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| By Pendragon on Monday, May 4, 1998 - 11:17 pm: |
-Pend |
| By Pendragon on Monday, May 4, 1998 - 11:20 pm: |
> Hi, > > This message is an invitation to discuss the fate of paranoia. > There are several of us that are deeply concerned, and would > like to help save paranoia. As Kevin announced earlier, any > user help would be greatly apprecieated. This meeting is to > discuss exactly what we can do, and how we can do it. > > The discussion is to be held on the IRC on Wed, May 6th. > at 10:00pm EST. All interested parties should converge on > EFnet on channel #paranoia. Moderators will be myself, steppin, > and ice9. The discussion leader should be, of course Kevin. > > Please don't bother dusting off your war scripts and cranking up > your bots. This is merely a discussion. We don't have much time > and from the sounds of things Kevin could use some help as soon > as possible. > > We are operating under the assumption that no one else is doing > anything, we do hope we are wrong. If there are people out there > working to help and prevent the closing, then this is the perfect > medium in which we can coordinate our efforts. Even if its only > to pass the "vitrual hat" for Kevin. God knows we all owe him in > some way or another. > > Best to all, see you there... > > -pend > > -- > ._ _ ._ _|._._. _ _ ._ > [_)(/,[ )(_][ (_](_](_)[ ) pend@paranoia.com > ===|================._|================================================ > Email for PGP key. http://www.paranoia.com/~pend |
| By Sorabji on Monday, May 4, 1998 - 11:38 pm: |
it's an unusal place, since it was pretty much the first "outpost" for free speech on the web. but like kevin said, you can get free speech pretty much anywhere these days. it's the first "members only" site i was ever a part of. maybe this only means anything to me since i could never a member of any goddam thing except for the literary magazine in high school. at any rate, i've always wondered: who else is here? who else has paranoia.com accounts? i can't be the only one in this place. tap tap... |
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is that a spambot or is it trace-spunky evaluating whether he can cover his tracks? only curious in the most friendly way, dudes. |
speechless. |
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No need for paranoia. Heh. That's a pun son. |
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there's a bug in the software that sometimes causes a password screen to show. sometimes it happens if your browser is not sending an HTTP_REFERER variable, or if the software thinks you're not sending it. firewalls can sometimes strip that variable, or your browser just might not send it reliably. it happens at random and doesn't mean anything. paranoia.com was bought by Disney. |
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there go the paranoid and conspiracy fantasies! ah well. you know what is password protected? my pants! that's right, my pants! and, sorry, but the password is not numamumanuma. |
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ddr is the best exercise of all time after sex |
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what is ddr? and why does that video absolutely crack me up every single time? it's embarrassing to admit, but true. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_Dance_Revolution it's fun to watch very young asian kids play it at the mall. They've got whole routines choreographed. |
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oh okay. i know dance dance revolution, i didn't know it is known as DDR. thanks. has anyone seen that awesome video by Okay Go with the treadmill choreography? |
That explains shitloads, man! |
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My dad was a band director. I'm a lifelong band geek. My mom and step-dad just got back from, I kid you not, a week long band camp in Virginia. Band ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCKS. |
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my dad created the universe |
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you know, i don't think after all these years anyone has ever questioned why the comic sans font is the default. i can't bear to think that mark *chose* comic sans.... |
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something else. And then I breathe a sigh. I hate comic sans. NOT EVEN THIS SITE can make me embrace it. My current favorite font is this one: (the font in the logo). That's the cleanest sans serif I've seen. It's similar to London Underground, but some letters are widened. London Underground (the caps especially) looks a little off to me. |
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but I seriously dig the wide W in the IWM's logo. I'm so excited because, in my Modern Publishing class, we're going to spend one whole day next month talking about typography. Yeeee! |
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There are several ways to do this yourself. Try this |
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i love the S. If you don't have it and can't buy it or steal it, 'Gill Sans' is essentially the same thing. Though i don't remember if Gill Sans has a light version, and i'm away from my super font-filled computer. It's also the BBC logo font. Designed by Eric Gill, also designed 'Perpetua' (luv!) and a student of Edward Johnston.....and Edward Johnston created London Underground ;) type nerds in the hizouse |
Wisper, Humanist 521 Light looks pretty dang close to what I want. I'll have to get it, somehow, someway. (I'd explore my options now but I'm supposed to be writing a paper.) (To illustrate how well my paper is coming along, I just opened Word now to see if I have Gill Sans. Way to go, girl. I do, btw.) Perpetua is another favorite of mine, because it's smaller than the others and therefore useful when printing off huge articles. It's also pretty plain, as serif fonts go. I like plain. I wonder what the font this is that I see in this window. This is pretty nice, too. |