25 April 2004: Give it up for Micah Crowsey, Phi Theta Kappa, Charlottesville, Virginia on his USA TODAY All-USA Community and Junior College Academic First Team HONOR AND SCHOLARSHIP!
BREAKING NEWS! 20 April 2004: Today the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences "The Academy" announced its 8th Annual Webby Awards nominees numbering 150 in 30 categories. Ya'll ain't gonna believe who won one of these highly coveted nominations . . . MARTHA STEWART LIVING, that's who! In the words of Maya Draisin, Executive Director of "The Academy," "If you want to know what's happening in the world, look no further than this year's Webby Awards nominees. "The Academy" selected finalists that truly reflect the scope and diversity of the web. Overall, they provide a powerful snapshot of where we are online and where we are going." WE DON'T THINK SO. . . Besides being a suck-ass pastel pink, yellow and green site selling a bunch of high-dollar cheap crap designed by a convicted felon who profits from selling her own BAD TASTE to people who know no better, it doesn't W3C validate! In other words, MARTHA STEWART DYING. Sir Tim (see below) is prolly wonderin' "What the fuck?" The nomination of such a loser site indicates "The Academy" is part of the problem 'bout which Big Val loves to RANT. Well Sir Tim, as Claire Booth Luce used to say about public service "NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED!" At least Grid@CERN was nominated. COOL SITE! "WHERE THE WEB WAS BORN" is the CERN lab's motto . . .'course they forget to mention Sir Tim . . . Back in 1999, subversive German artists, Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans (JODI.com), in their five-word acceptance speech, described the award as being run and attended by "ugly, commercial sons of bitches," threw their Webby across the room, and were escorted from the room. OH FOR THE GOOD 'OL DAZE!
BIG VAL loves the World Wide Web ("WWW") and maintains a built-in weapon of mass destruction capable of nuking prolly fifty percent of hate, child pornography and the like on the WWW would be an algorithmic search engine (Wireless Hardwired Algorithm for Mandatory Mathematical Observation. . ."W.H.A.M.M.O.!") with the ability to analyze World Wide Web Consortium W3C validation. Trust BIG VAL, guaranteed the fucked-up perves who produce nothing but garbage are not thinking VALIDATION. One thing is certain, their lame-ass sites are not HTML sound. BIG VAL's mantra is "VALIDATE or it's THE HOOK!" Regulating content does not work. Censorship is not the issue. Speaking of search engines, Princeton University professor Thomas Funkhouser and colleagues have put a 3-D search engine on the Web that lets anyone sketch an object using a computer mouse, add a textual description, then search for similar models in design databases. Now that's what Big Val and Big Al mean when they say KICK MASS!
Speaking of censorship, BIG VAL is often represented on A.M.M.O in the nude. As well, all female forms represented are photoshopped from original photographic images of the real BIG VAL. There has been absolutely no retouching of the face or body in any image with the exception of the BIG VAL page which has a transparent overlay of colour with chiaroscuro added. However, to be quite honest, the nude photo was taken several years prior to the photo from which the face and hair originated, but SHE is ALL GOOD. Once again, VIVA PhotoShop! Obviously in pages like Luna or Ice, BIG VAL finds herself in the imaginary environments of her dreams. The photographs of BIG VAL's legs in pages like Blood, LSD, and Quantum Leap were taken recently, within the past year. In other words, artistic license has been taken with BIG VAL's imagery but she's the REAL DEAL. The Cherubs graphic contains two figures simply a reversal of the same image of BIG VAL in which the hair and gold lamé kimono have been liquified (PhotoShop/Images/Liquify)...nothing else. BIG VAL thinks it important to be honest in these matters because apparently many are not who participate in our World Wide Web (BUNCHA PHONIES!).
HOTLINKERS are the worst phonies AND they're dumber than dirt. A great deal of hotlinking originates in php chat rooms which provide the suckiest clip art on the web with no way to upload anything else. Inasmuch as most ISPs provide free web sites to their customers if HOTLINKERS had a brain they would file what ever they like in their free web sites and HOTLINK TO THEMSELVES! Duh, they're FREE! On the other hand, BIG VAL thinks it's lame to complain about HOTLINKERS when the complaining sites get just a few visitors a day. GET OVER IT! If it were not for the HOTLINKERS your visitor counts would be ZILCH. Context is the issue. BIG VAL is flattered when asked to use an image and considers only how it will be used. For the LOSERS who steal your work, remove the copyright symbol, and worst of all HOTLINK to an inane piece of crap chat room, you can always provide an updated jpeg...(ya'll might not want to go there).
Tim Berners-Lee, who created the Web in his spare time and gave it away for free, received a knighthood December, 2003. On April 15, 2004, Sir Tim received the Inaugural Millennium Technology Prize (ONE MILLION EUROS!) awarded by the Finnish Technology Award Foundation. That's alotta cash but just think what Sir Tim would be worth if he had patented the WWW. . .Z I L L I O N S ya'll. He'd be richer than Bill Gates who never gave anything away (except money). In fact, Mr. Gates wants to own EVERYTHING. Sir Berners-Lee currently heads up the W3C at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, where he is now based as an academic. Awesome! and well deserved. Gary Chapman, past Executive Director of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility makes the point "Zealots of the computer revolution usually explain that they are exploring the leading edge of the most significant transformation of society in our time, and that everybody else will eventually catch up as the results of technological tinkering filter down to the general public in the form of mass-produced commodities or social and economic reorganization...". DON'T THINK SO.
Technology becomes obsolete, surely from the moment of its conception, prolly from its inception. In Does Improved Technology Mean Progress? Leo Marx says "Yes, it certainly could mean just that. But only if we are willing and able to answer the next question, progress toward what?" PROGRESS TOWARD SPAM and then the software that supposedly blocks it, that's what. No sooner are the spammers blocked they adapt, like cyber cockroaches. Keeping up with them is virtually impossible. We pass laws (CAN-SPAM Act of 2003). We use spam cops, spam assassins, and spam combat to no avail. 'Course, there's the real SPAM!
All cybergushing aside, the WWW is in BIG VAL's lowly opinion the most beautiful machine in the universe. We must ensure that it runs clean, and efficently. NO SHIT! Literally. There's a ton of crap clogging the veins of the WWW. Yep, algorithmic search engines with the ability to analyze validation. W.H.A.M.M.O.! Until that time, go with whatcha got, and whatcha got is HTML, WC3 Validator, and A.M.M.O. BIG VAL gives permission to use her source code which is completely hand written and validates. Don't rip her off, just learn. GIVE SOMETHING, even if it is only free graphics, making your site BOBBY friendly, I.C.R.A. rating your site, or running the AMBER ALERT ticker. For every action, there is a reaction ( Newton's Third Law of Motion). Sure, ya'll ask "why should I take the trouble for my punk-ass site?" 'Cause it's hecka fun and what's the point if ya'll ain't doin' it betta (DUB). Depart knowledge. . .but make 'em work for it. A.M.M.O. is ALPHA. If ya'll know your ABCs you can have lotsa fun and hopefully learn something surfing A.M.M.O..
Think primitive (in this case less is more). Simple, direct and above all CHEAP). Fewer than one hundred dollars per year buys a domain name and hosting from iPower Web. Primitive works just fine for most morons (like BIG AL). Ya'll don't need frames, Java, and Flash. Save that stuff for the geniuses. A.M.M.O. is an example of what a coupla punk asses, BIG VAL/BIG AL, (she's schizo ya'll) can do with a few pages of CODE. Take your time (what else ya'll slackers got to do with your time?). If ya'll have ankle-grabbin' office bitch jobs WORK AT NIGHT. Stay away from the 'fridge, lay off the booze and for good measure stop eating so many animals. Knowledge is free on the WWW. Get out there and SEARCH and ACQUIRE. Get off your lazy asses and GET TO WORK. Sh-e-e-e-e-t, even the street people are doin' more than layin' around on their fat asses plugged into the latest Sex In The City (more like Sex Lethal!) episode with cell phones glued to their heads, suckin' on somethin', P-M-S-ing!). Ya'll need to SHUT UP and STOP SUCKING for a minute and check out HUNGRY AND HOMELESS. Shame on ya'll. Where's your spirit?
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