The KRAZY! exhibition has come to Manhattan, with an exhibit environment designed by Atelier Bow Wow. We were lucky enough to see the show at the Vancouver Art Gallery last summer, so if you are in or around New York it comes recommended.
From the floorplan it seems the Manga Pod will be present, but the catalogue doesn’t mention many of the visual highlights of the Vancouver show: Mr.’s larger-than-life Strawberry Voice, no ghost just a shell and the worthy photography of Mariko Mori are regrettably absent. The catalogue appears to be more tightly focused, omitting Western works, including co-curator Art Spiegelman’s own Maus, for a fuller library of manga.
KRAZY! will remain at the Japan Society until June 14.
via A Daily Dose of Architecture
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Filterchan may be on update hiatus while I battle school and sort out some technical issues.
Renewed (or lately louder) noises about internet censorship nonsense should be of interest to operators and users of imageboards. After all, our internest is powered by sharing of visual and other media, anonymity, and fringe topics of sometimes questionable legal provenance.
As usual, the old bogeyman Captain Picard is paraded out, and visions of obscene and objectionable material are bandied around to remind us censorship is to protect the kids, which might be okay—maybe—if that’s what it were really about. Trouble is, the “movie style” ratings the Brits want already exist, and ISPs already provide the content-aware proxy services they and Oz are so eager to provide.
Online censorship in the form of content ratings is nearly as old as residential internet access: the former ICRA (now FOSI) has been around since 1994; RSACi rating labels were introduced in 1996; IE 3.0 shipped with built-in support for the then-emerging PICS standard. Client-side software to restrict viewing of rated content has been available for years and remains so.
Content-aware proxies are likewise old as the hills. ISOC discussed an implementation for a PICS-compliant proxy server in 1997! Major American ISPs like AOL, Verizon, Comcast and Shaw in Canada provide “parental controls” software and services to protect the children. And if the budding young /b/tards figure out how to bypass it—they probably will—some balls-to-the-wall straight up forizzle parenting might even be in order.
Even Microsoft advocates parenting over digital hobbling.
The point is, parents have a bristling arsenal available to protect kids from the red-light internet. And they have had these tools available for a long time. If governments were foremostly concerned with the children, they could just educate parents about the options they already have. Hell, they would do it, because it would be cheaper and probably more effective.
Censorship on the internet isn’t about shielding kids from that which cannot be unseen or about catching intertube predators, it’s about controlling access to information and taking the great promise of the web out of the hands of ordinary people. ⁋
We are now indexing 136 chans having 2585 boards.
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Added few
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Mohey Pori strikes again, as always keeping the bestest imageboard directory up-to-date and pretty much complete.
We are now indexing 124 chans having 2385 boards.
Also filterchan now parses the querystring correctly: filterchan.forthelulz.net?guro filters the directory to “guro”.
Overchan v.2’s domain at 2ch.us isn’t forwarding correctly…but you can still reach it at shii.org/2ch.
My man Pori’s on fire! Overchan v.2 is getting a fo srs huge update. The diff file this week was over 100K! Here’re the results of Round One:
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Added 24chan, 888chan, CumChan
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Removed 76chan, 913chan, beastchan, demonictutor, eXchan, Fapchan, fapis, ffchan, gDragon, h0rde, hispachan, Kriegchan, Kusaba (GNSP), Onechan, OOC-chan, Pyochan, ragechan, Tentaclechan, wChan, xschan, Zerochan
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Updated 30chan, 300chan, 54chan, 55chan, 6-chan, 67chan, 7chan, 711chan, 712chan, 99chan, bananachan, bokusu, Canadachan, chansluts, christchan, dcrchan, desuchan.net, erischan, foreverchan, iichan/iiichan/Wakachan, iichan.ru, j-chan, junkuchan, konatachan, lohere, maruchannel, mikuchan, Mohey Pori~, nfchan, notfourchan, nonamechan, parachan, plus4chan, IMG!, wutchan
We are now indexing 131 chans having 2495 boards.
Now that Kusaba’s gone, could this be the end of fire-and-forget chanalike imageboards? We can only hope. Until next time!
