Bill Spornitz on Sat, 19 Jan 2002 20:06:45 +0100 (CET) |
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OT; Re: <nettime> In Gold We Trust: Bizarro nettime |
>While we're on the topic of money, I thought I'd post an article of mine >from last month's Wired, about an online gold-backed currency that in some >ways parallels, in some ways diverges from, and in some ways downright >opposes the model being discussed here as "open money." That the >experiment involves a curious alliance between heartily anti-statist >American libertarians and radically anti-capitalist European Sufi Muslims >only adds to the entertainment value, I trust. (Sorta sounds like some >kind of Bizarro World version of the nettime community, actually.) Bizarro nettime? Hosted on some kind of mac/amiga cluster, administered <i>pro bono</i> by StreetPersonView::ModeratorInterface objects thru bluetooth-enabled communicators, fed with phone card idpoints, stolen, under the *cloak of a misguided nobility: +3H, -2h, -3W, Noble*, from the local 7-11, DEUS_EX_MACHINA::"@Corydon&Arbuthnot": zeal-ized (you had to ask) with Perl, regularly, periodically, seasonally (and breezily) spraying filthy memetic, systemic, polymorphic, triphasic, might-as-well-be-transgenic, pre_post-apocolyptic cosmopolitan-yet-neopolitan poly-meta-pseudo-psilo-psyco multi-virii; broadcasting pig-gloating didacto-tracts, finely-tuned trans-vitriol unceasingly and unerringly trans-focused on their qw/ very own wee-wees[1] / as well as our holiest holy grail; while (i=$oneNationUnderGod; i++; i ne @aggregate_of_patience_w/stupidity[in_a_timely_time[in_a_placely_place]) { #to whit: our $veritas = $$amerika\'s_final_victory; #nuf said } this.in 4 official languages, 2 of them closer to french than xml, 1 of them human (and none of them english) $self-> >>EOW and every *word*, *heard*, like the song, sung, from a *bird* - each bit of each bird-song a single *bird-word*... <<EOW_TOO_SOON b [1] wee-wees # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net