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I
think
therabo
is
a
completely
made-up
word.
Unless
it's
something
like
a
theramin...
In
grade
ten,
I
used
to
invent
bibliographies
for
invented
essays.
I
would
make
a
list
of
"facts"
for
the
writer
of
the
essay
to
use
and
then,
when
the
essay
was
complete,
I
would
write
a
bibliography.
Even
for
my
own
(occasionally
researched)
essays
I
would
sometimes
add
a
few
extra
titles
if
I
thought
the
references
could
stand
some
spicing
up.
Guerra,
Franklin.
The
True
Story
of
Thomas
Lindor
and
Escoffier's
Apple.
Boston:
Simco,
1943.
Heilbrun,
Godfrey
S.
A
Bitter
Harvest.
New
York:
Doyle
Press,
1944.
Underwood,
Philip
N.
A
Comparison
of
Globin
Structures
Within
the
Strongylid
Species.
Cambridge,
1980.
Weingardt,
Katherine
Lloyd
et
al.
Coetaneous
Histories:
The
Definitive
Companion
to
the
Scripts
of
the
Dominicans
of
Zadar.
Amsterdam:
Lalangue
Press,
1972.
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28
March
2001
Rereading
my
dog-eared
photocopies
of
the
entire
out-of-print
book,
From
Two
to
Five.
It's
tough
to
find
information
online
(in
English)
on
the
author,
Kornei
Chukovsky.
It's
a
beautiful
book
about
childhood
language
and
logic.
I
want
to
read
his
other
work.
The
debate
over
access
to
biomedical
research
papers...
Today
Tasini
vs
The
New
York
Times
went
before
the
US
Supreme
Court.
What's
the
business
model
for
work
in
a
medium
that
lends
itself
to
simulacra?
They're
still
working
on
it...
I
was
reading
a
book
by
a
friend.
It's
still
a
draft,
printed
out
on
inkjet
paper
and
clipped
with
a
big
black
clip
that
reads
UTSOA
on
the
back.
I
was
having
trouble
with
the
names.
At
first
I
thought
they
didn't
fit
the
characters,
but
that
wasn't
it...
Because
they
fit
fine--
Or
as
well
as
any
of
us
wear
our
names.
I
realized
that
it
was
the
paper
and
the
clip.
As
immersed
as
I
was
in
the
story,
I
couldn't
help
seeing
these
adult
characters
as
something
larval
(what
an
ugly
word,
I
didn't
mean
it
like
that--
ugly);
somehow
uncomfortable
in
their
names
because
they
haven't
really
been
born
yet.
Is
it
because
I
know
they
will
live
in
a
printed
and
bound
book?
They
aren't
meant
to
be
copied,
sampled,
or
altered,
but
outside
the
carapace
of
a
cover,
they
are
still
vulnerable.
I
think
I'm
feeling
sorry
for
them.
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22
March
2001
Making
a
shady
little
container
garden
on
the
fire
escape.
Radishes,
salad
greens,
herbs...
and
snow?
Kundi
is
a
tool
for
locating
real-time
media.
It's
particularly
interesting
because
of
the
rapid
iteration
rate,
which
(theoretically)
makes
it
a
self-correcting
system.
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16
March
2001
Quoting
Mimi
Nguyen:
It
makes
me
howl
when
people
assume
this
is
me--
laid
bare.
I
once
had
someone
tell
me,
to
prove
a
point,
that
she'd
gone
back
through
the
archives
and
mapped
my
writing
to
specific
personal
events.
It
was
hard
not
to
laugh...
Naturally.
This
is
the
extent
of
me.
Exposed.
You
can
turn
me
over
and
prod
my
soft
spots,
stick
your
fingers
into
my
orifices
and
smell
me.
Each
bit
of
what
you
think
is
my
soul
corresponds
to
a
point
on
or
in
my
body
defined
by
three
coordinates.
Click
here
to
browse
them.
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15
March
2001
Don't
forget
about
Silophone.
Or
Dispatched
Triptych.
We
got
our
hands
smacked
when
we
wandered
too
close
to
Panamarenko's
flying
machine
at
the
Dia
Center...
I
don't
know
if
it's
tougher
to
design
a
piece
that
is
so
compelling
people
will
risk
an
interaction
or
whether
it's
harder
to
make
and
display
something
not
meant
to
be
touched...
Hmm,
sounds
like
Conceptual
Art.
Nosepilot.
I
recommend
the
animation
with
a
cat.
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13
March
2001
A
short
list
of
things:
-
Freelancing.
-
Eating
breakfast.
-
Going
to
the
AIGA
Verge
seminar.
-
Tiling
the
bathroom
floor.
-
Thinking
about
religion
(and
also
how
to
spell
it).
A
really
long
list
of
tangents
collected
from
the
margins
of
books,
palm
pilot,
backs
of
magazines,
etc.
noted
during
the
above
things.
Get
them
down.
Look
them
up
afterward.
-
Revenge
of
the
Triangle
by
Florence
Ballard.
I'm
floored.
This
is
a
juicy
one.
Someone
has
gone
to
the
trouble
to
compile
an
invisible
library.
-
Vinge's
True
Names.
It
mostly
doesn't
occur
to
me
to
read
science
fiction,
but
it
is
now.
Occurring,
that
is.
-
suzerain
Good
to
know...
It
may
take
me
a
while
to
use
it
in
casual
conversation.
-
Who
was
Malinowski?
I
was
beginning
to
suspect
he
may
have
been
an
invisible
author.
Perec
keeps
me
on
my
toes.
In
fact,
I'd
never
stand
flat-footed
again
if
I
let
myself
follow
every
digression.
-
Do
taxes
(oops,
how
did
that
get
there?)
-
the
artifact
of
the
computer
program
as
the
interface
Yup.
Maybe
I'll
remember
later
where
I
was
going
with
that.
-
essential
set
of
colours:
burnt
sienna,
vermilion,
ultramarine,
etc.
-
the
economics
of
content
(Oh,
here
we're
getting
into
the
marginalia
from
my
notes
from
Paul
D.
Miller's
talk
at
the
AIGA
seminar.
This
is
the
talk
that
made
it
worth
sitting
through
the
lectures
that
prompted
the
following
notes:
"FULL
O'
SHIT",
"I
can
barely
restrain
myself
from
popping
my
finger
in
my
cheek,"
"I'm
guessing
he's
short,"
"JUNK
FOOD
COMMUNICATIONS,"
and
"impressively
consistent
cross-platform
dissemination
of
crappy
design."
Despite
the
notes,
there
were
some
other
good
talks--
Verner
Vinge
and
Brenda
Laurel--
but
I
really,
really
love
how
this
person
thinks...
And
anyhow,
I
am
sucker
for
all
that
Derrida
nonsense.)
-
reductionism
as
condensation.
This
falls
right
into
the
work
I'm
doing
on
comparative
informational
diagrams
depicting
notions
of
sin
across
major
religions...
-
Buddhism
is
one
of
the
only
major
religions
without
a
violent
expansion
-
cartoon
logo
thing
on
the
nose
of
the
Enola
Gay
-
Oskar
Fishinger.
Visual
Music.
-
Vannevar
Bush's
memex.
Also
"As
We
May
Think."
-
dig
up
H.G.
Wells.
Exactly.
I
recall
getting
annoyed
with
some
friend
of
my
parents
who
thought
it
was
cute
when
they
saw
me
reading
H.G.
Wells
when
I
was
little.
I
really
haven't
really
read
any
since
then.
And
I
am
very
careful
not
to
let
little
kids
know
when
I
think
they
are
cute.
-
Eminem's
description
of
his
rhymes
as
"movies."
Of
course.
-
splintering
of
ownership
(re-sampling
of
icons)
is
related
to
isolation/alienation,
fascist
backlash?
Clearly,
I
don't
know.
-
nature:
the
fear/recognition
of.
That's
too
big
to
comment
on.
-
the
power
of
the
distributed
image.
This
is
the
same
old
thing.
What's
the
meaning/point/value
of
an
"original?"
It's
still
an
interesting
question.
-
The
Voder
In
Life
A
User's
Manual
images
of
people
are
static,
but
descriptions
of
pictures
in
their
environs
are
described
in
motion
(present
tense).
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