Flutterby™! From 1998-08-01 to 1998-08-06

That site has this to say about The Philosopical Research Society

WARNING

The psr.org website, While Good For Research On The Occult, By No Means Is A Place To Search For The Life That Is In Our LORD JESUS CHRIST - BEWARE!

So I guess y'all know where I'll be spending my web surfing time?

[ related topics: Religion Humor Books ]

Marriage in great danger if both partners are equal! Star Wars a tool of Satan! Business partnerships bring the Bible Believer into spiritual danger! Soulless clones, able to communicate and show emotion with no conscience, "the perfect vehicle for Satan to foist his next "trip" on those of you who love him and hate Jesus Christ"! The Roman Church could be the whore of revelation 17? All this and more at http://www.sounddoctrine.com/ (except that they capitalize it in ways that I wouldn't).

[ related topics: Religion Interactive Drama Humor Star Wars ]

Suzanne D. Rich is a serious LEGOPHILE

Well, the folks at http://www.webstandards.org responded to my link yesterday, so I gave 'em another chance. I went to their site with Lynx and Netscape 3.0 with JavaScript turned off, and it's much better. Link styles aren't totally hosed, they have underlines and are therefore recognizeable. I don't know what it is about what they're doing, but that site looks a whole lot better when not viewed with Netscape 4.5. Anyways, sorry, guys. People who just don't get it: http://www.webstandards.org/ has lots of Java script to obscure the usual web interface, font specifications, and, to top it off, no content (which is fitting)... "Fighting for Standards in our Browsers". I don't mean to be like a cynic or anything, but do you guys realize what happens if someone with a personally configured browser hits your site? Total chaos.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Web development Web Standards Project - WaSP ]

The founder of the Raelian Movement has set up a company to clone pets, and eventually people once they can build a lab in a country where human cloning isn't illegal. http://www.clonaid.com/

Who says you need the latest high powered machines to do graphical net access? Schools on a budget might be interested in this one: http://www.new-deal.com/

[ related topics: Children and growing up ]

Doing a little research on the possibility of hitting Burning Man this year and ran across this great site: http://www.cieux.com/bm/

[ related topics: Burning Man ]

From Robert Wilson:

I'm trying to find a piece of software that will print *.crd files from Linux. Have any of you seen such a beast? If you are interested in sequencing and MIDI and Linux, you might check out http://www.bath.ac.uk/~masjpf/rose.html

[ related topics: Free Software Interactive Drama Web development ]

http://pilot.screwdriver.net/ will convert any URL into AportisDoc format.

More Pilot stuff: Aportis has a book reader called AportisDoc

[ related topics: Web development Books ]

Salon Magazine reports on Fred Tuttle's run for the Senate in Vermont. Even if it meant losing Lahey in the Senate I think I'd vote for him, he's pro G-strings and spinning nipple tassels and running because "it's the only job you can get with a 10th-grade education and no references."

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Politics Web development ]

More Pilot toys, a pair of programmer's calculators. http://members.aol.com/PilotApps/pcalc.html is a fairly simple one, http://www.pcnet.com/~desrosi/pgmrcalc_v2.html has a whole programming language and is missing only the kitchen sink. Whoops, just realized I never sent the first batch of PalmPilot links. I've got mine up and running without touching the Windows install disks. ftp://ryeham.ee.ryerson.ca/pub/PalmOS

pilot-link Code to interface to the Pilot HotSync prc-tools Code to build PalmOS applications with the GNU toolchain pui A User Interface/database glue code for use with pilot-link pilot-apps Various Pilot applications, that is .prc files, (very old)

http://www.wademan.com/Pilot/Links.htm

Wade's Pilot Links

http://www.iosphere.net/~howlett/pilot/GNU_Pilot.html

GNU Pilot SDK Links

[ related topics: Web development User Interface Microsoft ]

http://www.greyday.org/ might be a neat site to check out and a cool idea to participate in on October 1^st if you're into intellectual property rights.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama ]

http://www.edoc.com/zarf/if.html

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Web development ]

A report on a web user interface study on Web Tools Review: http://db.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=000Eqi Although I haven't been there yet it sure looks like the original study is probably worth reading as well at http://www.uie.com

[ related topics: User Interface ]

Work is not the place to explore a http://sex.t0.or.at/

[ related topics: Erotic Sexual Culture ]

A company willing to go out on a limb: http://www.cayennesoft.com/linux/

The personal edition of ObjectTeam, a leading object-oriented software development tool, now enables you to do object-oriented modeling and design for Linux! ObjectTeam is designed for developers who need to model, design and deliver high-quality software that is reusable and supportable. It can also help you visualize and reverse engineer existing code! If Linux is your operating system of choice, try the beta version of ObjectTeam for Linux - Personal Edition for free today!

[ related topics: Free Software Interactive Drama ]

CyberLiberties has been released to the world and moved to its new home: http://www.cyberliberties.org/

More Linux banners at http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~conradp/banners/

[ related topics: Free Software ]

This is just WAY cool. Experiments you can do with traffic, and maybe make the world a better place: http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/amateur/traffic/traffic1.html On the other hand, having done some of these experiments before, it's obvious that Seattle drivers are better behaved than Bay Area and Marin drivers, 'cause people here will just go around on the shoulder so they can get stuck in traffic faster.

[ related topics: Web development ]

One man's list of all the Linux tools he uses, and why. http://www.odinicfoundation.org/arthur/linux.html

[ related topics: Free Software Web development ]

A collection of quotes from movies at http://www.smackem.com/quotes/movies.html

"Crash" Davis: Well, I believe in the soul, the cock, the pussy, the small of a woman's back, the hanging curve ball, high fibre, good Scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturft and the designated hitter, I believe in the sweet spot, soft core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve and I believe in long slow deep soft wet kisses that last three days. Good night. Annie: Oh my. --Bull Durham

[ related topics: Quotes Web development Erotic Sexual Culture ]

Peter McWilliams, the author of Life 101, later had a falling out with John-Roger, his alleged co-author, and the Insight/MSIA organiation, and wrote Life 102: What to do when your guru sues you. Very interesting reading. It's not quite as compelling as The Road To Xenu, the critique of Scientology written by Margery Wakefield, partially because the Insight/MSIA people are a little more subtle, but both are very interesting reading if you're at all interested in how manipulation of emotions can be used. For those of us who believe that some of the organizations which practice these techniques can be very beneficial, it's also a good look at when help becomes harm and ways to tell the difference.

[ related topics: Language Interactive Drama Web development Books Psychology, Psychiatry and Personality ]

As you probably know, those mouth-breathers in Alabama have made it illegal to sell sex aids. The ACLU and a group of women have filed suit to reverse the law, hope for success.

[ related topics: Erotic Sexual Culture ]

Jon Krakauer talks about the controversy surrounding Into Thin Air in Salon Magazine.

[ related topics: Web development ]

If there is a single theme of NETFUTURE, it is the need for us to maintain a wakeful relation to technology. Assaults upon our attention are decisively important because our consciously directed attention is the only point at which we are fully awake. Attending to something is what it means to be awake to it. And we can only attend in this sense to one thing at a time. Net Future #75, more wonderful notes on the encroachment of technology.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Web development Technology and Culture ]

Dave Winer writes about The Emotional Age of the Internet

[ related topics: Web development Dave Winer ]

Great article in the Netly News about Al Gore's record on privacy, worth reading as we hear the man trying to sell snake-oil in the form of the "Privacy Bill of Rights". I am not looking forward to the year 2000 election if we have to choose between Gore and some fascist (pardon the redundance) Republican.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Politics Web development Privacy ]

On eBay, a Bill Gates autographed copy of Windows98.

In the News.com perspectives: Mike Yamamoto talks about the growing realization that the PC hooked up to a dial-up line "isn't an ideal setting for an evening of family fun." Along those lines, some first impressions on my new (used) Pilot. I compiled the Linux utilities for it last night, and got AportisDoc installed on it. Dropped an Ambrose Bierce short story on it, and I know have an electronic book that's more convenient (smaller and lighter, though a little more sensitive to lighting environment) than the paper version. Cool! The designers could use a little help from the folks who built the Nintendo N64 controller; the buttons are fine for holding it with one hand and poking at it with the other, but suck for one handed use. A scroll thumb-wheel on the upper left side would be awesome. I know this is old hat to most of you, but this is one of the killer-apps I've been waiting for.

[ related topics: Free Software Business Web development Books ]

Every once in a while we get complacent about the state of freedom of speech. While even here in the U.S. expressing ones-self often comes at a huge legal cost, other nations aren't so forgiving: http://members.tripod.com/~Protesto_MC/index_eng.html

This page was created to gather the support of the international Internet community to protest for the closure of the Terr[unknown char]vista, last 29th of July. The result? More than 25.000 portuguese homepages suddenly "erased" from the Web.

[ related topics: Web development Privacy ]

MS BackOrifice from the creators: DilDog speaks at http://www.cultdeadcow.com/tools/bo_msrebuttal.html with a description of what BackOrifice really does. Good reading.

[ related topics: Web development ]

http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,25055,00.html?st.ne.2.head

Microsoft is releasing its first update to the Windows 98 operating system, officially calling it a "multimedia update" as controversy over its purpose persists.

[snip]

Microsoft today acknowledged that the update was originally planned as a "service pack"--a technical euphemism for a software bug patch--but said it changed the name after concluding the package offered added multimedia functionality rather than mere bug fixes.

[ related topics: Business Web development Microsoft ]

From http://www.disinfo.com come a bunch of references to a modern day witch hunt Scary reading.

[ related topics: Web development ]

In the San Jose Mercury News, Clifford Stoll is interviewed about why he believes computers have no place in the classroom. I don't necessarily agree with all of his message, but as he says, he's deliberately exposing the negatives because no one else is talking about them. I had skipped Silicon Snake Oil, but now I think I'm going to have to go back and read it. Along those lines, according to an article published by news.com Nielsen Media Research revealed that "upper-demographic households generally watch less television than their lower-demographic counterparts." I'm not claiming a cause and effect, but it sure seems to me that exposure to media generally makes for better consumers, not better citizens.

[ related topics: Business Web development User Interface Technology and Culture ]

From Robert: Crash IE 4 on demand http://www.tla.ch/TLA/FW/OBJECTattack.htm

This week's Jesus of the Week bears a striking resemblance... http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/extra/gilstrap/jesus.html

[ related topics: Religion Humor Web development ]

Hope I'm an anomaly: A Redbook Magazine survey tries to correlate male sexual behavior with occupation. And then there's this unanswered question:

The survey said that almost half of small business owners experiment with new positions or sex toys and are also six times more likely to produce whips and handcuffs than other groups.

[ related topics: Web development Erotic Sexual Culture ]

Web standards with a clue: http://www.anybrowser.org/

Late Breaking: Apparently the Whitehouse staff leaked, and Monica has the pole results. Anti-news. They pre-empted Jeopardy for this?

http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/meast/9808/17/fringe/israeli.detergent/

The Lever Israel company uses Lewinsky's stained dress -- which has been examined to determine if the stain contains genetic material -- to suggest that its Biomat detergent can deal with even the most stubborn stains.

The 30-second spot shows two actors playing FBI agents breaking into the "home" of Monica Lewinsky at night. Their mission is to remove, wash and return the dress at the center of an investigation into whether Clinton had a sexual relationship with the former White House intern, lied about it and urged others to lie about it.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Politics Erotic Sexual Culture ]

Dave Winer is an optimist. He believes that politicians are not fundamentally evil creatures who lie by force of habit. I don't agree with him, but I honor his idealism as expressed in Truth Decay

[ related topics: Web development Dave Winer ]

It's the marriage issue at Nerve Magazine. The articles by David Teague and Marisa de los Santos spoke to me.

[ related topics: Erotic ]

Regarding http://www.nytimes.com/library...itics/081998clinton-pundits.html Okay, I really really really don't want to fuel the Monica-mania; I'd hoped that the speech would shut people up and let us get on with the real issues, but apparently the media isn't ready to do that yet. A politician lied to us. Helloooo, can any of you tell me with a straight face that "honest politician" isn't an oxymoron? Have all of these newspaper pundits been taking naive pills? He lied. Get over it. We send the worst of them to Washington 'cause it's where they'll do the least damage; imagine what would happen if we let the congresscritters stay in-state year round?

[ related topics: Language Interactive Drama Politics Web development Books ]

I said I was going to leave the Clinton thing alone, but this one is just so right on. On Scripting News, Dave Winer reports getting the real Clinton speech from "a random source".

[ related topics: Politics Dave Winer ]

http://www.emf.net/~mkent/Xplicit/

SEVENTH ANNUAL NUDE AND BREAST FREEDOM PARADE!

Once again that time of year is upon us when we gather to the streets everyone who wants to realize the freedom to dress or undress as they feel best to celebrate our bodies.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1998

STARTING AT NOON, PEOPLE'S PARK, TELEGRAPH & HASTE IN BERKELEY

Naturists, Nudists, Body-Enjoyers, Freedom-Lovers, and other Celebrants...

YOU ARE WARMLY INVITED

COME BASK IN, AND HELP GENERATE, THE PSYCHIC SUNSHINE OF THE BERKELEY "URBAN NATURIST" EXPERIENCE!

[ related topics: Erotic Privacy Sexual Culture ]

Well this explains some things

LONDON, Aug 20 (Reuters)-Men have higher levels of the sex hormone testosterone if their third finger is longer than their first, according to a scientist from a university in northwest England.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Erotic Sexual Culture ]

Winners of the Salon Magazine "What does HTTP://www stand for?" competition. Among others:

Hands to the pants! Wanton willing women!

--Stephen Rojak

[ related topics: Web development ]

http://segfault.org/ isn't officially open for business yet, but their interim graphic is cool.

[ related topics: Humor ]

Well, if you ever needed to know "why rabbits don't hunt tigers"? or if "men really need prostitution"?? then you might find http://www.feminista.com/ interesting. Warning:people that have a Y chromosome should use caution and not post inflammatory remarks.....less he be clubbed like a baby seal....

[ related topics: Interactive Drama ]

A 21^st Century 23^rd Psalm

I saw a cool TV commercial today (something I don't see often). From the Partnership For A Drug Free America (which I usually don't refer to in a positive light at all). It was a couple of skaters grinding and thrashing, with "For the best high, use the pure stuff. Adrenaline." Unfortunately, the kids were skating in a manner that, in my experience, attracts the attention of the constabulary. And if I'm gonna get busted for something, it may as well be worthwhile. I don't think the ad had the desired effect.

[ related topics: Children and growing up Interactive Drama Technology and Culture ]

"Damn Straight, It's Linux": http://www.sonic.net/~roelofs/greg_lnxpic2.html

[ related topics: Free Software Web development ]

The New York Times reports on a potentional acquisition of the Baca ranch in New Mexico by the federal government for the U.S. Forest Service.

[ related topics: Web development ]

People who just don't get it, redux: The folks from http://www.webstandards.org/ sent me e-mail last week complaining about my treatment of them, and I relented, gave them a cursory once-over with Lynx and Netscape 3.x, and apologized based on the fact that they weren't officially open for business. Well, now they are, and all of my original complaints still stand. "onMouseOver"s, gross styles, and to top it off, rather than taking a stand as content developers, they're whining to the browser coders. Log into the clue server and issue a "GET" command, guys! The people actually putting out content aren't having problems here, it's only the over-steroided graphics designers trying to make up for the lack of any real meaning in their sites.

[ related topics: Web development Web Standards Project - WaSP ]

I've started to throw a couple of hacks up for download.:

• The quiz CGI I wrote for Jade & Rebel's Butch versus Femme test
• Hyper!, an HTML browser written in TDBS, an xBase dialect which ran on the TBBS bulletin board system (from eSoft, I'm not sure it's available any more).
• Perhaps most importantly, a first pass at a release of Newwwsboy, the software which runs Flutterby!

[ related topics: Web development Content Management ]

The North Face game: http://lab.cs.orst.edu/northface/

Tired of seeing all those people walking across campus in that needless North Face gear? Wondering why mommy and daddy saw the need to invest $400 into their child's wardrobe when their campus isn't even above the 47th parallel.

[ related topics: Games ]

In Salon Magazine, Susie Bright claims that Clinton's woes give America a crash course in sex ed

[ related topics: Politics Web development Erotic Sexual Culture ]

Also in Salon this morning, the real reason Newt Gingrich isn't saying anything about Monica, some commentary on the difference between facts and learning and how computers in the classroom promote the first. A good issue today.

[ related topics: Web development ]

Take a look at http://www.netstudio.com/makeover/, then consider nominating them for their very own Muddies award. On the other hand, maybe it just isn't worth your time. More "web designers" who just don't get it.

Rumor Mill this week talks about Hollywood versus Silicon Valley.

[ related topics: Business Web development ]

The Silicon Valley Tarot Page. What does an inverted New Hire of Hosts, an 8 of Disks, and a Double Latté mean for my future?

[ related topics: Web development ]

The results of the cat scanning contest at, where else, http://www.cat-scan.com

Yeah! A while back I reported that various strip clubs and sex shops around Times Square were to be shut down while their lawsuit against the new zoning rules was going on. Well, Reuters reports that at least one video store is managing to stay open because the city has "failed to establish by clear and convincing evidence that these establishments ... fall within the definition of 'adult establishment' under the law". Not wonderful news, but it's a start.

[ related topics: Erotic Sexual Culture ]

Sucky site of the day: http://www.tasteyoulove.com/ (I Can't Believe It's Not Butter). Here's a clue, guys: If I turn off JavaScript and images (my default browsing configuration) and get nothing, you need to can the losers pretending to do your web design. Just as well that I got nothing, though, the JavaScript shows frames out the proverbial.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama ]

>From a report at News.com:

"Junkies of Internet are junkies of media in general, especially television," said Rimer. "TV users are typically more likely to use the Internet in very large amounts. We believe there is a correlation between heavy TV users and heavy Internet users. As the Internet matures and more bandwidth becomes available, the correlation will increase, because the experience on the Internet will not only more additive to television, but it will also be a more immersive."

All those beautiful dreams we had about building a global community? It's over. Go back to your lives, citizens, 'cause we're in for another wave of lame L.A. inspired trash, delivered faster. Oh well, it had so much promise while it lasted...

[ related topics: Business Web development Technology and Culture ]

While I'm going on about various random topics, http://www.news.com/ is reporting that J. Baker is suing Andersen Consulting for not addressing Y2k issues in 1989. I have no idea what Andersen is claiming, but J. Baker's case rests on Andersen not having told them about the issues. C'mon, in 1989? How incompetent were these folks? I was concerned about Y2k issues then. Now on the system I was concerned about then we decided that there was going to be a replacement in 10 years, but at least we were aware of the issues. Go hire your local college dropout, s/he's probably much more on the ball than your average Arthur Anderoid. Speaking of which, have I ever told y'all my "not trying to get downsized" story? At one of those "multimedia" shebangs in SF, this one was sponsored by Andersen Consulting, talking with one of the Andersen suits, and he asked what I did, I said most recently I'd written the Windows video decompressors for the Toy Story Animated StoryBook, he asked "what's that?", I told him just the biggest selling edutainment title ever (not to mention a best seller even if you didn't restrict to genre, derived from a blockbuster film, and all that) and he said "Oh. Well, last year I was just trying to not get downsized." If my career goals are ever "trying to not get downsized" would someone please implant a clue by way of something big, heavy and painful?

[ related topics: Pixar Interactive Drama Business Web development Andersen/Accenture Animation Microsoft ]

If you don't happen to live in one of the 17 biggest marketing metropolitan regions in the U.S., or, like me, you just can't stand getting near a mall, here's a Pixar fan who's got some pictures and text about his visit to the A Bug's Life mall tour stop in Tucson: http://www.netzone.com/~tradica/pixr/page1.htm "Mcdisixar", gonna have to remember that.

[ related topics: Pixar Interactive Drama Animation ]

Another voice of reason in the rush to technology. A review of Failure To Connect in Salon

[ related topics: Children and growing up Books Sociology Failure To Connect ]

More on the http://www.webstandards.org/ thing: That was Netscape 4.05 on Irix, IE on my Windows box has chosen to try to write to NULL, so 'til I reboot that machine networking is hosed.

[ related topics: Web development Microsoft Web Standards Project - WaSP ]

Well, given that I pissed off the folks at http://www.webstandards.org I figure I should post the URL of the people who do have a clue: http://www.anybrowser.org/

[ related topics: Web development Web Standards Project - WaSP ]

I missed this the first time around, Salon Magazine ran a tribute to Dominique Aury, author of the Story of O, by Molly Weatherfield.

[ related topics: Web development Books ]

From http://www.therighter.com/

The Righter is Sarah Thompson, M.D., a retired physician and writer. Dr. Thompson is dedicated to the restoration of full civil liberties and limited Constitutional government.

The "Matt Drudge of Porn": http://www.lukeford.com

[ related topics: Erotic Sexual Culture ]

http://www.lerc.nasa.gov/WWW/bpp/ is the URL of the NASA Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Program, for folks interested in things like faster than light travel, or non-reactionary propulsion systems.

The folks at the Whore Activist Network are trying to make a documentary.

http://www.learn2.com/ - learn to do things. Be a maid of honor. Capture a mouse. All sorts o' stuff.

Well, if you ever needed to know "why rabbits don't hunt tigers"? or if "men really need prostitution"?? then you might find http://www.feminista.com/ interesting. Warning:people that have a Y chromosome should use caution and not post inflammatory remarks.....less he be clubbed like a baby seal....

[ related topics: Interactive Drama ]

For those looking for a starting place for information and various hacking resources...http://www.defcon.org/html/other-peoples-pages.html seems to be a good place to look. BTW it would seem that "Back Orifice" (Cult of the Dead Cow tool) has been thwarted by the folks at http://www.datafellows.com/ although rumor has it that the cdc folk have Windoze Ninety Ate on the way....

[ related topics: Web development ]

On the Bay Area Linux User's Group, Don Marti reports that http://barley.electriclichen.com/cgi-bin/wtf is a page to check which OS a host is running. (WTF stands for "Web Technology Finder" by the way.)

[ related topics: Free Software ]

Cyberliberties is a page tracking notes about encryption, tech, and how society relates to it.

Not that I'm a skeptic or anything, but I don't think I'm gonna be charging $360 to my Visa for a Hyper Dimensional Resonator any time soon:

THIS IS A TWO DIAL, ONE BANK TREATMENT INSTRUMENT, WHICH PLUGS INTO A NORMAL 110V OUTLET. THIS DEVICE GENERATES AN AC/DC, 60-CYCLE, ALTERNATING FREQUENCY WHICH GENERATES AN UNLIMITED AMOUNT OF WHITE LIGHT ENERGY. THIS DEVICE COMES EQUIPPED WITH A WITNESS WELL, PHENOLIC RUBBING PLATE, MULTI- DIMENSIONAL STABILIZER, CLEAR SWITCH, POWER SWITCH, TIME COILS, AND ONE ELECTROMAGNET.

[snip]

AMONG OTHER THINGS, THIS UNIT CAN ALSO BE USED FOR OUT OF THE BODY TIME TRAVEL. AS FAR AS THE PHYSICAL ASPECTS ARE CONCERNED, YES YOU CAN USE THE HYPER-DIMENSIONAL RESONATOR FOR PHYSICAL TIME TRAVEL, BUT ONLY WHEN ACTIVATED OVER A NATURAL GRID POINT, OR IN A PLACE WHERE UFO'S ARE SIGHTED.

Another one that describes itself better than I ever could, it's the combination blender and telephone.

It's a combination blender and telephone. It's fully functional as a telephone or blender. WHY? is the most FAQ (Frequently Asked Question). It's for people who like to hear: "Where in the **** did you get this?" If you're looking for a sensible, mass-produced appliance, you're better off at [Sears Roebuck]. If you want your friends to think you're insane, but quote you like God anyway, this is the appliance for YOU!

[ related topics: Religion Interactive Drama ]

Another nerdly quotes page: http://kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu/~kamikaze/quotes.html

"I have absolutly no problem with people using Java as a better language for Win32 programming (I would prefer if they stuck to x-platform stuff but oh well). The problem I do have is with MS not also providing the Core Java APIs." -D'Arcy Smith (darcy@itools.symantec.com)

"I do understand your perspective. However what you're suggesting effectively translates to Microsoft developing and maintaining, on Windows, a runtime subsystem that competes with Windows and other Microsoft technologies and which is specified by an alliance of our largest competitors." -Carlos Blanco (carlosbl@microsoft.com) in USENET article <5vpq6j$pcf@news.microsoft.com>

And

"If I cannot use the users as playthings, I don't really see too much purpose in having them on my systems." -Chris Magagna (chris@uidaho.edu)

[ related topics: Quotes Interactive Drama Web development Microsoft ]

On the Alewife Bayou Columbine waxes on religion, and Mary Anne Mohanraj responds in her diary. (If you're not familiar with Mary Anne's work, she's the author of Torn Shapes of Desire, a collection of erotica.

[ related topics: Religion Interactive Drama Web development Erotic ]