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Visible Woman

March 4th, 2004 · 1 Comment

For years I kept her parts collected in my closet. In the broken box I hid her bones, creamy white and hollow. She had organs: intestine and stomach, lungs beneath the ribs, all pink, never painted. I had her heart. I liked her skull with the jawbone that moved, the top that lifted off to […]

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My first iChat

March 1st, 2004 · Comments Off on My first iChat

Yesterday we got to iChat with Enoch , Tania and Natalie. It was fun. It was my first iChat, and also the girls’ first time. I’d seen Ted do a bit here and there for work – peering through his glass office doors I’d spy him conversing with his Powerbook screen – so now I […]

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Disturbing thoughts on social software for children

February 25th, 2004 · Comments Off on Disturbing thoughts on social software for children

The other night I had a hard time going to sleep. Much on my mind. Too many vivid images. One disturbing thought came from Tania’s blog. That night she had posted about a television movie She’s Too Young where 14 year olds gave each other syphilis and chatted on-line away from their parents. I’ve written […]

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How to get a geek boyfriend: one story

February 12th, 2004 · 2 Comments

Anita Rowland and her husband Jack Bell made sure to go see Dave Winer when he was in town earlier this week – after all, as Anita posted, he’s the one who brought them together. Do you have a craving to see Dave Winer in real life? …I’ll be there with my husband Jack Bell. […]

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Why I didn’t become a hacker

February 7th, 2004 · 2 Comments

A few weeks ago, looking at this piece of code linked from a comment on a post in Fred’s blog got me thinking…(excerpt below) function ChristIsImmanentInAllThings(youBet, justInCase){ thatsFunny = (‘coconutsKillMorePeopleThanSharks’ + (youBet)); noMoreThankYou = (‘thankYourMother’ + (youBet)); if( document.getElementById ) { if( document.getElementById(thatsFunny).style.display ) { if( justInCase != 0 ) { document.getElementById(thatsFunny).style.display = “block”; document.getElementById(noMoreThankYou).style.display […]

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