hot.list.The sites we include below are all engaged in one epic struggle or another, and if they use the Web only because it's convenient, they nonetheless use it to the fullest. Two of them seek to increase our knowledge of interesting people (vivabush.com) and places (clui.org), making available in-depth research; the others aim to spread pornography - pictorial or political - to the greatest possible extent, and they do so either at their own peril (simplesexsite.com) or that of others (cato.org). The Anti-Carthaginian Historical Society www.cato.org The Cato Institute "Cato" redirects here. For Cato, see Cato. The Institute's stated mission is "to broaden the parameters of public policy debate to allow consideration of the traditional American principles of limited government, individual liberty, free markets, and peace" by striving "to achieve - the only art project on this list - has as its motto "Carthage must be destroyed." Although technically Carthage was razed raze also rase tr.v. razed also rased, raz·ing also ras·ing, raz·es also ras·es 1. To level to the ground; demolish. See Synonyms at ruin. 2. To scrape or shave off. 3. in 146 B.C., Cato members insist that you can never be too careful in matters Carthaginian. Another major concern for Cato: Markets must be free. And the institute spends $13 million a year spreading the word that people shouldn't get in money's way. While Cato members may be alone in their hatred of Carthage - and in some of their other curious passions ("Loaded Guns Can Be Good for Kids") - they have lots of unsavory company for their "free markets" thing. So if you need to get some of that liquidity for yourself, try www.teleportacia.org/swap. And if mobility is simply not an option, why not invest in some company (www.sttf.org/english/proposals/boxful.html)? SimpleSexSite www.simplesexsite.com Victor Sintron wanted to be an Internet porn king, so he put up a site. Two months later, he awoke to a conference call from five would-be brethren, who threatened to rip off his head and shit down his neck unless he shut down the site within the hour. The problem was that SimpleSexSite.com subverted all the mechanisms that make Net porn lucrative. By creating a joystick game in which players won points for "shooting" free "teaser teaser an animal used to sexually tease but not to impregnate the members of the opposite sex. Usually males and they may be surgically prepared to ensure that they cannot mate or are not fertile. " jpegs - automatically sending Victor the links - our cyber-sleaze-bag quickly and legally amassed the largest porn collection on the Web. SimpleSexSite.com is now back up, but in disabled form, so that Victor remains compliant with his terms for living. With Web pore interests poised to go public on Wall Street, his story serves as a lens on the formative years of an industry. The Center for Land Use Interpretation The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) is a non-profit "research organization involved in exploring, examining, and understanding land and landscape issues. The Center employs a variety of methods to pursue its mission - engaging in research, classification, www.clui.org From the nation's sixth-largest beef-packing plant to the adjacent Pantex nuclear-bomb disassembly dis·as·sem·ble v. dis·as·sem·bled, dis·as·sem·bling, dis·as·sem·bles v.tr. To take apart: disassemble a toaster. v.intr. 1. facility and beyond, you will find many startling star·tle v. star·tled, star·tling, star·tles v.tr. 1. To cause to make a quick involuntary movement or start. 2. To alarm, frighten, or surprise suddenly. See Synonyms at frighten. gems in CLUI's searchable database Refers to databases on the Web that are searchable by typing in a query. The term is quite redundant because all databases are searchable. In fact, that is one of their major features. of "unusual and exemplary land use sites." Each featured datum The singular form of data; for example, one datum. It is rarely used, and data, its plural form, is commonly used for both singular and plural. is described in language at once informative and mysterious, resolutely dry yet hinting at the vastnesses behind every surface. VivaBush.com www.vivabush.com VivaBush.com, un sitio Internet en Espanol "only," es rabidamente pro-Jorge Bush. Esta disenado muy efectivamente para fomentar latinos, hispanicos y mojado-americanos que George W. Bush Jr. es lo Mas Macho en la carrera La Carrera is a municipality located in the province of Ávila, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 245 inhabitants. presidencial 2000 para la Casa La casa (Spanish for The House) is a 1954 novel by Manuel Mujica Laínez. It tells the story of a family living in a stately Buenos Aires mansion from the heyday of Argentina's oligarchy in the 1880s to some time in the post-1946 period, the era of Peronist populism, de Los Blancos. VivaBush.com incluye endorsimientos de celebridades Latinas, como Walter Mercado, Agusto Pinochet, Ricky Martin y el culo de Jennifer Lopez, y las actividades "pro-Latino" de Bush, como tomar mucha cerveza, polvo blanco, viejas y sus ranchos de organos de bebes latino-americanos. "El Hijo de Bush," adorado por millones de hispanicos tejanos y otra gente que padece de deficiencia mental, prueba con este sitio que Jorge tiene "World Wide Huevos." RELATED ARTICLE: Fault Vault If Bill Viola and Gary Hill brought video out of the box and into the realm of installation, Ken Goldberg, a Berkeley professor of industrial engineering, has done the same for Net art. This month, at the second biennial of new-media art at Tokyo's Inter-Communication Center, Goldberg (along with Randall Packer, Wojciech Matusik, and Gregory Kuhn, all from Berkeley) unveils Mori, an immersive installation centered around seismic signals uploaded live from California's soon-to-rupture Hayward Fault and transmitted via the Internet. Viewers enter a giant black box flanked by a shelf of sculpturally poised computers, whose presence confirms the data stream's "realness." So does the illuminated, see-through handrail (filled with Internet access cables) that viewers use to navigate the chamber's spiral interior. An odd, low-frequency symphony of sampled sounds (ranging from the violinlike screeching of train brakes to the percussive per·cus·sive adj. Of, relating to, or characterized by percussion. per·cus  sive·ly adv. thuds of falling rocks) resonates from sub-woofers in the floor. These aural interpretations of the Hayward Fault's actual rumblings complement the visual rendering, which, like the heartbeat on an EKG EKG: see electrocardiography. monitor, pulses across a computer screen looking up from a well at the center of the installation. The fragility of life is one theme sounded by this disturbing, meditative work, whose ambiguous title means "of death" in Latin and "sanctuary" in Japanese. Can't make it to Tokyo? Then log on to www.memento.ieor.berkeley.edu and check out the site's eerie, pulsating graphics. Mori watchers need only worry when the rumbling stops: The installation's theatrics the·at·rics n. 1. (used with a sing. verb) The art of the theater. 2. (used with a pl. verb) Theatrical effects or mannerisms; histrionics. are programmed to halt the instant an earthquake hits. - Reena Jana The [R][TM]ark (www.rtmark.com) line of mutual funds nets investors the highest cultural dividends available on the market today. |
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