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Official Aaron Mathews Website

posted by Ash at 2002-05-02 19:23 (permalink)

Bruce Sterling's CFP 2002 Speech

posted by AaronSw at 2002-05-02 18:22 (permalink)

AaronSw: "This culture war, where crazed monolith behemoths struggle to cut off each other's market oxygen! You innocently stick some legitimately purchased music CD into your Macintosh, and the evil thing blows up your RAM BIOS! It's a suicide-bomber CD, disguised as Celine Dion! There's this anguished invisible scream from the whirring guts of your Ono-Sendai Cyberspace Seven, as the Black Ice takes hold of your system! Oh my God! It's a hellish security nightma
AaronSw: 'I can remember, back in the old days, when the cops and prosecuting lawyers at CFP used to warn us about the "Four Horsement of the Infocalypse." [...] Well, here it is, 2002, and Al Qaeda is using Yahoo and hotmail. They're terrorists. They're mafia. They grow poppies and sell heroin. They're Drug Dealer Mafia Terrorists. Obviously there's been a certain amount of industry consolidation here.'

Domopers

posted by Ash at 2002-05-02 17:47 (permalink)

AaronSw: for wmf

How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Decepticons

posted by sbp at 2002-05-02 00:06 (permalink)

sbp: The minty fresh Apache authoritae Kevin Hemenway (aka. Morbus Iff) guides you through the decepticon saga's parallel to the modern OS situation
sbp: Taking seven months from writing to publication, Morbus had to lobby congress and hold five public rallies in order to get this article through the gates. He want through approximately seventy three litres of coffee whilst trying to get it published. He hopes you like it

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