[Offtopic] Re: [Year 12 IPM] putas

[Roland Gesthuizen]

I think the correct techo vernacular spelling is 'putar but the plural 
is commonly misspelt as 'putas, dropping the trailing r.

The slang has a curious link to Radoslave Putar, a media artist who 
presented report on a 1960's exhibition called "Cybernetic Serendipity". 
Perhaps his writings prophesised a choking NT and hinted at the birth of 
an OpenSource movement.

    "the machines have, as it were, proposed the possibility of
    assignment and solutions which the followers of the New Tendencies
    did not take into account. Everything has been shifted sideways and
    everything has being illuminated by a new light we had not expected.
    And yet, there are threads linking the events within the frames of
    the NT and the new stage dominated by computers. Although it might
    seem that a tradition choked in its own projection of futurity has
    been brutally stopped, its positive negation is possible: in a new
    effort of organised penetration into unknown."
    http://www.akademie-solitude.de/stuttgart1960/3_text_matko.html

Fascinating stuff...

Maggie Iaquinto wrote:

>Did you actually write: 'putas' ?
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>>>>pruwoldt at bigpond.net.au 26/09/05 7:14 PM >>>
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>http://www.theopencd.org/
>Give this cd to all students that enrol in your school.  The software 
>could also be installed on all school putas
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>Roland Gesthuizen wrote:
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>>MozOO.org <http://mozoo.org/> is a set of productivity tools for home 
>>and small business users who "just want to get on with work" but are 
>>tired of expensive office package upgrades. The package includes a 
>>Windows installer for Firefox, Thunderbird, NVU and the OpenOffice 
>>suite. This sounds like a better way for schools to distribute some 
>>leading OpenSource software applications to students than dishing out 
>>multiple bits of software on different cd-roms. Download the free ISO 
>>to try out and order an online MozOO coffee mug at the same time.  :-)
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>>    http://mozoo.org <http://mozoo.org/>
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Roland Gesthuizen - eLearning Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au

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