Archives for 2000

Stelarc

March 30, 2000 by Michael Boyle

Stelarc is up to his old tricks. Now he’s working on an extra ear. To those who don’t know him it may seem like so much sci-fi pap. But really Stelarc is quite interesting, and he’s been working with this “body is obsolete” thesis for almost 20 years or so. I saw him perform with his robot arm in ’96 or so and it was spectacular.

Garth

March 30, 2000 by Michael Boyle

Garth is another weblogger I know of from an entirely different online environment. Weird.

And Phil is yet another. It’s an epidemic!

Jr Gone Wild:

March 30, 2000 by Michael Boyle

“There was a time when I could live on just rice/But now that’s too frugal to stand up to my vice.” From I don’t need that anymore on the album Too Dumb to Quit.

I love meta!

March 30, 2000 by Michael Boyle

The whole agony over what a blog is and who’s popular and who’s in which clique and who’s not… it’s great! The best part is that people just keep on rolling along doing their own thing. Is it in spite of the thrash or because of it?

Rollins weighs in

March 29, 2000 by Michael Boyle

with this quote, from an interview published last week in Hour Magazine:

“In that environment [where money = power], the freedom of the internet is interesting, but I think it would be much more interesting to get inner-city youth computer savvy. It used to be that the underprivileged were about ten paces behind the privileged. Now, with technology growing at such a rate, the underprivileged are miles behind, and it’s growing wider day by day. If you’re not computer savvy at a time when people are buying stocks with a point and click, you’re doomed.” (from Hour’s interview with Henry Rollins).

I remember when I first hopped on the net it was all about access. I was a member of the local Freenet, and that was the issue. I miss that discussion. It’s important, even in the face of an ever-growing population of net users.