Sky funerals [1]... Internet and television (masterclass) [4]... Vernadsky + potlatch [5]... Bad flu years + flying carpet (reality) [6]... The whale in the blue washing machine [7]... Free agent nation [9]... Epic art + be my ghost [10]... Sex is simple + net art vs. real art + tibetan game design [11]... Weblog as a live minefield [12]... Web presence and absence [13]... Maitri [14]... Applying the dharma [15]... Logical connections (ontogroups) [16]... Dharma bums [17]... InfoArcadia [19]... Effects of pressure [20]... Hosting and affordances [21]... Learning by linking [22]... Holding on and letting go [25]... Deep narrative [26]... Stuff of Memory [28]... Transparent society [29]... (71k + 7 images)

Calculating your age in the year 2000 [1]... Millenium resolutions [2]... Connoisseur dates [4]... Limits to growth [6]... The Darwin awards [7, 8]... The force of habit [9]... Public space from hell [10]... Fear and doubt as viruses [12, 13]... A child's balance [14]... Bangungot vs. bang-utot [19]... Alamut's peace [24]... Private limbo in a public space [25]... Schismogenesis revisited [26]... Drama theory [28]... Bardos as opportunities [30]... Transhumanist buddhism [31]... (32k + 2 images)

Back from Paris with too much to say [7]... Tea connoisseurs [10, 12]... Confession [11]... Days at the end of an epoch [16]... Board game obssession [18]... Political games [19]... Roads and paper routes at Minerva [20]... Prisoner's dilemma revisited [22]... Broken thread [26]... Y2K writ large and small [28]... Tooth and nail [29]... The future state of health [30]... End of the millenium and the oldest woman dies [31]... (23k + 10 images)

A walk on the beach and the slippage at the end of a lecture [1]... Quixote (fight club) [4]... The push and pull of our attention [9]... The city and its screens [10]... Talking to strangers [11]... Fuck the melting pot [18]... Will, goals, tactics and strategy [24]... Have will, will travel + delusions of grandeur + an auspicious point of view [25]... The art of darshan [26]... Will and testament [27]... Cultural constipation [28]... Everything and nothing [29]... L.'s birthday [30]... (33k + 14 images)

How to start your own country [1]... "Change is a puppy born into the lap of truth" [2]... Speeding towards the finish line [4]... Eavesdrop and archive [7]... Cryptonomicon and social skills [8]... A dinner at the crossroads [12]... Discipline and diversion [13]... Pheromonic fix (Des Esseintes) [15]... Loes leaves for Leningrad [17]... Information and experience + long gone [18]... The (real) death of the author [20]... Glass house + growing up in public [21]... 9 spells [22]... Weblog behaviors [23]... Loes comes back from Leningrad (the wild, wild, west) [24]... Victory, love, conquest [26]... Thou shalt not hyperfocus [28]... Aestheticizing disease [29]... (47k + 6 images)

Preservation vs. disposal [1]... Beauty and the beast + trust, reputation and risk (spanish lotteries) [2]... The clue train [4]... The societies of network [5]... Bachelors and hermits [6]... Deleuze sings [7]... Some old thoughts about time [8]... 9.9.99 + small world networks [9]... The birth of Alamut [10]... Skinner's variable interval reinforcement [11]... Morality's voice (East Timor) [12]... Education technology [13]... Education and curricular smut [14]... The word shall survive the death of its host [16]... 'The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.' [17]... The art of reputation [19]... Launch and learn [20]... Anarchitecture (Matta-Clark) [23]... Funnels [25]... Maximum attention span [26]... The virus power [27]... Split (quit my job) [28]... Selling your company [30]... (64k +12 images)

At the end of the pavement, the beach [1]... The cuckoo principle (guides to Disney) [3]... The phenomenology of 'new lands' [5]... King of the castle [6]... Novel learning + extreme stamina [7]... Charles Fort [8, 9, 10]... Finding Bill Gate's wallet [11]... Cycles and change (eclipse) [12]... Friday the 13th [13]... Rational choices (dilemmas) [14]... Waste and hedonism + ultra marathon (Roman Opalka) [15]... New curriculum [16, 17, 18]... Content abundancy (mfa ad) [19]... Gregory Bateson ad + Bhutan [20]... New collector + new curriculum + synonyms for the word clever [21]... Societies as co-operative nervous systems + rus in urbe [22]... Our prosthetic future [24]... Web operas + Deleuze primer + the heresy of paraphrase [25]... Good hermits and bad hermits (Kaczynski, bin Laden) + Celia Green on 'oversocialization' [26]... Ranting + Warhol's marriage to his first tape recorder + factoid project + Inman diary [27]... Comorant fishing [29]... (75k + 12 images)

John von Neumann (the memory machine) [1]... The best vs. the good [3]... Young Johnny [4]... The excellent is the enemy of the good [5]... Deaf, dumb and blind spot [12]... The origin of consciousness (Julian Jaynes) + Helen Keller's nightmare [12]... Moving forward (W. S. Merwin) + what makes today's heresy so appealing? [14]... Viridian notes [15, 16]... Life on the net 2015 (Bruce Sterling) [17]... Dune walker [18]... Vietnam war stats + timeline get real [19]... Fucking around with the art world's memory + Van Meegeren [20]... Thought train - memory train (iReady associations) [21]... Maelstrom and metastasis [22]... Memory and time travel (moon landing) [23]... Computing with leeches + bird watching [25]... Moby dick failure (time) [26]... The shape of time (temporal affordances) [27]... Mendel's failure (time) [28]... How does alamut fit it? [29]... Buying books at the library [30]... (67k + 10 images)

Li Ching-Yuen (the 250 year old man) [1]... Sites and situations vitriol [3]... Semiotics vs. memetics [4]... True and false dichotomies in respect to moving forward rather than backward [5]... Enlightenment as a singularity [7]... Site and situations (being here and there) + 'set and setting' [8]... Minding your own business [9]... Findagrave (survival after death) [10]... Escape artist (Houdini) [11]... Methuselah and Prometheus (tree killing) [13]... Sustainability and Gadamer (notes for the Nuon meeting) [14]... More Gadamer [15]... Standstill and progress [18]... The geometry of collaboration [21]... The end of the world (deaths in the longeval month) [23]... Excellent fast food and other tonics [24]... The garden of forking paths (parallel realities) [26]... The calculus of identity [27]... Clear cut forest garden (the online world is so flat) [28]... The factoid project [29]... The cave [30]... (67k + 11 images)

Folklore and funny money + everything + Littleton U.S.A. [1]... Penjing (tray gardens) [3]... Radio free St. Germain-des-Bois [5]... The rainiest place on earth [6]... Ubiquitous computing (Mark Weiser) + the artist's stroke (Robin Dunbar) [7]... Luxury fever [8]... Chinese embassy bombed [9]... Space opera (Vinge) [10]... Education makes me tired [15]... Change and Bateson's death [16]... Humanity i love you (e. e. cummings) [17]... Share what you know, learn what you don't + psychological experiments as art [18]... Whale hunt 1999 [19, 22]... Tongues of fire (babel vs. pentecost) + messages and matter (Newton vs. Berkeley) Attention surveillance + oulipo [24]... De geuzen + whale hunt update [25]... Community (ill) logic (Dunbar's limit) [26]... Diaries are hot, notebooks are cool (alamut) [28]... Waste and enjoyment coupled (Smithson) [30]... I live in a different world than you do [31]... (57k + 5 images)

Kosovo and open source intelligence (stratfor) [1]... Undifferentiated brown stuff (Orwell) + relic sets (De Certeau) [2]... Mushrooms and christian heresy [3]... Nature watching [5]... Form and content (story telling as the manipulation of a sequence of patterns) [8]... War in europe + content as a lulling distraction [9]... Cui bono and cultural parasitism + the global village vs. Pitcairn island + teaching conches to survive [10]... Smallpox blankets and other reservoirs + infowar [11]... Drinking songs for the body and mind (Bateson) [12]... Loes graduates! [13]... The web and the WER [14]... More info war [16]... The very large and the very small [17]... Even more info war [18]... Nova Scotia dream house + beauty and the sublime [19]... Multiculturalism without people [22]... Immunity and mental health [23]... Riots in my backyard [27]... Realtime war chat [29, 30]... (61k + 8 images)

Esther Dyson's office [1]... Singing blackbirds + intelligent fools [2]... Hong Kong cinema + tree spiking [3]... Kubrick dies and chernobyl #3 comes back online [6]... My god it's filled with stars + JK: "I cherish my own hesitation about what to publish and what not." [8]... All about books [10]... Common processes and common materials (John Chamberlain) [11]... Alt.syntax.tactical and the Denny Reikert story [12]... Heat dissipation + the use of metaphor [13]... It pays to increase your word power + games people play [14]... Alamut cycles [16]... Welwitschia mirabilis + dieoff.org + reification [18]... Outbreak news [20]... Cross reading [21]... Language specificity [23]... Universal parasitism [24]... Stopping change in order to continue changing [25]... Confusion in San Francisco (jodi.org) [26]... Live and learn (workshop Delft) [28]... Clark's blue [29]... (51k + 5 images)

Alt.fan.unabomber + jonah and the whale [8]... Melting pot not! + showing interest as a form of aggression (Richard Rodriguez) [11]... Kaczynski and Gerlernter [12]... Mismatch theory [13]... Dialectics and a Hegelian lexicon [14]... Artists vs. ideas (Colin Wilson) + the law of non-identity (Korzybski) [15]... 36 dramatic situations (Polti) [18]... NLP [20]... Chris Crawford and Andrew Plotkin + general semantics links [21]... Solitude as strategy (predator mark for public room - private space) [21]... Organismasawholeinanenvironment.com [22]... Visual anthropology +cultural magic [23]... Luxury fever (luxuries as arms race) [24]... Artificial human languages +lojban + cultural relativism [26]... Legal anthropology [27]... (50k + 5 images)

The year of the toad (Pipa pipa) [1]... Programming as a cultural activity (Donald Norman vs. Alan Kay) [17]... Criticality parties and Alvin Weinburg's notion of sustainable development [18]... Accident Angel 2 (another close call) [19]... (14k + 2 images)

Hiatus over + telomeres + Henrietta Lacks [30]... Snakes and ladders (control becomes exquisite at the edge of instability) [31]... (5k)

New powerbook + reification: the map becomes the territory [1]... CNBC's Ron Insana [5]... Exhibition preparation + strategy forming (change and changes quotes) [7]... New powerbook dies [8]... Annotation by haiku server [14]... Net jail (islands in the net) [15]... Swiki server [16]... Wiretap + the secret to running an organization that consists of creative people [17]... Wiretap fiasco [18]... Delusions of revolutionists (and euromarxists) [19]... Maps, categories, possibilities, stations and states [20]... Government by new leak [23]... My first squeak method [26]... (19k)

Keeping your eye on the prize (global-local options matrix) [1]... Consumption vs. investment I + 128 year old man [5]... Democracy as flow and fortune + race science [6]... Immortal media + 'I love lucy' is forty light years away (Shostak) [7]... Consumption vs. investment II [9]... Xanadu's notion of 'the literature' + consumption vs. investment III (Michelin guides) [11]... The difference between Singapore and Spangen [12]... Reflections on introverts [13]... Thoughts at the end of the St(*)boretum exhibition and the trouble with expectations [17]... Vicious circle (hyperinflation) [18]... Douwe Draaisma and the atlas of Vesalius [23]... Vinge's 'Peace War' (bobbling as cryosuspension) [24]... Stroom opening [26]... Call for 'death by media' [29]... Fed watch + do the masses need hypertext? (Ted Nelson's hummingbird mind) [30]... (40k)

A computer free day + Samuel Delany and radical anxiety termination [1]... 240 macronations [3]... Considering Geochelone elephantopus + TEOTWAWKI [4]... Entrepreneurs + Grotius's Mare Liberum + 2 books on Alamut [5]... Xlibris [6]... Demographics and communities of less than 150 people + Richard Meier [7]... Sunday in Rotterdam [9]... Interrupted service [10]... Inventing 400 cities [11]... The cathedral and the bazaar [12]... Bicycling to Goor [13]... Scripting frontier [14, 15]... Interrupted service redux + Gore Vidal and the future [16]... Radical breaks (JK lives in bursts) [17]... DaysAliveServer [21]... A.D.D [22]... Distractions + survival of the strongest (Hillaire Belloc) [23]... List of 400 cities (blows) completed [24]... Back to school [25]... Private behavior influencing global behavior (can attention manufacture its object?) [27]... Market slaughter (exposure) [28]... Star logo + creating a 'Don't Fuck with Me' object [29]... Loes and electronic annotation [30]... (49k)

Why justice is wrong + Deleuze on just ideas [1]... Commission to do a proposal for an Amsterdam 'stadsdeelkantoor' [2]... CLIPS code + count zero [5]... The artist's will + the desire to make money [6]... The count zero art market [7]... MFA full-metal-jacket days [9]... The start of my summer vacation (more count zero quotes) [10]... Mammoth revival [11]... The will to immortality + JK's MFA remarks + everything is 'plantation' [12]... Self surgery (the lion and the lamb found in plantation) [13]... Introduction to the Amsterdam 2.0 constitution [14, 15]... The heretical idea and the orthodox idea (scandal) [18]... Description of the islamic end of the world + ripping the veils asunder (crypto hacking) [19]... Swiki as public space + overheard in the garden at Alamut [21]... Compiling the history of Alamut + poetic intuition vs. prose intellect (Peter Lamborn Wilson) [22]... Stadsdeelkantoor project [23]... Quiet day in the Pijp [24]... Schism as a watershed [26]... Launch: alamut.com [27]... Schismogenesis + Tillich's theory of transformation through utopian thought [30]... (35k)

Amsterdam 2.0: dilution, diversity and vitality [1]... Media-GN student action ('het kom't wel goed') [3]... Recasting + Nokia + spam arms race [4]... Critique of Wageningen interface (informationalized art does not set us free) [5]... Jente moves house [6]... More on the critique of the theoretical wallpaper in the coachhouse in Wageningen + museophobe [7]... The generic city (Koolhaas) + VP [8]... Accident angel + Nuclear Garden refused at the Groningen Museum [10]... Bolo'bolo + pseudocide: or the art of disappearance [11]... Reactionary (knee jerks) [12]... Human plankton (cybernetic manifesto) [13]... Bearing change (the big lebowsky) [14]... Mail from Paul Treanor [15]... The constitution of spawn + Sony's productivity [16]... Let monopolies be (Greenspan) [17]... Cultural free trade [18]... The map is the mind [20]... My house - my rules matrix [23]... Microstates [24]... The artist's estate as expert system + the market is the medium seminar [26, 27]... Risk management (mortgage) [29]... Jacking off in cyberspace [30]... (40k)

Dead giraffes have no grace [2]... Chernobyl and the 'origin of the world' [3]... Taking the bus to Utrecht (with davidkremers) [4]... The fence goes up [5]... Finished installation [7, 8]... Opening of the exhibition in Wageningen [9]... The zoo and Loes is happy [10]... India's nuclear tests [13]... Show down at Media-GN [14]... Sustainability and factor 4 [15]... Cities are for change + the couch club in Utrecht [16]... Visiting the Sandberg + plans to start a new school [20]... Bought and played 'euphat and tigris' [22, 25]... Mark Wilson and 'the call of the extreme' (NNTE) [26]... Typical GN day [27]... More nuclear testing [28]... S,M,L,XL [30, 31]... (24k +2 images)

Bought a bicycle, went to a play and wondered whether identity is created by self or by others? [2]... Went shopping for a rock + Vondel alexandrine [3]... Designed my first nuclear reactor [5, 6, 7]... Identified grebes [9]... Bought a rock (4,200 kilograms) [11]... Went to the beach and played Die Siedler card game (easter sunday) [12]... Distracted by rec.games.board and the game cabinet [13]... Thwarted exhibition plans [17]... Went to Wageningen for David's lecture + spoke with board [17]... Wrote and uploaded 'art, science and the 'u' word' [20]... Be here now + dilemma for the board [22]... Started book: 'criticality in physics and art' [23]... Visited Henk Alles at the media lab (NL) [24]... Agreed to install empty reactor [27]... Worked on manuscript [28, 29, 30]... (15k)

One site fits all [10]... Mishima [11]... World question center [14]... Shopping for medical books in Donner + Yoda dies at 900 [15]... Dinner with davidkremers [16]... Body Armor in the Groningen Museum [18, 21]... Global brains and NDA's [19]... Reading: E.0. Wilson, Kelly, Gelernter and Goldhaber [20]... Ontogroups and balkanization [23]... Bad luck with Baan + bionics + bifurcation point [24]... Jetlag + hypersegmenting vs. society building media [26]... Hip art and the screwing of a dead sheep (Hakim Bey) [27]... Cybernetic definition of knowlege [28]... Bookkeeping and mindfulness [29]... New rules for the new economy [31]... (19k)