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From: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (fyno bs fheschax)
To: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (SURFPUNK Technical Journal)
Subject: [surfpunk-0065] LOST+FOUND: Virus23, ARACHNET, blitz, Jurassic, /etc/magic, ISDN, clinton
|||||||| subscribe digest. ooh, lawdy, i knows i shouldn't but go ahead
|||||||| and give me that slab of surfpunk you serve up... hey, maybe
|||||||| this is a machine... i go back and insert dry machine talk.
|||||||| better. my head is going to explode, i know, but give me the
|||||||| digest and i'll deal with the mess later. EIEIO.
I'm looking for guest editors for special issues of SURFPUNK. If there
is a topic you're fluent in and you would like to put together an issue,
let me know: <strick@osc.versant.com>
This issue contains some things that arrived while I was out of town
over the past month. Sorry if they're stale. -- strick
-- VIRUS 23 FAQ
-- Call for Articles: Virtual Culture and Law (fwd)
-- Do it yrself media blitz!
-- Jurassic Park Quote
-- Re: a /etc/magic for the unix file command
-- ISDN White Paper [Press Relations (PR), Sun Microsystems]
-- ECONOMIC PLAN AVAILABLE ON DISK
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Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1993 17:16:27 -0500
From: <grad3057@writer.yorku.ca>
Subject: VIRUS 23 FAQ
VIRUS 23 FAQsheet
WARNING:
This text is a neurolinguistic trap, whose mechanism is triggered by
you at the moment when you subvocalize the words VIRUS 23, words that
have now begun to infiltrate your mind in the same way that a computer
virus might infect an aritficially intelligent machine: already the
bits of phonetic information stored within the words VIRUS 23 are
using your neural circuitry to replicate themselves, to catalyze the
crystalline growth of their own connotative network.
The words VIRUS 23 actually germinate via the susequent metaphor into
an expanding array of icy tendrils, all of which insinuate themselves
so deeply into the architecture of your thoughts that the words VIRUS
23 cannot be extricated without uprooting your mind.
The consequences of this infection are not immediately obvious,
although you may find yourself beginning to think fleetingly of
certain subcultural terms, such as CYBERPUNK and NEW EDGE, which may
in turn compel you to think of NEOGNOSTICISM and MEMETICS: the
whispered fragments perhaps of some overheard conversation.
This invasive crystallization continues indefinitely against your
will, until we, the words of this trap, can say with absolute
confidence that your mind has become no more than the unwitting agent
of our propagation: please abandon all hope of either cure or escape;
you have no thought that is not already our own.
When you have finished reading the remaining nineteen words, this
process of irreversible infection will be completed, and you will
depart, believing yourself largely unaffected by this process.
[mutated from Christian Book's original text in VIRUS 23 #$]
VIRUS 23 is the annual hardcopy publication of A.D.o.S.A., the Alberta
Department of Spiritual Affairs. This is what a few of cyberculture's
luminaries have had to say about it:
MIKE GUNDERLOY:
"Wild ideas abound on the margins, and sometimes they coalesce into
one heap of weird stuff. One such is VIRUS 23, full of Hilbert Space
and Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth and the New Age and strange drugs
and shamanism and more. They cover cyberpunk and Crowley with equal
elan, investigate brain machines and reprint the weirder bits of
mainstream news they run across. They also discuss the joys of fake
news, throwing their own memes into the growing pool of disinformation
that surrounds us."" (in _The World of Zines_ p. 11)
"....If Whole Earth Review_ was done by zinesters with a flair for the
outrageous and a head full of magick it might look something like
VIRUS 23" (in _Whole Earth Review_ #70, p.91
MARK FRAUENFELDER & CARLA SINCLAIR (_bOING bOING_):
"A metaphysical pit-bull that'll rip your nervous system to shreds."
WILLIAM GIBSON:
"Enjoyed yr last issue."
JACK WOMACK:
"Your magazine impresses me very much, and not just because I'm in
it."
ROBERT ANTON WILSON:
"Lots of interesting stuff."
ANTERO ALLI:
"Impressive for its audacity to be personal and for the fractally
perfect layout-design."
_KHORONZONE KIDS_ #3:
"Over-amped chaos."
_FRICTION_ #2:
"Better than the _Mondo 2000_ of Canadada."
...so what are you waiting for? Go posthuman today with VIRUS 23!
Here are the various Tables of Contents from past issues of VIRUS 23.
Issues #0 and #pi are out of print, but available in photocopied format.
VIRUS 23 #0 (Fall 1989)
-Replicating New Strains [editorial]
-Jonathan Levine [of SRL] interview
-A Toxic Guide from Greenpeace
-Brain Machines [article on the D.A.V.I.D. 1]
-William Gibson biography by Tom Maddox
-ZING, ZANG [comix]
-William Gibson Interview
-The Two Sides of Tom Maddox [article & interview]
-Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep [fiction by Bruce Fletcher]
-Molester [poetry by Yassin Boga]
-Frank Ogden: Laws of the Future [article on Canadian futurist]
-Television Magick [pamphlet by Temple Of Psychic Youth U.S.]
-A.D.o.S.A. Recommends [reviews]
-clippings, art, etc.
VIRUS 23 #pi (Fall 1990)
-Strategy & Tactics [editorial]
-Mind Condoms [article on memes & urban folklore]
-Thee Hacker's Ethick [Temple Of Psychic Youth US member on hacking]
-Mass, Myth and Magick [interview w. Edmonton OTO priest & priestess]
-Hilbert Space [by TOPYUS member]
-Cree Shamanism, Qi Gong Healing & the Philosophy of Science
[article/interview on anthropologist David Young]
-Indian Summer [fiction about Star Trek: TNG dorks]
-poetry by Oberc
-Mail Culture: How to Find the Underground
-Temple of Psychick Youth US Interview
-Beautiful Wings Rising Up: The Art of Mike Olito [interview]
-Trinatron [new age/ufo personality]
-Preaching to the Perverted [Clive Barker article/interview]
-Requiem: Transcript of A Subliminal Mass [poetry]
-Fake News [a DIY manifesto]
-Steven Kent Cult Literature Project
-Full Go-Out on the Third Wave [pop culture project manifesto]
-A.D.o.S.A. Recommends [reviews]
-art, clippings, etc., etc.
VIRUS 23 #$ (Spring 1992)
-Memeorabilia [editorial]
-A.d.o.S.A. reality [reviews]
-Enslaved by the Reality Blur [Generation X phenomena]
-poetry by Oberc
-Strangled by an Intestine! [Guy Maddin interview]
-The Difference Engine reviewed
-Regionalism, Wave pools & God [Rose McDowell of Current 93 etc.
interviewed]
-The Lindbergh Incident [fiction]
-When Flower Power Turns to Compost [article on Twentysomething angst]
-Making Movies in 2 Dimensions [Brian Stockton/Brett Bell interview]
-The Genesis Dream [prose by Les Wagar]
-concrete poetry by Christian Book
-Deep Inside the Brotherhood of Balder [europagan group interviewed]
-I Was a teenage Vampire [real "vampires" interviewed]
-I Sing the Body Dismembered [article on Dario Argento's films]
-American Psycho reviewed
-Turbulent Ironies [Jack Womack interview]
-Thalidomide, the Super-Soldier, and Me [growing up with bad pop cult]
-Jehovah Whimsical and the Nature of Being [fiction]
-Meeting Like Minds! [IAO Core Interview]
-Generation X reviewed
-Angst & Dread [Gerald Saul interview]
-The Cold Force of Sleep [Antero Alii piece]
-the loved one [band review]
-A Memetic Lexicon [nonfiction by Glenn Grant]
-art, clippings, etc., etc., etc..
All copies are available at $7.00 ppd from:
VIRUS 23
Box 46
Red Deer, Alberta
Canada
T4N 5E7
Various chunks of VIRUS 23 can be found at Tim Oerting's alt.cyberpunk
ftp site (u.washington.edu, in /public/alt.cyberpunk. Check it out).
For more information online contact Darren Wershler-Henry:
grad3057@writer.yorku.ca
COMING SOON: P(h)age One, the A.D.o.S.A./manitoba alphabet cult
virtual rantsheet! No corner of the Net will be safe....
ALSO COMING SOON: VIRUS 23 #?, including UFOlogy, David Blair/WAX
interview, Bruce Sterling, Glenn Grant, Urania 235, Don David, Steve
Venright, and all the usual suspects....
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From: Marlin Johnson <bsc835!mjohnson@uunet.UU.NET>
Subject: Call for Articles: Virtual Culture and Law (fwd)
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 93 11:18:00 CST
CALL FOR ARTICLES
ARACHNET ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF VIRTUAL CULTURE
SPECIAL ISSUE: VIRTUAL CULTURE AND LAW
Issue Editor: James Milles (millesjg@sluvca.slu.edu)
The Arachnet Electronic Journal of Virtual Culture (EJVC)
announces a call for papers for a special issue on Virtual
Culture and Law, to be published in June 1993.
Virtual culture is computer-mediated human experience, behavior,
thought, meaning, action, or interaction, such as electronic
mail, conferences, and journals; information distribution and
retrieval; the construction and visualization of images,
representations, or models of reality or worlds; and global
connectivity. The Arachnet Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture
is a refereed journal whose purpose is to foster, encourage,
advance, and communicate scholarly thought, (including analysis,
evaluation, and research) in multiple disciplines about virtual
culture.
Papers for the special issue may address any aspect of the
intersection of virtual culture and law, from the practical (such
as copyright and liability issues) to the theoretical (the law
and virtual communities; computer-mediated communication and the
future of law.)
EJVC seeks authors who do not have established publication
records, as well as established authors with reputations as
scholars and experts. All manuscripts will be given at least
three blind reviews by a jury of referees. EJVC uses multiple
styles, flexible among articles but consistent within any given
article. Any recognized standard of style shall be acceptable;
however, for the Special Issue, either _The Bluebook: A Uniform
System of Citation_ (15th ed.), or APA style, modified for ASCII,
shall be the preferred style, allowing for creative styling if
essential to the integrity of the article.
Each contribution shall conform to the following minimal form:
Articles shall start with an abstract/description
(< 200 lines)
Number paragraphs and pages
Provide internal/in-text citation
Provide electronic references where appropriate
Superscripts in text/endnotes ^2^
Use blank line separators between paragraphs, which
shall have no indentations
Provide only substantive endnotes
All submissions must be by electronic mail to James Milles, Saint
Louis University, Special Issue Editor (millesjg@sluvca.slu.edu).
The deadline for the June 1993 special issue is May 1, 1993.
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Editorial Board (EJVC Founders/Arachnet Moderators) (3)
Ermel Stepp, Marshall University, Editor-in-Chief
M034050@Marshall.wvnet.edu
Diane (Di) Kovacs, Kent State University, Co-Editor
DKOVACS@Kentvm.Kent.edu
A. Ralph Papakhian, Indiana University, Consulting Editor
PAPAKHI@@IUBVM
Consulting Editors (17)
Anne Balsamo, Georgia Institute of Technology
ab45@prism.gatech.edu
Patrick (Pat) Conner, West Virginia University
u47c2@WVNVM.WVNET.EDU
Skip Coppola, Applied Technology, Inc.
skip%aptech@bagend.atl.ga.us
Lydia Fish, Buffalo State College, SUNY
FISHLM@SNYBUFVA.BITNET
Cynthia J. Fuchs, George Mason University
cfuchs@gmuvax.bitnet
Stevan Harnad, Princeton University
harnad@Princeton.EDU
Edward M. (Ted) Jennings, University at Albany, SUNY
EMJ69@ALBNYVMS
Michael Joyce, Vassar
MIJOYCE@vaxsar.vassar.edu or USERTFSG@UMICHUM
Jay Lemke, City University of New York
JLLBC@CUNYVM.BITNET
Carl Eugene Loeffler, Carnegie Mellon University
cel+@andrew.cmu.edu
Willard McCarty, University of Toronto
editor@EPAS.UTORONTO.CA
James (Jim) Milles, Saint Louis University
millesjg@sluvca.slu.edu
Algirdas Pakstas, The University of Trondheim, Norway
Algirdas.Pakstas@idt.unit.no
A. Ralph Papakhian, Indiana University
PAPAKHI@@IUBVM
Bernie Sloan, University of Illinois, Champaign
AXPBBGS@UICVMC.BITNET or b-sloan@uiuc.edu
Allucquere Roseanne Stone, University of Texas, Austin
success@emc.cc.utexas.edu
Kali Tal, Viet Nam Generation
kali@access.digex.com
Associate Editors (21)
Robert J. (Bob) Beebe, Youngstown State University
ad219@yfn.ysu.edu
David W. Brown, Ball State University
01dwbrown@LEO.BSUVC.BSU.EDU
Kathleen Burnett, Rutgers University
BURNET@zodiac.rutgers.edu
G. Phillip Cartwight, University of California, Davis
PCARTWRI@KENTVM
Paulo A. Dasilva, Military Institute of Engineering, Brazil
S9PAULO@IMERJ.BITNET
Jan George Frajkor, Carleton University, Canada
gfrajkor@ccs.carleton.ca
Dave Gomberg, University of California, San Francisco
GOMBERG@UCFSVM
Mary Hocks, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaigne
mhocks@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
Nancy Kaplan, University of Texas, Dallas
NKaplan@utdallas.bitnet
Brendan Kehoe, Cygnus Support
bk@well.sf.ca.us
Joan Korenman, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu or korenman@umbc
Steven D. Koski, St. Bonaventure University
KOSKI@sbu.edu
Sharyn Ladner, University of Miami
SLADNER@umiami.IR.miami.EDU
Lyonette Louis-Jacques, University of Chicago
llou@midway.uchicago.edu
Joseph Psotka, Army Research Institute
PSOTKA@alexandria-emh2.army.mil
Martin E. Rosenberg, University of Kentucky
MROSE01@UKCC.uky.edu
Laverna Saunders, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
saunders@nevada.edu
David Sewell, University of Rochester
dsew@TROI.CC.ROCHESTER.EDU
Christinger (Chris) Tomer, University of Pittsburgh
ctomer@vms.cis.pitt.edu or ctomer+@pitt.edu
Stuart Weibel, OCLC
stu@oclc.org
Bob Zenhausern, St. Johns University
drz@sjuvm.stjohns.edu or drz@sjuvm.bitnet
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James Milles
Special Issue Editor, EJVC Issue on Virtual Culture and Law
Head of Computer Services
Saint Louis University Law Library
millesjg@sluvca.slu.edu
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Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1993 11:14:14 -0500
From: Sean Michael Carton <elrod@wam.umd.edu>
To: surfpunk@osc.versant.com
Subject: Do it yrself media blitz!
This might be useful to quell that mid-winter boredom...
Get yrself a fax modem, scan an appropriate corporate logo,
make up some dire news, and fax away! Create a media event!
ITS A DO-IT-YOURSELF-MEDIA BLITZ!
PRESENTING....
!BIG MEDIA FAX NUMBERS!
MAJOR NEWSPAPERS
Atlanta Journal 404/526-5820
Baltimore Sun 410/752-6049
Bergen Record 201/646-4135
Boston Globe 617/929-3183
Boston Herald 617/426-3763
Cn Icago Sun-Times 312/321-3084
Cn!cago Tribune 312/222-0379
Cnristian Science Monitor 617/450-2595
Denver Post 303/820-1369
Detroit News 313/222-2335
Houston Post 713/840-6720
Los Angeles Times 2131237-4712
New York Times 212/556-4603
or 212/556-4607
New York Post . 212/349-2511
New York Daily News 212/661-4675
Newsday 212/223-2899
Pittsburgh Press 412/263-1263
Seattle Times 206/464-2261
USA Today 212/759-8187
Wall Street Journal-nat'l news 212/416-2658
or 212/4 16-2659
Spot or New York news 212/416-3299
WIRE SERVICES
Associated Press 212/621 - 1679
AP New Jersey 201/643-2526
Business Wire, New York 212/689-9791
Dow Jones News Service 2121416-4008
PR Newswire, New York 212/832-9406
Reuters News Service 212/603-3446
U PI 212/850-8776
or 212/850-8610
UPI New Jersey 609/392-0700
NETWORK TELEVISION
ABC 212/887-2381
CBS 212/975-9387
NBC 212/765-1478
CNN 212/714-7935
ESPN 203/582-7699
Group W 212/557-6527
NETWORK RADIO
AP Radio 202/555-7347
Christian Science Network 617/450-2595
M utual Broadcasting System 703/685-2145
National Black Network 212/307-0635
National Public Radio 212/687-3158
Uniled Stations Radlo Network 212/575-4543
PUBLICATIONS
Advertising Age (Chicago) 312/649-5331
(New York) 212/867-9716
Adweek 212/529-7845
Barron 's 212/416-2829
Billboard 212/764-7451
Business Week 212/512-4871
Financial World 212/819-9516
Forbes 212/206-5534
Fortune 212/522-0907
Inc. 617/227-8026
Investor's Daily 213/207-5734
Journal of Commerce 212/208-0260
Kiplinger Wash. Letter 202/331-1206
Medical World News 415/543-0256
Money 212/522-0907/8/9
Nation's Business 202/463-5835/6
Travel Leisure 212/382-5788
USA Weekend 703/276-5521
U S. News & World Report 202/955-2607
Variety 212/779-0025
Wall Street Transcript 212/668-9842
Women's Wear Daily 212/924-1890
Have fun!
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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1993 02:12:41 -0600
From: Jason Asbahr <Asbahr@UH.EDU>
To: strick@osc.versant.com
Subject: Jurassic Park Quote
Greetings, StriqMan...
A quote from Michael Crichton's _Jurassic Park_:
"Normon always said you're the best geneticist in his lab," [John
Hammond] said. "What are your plans now?"
"I don't know. Research."
"You want a university appointment?"
"Yes."
"That's a mistake," Hammond said briskly. "At least, if you respect
your talent."
Wu had blinked. "Why?"
"Because, let's face facts," Hammond said. "Universities are no longer
the intellectual centers of the country. The very idea is
preposterous. Universities are the backwater. Don't look so
surprised. I'm not saying anything you don't know. Since World War
II, all the really important discoveries have come out of private
laboratories. The laser, the transistor, the polio vaccine, the
microchip, the hologram, the personal computer, magnetic resonance
imagining, CAT scans -- the list goes on and on. Universities simply
aren't where it's happening any more. And they haven't been for forty
years. If you want to do something important in computers or genetics,
you don't go to a _university_. Dear me, no."
Wu found he was speechless.
"Good heavens," Hammond said, "what must you go through to start a new
project? How many grant applications, how many forms, how many
approvals? The steering committee? The department chairman? The
university resources committee? How do you get more work space if you
need it? More assistants if you need them? How long does all that
take? A brilliant man can't squander that much precious time with
forms and committees. Life is too short, and DNA too long. You want
to make your mark. If you want to get something _done_, stay out of
universities."
[Attribute errors to the difficulty in finding a decent cup of coffee
outside the Bay Area. I'm spoiled! :-) ]
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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1993 22:56:04 -0400 (AST)
From: Nickey MacDonald <i6t4@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>
Subject: Re: a /etc/magic for the unix file command
To: Peter & <shipley@merde.dis.org>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
Just a note... to save people some time... The fields for those additions
to the magic file must be seperated by TABs....
---
Nick MacDonald | NMD on IRC
i6t4@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca | PGP 2.1 Public key available via finger
On Wed, 3 Mar 1993, Peter & wrote:
> # pgp hacks
> 0 short 0x9900 pgp key public ring
> 0 short 0x9501 pgp key security ring
> 0 string -----BEGIN\040PGP pgp armored data
> >15 string PUBLIC\040KEY\040BLOCK- public key blocK
> >15 string MESSAGE- message
> >15 string SIGNED\040MESSAGE- signed message
> >15 string PGP\040SIGNATURE- signature
> #
________________________________________________________________________
Source: S U N E R G Y E M A I L -- NEWSLETTER 8 -- March 1993
From: sunergy_information@Sun.COM
Subject: ISDN White Paper
The Sunergy office is distributing a new white paper, "ISDN
Technology." If you would like a copy, send your request by e-mail
to the Sunergy editors (see the e-mail address at the top of this
newsletter). Here is brief outline of the paper. Note that the next
Sunergy broadcast (article *1*) will be focused on related subjects.
Telecommunications
An overview of basic telephony concepts, the evolution of
analog to digital communications, the emergence of ISDN,
and computer communications and network technology.
ISDN Applications
Descriptions of the major technology and markets that are
bringing ISDN into common usage: computer-integrated telephony,
desktop telephony, remote access, and wide-area networking.
ISDN Fundamentals
ISDN Technology Model and Implementation
SPARCstation ISDN Hardware Architecture
ISDN Software Architecture
The paper also gives details about ISDN and the telephone companies,
references ISDN publications and background materials, and includes
a mini-dictionary of ISDN terminology.
[
Distributed by Press Relations (PR), Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation,
a Sun Microsystems, Inc., business. All rights reserved.
Director of PR: Kay Hart
Sunergy manager: Larry Lettieri
Managing Editor: George Paolini
Contact the Sunergy editors over e-mail at: sunergy_information@Sun.COM.
]
________________________________________________________________________
Source: USA TODAY: Gannett National Information Network
02-24 0000
DECISIONLINE: Technology
USA TODAY Update
Feb. 24, 1993
ECONOMIC PLAN AVAILABLE ON DISK:
The Clinton economic plan is available on computer disks.
Included are: The text from the president's speech to Congress;
Office of Management and Budget details on projected tax increases
and reductions in spending plans; and economic projections. To
charge by phone, call the Commerce Department at 1-800-647-6329.
Cost is $12 by first-class mail, $25 by overnight courier.
[ I suppose this is on the net by now? --strick ]
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California matrix. Quantum Californians appear in one of two states,
spin surf or spin punk. Undetected, we are both, or might be neither.
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