Thursday, August 11, 2005 http://www.wsfii.org

Tuesday, August 9, 2005 Sean Kelly, socialfiction.org favourite rider very .... un-Armstrong and much much more http://grahamwatson.com

Tuesday, August 9, 2005 Old (1995) but intersting journal on Art and AI. http://www.stanford.edu/group/SHR/4-2/text/toc.html

Friday, August 5, 2005 Free Books Clearing out some books I don't care about anymore and make room for new ones. I will sent these books free of charge. If you insist you can sent me something in return, either underground hiphop/crunk/jungle/grime cd's or books on computer culture/programming/AI/ cybernetics/poetic theory/Virginia Woolf or in general anything you think I can't afford to miss. There is section of English and a section of Dutch language books. Email the title(s) you are interested in to info |at|socialfiction |dot|org . If you are from Amsterdam! Last time I gave away books it turned out that nearly all people responding from Amsterdam wanted half the list. You greedy fucks. I want to ensure that as many people can benefit from this so please be reasonable in you requests. English Memoirs on Pauperism - Alexis de Tocqueville Critical Sociology - Adorno/Habermas/Benjamin/etc (compendium) My Silent War - Kim Philby (autobiography) White Chappell Scarlet Tracing - Iain Sinclair Cities in Space, Cities as Place - Herbert/ Thomas (urban planning) The Path to Rome - Hilaire Belloc Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy Humpry Clinker - Tobias Smollett Imaginary Homelands - Salman Rushdie The Monk - Matthew Lewis (Gothic horror classic) Bertrand Russell - Why I am not a Christian Looking Backwards - Edward Bellamy A Modern Utopia - HG Wells On War - Carl von Clausewitz The Alchemist - Ben Jonson The Book of Five Rings - Miyamoto Musashi Dutch social revolutie/sociale hervorming - Marcuse/Popper Droom van de Oplichter - Sybren Polet Filosofie van de Nieuwe Muziek - Adorno Ontwerp en Utopie - Manfredo Tafuri De Ontwikkeling van het Socialisme - Engels Candide - Voltaire Dagboek van de Dief - Jean Genet Hoe het is - Samuel Beckett Elementaire Deeltjes - Michel Houellebecq Mens en Media - Marshall McLuhan In het Labyrinth - Alain Robbe-Grille Jaloezie - Alain Robbe-Grille Herfst in Peking - Boris Vian

Wednesday, August 3, 2005 Corrupt your stack pointer makin' all your data suffer. I've got saturated edges but your flow is sparser, Real gangstas sip on Yacc; instead you generate a parser. While you're busy poppin' stacks I'll pop a cap in your skull, While you smoke your crack pipe I'm gonna pipe you to /dev/null. I may not have a label but I rap like a star; I'm an unsigned long int and you're an 8-bit char. geeksta coder got back Shake your motherboards in the air

Wednesday, August 3, 2005 "If the Brits were given a choice between debating the complex issues raised in Henri Bergson’s Duration and Simultaneity and watching Midsomer Murders, my guess is that John Nettles would beat the plucky French challenger every time." HA! as it happens I am really into Midsomer Murders! And I aint a communist either. from :http://www.cinestatic.com/infinitethought/2005/07/kill-all-columnists.asp

Tuesday, August 2, 2005 Curt Cloninger let his fingers drift Pscho-cyber-o-graphicly and pays a complement to generative psychogeography: "the brilliant confab of generative programming and psychogeography known as generative psychogeography" eski http://rhizome.org/thread.rhiz?thread=18111&text=34621

Monday, August 1, 2005 from a newly discovered literature blog that rocks so hard this quote on landscapes rocks so hard: And this is what makes landscapes valuable to us: not simply the presence of the elements, but the encounter between the elemental things and the living, preferably the human. It is, as I said before, the presence of human feeling, what human feeling the landscape makes us conscious of. Take this sentence: 1,500 acres, mixed parkland and beech forest, with spacious lake and distant view of Chilterns. What does this mean to us? Almost nothing. It sounds like a poor advertisement. But when those same acres appear in a painting by the English artists, Turner – it may well be one of the places you will never forget, he has shown it to us through a lens of powerful, rich feeling. It is quite difficult to describe a landscape in words, of course. Even in a small field, there is infinitely too much to render in anything like the completeness that even the swiftest watercolour can. But words can render the feeling. In the next piece, for instance, see how vivid a picture you can imagine: the poem is called ‘Virginia’, one of the states in the deep south, and it is by TS Eliot... http://bookcoolie.blogspot.com

Sunday, July 31, 2005 programmers wisdom

Tuesday, July 26, 2005 The stress of waiting tables: Tipper's Name: the 6 women who couldn't tip Restaurant: Cafe Roma Where it happened: New Orleans Total bill / Tip amount / Percentage: $83.10 / $3.00 / 3% What happened: We were in the middle of the busiest lunch rush I have ever seen and these 6 women came into our restaurant. They had their own wine and we let them bring it in. I went above and beyond for every special request you can imagine. when I brought the bill they complimented all of the service and the food, so I thought it was a sure thing for a good tip. Well when they handed back the check, I counted it out amd there was only $3 for me. My mamnger lets us ask if there is a problem politely if people do not tipwell or at all. I went and asked if there were any problems and they said no they just don't tip beacuse they don't have a lot of money. (I am thinking then eat at home!!!) When they left I saw them get into their Lexus, and 2 Mercedes cars!!! I have never been so mad in my whole life! Thanks, ladies, have a good afternoon! http://www.bitterwaitress.com

Wednesday, July 20, 2005 ASEMIC The word “asemic” means “having no semantic content”. Illegible writing or pretend writing could be described as asemic. When we can’t read something which appears to be writing, other possibilities occur. Perhaps we can see a picture instead. Sometimes we can “read” the emotional state of the person who made the asemic writing. Or we can decide that it looks Chinese, or Hebrew, or Indian, or like alien writing. People from all parts of the world produce asemic writing. They range from poets to calligraphers to visual artists to children to doodlers. Asemic magazine is the only publication specifically devoted to this area. Back issues can be downloaded free: http://www.asemic.net/

Tuesday, July 19, 2005 webcams on growing bacteria!

Monday, July 18, 2005 funny GUI: http://pzwart2.wdka.hro.nl/~anunez/cgi-bin/elpicoroco.cgi

Wednesday, July 13, 2005 Constructed language by G.X. Jupitter-Larsen added to OnlyOneNativeSpeaker. http://socialfiction.org/onlyone/panaleze.html

Tuesday, July 12, 2005 When Crystalpunks dig they sometimes reach GOLD and also

Tuesday, July 12, 2005 For a while I have been reading up on William Butler Yeats, but the more I read the more I disliked him. Reading the following article proves he was insane as well. http://www.greylodge.org/occultreview/glor_003/yeats.htm Like the previous post the source for this is from the very fine: http://www.greylodge.org/occultreview/idxs/completeidx.html

Tuesday, July 12, 2005 Interesting page on the cut-up with links and some images previously not available online http://greylodge.org/occultreview/glor_017/cutups.htm William Gibson wrote a small article on the cut-up fro teh Wired recently: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.07/gibson.html also see my own article on the subject: http://socialfiction.org/cutup.html

Monday, July 11, 2005 Swarm Intelligence (SI) is the property of a system whereby the collective behaviours of (unsophisticated) agents interacting locally with their environment cause coherent functional global patterns to emerge. SI provides a basis with which it is possible to explore collective (or distributed) problem solving without centralized control or the provision of a global model. http://dsp.jpl.nasa.gov/members/payman/swarm/

Wednesday, July 6, 2005 vanaf heden de enige Nederlandse Pro-Doping wielren blog: INTRAPILID

Wednesday, July 6, 2005 I am sitting in a room different from the one you are in now. I am recording the sound of my speaking voice and I am going to play it back into the room again and again until the resonant frequencies of the room reinforce themselves so that any semblance of my speech, with perhaps the exception of r-r-r-rhythm, is destroyed. What you will hear, then, are the natural resonant frequencies of the room articulated by speech. I regard this activity nnnnnot so much as a demonstration of a physical fact, but more as a way to s-s-smooth out any irregularities my speech might have. "I Am Sitting in a Room", Alvin Lucier

Wednesday, July 6, 2005 http://languageisavirus.com/

Tuesday, July 5, 2005 Review of republished dictionary of Samuel Johnson http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2102-1538074,00.html makes me want to reread the Boswell.

Tuesday, July 5, 2005 excellent site on gargoyles http://cidc.library.cornell.edu/adw/gravely/overview.html

Monday, July 4, 2005 This 2002 /. interview with Richard Wallace of Alice bot is informing still, but this link to visualistion the bot's mind just rocks so ** hard

Thursday, June 16, 2005 This blog will be silent for next 2 weeks or so, in the meanwhile study this littl gem of a story by Virgina Woolf with care: http://socialfiction.org/solidobjects.html a crystalpunk classic now online with help from Nicks scanner.

Thursday, June 16, 2005 The Ying Yang Twins make my day: http://www.mtv.com/bands/az/ying_yang_twins/artist.jhtml

Sunday, June 12, 2005 Syntactical Gothicisms of the Mind The OnlyOneNativeSpeaker survey of Constructed Languages Language is parasitic, not on the human body as William Burroughs suggested, but on the world around us: it feeds on the output of the sensory apparatus and leaves behind hideous carcasses. Language whiplashes the mind when we speak it, poisons our blood when we write it down and heats up the earth when we print it. Language is to reality what your lungs are to oxygen, but whereas growing a lung of ones own remains problematic, inventing a private language seems to be an option as viable as building your own backyard bunker to survive nuclear holocaust. Invented languages, implying a deep dissatisfaction with the world as-is, are grotesque creatures providing a unique instrument to create, understand, describe and manipulate private realities and dark sensibilities. The following classification of constructed languages, like half-opened Venetian blinds, give partial perspective to the mind-states that haunt the language inventor/innovator. read on ...

Thursday, June 9, 2005 Finding New Functions for the Sun While following a radiating pattern writ in golden sundust from cranium to neck in the luscious hair of a beautiful person a cipher system was suddenly revealed to me: the sun had surrendered its every secret, the moon had become my best friend and my destiny turned out to be on earth after all. read on and forward it to the one person you love most: http://socialfiction.org/functsun.html

Thursday, June 9, 2005 A programming language in Klingon. ~ nuqneH { ~ 'u' ~ nuqneH disp disp } name nuqneH http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Var%27aq

Wednesday, June 8, 2005 The Register sports a great line of cynic news on robotics. Here they make fun of one my favourite breakthroughs: For those readers curious as to how the University of Florida is precipitating the destruction of mankind, here's how you too can make your own cyborg-controlling rodent intelligence: Take 25,000 rat embryo neurons and one glass dish Suspend neurons in specialised liquid in said dish Lay neurons across grid of of 60 electrodes Wait for cells to form "live computation device", aka "brain" Connect brain to jet simulator Teach brain to fly Bomb Fallujah with squadrons of rat-controlled drone attack aircraft Alternatively, stick rat brain in jogging Japanese robot, teach it to speak English with a heavy Austrian accent and then send it into the past to kill anyone who might eventually prove a threat to its inevitable rise to global dominance. You get the idea. ® link The same research is also mentioned in my SELKIRK txt. here is the brain-in-a-jar research: http://www.wireheading.com/misc/artificial-brain.html

Tuesday, June 7, 2005 Ethnophysiography is rocking my psychogeographic nervous system: Ethnophysiography studies how people conceptualize the natural landscape, especially landforms and waterbodies. Ethnophysiography relies heavily on ethnography as a method for obtaining information through interviews, description, and community participation. Ethnophysiography focuses on kinds of things in the landscape, and aims to document in detail what things in the world are referred to by each term, and why. It relies strongly on an ontology of physical reality at landscape scales to provide a framework within which the researcher may describe the referents of terms. http://www.geog.buffalo.edu/ncgia/ethnophysiography/

Tuesday, June 7, 2005 spectacular brain imagery at the Blue Brain project site. Modeling brains on the molecular level: http://bluebrainproject.epfl.ch

Monday, June 6, 2005 All of Wittgenstein's private language arguments on one page: http://www.mnstate.edu/gracyk/courses/web%20publishing/PrivateLangArg.htm let te oracle speak.

Thursday, June 2, 2005 PEDESTRIAN LEVITATION Excellent and visually strong rendering of pedestrian movement. Now can you hack it's language?! http://www.pedestrianlevitation.net/

Wednesday, June 1, 2005 William Burroughs soundfiles at the BBC ala: in realplayer ---- zeg JA! of niet natuurlijk. Arie heeft op zijn site een stukje waarom hij Ja stemde voor de EU. Ook ik stemde ja, terwijl ik niet zoveel jaar geleden nog ertegen aan het demonsteren was, maar waar ik toen te dom voor was zie ik nu wel in: europa heeft de toekomst en de toekomst van europa is Oost-Europa. Ik geloof niet dat de grondwet zo geweldig is, en ik geloof ook dat de alles wat slecht is aan de EU mede te danken is door de tegenstanders die het hebben laten gebeuren. wat me stoort aan de hele campagne is dat het nooit gaat over waar het over zou moeten gaan: de EU als het creeren van een grensoverstijgende CULTUUR, niet van economie niet van handelsblokken niet van politiestaat maar CULTUUR. Niet een megalomane eenheidsworst cultuur maar een een cultuur waarin lokale idioteiten (stierenvechten, prinsjesdag) kunnen blijven bestaan, maar waarin de grens voorbij Maastricht, Terneuzen, Enschede en Groningen ligt, en tradities doro elkaar heen lopen en zich mengen. Kijk maar naar het eurovisie songfestival: hoe meer albanen, letten, wit-russen hoe hoger de pret.

Wednesday, June 1, 2005 SELKIRK Cartography of/by a Little Mind By The Nato of Pattern Recognition (Wilfried Hou Je Bek and Orkan Telhan) Showed at: Curb Appeal May 29-October 9, 2005 Confederation Centre Art Gallery 145 Richmond Street Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada Highlighting the work of a range of contemporary artists who engage urban space at "ground level," Curb Appeal explores the consistency of the city as at once social and cultural, poetic and phenomenological—its fluid terrain of experience, perception, and memory. Curated by Shauna McCabe

Tuesday, May 31, 2005 Yet another image of the neuron, found at this eski-de-luxe magazine for diagrams: http://thediagram.com

Tuesday, May 31, 2005 Mermaids eski article as one fragment suffices to show: "The most well-known mermaid in contemporary American culture is, of course, Ariel, the sanitized and disempowered representation who serves a heterosexual marriage plot typical of Disney films. Ariel is not only nice, she is, in many ways, an inversion of the mythic mermaid. She sacrifices her beautiful voice to gain the temporary legs that will allow her to woo her terrestrial love, Eric. While the traditional mermaids are said to seduce sailors with the sound of their beautiful singing, luring them into shipwreck and death in order to consume their souls (because they, themselves lack a soul), Ariel does exactly the reverse. She saves Eric from a shipwreck, and when she marries him to become a terrestrial princess, she figuratively becomes his soulmate. It's as if Disney set out systematically to obliterate the traditional mermaid mythos. " http://www.endicott-studio.com/jMA03Summer/theMermaid.html lots more essays here, whereas I found this all via the nonist

Tuesday, May 31, 2005 “WHATEVER HAPPENED TO LUTHER BLISSETT?” 10 years have passed since the first apparition of the multiple name and mythopoetic icon Luther Blissett. The first 5 year plan of intensive media pranks, copyleft provocations and psychogeographical routes originated mainly from Italy, spawning the publication of several books, fanzines, records, etc. This was followed by a more obscure 5 years period, in which Luther Blissett was sporadically spotted around the globe, infiltrating a national radio programme in Australia or a popular soccer tv show in UK. But where is Blissett now? Is he dead or alive? Has he retired in isolation for good, or is his presence still needed? A decennial commemoractive DVD will try to find the answers to these and other questions, with your effective help. The no copyright multimedia DVD will be produced by Wot4 Records / The Media Mente Trash Film Company, in cooperation with AAA Edizioni, and will include rare experimental films, archival tv footage, home movies, surveillance tapes, many unpublished images and writings by and about Luther Blissett, plus your very own take on the Blissett story: - Create your own answer to the question “Whatever happened to Luther Blissett?” in a digital video work, maximun length 5 minutes. Put yourself on a quest for Luther Blissett, locate and interview some of his friends and acquaintances, take a quick look at what is true and what is false in the media, in life, what is real and what is virtual, take a lo-fi look at life through the eyes of Luther Blissett. Write a song ispired by Blissett and make a noisy video of it, dig out textual or visual Blissett relics (unseen documents, unpublished texts and images), create your fictional representation of his recent history and whereabouts, etc. etc. - Send us your film in any format, but preferably on CD / DVD, before August 31, 2005 (DVD to be released before the end of 2005). We can transfer from VHS PAL / NTSC and just about anything else, but a CD / DVD would be favourite. We reserve the right to use your contribution in its entirety or to edit and mix it with other contributions as we see fit. Each author will be properly credited, but the product will be released in the “no copyright” form for no profit use, in the Luther Blissett tradition. - Each contributor will receive a free copy of the DVD. This is a no profit project, the DVD will be sold at a low price (“pay no more than 10 euro”) to recover part of the expenses of its production. The DVD will be presented in special concerts / events / projections organized in association with Wot4 Records and AAA Edizioni. Mail films/videos in all formats to: Charlie Holmes – Wot4 Piazza Torrifagiani 14 50050 Vico d’Elsa (Florence) Italy Mail texts and images to: Vittore Baroni - AAA Via C. Battisti 339 55049 Viareggio (LU) Italy For more info about the Luther Blissett Project simply use any Internet search engine or see www.lutherblissett.net

Tuesday, May 31, 2005 Intersting article on the beginning of language, connecting the influence of body and the (distorted) connection between neual pathways in the theory. http://www.indianexpress.com/flair/20010805/1e.html#

Monday, May 30, 2005 DREAM KEEPER Did I tell you about my suspicion that 'dreams' will make a comeback in popular culture?

Monday, May 30, 2005 I think it is a neuron, but for all I know it can be a bonsai tree too. http://www.fmu.ac.jp/home/radtech/angio/IVR.html

Friday, May 27, 2005 "there are reasons why a dancing polar bear wearing a limegreen tuxedo is exactly like mount Fuji" The Journal for Patterns Recognised can now be downloaded http://socialfiction.org/jpr

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