Entries from mistersquid: a digital fiction tagged with 'passings'
Steve Jobs, 1955-2011
one last time…...
Richard Rorty, 4 October 1931 — 8 June 2007
[. . .] it is not much use pointing out the “internal contradictions” of a social practice, or “deconstructing” it, unless one can come up with an alternative practice—unless one can at least sketch a utopia in which the concept...
Blaming Virginia
There are a thousand things to say about the tragedy that transpired in Blacksburg, Virginia, on 16 April 2007, and many people more eloquent and thoughtful than me are saying them. John Derbyshire, however, is not one of them.1The scenario...
Jean Baudrillard, 20 June 1929 — 6 March 2007
If being a nihilist, is carrying, to the unbearable limit of hegemonic systems, this radical trait of derision and of violence, this challenge that the system is summoned to answer through its own death, then I am a terrorist...
Lilacs Ascending
Whenever Carrie’s (Caron Rouzie’s) smile started beaming my way, I’d start feeling nervous, worried that in the sure-to-follow conversation I would react in ways outside my awareness. It doesn’t really matter now, I guess, since my anxieties never met their...
Secret Bobcats Fan
Dean, I miss you....
Still point, or the beauty of symbolic links1
Since 3:20 am on Tuesday, 6 June, my servers allowed three pieces of email to be queued for delivery. Thanks to procmail, two of those pieces of junk email never made it past /dev/null. The third piece of junk...
Brain-Dead Safari Programmers
If Safari is your main browser and you’re runnning it as-shipped, your Macintosh is vulnerable as a Brooklyn-based iPod lover . Bad jokes aside * , this is a serious vulnerability that has been targeted by at least one virus/trojan/worm found “in the...
The nature of god reveals itself when you find yourself praying to someone in whom you don't quite believe....
Object
The Smiley Face, perhaps one of the best known secular icons in the contemporary world, was originally created by Harvey R. Ball in 1963. He designed the Smiley Face to inspirit workers of two recently merged insurance companies. State...
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