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  1. How I Kicked the Habit by The+Cunctator · · Score: 2 · on You Cannot Turn it Off: News Addiction

    Actually, the subject's kind of a lie, but it's also kind of true. I was just talking about this very issue with my friend earlier, who's been getting very depressed about news addiction. We both live in New York City.

    I've made sure that each day I go out into the city, talking with people, learning their stories, taking pictures.

    Then I put them up.

    <p class="Katzian">
    What prevents the downward spiral of information-void-despair is becoming a white hole, sending out information as well. What we nerds/information Morlocks are good at is processing information--if all we're doing is storing, compiling it, it'll drive us crazy. It's crucial to find a way to create something with that knowledge.
    &lt/p>

    What I've been doing with a bunch of other people is to build an open, free site in memoriam of the event and the victims--ostensibly as part of Wikipedia. That way the emphasis is on super-efficient information delivery, and it works just great as a balance on the news gathering addiction.

    Of course, I'm currently having the apposite problem of overcreation, having spent the last 10 hours straight on it, but I'll deal. I'm making sure to get together with my friends, away from computers and hopefully televisions.

    Speaking of which, radios seem to be the equivalent of the nicotine patch. They give me the info-dosage I need without trapping and obsessing me; a soothing buffer of bits instead of a mesmerizing stream.

    So if you want help yourself, and you want to help--because telling the stories of the victims, or creating a definitive repository of knowledge, is so very helpful to everyone else--go to wikipedia and flood their servers with all the knowledge and analysis you've gleaned. Or figure out how to take over the information already used to make an even better site.

    I'm hoping that I'll be able to get my fix from just this one site, so I won't have to ever be searching.

  2. Photos from Brooklyn by The+Cunctator · · Score: 3, Informative · on More Links And Reports On Terrorist Attacks

    Some photos from Brooklyn, of the crowds leaving over the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges, of the smoke billowing out over the Manhattan skyline, occluding the sun.

    Some friends of mine watched the fire spread down the floors from the plane crashes before the towers collapsed.

    http://www.kband.com/photo/

    High-resolution versions of these photographs are available on request.

  3. Photos from Brooklyn by The+Cunctator · · Score: 3, Informative · on More Links And Reports On Terrorist Attacks

    Some photos from Brooklyn, of the crowds leaving over the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges, of the smoke billowing out over the Manhattan skyline, occluding the sun.

    Some friends of mine watched the fire spread down the floors from the plane crashes before the towers collapsed.

    http://www.kband.com/photo/

    High-resolution versions of these photographs are available on request.

  4. Yeah, screw the writers by The+Cunctator · · Score: 5 · on New 'Star Trek' Series Set For Fall
    Nothing like busting unions made up of creative people, artists, etc. Some writers get oodles and oodles of dough, but most don't, and it's pretty lame to say, lookee, a writer's strike, let's let the megacorps trample all over individuals because the rabble won't support its own.

    Civil liberties are dependent on grass-roots-level solidarity (ooh, scary word that); just as militias and insurrections are our defense against the depredations of a corrupt government (see Yugoslavia, the Phillipines, Indonesia, etc.), unionizing, strikes, walk-outs etc. are our defense against the depredations of corrupt corporations.

    I mean, the sides are writers who are ST geeks vs. UPN aka Viacom/Paramount etc.

    Hooray for megacorps. BTW, the Viacom boardroom is sweet, let me tell you.

    --

  5. Seconded: Let's All Mirror by The+Cunctator · · Score: 1 · on Assorted Slashdot Updates

    Exactly. I'd upmoderate you, but my karma blows (see above) and thus can't. I really believe in networked info like the public key servers, CPAN, and other mirrors (e.g. Linux); it's the only way that the little guys can really hope to fight the big guys (corps). Of course, it's not implementable in a lot of cases: hard for there to be independent /. mirrors and such, with current tech; in other cases, copyright makes such mirroring difficult. But the big guys are already getting together to do mirroring for their own crap (see Akamai ); why can't we do it too?

  6. Cisco sure knows how to acquire by The+Cunctator · · Score: 1 · on Cisco agrees to buy Cerent and Monterey Networks

    This is as good a time as any to debut my Corporate Web site at http://www.kband.com/corporate/corporat e.pl.
    I've been recently tracking Cisco , so it's got a very full listing of the 40 acquisitions Cisco has made. The WSJ explicates that the size of the deal is based on the valuation of similar companies that have recently IPO'd, namely Juniper, popularly described as a Cisco-killer. Juniper's at $11 bil.
    If anyone wants to discuss Cisco with me in private, please e-mail me, as I'm working on a book on the company.

  7. Cisco sure knows how to acquire by The+Cunctator · · Score: 1 · on Cisco agrees to buy Cerent and Monterey Networks

    This is as good a time as any to debut my Corporate Web site at http://www.kband.com/corporate/corporat e.pl.
    I've been recently tracking Cisco , so it's got a very full listing of the 40 acquisitions Cisco has made. The WSJ explicates that the size of the deal is based on the valuation of similar companies that have recently IPO'd, namely Juniper, popularly described as a Cisco-killer. Juniper's at $11 bil.
    If anyone wants to discuss Cisco with me in private, please e-mail me, as I'm working on a book on the company.

  8. Cisco sure knows how to acquire by The+Cunctator · · Score: 1 · on Cisco agrees to buy Cerent and Monterey Networks

    This is as good a time as any to debut my Corporate Web site at http://www.kband.com/corporate/corporat e.pl.
    I've been recently tracking Cisco , so it's got a very full listing of the 40 acquisitions Cisco has made. The WSJ explicates that the size of the deal is based on the valuation of similar companies that have recently IPO'd, namely Juniper, popularly described as a Cisco-killer. Juniper's at $11 bil.
    If anyone wants to discuss Cisco with me in private, please e-mail me, as I'm working on a book on the company.

  9. Cisco sure knows how to acquire by The+Cunctator · · Score: 1 · on Cisco agrees to buy Cerent and Monterey Networks

    This is as good a time as any to debut my Corporate Web site at http://www.kband.com/corporate/corporat e.pl.
    I've been recently tracking Cisco , so it's got a very full listing of the 40 acquisitions Cisco has made. The WSJ explicates that the size of the deal is based on the valuation of similar companies that have recently IPO'd, namely Juniper, popularly described as a Cisco-killer. Juniper's at $11 bil.
    If anyone wants to discuss Cisco with me in private, please e-mail me, as I'm working on a book on the company.