Apathy

+------[I will build the tower of Babel, again - 05/06/2000]-=-- | Ignoring the log until Monday. Enjoy this batch. | gravity's | rainbow | +------------------------------[Alone with the lambda loops]-=-- | 3-D strange attractors, filled out in an odd way I have | jeff y not seen before, over fancy backgrounds. These look | drops the amazing. Make sure you don't miss the "Many more of | jaws these..." links, silly. | | The blob-ish quaternion Julia sets would be a great | candidate for realtime navigation. | | How can anyone not wonder about chaos when it melts into | very delicate golden machinery and woven silver masks? | stunning | The universe must be hidden in here somewhere. | | | +----------------[A good way to learn Javascript techniques]-=-- | While staring at the wonderful 5k winners, don't forget to | take a few turns at the slot machine. There are so many | excellent entries, there's no possible way the judges | could have rewarded all of them. | | | +----------------------------/--/----------[More cross lore]-=-- | Hail to the Apathy.nu/log. May the apathy spread wide and | it all will prosper with no effort at all. | fall right | into place | +----------------------------/--/---------------------[MOTD]-=-- | "The AutoHide feature allows you to build a custom list of | running programs to hide at your own desecration." | - Impel Solutions Corp. file description | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- +----------[Plummeting through yaks and levers - 05/05/2000]-=-- | Get dadada revenge dada dada... | this is | your last | warning +-----------------[Virgin Records is hip to that fab groove]-=-- | Angling about today, at the Inbetween, I find A Perfect | watch it! Circle - Judith video. | you might | just like Certainly the most engaging performance-only video I've | it seen in quite some time. Possibly due to the involvement | of David Fincher. [Aliens 3, Se7en, The Game, Fight | Club... if you liked any two and haven't seen the others, | do.] | | /--/---------[And on that note]-=-- | Watched movies tonight, didn't get anything done. | | Pi. I know, it's been out forever... I'm lame like that. | aim to Been told to watch it many times, especially after I | achieve shaved my head to the bone. That movie site actually has | nothing decent background information on things like the Kabbalah, | once you dig into it. | | Divine authorship? You find what you're looking for. | | | +----------------------------/--/---------[Howdy, neighbour]-=-- | Borked my link to the 50 cups containing terror yesterday. | oopsie First time I found my own fudge in quite some time. Other | log-dwellers, is it considered bad manners to fix that | stuff 8 hours after the fact? I don't want the page in | recently updated listings when I've only tweaked it. | | /--/-[That sags right over two]-=-- | This page is next to Prolific and Pigs and Fishes in the | why hullo log ring this week. I haven't been reading either | there regularly, but from the number of links I liked should | probably follow along. | | | +----------------------------/--/---------------------[MOTD]-=-- | "There's an upside... there has to be an upside." | - Posies | | Interesting forced lyric in that Amazing Disgrace album: | hearing and Every time I hear the phrase "Blackbirds flying overhead", | thinking I immediately think (or sing along) "Blackbirds swimming | things overhead", unless I force it out the correct way. | backwards | Does this sort of inversion thing happen to anyone else? | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- +---------[Stick your foot out and trip 'em up - 05/04/2000]-=-- | Need some dopey email sounds to foist upon your coworkers? | new media | torture I thought you might. | | | +----------------------------/--/-------------[Waaaa, mommy]-=-- | Raster-boy completes the obvious end of the wazzup fad. | pixel rock | Ned @ Tanque: over-analysis of the commercials. | finally | going to My take? I don't care. Big surprise there. Speaking of | read some beer, I got more books today! Excellent. | flann | o'brien [Also catching up on the Fugazi]-=-- | Raster's Fugazi V Act Play synopsis based on Repeater. | | | +--------------------[Wishful thinking in the musical arena]-=-- | CMJ reviews the new complete Columbia recordings of | looks Coltrane and Davis. | chewy, I | need some "Check for MILES DAVIS + JOHN COLTRANE tour dates at | Miles Davis Gigmania." | | Sigh. Born too late. | if only | | +----------------------------/--/-------------[It's science]-=-- | By way of the fifty cups of terror, Unanswered Questions | spy vs spy to the New Scientist's Last Word. | | | +----------------------------/--/---------------------[MOTD]-=-- | "It seems to me that no matter what you say about poetry, | I could find a way of making up an analog with any | subject, just as I did for theoretical physics. I don't | consider such analogs meaningful." | - Richard Feynman | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- +------------------[Spread out, we'll find 'im - 05/03/2000]-=-- | Tablet contest ends in tragedy. Okay not really, but | expect maybe you will go read the humorous comic ideas people | ideas kindly sent? | | | +-----------------------[Diversion for those who hate "art"]-=-- | AIM self-loathing - fun! | hate aol | for money | +------------[Absence of skill mandates art research action]-=-- | Disable images + only load the ones you wish to see. | needs unless ($You->"Own a speedy connection"); | | I'm going to dance through some art sites. Might be handy | to bookmark ArtLex, a specialized dictionary full of the | slang those crazy artist people use. | | /--/---------[What can be done]-=-- | About.com's Drawing and Sketching area is a positively | huge linklist by subject on the matter. I plan to return | to Tutorials and Cartooning. | | Better toss this in too while on the toon tip: Guy | Gilchrist's Drawing Lessons must not be missed, kids. | | /--/------[Throw in a computer]-=-- | Wacom has a very nice tips and art site with fairly | extensive tip of the week archives covering Photoshop, | Painter, and more. | | Kidkoum shows you how to create swell anime in seven | simple steps. Yeah, right. | | Metacreations has a similar site. | | /--/----[How do I manage that?]-=-- | The Internet Eye how-to and tutorials page covers acres of | ground. Most important: Painting on screen -- see, it's | that easy! Just dab on some airbrush, smear it around... | instant violet! | | Laurie McCanna's wide ranging software tips include | Photoshop, CorelDraw, Photopaint, and Xara. | | The long list Matrix Vault Photoshop tutorials includes | some more useful instruction, less flashy stuff. | | /--/--------[Targeted tutoring]-=-- | and Phong houses some fancy Photoshop tutorials, most effects. | tottering | Absolute Cross Photoshop tutorials in the same vein. | | /--/--------------[Attribution]-=-- | I do not wish to post T's address for fear of spambots, | but I will say: Hey T, thanks for the jumping-off points! | | | +----------------------------/--/---------------------[MOTD]-=-- | "Hello I am dead" - Anonymous | | Further answers to your favorite artificial flavoring | here. There are too many good answers to post 'em all | again. Next time. | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- +----------------------------/--/-----------------[Archived]-=-- | The last week or so involved procrastination, Fugazi Day, | Prof Chomsky mp3s, math, Mindstorms, and much more. | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- Back to top +----------------------------/--/-------------[Older things]-=-- | This is the hand/drawn listing. Full pita listing. | | comp conc: Computers and consciousness | / mp3 normalizing: Mess with mp3s | ///// silly queries: How not to find this page | /// useless sky: Staring at old links | / legos and robots: Designing electrical nonsense | / grid puzzles: Waste time with boxes + their brethren | / chip music: Listen to the sound of the FUUUUUTURE | / lewis carroll: Charles dodgson wrote some happy tales | / opinionation: How do you do, capitalism? how do you? | //////// defunct rock: Eventually all things die | // ascii games: To quote salon, @ - you are here | / voicemail: Automated telephone systems | / bach and tone: The endlessly rising canon of links | / eigenspace: Eigen wha? | /// | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- +----------------------------/--/--------[Possible tangents]-=-- | Feel free to suggest or help out. | | occam's razor: computational reflection | vinyl stuffing: the long playing past | bad art: clean up old gallery | demoart: art disks, ansi conversion, zoomscopes | team battles: the packet wars | WFMU hunt: scavenge a radio site | collage: photographic and non-digital | stupid cartoons: sg, c+c, r+s, brak | buddies: personal perception and the net | pita wrapper: perl posting app for pitas | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- The link section has been disabled until I can come up with something more interesting. Please feel free to try the portal if desperate for escape. Also, the mp3 portion of my babbling is gone. If you hunger for music, please visit mt and let me know. +----------------------------/--/---[Explanation in C minor]-=-- | This is the log of a faceless entity. I wander around the | web, and point out what are most likely completely useless | things for you to visit. If you know me in real life, | then you will probably hate this. Where I have been, what | I learned there, and what I plan to figure out in the | future. Ahh, the healing power of links. | | Technically this is a "web log". You can find many more | of these in the links section, but if none fit your tastes | you can always follow the monkey and get an easily updated | site with Pitas. | | /--/---------------[Disclaimer]-=-- | There are no guarantees. This site is not affiliated with | anything else I do. If you have been linked or mentioned | and would like to be removed, just let me know. Stop | looking at me like that. | | /--/------------------[Contact]-=-- | D Fitch dgfitch@yahoo.com ICQ:363803 AOL:dguyfitch | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- Back to top