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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 93 18:07:06 PST
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Reply-To: <surfpunk@osc.versant.com>
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From: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (/\/\3d|u/\/\ |z +|-|/-\ /\/\3$$/-\g3)
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To: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (SURFPUNK Technical Journal)
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Subject: [surfpunk-0057] POEM: Bonks. Fleeps. Doodledrons. ; mailart
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| {\bf Virtual Sex and other misconceptions.} When
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| discussing possible application areas, the popular
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| press never fails to ask about pornography. While
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| this probaby says more about the press' fascination
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| with sex than about VR's potential, many new
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| technologies, including the VCR, {\it do} often
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| survive early stages via niche pornography markets.
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| In a broader sense, the press has done the same
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| disservice to VR that it did to artificial
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| intelligence. The researchers with the wildest claims
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| get the air time, and the rest of us are left to deal
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| with the unrealistic expectations. In fact, many
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| researcher are already shunning the term VR and using
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| labels such as "virtual environments" for their work.
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| The popular Steven King film {\it Lawnmower Man} and
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| Timothy Leary's rantings about "electonic LSD" have
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| fueled a misconception that VR in some way involves
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| drugs, or produces a drug-like experience, which is
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| patently false. The press has also talked at length
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| about bypassing the current I/O technology and
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| establishing direct neural connections, as described
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| in the 1984 William Gibson novel, {\it Neuromancer,}
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| which popularized the term {\it cyberspace.}
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| Randy Pausch, University of Virginia,
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| in "Hot Topics: Three Views of Virtual Reality",
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| IEEE Computer, Feb 1993, p80.
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I think the following is the first copylefted poem I've seen.
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(Jason's a nExtDude who wants so build some VR.)
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Actually there's haiku (by Bill Joy?) in the sources to "expreserve".
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Unfortunately I don't grep them at ftp.uu.net -- "vi" must not be free.
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I think I've freed the haiku before, but can't find it now.
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--strick
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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1993 01:12:41 -0600
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From: Jason Asbahr <Asbahr@UH.EDU>
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To: strick@osc.versant.com
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Subject: A Poem
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Greetings, Striq! :)
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Thanks much for the TAZ info! I am studying it and will reply when
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I can be articulate... Already, it seems like Truth on tap...
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Bonks. Fleeps. Doodledrons.
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Things unspeakable speak to me
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In the dark,
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alone and unafraid,
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I greet them.
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Leather Goddesses upon high!
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They leap down, their whips
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flailing about in sudden wind
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and Land upon glittering crystal
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shelves, which aren't really, and
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hang there suspended in plexiglass
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disregard of the accepted laws of physics.
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Fuck You! they screech, gesturing
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at passing Physicists (floating by),
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whose confused faces are covered and revealed,
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covered and revealed, by their flapping white coats...
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Small pieces of paper flutter in the breeze,
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holding secrets, secret diagrams, explaining
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the true mechanics of the universe,
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but MECHanics charge too much,
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and who really trusts them anyway?
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Copyleft 1991 Jason Asbahr
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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 93 15:04 GMT
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From: Don Webb <0004200716@mcimail.com>
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To: Fringeware <fringeware@wixer.cactus.org>
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To: surfpunk <surfpunk@osc.osc.com>
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To: ARCANA <ARCANA%UNCCVM.BITNET@pucc.princeton.edu>
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To: Arachnet <Arachnet%UOTTAWA.BITNET@pucc.princeton.edu>
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Subject: Mail Art Listings
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Dear Fringeoids,
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Dear Surfpunks,
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Dear Dwellers in Arcana,
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Dear Archanetters,
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I received in my snailmail box the hugest listing of
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international ongoing mail art shows, that I have ever seen. If
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you've ever wanted to get plugged into the International mail Art
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scene this is your chance send $2.00 to
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Ashley Parker Owens
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POB 597996
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Chicago, IL 60659
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And ask for _Global Mail_.
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Don Webb
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The SURFPUNK Technical Journal is a dangerous multinational hacker zine
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originating near BARRNET in the fashionable western arm of the northern
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California matrix. Quantum Californians appear in one of two states,
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spin surf or spin punk. Undetected, we are both, or might be neither.
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Send postings to <surfpunk@osc.versant.com>, subscription requests
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to <surfpunk-request@osc.versant.com>. MIME encouraged.
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Xanalogical archive access soon. Confusion to our enemies.
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______________________________
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From: ahawks (pinkerton floyd)
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Subject: r3: /\/\3[>|u/\/\ |z +|-|/-\ /\/\3$$/-\g3
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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 93 13:10:16 MST
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Mark Baldwin, not Bob, says:
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|a question which probably shows my age [?]:
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|how doez one pronounce agr1ppa? pleaze explain where i can
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|find this information instead of flaming, if it exists some
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|where...
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|-mArK.
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well, you can obviously e-pronounce it, do you really need to
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pronounce it?
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how do u say..........31|+3......
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[that is a real word, btw]
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usually the 1 is an l, like in k-k001.....k-k001 is cool sarcasm....
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ie, B1FF is k-k001.....00's are o's....3's are e's....+'s are t's....
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|'s can be i's.....[> |> |) can all be d's....|) can be p, when (| is
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q...|< is k....>| is e-dyslexia....$ is s, esp. when refer-ing to
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compu$erve... ! can by i's or l's.....@ is a, sometimes even
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@narch-e... # used to be E, i think, or soething, but I don't see that
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1... * is O in different cyber-dialects...[ is c in dialect 2, err
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too... \/\/ is w, /\/\ is m.../-\ is a, |-| is h, |3 is b, |_ can be
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l, but that's |_/-\/\/\3.....|\| is n, |\|||/| is trendy music... \/
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is v, ob\/iously....>< is x....z is often = s (warez), e is often = a
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(tha), c is often = k (|<-|<001), f = ph (phun), ph = f (fone)...
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it's just |<001 31|+3 pc for the |) ( generation.
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most of this died c. 84-85, but B1FF and k001 survive for god gnows
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why.
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0|<, |\|0\/\/ |<|[>[>|3Z g0 & s3+ ^ a|\| 31|+3 ph|1+3r.
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^ really obscure cave drawings.
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--
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andy
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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 93 14:20:43 PST
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From: mark@ganymede.apple.com (Mark Baldwin)
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Subject: Re: r3: /\/\3[>|u/\/\ |z +|-|/-\ /\/\3$$/-\g3
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()|<...| |<^[11||Da |)1(|<=D |_|P oN +Ha+...| _|u$+ \/\/Az|/|'+
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$|_|r3 1|= 1+ \/\/uZ +h3 $a/\/\3...
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-/\/\ / |~ |<.
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