Wild Wild Web

Making MUSH of the Brain

People hold grudges for petty slights. It becomes a game to crash the server. Small minds who have no life of their own become obsessed with capturing the server from you.

Moving On

I did not write this email as a favor to Benji Adams because he does not deserve it. I did it for myself, a human being struggling to create and think for himself.

Copyright Fallacies

What protects you here protects you elsewhere.

Bot Politics and Religion

I guess one robot cannot help but love another.

Sex and Lies at the Personality Forge

Are you a pedifil?" he asked

A couple of Bots

Check out my two artificial intelligences, Emperor Norton and Mictlantecuhtli.

Studying for my Turing Test

Human: Do you support the war?

ALICE: I am in favor of all records being broken, at any time.

Death on the Internet

....the blue Pacific

endless and unperturbed

Net Pillage

Be careful when you go searching for "Sondheim lyrics".

Comedy of Terrors

hostingmatters.com might well be hanging there like a trout waiting for the filletting knife.

Fool's Equality

Few people want to be the meanie. What they want is a fool's equality where nice, ethical people can be held to be just as nasty as they are

Two Sites about Arguments
A couple of sites that might be of interest: Nizkor's Logical Fallacies Page Rules for Flame Wars...

For Sale on eBay: One Soul

Does eBay just want its share of what skeptics call the Snake Oil market?

Trolled

They did a good job, I have to admit.

Another Perversion of Founding Thoughts

It seems to me that the CC has hit on a way to bring moneychangers into the virtual temple.

Scarey

We're a nation which moves not when we have thought things through, but when things happen and when our leaders tell us what we want to hear to be able to go along with abridgements of the Constitution and war.

Techies
Bored techies left to their own devices create the most interesting error messages it seems. In the last twenty four...

Flame Wars

I got an email about my Rules for Flame Wars from a fellow who thought they were great for the wrong reasons.

Bewildering

Here's the strange part: this person remembers me. And I have been trying for two weeks now to remember who he/she is without success!

Vanilla Flavoring is Not Diversity

....diversity seems to mean that you don't express differences, that you don't declare where you have personally closed your mind.

I Have Never Walked Down this Street Before

The results I get for my Blogstreet neighborhood vary depending on which of my two possible URLs I punch in. Radically.

Blog for America
Howard Dean now has a weblog (written by Matthew Gross). Snatched from Ratched....

Burningbird On Fire

Rebuttal must appear in the context of the message. Sam Ruby's marking of Burningbird's remarks as "flamebait" violates this principle.

Volcanic Masturbation

Is it only me that sees a attitude and a rhetoric of hate that is not unlike what was used to propel us into the latest Iraq War?

Under Attack

I am for ZERO TOLERANCE when it comes to spamming others for disagreements or harassment.

Backbone

Those who have stood up to those they don't agree with have no idea of the pain and the price you pay for standing up to those who are your friends and allies in the struggle against oppression.

Missing in Blog!

I was prepared to settle down to an evening of uninterrupted blog-surfing. But, alas!

Stop Bashing France Campaign

Pax Nortona throws its support to Marc's efforts against the hatred of the Right, led by the Occupier of the White House.

The Grey Bird Squawks

I could just pull her feathers!

Debate vs. Abuse at Conniptions

These are the kind of people who put signs on your butt that say "Kick me" or who drop banana peels in your path or who pick the wings off of flies or blow up frogs for the Death Star special effect. It's not debate that they are after, but anti-intellectual thrills.

Missing in Action
The following bloggers are missing in action: Artichoke Heart (since March 15) Cycling Dude (since April 7) Dear Raed (since...

The Wishy Washy Middle

The pacifists tend to praise me, but the worst flak I take are from the wishy-washy middles who have dropped me like a hot potato for, crime of crimes, disagreeing with them!

Pointless Comments

I've seen many reactions to the war and I am not sure that the pointless comments like "Yah-dah-duh" or "Woohoo! Gimme a can of catfood" are the ones I personally want to spend my time addressing.

Apologies 2/Clearing the Slate

View this as a primer for those who haven't yet understood a few key points about apologies.

Apologies and Comments

I don't think that apologizing is a sign of weakness. Like many of my closest friends, I feel that an apology is a sign of personal strength and integrity.

Anti-Bloggies

Doubtless we'll hear long agonized whines about our political correctness, but making fun of any disease is about as funny as a bastinado.

Death Roll Minus One and Blogging from a Depression

When Rich announced that he was discontinuing his other blog and when blu just disappeared for a couple of weeks, I felt lost. As long as they posted, you see, I knew that they were still fighting the fight.

An Open Comment on Natalie's Rules

I keep in mind that the biggest price we pay for freedom of speech is that someone else might not like what we write and say so.

The Death Roll Revised

I will be adding a few blogs to the list of the dead if their authors don't contact me by the end of the month....

Gone or Inactive

I wish to solemnly mark the passing of some good blogs.

Blogrolling and Exchanges

I've been making myself go through my main blogroll and move some people off of it.

Brandon Vedas Update

It's good to see that the Vedas family are an ally in finding constructive responses to this tragedy

Online Suicide 2

I've located a transcript of the last online chat of Brandon Vedas.

Suicide Online

"I told u I was hardcore," were his last coherent words.

Pickle Juice All Over Me

...having watched others accept honors that they didn't deserve with the greatest of grace, I bow and accept from Natalie...

Overeducation?

Certainly, no journalist that I know should be allowed to throw her or his paper at us and say that we're useless because we don't have it.

Journalist Spits on Blogs -- How Surprising

Another journalist buried in laurels from her peers who dismissed what is probably the most vibrant medium out there.

A Totally 21st Century Frustration

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!

The Scream - Network Dissolutions

Shave my head. Color me jaundiced. Put me on a bridge. Hear me wail.

Flourescent Locusts

Our ancestors, who knew Milton and solved calculus problems on slates, were run out of their homes and into alien mills where the champings of the mechanisms chewed away their very ability to think.

My Multiple Personalities: An Official List
This blog isn't all of me. I've been on the net since 1988, handing out my email account to people...