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Krazy in New York

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:19:00 -0700

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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Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:33:21 -0700

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Hiatus

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:10:59 -0800

Filterchan may be on update hiatus while I battle school and sort out some technical issues.

"A federal appeals panel has upheld the 20 year sentence of a lolicon found to have received..."

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:48:35 -0800

“A federal appeals panel has upheld the 20 year sentence of a lolicon found to have received illustrations of underage sex by email, […] additionally, he was found to have sent and received incest related emails of a purely textual nature, which were judged to be obscene[.]”

- 20 Years for Loli Manga: “Victims Don’t Have to Exist”, Sankaku Complex Jan 07 2009

FFFFFFFF

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:00:00 -0800

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.

Another big housecleaning

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:29:00 -0800

Added few
Removed many
Updated every damn one

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”.

Updates? Updates.

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:17:00 -0800

Added 01chan, 288.0chan, 913chan, asschan, BBS MANSION, brochan, dcrchan, fapchan, Gakinko, Kusaba Tahko, Kusaba X, Momiage Channel, OOC-chan, OOSA, pfhorchan, rschan, Serissa, sukebegazou, VGchan, zerochan.org
Removed Bokusu
Updated 55chan, 6chan, 67chan, 711chan, 99chan, bananachan, dkchan, j-chan, junkuchan, kanal4, maruchannel, mikuchan, nonamechan, plus4chan, sectachan, spchan, underfoule

We are now indexing 149 chans having 2815 boards

Overchan: Still Alive

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:49:42 -0700

Overchan v.2’s domain at 2ch.us isn’t forwarding correctly…but you can still reach it at shii.org/2ch.

Embrace Imageboard Pluralism

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:09:00 -0700

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:

Added 24chan, 888chan, CumChan
Removed 76chan, 913chan, beastchan, demonictutor, eXchan, Fapchan, fapis, ffchan, gDragon, h0rde, hispachan, Kriegchan, Kusaba (GNSP), Onechan, OOC-chan, Pyochan, ragechan, Tentaclechan, wChan, xschan, Zerochan
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!

Added Bokusu, finnchan Updated maruchannel We are now indexing 147 chans having 2763 boards.

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 08:17:00 -0700

Added Bokusu, finnchan
Updated maruchannel

We are now indexing 147 chans having 2763 boards.

Added dcrchan, Japan Channel, ragechan, wChan Removed Notchan Updated Push the net IMG!,...

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:54:00 -0700

Added dcrchan, Japan Channel, ragechan, wChan
Removed Notchan
Updated Push the net IMG!, Maruchan

We are now indexing 145 chans having 2754 boards.

More Good Frequencies

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

This pie shows the relative popularity of a few common board scripts:

I hope to have a way to expose some of this data within filterchan soon and provide two key pieces of info: popularity by total postcount and popularity by post rate. Stay tuned if you dare (care).

Added KonataChan, lolchan, Mohey Pori, OPERATORchan, TechChan Updated Livochan, Lohere We are now...

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:33:00 -0700

Added KonataChan, lolchan, Mohey Pori, OPERATORchan, TechChan
Updated Livochan, Lohere

We are now indexing 142 chans having 2680 boards.

Good Frequencies

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:24:00 -0700

I have been working on a couple of scripts to make use of filterchan’s index to compile some data on our imageboard world. Here is one chart that didn’t surprise me too much:

More soon.

Updates from overchan went on schedule, but weren’t reported: added Bananachan, Freakachan,...

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:04:00 -0700

Updates from overchan went on schedule, but weren’t reported:

added Bananachan, Freakachan, Hispachan, Pyochan
updated 30chan, Diochan, Notchan, OOC-chan

We are now indexing 137 chans having 2614 boards.

4chan.org

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:58:00 -0700

Apparently people are still having difficulty accessing 4chan. If you haven’t heard, there is an issue with DNS and the domains aren’t resolving. If you are comfortable editing your machine’s hosts file, the IPs are:

207.126.64.166 4chan.org
207.126.64.166 www.4chan.org
207.126.64.168 orz.4chan.org
207.126.64.169 tmp.4chan.org
207.126.64.176 zip.4chan.org
207.126.64.177 bin.4chan.org
207.126.64.181 img.4chan.org
207.126.64.182 dat.4chan.org
207.126.64.186 cgi.4chan.org
207.126.64.187 nov.4chan.org
207.126.64.171 rs.4chan.org
207.126.64.178 dis.4chan.org

Wikipedia has an overview of the hosts file, its function, and where it can be found on your system: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_file

I haven’t verified these IPs—I’m taking a break from 4chan—and you of course connect to these machines at your own risk.

Large Hadron Collider Photos

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:37:00 -0700

SPS accelerator synchronization, scheduled to begin today, will occur over the weekend, according to CERN and the BBC. LHCountdown.com still seems to be down (but CERN has a countdown on their site).

In the meantime, and for your perusal, Boston.com’s The Big Picture has put up some beautiful photos of the LHC, which, as we all know, is scheduled to destroy the Internet (and everything else) beginning September 10th, 2008.

http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/Welcome.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7547118.stm

7 Reasons the 21st Century is Making You Miserable

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:30:10 -0700

7 Reasons the 21st Century is Making You Miserable

Google Blog: We knew the web was big

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:47:25 -0700

Google Blog: We knew the web was big:

One trillionth URL reached; three-fourths lead to porn, remainder redirect to last measure.

Turbulent times on the tubes, overchan rolls on: Updated 28chan, 411chan, 4ch4n, 7chan, 711chan,...

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:38:00 -0700

Turbulent times on the tubes, overchan rolls on:

Updated 28chan, 411chan, 4ch4n, 7chan, 711chan, 99chan, aichan, anonychan, beastchan, egochan, mikuchan, Sectachan
Added 37chan, 712chan, 76chan, christchan, exchan, Forever, Frenchan, Kriegchan, Zerochan
Removed Mohey Pori~

We are now indexing 130 chans having 2517 boards.