Re: Warning! - Re: [ba-ohs-talk] Art and Culture
I just went to kottke.org with no problems. Didn't try the first link. (01)
Jack (02)
At 09:39 PM 2/10/2002 +0000, you wrote:
>Hmm. I tried that first link and it opened a zillion mini windows for an
>advert to a pr0n site for me, swamping my line etc.
>Anyone else have the same problem?
>The only way I could kill it was to disconnect - fast.
>There's nothing in the email source, so it must have been either coming from
>the kottke site or someone riding the
>packets of the response.
>Unpleasant. Looked like an attack.
>In any case, either kottke.org is (screwy or) compromised, or my ISP, or
>some box in between.
>
>As far as I can tell it didn't leave any traces on my machine. I shut it
>down pretty fast.
>
>If this mail blows up anyone's comp I expressly deny any liability.
>
>--
>Peter
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Alex Shapiro" <alex@touchgraph.com>
>To: <ba-ohs-talk@bootstrap.org>
>Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 8:25 PM
>Subject: [ba-ohs-talk] Art and Culture
>
>
> > Check out this thread
> > http://kottke.org/cgi-bin/comments/display.pl?threadid=14 on
> > http://kottke.org . Various technologies for developing personal
> > schemas/taxonomies are discussed.
> >
> > Of particular interest in the link to Art & Culture:
> >
>http://www.artandculture.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?id=205
> >
> > "I love what Art & Culture does with relationships. You can drill down
>into
> > film hierarchically, but then you can hop across categories with
>adjectives
> > like violent, which makes connections between Sophocles, John Woo, and the
> > Marquis de Sade. I think if I can find connections like that to sew all my
> > various ends together, I'll be on the right track." -jkottke
> >
> > --Alex
> >
> > (03)