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     [ We are on our Summer holidays, but find it impossible to shut up ]


                              >> PREVIOUS NEWS <<
                             exhaustively exhumed

         In a bitter-sweet double reversal of fortune, it sounds like
         the attempt to sneak software patents by the Europarliament
         next week has been averted, while the delayed EUCD is
         spinning backwards in time to the present. There still maybe
         a slim chance of stopping the SOFTWARE PATENTS LEGISLATION
         from arriving at Brussels in such bad shape: Ian Clarke (off
         of Freenet) has put up a non-anonymous, non-distributed CGI
         script that lets businesses write up exactly how devastating
         the new patents will be to them, and passes them onto the
         relevant authorities. It's not quite FaxYourMEP, but it'll
         help. Meanwhile, anonymous sources say that the UK
         implementation of the EUCD is pretty much marked up. Any
         changes there are don't have much to do with consumer
         rights: we'll be seeing what damage *that'll* be wreaking on
         the tech community after this short break.
       http://swpat.ffii.org/news/03/plen0626/index.en.html
                                    - full details on the shenanigans
      http://freenetproject.org/eusp/index.php
- should have patented contactyourrepresentative when we had the chance
       http://www.carolinelucasmep.org.uk/news/Nanotechnology_220403.htm
             - some MEPS could do with a bit of help with tech issues

         Talking of non-anonymous, PHIL MARLEY wrote in last week to
         point out that the mystery NTK reader who wrote to their MP
         and got questions asked in the House about STAND wasn't a
         mystery, and had in fact mailed us a month ago to tell us
         what he'd done. Cheers, Phil! Your name has now been given
         its rightful place on the Internet. There may be a prize.
         http://www.spy.org.uk/cgi-bin/civilcontingencies.pl
       - also, it looks like the police won't be running the Internet

         And while we're digging through the news feedback slushpile,
         we're still getting folk asking if we're going to fork the
         Jargon File, or set up the Jargon Wiki, or join them in some
         anti-ESR outback militia who are - as we speak - tooling up
         with daisies and big hugs outside his house. Well, as so
         many noted on slashdot, euro-weenie anti-capitalist
         crypto-communist running dogs like us are the last people
         you'd want to take over. But maybe, we'd suggest, at least
         for new entries, a couple of citations each would provide
         more context. After all, it's what ESR requests from outside
         contributors. And it'd be a good filter on what might
         otherwise look like his own coinages.
         http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/submitting-new-entries.html
 - or you could just rename it "Dude, you've just described hacking!"
         http://tinyurl.com/ff6r
                         - as he's saying about everything these days


                                >> ANTI-NEWS <<
                             berating the obvious

         interminable GLASTONBURY sessions now provided with 26 hours to
         overrun: http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/+soundandvision/+tv/
         ... at the end of a string of beers, there is:
         http://www.ntk.net/2003/06/27/nullbeer.png ... poorly chosen
         domains are the new google typos: http://www.twatravel.com/ ...
         ORDER OF PHOENIX now available on Web, reels MSNBC, notes that
         1.8MB file is "about the size of a few digital music files":
         http://www.msnbc.com/news/930285.asp?cp1=1 ... "discreet maths"
         advised at Ncipher: http://www.ncipher.com/careers/jobs.html ...
         STEVE JOBS announces G5 "twice as quiet" as G4. What, only
         -3db? ... REGISTER flashes back to the Apple IIGS:
         http://www.ntk.net/2003/06/27/doh16bit.jpg ... come now, they
         don't look *so* bad: http://www.ntk.net/2003/06/27/dohgoogle.png
         ... and google typos are to be merging with BBC mistakes:
         http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.bbc.co.uk+%22name+here%22


                                >> TRACKING <<
               sufficiently advanced technology : the gathering

         Kevin Burton's RSS aggregator NEWSMONSTER stomps towards 1.0
         and a place as one of the first respectable Java 'n' Mozilla
         cross-plaform apps. It sits in that barely-used Moz sidebar
         and grinds through RSS feeds, spitting them out as local
         HTML on an hourly basis. There are some kinks to being an
         in-browser aggro: you sometimes wish you could pop that
         sidebar somewhere more convenient. The semantics of a "read"
         blog entry are a bit strained (entries don't dim like a
         newsreader; their link changes colour like a browser). But
         there are synergies, too: being able to subscribe to a feed
         just by right-clicking on the page is great. Integration
         means you can bang through your n^2 subscriptions that much
         more quickly. And given Newsmonster is already sitting in
         the kitchen sink, there's no harm in slapping in features
         like Technorati and Feedster searches. The Pro version
         ($29.95) currently gets you more the promise of ambitious
         future featres than actual implementations right now -
         mainly because Burton's not turned on his much-awaited
         reputation system. But if you think of your payment as more
         of a Streetperformer Protocol tip-on-future-development, it
         seems a fair price.
         http://www.newsmonster.org/
                    - the source version is also the Pro version, btw
         http://newsmonster.org/reputation.html
                               - "micropayments: still in the future"


                                >> MEMEPOOL <<
                ceci n'est pas une http://www.gagpipe.com/

         "Brandon Trinity hopes his songs bring a little joy to
         everyone who listens": http://www.listentothefuture.com/ ...
         top trumps for bad people: http://snurfer.org/cgi-bin/cctrumps.pl ...
         two slightly distorted versions of the CD audio standard:
         http://www.rcarter.34sp.com/oldfield/tubularbells2003.html ...
         but who wins in a fight? http://www.illusionary.com/GNOMEvKDE.html ...
         what is supposed to happen in the office when you go home:
         www.divstivs.plus.com/iconwar/ ... camwhoring if you only have a pen: 
  http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2936199926&category=324i
         ...  what *actually* happens in the office when you go home:
         http://members.chello.nl/~s.ferris/images/Dsc00065.jpg ... let
         the bitter internecine geek clan wars begin!: http://londongeek.org/


                                >> GEEK MEDIA <<
                               get out much less

         FILM>> Eliza "Faith from Buffy" Dushku and friends run into
         West Virginia's most meticulous Texas Chainsaw/ Deliverance
         re-enactment society, in brutal woodland chase horror WRONG
         TURN ( http://www.screenit.com/movies/2003/wrong_turn.html :
         people jump from a tall tower into a nearby tree; people shoot
         arrows at others, including some in a tree)... Jim Carrey bids
         to be hailed the god of overacting comedy in BRUCE ALMIGHTY
         ( http://www.capalert.com/capreports/brucealmighty.htm : this
         movie has problems but cheapening of God and believers is NOT
         one of them; [no] mention of God's Son nor any mention of our
         need for redemption through the precious blood of Jesus)...
         otherwise Laurence "Morpheus" Fishburne enters a Matrix
         resembling an African-American version of "2 Fast 2 Furious" -
         but on motorbikes - in BIKER BOYZ ( http://www.bbfc.co.uk/ :
         contains single use of strong language and moderate violence)
         ... and the full address of the killer website actually turns
         out to be the - slashdot-inspired? - "www.feardotcom.com" in
         long-delayed Natascha McElhone "The Ring" ripoff cyberbollocks
        FEARDOTCOM ( http://www.screenit.com/movies/2002/feardotcom.html :
         it's possible the film could inspire some kids to look for
         websites that purportedly show live deaths or torture, etc;
         another dead body shows bare breasts)...


                               >> SMALL PRINT <<

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