<nettime> the power of the string

[debabelizer <debabelizer@plagiarist.org> (by way of Natalie Bookchin)]

dearest professor bookchin:

here at plagiarist.org, we are pleased to see that your "story of net art" 
has been released as open source.  we find this to be an excellent
project, and would like to be added to the developer's list. where may we
find the cvs revision history, btw? 

our first contribution to the development and mirroring of this project is
the addition of debabelizer support to the kernel. although the original
version reads well in american english, many culturally specific
references may not mean the same thing to visitors around the world.
therefore, many optimizations in performance and clarity can be achieved
by running the code in native debabelese mode. you may find a compiled
version of our revised source with the new "debabelize" flag configured on
at: 

<http://plagiarist.org/line/history.html>
 http://plagiarist.org/line/history.html

we hope you will appreciate some of the new optimizations to your
original, excellent source code. some highlights: 

- the metaphorical "the power of the line" now executes as "the power of
the string," a much more direct, yet touchingly poignant, mental image. 

- bug fix: the misleadingly benign "seminar schedule" is revealed to be a
trojan horse of sorts: in debabelese, this line now executes as the
critique of christianity-as-cult that you must have intended: "programming
of the seminary." 

- the bland and overly generic term "net art" has been completely
rewritten: in the debabelized code it is converted to the much more
elegant term "liquid art." we believe you'll agree that this performance
optimization is well worth any loss of stability that the conversion to
liquid might entail. 

-in response to concerns over possible stability and security issues
created by the switch from net art to liquid, shulgin of alexei's "form
art" subroutine has been converted to the more functional "it gives form
to the art."  we believe this revised subroutine should contain any memory
leaks or buffer overruns which may inadvertently become possible as a
result of the new liquid art code, in addition to making for a lovely
jello dish. 

-vuk cosic's "grants" subroutine has been rewritten to make it more
straightforward. it now executes as "concessions.." 

in addition to these examples, there are many other optimizations which
you may find by examining the full source code.  we hope you'll be as
pleased as we are with these improvements in performance and clarity. 


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