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So we have 10 days left in the Creative Commons campaign. This is not a drill. We are down to the last $100,000, and really need your support — both for the very cool projects we’re launching (see, e.g., the license interoperability project, discussed recently in Technology Review, and the two new projects announced this week), and for the very uncool pressure we’re under from IRS regulations to demonstrate “public support” as a condition for keeping our (absolutely essential as in we can’t live with out it) tax exempt status. So please, anything helps. Lots of anything helps lots. »

December 28th, 2005

Goodbye Corporate America, I hope I never have to work in another one of your shitty little cubicles again. Monkeys with Fezzes

« Like the village bells that created a sense of identity and place in medieval France, these terrifyingly loud and invasive technologies interpellate our bodies in ways that, despite the shock that they produce, ultimately come to seem ‘natural’ and ‘legitimate’ after a certain period of time, one simply integrates them into daily experience and forgets that they are there in the background; then, as Nietzsche said, we forget that we forgot, and the governmentalization of sensation is complete.