[CupcakeKleidoscope] CUPCAKE KALEIDOSCOPE # 21 6/10/03

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CUPCAKE KALEIDOSCOPE # 21 6/10/03
Newsletter from Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ists]

Publisher & Executive Editor - joseph and donna 

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www.electrichands.com 
call us 646 279 2309
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

RENGA
NOMAD UPDATE
EXPERIENCE THE BRONX-BAREFOOT DANCING ON WAVE HILL
LAPDANCE
MUSEUM MILE FESTIVAL - TUESDAY NIGHT, JUNE 10th
ARCADIA!  THE ARTMAKER TAROT OPENING NIGHT SPECTACULAR
IN THE WOODS: A TRAGIC LOVE STORY – DABORA GALLERY
WHITE BOARDS BY JIM COSTANZO
JUNE 9 DEADLINE - NEW WORKS 2003
YOUR RIGHTS: USE 'EM OR LOSE 'EM
THE RISE OF A BIGGER, BETTER TALIBAN
COUGHING WHILE ASIAN
BIKE 4 PEACE --- RIDE FOR CHANGE
CRIP-WALK: GANG SYMBOL OR CLUB MOVE?
COMING SOON:  SMARTER SOLDIERS
BUILDING A BACKYARD CRUISE MISSILE
RV TRANSFORMATION
HELP NEEDED FOR BURNING MAN!!!!
SUBVERTED PROPAGANDA
NIKE V. KASKY: CORPORATIONS ARE NOT PERSONS
NEW SOFTWARE HELPS TEAMS DEAL WITH INFORMATION OVERLOAD
PENTAGON TOOL TO RECORD A USER'S EVERY SENSATION
GESTURE YOUR MOUSE GOODBYE
TEXTUAL TANGO
POEM - IF I HAD TIME

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RENGA

"Renga - a collaboration by 11 artists". Based on the ancient 
Japanese verse form of the same name which translates as "linked 
verse", "Renga" involved 11 artists, 5 British, 5 US and one from 
Mexico, taking turns to continue a piece of work over a 2 month 
period. Artists were encouraged simply to respond honestly to the 
work so far and no requirement of stylistic unity was placed upon 
them. All contributions had to include a forward link and the pieces 
are now linked in a circle. It is possible to start anywhere in the 
sequence.

Michael Szpakowski 
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/renga.html
Lewis Lacook
http://www.lewislacook.com/renga.html 
Joseph and Donna McElroy
http://www.electrichands.com/renga/
Kate Southworth
http://www.gloriousninth.com/renga.html
Ivan Mejia
http://www.tenedorparapescado.com/renga.html
Curt Cloninger
http://www.playdamage.org/renga/
Mark River
http://www.tinjail.com/renga.html
Brandon Barr
http://www.texturl.net/renga/
Jess Loseby
http://www.rssgallery.com/renga.swf
Marc Garrett
http://www.furtherfield.org/renga/
Ivan Pope
http://www.ivanpope.com/renga/


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NOMAD UPDATE

A wizard used magic formulas to control the elements at his 
disposal.  Is this too shallow for a life philosophy? Of course, all 
philosophy is grave. I choose the pit into which I fall an worship 
the ground that will cover me.

http://www.electrichands.com/flowers/Labrynth_Pagent_May_2_2003
http://www.electrichands.com/flowers/May31_2003_Bruckner_A&A%20Fair
http://www.electrichands.com/flowers/May_2003_Beauty_Salon


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EXPERIENCE THE BRONX-BAREFOOT DANCING ON WAVE HILL
SUMMER TIME  | WEDNESDAY NIGHTS | IN THE BRONX

WAVE HILL
249th St & Independence Avenue
The Bronx, 10471
718-549-3200

www.wavehill.org
Stomp and shimmy until the sun goes down! 
Live World Music and Dancing on Wave Hill's lush lawns will help you 
get in touch with musical roots from around the world.  A spectacular 
public garden and cultural center overlooking the Hudson River and 
Palisades in the Bronx, Wave Hill is an oasis of serenity for all 
visitors. 

Wednesdays, June and July
Dance Instruction 7-7:30pm, Open Dance 7:30-8:30pm
Cafe, Shop and Galleries open until 8pm, Grounds close at 9pm

DIRECTIONS 

SUBWAY & BUS
Wave Hill is a short, pleasant walk from the 252nd Street bus stop, 
served by the BX 7 or 10 buses. Leave the bus at 252nd Street. Walk 
across the parkway bridge and turn left. Walk to 249th Street. Turn 
right and continue to Wave Hill gate. (For the return bus stop, leave 
Wave Hill gate and walk to end of 249th Street.) Bus connects with 
IRT 7th Avenue #1/9 Train at 231st and Broadway in Riverdale. 

METRO-NORTH
Telephone (212) 532-4900 for Metro-North schedule from Grand Central 
Station to Riverdale Station. The five-block walk to Wave Hill is 
safe and pleasant, but an uphill walk from the train station. Walk up 
254th Street to Independence Avenue.  Turn right and take 
Independence Avenue to Wave Hill Gate.

LIBERTY LINES EXPRESS BUS SERVICE
Telephone (718) 652-8400 for Manhattan-Riverdale Express Bus schedule 
from both East and West sides to 252nd Street.  Walk accross parkway 
bridge and turn left. Walk to 249th Street.  Turn right and continue 
to Wave Hill Gate.  (Liberty Lines' return bus is from 252nd Street 
rather than 249th Street stop.)
6-11-03	7PM TO 9PM

JAMES REAMS & THE BARNSTORMERS roll into Wave Hill with guitar, 
banjo, acoustic bass, mandolin, & fiddle for an evening of American 
blue grass.

6-18-03 7PM TO 9PM

CHERES, named for the belt worn by shepherds roaming the Carpathian 
Mountains, brings folk melodies & traditional circle dances to the 
Great Lawn.

6-25-03 7PM TO 9PM

HANGUK'S dazzling costumes in sunset pink & orange underscore the 
infectious beat of this group's traditional Korean drumming & 
percussion

7-2-03 7PM TO 9PM

DANCING CRANE from the Caucasus  Mountains in the Black Sea region of 
Georgia, a former Soviet republic, this group performs on wooden 
flutes & guitar-like instruments including dudk, psnduri, & garomoni.

7-9-03 7PM TO 9PM

THE TROUPE MAKANDAL of Haiti uses traditional Conga drums made from 
tropical wood & cow skin from this Carribean island.

7-16-03 7PM TO 9PM

JERRY O'SULLIVAN brings the hills of Ireland to Wave Hill with a 
performance on the Uillean pipes.

7-23-03 7PM TO 9PM

The Japanes troupe, SACHIYO ITO & Co, performs Okinawan dancing, 
which draws upon images of the sea with Taiko drums of native wood & 
a Fue flute made from bamboo.

7-30-03 7PM TO 9PM

TOKOUNOU, a West African group, plays Djembe drums made with antelope 
skin from the plains Guinea.

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LAPDANCE  

Tthe word ''work'' used in the broadest possible  sense of the word.  
What can I say my internet connection was down and I had (literally) 
far too much time 
on my hands this morning. (and I thought it was  funny) 

http://www.rssgallery.com/lapdance.htm
flash 6 + sound

Jess Loseby

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MUSEUM MILE FESTIVAL

TUESDAY NIGHT, JUNE 10th

Fifth Ave. from 82nd to 104th Sts.
 
An evening of free admission to museums and special events in the 
street.


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IN THE WOODS: A TRAGIC LOVE STORY - DABORA GALLERY 


MAY 31 - JUNE 28, 2003 | SATURDAY NIGHTS


DABORA GALLERY
1080 Manhattan Ave.
 (betw. Eagle and Dupont)
Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY
 (G-Train to Greenpoint Ave.)
http://www.daboragallery.com
Contact:
Lynda Mahan 718-609-9629
lynda at daboragallery.com


5 nights in a living breathing forest with unrequited tango, human 
taxidermy, serenades, storms, and sasquatch.


An eternal twilit forest inhabited by the creatures of heartbreak is 
brought to life in living installations and performances by multiple 
New York artists and musicians. On Saturday nights, from May 31 to 
June 28, visitors to this victorian salon and art gallery will get 
lost in a dark woodland imbued with flashing specters of cerulean and 
garnet light, where shadowy beings dwell amidst yearning beasts, 
romantic narratives of accordion, cello and violin, ephemeral 
projections, and the feral murmurs of fairytales gone mournfully awry.

In ³Otherness², artist Kate Fenker is a snowhite sasquatch who over 
many nights fashions her dark counterpart from twigs and hair; in an 
elaborate diorama inspired by the Museum of Natural History, Liz 
McGarrity offers herself up as human taxidermy in the ³Habitat of 
Disappointed Love²; Nicole Pilar is entombed in a filmy web, a woman 
forever cocooned; in Christina Dallas¹ installation, a ragdoll martyr 
sacrifices herself to heal the broken wild birds of love; Karen 
Dolmanisth¹s supernatural disembodied wedding dress rises up from an 
alchemical landscape; Jessica Grindstaff¹s doorway of lost love 
enshrouds sorrow and starlit songbirds; Laura Paris¹ fantastically 
carved forest archway breathes haunting arias towards those who 
enter; Beauty and the Beast are wickedly reinvented; and along the 
forest edge, sisters Adrienne and Danielle Truscott dance the 
unrequited tango of Deidre and Adelphe.

* * Show will continue every Saturday night in June, 9pm-midnight: 
$10 * *

DABORA GALLERY
1080 Manhattan Ave.
 (betw. Eagle and Dupont)
Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY
 (G-Train to Greenpoint Ave.)
http://www.daboragallery.com


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WHITE BOARDS BY JIM COSTANZO 

A BILLBOARD IN NEWARK, NJ
 SPONSORED BY WHITE BOX 

THROUGH JUNE 8, 2003

Newark, NJ - Artist Jim Costanzo presents his second billboard 
mounted in Newark, New Jersey from May 19 through June 8, 2003, in 
conjunction with White Box, the Chelsea-based gallery. The 10 x 22 
foot work, PEACE, uses images that have been photographed from 
television footage of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The billboard's text is designed to be seen at a distance with the 
meaning shifting as the viewer draws closer to the billboard. The 
viewer first encounters the word PEACE and upon approaching the 
billboard, additional text becomes visible:

P E A C E
1 Iraqi = 1 American = 1 Afghan
1 Israeli = 1 Palestinian
1 Muslim = 1 Christian = 1 Jew
1 World = 1 People

"The billboard is an attempt to engage the public in a discussion 
about human rights and America's relationship and responsibilities to 
the global community" notes Costanzo.

PEACE is the second in a series of three billboards created by 
Costanzo, who envisions additional billboards entitled FREEDOM and 
JUSTICE placed throughout the metropolitan area and nationally.

Jim Costanzo is a New York-based artist who has shown his work in the 
U.S. and in Europe. He is a founding member of REPOhistory, an artist 
collective that makes site-specific public artwork based on issues of 
race, gender, class and sexuality. Last fall Costanzo created a 
multimedia installation titled datamap_2001.2 that dealt with the 
social and political climate of the last two years and was shown at 
the Annex, which is affiliated with White Box. He teaches at Pratt 
Institute, Parsons School of Design and the International Center of 
Photography.


WHITE BOX
525 West 25 Street, New York, NY 10001
http://whiteboxny.org/

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YOUR RIGHTS: USE 'EM OR LOSE 'EM
BY RACHEL NEUMANN, AlterNet

The Bush administration's systematic attack on civil liberties is 
threatening to move from the aggressive to the surreal.
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16014

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THE RISE OF A BIGGER, BETTER TALIBAN
BY TED RALL, AlterNet

The war has meant the end of a unified Iraq and the beginning of 
chaos throughout the Middle East.
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16038

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COUGHING WHILE ASIAN
BY GABRIELLE BANKS, ColorLines, RaceWire

In an already anti-immigrant climate, Asian Americans are facing SARS 
suspicion – and an industry designed to capitalize on the hysteria.
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16037

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BIKE 4 PEACE --- RIDE FOR CHANGE 

Join an educational cross-country bike tour for a summer you'll never 
forget. Learn about culture, the environment, politics and the 
economy. Rides start June 14!


http://www.globalexchange.org/bikeaid/


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CRIP-WALK: GANG SYMBOL OR CLUB MOVE?

Should the popular stutter-step dance called Crip-walking --performed 
by Xzibit, Lil' Bow Wow, and former Crip Snoop Doggy Dogg at 
concerts – be banned from schools and clubs due to it's gang ties? Or 
is the dance simply a passing fad?

http://www.wiretapmag.org/story.html?StoryID=16042 

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COMING SOON:  SMARTER SOLDIERS

Soldiers of 2011 will step into wired uniforms that incorporate all 
the equipment they need. The uniforms will monitor vital signs and 
plug them into a massive network of satellites, unmanned planes and 
robotic vehicles....

http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=2003&m=4905

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BUILDING A BACKYARD CRUISE MISSILE

 A New Zealand handyman is building a cruise missile in his backyard 
using parts and technology freely available over the Internet for 
under $5,000. He said he would publish step-by-step instructions on 
his Web site to "prove the point that nations need to be prepared for 
this type of...
http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=2013&m=4905

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RV TRANSFORMATION

I stumbled across these images the other day - a result of meeting 
joseph mcelroy on rhizome raw and selling him my friend scotto's 
motorhome :)

http://userpages.umbc.edu/~cotto1/rv.html

chris otto

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HELP NEEDED FOR BURNING MAN!!!

Well, we warned you in a recent JRS that we might soon be asking for 
your help, and the time has come! We're fighting back against the 
Washoe County Board of Commissioner's attempts to stop us from 
lawfully using our own land - the staging area that we use to prepare 
for and clean up after Burning Man.

For those of you who haven't been following the saga, we have been 
getting a real primer in local politics while dealing with our 
application for Special Use permits for the Ranch we use as a staging 
area for the event. The latest installment had the appeal against our 
permits being upheld by the Washoe County Board of Commissioners. 
This flawed decision essentially tries to freeze all of our activity 
on the Ranch, seriously hindering our ability to build and take down 
Black Rock City.

Now we need your help to show the County the economic and political 
influence of the Burning Man Community.

Here's what you can do to help:

-- Come Join Us Tuesday, June 10, in Reno, NV at the Washoe County
Board of Commissioners meeting --

We're planning a show of strength at the next Washoe County Board of 
Commissioners meeting, being held June 10 in Reno at 2:00 PM. Each 
meeting starts with an opportunity for public comment; each speaker 
gets three minutes to share with the Commissioners their opinions on 
any topic that is NOT on that night's agenda. 

You don't need to be from Washoe County or even Nevada to speak - our 
goal is to get as many Burners as possible there to show the 
Commissioners the importance of Burning Man to the financial and 
cultural sustainability of the area. So, grab your friends from your 
theme camp and carpool out to Reno. It will be a blast! If you're 
planning to attend, email rae at burningman.com so we can have an idea 
of the expected turnout and send out updates if we have them.

Meeting Details:
Tuesday, June 10
2:00 PM
Washoe County Commissioners Chambers
1001 E. 9th Street
Reno, NV
Map: http://makeashorterlink.com/?E2C625B74

Exit off of 80 in Reno at Wells (Exit #14) and head North. Make a 
right on 9th and a left into the Washoe County offices' parking lot.


Another valuable contribution can be made by those not within driving 
distance of the meeting:

-- Write a Letter to the Editor of the Reno Gazette-Journal--

We're also playing this game in the court of public opinion, and that 
includes the media. Again, we're hoping to show Washoe County 
residents that Burners are important contributors to their area - 
particularly in the financial realm. So, tell the Gazette-Journal 
your tales of the amount of money you spend in Nevada on your way to 
the event, how many times you've returned to the area because of 
being introduced to it by Burning Man, and any other ways that you 
have positively contributed to their County
. 
Letters are limited to 200 words and submissions that are considered 
potentially libelous will not be published, so keep to the facts and 
keep it short. Please include all of your accurate contact 
information (no playa names for this purpose, please!)

Information on submitting letters electronically is available at 
http://www.rgj.com/helpdesk/news/letter_to_editor.php or you can
also fax your letter to the editor at 775-788-6458 or send it by USPS 
to Reno Gazette-Journal, Letters to the Editor, P.O. Box 22000, Reno, 
NV 89520.

Even if your letter does not get printed, the Gazette-Journal keeps a 
tally of the number of letters received for and against issues, and 
publishes that data on a weekly basis. 

Please do it today!


Thanks so much for your support - it really makes all the difference!

We'll keep everyone updated on what twists and turns this story takes
- but have no fear, Burning Man 2003 will burn as strong as ever!

Email us or questions at burningman.com any time with questions. Email
jackrabbitspeaks at burningman.com by 2 PM PST on Tuesday for
post requests. (We don't post all requests, however.)

For questions: questions at burningman.com

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SUBVERTED PROPAGANDA
 
A new book of 'remixed' war posters is one of the most creative 
efforts to come out of the opposition to the Iraq war.

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16082
 
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NIKE V. KASKY: CORPORATIONS ARE NOT PERSONS

By Jennifer Van Bergen
t r u t h o u t | Perspective

For the National Lawyers Guild Committee on Corporations, the
Constitution & Human Rights

The case of Nike v. Kasky, currently before the Supreme Court, 
involves a fundamental question about corporations that unfortunately 
has not been raised by either the parties in the case or the media.

The issue before the Supreme Court is whether Nike can be held liable 
for its misrepresentations under false advertising laws or whether 
its various public documents and letters to the press and others are 
constitutionally protected free speech.

Not addressed in the arguments before the Court, but underlying them
nonetheless is an invisible beast: the idea that corporations are 
people…

http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/060403H.shtml

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NEW SOFTWARE HELPS TEAMS DEAL WITH INFORMATION OVERLOAD
 
Penn State researchers have developed new software that can help 
decision-making teams in combat situations or homeland security 
handle information overload by inferring teams' information needs and 
delivering relevant data from computer-generated reports. The 
software, called CAST...

http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=2007&m=4905

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PENTAGON TOOL TO RECORD A USER'S EVERY SENSATION

By Michael J. Sniffen

June 2, 2003 | WASHINGTON (AP) -- Coming to you soon from the 
Pentagon: the diary to end all diaries -- a multimedia, digital 
record of everywhere you go and everything you see, hear, read, say 
and touch.

Known as LifeLog, the project has been put out for contractor bids by 
the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, the agency 
that helped build the Internet and that is now developing the next 
generation of anti-terrorism tools.

The agency doesn't consider LifeLog an anti-terrorism system, but 
rather a tool to capture "one person's experience in and interactions 
with the world" through a camera, microphone and sensors worn by the 
user. Everything from heartbeats to travel to Internet chatting would 
be recorded.

The goal is to create breakthrough software that helps analyze 
behavior, habits and routines, according to Pentagon documents 
reviewed by The Associated Press. The products of the unclassified 
project would be available to both the private sector and other 
government agencies -- a concern to privacy advocates.

DARPA's Jan Walker said LifeLog is intended for users who give their 
consent to be monitored. It could enhance the memory of military 
commanders and improve computerized military training by chronicling 
how users learn and then tailoring training accordingly, officials 
said.

But John Pike of Global Security.org, a defense analysis group, is 
dubious the project has military application.

"I have a much easier time understanding how Big Brother would want 
this than how (Defense Secretary Donald) Rumsfeld would use it," Pike 
said. "They have not identified a military application."

Steven Aftergood, a Federation of American Scientists defense 
analyst, said LifeLog would collect far more information than needed 
to improve a general's memory -- enough "to measure human experience 
on an unprecedentedly specific level." And that, privacy experts say, 
raises powerful concerns.

DARPA rejects any notion LifeLog will be used for spying. "The 
allegation that this technology would create a machine to spy on 
others and invade people's privacy is way off the mark," Walker said.

She said LifeLog is not connected with DARPA's data-mining project, 
recently renamed Terrorism Information Awareness. Each LifeLog user 
could "decide when to turn the sensors on or off and who would share 
the data," she added. "The goal ... is to 'see what I see,' rather 
than to 'see me."'

One critic sees a silver lining in the government taking the lead.

"If government weren't doing this, it would still be done by 
companies and in universities all over the country, but we would have 
less say about it," said James X. Dempsey of the Center for Democracy 
and Technology, which advocates online privacy. Because the 
government is involved, "you can read about it and influence it."

DARPA's Web site says the agency investigates ideas "the traditional 
research and development community finds too outlandish or risky."

But in LifeLog's case, some similar technology is already being 
funded and researched by well-heeled outfits.

Professor Steve Mann of the University of Toronto has spent 30 years 
developing a wearable camera and computer, progressing from intricate 
metallic headgear to dark frame eyeglasses and a cellphone-sized belt 
attachment. He's working with Samsung on a commercial version.

And Microsoft's Gordon Bell scans his mail and other papers and 
records phone, Web, video and voice transactions into a computerized 
file called MyLifeBits. The company may include the capability in 
upcoming products.

Neither Mann nor Bell intends to bid on DARPA's project. Bell said 
DARPA wants to go further than he has into artificial intelligence to 
analyze data.

The Pentagon agency plans to award up to four 18-month contracts for 
LifeLog beginning this summer. Contracting documents give a sense of 
the project's scope.

Cameras and microphones would capture what the user sees or hears; 
sensors would record what he or she feels. Global positioning 
satellite sensors would log every movement. Biomedical sensors would 
monitor vital signs. E-mails, instant messages, Web-based 
transactions, telephone calls and voicemails would be stored. Mail 
and faxes would be scanned. Links to every radio and television 
broadcast heard and every newspaper, magazine, book, Web site or 
database seen would be recorded.

Breakthrough software would automatically produce an electronic diary 
that organizes the data into "episodes" of the user's life, such as 
"I took the 08:30 a.m. flight from Washington's Reagan National 
Airport to Boston's Logan Airport," according to the documents.

LifeLog's software also "will be able to find meaningful patterns in 
the timetable, to infer the user's routines, habits and relationships 
with other people, organizations, places and objects," DARPA told 
contractors in an advisory.

Walker said DARPA has no plans to develop software to analyze 
multiple LifeLogs. But DARPA advised contractors that ultimately, 
with proper anonymity, data from many LifeLogs could facilitate 
"early detection of an emerging epidemic."

Dempsey, the privacy advocate, says his concern is that users 
ultimately won't control LifeLog data.

"Because you collected it voluntarily, the government can get it with 
a search warrant," he said. "And an increasing amount of personal 
data is also available from third parties. The government can get 
data from them simply by asking or signing a subpoena."

He cites examples from current technology such as traffic cameras and 
automated toll booth passes that police already use to trace a 
person's path. Dempsey questions how LifeLog's analytical software 
will interpret such data and how Americans will be protected from 
errors.

"You can go to the airport to pick up a friend, to claim lost luggage 
or to case it for a terrorist attack. What story will LifeLog write 
from this data?" he asked. "At the very least, you ought to know when 
someone is using it and have the right to correct the 'story' it 
writes."

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GESTURE YOUR MOUSE GOODBYE

FingerWorks of Newark, Delaware, has developed a technology that 
turns hand gestures into some of the most common computing tasks, 
like opening files. The technology could gain favor with people who 
suffer from repetitive stress...

http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=1991&m=4905

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TEXTUAL TANGO

I've been a good girl this year so I thought I'd break a few rules 
for a change.

Anyway, online dating texts, sampled video & el tango de roxanne in a 
textual tango. 

[flash6 - soundcard & speakers - a little clunky on a dial-up but ok]

http://www.rssgallery.com/textualtango.htm

Jess Loseby

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POEM - IF I HAD TIME

By joseph

If I had time I would be everything.
I would dance on the moon,
Party in Pakistan,
Paint graffiti on the Louvre,
And make love to Isadora Duncan on a gray and white night.
I would write novels on the back of beer stained napkins,
Sculpt figures out of water from the Nile,
Sing opera in the Grand Ole Opry
And make algorithms to compute the length of the British coastline.
I would direct character actors in a best selling movie shown in 
China,
Let my hair grow to seven feet in length,
Lose touch with my family and then surprise them with a reunion,
And own 25 businesses that sell grapes.
I would make more money than Bill Gates and then give it all away,
Draw lines on the side of the White House,
Piss in the Mediterranean Sea,
And write poems about monkeys and read them to giraffes.
I would act in productions of MacBeth speaking in pig Latin,
Forget all my past and be nostalgic about my future
Love the wrong people and not get hurt,
And marry 33 times and go back to my second wife (wink).
I would have 121 children and pay attention to each of them,
I would wear bunny slippers to business meetings and require the 
others to do the same,
I would sail a boat down the Mississippi and into the ocean where I 
would sink the boat and swim to the shore,
And eat 10 tons of ice cream and never get fat
I would take all the mood-altering substances I want and never lose 
control,
And…And I would never get old and die










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