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Today's M*P*III: Even Better Than The Real Thing by U2.

A quick search for "simulacra coca-cola" on google turned up this paper and several others. I think the real meaning of their slogan lies within.

Suddenly I believe Coca-Cola to be a mass illusion. The real soft drink is Mountain Dew. (You can taste it.)

I just noticed the slogan on cans of Coke. It says, "so real you can taste it!" What does this mean?

This weblog is so real you can read it!

Salon: "In the hierarchy of contemporary business cool, there are big companies (uncool), little companies on the bleeding edge of technology (cool), successful companies (cool), companies whose stock has taken a nosedive (uncool), start-ups on the verge of going public (very cool) and finally, at the pinnacle, the sine qua non of Silicon Valley cool, the "raw start-up" -- the start-up that's still working on its final business plan, the start-up that is just about to get its first millions from professional investors, the start-up that has a three-room office with four desks in each room."

I'd like to see an MP3 site that has older non-music audio. (eg. Martin Luther King speeches, radio programs, Alexander Graham Bell recordings, Steve Martin records, etc.) Akin to the American Memory project.

MP3Lit is a site for spoken word MP3's. [via saturn]

not imagining
dust over sebastopol's
perpetual spring

Good music to code by: Shack Man by Medeski Martin and Wood.

Take a few seconds to read this. I'm suddenly excited about the future of the Internet. I hope you will be too. what will happen?

Yet another idiotic move... Wired: "'Virginia is the home of the Internet, and we are the leaders of this historic business revolution,' said Mike Daniels, chairman of domain registrar Network Solutions." (At least Al Gore has some company now.)

skp mentioned that the eBay wine prohibition (posted yesterday) will bring more attention to how rediculous most states' wine laws are. It's a felony to ship wine to many states.