is a schnitzer. He carves bits of drift wood and makes intertesting things.
Sometimes he uses metal.
He also paints them.
The wood things are pretty.
Go look at them.
kevintitzer.com
August 27th: Mediablogs
I haven't seen them hyped yet, but they are out there. Maybe it's just because mp3 blog sounds so much more dangerous, as we all know that the sharing of unlicencsed and copyrighted material is something only pirates and really mean people do.
Media sharing and linking can't be as much fun can it? I mean, it's legal right? It doesn't make me a threat to society or anything now does it.
Whatever.
Demandmedia.net collects links to interesting video things and lets you get all entertained and so.
August 26th: Akma
use a laptop, go to jail.
Law Enforcement Weirdness is nothing new to the States (or anywhere I suspect). The latest story in over-zealous legal interpretations involves a theologian, a library, and a bench. I assume I don't have to mention the law enforcement official and a singular sense of jurisprudence?
Anyway, I have linked to a blog which links to the story (which is also on a blog) because it features a a lovely litle illustration and a delightful summary. Go, Read, Be amazed.
check your gods online and win one of these fabulous prizes.
I lied.
There are no fabulous prizes to win. Unless you consider knowledge a prize beyond all value. Sounds corn, I know, but somepeople actually value stufflike that. If you do, you can learn more than you probably planned on ever knowing about the pantheon of human deities. Facts and fun information about all your favorite gods, from Andhrimnir to Ziu. THe arctic circcle to the Amazonian rainforest, if you can worship it, it's there. Orsomething like that.
godchecker.com
August 24th: Deadman Flying
I found something interesting from vox.de.
I know I shouldnt be so surprised, but I am anyway. Actually, this probably isn't very new for some of you, but it was for me so what the hell.
The game is easy:
drive a hearse, hit the breaks, watch your passenger take a long flight 6ft under.
there were things called Bulletin Board Systems. In the days when the internet was still called DARPAnet, and the only people with easy entry were either working for the military industrial complex or students, BBS's gave many of us our first taste of online communities.
The BBS's were usually running on 1st generation personal computers from Apple or Commodore, and served, more often than not, as home base for communities of hackers, phreaks and teenage malcontents. With names like The Stronghold, Citadel, Hackers Haven and my favorite, Deep Thought, the boards were clearly geared to people of a somewhat, shall we say singular?, disposition.
Loads of information on computer and phone systems, anarchy, chemistry, experimental biology, electronics, lock picking, psychedelics, science fiction and so on and so forth, were being hoarded and disseminated. This trend continued into the early web, and still has the odd page that refuses to go away. Malditoscyborgs.org is one of them. Loads of fun information on more supposedly forbidden subjects than an American politician could shake a big stick at. It's a lot like the old mondo2000, just without any of the Smart-drink ads. And no articles by R.U. Sirius or Jaron Lanier.
Wien | 28.8.2004 | 10:52 
