What no e-diamonds?

20 Aug 2002

Great article on how we’ve all been dupped it think diamonds are worth the price we pay.

New Digs?

17 Aug 2002

Laura and I might be moving at the end of Sept. Laura’s cousin has an aunt (on the side of the family not related to Laura) that owns 40 acres in Ivy with two small houses on it. One of these house is about 100 years old (we think), and the tenant is moving out. Here is a picture of the house:

The bad thing is we have to break the lease on our current apartment with a two month rent penalty charge. The good thing is our rent will be going down and we can actually start saving some money. Oh, yeah, that and this place has much more class.

Mock Cyberwar

14 Aug 2002

(how many times can I use “cyber” tonight?) The Register has a story on a Cyberwar performance art piece put on by with our tax money (US Military is becoming the new NEA?). The story is notable for this quote:

Human beings simply aren’t as fragile and narcotically-dependent on state authority as the government desperately desires them to be.

As they say on AOL: LOL!

dbs@philodox.com or "I thought *I* read a lot"

14 Aug 2002

Yesterday I subscribed to Bob Hettinga’s Digital Bearer Settlements list. Today I have 120+ emails from that list all from Bob, almost all articles from papers. I think Bob might have taken a speed reading course. He uses the list like I use a blog, but instead of links he posts the interesting content in full.

It makes for some interesting reading, but unfortunately not much about real, working DBS systems out there. Perhaps because there are none.

On another sad note: Bob’s baby, the Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation, which he founded in 1999 to underwrite DBSettlements isn’t in good shape:

[…] Hope all the winch grinding will keep me from fretting about how to dig IBUC out of a very big, and imminent, hole. Sigh… […]

Yuck.

A collection of articles by Bob The Geodesic Economy (300k PDF file) is soon to be required reading for carring on a cohereant conversationt with me (no really, go read an article a day, this is really good stuff).

#cypherpunk

Am I Cyberpunk or NOT

14 Aug 2002

Oh, Lord….

I probably saw this somewhere months ago but my concious mind denied it could exist: Am I A Cyberpunk or NOT.

Unfortunatly there’s only four pictures. :(