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...platform. "If things get to be too much," said the facilitator, a young woman in a peasant skirt, "there may be times I ask for a moment of silence." As it turned out, a time-out wasn't needed. Despite a few hours of haggling over language, the document remained pretty much as it was--a left-liberal entreaty for things large (universal health care) and small (making Election Day a national holiday). The utopian radicalism of some of the state Green Party platforms, which include such exotica as unilateral disarmament, was missing. "It's a solid and serious document...
...years," he says. He was there for what he considered a crucial battle. The Convention spent very little time debating its prohibition on women pastors--there are only 35 in the country anyway--but labored over a proposal to delete a sentence in the denomination's guiding document stating that "the criterion by which the Bible is to be interpreted is Jesus Christ," replacing it with language suggesting that Scripture, as God's direct revelation, must be regarded as the ultimate authority...
...MP3.com He downloaded Oops! on Freenet, a next-generation Napster-like program of his own creation that ratchets file sharing up to the next level. What sets Freenet apart is that information on it travels from PC to PC anonymously. There's no way to tell who posts a document and no way to tell who downloads...
...actual content, the pickings are still slim, but it's not hard to see Freenet's vast potential. Clarke scrolls down an index looking for items of interest and calls out what he finds. The Communist Manifesto. The U.S. Constitution. A document purporting to be a British Intelligence report on Libyan spying activities in Britain. A lot of files have names suggesting they're pornographic; a few seem to be child porn. There are files that appear to contain secret "OT" documents of the Church of Scientology. If they're real, they illustrate Freenet's power: the Scientologists have obtained...
Then there's the World Wide Web, the invention that puts the "me" in "medium." No sooner was the Internet opened to home users than its essential text became the personal home page, a document dedicated to the fact that its author exists: here I am, here is my dog, here is my story. And that was before 24-hr. webcams enabled their users to broadcast live feeds from their offices and boudoirs, even from inside their refrigerators (see accompanying story). With so many willing, casual exhibitionists among us, it's less surprising that VTV happened than that it didn...