Tuesday, December 31, 2002
INSTANT EMAIL ALIENATION!

Each message sent from my employer's email system arrives in the recipient's inbox showing the SENDER'S NAME, followed by the COMPANY NAME and THE OFFICE STREET ADDRESS. [Caps not added for emphasis. -Ed.]

posted by Joshua @ 3:00 PM

Saturday, December 21, 2002
ANTAGOZINE INBOX: THE PLOT THICKENS

Torstenheld writes from Germany to ask "Please remove me from your mailing-list." Strangely, we haven't sent any email to our mailing list recently. Or, in fact, ever. Could our jilted German admirer be sending email from our address in order to exact revenge on Antagozine?

posted by JVG @ 12:00 AM

Friday, December 20, 2002
ANTAGOZINE IN LOVE
Our German admirer just won't give up

Subject: Warum tust Du das? Hallo, leider hast Du Dich auf meine letzte Mail ja nicht gemeldet. Da ich aber st?ndig an Dich denken muss, versuch ich es jetzt noch einmal. Vielleicht ist meine Mail ja gar nicht bei Dir angekommen. Es w?re einfach nur sch?n Dich bei mir zu haben. Seit ich Dich das erste Mal sah, kann ich an nichts anderes mehr denken. Leider kann ich Deine Gefühle nicht einsch?tzen und traue mich nicht Dich pers?nlich anzusprechen. Deshalb dieser Weg über die Mail. Ich habe mich bei einem Kontaktmarkt angemeldet über den Du erfahren kannst wer ich bin. Dort kann man sogar live miteinander sprechen. Wenn Du wissen willst wer ich bin, komm doch einfach mal dorthin. Zu der Seite gelangst Du hier: http:// 66.150.211.29/sofort/sofort.exe Ich hoffe ich kann Dich bald in meine Arme schlie?en. Deine ??????????

GOOGLE TRANSLATES:

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posted by JVG @ 2:21 PM

Thursday, December 19, 2002
NEW WTC DESIGNS RAISE IRE IN NYTIMES FORUMS

Selected comments:

desertweed calls the proposed replacements "truly pathetic", and feels the international architects are "Losers. Every single one of them."

surlyscot wonders if it wouldn't " be a better idea to turn it over to the local kindergarten kids and give them a crack at it."

SC hague: (in one of several posts) "Larger-than-life narcissist architects' desires to use Manhattan as their canvas for personal enshrinement should be embarrased (sic) by their shameless and useless proposals."

thirduncle0 offers to " paint a target on [his] ass and occupy the top floor"

planetcast1 asks "has the computer revolution gone to the heads of some architects? Just because CAD programs can output these multi-faceted arching, obtusely angled, mathematically twisted shapes and volumes, does not make the work necessarily effective nor 'modern'."

mrous: "Gaudy, cold, oppressive, and overbearing"

mikeny4: "The proposals are so ugly and wrong for NY that I cannot begin to comment. " (followed by 4 paragraphs of comments)

and kelleypb0, in perhaps the most apropos post of the forum, notes "Most of what I ever bought from Century 21 was crap."

posted by JVG @ 6:49 PM

Tuesday, December 17, 2002
FROM THE ANTAGOZINE INBOX:

Subject: Anfrage Jemand der Dich sehr gut kennt wuerde gern ein Treffen mit Dir haben. Die Person traut sich jedoch nicht Dich direkt anzusprechen. Sie hat deshalb unseren Service in Anspruch genommen und bei uns eine persoenliche Anzeige hinterlassen. Wenn Du wissen willst wer Dich treffen moechte gehe auf unsere Seite. Solltest Du unser Chattmodul noch nicht haben kannst Du es hier laden und starten, Du wirst dann automatisch auf unsere Seite geleitet. http://66.150.211.29/privatkontakte/livechat.exe Gehe in den geschlossenen Bereich und waehle dort die Seite: wr123as Du kannst dann sehen wer Dich so sehr mag und entscheiden ob Du Kontakt aufnehmen willst oder nicht. Service FFT Kontakt

WHICH APPARENTLY MEANS:

Subject: Inquiry Someone that you very well knows gladly a meeting with you would have. The person does not dare however you to respond directly. It took therefore our service up and left with us a personal announcement. If you to know want you who to meet would like go on our side. You should not have our Chattmodul yet can you it here load and start, you on our side are then automatically led. http://66.150.211.29/privatkontakte/livechat.exe go into the closed range and select there the side: wr12?s you can then see who you so much likes and to decide whether you want to take up contact or not. Service FFT contact

posted by JVG @ 5:22 PM

Thursday, December 12, 2002
NO SMOKING IN NYC BARS?

But where will I get my second-hand cancer? It's almost enough to make me want to quit drinking entirely and stay home Saturday night to watch TV. Except, of course, for the foul language.

posted by JVG @ 12:50 PM

Wednesday, December 11, 2002
ALTERNATIVE TRANSPORTATION

No bikes! Segway. Order now for the next transit strike.

posted by Joshua @ 8:33 AM

Tuesday, December 10, 2002
TODAY'S RANDOM IF

Opening to a random page in a handy copy of If... Questions for the Soul, this question pops out: "If you could determine one aspect of your own death, except its moment, what would it be?" Turning the page: "If you were to write your own epitath today, what would it say?" And on the next page: "If you could be buried or have your ashes spread anywhere on earth, where would it be?" Cheerful little Ifs, no?

posted by JVG @ 10:37 AM

Monday, December 09, 2002
ANGER AT 35,000 FEET [MP3 File]

Yngwie Malmstein threatened to kill a fellow passenger on a flight to Tokyo, Japan after the woman poured a glassful of water on the guitarist. The passenger, who had no prior contact with Yngwie, allegedly overheard Malmsteen making derogatory comments about homosexuals and decided to show her disapproval by emptying the contents of her glass on the hefty axeman. A member of Yngwie's touring entourage, who was traveling with Malmsteen at the time, had a tape recorder running and managed to catch Yngwie's reaction on tape immediately after the guitarist was 'assaulted' by the offended passenger." [Source: Blabbermouth via boing boing]

posted by Lock @ 3:04 PM

#1 GOOGLE RESULT FOR "ANTAGONISM": SOME CRAP GEOCITIES PAGE

The spanking new web service Technorati has a service called Google Juice that's supposed to let you figure out how a term ranks in Google results (for instance: Antagozine is the #1, a-numero-uno result for a Google seach for "antagozine"). But Technorati doesn't even rank Antagozine. Infuriating. A Google search painstakingly carried out by hand indicates that Antagozine.com is not even in the first 100 terms returned for a Google search on "antagonism." Oh yes, this will change. Meantime, the #1 Google result for "anger" will ease the pain.

posted by Lock @ 2:11 PM

ANTAGOZINE RELAUNCHES, IN CUTTING-EDGE "BLOG" FORM

Welcome to the brand new Antagozine, which looks quite similar to the old Antagozine. But, instead of never updating the magazine, we've decided to update infrequently by using weblog technology. This is because we're good people, and care about you, the reader.

posted by JVG @ 1:20 PM