According To Merriam-Webster. Not Really.

Exams= stress, watching movies you hardly like for a break, chain-smoking, inability to conceive of life after the exams, inability to stop thinking about life after the exams, anxiety, preoccupation with the most minimal things, staring at the walls, texting for the sake of texting, eating for the sake of eating, sleeping for the sake of sleeping, taking showers for the sake of taking showers, insomnia, lack of desire to just get down to it, lack of desire to go out, lack of desire to stay in, obsession with the news, the lack of creative obsession, the lack of duty, the lack of sleep, the lack of food, the lack of concentration, the void of the minute.

Free, Open Internet?

Thank you, A. for bringing this to my attention. Now I'm more pissed than ever. What's Lessig saying about this? What's McChesney saying about this?

Innocent When You Dream?

More like Eighties Fan, Green Typewriters, Piazza, Funny Little Frog
More like hanging out in 2 bedroom apartments
More like More Than This
More like Daydream Believer
More like looking for part-time jobs online
More like The Last Days of the Suicide Kid
More like Everyone Says I Love You
More like The Shy Retirer
More like dreaming of our garden
More like Moon River, Waterloo Bridge, days by the fireplace
More like Pleasant Street, I'll Stop the World and Melt With You, You Can Never Hold Back Spring
More like Dancing In the Moonlight, Watch You Drink, Books Written For Girls
More like hanging out like this...

Today.

Studying for Exams, Looking for a Flat: Multi-tasking in a Postmodern Era...

And this picture sums it up perfectly.
Yesterday was a great day.

More Obscure Than Ever

I just LOVE gigs. I, pure, straight, love them. And recently I've developed a love for Camera Obscura so I was beautifully taken by surprise when I found out the were playing at the Luminaire.. So, I left the library and headed to Kilburn with T. only to find out that it was... SOLD OUT!


I really, purely hate the phrase 'sold out'.

A couple of Jack Daniels to clear my throat

A couple of Jack Daniels to clear my throat,
a third or fifth one to help me walk.
A dash of tequila shots on the side
I gaze upon such a delight.
I write poems about booze
to feel, to know, to give, to lose.
I write poetry of no sense
for joy, for merry and for nonsense.
Once I wrote a longer one
called something about an ex-alcoholic- it was fun!
An empty bottle looks at me
I got it eight months ago in Crete
I haven't touched it ever since
You wouldn't believe me if I flinched!!!!

Press Freedom my @$$

http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=13580

If This Isn't Creepy, What Is?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8854982147939601265

Θέλω να φτύσω την αυπνία μου ή 'Όλες οι Συζητήσεις για την Τέχνη είναι Ίδιες"

Θεραπεύομαι από την αυπνία μου.
Όταν δεν την περιμένω.
Θεραπεύομαι λίγο και από την ανία μου.
Εκεί που πάω να την ξεχάσω.
Αργά τη νύχτα όμως, τρεις ώρες αφού ξάπλωσα,
κάτι αέρινο ξυπνάει μέσα μου
και ΔΕΝ μ'αφήνει να αποκοιμηθώ...


Θέλω να φτύσω την αυπνία μου.

To E. In Whatever State She Might Be...

Girl, I only sent you those borrowed letters cause I didn't have w o r d s of my own.

How the hell are you?
Began the poem
And what's going on in your life?
Is the supernatural pattern treating you well?
Do you still have it?
Do you have it in the morning?
And do you have it
late
at night?

Πές μου, γαμώ! Στείλε ένα mail που να λέει "είμαι καλά".

Δεύτερες Σκέψεις...

Μια φίλη μου έστειλε το εξής email σήμερα:


Και καλά έρευνες:

- Αν τσιρίζεις για 8 χρόνια, 7 μήνες και 6 μέρες, θα δημιουργούσες ηχητική ενέργεια που θα αρκούσε για να ζεστάνεις μία κούπα καφέ!
(Δεν νομίζω ότι αξίζει τον κόπο!)

- Αν κλάνεις συνεχώς επί 6 χρόνια και 9 μήνες, παράγεις αρκετόαέριο για να φτιάξεις μία ΑΤΟΜΙΚΗ ΒΟΜΒΑ!
Τώρα, κάτι κάνουμε)

- Ο οργασμός από ένα γουρούνι κρατάει 30 λεπτά!!!!(Στην επόμενη ζωή μου, θέλω να είμαι γουρούνι!)
(Πως όμως το κατάλαβαν αυτό, και γιατί το έψαξαν;;)

- Αν χτυπάς το κεφάλι σου στον τοίχο, χρησιμοποιείς 150 θερμίδες την ώρα.
(Μην το δοκιμάσετε στο σπίτι.... Στην δουλειά ίσως;; (Εντωμεταξύ, ακόμα δεν μπορώ να χωνέψω το θέμα με το γουρούνι...)

- Οι άνθρωποι και τα δελφίνια είναι τα μοναδικά όντα στην γη που κάνουν σεξ όχι μόνο για την αναπαραγωγή, αλλά και για ευχαρίστηση.
(Γι αυτό ο Φλίπερ το δελφίνι στην γνωστή σειρά της τηλεόρασης, συνεχώς χαμογελούσε. Και τα γουρούνια έχουν 30 λεπτά οργασμό? Δεν μου φαίνεται δίκαιο αυτό!)

- Ο ποιο δυνατός μυς στο σώμα μας, είναι η γλώσσα.
(Μμμμμμμμμμμ..........)

- Οι δεξιόχειρες άνθρωποι ζουν κατά μέσο όρο 9 χρόνια περισσότερο από τους αριστερόχειρες.
(Αν χρησιμοποιείς και τα δύο χέρια, χωρίζεις την διαφορά των χρόνων στα δύο?)

- Το μυρμήγκι μπορεί να σηκώσει 50 φορές το βάρος του, και να τραβήξει 30φορές το βάρος του, και πέφτει πάντα στην δεξιά πλευρά όταν ζαλιστεί.
(Το μυρμήγκι από τι ζαλίζεται? Πίνει μπύρα BUD?)


(Πλήρωσαν οι φορολογούμενοι πολίτες για αυτήν την έρευνα?, θα ήθελα
κάποιος να μου δώσει μια υπεύθυνη απάντηση σε αυτό το θέμα!)

- Οι πολικές αρκούδες, είναι αριστερόχειρες!
(Καλά, και ποιος νοιάζεται γι αυτό? Και πως το ανακάλυψαν? Τις ρώτησαν με ποιο χέρι γράφουν?)

- Το γατόψαρο, έχει πάνω από 27,000 γευστικές απολήξεις.
(Τώρα τι είναι ΤΟΣΟ νόστιμο στον πάτο της λίμνης... ποιος ξέρει!)

- Οι ψύλλοι μπορούν πηδήξουν 350 φορές το μήκος του σώματός τους. Είναι σαν να πηδάει ένας άνθρωπος ένα ολόκληρο γήπεδο ποδοσφαίρου!
(30 λεπτά οργασμός.... Το φαντάζεστε? Και γιατί μόνο τα γουρούνια?)

- Μια κατσαρίδα ζει για 9 μέρες χωρίς το κεφάλι της πριν πεθάνει από ασιτία.
(Τρομακτικό! Μπρρρρ....)

- Το αρσενικό «αλογάκι της Παναγιάς» δεν μπορεί να εκσπερματώσει όσο το κεφάλι του είναι συνδεμένο ακόμα με το σώμα του. Έτσι το θηλυκό, τον βοηθάει την κατάλληλη στιγμή, αποκεφαλίζοντάς τον.
(«-Αγάπη μου, τελειώνω τώρα, ναι, ναι, ναι... Τι κάνεις αγάπη μου?...Μη το κεφάλι μου... πονάει..ΑΑΑΑΑΑΑΑ»)
(Τουλάχιστον τα γουρούνια περνάν καλύτερα!)

- Μερικά λιοντάρια, ζευγαρώνουν 50 φορές την ημέρα...
(Εγώ πάντως εξακολουθώ να θέλω να είμαι γουρούνι στην επόμενη ζωή μου! Προτιμώ την 'Ποιότητα' από την 'Ποσότητα')

- Οι πεταλούδες μυρίζουν με τα πόδια τους.
(ουουου... πολύ φετιχιστικό!)
(Είναι σχεδόν το ίδιο βλακεία όπως και με το γατόψαρο!)

- Το μάτι της στρουθοκαμήλου είναι μεγαλύτερο από τον εγκέφαλό της.
(Ξέρω κάποιους φίλους που έχουν το ίδιο πρόβλημα!)

- Τα χρυσόψαρα δεν έχουν εγκέφαλο
(Και τέτοιους φίλους έχω!)


Μετά από όλες αυτές τις έρευνες, ένα πράγμα έχω να πω:

ΤΥΧΕΡΑ ΓΟΥΡΟΥΝΙΑ
















Ε? Ε? Ε?

For You, Wherever You May Be

The Great Firewall of China and Other Stories of Net Terror

The Good, the Bad and the Google

“Don’t be evil.” It’s been Google’s informal corporate motto for years; and for the most part, people have been willing to take it at its word.

In January, things changed. Google announced that the new Chinese version of its site, Google.cn, would comply with Beijing policy by removing politically sensitive websites from search results. Just like that, the company that is thought of by so many as the very embodiment of the information-wants-to-be-free ethic found itself widely accused of abetting the suppression of political dissent. Defending its actions in an official statement, Google pointed to the fact that its existing sites are already subject to silent filtering by the Chinese government, resulting in sluggish response times and service blackouts. Complying with Beijing’s demands, the company argued optimistically, would not only improve user access, but would also allow Google to introduce a measure of transparency by notifying users whenever search results are removed.

That’s the theory. Unsurprisingly, everything gets a little murkier in practice. In the months since the launch of Google.cn, Adbusters has been intermittently returning to the site to test out a few of China’s most troublesome bugaboos. Filtering is usually obvious. A text search for “Taiwan Independence” was met with about 210,000 results in mid-March; on Google.com, the results numbered over 12,000,000. “Free Tibet” scored 19,600,000 on Google.com, but a paltry 170,000 on Google.cn.

Image: Cult of the Dead Cow [cultdeadcow.com]

While the results on Google.cn were heavily weighted in favour of the government’s official stance, dissenting voices were by no means completely excluded; on a few attempts, image and text searches brought back apparently unfiltered results, with pro-independence opinions dominating, only to revert back to filtered results minutes later.

There’s no telling what accounts for the inconsistent filtering (Technical glitches? Deliberate sedition on the part of Google?). What is clear, unfortunately, is the company’s failure to follow through on its promise to include filtering notification, with neither “Taiwan Independence” nor “Free Tibet” warranting any comment. Only when we pushed one of Beijing’s tenderest buttons, “Tiananmen Square Massacre” - 315 page results, 0 images – did the following appear, in Chinese, tucked rather discreetly at the bottom of the page: “In accordance with local laws, regulations, and policies, a portion of the search results are not shown.”

It is with a certain degree of irony, then, that Google has taken a completely different tack in response to the recent US Department of Justice request that the company fork over search query data along with every url in its index. Not only did Google say no, it said no in a 25-page court document asserting that the government has no right to ask. While Google’s refusal has to do, at least in part, with a desire not to reveal proprietary information about its search algorithms, the move has been lauded by privacy advocates like the American Civil Liberties Union for sending the message that government cannot have free access to private data just because it it deems it necessary.

These dealings with Beijing and Washington are painting a more complex picture of Google than internet users have grown accustomed to seeing. And the lesson for Google itself is pretty clear: sometimes, it’s not so easy to avoid being evil, especially for a behemoth. Let’s all cross our fingers that it doesn’t stop trying.

Clayton Dach

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Are You There? - Anathema

Are you there?
Is it wonderful to know
All the ghosts...
All the ghosts...
Freak my selfish out
My mind is happy
Need to learn to let it go
I know you'd do no harm to me

But since you've been gone I've been lost inside
Tried and failed as we walked by the riverside
And I wish you could see the love in her eyes
The best friend that eluded you lost in time
Burned alive in the heat of a grieving mind

But what can I say now?
It couldn't be more wrong
Cos there's no one there
Unmistakably lost and without a care
Did we lose all the love that we could have shared
And its wearing me down
And its turning me round
And I can't find a way
Now to find it out
Where are you when I need you...

Are you there?