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Past, n."That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regretable acquaintance. A moving line called the Present parts it from an imaginary period known as the Future. These two grand divisions of Eternity, of which the one is continually effacing the other, are entirely unlike. The one is dark with sorrow and disappointment, the other bright with prosperity and joy. The Past is the region of sobs. The Future is the realm of song. In the one crouches Memory, clad in sackcloth and ashes, mumbling penitential prayer; in the sunshine of the other Hope flies with a free wing, beckonging to temples of success and bowers of ease. Yet the Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the Past of tomorrow. They are one -- the knowledge and the dream."

Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.

Feb 00

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)

Jan 00

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)

Dec 99

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)

Nov 99

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)

Oct 99

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)

Sep 99

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)

Aug 99

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)

Jul 99

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)

Jun 99

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)

May 99

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)

Apr 99

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)

Mar 99

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)

Feb 99

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)

Jan 99

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)

Dec 98

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

Oct 98

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)

Sep 98

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)

Aug 98

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)

Jul 98

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)

Jun 98

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)

May 98

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)

Apr 98

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)

Mar 98

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)



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