BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. Day 1 after the end of the war: The residents of Baghdad are slowly entering the streets, picking their way past the rubble of bombed out buildings. Many are homeless, most are hungry and desperately thirsty because the water supply to the city was one of the first targets bombed. […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The only problem with virtual friends is that the friendship is based on vapour and smoke, with an occasional glimpse into a mirror to make you think you’re seeing something real.
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Hosting Matters as a virtual host sucks little wormy, sour green apples. I’ve had nothing but trouble all week with my server (Clio). I keep hearing about slashdot, or this or that, but what it all boils down to, is there are over 500 virtual sites hosted on my machine […]
I wanted to point out what could be a potentially interesting conference in Chicago, May 30-31: Digital Genres Conference. According to Alex Golub, the focus of the conference is: In 1924 Gilbert Seldes’ The 7 Lively Arts made one of the earliest and most powerful arguments that popular genres of entertainment such as jazz and cinema […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. This essay is long, and includes terms that are racially offensive, but also representative of the time in which they were used. Much of my earliest reading was through books I pilfered from my brother’s shelves when he was out playing with his friends. It was through my brother that […]