An Activist&#8217;s Life, by Thomas Leavitt

Old Maps of Cyberspace

An Atlas of Cyberspace: Historical Maps of Computer Networks - cool stuff, maps of the Arpanet from the 1970’s, etc.

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July 30th, 2005

Happy Sysadmin Day

Be nice to your sysadmin.
Sysadmin sites I’ve started:

Sysadmin Tribe
SDNADMINJOBS - System, Database and Network Admin Jobs Yahoo Group
Sysadmin Meetup - I suggested they create it, Santa Cruz is Meetup Number One

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July 29th, 2005

Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 20:33:14 -0000
From: “Vince Gay”
Subject: Remembering a Bi Queer-Rights Pioneer
Bisexual activist Brenda Howard, who was a leader of the Gay
Liberation Front and Gay Activists Alliance in the early
post-Stonewall movement, died of cancer on June 28, 2005 in Queens.
A militant activist who helped plan and participated in LGBT rights
actions for more […]

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July 29th, 2005

On the wishlist…

I want a copy of the Associated Student Bodies Yearbook. One of the main characters, Marcus Paxten, is bisexual. :)

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July 28th, 2005

Gladstone aftermath

From the main website http://www.gayhealth.com there is a link “a letter from
Dr Goldstone”. This takes you to here:
http://www.gayhealth.com/templates/1122491217290958012919/network/ask/index.html?record=847
where it says:
“A letter from Dr. Goldstone
Monday, July 25th 2005
To any readers that were offended by my response to the bisexual man, read
on…
Click here to read the answer”
Then, the “click here” takes you to the actual apology/clarification
letter, […]

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July 27th, 2005

Home and Family

A Gnostic Creation Myth

Genesis Unplugged
The Fall of Man as seen from the Gnostic perspective
Once upon a very long time ago, when the very first Mommy and Daddy starred in the
world’s first piece of Reality Programming, an unexpected snafu occurred, the sort that
drives producers and program executives nuts. Mommy, whose name was Eve, began to
act up. She […]

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July 25th, 2005

Knoppix

For over a year now, I’ve been running Knoppix as my primary computer operating system… after my anti-virus program went crazy and ate my Windows XP installation, I just couldn’t face reconstructing it. So I burnt a copy of Knoppix to CD, and off I went. Never looked back - never even bothered installing to […]

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July 24th, 2005

Requiem for a fictional Scotsman

Posted to Dave Farber’s “Interesting People” list. www.interesting-people.org (i think)
i share these sentiments
———————————————————————-
From: David Farber
Subject: Requiem for a fictional Scotsman
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 08:40:48 -0400
Begin forwarded message:
From: “Kevin G. Barkes”
Date: July 24, 2005 7:41:03 AM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: Requiem for a fictional Scotsman
Reply-To: “Kevin G. Barkes”
Other kids worshipped baseball players. My hero […]

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July 24th, 2005

Dr. Stephen E. Goldstone, M.D., F.A.C.S., biophobic expletive deleted

Posted to BIACT-L, babn-chat and SOBOA Yahoo Group.
In case you missed it (BABN/SOBOA folks):
July 21st, 2005, in the “Ask the Docs” column, Dr. Goldstone
writes the following unsolicited advice to a bisexual man:
http://www.gayhealth.com/templates/1122189969735188747755/network/ask/index.html?record=843
“Now I want to address your bisexuality. I know some people believe
that it exists while others believe that bisexuals are gay men not
comfortable with […]

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July 22nd, 2005

Home and Family

The Aquarius partner

[Much of this is just so me. :) -Thomas]
The Aquarius partner, from www.astro.com under the “Astrology For Lovers” section by Liz Greene
Air signs live in the world of ideas, and they’re frightened of strong
emotions. This is truer of Aquarius than any other sign. They’re not the
world’s most romantic or effusive lovers. They are often […]

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July 17th, 2005

Ball Chair

This is a cool looking office chair (cool as in just plain weird)… although I have to admit, I somehow the mental image of walking into a hip San Francisco dot.com built in a former warehouse filled with people sitting on these things just doesn’t seem likely to happen in real life — it […]

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July 17th, 2005

Death of the Planet

Massive and sudden change in Ocean Behavior off Greenland

Greenland Sea Cold Water Re-Cycling Has Nearly Stopped.
Britain Expected to Become Cooler.
Summary:
Greenland Sea Cold Water Re-Cycling Has Nearly Stopped
May 11, 2005 Cambridge, England - Normally in the Atlantic Ocean,
warm water moves from the Equator up to the British Isles, keeping
England and parts of Europe warmer than Labrador which is at the
same northern latitude. The […]

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July 15th, 2005

Random

Understanding bra sizes

O.K., so this has puzzled me for years… but now, thanks to a link provided by The Register, to a bra size measuring page on the Victoria’s Secret web site, I understand.
Also, the size chart below gives you the low down on all the “standard” sizes, so you know how each of them relates to […]

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July 14th, 2005

Green Party

In Memorian, Walt Sheasby, 1941-2004

Walt Sheasby, although I basically only knew him through his postings to various and sundry lists, journals, etc., was someone whose thoughtfulness and dedication I truly admired. I just discovered this memorial blog post containing links to recent articles and postings by Walt, and wanted to honor his memory and acknowledge his many contributions to […]

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