small enormities

by jebni on January 7, 2004

On the holiday bookstand: George Monbiot’s The Age of Consent: A Manifesto For a New World Order. In the first chapter, Monbiot writes off the totality of both Marxism and anarchism in a couple of inane, “common sense” paragraphs, in (…)

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digital life, part LXVI

by jebni on January 7, 2004

Apple’s announcement of GarageBand today was interesting — it’s bundled with all new Macs from this month onward! There are concerns that Apple’s treading on third party developers’ toes, but the emphasis of Apple’s ever broadening iLife suite spans the (…)

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the strangest things excite me

by jebni on January 6, 2004

I’m gonna get me a barcode reader!

ol man river

by jebni on January 2, 2004

Just saw an interesting documentary about Paul Robeson. It was so long and gripping that we forgot to go out into the sunshine. Of all the tragic apologists for Stalinism and popular-frontism, Robeson is surely one of the most dignified, (…)

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