Noise Between Stations

Month: February 2004

  • Touring Ground Zero

    If someone was to ask me how the new PATH station at the World Trade Center was situated and how the train arrived, I know what I wouldn’t say. I wouldn’t say it comes in above ground (the PATH is mostly underground) and tours the perimeter of the property, first traveling East along the North side before turning around and traveling in the opposite direction before stopping, ready to head straight back into New Jersey. But that’s just what it does, giving the rider a panoramic view of the ground at Ground Zero. It would be weird if Ground Zero wasn’t essentially a construction site these days, and if all of this wouldn’t be underground soon, under buildings and footprint pools and footprints. I snapped this lame shot from the window as the train rounded the corner…

  • Adaptive Path reports

    Putting in my two cents over at IA Slash.

  • Finally, a digital library

    I haven’t bothered to follow the digital library folks because they don’t seem to produce anything useful. I’m not even sure what they mean when they say digital library. What I mean is being able to access everything in my library, but from anywhere, digitally. This is what I mean:

    And Google has embarked on an ambitious secret effort known as Project Ocean, according to a person involved with the operation. With the cooperation of Stanford University, the company now plans to digitize the entire collection of the vast Stanford Library published before 1923, which is no longer limited by copyright restrictions. The project could add millions of digitized books that would be available exclusively via Google.

  • e. e. spam

    An email message included a gif of the ad and a bunch of funky serious-looking text, and was still detected as spam. But apart from the technical perspective the text is rather wonderful, like an e. e. cummings doodle…

    drawbridges fatter booklet adsorbs haltingly endocrine fearful canalize formatting architecture executioner decorums doubters eructing consultant gists criterion cushions chars expounder consolation envisage disinters endures banditti daters grilled genuineness damp Sun, 01 Feb 2004 10:55:26 -0400 beholders effeminacy barometers dying gobbles forge bullheadedly disenchantment afire amber craw gastritises biography faction extravagances determinations harpies equalizing delightfully costumed envelopers fawning armorers carcinoma disclaimer grew drunkenness caved abomination appointing griddles admonitions bakers foreknew brutalize admiralties canonically agings flatfoot cluck duos exhibitionism guinea easterlies androgen cannonade fusiliers extendable farthings activities cattleman astride euthanized amalgam greeters eatable haircut commiseration allowances deescalates framed blizzard groggily enigma curry bubblegum calypso bookmark earthinesses gladdened flummoxes dehydration decorator grayness