[NetBehaviour] [...] would have guessed [...]
[...] would have guessed [...] "However, notwithstanding this apparent variety, mantras are always regar- ded as a form of speech differing from language in that, unlike language, they are not bound by 'conventions' nor associated with objects, but on the contrary are oriented toward the very origin of the Word and of the energy." >From Vac, The Concept of the Word in Selected Hindu Tantras, Andre Padoux, SUNY Press, 1990. "The pleasure in the act of Venus is the greatest of the pleasures of the senses; the matching of it with itch is unproper; ahtough that also be pleasing to the touch. But the causes are profound. First, all the organs of the senses qualify the motions of the spirits; and make so many several species of motions, and pleasure or displeasures thereupon, as there be diversities of organs. The instruments of sight, hearing, taste, and smell, are of several frame, and so are the parts for generation. Therefore Scaliger doth well to make the pleasure of generation a sixth sense; and if there were any other differing organs, and qualified perforations for the spirits to pass, there would be more than the five senses; neither do we well know whether some beasts and birds have not senses that we know not; and the very scent of dogs is almost a sense by itself." >From Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, 693. "The spline that is numbered as six defines the top of the breasts. It curves in to form the hollow of the back and the shoulder blades. This spline is also the widest of the three, because the area between splines five and six will overlap into the attached arms. "Spline number seven outlines the middle of the breasts. Its effect on the shape of the breasts can be seen the clearest in the top view. The nipples are modeled separately and attached at the very front and slightly to the sides of spline number seven. "The eighth spline [...] profiles the base of the breasts. In the front view, both splines seven and eight curve around to form the roundness of the breasts. While seven and eight curve down in the front view, number six curves up. The middle front vertices of splines seven through nine are moved up to form the thoracic arch. All three splines curve inward at the back for the shoulder blades and spine." >From 3-D Human Modeling and Animation, Peter Ratner, Wiley, 1998. "Why do all men, both foreign and Greek, count in tens, and not in any other numbers? For instance, they might count 2,3,4,5, and then repeat one, five, two five, and so on as now they say eleven, twelve, and so on. Or why do they not stop at a number beyond ten and repeat from there? For each number is made by putting a preceding number and one, two, and so on with another number before them, and hence another number is formed, but they always count from ten as a limit. For as this is invariably done it clearly cannot be due to chance; for what is invariable and occurs in every case cannot be a chance arrangement but must be due to nature. [...] Or is it because all men have ten fingers? Having then counters of a natural number, they number all other quantities by this number. The Thracians are the only race who count in fours, because like children they cannot remember very far, nor have they any use for any large number." >From Aristotle, Problems, XV, 3, trans. W. S. Hett, Loeb, 1926. "Their lives are graced through my reading their works come alive. Devouring their living works compress their lives into one. Insolence of their letters directed actions of my own. Coming into fruition of work and life through my reading of them." >From Textbook of Thinking, Alan Sondheim, open-lock, 1991. ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] MIT student charged with wearing fake bomb she says was only art.
MIT student charged with wearing fake bomb she says was only art. By Rodrique Ngowi. BOSTON --Troopers arrested an MIT student at gunpoint Friday after she walked into Logan International Airport wearing a computer circuit board and wiring on her sweatshirt. Authorities call it a fake bomb; she called it art. Star Simpson's attorney said the charges against her were an overreaction, but authorities expressed amazement that someone would wear such a device eight months after a similar scare in Boston, and six years after two of the jets hijacked in the Sept. 11 attacks took off from Logan. "I'm shocked and appalled that somebody would wear this type of device to an airport," said State Police Maj. Scott Pare, the airport's commanding officer. The terminal was not evacuated and flights were not affected, airport officials said. Simpson, 19, of Hawaii, has expertise in electronics and even received a Congressional citation for her work in robotics, according to her lawyer. She wore the white circuit board on her chest over a black hooded sweatshirt, Pare said at a news conference. The battery-powered rectangular device had nine flashing lights, and Simpson had Play-Doh in her hands, he said. Two phrases that looked hand-drawn -- "Socket to me" and "Course VI" -- were written on the back of Simpson's sweatshirt, which authorities displayed to the media. Course VI appears to refer to MIT's major of electrical engineering and computer science. "She said that it was a piece of art and she wanted to stand out on career day," Pare said. "She claims that it was just art, and that she was proud of the art and she wanted to display it." There was a career fair at the university on Thursday, according to the university's Web site. Simpson was charged with possessing a hoax device. A not guilty plea was entered for her and she was released on $750 bail. more... http://linkme2.net/cm ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] WHAT ARE THESE FISH I DON'T KNOW FISH PLEASE HELP ME
On Sep 21, 2007, at 6:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Please help me, what are these fish? Large schools gathered > tightly together in the Providence River, Rhode Island. > They're about 18" in length. I can only guess invasive species, > maybe ocean-hungry spawning but I DON'T KNOW FISH. > > http://www.asondheim.org/fish8.jpg > http://www.asondheim.org/fish19.jpg > > Time: late afternoon/early evening. > Numbers: Approximately 1000. > Behavior: Swarming, schooling, occasional 'flashing' of sides. > Color: Seemed almost transparent, grey-blue, dull. > > WHAT ARE THESE FISH I DON'T KNOW FISH http://www.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/newsblog/archives/2007/09/ photo_bluefish.html ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] [Nictoglobe] Clash of Discourses: Living in a Hysterical World
Clash of Discourses: Living in a Hysterical World Materiality / Immateriality Money Economy \ Gift Economy Science / Religion Aesthetics \ Politics Private / Public Individual \ Collective Elite / Masses Socialism \ Fascism Institutionalized Culture / Underground The Wise Guys \ The Men from the Streets Urban / Rural Outsiders \ Insiders Literated / Illiterated Artist \ Audience Consumer / Producer Ignorance \ Awareness Determination of your position, and more, 14 September, 20:30 CEST @ De Balie - Centre for Culture and Politics, Amsterdam, Nictoglobe organized, using free publicly accessible open source software tools, developed and provided by de Balie, a DIY CoolMediaHotTalkShow about 'Creative Resistance, New Media as Soft Arms' In case you missed it, see archived show: http://www.coolmediahottalk.net/archive.jsp?showid=4355 Below our call as sent on May 15th 2007: "Nictoglobe invites you to send a short (max 500 words) submission which reflects upon ‘creative resistance – new media as soft arms’ as an starting point to develop a more profound and public, artistic led discussion about this subject." Best A. Andreas - Publisher Nictoglobe http://www.nictoglobe.com ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Gita
Hahá! Toca Raul! Às vezes você me pergunta por que é que eu sou tão calado não falo de amor quase nada nem fico sorrindo ao seu lado Você pensa em min toda hora me come me cospe me deixa talvez você não entenda mas hoje eu vou lhe mostrar Que eu sou a a luz das estrelas eu sou a cor do luar eu sou as coisas da vida eu sou o medo de amar Eu sou o medo do fraco a força da imaginação o blefe do jogador Eu sou, eu fui, eu vou Gitâ, gitâ gitâ gitâ Eu sou o seu sacrifício a placa de contra-mão o sangue no olhar do vampiro e as juras de maldição Eu sou a vela que acende eu sou a luz que se apaga eu sou a beira do abismo eu sou o tudo e o nada Por que você me pergunta? Perguntas não vão lhe mostrar que eu sou feito da terra do fogo da água e do ar Você me tem todo o dia mas não sabe se é bom ou ruim Mas saiba que eu estou em você mas você não está em mim Das telhas eu sou o telhado a pesca do pescador a letra "A" tem meu nome dos sonhos eu sou o amor Eu sou a dona de casa nos "peg-pagues" do mundo Eu sou a mão do carrasco sou raso, largo, profundo Eu sou a mosca da sopa, e o dente do tubarão Eu sou os olhos do cego, e a cegueira da visão É mas eu sou o amargo da língua a mãe, o pai e o avô O filho que ainda não veio o início, o fim e o meio Em Quarta 19 Setembro 2007 13:01, Alan Sondheim escreveu: > Gita > > Could the ancients hear spherics directly? Oh, I think so! > Otherwise the drums would not have been constructed with additive > functions in mind. > Nor with spectral tonalities in mind. > Remember, they harbor air and other spherics, closed and vibrating! > But surely not the aurora, is that additive? > Or magnetic storms, antipodean lightning strikes, are they additive? > Every particle has its split-second say! The drum reflects! > The drum resonates! Eight fingers, two thumbs, the drum resonates! > Whose counting? I am. > > > http://www.asondheim.org/gita1.mp3 > http://www.asondheim.org/gita2.mp3 > http://www.asondheim.org/gita3.mp3 > http://www.asondheim.org/gita4.mp3 > > small Nepalese drum > > ___ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] jwm-art mentions on his StumbeUpon blog
jwm-art mentions on his StumbeUpon blog - http://jwm-art.stumbleupon.com/ "If only I'd read this earlier, I might have understood more about my online identity!?!?!? Maybe. It's a review/description of social networking + online identity, and the concepts surrounding them." _The Sound of Reality Lag: Versionals are the New Black_ Social Networks such as MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, Orkut, Liveleak, YouTube, Twitter and Pownce aren't prefaced on pre-set connotative connections maintained through historicized emotional depth or satisfied by biological drives. By Mez. http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=281 ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] RHIZOME_RAW: New articles, reviews of projects on Furtherfield.
Hi Michael, I found Edward's work very intriguing and interesting regarding the exploration of its various connections outside the work itself, it is relational as well as metaphysical - interesting :-) thanks marc > > < Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Edward > Picot. > Review by Marc Garrett.> > > http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.phpreview_id=285 > > Excellent! -this is a thoughtful and thorough piece of > writing about a strange & quirky but by no means > trivial, in fact rather wonderful, piece of work. > Thank-you! > michael > + > -> post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -> questions: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -> subscribe/unsubscribe: http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz > -> give: http://rhizome.org/support > + > Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms set out in the > Membership Agreement available online at http://rhizome.org/info/29.php > > ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Free data sharing is here to stay.
Free data sharing is here to stay. Cory Doctorow. Guardian Unlimited. The information economy is here - but governments and business are still obsessed with 'protecting' information, rather than making it more productive. Since the 1970s, pundits have predicted a transition to an "information economy". The vision of an economy based on information seized the imaginations of the world's governments. For decades now, they have been creating policies to "protect" information — stronger copyright laws, international treaties on patents and trademarks, treaties to protect anti-copying technology. The thinking is simple: an information economy must be based on buying and selling information. Therefore, we need policies to make it harder to get access to information unless you've paid for it. That means that we have to make it harder for you to share information, even after you've paid for it. Without the ability to fence off your information property, you can't have an information market to fuel the information economy. But this is a tragic case of misunderstanding a metaphor. Just as the industrial economy wasn't based on making it harder to get access to machines, the information economy won't be based on making it harder to get access to information. Indeed, the opposite seems to be true: the more IT we have, the easier it is to access any given piece of information — for better or for worse. more... http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/sep/18/informationeconomy ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Hackers reveal day-to-day dangers.
Hackers reveal day-to-day dangers. By Jonathan Kent. The BBC's Jonathan Kent attends the Hack In The Box conference in Malaysia to hear about the dangers ethical hackers are starting to uncover. These days meetings of computer hackers are no longer gatherings of pale young men sitting in rooms knee deep in pizza boxes. Instead they're a magnet for security experts from banks and corporations eager to hear the latest in computer security research. The annual Hack in the Box conference is first and foremost a gathering of "white hat" hackers. If the term seems opaque just think of old Westerns in which the bad guys wore black hats. more... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7004750.stm ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] U.S. Airport Screeners Are Watching What You Read.
U.S. Airport Screeners Are Watching What You Read. By Ryan Singel. International travelers concerned about being labeled a terrorist or drug runner by secret Homeland Security algorithms may want to be careful what books they read on the plane. Newly revealed records show the government is storing such information for years. Privacy advocates obtained database records showing that the government routinely records the race of people pulled aside for extra screening as they enter the country, along with cursory answers given to U.S. border inspectors about their purpose in traveling. In one case, the records note Electronic Frontier Foundation co-founder John Gilmore's choice of reading material, and worry over the number of small flashlights he'd packed for the trip. The breadth of the information obtained by the Gilmore-funded Identity Project (using a Privacy Act request) shows the government's screening program at the border is actually a "surveillance dragnet," according to the group's spokesman Bill Scannell. "There is so much sensitive information in the documents that it is clear that Homeland Security is not playing straight with the American people," Scannell said. more... http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/09/flight_tracking ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Interview: Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller
Interview: Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller by Peter Traub Networked_Music_Review: http://turbulence.org/networked_music_review September 20, 2007 Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller create multimedia pieces that combine aspects of sculpture, cinema, sound installation, and short-story fiction. Installations such as "The Paradise Institute" (2001) use forced perspective and a three-dimensional sound track to create the illusion that one is sitting in a large theater. Their 'sound walks' and 'video walks' are immersive pieces that use common consumer technologies, such as iPods and video cameras, to create experiences that blur the line between experienced reality and narrative fiction. Their works are exhibited internationally; their exhibit "The Killing Machine and other stories" will arrive at the Miami Art Museum on October 15, 2007. Read the complete interview here: http://tinyurl.com/2nossl Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856 Turbulence: http://turbulence.org Networked_Performance Blog: http://turbulence.org/blog Networked_Music_Review: http://turbulence.org/networked_music_review Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade New American Radio: http://somewhere.org ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
