FWD: Unholy alliance: IPR and Christian conservatives

2005-03-30 Thread t byfield
>From the NCUC list, NCUC being the Noncommercial Users Constituency (of ICANN) list. Devout Christians have developed such a reputation for being mobilizable that we can surely expect them to be used as fodder for all manner of creepy agendas. The only limit is whether some connected cynic can fi

Re: unix history

2005-03-30 Thread Art McGee
> I find many unix/linux histories dont do this and as such > seem to rewrite the history or gloss over things to fit > into the free as in speech ideology. The Oral History > really deals witht he basics of interactive communal > computing and the way the machine was developed in a way > these oth

JEWISH WOMEN WATCHING HOAX STIRS UP JTS CELEBRATION OF WOMEN RABBIS

2005-03-30 Thread nettime's_yes_women(?!)_spam_kr!k!t(?!)
[orig From and To: Jewish Women Watching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Jewish Women Watching at 347-393-2307 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] JEWISH WOMEN WATCHING HOAX STIRS UP JTS CELEBRATION OF WOMEN RABBIS Conservative Movement Angrily Disavows Message of Equity and Non-Discrimi

New Book - Law and Internet Cultures

2005-03-30 Thread z3118338
This looks very useful and good. As i have read some of it already I recommend it to everyone interested in the topic Martin Law and Internet Cultures Kathy Bowrey University of New South Wales, Sydney http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=3D0521600480 (ISBN-10: 0521600480 |

Get More Mileage with Feynman's Van

2005-03-30 Thread Soenke Zehle
The idea that brevity and bigger pictures go together pretty well has been around at least since Burma-Shave, if not Ockham's Razor, but maybe there's a need for another car-cultural analogy. Re PP: not really a surprise, given the (rhetorical) havoc pp has already wreaked in board- and classro

Statement by Toni Negri re: Windschuttle article in The Australian

2005-03-30 Thread Geert Lovink
(fwd. on request of the conference organizers to nettime-l. more on this case can be found on the www.fibreculture.org list. /geert) The following is a statement written by Toni Negri in refutation of the allegations made against him by Keith Windschuttle in _The Australian_ (16 March 2005): h

American Academy of Arts and Sciences calls for "restoring trust in American business"

2005-03-30 Thread Geert Lovink
(comments below on 'corporate responsabilty' report is somewhat predictable as Mokhiber and Weissman have been calling for conviction for corporate crime for years, without success as of yet, but interesting nonetheless. see link for press release and table of content. /geert) http://www.amaca