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| Saturday |
the Twenty-Fourth of April, 2004 |
I've started archiving bookmarks at del.icio.us,
and I didn't even bother keeping bookmarks before. I really need to get
myself a tame memex, and although this weblog is largely intended to be
one, I haven't got the time to write a paragraph and make facetious
comments about every web page that interests me. The RSS feed may be worked
into a linklog of sorts, if the inertia continues. I hereby surrender.
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Having faced up to the fact that there's probably never going to be a
"reality" television series where the contestants are allowed to self-amend
the game's rules from a democratic Nomic startpoint (like the excellent
Omega
Game, with fewer murders), it looks like Royce's imminent
Survivor
Nomic may be the next best thing. It starts when he gets twelve
players.
Terrifyingly, the site links to the hundreds of online reality games which are already
swarming quietly in the darker corners of the Internet, where groups of people
gather on mailing lists to vote one another other out of made-up barbed-wire suburban apartments and imaginary desert islands.
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| Tuesday |
the Twentieth |
A superb piece of memetic epidemiology
on the recent "page-23/sentence-5" strain, touching on the
"dangerous lack of memetic diversity" within LiveJournal, and
the possibility of intentional immunisation.
[via Boynton]
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| Glimmers of self-awareness within a spam robot's random-filler-quote
function: "If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a
year, you would end by believing it. Kevan, interested in saving on
medications?"
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