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screencast of clearbits quickview, the music is sigue sigue sputnik’s barbarandroid

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my mourning technique has been frantically visiting forums to read their opinions about the reelection… some quotes below (and above).
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Dan Gillmor’s eJournal: “The latest word on climate change is that with the uncovering of sequestered carbon in the arctic by melting ice sheets, the rate of climate change will increase, not decrease. There’s a positive feedback loop in place now, and it will take even more to counteract it. Without added forests, greenbelts, and estuaries, there won’t be adequate photosynthetic activity to counteract the increased burning of fossil fuels. We could see 20 foot rises in ocean level in 50 years. Dan could be going to his office in San Jose by boat.

Ask yourself this: Why has the Bush administration fired scientists who won’t write biased papers to support the administrations pro-industry agenda? Why have lobbyists for energy and chemical companies been put in charge of our environmental protection, our public lands, especially our parks and precious remaining wilderness areas?

A: The large corporations, who owe no aliegance to any particular people of the world, are perfectly willing to corrupt the political system to boost their short-term profits, with no regard for our long-term welfare. You don’t have to work for any multi-national corporation for very long to see how that happens.

Perhaps the religeous right foolishly believe that god will take their faithful to heaven in the next four years, leaving the rest of us rot in a planet increasingly like Venus. It appears that their blissful ignorance, their reliance on one ancient book as the source of all truth, has made them sheep, lead by myopic executives with only quarterly profits in mind. They’ve blissfully carried us closer to our own destruction.

What we really need in technology policy is the principle that no costs be externalized. Companies and individuals must be responsible for the polution they create, the resources they extract, the health risks they cause. Tech policy should be based on true capitalism where products and services actually have to include the costs to the commons, not government subsidies to extractive and environmentally exploitive industries.”

thresholds II
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I bought a powerbook 12″, with superdrive. It’s the first time I use a top of the line computer.
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It’s not that fast (i don’t mind it, I don’t buy the fast = productivity myth) but it’s very responsive.
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before it, my workload should respect the bload programs, one at a time. now, I can afford to have 2, 3 big programs open, and concentrate on each task .
usually, my chain is corel draw (design), photoshop or flash (adjustements) and dreamweaver (presentation, upload). for each step.
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and even if my computer can handle al ot of programs open, my attention span doesn’t, so the hide command (command+H) saves me (my computer doesn’t have to redraw all windows, and I don’t have to reopen the program at every turn).
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and just to be geeky, I found a code that makes the hidden program icon slightly transparent on the dock, just for fun:
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you go to terminal and type defaults write com.apple.dock showhidden -bool true, and then you restart the dock, with killall Dock.

lovely icons
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the author of this site reunited 300 icons from different websites to judge it. it was: arrows, posts, comments, mail, bullets, print and carts.
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nevermind his conclusions, i loved all those tiny icons packed together, it has a “mundane-stuff-in-a-canvas” quality.
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and thinking about it, is there any other quintessencial icon on websites? i thought of edit/preferences, login, logout, new and wishlist. it would be cool to assign letters fr it and build different sets of dingbats fonts for it…

spread the meme
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a nice game from brazilian bloggers:
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- Pick the nearest book
- Open it on the page 23
- Find the fifth sentence
- Post it on your blog (with this instructions)
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“The perfect geometry was also mottled, here and there, by webs of cableand harnesses of electrical wiring”
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from neal stephenson’s cryptonomicon (i carry this book everywhere, but i seldom read it, damn!)

“Oooh. There is no emoticon for what I am feeling.” - Comic Book Store Guy

órfão de livros, acabei de comprar connected: or what it means to live in the network society, do steven shaviro… não pelo título, mas pq há muito tempo atrás eu tinha lido via web doom patrols, do mesmo autor, e tipo, ele é O crime… eu lia, a parada fervia na minha cabeça e ia dançar malvadamente, pq os memes que ele me passava me eram filth.
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se quiser se aventurar pelo livro online, saiba que cada capítulo é dedicado a uma figura pós-moderna, e pode ser lido em separado. aconselho os capítulos:

• william burroughs, sobre parasitismo, linguagem e reprodução
• kate acker, sobre o desaparecimento do corpo, das distinções.
• cindy sherman, sobre mulheres, imagens, e realidade como uma constante construção simbólica.
• bill gates, sobre “informação que cresce como câncer”
• bilinda butcher, sobre androginia, dimensões que não se casam e topografias que não se medem

levando em conta que aconselho aqueles que mais ardem quando tocam, pra vc se sentir filth também, obviamente. ;-)
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o outro foi criptonomicon… eu sempre tivo respeito pelo neal stefenson, mas nunca naveguei pela sua obra… considerando que ele é bastante responsável na pesquisa que faz como background das suas histórias (a mídia o vende como cyberpunk, mas o cara tá buscando o timeline do information management, indo cada vez mais pro passado).
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well, o livro tem que ser thrilling, né? eu aceito ter uma relação de amor e ódio com livros de não-ficção (pq o autor apresenta suas idéias dry, sem tempo para levar pela mão pessoas de diferentes backgrounds), mas livro de ficção tem que ser enthralling. porra, o cara não precisa nem se ater aos fatos, custa então criar uma atmosfera convidativa (considerando que é o passeio de nossa consciência pelo seu mundo que o faz real)?