“this is the irrepressible lightness and joy of being communist”

by jebni on April 29, 2003

Antonio Negri is free.

jack me in, secret squirrel

by jebni on April 29, 2003

D’oh — so distracted by X2 buzz that I forgot to check out Apple’s new music products announcement. Interesting: we’re handling the local launch of all this shit, and Apple wouldn’t even tell us what the product was. We found (…)

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on the museum’s ruins

by jebni on April 29, 2003

Went to the museum last weekend to see the Two Emperors exhibit, and to the art gallery this weekend just past to check out the Archibald Prize show. Two Emperors, which featured some fairly recently unearthed Qing and Han Dynasty (…)

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SNIKT!

by jebni on April 28, 2003

Back from the preview screening of X-Men 2. {smug smirk} No cinematic intensity here (and I don’t mean furrowed brows), but damn pleasing all the same. It makes no bones about its calculated franchiseness — witness the comfortable referentiality that (…)

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the ministry of the interweb

by jebni on April 26, 2003

I’ve heard that during his Etech conference presentation this week, Alan Kay showed video excerpts of Doug Engelbart’s mindboggling demonstration, in 1968, of a system of information technology that included a mouse, hypertext and video collaboration tools. I’ve been hearing (…)

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big up (myself)

by jebni on April 25, 2003

I was shopping in HMV the other night, turned the corner and jumped in surprise to see Trey’s new album, which I designed, right in front of me, prominently placed on a rack. Cor. (Accidentally coming across my own work (…)

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rheingold live

by jebni on April 24, 2003

How geeky is Tom Coates? Here’s his

i am an ar-chi-tekt

by jebni on April 24, 2003

Finally got round to fixing those stylesheets for Windows IE6, so everything bloggish is now under control — and using

the in crowd

by jebni on April 23, 2003

I can’t explain how excited I am by this: (It’s gonna be the best thing since Deadenders and Blue Monday. Yeah.) And today, the boss left his Lambretta downstairs, unguarded, in the foyer of the building. I was this close (…)

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deterritorialise the blockages

by jebni on April 23, 2003

From Baxter: (Photos by moz.)