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As Above, So Below: A Novel of Peter Bruegel

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Thursday, March 20, 2003

iMac is history
Built around a 15-inch CRT (cathode-ray tube), the original iMac debuted in 1998 for $1,299. The computer eventually sold for as little as $799, keeping its trademark design virtually unchanged while adding features like FireWire, CD burners and DVD players.

However, on Tuesday, Apple removed the lone CRT-based iMac from Apple's main online store, and a source confirmed that Apple does not plan to keep selling it publicly. The machine is still listed on Apple's online education store and schools have been the main reason Apple has continued to make the device.

Introduced in a shade known as Bondi Blue, the iMac spent its childhood in candy colors like grape and lime and its early adulthood in wild hues like Blue Dalmatian and Flower Power before spending its later years in subtle shades like graphite and snow.


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Increasingly heavy manners from BigMedia forcing companies to spy even more on employees
With early generations of file-swapping software, it was a relatively simple task for network administrators to simply block the network "ports," or designated paths, that the software would use to communicate with the outside world. Many software programs use specific ports to communicate with each other, and so this proved effective.

That capability has been lost with recent generations of file-swapping programs, however. Programs including Kazaa can switch which port they use, essentially trying all the network doors available until they find one that is open. Some also use the same path used by ordinary Web traffic--blocking this would block all of an employee's ability to visit outside Web sites, an unacceptable outcome for many companies.

In response, a generation of tools has emerged that looks closely at network traffic to see exactly what kind of information is included in the data stream, or scans employees' computers to see what kinds of software they have running.


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Richard K Morgan's Altered Carbon: Powell's review
To say that Richard K. Morgan's debut novel Altered Carbon succeeds in following the pattern of his precursors would not do it justice. This novel is explosively original: combining the techno-fetish of William Gibson, the hardboiled detective narrative of Dashiell Hammett and the rapid-fire heroic bloodshed of the films of John Woo.
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Morgan's 25th-century Earth is convincing, while the questions he poses about how much Self is tied to body chemistry and how the rich believe themselves above the law are especially timely.


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Wednesday, March 19, 2003

send
I see Wire's send full-length won't be out til early May, late April in the UK

However, 7 of the 11 tracks are from the Read and Burn EPs. The second EP was only available through Posteverything and on the tour, but most Wire fans have picked them up somewhere ;).

So the wise move would be to order send from Posteverything, since aside from the 4 new tracks you get a limited edition CD of live mixes from the Chicago Metro show that's not available anywhere else.

send tracklist:
1.01 'In the Art of Stopping (3.34)'
1.02 'Mr Marx's Table (3.02)'
1.03 'Being Watched (2.57)'
1.04 'Comet (3.17)'
1.05 'The Agfers of Kodack (3.13)'
1.06 'Nice Streets Above (full version) (3.46)'
1.07 'Spent (4:43)'
1.08 'Read & Burn (2:35)'
1.09 'You Can't Leave Now (3.41)'
1.10 'Half Eaten (1.58)'
1.11 '99.9 (7:38)'
Looks like they'll be doing a short tour in the US as they'll be over for "the Matt Groening curated All Tomorrow's Parties" (whatever that is) on June 21 in L.A..


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I see Leif has added mp3s of his 9 Beet Stretch to the site, accompanying the RealAudio

Well worth a listen.

I've added the link to the "Music > Artists" section at left.

Original post here.

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U of Cincinnati team virtually reconstructs ancient settlements in Ohio which were aligned with astronomical observances
EarthWorks is the most comprehensive virtual reconstruction of archaeological remnants, both in the digital re-creation and in the size of the original archeological structures, said project leader John Hancock of the Center for the Reconstruction of Historic Sites at the university.

"Ancient cultures need vivid images to gain a prominent place in the popular imagination," Hancock said. "These computer renderings of the mound's secrets allow the modern imagination to see and to understand what has been destroyed over the last 200 years."

The earliest mounds were large, simple cones; later works included giant geometric shapes, and the structures eventually evolved into animal outlines -- snakes and possum figures being the most popular, according to Hancock.

The earthen structures weren't as showy as the Mayan and Roman temples that ancient architects were constructing around the same era. But they were amazing technical achievements, precisely plotting and marking the moon's rhythms, and serving as historical monuments and landscape markers.
There are images, movies and VRML models at the EarthWorks site (2nd link).

Pretty neat.

Ancient civilizations have always fascinated me.

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Monday, March 17, 2003

Pauline Oliveros at 70
Her latest piece, written for a 13-piece chamber orchestra, combines the sounds of the ensemble with Oliveros' Expanded Instrument System, a sort of sound "time machine," as she calls it. While the musicians play in the present, the acoustic sounds are recorded on the computer and played a few seconds later in the piece. Oliveros says it's a sound-processing method that expands time in both directions: into the past and into the future. In Sound Geometries the music is modified to send sounds to the speakers in auditory geometric patterns.

"You hear the sounds moving and the patterns changing and the rates of speed changing," Oliveros said. "You'll hear the acoustic sound of the ensemble and the reflected sounds flying around in space."


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Sunday, March 16, 2003

Scanner interview
I was recently invited to work on a commission that has been the most responsible work I have ever created in a public place, at The Hopital Raymond Poincare in Garches, near Paris, which is famous for treating road injury victims. The chief pathologist Doctor Michel Durigon decided it was time to create a Salle des Departs, a place where families and friends could come to say goodbye to their loved ones without, as he says, "having to suffer sickly background music and a red carpet," and to follow this through I was commissioned to write the soundtrack to this special place. It has been an extraordinary humanitarian project to be offered this chance to create a musical and artistic space in a hospital morgue, and was personally a remarkable artistic journey of discovery. It was a daunting work, having no idea what culture, religion, age of the visitors may be that would be passing through this space to bid farewell to their loved ones but to be part of project to humanise such a difficult experience, and to be a source of sustenance to mourners cannot simply be expressed in words here. The work is permanent and will be heard by an unexpected audience for years to come.


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