A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers
This memo describes an experimental method for the encapsulation of IP datagrams in avian carriers. This specification is primarily useful in Metropolitan Area Networks. This is an experimental, not recommended standard. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
What happens when in 1985, police drop a 4 lb block of C4 from a helicopter on a rowhouse in a densely packed African-American neighborhood in West Philly? About what a modern cynic with a high-school diploma would expect: Men, women, and children die horrible deaths while firefighters stand aside and the entire neighborhood (65 houses) burns. In the aftermath, a Mayoral committee censures the action, and the perpetrators escape any criminal charges. Reading Mayor Goode””s interview in the Philadelphia Inquirer 25 years later, he makes the clichéd statement, “Mistakes were made.” Ya think?
Politics, Language, and Imagery in the 21st Century
May 28-29
Free at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Stewart Walker Live at Foyer, Düsseldorf – June 4, 2011
Worringer Platz 4, 40210 Düsseldorf
Words are tricky. Though an evolutionary development to convey meaning and intent, one can also use words as symbols to intentionally obscure or divert attention. Perhaps with practice, we can learn to recognize the vague, simplistic, and laudatory chains of words as syntactic sleight-of-hand. We meta, also too.
Looking like an empty jar of homemade preserves, the Glasmine 43 glass mines used in World War II cannot be found by metal detector. As a result, there are minefields in North Rhein-Westfalia””s Nationalpark Eifel which are impossible to clear, and are still sealed from the public. The glass is also transparent to X-rays, which makes the removal of glass shrapnel impossible.
July 02, 2011 – Stewart Walker and Reynold @ Le Lieu Unique, Nantes
