<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">joseph...so good!<div><br></div><div>i so second jerome's initiative and worry not whether it is letter for letter.</div><div><br></div><div>i guess i don't need to reiterate that i love all ideas and want a terrible mess of content!</div><div><br></div><div>(well i don't really love ALL ideas but all ideas realized are something-something...right?)</div><div><br></div><div>quite frankly we could begin to post these lovely dialogues (maybe not including my stupid interruptions) in a bbs style on the site...and already we have the start of process as product in keeping with the early thing.</div><div><br></div><div>and why not co-opt history, tongue-in-cheek, to inform the style of our methods today?</div><div><br></div><div>cheers, arfus</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Jul 20, 2010, at 10:37 AM, Joseph Nechvatal wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; "> <div>> number one, MoMA still has the box of ephemera (flyers, disks, posters,<br>> press releases, the classic thing baseball cap, etc.) that was given to<br>> barbara london about ten years ago (...)<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Well, this should be returned ASAP!</div><div><br></div><div><br>> number two, jerome joy, who runs the audio lab at villa arson in nice,<br>> started collecting snippets of history on the web and on mailing lists<br>> and put a web site together: A brief history of The Thing - '91 to '07<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://thing.nujus.net/index.php?page=The+Thing+History">http://thing.nujus.net/index.php?page=The+Thing+History</a><br>> (this was a spontaneous individual initiative, so kudos to jerome!)<br>> it's by no means a comprehensive history, but an excellent starting<br>> point. and as if anticipating this discussion, jerome installed a wiki<br>> for the collection of more material which - as i understand it - now is<br>> open to everyone to contribute. maybe jerome can say something more<br>> about this:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://thing.nujus.net/">http://thing.nujus.net/</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>This is a joy to discover!! Needs to come out of the shadows, I think. </div><div><br></div><div>Jerome, if you write (edit) a condensed version of this I will create a Wikipedia page from what you send me. </div><div>Unless there is resistance to this idea. Of course this can be amended at any point.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>> gunther reisinger also took three large containers of documents from our<br>> filing cabinets and had them scanned and put into an on-line archive.<br>> unfortunately the reproductions are so small that they are virtually<br>> useless. i also would have liked to be involved in the prioritization<br>> and contextualization of the material (as far as i know, this was done<br>> by a young intern); at the moment i cannot make heads nor tails from it:<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://netpioneers.info/node/17">http://netpioneers.info/node/17</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>A cruel joke. I just look a look - well not even a look as the images are ANTI RETINAL!</div><div>This perhaps should be taken off the net and the material returned for a proper treatment (someday).</div><div><br></div><div>I still think giving everything to a professional or university archive could/would mend all the blows against the empire and restore TT's sense of dignity.</div><div><br></div><div>+</div><div>Joseph</div></div><br><hr>The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with Hotmail.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multiaccount&ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_4" target="_new">Get busy.</a>_______________________________________________<br>thingist mailing list<br><a href="mailto:thingist@mailman.thing.net">thingist@mailman.thing.net</a><br><a href="https://mailman.thing.net/mailman/listinfo/thingist">https://mailman.thing.net/mailman/listinfo/thingist</a><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>