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October 08, 2000
Randomness
It has to be fought on our side of the glass
— Philip K. Dick, Ubik
Ah yes, Mr. Dick, and it has forever been so. But what side of the glass are we on?
A few notes, I've changed the very misleading Weekly Packet into the Wayward Packet. Now it will just get updated when I can, or when I feel like it.
This weekend I stumbled across an odd thing, a curious toy from Japan, electronic message in a bottle. The idea is that you draw something, place it in an electronic 'bottle' and the bottle gets delivered to another user, picked at random. You can't type text, so there isn't a language barrier. Apparently they can also give messages to people who don't have Internet access.
"Bottle Mail" is a system for delivering email, but is totally different from regular email because both the destination (one single person) and the date when it will be delivered are unspecified.
— Bottle Mail web site.
If nothing else, the site is an interesting example of Japanese to English translation.
Bang.com (since 1981!) is still one of my favorite one-page web sites.