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Re: Air-l digest, Vol 1 #35 - 3 msgs
by Mike Posey 14 Jun '01

14 Jun '01

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Final convention announcement/schedule, Media Ecology Association, June 15-16 2001 NYU
by J. Sternberg 13 Jun '01

13 Jun '01

The Second Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association Sponsored by the Department of Culture and Communication New York University June 15-16, 2001 Lipton Hall at the D'Agostino Residence NYU Law School Campus in Greenwich Village 108 West Third Street (between Sullivan & MacDougal Streets) New York, New York 10012 Directions to the NYU campus are available at <http://www.nyu.edu/maps.nyu>. If you're interested in: - the nature, history, and impact of technology, media, and symbol systems; - the study of communication, consciousness, and culture; - technological determinism, media evolution, information theory and cybernetics; - the study of media codes, media literacy, and media education; - orality, literacy, secondary orality, and post-literacy; - oral, scribal, typographic, and electronic cultures; - the graphic revolution and image culture; - scholars such as Marshall McLuhan, Harold Innis, Walter Ong, Neil Postman, Lewis Mumford, Edmund Carpenter, Jacques Ellul, and Erving Goffman, then you won't want to miss this summer's hottest convention in the coolest part of New York City. Keynote speaker: Joshua Meyrowitz, author of the award-winning NO SENSE OF PLACE: THE IMPACT OF ELECTRONIC MEDIA ON SOCIAL BEHAVIOR (Oxford University Press, 1985), as well as dozens of articles about media and culture. Professor of Communication at the University of New Hampshire and a graduate of NYU's doctoral program in Media Ecology, Dr. Meyrowitz will speak about promises and challenges of media ecology research. Featured presentations by Camille Paglia and Douglas Rushkoff. Additional participants include Richard Barbrook, James Carey, Mark Dery, Susan Drucker, Ray Gozzi, Gary Gumpert, Robert Logan, John Pavlik, and Jay Rosen, among others. REGISTRATION INFORMATION Convention Fees The Convention is open to MEA members only. Non-members please add membership fee to registration fee. $20 2001 Membership $40 Registration $10 Student 2001 Membership $30 Student Registration The Convention schedule, as well as a list of hotels and hostels in Manhattan, can be found at <http://www.media-ecology.org/events_conference2_.html#forms> Questions? Email Janet Sternberg <netberg(a)compuserve.com> ---------------------------- The Second Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association Sponsored by The Department of Culture and Communication New York University June 15-16, 2001 Schedule as of 6/13/01 details at http://www.media-ecology.org All sessions except Friday evening reception take place at: Lipton Hall at the D'Agostino Residence NYU Law School Campus in Greenwich Village 108 West Third Street (between Sullivan & MacDougal Streets) New York, NY 10012 FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 2001 8:30 Registration Opens 9:00-9:30 Introduction and Greetings Janet Sternberg - New York University Terence P. Moran - New York University Lance Strate - Fordham University 9:30-10:45 Session 1 - Panel Perspectives on Our Age Moderator - Dennis Gallagher - Regis University/Denver City Council The National Information Infrastructure and the Shape of the Script in the Next Millennium Edmond Chibeau - Eastern Connecticut State University The Form of News: U.S. Political History and the Media Environment Kevin G. Barnhurst - University of Illinois-Chicago John C. Nerone - University of Illinois-Chicago Beyond Linguistic Apocalypse: The Political Theory of Marshall McLuhan David P. Parisi - University of Albany Jurgen Habermas: Media Ecologist? Paul Grosswiler - University of Maine 11:00-12:15 Session 2 - Panel Communication and Urban Forms: From Mumford to Wired Cities Moderator - Thomas F. Gencarelli - Montclair State University Cities without Lines: Demassification in the Age of Ubiquity James C. Morrison - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Is the Wired City Really So SMART? Gary Gumpert - Communication Landscapers Susan Drucker - Hofstra University Taking Private Matters to Public Space Jack Barwind - Syracuse University 12:30-1:00 Featured Presentation Moderator - Bill Petkanas - Western Connecticut State University Gender and Media: A Report on Revising the Curriculum Camille Paglia - University of the Arts 1:00-2:30 Lunch 2:30-3:45 Session 3 - Panel Art and Technics Moderator - George L. Back - Hofstra University Internet Artwork, Artists and Computer Analysts: Sharing the Creative Process Jean-Paul Fourmentraux - Université de Toulouse Sense, Memory and Media Scott Weiland - DigitalArtSource.com VISCOM: A Message and a Medium Robert M. Hall - Flagler College Cinema: The New Cathedral of HollyWorld Read Mercer Schuchardt - New York University 4:00-5:15 Session 4 - Roundtable Discussion The Future of News Moderator - Edward Wachtel - Fordham University Panelists James W. Carey - Columbia University Mark Dery - New York University Hal Himmelstein - Brooklyn College John Pavlik - Columbia University Jay Rosen - New York University Paul Thaler - Mercy College 5:30-6:00 President's Address Moderator - Janet Sternberg - New York University The Flight of MinErvA's Owl Lance Strate - Fordham University 6:00-6:30 Presentation of the MEA Awards Michael Grabowski - New York University Laura Tropp - Marymount Manhattan College 6:30-7:00 Keynote Address Moderator - Lance Strate - Fordham University Morphing McLuhan: Medium Theory for a New Millennium Joshua Meyrowitz - University of New Hampshire 7:30-9:00 Reception Kimball Hall, 246 Greene Street, first floor lounge SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 2001 8:30 Registration Opens 9:00-10:00 Business Meeting All are welcome to attend Moderator - Casey Man Kong Lum, William Paterson University 10:00-11:15 Session 5 - Panel Demeaning of Meaning Moderator - Neil Postman - New York University

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[Air-l]request
by [ilze.bezuidenhout] 12 Jun '01

12 Jun '01

Could anyone please point me in the direction of articles or books or websites on language, translation and linguistic choices used in online banking/e-commerce? TIA Ilze Bezuidenhout

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RE: Air-l digest, Vol 1 #33 - 2 msgs
by Michael Barner-Rasmussen (TeleDK) 12 Jun '01

12 Jun '01

Hi Frank, Strange as it might seem, Umberto Eco´s novel "Faucaults Pendulum" is the most eloquent and enlightning critique I have ever read on Cognitive Semantics. Michael Barner-Rasmussen Junior Researcher Institute of Information and Media Science University of Aarhus, Denmark > -----Original Message----- > From: air-l-admin(a)aoir.org [mailto:air-l-admin@aoir.org]On Behalf Of > air-l-request(a)aoir.org > Sent: 12. juni 2001 18:01 > To: air-l(a)aoir.org > Subject: Air-l digest, Vol 1 #33 - 2 msgs > > > > > > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. metaphors we live by (Frank Schaap) > 2. Re: metaphors we live by (Ed Lamoureux) > > --__--__-- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 13:43:25 +0200 > From: Frank Schaap <architext(a)fragment.nl> > To: air-l(a)aoir.org > Subject: [Air-l] metaphors we live by > Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org > > I was hoping that someone could point me to some critiques of Lakoff and > Johnson's book/theory 'Metaphors we live by' (1980, U of Chicago Press). > > tia :) > > Frank. > > -- > The Cyberculture, Identity and Gender Resources > ==> http://fragment.nl/resources/ > > > > --__--__-- > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 06:42:29 -0500 (CDT) > From: Ed Lamoureux <ell(a)hilltop.bradley.edu> > To: air-l(a)aoir.org > Subject: Re: [Air-l] metaphors we live by > Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org > > Don't think I'd call them "critiques," but you could read the two books > authored by Ray Gozzi . . . I don't have the titles with me...but you'll > find them via a library search.... > > Edward Lee Lamoureux, Ph. D. > Associate Professor, > Speech Communication and Multimedia > Editor, Journal of Communication and Religion > Bradley University > Peoria IL 61625 > ell(a)bradley.edu > http://hilltop.bradley.edu/~ell > Fax: 309-677-3446 > > On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Frank Schaap wrote: > > > I was hoping that someone could point me to some critiques of Lakoff and > > Johnson's book/theory 'Metaphors we live by' (1980, U of Chicago Press). > > > > tia :) > > > > Frank. > > > > -- > > The Cyberculture, Identity and Gender Resources > > ==> http://fragment.nl/resources/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Air-l mailing list > > Air-l(a)aoir.org > > http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l > > > > > > > --__--__-- > > _______________________________________________ > Air-l mailing list > Air-l(a)aoir.org > http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l > > > End of Air-l Digest

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Re: [Air-l] An astonishing development ...
by Zunt＠aol.com 11 Jun '01

11 Jun '01

Here's Symantec's write-up: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/vbs.noped.a@mm.html It's a mass mailer worm that can be isolated and disposed of rather quickly. The virus assesses the host drive and if it sees files from its pre-determined list, it displays a message, changes several settings on the machine, mails itself out to e-mail addresses it finds, and sends mail containing a partial list of the host's filenames to predefined targets. Nothing new from a technical point of view. Cheers, Bob Briggs Westport, MA

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An astonishing development ...
by Ken Friedman 11 Jun '01

11 Jun '01

Dear Colleagues, Truth is stranger the science fiction. This story covers a new kind of virus that seems to perform functions that no virus has ever before performed. Aside from the technical ingenuity it requires and the unresolved legal issues that it creates, it demonstrates a rare conceptual ingenuity for the potential social dimensions of IT. Ken Friedman \----------------------------------------------------------/ Virus Searches for Pornography By ROY FURCHGOTT A new rogue computer program, possibly intended to perform a public service, has raised thorny legal questions and seems sure to fuel the debate over computer privacy. The new virus, which is called VBS.Noped.a, searches the target's machine for what it suspects may be child pornography and reports the names of files to the police. There are no reports of police officials acting on such results, and antivirus software companies say it has not yet been distributed widely and is at relatively low risk of damaging computers. -- snip -- Perhaps most troubling, legal experts say, is the havoc that the virus could wreak on the reputation of people with no involvement in child pornography. "There is no telling how far this information might spread," said Stephen J. Davidson, a lawyer and spokesman for the Computer Law Association. Local news organizations could report that a parent was under investigation as a pedophile, he said, "all resulting from an unwarranted and illegal entry to your private computer." -- snip -- http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/11/technology/11VIRU.html?ex=993250854&ei=1&… /-----------------------------------------------------------------\

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Fwd: Community Networking Initiatives, Argentina
by Steve Jones 11 Jun '01

11 Jun '01

> The Practice and Theory of Community Networks/Community Informatics > > An Invitation for Proposals > > A Refereed Workshop and Research Track > > on > > The Practice and Theory > > of > > Community Networks/Community Informatics > > A Joint Presentation of > > Community Network/Community Informatics Researchers and Community Networkers > > For > > Global CN 2001 > > http://www.globalcn2001.org > > Buenos Aires, Argentina > Dec. 5th, 2001 > > Session coordinators: Michael Gurstein (Vancouver), Susana Finquelievich >(Buenos Aires), Artur Serra (Barcelona). > > Workshop's goals: > > 1.Encourage and strengthen exchange and co - operation between >University and other researchers working with CN members world-wide > > 2.Strengthen the Practice and Theory of Community Networks and Community >Informatics jointly with Community Networkers worldwide. > > 3.Analyse case studies of co - operation between Post-Secondary >Institutions working with Community Networks > > Proposals and papers for this workshop can be sent to: > propuestas(a)globalcn2001.org > > Background: > > Community Networking initiatives are being incubated, are in active social >service and are growing in diverse geographic localities around the world. >Global CN2001 follows > along the path of Global CN2000 http://www.globalcn2000.org , the first >international community networking conference, held late last year in >Barcelona. > > Buenos Aires, the 2001 host city, will provide its cosmopolitan setting for >a most important sharing of ideas about the diverse development of local and >regional information > societies in a rapidly changing networked global environment. > > The "Research Studies on Community Networking/Community Informatics" >session is being organized to provide an academic - practitioner context and >understanding of the > practical work that lies ahead for the local sphere: Universities, >government, the marketplace and civic organizations, and a better >understanding of individual, and collective > actions, information exchanges and knowledge building to support Community >Networking. > > Papers are currently being solicited that address the complex theoretical >subject and practical applications of this conference session. > > A few rhetorical questions meant to evoke possible responses include: > > 1.What are potential major trends in academic studies about CN? What are >present and potential pro and con effects of joint studies on community >networking that bring > together Universities and CN members? > > 2.What is the outlook for community networking amid evolving economic, >cultural, and social restructuring and values? Will community networking >become increasingly > reinforced by joint work with Universities? Which successes and >failures have been registered in this area? Do community networks offer >potential opportunities for > added value and vitality for academic groups / Universities? > > 3.How might Universities, through research, knowledge building, >education, training, in tele-technologies and information exchange, have >positive effects on Community > Networks? Which are the conditions and changes (organizational, >financial, etc) that Universities should overcome to introduce the new >academic and research areas > that are mentioned? > > 4.Might community networking initiatives serve as 'living laboratories' >and examples for newly evolving and diverse local-global social and >political processes? > > 5.What is contemporary understanding of Academics and practitioners >about the character of "communities" in CNs? What are the new mechanisms >that permit new > forms of social integration (community) and how these forms are >different from classical neighborhood proximity? What are the potentials and >limits of generating > "electronic community" in social contexts of poverty and inequality? > > 6.How can University - CN cooperation reinforce social and political >power of marginalized communities in their struggle against social >exclusion? How this cooperation > may help to increase communicational power of CNs in squatter or >under-privileged areas? What is the role of CNs (and universities) in major >social transformations? > > 7.How universities can play an important role in detecting non-local >potential of community articulations and can provide CNs with tools which >permit access to > worldwide informational and consulting resources (that's not only a >"hardware problem")? How to understand local - global articulations of CNs >and their potentials > and threads for community's identity? > > 8.How can academic research and discourse disseminate a broader social >and political recognition of CN's importance as a mean of democratizing >societies? How can > they put the necessity of empowering CNs onto the public agenda? How >can public policy - in the national, regional and local level - stimulate >and support local (or > non-local) CN initiatives? > > Submission Guidelines: > > Please email paper abstracts of no more than 400 words by June 19. >Abstracts for papers, digital media, and other forms of participation should >not exceed 400 words (one > page). They should include: the session title, presentation title, author's >name, institution, address, telephone, e- mail and URL. They are to describe >clearly the proposed > presentation, paper or activity. > > Please use Arial 11 pt., at 1.5 space, page size A4. > > Abstracts should be e-mailed to propuestas(a)globalcn2001.org, indicating the >author's last name in the title of the message. The deadline for receipt of >abstracts is June 19, > 2001. > > The abstracts will be evaluated by the Working Groups' Coordinators, with >the participation of selected researchers and activists in each field. The >Congress Secretariat will > communicate the results of the evaluation by August 31. > > Languages: > > Abstracts and papers may be written in any of the Global CN2001 > Congress official languages: Spanish, English and French. However, due to >translation costs, discussions in the Workshop will develop mainly in >English and Spanish. Plenary > sessions will be translated to all three official languages. > > Timetable: > > June 19: Deadline for receipt of abstracts. > August 31: Communication to authors regarding the approval of the proposed >submissions. > October 1: Deadline for the submission of papers. > > Information: > > For additional Congress information, write to the secretary of the Global >CN2001: > E-mail: secretariado(a)globalcn2001.org > URL: http://www.globalcn2001.org

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Second Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association
by J. Sternberg 11 Jun '01

11 Jun '01

The Second Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association Sponsored by the Department of Culture and Communication New York University June 15-16, 2001 Lipton Hall at the D'Agostino Residence NYU Law School Campus in Greenwich Village 108 West Third Street (between Sullivan & MacDougal Streets) New York, New York 10012 Directions to the NYU campus are available at <http://www.nyu.edu/maps.nyu>. If you're interested in: - the nature, history, and impact of technology, media, and symbol systems; - the study of communication, consciousness, and culture; - technological determinism, media evolution, information theory and cybernetics; - the study of media codes, media literacy, and media education; - orality, literacy, secondary orality, and post-literacy; - oral, scribal, typographic, and electronic cultures; - the graphic revolution and image culture; - scholars such as Marshall McLuhan, Harold Innis, Walter Ong, Neil Postman, Lewis Mumford, Edmund Carpenter, Jacques Ellul, and Erving Goffman, then you won't want to miss this summer's hottest convention in the coolest part of New York City. Keynote speaker: Joshua Meyrowitz, author of the award-winning NO SENSE OF PLACE: THE IMPACT OF ELECTRONIC MEDIA ON SOCIAL BEHAVIOR (Oxford University Press, 1985), as well as dozens of articles about media and culture. Professor of Communication at the University of New Hampshire and a graduate of NYU's doctoral program in Media Ecology, Dr. Meyrowitz will speak about promises and challenges of media ecology research. Featured presentations by Camille Paglia and Douglas Rushkoff. Additional participants include Richard Barbrook, James Carey, Mark Dery, Susan Drucker, Ray Gozzi, Gary Gumpert, Robert Logan, John Pavlik, and Jay Rosen, among others. REGISTRATION INFORMATION Convention Fees The Convention is open to MEA members only. Non-members add membership fee to registration fee. $20 2001 Membership $40 Registration $10 Student 2001 Membership $30 Student Registration The Convention schedule (updated periodically), as well as a list of hotels and hostels in Manhattan, can be found at <http://www.media-ecology.org/events_conference2_.html#forms> Questions? Email Janet Sternberg <netberg(a)compuserve.com> ---------------------------- The Second Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association Sponsored by The Department of Culture and Communication New York University June 15-16, 2001 Schedule as of 5/31/01 updates and details at http://www.media-ecology.org All sessions except Friday evening reception take place at: Lipton Hall at the D'Agostino Residence NYU Law School Campus in Greenwich Village 108 West Third Street (between Sullivan & MacDougal Streets) New York, NY 10012 FRIDAY 8:30 Registration Opens 9:00 - 9:30 Introduction and Greetings Janet Sternberg - New York University Terence P. Moran - New York University Lance Strate - Fordham University 9:30 - 10:45 Session 1 - Panel Perspectives on Our Age Moderator - Dennis Gallagher - Regis University/Denver City Council The National Information Infrastructure and the Shape of the Script in the Next Millenium Edmond Chibeau - Eastern Connecticut State University The Form of News: U.S. Political History and the Media Environment Kevin G. Barnhurst - University of Illinois-Chicago John C. Nerone - University of Illinois-Chicago Beyond Linguistic Apocalypse: The Political Theory of Marshall McLuhan David P. Parisi - University of Albany Jurgen Habermas: Media Ecologist? Paul Grosswiler - University of Maine 11:00 - 12:15 Session 2 - Panel Communication and Urban Forms: From Mumford to Wired Cities Moderator - Thomas F. Gencarelli - Montclair State University Cities without Lines: Demassification in the Age of Ubiquity James C. Morrison - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Is the Wired City Really So SMART? Gary Gumpert - Communication Landscapers Susan Drucker - Hofstra University Taking Private Matters to Public Space Jack Barwind - Syracuse University 12:30 - 1:00 Featured Presentation Moderator - [TBA] Gender and Media: A Report on Revising the Curriculum Camille Paglia - University of the Arts 1:00 - 2:30 Lunch 2:30 - 3:45 Session 3 - Panel Art and Technics Moderator - George L. Back - Hofstra University Internet Artwork, Artists and Computer Analysts: Sharing the Creative Process Jean-Paul Fourmentraux - Université de Toulouse II Sense, Memory and Media Scott Weiland - DigitalArtSource.com VISCOM: A Message and a Medium Robert M. Hall - Flagler College Cinema: The New Cathedral of HollyWorld Read Mercer Schuchardt - New York University 4:00 - 5:15 Session 4 - Roundtable Discussion The Future of News Moderator - Edward Wachtel - Fordham University Panelists James W. Carey - Columbia University Mark Dery - New York University Hal Himmelstein - Brooklyn College John Pavlik - Columbia University Jay Rosen - New York University Paul Thaler - Mercy College 5:30 - 6:00 President's Address Moderator - Janet Sternberg - New York University The Flight of MinErvA's Owl Lance Strate - Fordham University 6:00 - 6:30 Presentation of the MEA Awards Michael Grabowski - New York University Laura Tropp - Marymount Manhattan College 6:30 - 7:00 Keynote Address Moderator - Lance Strate - Fordham University Morphing McLuhan: Medium Theory for a New Millennium Joshua Meyrowitz - University of New Hampshire 7:30 - 9:00 Reception Kimball Hall, 246 Greene Street, first floor lounge SATURDAY 8:30 Registration Opens 9:00 - 10:00 Business Meeting All are welcome to attend Moderator - Casey Man Kong Lum, William Paterson University 10:00 - 11:15 Session 5 - Panel Demeaning of Meaning Moderator - Neil Postman - New York University

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Re: Fibreculture digest, Vol 1 #75 - 2 msgs
by jeremy hunsinger 10 Jun '01

10 Jun '01

> > 1. Jonathan Jay Seattle: What is XTime? (geert lovink) > 2. Assoc. for the Public University - Forum (Ned Rossiter) > > --__--__-- > > Message: 1 > From: "geert lovink" <geert(a)xs4all.nl> > To: <fibreculture(a)lists.myspinach.org> > Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 10:03:26 +1000 > charset="iso-8859-1" > Subject: ::fibreculture:: Jonathan Jay Seattle: What is XTime? > > From: "jonathan jay Seattle" <jonathan(a)speakeasy.org> > Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2001 7:39 AM > > What is XTime? > > XTime is an open-source, global, decimal time system powered by 'chi' > (rhymes > with pi, symbol "x"), a unit of temporal duration roughly equal to 10^-5 of > the > mean solar day, or precisely 864 milliseconds. The pace or tempo of XTime is > adagio -- about 70 'chi'(x) per minute, so that there are 100.000 'chi'(x) > every > day. 1.000 'chi' (864 seconds) or one kilo-chi (kx) = 1% of the day, and is > exactly 14.4 minutes in duration. There are 100 kx each day. > > XTime is synchronised with the Julian Date system, a meta-gregorian > calendrical > sysytem first developed for astronomers in the late 1583, and displaying a > *decimal fraction* of the Julian Day for over 150 years. In XTime, as with > JD, > each global day begins at noon on the prime merdian... which is importantly > also > *midnight on the anti-prime* meridian). > > Introducing The Xprime Meridian; the International Decimal Line > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > By carefully selecting the 180th Meridian as the Xprime Meridian (running > mostly > along the International Date Line), XTime does not pretend that one place's > local time (local London time as the basis for GMT/UTC, or BMT for Swatch's > Internet Time). Instead, XTime is the percentage of the world *allready in > tommorow*. > > XTime is a new conception of time for the entire planet. Now. > Everywhere.(xtm) > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > xxx > > XTime Universal Time Some observations > > 00.000,XT = 12:00:00,UT the "ZERO MOMENT", for you lunchtime! > 25.000,XT = 18:00:00,UT 25% of the world is in the 10th of June > 48.000,XT = 23:31:12,UT 48% June 10th... LOCAL MIDNIGHT IN HAMBURG > 50.000,XT = 00:00:00,UT 50% of the world is in the 10th of June > 75.000,XT = 06:00:00,UT 75% of the world is in the 10th of June > 83.333,XT = 08:00:00,UT 83% June 10th... LOCAL MIDNIGHT IN SEATTLE > 99.000,XT = 11:45:36,UT 99% June 10th time for lunch again, Bon apetit'! > > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > xxx > > Bitte, consider upgrading your excellent worldtime service to *include* > XTime, > the third millenium of time (xtm) > > I look forward to any questions or comments you may have. > > writing from the ninth of june, > jonathan jay Seattle > > ============================ 2001.06.10 40:225.XT > ============================= > don't have the time? try xtime instead! > http://www.xtime.org/

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WATTAGE WHERE IT'S NEEDED
by Ken Friedman 10 Jun '01

10 Jun '01

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright 2001 The New York Times Company --------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/06/opinion/06ANDE.html June 6, 2001 WATTAGE WHERE IT'S NEEDED By ROGER ANDERSON President Bush's energy plan, to its credit, takes on in a coherent way all of the supply and demand elements that make up the nation's energy system, something not attempted since the Carter administration. And as the long view demands, the plan calls for a national system of power transmission -- a national electricity grid. Our increasing use of computers, requiring ever more electricity, makes this grid an absolute necessity. Historically, demand for electricity jumped after each of three technological breakthroughs: lights and motors in the early 1900's, air conditioning in the 1950's, and the rise of personal computers and the Internet in the 1980's and 1990's. Many Americans are unaware of this last enormous surge in electricity use, and the current experience in California suggests we are not ready to meet what is sure to be continuing growth in demand. But a country with an information-based economy cannot afford unreliable supplies of electricity. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/06/opinion/06ANDE.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright 2001 The New York Times Company ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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