At 7:00 pm on Sunday 15 April 2007 some Debian folk will assemble before, and perhaps within, a dark opening on the south side of West Fourth Street, just east of Sixth Avenue. The name of the place and the formal address are
Vole de Nuit 148 West 4th Street New York City, NY 10012. The mussels are good, and the beer is good and the liquor is good, and Debian Etch has been released upon the world. For further information: http://lists.yukidoke.org/pipermail/debian-nyc-soc/2007-April/000087.html http://wiki.debian.org/ReleasePartyEtch/NewYork http://www.debian.org Jay Sulzberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Corresponding Secretary LXNY LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization. http://www.lxny.org Personal Postscript: We will assemble, but neither the name of the place nor the number of the place is visible. A persistent rumor is that the odd, almost invisible, thing is an inadvertent product of old military research into "blindsight, tactical scotomata, Nyxian and Apatian dream-forces", as the original ARPA proposal put it. In one sense the project was successful. Strong effects, at low conventional cost, were demonstrated: various structures were destroyed (according to one minority conjecture, not really destroyed, but rather "radically diplaced"), volunteer subjects were rendered incapable of combat, logistic networks were disrupted, all without delivery of any gross material agent. Yet the Department of Defense, after proof of concept, did not fund further work. It was felt that it would be difficult to integrate the techniques, and, perhaps more, the successful students of these obscure matters, into any regular military organization. Some say that a few of the children of both the researchers and the volunteer subjects later discovered one another, on certain BBSes of the Eighties and early Nineties of the last century, on certain long walkabouts, on certain Usenet groups which Google's public archive has no record of, and in bars with very good mussels, in garlic sauce, cooked in crude pottery suggesting, somehow, wonderful paintings of auroch hunts which some can see in perfect dark, when the last noise of the City's traffic is dimmed by a step into something which is hard to see. These children discovered one another and, as their joined strength grew, they started a number of projects. Others say that the standard account of the founding and flourishing of Debian is mostly accurate and mostly complete, and that old, nearly forgotten, crazy ARPA wild goose chases do not determine where Debian folk gather at the turning of the versions. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.isoc-ny.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
