May 31, 2004

this comes from boing boing

http://brandonbird.com/artisticintent.html

Paintings inpired by the hit tv show Law and order. This makes me feel both sad and inspired since many years ago when Ned and i were watching a lot of homocide life on teh streets I had this idea to take video stills of my favorite scenes of my favorite episodes and do lithos of them.. I still could.

so here I am reading all about amphetadesk, and it finally dawns on me that

#1 - blogging is possibly more damaging to my productivity than any desktop messaging client could ever be.

#2 - I am falling for this whole, get more information than everyone and publicize it trap.

#3 - somehow this idea that I need to set something up to read the news that I don't have time to read and then report back to me ties into a couple of post- 20th century problems to do with the speed and the relative importance of information, which ties into information and the capability of getting your hands on information as currency.

It makes me uncomfortable I might have to stop doing this, I never want to feel like my smarts are meant for public consumption/ tied into an exercise in aquisition.

ps: I know what movie we are going to see.

yeah - so I just found another one of those porn comments - you know alexis in chaynes + url. So if I really do write something that goes through my index page and populates a database with every link I add here, than I am going to have a personal and auto-updated set of porn links. whoopee! that's why we love the internet.

I want to ask this question, because I am a greener at this blog thing. How is it that people read or get aggregates of so many sources. Do they really read everything? I mean I can't, obviously I don't, because if I did my blog would be about other things, and not just "hey I tried to plug my toaster into a wet socket and it hurt!!".

I mean don't get me wrong I am NOT a turd-brain but really what do you people do? I picture bug-eyed newshounds sipping red bull with 19 browser windows open reading 7 articles simultaneuosly or something.

Any ways, I found another librarian for mike (*see mtl3p on the list to your right)

her blog is called the shifted librarian

go nuts

May 28, 2004

Reading a bit this morning about The P3 partnership experience and how it is going to benefit Canadians..

For those of you not up on business speak a P3 is a Private Public Partnership. A business model that the Canadian Government hopes desperately will keep it out of debt and get it off the hook with respect to pesky public services such as health care and education.

Thus far, the P3 model has been restricted primarily to areas such as "engineering, construction, legal and management consulting"

The rationale behind that;

"Public-private partnerships may be less suitable for government services to which access cannot be restricted. This may include services with "public good" characteristics, including bylaw enforcement, environment protection and social services."

That being said, I bring you;

"Welcome to the Central North Correctional Centre website. CNCC, located in Penetanguishene, Ontario, is the first privately operated adult correctional facility in Canada...

CNCC's mission is to deliver quality correctional services and better value to customers through innovation, adaptability and cost effectiveness."

Thank God prisons have nothing to do with the public good.

The prison been open since 2001 - so maybe there was some big hue and cry that I missed because... what was I doing in 2001... see what I mean, I probably missed it. Now all I can find is one article from the OPSEU website archives.

CNCC is operated by a private american company MTC based in Utah (yeah man, scary stuff)so I guess there aren't any Canadian corporations willing or able to traffic in peoples freedom on such a scale..