a lot of stuff going on this week to protest the FTAA.

so, one of my random roommates this year, dan rose, while seemingly a decent guy, is someone who i will be glad to not be living with anymore. while definitely not my worst roommate experience (that would be my freshman year), dan definitely has some strikes going against him. among them is his habit of letting the trash pile up for a week or two after it’s full when it’s his turn to take it out (causing a stink again in the kitchen right now in fact), dumping food in the sink and leaving it (and we do have a trash disposal), never cleaning up after himself foodwise, whether it’s grease on the stove or amazing amounts of crumbs on the table and the floor, and most recently, not having bought toilet paper for the past 3 days (of course i reminded him before the last of the rolls i bought ran out, but despite saying he would 3 times, he has yet to get any). that’s just so messed up. (yeah yeah, more than you wanted to know. don’t worry, i got an interim roll from a friend for myself – i don’t even want to know what he’s been doing)

Yet the equivocal image has come amid often astonishing techniques, the internationalization of communication, and the virtualization of photographic representation as a subset of computer rendering where algorithmic images signify an epistemological realm that zigzags between dopey electronic ontology and sweeping ersatz immutablity.

just an example of the meaningless drivel i have to wade through. i mean seriously, this sentence doesn’t say anything. well, it says, in plain english: the ambiguous image hovers between a strange virtual existence and a fake sort of constancy. of course, in the case of art history and critical theory, it just says that most authors just like to hear themselves speak … or write (ie, why use a big word when a monosyllabic diminutive will suffice). this sentence btw, is from instability and dispersion by timothy druckrey. critical theory qua verbal diarrhea. or fancy words qua haughtier than thou intelligence

the title is a reference either to barthes or uncertainty theory

Something about NS and JSSS – why css for ns4x sucks so much

The Invisible Library is a collection of books that only appear in other books. Within the library walls you will find imaginary books, pseudobiblia, artifictions, fabled tomes, libris phantastica, and all manner of books unwritten, unread, unpublished, and unfound.

nypost.com business: no expense spared with outrageous promotion of ‘ai’

you know it’s time for a reboot when you’re browsing the web (and posting to your blog) with the winamp minibrowser. bad cds make my computer a saaad panda.

so, on /., there’s a post on the new ai movie and the twisted and tangled web of fiction that revolves around it (try starting out with salla). it’s definitely very interesting clicking through… aicn has a huge list of sites compiled (if you wanna spoil yourself). so, the movie may end up sucking, but at least the marketing is cool. so, the proper way to do it, is to go watch the ai trailer, pay attention to the name of the sentient machine therapist, and do a google search and follow the links. ironically, you won’t find a link to her homepage at first, presumably, it’s not the order they want you to go in… there’s a linear narrative that unfolds. once you’re done, go read the aicn talk-back blather

just some notes: a lot of content was generated for these sites. it’s pretty amazing. way more than for say, the x-men stuff… view source, it’s fun. (different sites are written by different people, some w/ dreamweaver, some with golive – apparently those are pretty big late into the 22nd century, haha)

Converting HTML to other formats – a useful links provided by the w3. among them is a link to a utility called html2ps, a perl script to convert html to postscript. apparently, once upon a time netscape actually had a cgi version running alon called the “mozilla print gidget,” but now all that’s left of that is a bunch of dead links.

more converter/ps stuff:

• html converters and templates – even more
• html to postscript converters – 3 different links
• postscript & ghostscript resources – some really neat stuff, including ps resizing and other psutils
• richard’s ps junk page – lots of resources, links, and summary of all kinds of ps stuff. a good place to start.
• a first guide ot postscript and the postscript introduction also look like good guides that i’ll have to go through in depth more later. the direct postscript faq answers my question of the difference between ps levels.

What is the difference between PostScript Levels 1, 2, and 3?

Level 2 is an extension of the original Level 1 commands. Most of the additions are to do with colour printing; sophisticated methods of manipulating fonts and graphics; printer operators; or Display PostScript instructions for NeXT computers. All PostScript printers are supposed to be backwardly compatible, although some Level 1 commands have degenerated into Level 2 jargon, so that, for example, `manual feed true’ has been transmogrified into `2 setpapertray’. A recent development, called PostScript 3, integrates PostScript, the Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format, and the creation of Web pages into one progamming language.

imagemagick‘s convert tools are also good for converting pretty much anything to anything…

i’ve been really really busy and will be until may probably. probably will be posting pretty irregularly from now til then.