George W. Bush has won the American election. While I’m not entirely certain of how, or why, this is important to me, it seems bad. Ralph Nader got a miniscule amount of the vote, but expect liberals (the ideology, not the party) to continue to use him as a scapegoat. Good night.
Year: 2000
aov 2.0 (or maybe just aov 1.004b)
new features on acts of volition:
- aov archive – weekly archives of all the brilliant posts every made on aov.
note to websters:
this also means you can now link to indivudual aov posts. just find the post on the archive page and copy the link. for example, the address of this post is: https://www.actsofvolition.com/index.cfm?week=11/5/00#113 - new bio pages – check out our ugly mugs, email us, and see aov posts by the aov author you detest the least
look for full keyword searching in the next update.
thanks for mastah programmah nick for all the help.
Napster post 2 of 2: too early for judgement.
While not having anything to base an opinion on is seldom an impedement to forming an opinion….
On second thought, I’ll not finish this post. It was just a bunch more words anyway. Essentially, the gist of my post was to be that the future of Napster is so fuzzy that commentary is useless. So no commentary.
Internet content. stop laughing.
Learn to read.
Nearly 100 Ways to Approach Infinity.
Two Stories my Parents Begged me to Tell Our Guests Towards the Beginning of my 25th Birthday Party But Insisted I Had Completely Invented.
These are both stories from McSweeneys whom I will continue pimping until they are popular, at which point I will no longer think they are cool. Also read the following which appears in Salon but is written by writers who have been featured on McSweeneys.
strange things are afoot at the CBC?
While listening to RadioEscapade on the CBC I heard mention of a few new CBC websites. I was surprised and pleased to find that the CBC has produced three very cool and surprisingly relevant music and arts based websites. Unfortunately they have mistaken cutting-edge technology (Flash in this case) for just-plain-cutting edge as the sites are heavy and require a fast connection. That said, I have a fast connection and some patience when it comes to finding good Canadian music.
- NewMusicCanada.com
- dedicated to showcasing Canadian bands. a nice ‘if you like [popular international group] then you’ll like [canadian group] feature’ that helps narrow down a list of bands you may not have heard of before. the quality is good but the quantity is lacking. I hope to see more bands up here soon.
- JustConcerts.com
- audio and video of live concerts and live CBC studio sessions. again, not much in terms of quantity, but starting with The Flashing Lights and Starling is pretty impressive.
- 120seconds.com
- the self-proclaimed “home of Bite-sized Entertainment”. animation, video, games, etc. a bit of style over substance but worth a visit.
Some unsolicited advice for the CBC:
- don’t go overboard with the technology. these sites are cool but be weary of style-over-substance. The Flashing Lights live in session is cool enough on it’s own. Just make it easy to get to.
- upgrade your servers. streaming audio and video is only as good as the servers and bandwidth available. many of the video and audio clips I viewed on the three sites were choppy and dropped often while I can enjoy streaming media in surprisingly good quality from sites like Cnet.com and Launch.com
- promote these sites. despite the problems I mention here they are good websites and deserve an audience.
a picture is worth a thousand (key)words
another peek into the bowels of the world wide web: people have been finding our website by entering the following words into search engines:
- icq java
- bush cheney bumper sticker
- truth in advertising
- pictures genital rash (We are #8 on Yahoo.com for this one thanks to you Kirby)
- pinacle
- pictures of the human foot
Enjoy some previous keywords.
“when I grow up I want to vote for the lesser of two evils”
Apparently encouraged by the dismissal of the MasterCard case over his spoof ad, Ralph Nader and his marketing types have outdone themselves spoofing an ad that was great in the first place.
Enjoy the product of their genius »
(requires either quicktime or realplayer)
Speaking of campaign ads, watch and be disgusted. Is this guy for real?
this is the stuff of nightmares
be the freaky radiohead bear-type creature while you play Quake 3. absolutely frightening.
Thanks to Dennis for the link.
that’s my brother!
My brother Tim is working for CUSU in Paupa New Guinea (can’t believe there is a .com). His emails tell of active volcanos and fresh fruit growing in his back yard.
He’s a lot more personable from the other side of the world.
re: milleniyumyum
re: milleniyumyum
matt has clearly missed the point of my “milleniyumyum” post.
allow me to explain: I was cleverly disguising my inability to spell the word millennium correctly (thanks Word) by poking fun at the many unfortunate misspellings we have endured during this millennial transition (thanks again Word). Also, it was inevitably influenced by an advertisement I had seen somewhere this year that used the term ‘millenni-yum-yum’.
however, as a someone who respects the principles of our pseudo-democracy (is there a word people like that?), I will submit to the winning punishment as voted by you, the people.