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[- Cyborg Liberation?
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By GeertLovink, Section Filter It Yourself!
Posted on Tue Aug 5th, 2003 at 10:35:50 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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Cyborg Liberation Front
July 30 - August 5, 2003
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[- More innocent algorithms
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By Aileen, Section Filter It Yourself!
Posted on Mon Jul 14th, 2003 at 01:26:59 AM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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Filtered through: Amazement that people are still trying this.
An article appeared a few days ago in the Boston Globe about experiments conducted by a group of computer scientists to determine the gender of the author of a text based on the style of writing. What is supposedly different this time is that this group of scientists "is the first to create an actual prediction machine".One of the co-authors of the study claims, "Hey-I'm just reporting the numbers."
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[- blogs and google, tails wag dogs?
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By amy, Section question corner
Posted on Sun Jul 6th, 2003 at 10:29:11 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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Soon, it'll be easier than ever to post to discordia! ;-)
The new version of Google Toolbar is going to have a feature that lets you automatically post to your blog about a website you are visiting. But does that mean the giant Google tail wags the web dog again?
[Editors note: One of the nice things about blogs is that tangents can develop that are more interesting than the original story. This is one of those cases, so please check out the comments for a discussion of cross-cultural political disputes inadvertently spawned by Google. -amy ]
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[- Making books and meeting deadlines
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By Aileen, Section Filter It Yourself!
Posted on Wed Jun 25th, 2003 at 12:22:37 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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Filtered through: being caught in the middle
Ideally, when preparing a publication - a book, exhibtion catalogue, essay collection, etc. - a schedule is agreed on months in advance with deadlines for the authors, then for the translators, then for the copy-editors, then for the layout, then for the printing ... At least I think that is the ideal, but I'm the translator stuck in the middle, and that is not how it usually works for me. What is a deadline anyway and how do the people at other points along the production process deal with deadlines?
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[- <Discordia> </Discordia>
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By AreFlagan, Section whatever...
Posted on Tue Jun 24th, 2003 at 11:23:14 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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Get out of the tristes tropiques you savages. Put the software structure BEFORE society and community and then fill the query database with $strings that get along. Include heaven, a wishlist. Ponder all those years wasted drawing X, Y and Z diagrams by the fire. Then encounter the Nambikwara...
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[- It's a bird, it's a plane... it's SuperLibrarian!
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By amy, Section Filter It Yourself!
Posted on Tue Jun 24th, 2003 at 05:20:14 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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Filtered through an Anti-Filter Filter:
As you might have heard, here in the US, in order to protect our freedom, the government is cracking down on freedom. After all, there ought to be limits to freedom.
Anyway, it's interesting that as each piece of shiny new freedom-limiting legislation comes our way, quite often we hear about a major resistance underway from those infamous anti-establishment political activists - librarians. For example, today's news about the Supreme Court decision upholding library filters. And then...
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[- Deep Sites
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By TreborScholz, Section review-a-rama
Posted on Tue Jun 24th, 2003 at 03:15:10 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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Deep Sites
Intelligent Innovation in Contemporary Web Design
by Max Bruinsma
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[- Gott soll in die Verfassung? Wer, wenn nicht er? Oder wie?
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By AstridBenzer, Section question corner
Posted on Mon Jun 23rd, 2003 at 07:30:44 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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Neulich stolperte ich über einen Flugzettel des Zentralrats der Europäischen Heiden! Da neuerdings auch in Europa Bestrebungen aufkommen, Gott in der Verfassung zu verankern so wie in den USA, fordert der Zentralrat nun: wenn schon Gott in die Verfassung muss - und dies ist ja nur der christliche Gott - dann müssen auch Götter und Göttinnen in die Verfassung.
Ich hab den gesamten Text des Flugzettels abgetipselt und ihn hier geposted, weil ich finde, dass er sehr viele interessante Aspekte in sich birgt, die man bei der ganzen Diskussion nicht außer Acht lassen sollte. Weiter geht's also mit dem Flugzettel-Text >>>>>
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