I've thought about going back through old CDROMs to find the original Nervana mailouts from a decade ago to chronicle the development of Noble Ape over the past ten years. With this month's mailout written today, you can still do this;

January 2002
January 2003
January 2004
January 2005
January 2006

Which is pretty cool.

It is funny to think about the amount of time invested in Noble Ape over the past decade. The mailout is now being used as a primary reference which is an interesting change from the more formalised method I used in Noble Ape to date. But with the reference use in Wikipedia;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ApeScript#Official_Links

It seems to make sense to use the Mailout as a primary location to put new information. This month the definition of the True3D project. It will be interesting to see which method is finally used.

In any case, my next project in the short term is a couple more biota.org interviews. There are more than 800 folks on the biota.org mailing list. My interest is moving these folks into regional chapters thus getting locals communicating with other locals developing ALife. An interesting sub-project.

Good afternoon.

From 1991 to 1993 there was one magazine I read religiously. Sure, there were magazines like the Source, MacFormat and others that featured occasional articles of interest. But regular parcels from my uncle in Adelaide featured the Core - the Adelaide dance music magazine that also had occasional cyber-community and hip-hop/funk tie ins.

The Core with two of the Sound Unlimited Posse on the cover...

It's funny to think it was fourteen years ago now. But it provided an introduction to the inSect/Mindflux collective in Adelaide;

http://rorschach.test.at/mindflux/archive.html

Whilst tidying up the apartment I found my only issue of the Core that I still have to this day (more may be back in my storage in Australia?). I had a minute free this morning and I found this site;

http://anthems.com.au/

Down the right hand side of the site are download links to PDFs of the old Core magazines. Not a lot, but enough to remember. Following my discovery of the alternative Apple Switch ads which were quickly pulled following my link (along with others), I downloaded all the mags just in case they are pulled offline at some stage in the future. It is ironic that the Core magazine can now be stored in bits, when once it was stored on paper.

Good afternoon.