[Lancaster] Take this as you wish!

Martyn Welch welchm at comp.lancs.ac.uk
Tue Feb 15 11:12:55 GMT 2005


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Taylor,

Guess what, this got caught by the filter!

It took me quite some time to decide whether this was a result of a virus, a 
hacked message or something you sent!

Martyn

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On Monday 14 Feb 2005 11:12, Taylor Nuttall wrote:

> Meant to be fun..
> Geeky in Pink  <http://www.linuxvirgin.info>
> Considering that a lady (Ada Lovelace) was at the back end of the first
> computer program, there has always been a certain hope that computing would
> shake up the Man vs. Machine conundrum. Instead it spawned a new brand of
> male: the geek. The latest project to place this fellow in its crosshairs
> is linux virgin which, though it launches officially today, received so
> many hits in its preview stage that it has already crashed its host server
> twice. Created by and starring Columbia M.F.A. students Klara Hobza and
> Trish Maud, linux virgin's five-clip miniseries features 'Mistress Koyo'
> schooling young 'Karla Grundick' in how to build a computer with a linux
> operating system. Montages of the girls tinkering with computer parts and
> fooling with circuitry make for a pseudo-steamy spoof of traditional
> geekdom. And (as if teasing weren't enough), our stereotypically loveless
> geek has been type-cast in the role of voyeur as 'Roy' (Ronnie Bass) their
> peeping tom neighbor who star! es with rapt, motionless attention into a
> video camera pointed at them. Poor Roy, he may be the face of computer
> programming but it looks like the girls are having much more fun. - Lauren
> Cornell
> http://www.linuxvirgin.info
>
> Enjoy.
>
> Taylor
>
> Taylor Nuttall
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Martyn Welch (welchm at comp.lancs.ac.uk)

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