim Ansary that did the rounds in a lot of places this week, prompting Stuart Wyatt to wonder if there were reporting restrictions in place; Chris Devers though that if so, it was on the reporters side; Todd agreed that there wasn't likely to be official muzzling. Harl posted some interesting quotes. At the same time, Simon Batistoni wondered about the role of Pakistan, and Simon Kinahan amongst others joined in. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010910/045873.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010910/045888.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010917/045987.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010917/046069.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010917/046079.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010917/045938.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010917/046048.html Chris Heathcote listened to Godspeed You Black Emporer; many other people (including Ian Malpass) liked their song titles, music or (commonly) both, and Ashley noted the monologue at the beginning of 'F# A# OO' is somewhat topical. Plus it inspired Gontar Peas. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010910/045923.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010917/045936.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010917/045948.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010917/045952.html Ashley noted that Michael Jackson and other pop stars of the moment were going to record a song for victims of the WTC attacks. Generally, though, (void) went more for the diversion of the GSYBE thread into the realms of US indie, notably Juliana Hatfield (thanks to Celia and Mike Jarvis): http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010917/045976.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010917/046003.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010917/046010.html Still on music, Simon Batistoni posted a link to a list of 'banned' songs (which I just found on Plastic). Rick found it all very annoying, although both he and Steve Mynott remembered RATM being played on Radio 1 uncensored. Giles Turnbull watched the Old Grey Whistle Test, and Ashley added more reaction. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010917/046085.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010917/046112.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010917/046195.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010917/046090.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010917/046130.html Taking the geek fixation route, Patrik Nordebo wondered about how many nukes the US really had, and whether they could vapourise mountains. Steve Mynott disagreed, and Ashley took the surrealist option. The fourth URL isn't related, but it is a good Ashley post. (The rest of the thread talked about real fruit and real, if stupidly named, cellular pager things.) http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010917/046199.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010917/046215.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010917/046236.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010917/046312.html Alex Robinson posted a long, interesting and detailed post on The Pornography of Terror. Ashley noted the Guardian was selling itself on the literary figures commenting on the attack, and Chris Devers analysed the US TV response. Patrik Nordebo picked up on the first link in Alex's post, wondering if the Scientologists were really cashing in. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010917/046369.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010917/046370.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010917/046372.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010917/046378.html In other post-Sep 11 stuff, (void) people pretty much agreed that we didn't like Ann Coulter and Jerry Falwell, and that the idea that everyone should light a candle at a specified time so that it would show up on a satellite photo wouldn't work. Links of the week: the war rug (via Rick), tank manuals (via Ashley) and silver linings (via Al Snell) http://www.cloudband.com/frames.mhtml/arcade/object.mhtml?objectid=7691097 http://www.esatclear.ie/~godot/76.jpg http://www.dieselsweeties.com/strips/sw238.shtml |
