I was thinking of getting a second web url registered to forward to my own site, but when I did some googling, I discovered something funny. Weirdly enough, there’s a company that seems to be using the name eclexys, if you can believe that. Why they’d choose anything as unpronounceable as that is beyond me. Too bad I won’t be able to register the url, but whatever… the name is mine, just the same, and I bet I’ll hold onto it longer than their business exists. If indeed it is a business and not just a holding page or something.
Month: December 2005
Lunar New Year “Read” #35: Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Creativity, by Lawrence Lessig
As I’ve mentioned in recent posts , I’ve been listening to the free & legal mp3 set that makes up the audiobook distribution of Lawrence Lessig’s very important book Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Creativity. Now, I know some people will have trouble counting it as a “book”, or my interaction with it as “reading”, since it’s an audiobook. However, I want to note a couple of things: As an unabridged audiobook, it took me longer to get through all the audio than it would to get through a printed …
Lunar New Year Reads, Book #34: A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 1 — The Bad Beginning, by Lemony Snicket
From the moment I saw the movie Lemony Snickets’ A Series of Unfortunate Events, I realized that these books had to be well-written. Dark, brooding novels for children aren’t really the norm — though I think this has more to do with the way adults think about children than anything, and I think it also reflects the changes in how we think about kids over the last few hundred years. It’s not as if the Grimm’s tales were written for businessmen or housewives seeking “the edgy”, after all — and the fact that the movie was so wonderfully interesting boded …
Lunar New Year Reads, #33: Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
“A shock writer”. “A weirdo”. “That Fight Club guy.” These are the kinds of things that are said not altogether praisefully about Chuck Palahniuk, but I am not sure I can really agree… or disagree. I’m not sure I can agree with the pejorative use of a term like “shock writer” because, well, it’s pretty clear that Palahniuk values the shocking, the gut-wrenching, the revolting. It’d be one thing if he was publishing books full of snuff photography, or writing simply sadistic fantasies; in other words, it’d be one thing if he weren’t very clearly working at constructing texts of …
Hate torture? Consider boot camp – Los Angeles Times
Yes, the premise of the article I just read is as bad as you think from the title of this post. It’s that bad. What the difficulties of boot camp do to justify torturing Iraqis and other “suspected terrorists” — and let’s remember that in America now, a feminist T-shirt is enough to place you under enough suspicion to block you from attending a Presidential speech — is beyond me. Yet this is, well, at least for a little while, the thrust of Max Boot’s “opinion” piece in the L.A. Times, titled “Hate torture? Consider boot camp”. Oh, wait, there’s …