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Irony Alert: Unabomber’s Stuff to Be Auctioned Off Online [The Crazies]

A San Francisco court ruled that the writings and possessions of Theodore Kaczynski, the famed Unabomber and enemy of internets everywhere, will be sold online to pay restitution to his victims’ families. Ah, the irony.

Kaczynski had appealed from jail that sale of his writings constitutes a violation of his freedom of expression, and while denying the appeal, a San Francisco Circuit Court also allowed that the University of Michigan receive copies of his work, in accordance with the crazy scary man’s wishes. Let’s hope that the method of sale really sticks in the craw of the anti-technology crusader, whose bombs killed 3 and wounded 23 over a period of 18 years. Hell, I’m even writing about the sale of his stuff on the internet, on the internet, from a source I found on the internet. It’s a meta-feast of technology up in here. [San Francisco Chronicle]

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If a movie only exists on film but no one is around to distribute it, does it still exist?

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I had some dealings with NEW YORKER when I booked films at the Tulane campus. Great stuff, and nice people.”

New Yorker Films, the only US distributor of many of the films of Jean-Luc Godard, Ousmane Sèmbene, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and many others closed operations yesterday. Many of the films they distributed remain unavailable on DVD, and thus completely unavailable to Americans for the foreseeable future. Coming on the heels of the eviction of Film-Maker’s Co-Op, New York’s venerable distributor and archive of avant-garde film, New Yorker’s closing raises questions not only about the symbiotic importance of repertory film exhibition for film preservation efforts, but about the future of film culture and the possible role of the arts in the future economy.

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Seeing Michael Douglas on a theater marquee is like seeing Chef Boyardee on a can: You know the contents will be cheesy and geared toward an eighth-grade palate.

Ouch. Tough, but fair.

Aside from being a great list of films that each & every one should own & cherish…this Matthew Baldwin article is full of great, fun writing.

I just ordered 2001 – A Space Odyssey [Blu-ray], so thanks for getting me even more pumped Matthew!

[thanks to kottke for the link ]

In fact, his only real genius may have been his ability to understand that if the right people want to think that you are a genius, they will give you the benefit of the doubt when deciding on which side of that line you fall. It is therefore far better to be weird and thought, at worst, to be “too smart for the room,” than to play it straight and be revealed as a “one hit wonder” or even a total fraud.

John Ziegler’s take

on the

death of David Foster Wallace

What an ass.

I don’t live in California anymore. I wised I did for 1 day so I could vote against this travesty.

(As always) Lawrence Lessig sums it up well: