] freenode exists to provide an interactive environment for
] coordination and support of peer-directed projects,
] including those relating to free software and open
] source. Our network is currently implemented using
] Internet Relay Chat (IRC). Our aim is to help improve the
] communicative and collaborative skills of our
] participants and to maintain a friendly, efficient
] environment for project coordination and technical
] support.

We have been meaning to colonize an IRC channel for awhile now. We couldn't make our mind up about which which network. Freenode is great. Its the perfect network for us.

irc.freenode.net, #meme ... Colonize it.

For more information on Freenode, click thru and check out the FAQ & Philosophy pages.

MemeStreams IRC Channel

Btw.. Apple just made it real easy. If you have iTunes, this links right to the song in Apple's catalog.

Just some minor glue necessary, and this can really fly.

http://www.frankblack.net/tabs/song.asp?song=dw-hiskinglycave

iTunes Store | Frank Black & The Catholics | Devils's Workshop | His Kingly Cave

] The reason that I have over 700 BBS programs listed on
] the documentary site is not just because there were so
] many platforms to program them, but because the balance
] of the software and the hardware against the very root of
] humanity's nature is a problem, a difficulty, far deeper
] and greater than any specific issues of the moment.

Latest post from Jason Scott on the BoingBoing sidebar waxes about his big picture conclusions about the BBS scene.

Why Jason Scott doesn't run a BBS.

] Being thusly a collection of mediations
] and exorcisms based on the everyday life
] of one J. Dickens, also known as Logickal;
] whereupon the use of devices, generators and
] recordings of cans, bottles, calculators, Lego blocks,
] microphones, automobiles, candid photographs with
] dialog, weather systems, poems and other
] vagaries were used alone and in combination to
] perform and construct said collection during the
] period of 2002 to 2003 at Ecliptic, which
] is located in Nashville, Tennessee.

From Decius:
] This is very overdue. Logickal is a regular MemeStreams
] poster. I obtained this from him back in July, but for some
] reason it never found its way into my CD player. That was
] a mistake. When I got this from him he described it as very
] experimental and unlikely to be comfortable to listen to. I
] totally disagree. This is good ambient machine music. Its
] tracy. For some reason it reminds me of Download. You can
] focus on it or you can fade it into the background and let it
] offer context. Its good to code to. Get it.

I was just listening to the excerpts on the webpage. Reminds me of Download also..

Logickal, I ordered one of your CDs.. :)

day by daydream - Logickal

] Microsoft promised to improve the way in which Windows
] manages computer memory to protect users against commonly
] exploited software flaws known as buffer overruns, which
] can trick Windows into accepting dangerous commands. Some
] of the most damaging attacks in recent months fall under
] this category.

MS deploys non-executable stack patch. (What year is it?)

CNN.com - Microsoft plans Windows overhaul to fight hackers - Oct. 16, 2003

] City Music, also in Indianapolis, was raided the
] following week. "They came in and took anything that was
] on a recordable CD," manager Jerome Avery says. "The only
] DJ mixes I had were behind the counter for personal
] listening, and they confiscated them. How can it be
] illegal if the artist is making them for the street? They
] came without a notice - no warrant, no nothing.
] They're making up their own laws, if you ask me."
]
] The City Music raid happened on October 1, the day the
] enormous Universal Music Group's new prices went into
] effect - more bad news for small, independent record
] stores. Universal's widely publicized $9.09 wholesale
] prices only apply to the largest retail chains, and only
] to stores that are willing to buy 30 copies of a disc at
] one time. Most smaller stores, though, deal with
] "one-stop" sub-distributors that can fill orders for a
] disc or two quickly, and take a markup of their own. And
] many retailers are frustrated that customers have been
] coming in for weeks, asking where their $9 CDs are.
]
] Eric Haight of Record World in Petoskey, Michigan, notes
] that a new Sting album before the price drop cost the
] store $12.69, with a suggested retail price of $18.98.
] Now it costs them $10.79, with a retail price of
] $12.98 - the profit margin has been slashed by almost
] two-thirds, and Universal will no longer help them out
] with advertising costs. "I think their motives are
] suspect," Haight says. "This won't affect the Best Buys
] of the world, but I can't see our store making it through
] 2004."

RIAA raiding small music stores for selling DJ mix CDs

Cute flash.

Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer?

] But despite their cloak-and-dagger reputation, several of
] the country's leading spies, past and present, aren't
] happy about the rush to make things secret. To counter
] far-reaching, stealthy terrorist cabals, the country
] needs more openness, not less, they said Wednesday at
] Geo-Intel 2003, a first-of-its-kind conference here on
] the use of satellites in war, intelligence and homeland
] security.

] Case in point: The Center for Strategic and International
] Studies, a Washington think tank, prepared a report last
] year for firefighters and other so-called "first responders"
] on how to react to a chemical weapons attack. But when
] the paper was completed, the Defense Department classified
] it, CSIS analyst Jim Lewis noted. Now, the firefighters will
] never get the benefit of that information.

Wired News: Spies Attack White House Secrecy

TIME article explores the manner in which Iraqi agents recruited by the CIA assisted the war effort in Iraq.

Time | The Secret Collaborators

] According to Tubul, his group controls 450,000 "Trojaned"
] systems, most of them home computers running Windows with
] high-speed connections. The hacked systems contain
] special software developed by the Polish group that
] routes traffic between Internet users and customers'
] websites through thousands of the hijacked computers. The
] numerous intermediary systems confound tools such as
] traceroute, effectively laundering the true location of
] the website. To utilize the service, customers simply
] configure their sites to use any of several domain-name
] system servers controlled by the Polish group, Tubul
] said.

According to the article, this may have been one of the original purposes of the Sobig worm.

Wired News: Cloaking Device Made for Spammers