The Hierarchy of Defining the Self in a Battle with Descartes IN MATTERS OF JUDGEMENT
(breaking out of the knot-thought mess of Descartes)

It's what I do
Not what I say [that matters]
It's what I say
Not what I feel [that matters]
It's what I feel
Not what I think [that matters]
(what I think hardly matters)
What I do
Is what I am
And what I am
Is what I do
Therefore I do
Therefore I am  ¶ 10/02/2006 09:00:00 AM 0 comments   

 

And now the movie Michael Moore hates America/ is out and it gets "two thumbs up" from critics. I've thought this was obvious for a long time but I guess it isn't. Isn't it great when someone states the unspoken obvious?

Another example of this which I'd bet 90% of America would agree with if they'd actually consider it, is Racism in America: The War is Over. Let's Move on. Funny but serious. Why does this ring so true yet seem so controversial?

  ¶ 12/07/2004 03:55:00 PM 2 comments   

  ...after a long 2-year pause, BlankLook is back online...

First - I don't like the new Blogger interface - tries to do too much for you... I'm old skook, hey!

Second - Here's Amazon's top 10 "Computers & Internet" list of books.... pretty nice! the first is "Excel Hacks" and the second is how the film editor of "Apocalyps Now" and "Cold Mountain" is now using Final Cut Pro software on a Mac.

Third - heck, let's see if my setting are correct and this text will upload.....
  ¶ 12/02/2004 04:42:50 PM 0 comments   

 

Damn Spam

Spam I damn, spam I damn
I do not like them spam-a-grams

I do not like them, they do not rock
I do not like them in my box
I do not want them in the air
I do not want them anywhere

Damn that spam, spam I damn
I do not like that damn spam

The early webheads saw it coming. I tried to warn everybody. When Mom

and Aunt Louise started sending heaped up cute spam wrapped in layers of

spam-wrap, mailed to anyone and everyone they knew or knew that somebody

knew - I threw a fit. I nearly got kicked out of my family for being so rude.

DO NOT MAIL ME THIS CRAP, I would say. Aaahhhhhh.... STOP, I would

cry. But it did not help. Spam. Like a nastly nasal drip, or a venereal disease

that never goes away - the spam stayed - and multiplied.

Early webbers saw it and experienced it pre-corporate web days. We used

to protect our email address better than family pets. We knew what happens.

First you get a little spam, then a little more, then a LOT more. You had to

dump the account. I used to have accounts that I kept secret, but knew they

would eventually explode by spam, then I'd sacrifice them to the spam gods

and find another one. I NEVER gave out my REAL address. That was plain

foolish. That'd be like walking around in a chicken factory with my pants

unzipped on a no underwear day. Stupid.

We tried to warn everyone. We tried to stay secret. We tried to sacrifice

effigies to the spam nazis. We tried misleading, misdirecting, virtual email,

email pointers, addresses that pointed to addresses that pointed to addresses,

like an underground railroad system that passed from server to server till not

even the mailbox owners knew where it was or how it got there - but to no

avail. Spam prevailed.

Now, like a small backyard, and a large large dog, and a lazy lazy owner,

this shit is everwhere.

I hate spam. It's like pissing in the water well. It ruins everything and you

still have to drink the water. The joy is gone and now all you can do is wade

through the shit to get to whatever parcel of information may or may not have

been emailed by someone you care to hear from. It contaminates the system.

The whole thing stinks now. And it's impersonal. And nobody cares. And

there's not a damn thing you can do about.

Damn spam. I hate spam.

  ¶ 8/16/2002 12:26:03 PM   

 

Legal Information, Books, Software and Forms - Nolo

"The most prominent U.S. publisher of self-help legal aids." -- Time

  ¶ 5/07/2002 10:13:38 AM   

  ================================

What is Important?

This man for all his excellence was only some other man's agent. The kids sensed that his talk, too, had been written by someone else – that he was part of what the Protestant theologian Reinhold Hiebuhr called the non-thought of received ideas. It was irrelevant whether this astronaut understood the significance of his experiments or not. He was only an agent, not a principal – in ....

. . .

A lot of things don't matter that are supposed to; one of them is well-funded government schools. Saying that may be considered irresponsible by people who don't know the difference between schooling and education, .....

. . .

After 12,000 hours of compulsory training at the hands of nearly 100 government-certified men and women, many high school graduates have no skills to trade for an income or even any skills with which to talk to each other. They can't change a flat, read a book, repair a faucet, install a light, follow directions for the use of a word processor, build a wall, make change reliably, be alone with themselves or keep their marriages together. The situation is considerably worse than journalists have discerned. I know, because I lived in it for 30 years as a teacher.

. . .

Last year at Southern Illinois University I have a workshop in what the basic skills of a good life are as I understand them. Toward the end of it a young man rose in back and shouted at me: “I'm 25 years old, I've lived a quarter of a century, and I don't know how to do anything except pass tests. If the fan belt on my car broke on a lonely road in a snowstorm I'd freeze to death. Why have you done this to me?”

. . .

Does going to school matter if it uses up all the time you need to learn to build a house? If a 15-year-old kid was allowed to go to the Shelter Institute in Bath, Maine, he would be taught to build a beautiful post-and-beam Cape Cod home in three weeks, with all the math and calculations that entails; and if he stayed another three weeks he'd learn how to install a sewer system, water, heat and electric. If any American dream is universal, owning a home is it – but few government schools bother teaching you how to build one. Why is that? Everyone thinks a home matters.

. . .

Does going to school matter if it uses up the time you need to start a business, to learn to grow vegetables, to explore the world or make a dress? Or if it takes away time to love your family? What matters in a good life?

. . .

If we can believe advertisements, what matters to these people most is the personal ownership of machinery: blending machines, cooking machines, driving machines, picture machines, sound machines, tooth-brushing machines, computing machines, machines to kill insects, deliver intimacy, send messages through wires or the naked air, entertainment machines, shooting machines, and many more mechanical extensions of our physical self. Indirect control over even more ambitious machine seems to matter a lot, too: flying machines, bombing machines, heart and lung machines, voting machines, and a great variety of other mechanical creations.

. . .

All these devices are meant to defeat what otherwise would occur naturally if they didn't exist. They are all machines to beat human destiny and confer on human beings magical powers and the reach and longevity of gods.

. . .

It takes a lot of time, but what does it take a lot of time away from? Television has cost the average 21-year-old about 18,000 hours of time. What would that time have gone toward otherwise? learning to build a house? Going to government-run school takes another 15,000 hours from the young life, 21,000 if you count going and coming and homework. What might this time have gone toward otherwise? From the very small amount of time remaining, machinery other than television gobbles a great deal. What does it give back in return? Hearts-ease? Love? Courage? Self-reliance? Friends? Dreams?

What if you forgot all about the globe and concentrated instead on finding a place where you could feel at home for the rest of your life? What if you shaped your own work so that it served your spirit and the spirits of your loved ones, friends and neighbors? In 1776 a full 90 percent of Americans not in slavery shaped their own work, they had independent livelihoods, and in 1840, despite the rise of industrialization the figure was still 80 percent. It was hard then for any man to get rich on the labors of others because there wasn't much free-floating labor to be had; people worked for themselves. That – liberty and independence, not wealth or comfort – was the American miracle.

. . .

John Taylor Gatto is a former New York State Teacher of the Year and now a strong promoter of home-based learning. He is the author of Dumbing Us Down.

Source of blog bones - www.life.ca/nl/40/gatto.html

  ¶ 4/29/2002 11:55:52 PM   

 

Dying at Home

Experts at Choice in Dying have found that when completing a living will or other advance medical directive, people are often just as concerned about where they will die, as they are with how they will die.

. . .

To address these concerns, Choice in Dying, a not-for-profit organization best known for creating the first living will in 1967, has published a new booklet called Dying at Home. The 20-page booklet offers practical information about the option to die at home, explores related legal considerations, and provides answers to common questions associated with the decision to die at home.

. . .

According to Dr. Karen Orloff Kaplan, Executive Director of the organization, “Many people who opt to refuse life support also wish to refuse the entire experience of dying in an unfamiliar setting. That's why going home to die is a growing trend.”

. . .

Interest in dying at home and home care is spurred by at least three factors: patients' and families' desire to retain control over care, a growing awareness of the limitations of medical technology to enhance patients' end-of-life care, and (in the United States) limited reimbursement for hospital care when dying patients are not receiving active, life-prolonging treatment.

. . .

The booklet, which arms caregivers and patients with the vital information they need to ensure a peaceful end-of-life experience, is available for US$5.95 per copy.

Contact: 
Choice in Dying 
200 Varick St., 10th floor 
New York NY 10014-4810 USA 

  ¶ 4/29/2002 01:24:40 PM   

  Natural Life Magazine #74 - Voluntary Simplicity - Toward a Simpler Life

Toward a Simpler Life

Live simply that others may simply live. [Ghandi]



=========================================
http://www.life.ca/nl/74/simplicity.html

Toward a Simpler Life

By Yvonne McArthur

. . .The decision to voluntarily simplify my life began as a whisper in the corner of my mind.

. . .
In time, I sold my townhouse and my sailboat . . . I paid off my debts, condensed my possessions, . . .. I started an investment business . . .. I began painting, sculpting, and writing again. . . . I began questioning all my purchases and my personal consumptive practices. . . . In the process of making these changes in my life, I discovered a freedom I hadn’t felt since I was a small child, and I experienced a new sense of vitality and purpose.

. . .

However, there was a price to pay for marching to the beat of a different drummer. Pain, grief, and a profound sense . . . some days, I felt so overwhelmed I didn’t think I could survive the next hour, the next day, or the next week. . . . I’d sacrificed, studied and worked so hard to do what I thought was right, what I was supposed to do; but in the end, it was a hollow illusion which didn’t bring me happiness or inner peace.

. . .

I consoled myself by . . . "How Much Is Enough?", and Janet Luhr’s "A Simple Living Guide."

. . .

Then I discovered a book called "The Circle of Simplicity" by Cecile Andrews, one of the founding members of the Seeds of Simplicity organization . . . I knew I needed to feel accepted, valued, and . . .

. . .



Blog Bones

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  ¶ 4/29/2002 01:07:08 PM   

  OLD TUNINGS

Ptolemaic Intonation (also called "Just Intonation")
C	D	E	F	G	A	B
+6	+10	–8	+4	+8	–10	–6

 

Pythagorean Intonation
C	D	E	F	G	A	B
–4	0	+4	–6	–2	+2	+6

 

1/4 Comma Meantone Temperament (sometimes called simply "Meantone Temperament")
C	D	E	F	G	A	B
+7	0	–7	+10	+3	–3	–10

 

Lucy Tuning
C	D	E	F	G	A	B
+6	0	–6	+9	+3	–3	–9

 

1/6 Comma Meantone Temperament
C	D	E	F	G	A	B
+5	0	–5	+7.5	+2.5	–2.5	–7.5

 

1/4 Comma Well Temperament
	C	D	E	F	G	A	B
#	–3	+1		–5	–1	+3
|–|	+7	–1	–3	+5	+3	+1	–7
b		–3	+1		–5	–1	+3

 

Werckmeister III Well Temperament (modified 1/4 Comma Well Temperament)
	C	D	E	F	G	A	B
#	–4	0		–6	–2	+2
|–|	+6	–2	–4	+4	+2	–6	–2
b		–4	0		–6	0	+2

 

1/6 Comma Well Temperament (Valliotti Baroque)
\	C	D	E	F	G	A	B
#	–2	+2		–4	0	+4
|–|	+4	0	–4	+6	+2	–2	–6
b		–2	+2		–4	0	+4

 

Reading the Tables

The number under the note is the number of cents that should read on
a tuning meter. In a table "–8" means 8 cents
flat and "+6" means 6 cents sharp. The numbers are rounded to the
nearest cent (mostly), but please don't waste your patience trying to exactly
match the tabulated number. Natural vibrato makes most instruments wiggle
in pitch, so they rarely can be tuned to within 2 cents. Because of that
limit, and because tuning meters don't
always listen to the musically important part of a note, most
tuning
meters can't measure or display detuning any better. If it's within
a few cents, don't fuss over it.

The note in the first column is key that the table is written for.
The columns are all labeled in the key of C major, but the key of C is
just convenient, it is not magical and it is not required. The columns
of any table may be relabeled with the notes from any other major scale,
starting on the tonic.

  ¶ 4/29/2002 12:30:36 PM   

  The crux of the matter on Copyright and Intellectual Property involves substantial and creative changes to the original material if it was previously public domain.

That means you can make minor changes to material and then try and claim copyright to it.

This "substantial variation" standard is important when the underlying work is in the public domain, because "[t]o extend copyrightability to minuscule variations would simply put a weapon for harassment in the hands of mischievous copiers intent on appropriating and monopolizing public domain work." Batlin 536 F.2d at 492; Woods, 60 F.3d at 990 (1995). See also Woods, 60 F.3d at 990 ("there must be 'sufficiently gross difference between the underlying and the derivative work to avoid entangling subsequent artists depicting the underlying work in copyright problems.'") quoting Gracen v. Bradford Exchange, 698 F.2d 300, 305 (7th Cir. 1983).

Copyright Links

1. CopyRight, CopyLeft and Public Domain.....the Copyrightfight Game


2. What About the New Copyright Laws?


3. Web Resources in English Language and Literature

  ¶ 4/24/2002 06:18:40 PM   

  original source (?)

Grammar B ... an alternative to traditional grammar

Consider the following sentence:

We live in dusty houses (“D-U-S-T,” he once wrote with his finger on surfaces
all over the house, but no one noticed it) filled with mementos quite without
value to him (what could the Canton dessert plates mean to him? how could
he have known about the assay scales, why should he care if he did know?),
and we appear to talk exclusively about people we know who have been committed
to mental hospitals, about people we know who have been booked on drunk-driving
charges, and about property, particularly about property, land, price per
acre and C-2 zoning and assessments and freeway access.

Now, I like that sentence. But I couldn't write that sentence. Because
it's too close to the way I talk. And I was taught to write short concise
sentences - different than how I talk.

In “Grammars of Style,” Winston Weathers defends the use of an alternate
grammar: Many writers believe that there are “things to say”... that simply
cannot be effectively communicated via a traditional grammar; that there are
“things to say” in a highly technological, electronic, socially complex, politically
and spiritually confused era that simply cannot be reflected in language
if language is limited to the traditional grammar.

An alternate grammar, suggests Weathers, is “a variegated, discontinuous,
fragmented grammar of style [which] corresponds to an amorphous and inexplicable
universe and mentality”.

Another book called "Adios ... (?) ... Strunk" (you can look it up) teaches
the same need for an alternate way of writing. WIRED magazine put out a book
on a new way of writing also... interesting.

Writing is changes. Blogs are indicative of these changes of English language
expressions.

The question, like my favorite post modern thinker, Josh Magnuson likes
to say, is - Are things getting better or worse?

And like the song says, "...something happening here... what it is ain't
exactly clear..."; in the mean time, I just what to spend 90% of my writing
time, writing instead of editing and thinking about the properness of the
English grammar. (Instead of the other way around.)

Am I just being lazy, rebellious, and ignorant? ...or is that changes in
the air that I'm smelling?

  ¶ 4/24/2002 12:43:15 PM   

 

Tax Audit Defense

You can now buy insurance against the IRS for $29.95 at the TaxResources Home. Use this link since the front door for some reason doesn't let you in. To me, buying a tax lawyer in a can sounds like a great way to spend 30 bucks.

  ¶ 4/17/2002 04:15:52 PM   

 

Is it just me, or do the police seem to more and more give out traffic tickets for little crappy violations? I recently found out that my small town takes in three-fourths of its city revenue from traffic violations. Ninety-five percent of those are from out of towners. Is this fair ?

the Washington D.C. stories you DONT hear about

"It may not be fair, but our policy regarding traffic is zero tolerance. . . .We're writing any and every ticket that we find. . . .This is a new police department, ladies and gentlemen." -- Lt. Joseph Eaves defending the ticketing of a driver for going 27 mph in a 25 mph zone

In the guise of fighting crime, the police are ticketing, arresting and humiliating other normally law-abiding citizens for petty offenses such as having license stickers obscured by license plate frames or driving without a license.

Here are just two of the incidents that have been reported to the office of Councilmember Harold Brazil:

A young chef was stopped by police for having a frame around his license that obscured his stickers. The officers found that he had no license on him and had some outstanding tickets. He was taken to the 5th District where he was incarcerated in what he called "a vomit-covered cell." He was later transferred to the central lockup and released only after ten hours of imprisonment. Meanwhile, his car was towed and has faced charges of up to $800.

In another case, a woman was taking her nine-year-old child to Capitol Hill Day School when she was stopped for not having made a complete halt at a stop sign. She discovered she had left her purse at home. When police found that her license had expired a few months earlier, she was handcuffed and taken to the police station where she was put in a room with a woman who was a HIV-positive prostitute.

  ¶ 4/15/2002 08:07:29 PM   

 

IT HAPPENS by John Womac

All the police
I know are great people, professionally and carefully helping
all of us out.

Then comes a night when you am stopped for "weaving"
as your back pack falls over after a turn. You've been out for
a day in a state park down in Georgia, hiking and photographing.
Then a get-together with friends for a beer and a gourmet dinner
in a restored home located downtown in a touristy place. Everyone
there is a hiker or camper, most dressed , like I am, in jeans
and chambray shirts. Then a two hour drive through back country
roads with my wife to pick up my truck left at a Wal-mart store,
then buying a couple of incidentals, and a short trip home. Now,
there's that flashing blue light behind me.

Footsteps cruch in the roadside gravel and a flashlight blasts
into your eyes. "Awright, Buster, you gotta license?"

I reply, "What seems to be the problem, sir?"

"Get out!"

You get out and stand before a guy with shiny badges and glistening
and clanking items jostling around about him gleaming in the darkness.
It is 11:30 p.m. The flashlight is back in my face.

"You been drinkin?"

`"I had a beer - about four hours ago."

"How many?"

"One beer - that was four hours ago - I had a big meal after
that."

"How many?" The flashlight is back in my face. "Your
truck reeks of alcohol!"

"It can't. . ." I answer back, now getting mad "I've
been driving in another car for the last three hours!" I
reach for my drivers licence.

"Freeze!" comes a command- "What the hell do you
think you're doing?"

"Getting my driver' license, dammit!" I respond.

"Get smart an' you get trouble - I been following you for
the last mile, your left tires been on or over the centerline
three times - I can run you in now for careless driving!"
We stand there - the flashlight plays over my body then returns
to my face. "Awright - now, real slow, give me your driver's
license."

He studies it, then the light is back in my face - "Do you
have any idea where your registration is?"

"Yes sir . . ." I say, " . . .it's in my glove
box."

"Get it!"

I reach in and take it out of the envelope I keep such things
in and hand it to him. "Come here!" He motions me
to walk in front of him.

He marches me to the front of his squad car. There is another
man sidtting inside it, red tee shirt, hunting cap. Then the
deputy gets in his car and talks on the radio, checks various
items, talks with the other man. I stand out there in the dark
with the flashing blue lights blasting into my eyes. Other cars
drive by, one or two of them.

After about twenty minutes he comes out with an instrument in
his hand. "blow into this!" he commands.

"Wait a minute . . . what is that?"

"Neveryoumind - just blow into it."

"It that a breathazizer?"

"Yep - take it and blow!"

"Wait a minute - don't I have a choice about this?"

"Yeah, you got a choice, you can blow into it or I'm takin
you in on a DUI - that's your choice!"

"You don't have the right to do this!"

"Well, let's go then, leave your truck here and get in the
back of the car - hold your hands out." He reaches for handcuffs.

I'm not sure of the law, I do know I can't have any alcohol in
my system, so I say "OK, I'll blow on the thing."

"Awright!"

He hands me a tube and I blow into it. He studies the insturment
for a while, then. "OK, I want you to walk a straight line."


I walk on the edge of the pavement. Then I stand on one leg,
then the other at his command. I put my fingers together in a
tricky maneuver. Then he says. "OK I'm not taking you in
this time."

"What was the reading?" I ask him.

"It was almost .8, and that's not quite intoxicated."

"What is intoxicated?

".8" he says.

"No-no, no way." I challenge him, now I sense momentum
swinging toward me - "I'm ready for a blood test, officer!"

"Well it was point-oh-eight that's what I meant to say."

He gets in his squad car and drives off, with his blue lights
still blasting through the night, leaving me alone in the dark.
I walk back to my truck and go home, where my wife is waiting
up for me.

"What happened?" she asks

I tell her and then say "Guess it was a good thing I'm not
black, or I'd probably be down at the the jail now."

"Yeah . . ." she says, ". . .or worse."

To be continued?

.... read the whole novel here.

  ¶ 4/15/2002 08:00:18 PM   

 

Here is a list of ways that stocks can be screened. This list came from MSN, but the general approaches are what's valuable and can be used on any number of available stock screeners on the web including the one at Yahoo.

Basic Searches

These searches look for top stocks using a few basic measures.

• Large-cap stocks with high momentum

  
  

  Shares of companies with market capitalizations over $5 billion with the greatest three-month price gains relative to the rest of the market.

  
  

• Mid-cap stocks with high momentum

  
  

  Shares of companies with market capitalizations between $500 million and $5 billion with the greatest three-month price gains relative to the rest of the market.

  
  
  

• Small-cap stocks with high momentum

  
  

  Shares of companies with market capitalizations between $50 million and $500 million with the greatest three-month price gains relative to the rest of the market.
  

  
  

• Cheapest Stocks of Large, Growing Companies

  
  

  Stocks of companies with market caps greater than $5 billion that are growing earnings at least 20% a year but have price-earnings ratios less than 20 and price-sales ratios less than 1.5.
  

  
  

• Highest-Yielding Stocks in the S&P 500

  
  

  Stocks of companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index that have the highest dividend yields. These are often considered the index's most undervalued stocks because their prices are low relative to their dividends.
  

  
  

• Dogs of the Dow, MSN-Style

  
  

  Stocks in the Dow Jones Industrials Average with the highest dividend yield, lowest price-earnings ratio and lowest price.
  

  
  

Deluxe Searches

These supercharged searches take full advantage of our Deluxe Screener.

• Contrarian Strategy

  
  

  This approach is based on the notion that eventually the market will rediscover out-of-favor stocks and bring the high-flyers back to earth. It looks for medium to large cap stocks with low price/earnings ratios, relatively generous dividends and a strong enough financial position to weather temporary problems.

  
  
  

• Distressed Stock Plays

  
  

  This screen searches for companies with a market capitalization of at least $50 million and stock prices near 52-week lows. But the companies are projected by analysts to show at least 20% earnings growth in the next year.

  
  
  
  

• Estimated Earnings Up

  
  

  When the securities analysts who most closely follow a company or a group of companies raise their earnings estimates for those firms, it is usually a bullish sign. This screen looks for such stocks among companies with the highest earnings per share growth projected for next year.
  

  
  

• GARP Go-getters

  
  

  This screen, based on the so-called "growth at a reasonable price" approach, focuses on finding opportunities at modest risk in smaller capitalization stocks.
  

  
  

• Great Expectations

  
  

  This screen should appeal particularly to "value" investors, but it is biased toward smaller companies and looks across all sectors. It looks for beaten-up stocks with a lot of potential growth ahead.
  

  
  

• Momentum Stocks

  
  

  This screen looks for stocks whose prices have screamed higher in the past six months on increasing volume. It recent top performers regardless of valuation.

  
  
  

• New 52-week Highs

  
  

  Stocks that hit new highs often keep going higher still. This screen looks for such favorites while giving you the opportunity to decide the stock exchange for your search. It orders the results according to which stocks have had the strongest price performance over the last three months.

  
  
  

• O'Shaughnessy Growth Stocks

  
  

  This screen looks for stocks that have high projected 1- and 5-year earnings growth rates and price-earnings multiples less than their five year projected growth rate. A strategy of buying the top 10 by six-month price appreciation and holding for one year has produced market-beating returns over the past 20 years, according to testing by quantitative analyst, money manager and author Jim O'Shaughnessy.

  
  
  

• Righteous Rockets

  
  

  The companies that this screen bubbles up appear undervalued, are profitable, and have strong balance sheets -- which makes them "righteous." But they also are fast growing and have begun to see significant stock price appreciation -- which makes them "rockets."

  
  
  

• SAPI Slugs

  
  

  This simple but effective value screen presents a pure yield play. It is similar but potentially superior to the better-known Dogs of the Dow screen in that it draws from a wider pool of large stocks and includes a secondary financial-strength overlay.

  
  
  

• The Year's Winners

  
  

  This screen looks for the stocks that have had the greatest price appreciation over the last year, and allows you to choose the sector you favor.

  
  
  

  ¶ 4/03/2002 11:49:27 PM   

 

The best throughput and connection monitoring software ever made and downloadable for free! This product is hard to find and was made by Lucent - formerly AT&T as serious modem and TCP/IP monitoring software. This took me lots of searching to find it. Get it while you can!

MyVitalAgent Download Page

WHAT HAPPENED TO NET.MEDIC?

Net.Medic was published by VitalSigns which was bought by INS which was bought by Lucent. Lucent/INS has decided to stop selling Net.Medic - and made it available as a Free Download. On February 12, 2001, Net.Medic was discontinued and replaced with MyVitalAgent - which is available at no charge: Download from Lucent/INS site. (Note: you may have to start at the main page and find your way...)

The updated program provides throughput and connection monitoring similar to Net.Medic - with a slightly different presentation. The updated program also provides support for systems running Windows 95,98,Me,NT and Windows2000. I recommend this tool for connectivity monitoring.

  ¶ 3/19/2002 08:27:49 PM   

 

Top Ten Web Accelerator Tips?

Top Net Access Tips

1. Surf Lean

   Shield your browser from gyrating french fries, singing bananas,
   and pop-up ads by turning off Java and JavaScript. In Netscape Navigator 4.x,
   select Edit, Preferences, Advanced. Uncheck Enable Java and Enable JavaScript,
   and click OK. In Internet Explorer 4.x, select View, Internet Options, Advanced
   and, under Multimedia, uncheck Play animations, Play videos, and Play sounds,
   as desired. Scroll to the Java VM category, uncheck all selections, and click
   Apply. Disabling these scripting languages may limit the interactivity of
   some Web sites, and you may receive annoying error messages when your browser
   refuses to run a script.




2. Skip the Pics

   Your browser spends most of its online time downloading graphics.
   For a speed boost, turn off the pictures. In IE 4.x, select View, Internet
   Options, Advanced and, under Multimedia, uncheck Show pictures; then click
   Apply. Or go to Microsoft's Web site and download the IE 4.0 PowerToys, which
   include an Image Toggler to turn images on and off. In Navigator 4.x, select
   Edit, Preferences, Advanced, uncheck Automatically Load Images, and click
   OK. (In Navigator and IE, you can always right-click on image boxes later
   to view particular pictures.)
   

   Another option, WRQ's $30 @Guard, strips out banner ads and prevents your
   browser from opening extraneous windows to display pop-up images. Download
   a trial copy at www.wrq.com. Or consider using the $35 "low-overhead" Opera
   browser from Opera Software. It comes with a camera button so you can easily
   toggle between surfing with pictures and surfing without.




3. Clear Junk Off Your Desktop

   To ensure that your browser won't slow down
   when it is displaying graphics, close any unnecessary programs that may be
   running on your PC--especially graphics applications. This tip is particularly
   helpful if your PC uses an older-model graphics card.



The Older Browsers May Be Faster On a slower PC, try using an earlier version
of your browser, such as a 3.x edition of Navigator or Internet Explorer.
Older browsers require less memory, so they load (and surf) faster on geriatric
PCs. Or download the $35 copy of Opera (see "Skip the Pics," above). It runs
on PCs as old and weak as a 386SX with 6MB of RAM.




4. Don't Linger at Home

   If you're like most people, you use the default setting
   for your home (or start) page--and that's either Netscape's home page or Microsoft's,
   depending on which browser you're using. But why waste time loading a Web
   page you rarely want to visit? Instead, set your home page to a fast-loading
   site that you visit often. A good candidate: your favorite search engine.
   In Navigator, select Edit, Preferences, Navigator. In IE 4.x, select View,
   Internet Options, General, or simply drag and drop the icon next to a URL
   in the Address field on to IE's Home button.




5. Be Cache Savvy

   Your browser uses memory and disk caches to store images
   and other gewgaws from Web sites you've visited. If your Web surfing consists
   of going to the same sites day after day, give your browser a roomy disk cache
   of 12MB or more. If you tend to visit new sites, set up a smaller disk cache
   that's faster to search and access. Keep in mind, though, that an undersize
   cache will slow your Web access, since it forces your browser to download
   the same graphics repeatedly as you surf.

   
   

   To speed things up, tell your browser to check its disk and memory caches
   for changes to a Web page only once per session. In Navigator 4.x, select
   Edit, Preferences, click the plus sign next to Advanced, click Cache, customize
   your caches, and then click OK. In Internet Explorer 4.x, select View, Internet
   Options, General and, in the Temporary Internet File section, click Settings
   to gain access to the cache settings. Click OK when you're done.

   
   

   Incidentally, putting the cache into a virtual or compressed drive often
   forces the browser to run in low gear if you do not have enough memory, so
   avoid doing this unless you have a lot of spare memory (at least 32MB of total
   system memory). Defragmenting your hard drive every few weeks also helps speed
   up your browser's disk access.

   
   

6. Accept Cookies From Strangers

   As tempted as you may be to deploy a so-called
   cookie crusher to block Web sites from slipping cookies to your browser, forbear.
   Cookies aren't all bad. They allow Web sites to jump you past irrelevant material
   to areas you're interested in. And if you instruct your browser not to gulp
   down cookies as you surf, you may be bombarded by an annoying stream of messages
   whenever a Web site pops up with a cookie. Navigator 4.x permits you to "Accept
   only cookies that get sent back to the originating server." To set this option,
   select Edit, Preferences, Advanced. Thereafter, Navigator won't send any cookie
   from your machine to a server other than the one that originally sent it.
   Thus, for instance, if your ordering information for a Web shopping site happens
   to be stored in a cookie, Navigator will send it only to the original shopping
   site.

   
   

7. Upgrade to V.90

   If your ISP supports the V.90 spec, you'll enjoy higher-speed
   connections after upgrading your K56flex or x2 modem to this new standard.
   Go to the modem manufacturer's Web site for information--and with luck, a
   free firmware upgrade, too. And while you're there, check to see whether you
   will need a new modem-initialization string. You can peruse a list of ISPs
   that support V.90 at www.k56flex.com/isprt.html.

   
   

8. Accelerate Your Port

   If you have an external modem, make sure your communications
   port is talking as fast as the modem can listen. In Windows 9x, select Start,
   Settings, Control Panel, Modems. Select your modem, select Properties, and
   use the drop-down box to adjust the maximum speed to 115200 (for a 56-kbps
   modem; you can set ISDN and faster modems to higher speeds). Next, go to the
   Connection tab, choose Advanced, make sure that hardware flow control is enabled,
   and then click OK. Click Port Settings and nudge the sliders up a bit to increase
   the send and receive ports' speed. Click OK.




9. Buy a Faster Port

   If you have an external 56-kbps or ISDN modem, consider
   buying a hot-rod serial card to replace your outmoded 16550-compatible UART
   chip (whose top speed is 115 kbps). High-speed serial cards with a 16650 or
   16750 chip can attain speeds of up to 460 kbps--essential for optimal ISDN
   performance. Lava Computer and Pacific CommWare both sell a variety of such
   cards, which typically cost around $100.

   
   

   Modem's Real Speed - Want to know how your modem is really performing?
   Download a large compressed file from your Internet service provider's FTP
   (for File Transfer Protocol) server. Why from your ISP's server? Because the
   connection will be swifter than if your modem has to communicate with another
   server over the Net--and the protocol is faster, too. Use FTP software like
   the $35 CuteFTP .

   
   

   FTP software will make a faster connection to your ISP than your browser
   will. If your FTP program displays the transfer rate in kilobytes per second,
   multiply that number by 10 to identify the kilobits-per-second rate that the
   modem is gauged at. Perform this test late at night or early in the morning,
   when your ISP is least likely to experience a slowdown on its server. For
   more detailed information about your modem's performance on the Net, get a
   copy of VitalSigns Software's $30 Net.Medic, 888/984-8259. Net.Medic tells
   you where the slowdowns are occurring--whether the culprit is your modem,
   your ISP, or the Web sites you're visiting.

   
   

   Remove Unrelated Wires - Does your modem share the jack with a fax or an
   answering machine? Noise from devices near your modem may be hobbling its
   connection. Plug the modem cord directly into the jack. If you use a double
   jack, disconnect any devices plugged into the second jack. Remove any cordless
   phones. Unplug the part of the phone that plugs into the jack.

   
   

   Track Line Noise - They sound good in a cereal bowl, but crackles or pops
   on your phone line interfere with your modem connection. To check this out,
   pick up the phone's handset, press a single number on the keypad, and then
   listen for noise pollution. If you hear static or other noise, plug the phone
   into another jack and repeat the test. If the phone sounds fine from that
   jack, the source of the noise is a bad phone cord, a loose connection in the
   first jack, a faulty wire between the first jack and your home's network connection
   box, or a loose connection at the network box. Try a new phone cord first,
   because this is the most common culprit and the solution is so simple.

   
   

   If you hear noise when the phone is plugged into the second jack, too,
   the problem may be a bad connection between your house and the phone company.
   Try repeating the noise test at a neighbor's home or at your office before
   you call the phone company.

   
   

   If you do have to call your phone company, ask to speak to a "data specialist."
   If the company uses a digital exchange, ask whether the automatic gain control
   is turned off, and request that the technician set your line setting to position
   5. Also have the company trace your phone line's signal strength and quality
   through each of its central offices.

   
   

   Multiplexed Phone Line If you have two phone lines (one for voice, and
   one for the modem), ask your phone company to connect two separate lines to
   your house, rather than splitting a single line in two. Splitting one line
   cuts its bandwidth in half, inviting modem connection problems.
   

  ¶ 3/19/2002 07:55:19 PM   

  Articles Index

Here is a list of readable articles from the same radical publishing group as below... includes things like "Fake IDs","Prison Rape", and "Identity Theft". Pretty interesting at least... reminds me of the old web days.

  ¶ 3/11/2002 08:04:49 PM   

 

Loompanices

This is a publishing house of everything imaginable that is censored, banned, or plain dangerous - check out the online catalog.

Welcome to the Spring 2002 Supplement to the Loompanics Unlimited Book Catalog the Best Book Catalog in the World! We've got more than two dozen new titles for you this time, so let's take a look…

Extreme Islam is a collection of anti-Western rants from Islamic extremists, and Protect Yourself Against Terrorism tells what you can do for yourself and your family to be safer. Stolen Lives documents more than 2,000 citizens killed by US police departments, 100 Years of Lynchings is a chilling compilation of newspaper stories. The Breakdown of Nations advocates smaller states, and Steal This Book is out in a new trade paperback edition.

Modern High-Security Locks tells you how to pick 'em, How to Change Your Name in California is an excellent ID book, and The First Amendment and Civil Liability is the best book yet on how lawyers threaten our freedom of speech. The Extreme Survival Almanac shows you how to survive just about anything, How to Make $50 Per Hour Screwing in Light Bulbs can get you started towards financial independence, and Building With Earth reveals another sound alternative building method.

Demons of the Modern World tells why people still want to go on witch hunts, The Last Filipino Head Hunters is a photographic journey to some of the strangest people on Earth, and Beyond Pepper Spray is the definitive guide to gas attacks. We have three great new drug titles this time: the Sixth Edition of Uncle Fester's classic Secrets of Methamphetamine Manufacture, the beautiful The Cannabible, and a new edition of Indoor Marijuana Horticulture. Computer buffs will want to check out Viruses Revealed and Hacker's Challenge.

Modern Frauds and Con Games will help you safeguard your dough, and Sideshow U.S.A. is all about freaks and why we want to see them. We are always glad to see a new issue of Gauntlet (#22). The Big Book of Bodily Functions will tell you more than you maybe want to know about, well, bodily functions, and Greta Garbage's Outrageous Bathroom Book is excellent reading for the can. Buy This Book… Or We'll Sue You! chronicles our nation's insane blizzard of litigation.

  ¶ 3/11/2002 07:54:51 PM   

  The following are the best sellers of used, scholarly theological
books in the U.S. (I'm forgetting one or two). I dealt extensively
with almost all of them in the pre-www days:

The Anglican Bibliopole:

http://www.anglicanbooks.klink.net/

Ex Libris Theological Books:

http://www.abebooks.com/home/TEXLIBRISBOOKS/

Loome Theological Booksellers:

http://www.booktown.com/loome/loome.htm

Benjamin de Wit, Bookseller/Chalcedon Books:

[can't find www site]

Windows Booksellers:

http://www.academicbooks.com/Win/index.htm

Preserving Christian Publications:

http://www.pcpbooks.com/

Library of Religious Thought:
Omaha, NE

[can't find www site]

Stroud Booksellers:
HC 68, Box 94
Williamsburg, WV 24991
304-645-7169 Fax 304-645-4620

[can't find www site]

Eighth Day Books (mostly new but getting into used books):

http://www.eighthdaybooks.com

  ¶ 3/11/2002 07:37:38 PM   

  Chirobase - A Skeptical Guide to Chiropractic History, Theories, and Current Practices
      Stephen Barrett, M.D., William T. Jarvis, Ph.D., Charles E. DuVall Jr., D.C.

      Chirobase is without doubt the best & largest collection of articles that expose the problems in the chiropractic
      profession, and that advocate the use of scientific-based practices by chiropractors.

      "Accurate information about chiropractic is not easy to get. Most publishers, editors, and broadcasters are unwilling to examine
      this topic in depth and to publish critical information. As a result, most reports reaching the public express what chiropractors
      would like people to believe. This Web site will enable you to deepen your understanding. If you decide to seek chiropractic care,
      it may also help you find a suitable practitioner."

----Chirowatch - Terry Polevoy, MD
      All the latest chiroquack news! Provocative and never boring. Schemes, scams, crimes, fanatics, law suits, deaths, etc.

----Spin Doctors I: The Interactive Investigation - Paul Benedetti and Wayne MacPhail
      "Deaths, Deceptions and Dubious Claims Haunt Chiropractors' Bid for Academic Acceptance."
      "Some times news makes history. This interactive investigation is one of those times."
      ".... the first piece of investigative journalism in Canada written specifically for the Internet."

----Spin Doctors II: Manipulating Children - Paul Benedetti and Wayne MacPhail
      "Pediatric Chiropractic: Bogus Diagnoses, Illegal Machines and Useless Treatments."

      "Chiropractors treat infants and children, and most of what they do to them is quackery.

       "They use illegal and unlicensed (Editor's Note: Since the publication of these stories, the devices have been licensed for use in
       Canada.) devices to diagnose and treat a variety of childhood illnesses. Some of their diagnoses - including misaligned vertebrae,
       childhood osteo-arthritis and unequal leg lengths - are bogus. And the treatments they use to correct these so-called problems -
       spinal adjustment by hand or machine - are useless."
  ¶ 3/04/2002 12:19:08 AM   

  At Your Own Risk: The Case Against Chiropractic

Here's an expose' from the sixties and seventies originally written as a book. This is the "Chiropractors are quacks" view.

  ¶ 3/04/2002 12:11:06 AM   

  Disinformation

- February 21, 2002

You Are Being Lied To
The Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion,
Historical Whitewashes and Cultural Myths

edited by Russ Kick
published by Disinformation Books )
400 pp * ISBN 0966410076

Do you believe any of the following?

• Alcoholics Anonymous is effective.
  
• Hackers pose a grave threat to the nation.
  
• Former POW Sen. John McCain wants to reveal the truth about POWs and MIAs.
  
• The Bible contains a hidden code.
  
• The Big Bang is an airtight fact.
  
• Thousands of species have gone extinct because of deforestation.
  
• George W. Bush has never commuted any prisoner’s death sentence.
  
• World War II was "the Good War"
  
• All serial killers are men.
  
• Licking certain toads will get you high.
  
• The Columbine massacre was planned and carried out by two students acting alone.
  
• Most terrorists are Middle Eastern.
  
• Humans have not yet been cloned.
  

Wake up! You're being lied to.

You Are Being Lied To acts as a battering ram against the distortions, myths, and outright lies that have been shoved down our throats by the government, the media, corporations, organized religion, the scientific establishment, and others who want to keep the truth from us.

An unprecedented group of researchers--investigative reporters, political dissidents, academics, media watchdogs, scientist-philosophers, social critics, and rogue scholars--paints a picture of a world where crucial stories are ignored or actively suppressed and the official version of events has more holes in it than Swiss cheese. A world where real dangers are downplayed and nonexistent dangers are trumpeted. In short, a world where you are being lied to.

Includes contributions from Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Howard Bloom, Michael Parenti, Norman Solomon, Douglas Rushkoff, James Ridgeway, Jim Marrs, Judith Rich Harris, Tristan Taormino, Jim Hogshire, Riane Eisler, Peter Russell, and dozens of others. Over 60 articles in all!

  ¶ 3/01/2002 12:08:55 PM   

  Yahoo! Oscar® Pool - predict the winners  ¶ 3/01/2002 11:52:19 AM   

  XML developer news from XMLhack: by and for the XML community Welcome to xmlhack, a news site for XML developers. Our aim is to distill essential news, opinions, tips and issues concerning XML development.  ¶ 3/01/2002 11:39:56 AM   

  Abebooks is the place to find the hard to find books.


  ¶ 2/03/2002 09:06:15 PM   

  Publish Books

IUniverse allows publishing for $100 and this includes an ISBN number which means that anyone, anywhere can look up the book and order it at any bookstore through the "Books in Print" catalogue.

http://www.iuniverse.com

  ¶ 2/03/2002 08:53:32 PM   

  The Blogging Revolution

In 1994 the Web was a garden of personal home pages blooming with thoughts, opinions, and life experiences. People were learning how to build their own sites, experimenting with design, and sharing their voice with the world while the business world scrambled for ways to "monetize" the internet and capitalize on its fertility.

Then they paved it all and built a mall.

But behind the scenes of today's Web, swollen with e-stores, bloated with search engines, and exploding with mega-portals offering streams of relentless, commercialized content and "free services," a real revolution is taking seed.

The Web is going back to its early days, but it's taking back technology that promises to stir the sleeping giant. Soon, the soul of the Internet will sprout up through the cracks and ripen under the gaze of eager netizens, all in the form of a "blog."

  ¶ 7/19/2000 07:55:49 PM   

 

Find the lastest Box Office Statistics, Chatter, and More

Since I recently bought a lot of Marvel stock (MVL - New York Stock Exchange) I needed to know the weekend ratings at the box office. I found everything I could want to know at the Box Office Report website. Also to check what people who owned the stock were saying I checked out the Message Boards at Yahoo for MVL; just go the the MVL chart on Yahoo and click the item saying Msgs link. This gives you the most recent chatter on this particular stock. Beware - some of it is rowdy.

Once you get the idea of how message boards work, you can search around and find them on just about ANY subject you might be interested in. I use the Motley Fool boards for financial and Kingsnake.com for any herper information I might be interested in.

There's lots of information and ideas out there on the web. Don't be afraid to seek them out.

  ¶ 7/16/2000 09:25:13 PM   

 

Cheap Long Distance Calls Follow-up

My original post in this section went something like this....

...I'm trying to utilize a Long Distance Carrier price comparison service... Url is www.espoke.com. I tried to order a service change but needed to print it out, sign, and fax; this present machine I'm on can't print; so, it's a no-go and I'll try it at home. [exciting isn't it?]

I just wanted to update ya'll on this cheap long distance experiment I started back then.

Once I finally got the service rolling, in which it was more difficult than I thought... I had to fill out another application, and make several phone calls, ... my first partial bill came in. It was for $1.50 total ! My next bill, for a whole month, was under $20 total! And that's for two separate phone lines, analog AND digital! That's way less than I was paying for MCI on EACH phone line. I hardly ever make long distance calls and MCI bills ran $30 or $40 a month each line, averaging almost $80/month total for both. This is some worthwhile cost-cutting.

It takes a little effort but finding cheaper long distance through a third party like E-Spoke is well worth it in savings. Knowledge is power. And in this case the web comes through, with knowledge that pays off.

  ¶ 5/06/2000 02:09:16 AM   

 

Microsoft Conclusions of Law and Final Order

(from the U.S. District Court Ruling)

Microsoft early on recognized middleware as the Trojan horse that, once having, in effect, infiltrated the applications barrier, could enable rival operating systems to enter the market for Intel-compatible PC operating systems unimpeded.< Simply put, middleware threatened to demolish Microsoft's coveted monopoly power. Alerted to the threat, Microsoft strove over a period of approximately four years to prevent middleware technologies from fostering the development of enough full-featured, cross-platform applications to erode the applications barrier.img src="http://us.yimg.com/p/nm/20000328/amdf61373.jpg">

  ¶ 4/04/2000 12:37:31 AM   

 
Banking and investing have never been like this:

No minimums, no fees, and no hassles. Move your money where you want, when you want, for free.

Pay-a-Friend: That's right, you can send money instantly over the Internet to anyone, any time, anywhere - for free! It's secure, it's as easy as email. Your friends can get this cash at ATMs instantly 24 hours a day, 7 days a week - no waiting, no hassle.

This X bank even has a free S + P 500 fund

.... hmmmmm.

  ¶ 4/01/2000 12:44:19 AM   

 

Dictionary and Glossary List

For a mega-list of any and every online dictionary broken up by any and every conceivable category - bookmark this one!

  ¶ 3/21/2000 08:52:01 AM   

 

Folklore, Myths, and Fairy Tales

Bullinch's Mythology

When you were a kid, chances are you resented being forced to read Bulfinch's Mythology... until you got into it and realized just how cool these tales of gods and monsters really are. Rediscover it - in its entirety - now that you can appreciate it.

AFU and Urban Legends Archive

Our modern civilization has its own set of folk tales and mythology, usually called Urban Legends. This site includes archived tales ffrom the alt.folklore.urban news group, categorized by type of story. For more see the Urban Legends Reference Pages.

Don't Spread That Hoax!

Forwarded e-mail makes it easy to spread urban legends that just aren't true. Some folks seem to think if it comes in an e-mail, it must be true - and nothing could be further from the truth. Check this site to find out which are the hot Internet myths.

Mythology on the Web

Looking for information about mythology on the Web? This general index has what you need, with links to sites dealing with everything from King Arthur to myths of Asia and Native Americans.

The Camelot Project

Few legends have stirred imaginations as much as that of Arthur, the boy king who united England. Whether Arthur actually existed remains a matter of debate, and this site from the University of Rochester provides a host of resources.

Fairy Tales: Origins and Evolution

The sanitized fairy tales you learned as a child have their roots in stories that are much darker. This site looks at the original versions of the tales retold by Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm.

Aesop's Fables

There are more than 655 Aesop's Fables available to read at this huge site. Some of them are read for you, in RealAudio format, and include images. You'll also find fairy tales, as well as stories by L. Frank Baum and Charles Dickens.

Unseen Creatures

Folklore is filled with tales of strange and mythical creatures, from graceful unicorns and gentle fairies to bloodsucking vampires and slavering werewolves. Learn the history behind these fancies here.

Encyclopedia Mythica

An exhaustive study of ancient mythology, presented in a well-organized and readable format. This site looks at the mythology of many cultures.

Atlantis

This Italian site, translated into English, features beautiful artist renderings depicting the glory that was Atlantis, the mythical continent that vanished into the sea.

....from the Hotlists of the Houston Chronicle which comes out every Friday in the Technology section. These were from the December 17, 1999 issue. Thanks Houston Chronicle.
  ¶ 3/16/2000 04:55:57 PM   

 

Fairies - The ArtsForge Magical Collection

Fairies: Magical Images

I have a magical daughter named Ariel. She understands the world of fairies. They are secretive, fragile and yet powerful creatures of many varieties.

  ¶ 2/27/2000 10:17:16 AM   

  Last of the Faerie - ArtsForge Short Story Project

A collaborative story writing effort of a fantasy genre.

  ¶ 2/27/2000 01:16:05 AM   

 

Web Resources

... a nice page of web resource links such as HTML Tutorials, Web Graphics, Design tips, etc. Posted here specifically for the little web guy - Matt Priebe.

  ¶ 2/23/2000 11:02:19 AM   

  The Joy of Not Working, Part II: "Friends

So there I was: finally free of the corporate yoke, ready to start my new life. I was beginning to adjust to a different world, one without watches and neckties and where being out of doors in that bright 10:30 a.m. or 3:00 p.m. light didn't mean that I had taken a personal day or called in sick.

Emerging from a movie matinee one afternoon, I suddenly quickened my pace, thinking I should really take advantage of the remaining hours to get things done or enjoy myself even more. Then it hit me: this isn't a "day off," this is life. I looked up at the sky, which was very blue that day, with puffy cotton clouds, and remembered what it was like to be three or four or five years old and lie on my back looking at those clouds for minutes or hours pretending the shapes were faces or...

  ¶ 2/21/2000 10:08:45 PM   

 

The Coming Frictionless Economy is Knocking at the Door

WIRED magazine March 2000 has an article titled "The Bot.com Future." In the New Economy, the author depicts the future of retail buying and selling being determined by self controlling "Bots" (short for robots). Already we have primitive examples online as DealPilot and MySimon.com.

Another change coming is the moneyless transaction. Primitive sites of this nature exist as Express Barter and Barter-n-trade and soon to come out MrSwap.com.

If you thought E-Bay was special,... stick around,... 'cause you ain't seen nothin' yet.

  ¶ 2/18/2000 01:17:45 PM   

 

WARNER
BROTHERS
CARTOON COMPANION

THIS series of capsule definitions constitutes an encyclopedia of references to be found in the classic Warner Brothers cartoons.

Subtle, inside jokes are buried in the painted backgrounds of many cartoons. Caricatures of in-house staff are sprinkled into some cartoons. There are even occasions where off-color gags have slipped by the ever-watchful eyes of the censors, to delight discerning viewers.

The Max Fleischer Story

....animator of Popeye, Betty Boop, and more...

Max Fleischer was born in Vienna on July 19, 1883. His parents William and Amalia escaped religious...

  ¶ 2/17/2000 12:26:25 AM   

 

Wow... another DSET deal !

Lucent Technologies to Integrate DSET Number Portability Solution with its New Service Management System for Service Provider Networks says the headline on this one.... wow didn't DSET just anounce a deal with AERIAL like yesterday?

Are you still holding out on buying DSET ? .... well, don't wait much longer.... while you are at it, buy some Lucent while it's still at 53.... you'll thank me down the road. If DSET doesn't triple by this time next year, and LU doesn't at least double in 2 years... I'll buy back your shares!

  ¶ 2/15/2000 11:07:14 PM   

 

XML meets Linux

Information Architects Joins Forces With Red Hat to Deliver XML-based Dynamic Syndication and Aggregation Solutions for Linux .... is what the news alert reads. Man, I should buy some of that Architag stock! .... oh wait !.... I already did... bought it at 10 just a few weeks ago .... ah, ha, ha, ha..... whooeeee, .... I love it when I do that... whew..... (...I slay me...)

  ¶ 2/15/2000 10:56:45 PM   

___________________________________________________________
                          Close    Close  $ Change % Change
Company           Tkr  01/28/00 02/04/00 01/28/00 -02/04/00
-------          -----  -------  -------  -----------------
24/7 Media        TFSM   $63.94   $58.00   ($5.94)   -9.29% 
Amazon.com        AMZN   $61.69   $78.56   $16.87    27.35% 
America Online    AOL    $58.88   $57.81   ($1.07)   -1.82% 
Ameritrade        AMTD   $16.44   $16.75    $0.31     1.89% 
Ask Jeeves        ASKJ  $100.00   $89.00  ($11.00)  -11.00% 

barnes/noble.com  BNBN   $12.88   $11.31   ($1.57)  -12.19% 
Beyond.com        BYND    $6.25    $5.94   ($0.31)   -4.96% 
Broadvision       BVSN  $133.44  $146.25   $12.81     9.60% 
CDnow             CDNW   $12.00   $10.75   ($1.25)  -10.42% 
Cendant           CD     $19.88   $21.31    $1.43     7.19% 

CheckFree         CKFR   $60.13   $66.19    $6.06    10.08% 
CheckPt Software  CHKP  $115.00  $139.25   $24.25    21.09% 
CMGI              CMGI  $105.50  $118.56   $13.06    12.38% 
CNET              CNET   $49.94   $51.00    $1.06     2.12% 
Concentric Net    CNCX   $42.69   $45.50    $2.81     6.58% 

CyberCash         CYCH    $9.19    $9.13   ($0.06)   -0.65% 
Cyberian Outpost  COOL    $9.44    $9.34   ($0.10)   -1.06% 
DoubleClick       DCLK  $100.63   $97.06   ($3.57)   -3.55% 
Drugstore.com     DSCM   $28.88   $29.50    $0.62     2.15% 
E*TRADE           EGRP   $22.63   $21.81   ($0.82)   -3.62% 

Earthlink Net     ELNK   $42.88   $48.69    $5.81    13.55% 
EarthWeb          EWBX   $33.25   $37.00    $3.75    11.28% 
eBay              EBAY  $147.56  $168.06   $20.50    13.89% 
Egghead.com       EGGS   $12.56   $12.88    $0.32     2.55% 
Engage Tech       ENGA  $143.75  $128.88  ($14.87)  -10.34% 

Excite@Home       ATHM   $36.56   $37.31    $0.75     2.05% 
Exodus Comm       EXDS  $119.75  $124.50    $4.75     3.97% 
Freeserve         FREE   $98.63  $146.00   $47.37    48.03% 
go.com            GO     $28.06   $27.81   ($0.25)   -0.89% 
go2net            GNET   $80.50   $82.94    $2.44     3.03% 

Healtheon         HLTH   $70.00   $65.13   ($4.87)   -6.96% 
ICG Comm          ICGX   $25.38   $25.94    $0.56     2.21% 
Infospace.com     INSP  $151.75  $150.13   ($1.62)   -1.07% 
Inktomi           INKT  $102.06  $109.25    $7.19     7.04% 
Intuit            INTU   $57.75   $69.25   $11.50    19.91% 

iVillage          IVIL   $17.50   $21.00    $3.50    20.00% 
Juno Online ServicJWEB   $26.25   $29.81    $3.56    13.56% 
Knight/Trimark    NITE   $32.19   $35.50    $3.31    10.28% 
Lycos             LCOS   $74.88   $71.50   ($3.38)   -4.51% 
MarketWatch.com   MKTW   $38.50   $39.75    $1.25     3.25% 

MCI WorldCom      WCOM   $41.63   $44.31    $2.68     6.44% 
Media Metrix      MMXI   $35.38   $31.50   ($3.88)  -10.97% 
Microsoft         MSFT   $98.25  $106.56    $8.31     8.46% 
Mindspring        MSPG   $26.44   $30.50    $4.06    15.36% 
MP3.com           MPPP   $28.56   $27.75   ($0.81)   -2.84% 

Natl Disc Brok    NDB    $22.13   $23.81    $1.68     7.59% 
NBC Internet      NBCI  $100.17   $72.00  ($28.17)  -28.12% 
Net.B@nk          NTBK   $17.19   $16.81   ($0.38)   -2.21% 
NetSpeak          NSPK   $20.25   $23.69    $3.44    16.99% 
Network Solutions NSOL  $223.00  $262.06   $39.06    17.52% 

NetZero           NZRO   $34.94   $32.75   ($2.19)   -6.27% 
Open Market       OMKT   $55.00   $55.50    $0.50     0.91% 
Peapod            PPOD    $7.38    $9.50    $2.12    28.73% 
Preview Travel    PTVL   $30.00   $31.19    $1.19     3.97% 
Priceline.com     PCLN   $59.63   $60.38    $0.75     1.26% 

PSINet            PSIX   $80.63   $92.63   $12.00    14.88% 
RealNetworks      RNWK  $157.44  $157.88    $0.44     0.28% 
RSA Security      RSAS   $57.00   $57.75    $0.75     1.32% 
Schwab, Charles   SCH    $38.00   $37.94   ($0.06)   -0.16% 
Sec 1st Technolog SONE   $96.13  $107.44   $11.31    11.77% 

Sportsline USA    SPLN   $39.00   $37.94   ($1.06)   -2.72% 
Spyglass          SPYG   $37.25   $43.50    $6.25    16.78% 
theglobe.com      TGLO    $7.94    $7.78   ($0.16)   -2.02% 
TheStreet.com     TSCM   $17.69   $16.00   ($1.69)   -9.55% 
Tktmstr-CitySrch  TMCS   $39.98   $39.00   ($0.98)   -2.45% 

uBid              UBID   $24.56   $25.00    $0.44     1.79% 
USWeb             USWB   $27.44   $32.00    $4.56    16.62% 
Verio             VRIO   $69.00   $61.50   ($7.50)  -10.87% 
VocalTec          VOCL   $29.13   $37.06    $7.93    27.22% 
Yahoo!            YHOO  $313.50  $353.50   $40.00    12.76% 
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                      Close       Close   $ Change % Change
                   01/28/00    02/04/00 01/28/00 - 02/04/00
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Dow Industrial Ave 10738.87    10963.80     224.93    2.09% 
Dow Internet Index   388.13      403.88      15.75    4.06% 
Dow Internet Svc     488.44      511.71      23.27    4.76% 
Dow Internet Comm    252.30      256.86       4.56    1.81% 

Nasdaq              3887.07     4244.14     357.07    9.19% 
Rule Breaker     $743044.40  $799639.40  $56595.00    7.62% 
Rule Maker        $45030.73   $49111.98   $4081.25    9.06% 
S&P 500             1360.16     1424.37      64.21    4.72%
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