D.C. Jail Stay Ends in Death For Quadriplegic Md. Man (washingtonpost.com)
Holy Shit, Batman!!! Now they're throwing quadraplegics in jail for smokin' the dope...and killing them, too.
Thursday, September 30, 2004
Wired News: Bacteria Turn Toxins Into Plastic
Wired News: Bacteria Turn Toxins Into Plastic
New little bugger that turns styrofoam into biodegradable plastic! Holy fuck ass! Get me some o' dat shit.
New little bugger that turns styrofoam into biodegradable plastic! Holy fuck ass! Get me some o' dat shit.
Wednesday, September 29, 2004
Library book '100 years overdue'
And I thought I was bad!
A borrowed book has been returned to an Inverness library nearly 100 years overdue incurring a £5,000 fine.via BBC
A borrowed book has been returned to an Inverness library nearly 100 years overdue incurring a £5,000 fine.via BBC
Monday, September 27, 2004
Medical Usages of Entheogens
Cool story on Wired about researchers working with psilocybin and ecstasy for treatment of a variety of conditions
via BoingBoing
via BoingBoing
Saturday, September 25, 2004
zipdecode finder
zipdecode | ben frythis is a great web ap for finding out where a zipcode is located thanks to ben fry
Friday, September 24, 2004
Maybe Zell Miller really is a Nazi?
American Samizdat has an interesting snippet
Don't tell me the Bush administration ignores history. They've studied it very, very carefully.
And like you, I ask which leader is it today that has the vision, the willpower and, yes, the backbone to best protect my family?
The clear answer to that question has placed me in this hall with you tonight. For my family is more important than my party.
There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.
-- Zell Miller, RNC Convention, 2004
I ask, which leader is it today that has the vision, the willpower, and yes, the backbone to best protect us?
The clear answer to that question has placed me in this hall with you tonight.
There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust our future and that man's name is Adolph Hitler.
-- Joseph Goebbels, 65 years ago.
Don't tell me the Bush administration ignores history. They've studied it very, very carefully.
And like you, I ask which leader is it today that has the vision, the willpower and, yes, the backbone to best protect my family?
The clear answer to that question has placed me in this hall with you tonight. For my family is more important than my party.
There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.
-- Zell Miller, RNC Convention, 2004
I ask, which leader is it today that has the vision, the willpower, and yes, the backbone to best protect us?
The clear answer to that question has placed me in this hall with you tonight.
There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust our future and that man's name is Adolph Hitler.
-- Joseph Goebbels, 65 years ago.
Networks Without the Net
New Douglas Rushkoff article on thefeature.com about the problems with forcing new technologies into the niches of older tech.
Just as the Internet has fostered a sense of global connectivity for users pinned to their desktops, the wireless network -- by coming along in one's pocket -- can enhance users' connections to their immediate environments and temporary communities. After all, wireless users have left their homes and offices for a reason. Away from their desktops and, in many cases, laptops, they are in "nomadic mode", not office or home mode.
via Douglas Rushkoff's blog
Just as the Internet has fostered a sense of global connectivity for users pinned to their desktops, the wireless network -- by coming along in one's pocket -- can enhance users' connections to their immediate environments and temporary communities. After all, wireless users have left their homes and offices for a reason. Away from their desktops and, in many cases, laptops, they are in "nomadic mode", not office or home mode.
via Douglas Rushkoff's blog
BBC - Radio 4 - Hitchhiker's Guide - The New Series
Oh BBC, how I love thee, not only did they release the old infocom game, they are releasing new episodes of the Hitchhiker's Radio Show, and putting them online. Oh happy day!
via Slashdot
via Slashdot
Don't Panic!
The BBC has just released a jazzed up version (or should I say Flashed up version?) of the old Infocom text-based Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy computer game. Folks who know me, know that I am the rare computer geek who never got sucked into computer games. Excepting of course this one, which my friend David and I would spend hours upon hours wrestling with on his Commodore 128. Enjoy your wasted time, and watch out for the Vogon Poet.
via BoingBoing
via BoingBoing
Thursday, September 23, 2004
Naropa Audio Archives
Amiri Baraka, Ginsberg, Burroughs, and more in a variety of file formats, available for download from the audio archives of the Naropa Institute
via Invisible College
via Invisible College
Penis-Shaped, Talking Masturbation Teaching toy Marketed to Pre-Teen Girls!
Evil gets cute.
And they talk to our little Baptist girls slowly... revealing disgusting secrets about sex! How them squinty-eyed Japanese atheists trapped live demons inside a masturbation toy and marketed it to pre-teens, we may never know. What we do know is that it slipped right under our noses, and we've got to stop it!
via Discordian Research Technologies
And they talk to our little Baptist girls slowly... revealing disgusting secrets about sex! How them squinty-eyed Japanese atheists trapped live demons inside a masturbation toy and marketed it to pre-teens, we may never know. What we do know is that it slipped right under our noses, and we've got to stop it!
via Discordian Research Technologies
Infoshop News - Jon Stewart on O'Reilly
Brilliantly funny banter between Jon Stewart and Bill O'Reilly on a recent episode of The O'Reilly Factor.
via American Samizdat
via American Samizdat
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
1 million Web users click to see beheading / 50,000 an hour visit site to see U.S. captive's slaughter
I knew it. All you people are sick. Sick, I tell you.
via Wired
via Wired
AlterNet: EnviroHealth: Shrooms: Not Just For Salad Anymore
Cool old story featuring Paul Stamets.
Stamets is giving shrooms their 15 minutes of fame, promoting them as antiviral and antibacterial agents, as well as key boosters to the human immune system. Outside the body, Stamets says he has cloned mycelia and mushrooms that can kill pests, absorb radioactive material, filter toxic wastes and, according to an article in Jane's Defense Weekly, even degrade surrogates of deadly VX and sarin gas.
via Discordian Research Technologies
Stamets is giving shrooms their 15 minutes of fame, promoting them as antiviral and antibacterial agents, as well as key boosters to the human immune system. Outside the body, Stamets says he has cloned mycelia and mushrooms that can kill pests, absorb radioactive material, filter toxic wastes and, according to an article in Jane's Defense Weekly, even degrade surrogates of deadly VX and sarin gas.
via Discordian Research Technologies
CultureJammers: The new face of revolution
Right the fuck on!
Of course this is preaching to the choir, but come on, Sustainability is not only possible, it is necessary.
via Discordian Research Technologies
Of course this is preaching to the choir, but come on, Sustainability is not only possible, it is necessary.
via Discordian Research Technologies
Is Sex Necessary or Do as thow wilst
Forbes.com: Is Sex Necessary?Fans of abstinence had better be sitting down. "Saving yourself" before the big game, the big business deal, the big hoedown or the big bakeoff may indeed confer some moral benefit. But corporeally it does absolutely zip.Having regular and enthusiastic sex, by contrast, confers a host of measurable physiological advantages, be you male or female. (This assumes that you are engaging in sex without contracting a sexually transmitted disease.)
Peace Train? We don't need no stinkin' Peace Train!
Homeland Security officials said Yusuf Islam - formerly known as singer Cat Stevens - will be deported Wednesday after being denied entry to the U.S. Stevens had recently been placed on a government "no-fly" list
via BoingBoing
via BoingBoing
Monday, September 20, 2004
Philip K. Dick - How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later (Essay)
More gooodies from BoingBoing,
a PKD essay from 1978.
a PKD essay from 1978.
Friday, September 17, 2004
The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: This Is Bush's Vietnam
The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: This Is Bush's Vietnam
Vietnam=Iraq...first they started mentioning the word quagmire in hushed whispers. then, it became a low chant, not unlike moaning. and now, it should be screamed at the top of the lungs until there is no breath left: out of Iraq now!!!
Vietnam=Iraq...first they started mentioning the word quagmire in hushed whispers. then, it became a low chant, not unlike moaning. and now, it should be screamed at the top of the lungs until there is no breath left: out of Iraq now!!!
On this day in History
Sep 17 1859
San Francisco resident Joshua A. Norton proclaims himself Emperor of these United States, a title he retains until his death in 1880. The successor to Emperor Norton I has yet to be anointed
via DailyRotten
San Francisco resident Joshua A. Norton proclaims himself Emperor of these United States, a title he retains until his death in 1880. The successor to Emperor Norton I has yet to be anointed
via DailyRotten
Old Bull Lee sings the hits
Disinfo has three spoken word clips of Williams S. Burroughs doing some readings.
Thursday, September 16, 2004
Date Jesus - Jesus seeks loving woman
Date Jesus - Jesus seeks loving woman
this is kinda old but if you really want to date this guy, then here ya go.
this is kinda old but if you really want to date this guy, then here ya go.
Wednesday, September 15, 2004
Zenarchy
Wired News: Don't Mess With Librarians
See I told you Librarians were damn sexy!
They hate the Patriot Act as much as we do.
also check the link to naked librarians!
via Disinfo
They hate the Patriot Act as much as we do.
also check the link to naked librarians!
via Disinfo
Book Slut
Blog of a BookslutJessa Crispin does an amazing Blog on Books and Book related art and events. Well worth looking at for all of you Bibloholics.
Tuesday, September 14, 2004
This Isn't the Speech I Expected to Give Today
This Isn't the Speech I Expected to Give Today
Bill Moyers wrote this about three years ago, but everything he says is absolutely relevant today. A long read, but well worth the time.
~LWB
Bill Moyers wrote this about three years ago, but everything he says is absolutely relevant today. A long read, but well worth the time.
~LWB
"Dear God," I muttered. "I think the Candidate has bolts in his neck."
die puny humans:
Warren Elllis is doing a little fund raising for his blogg. Great story in the vein of his Transmetropolitan Graphic novels. (One-day DPH rent-party, to cover costs incurred by massive bandwidth overages due to Stunts and many thousands of people looking for The Dirty Stuff. If you like the little story thing, drop a couple of coins in the old man's hat, and he can bring you more Stunts, and more importantly more of The Dirty Stuff. I thank you.)
Warren Elllis is doing a little fund raising for his blogg. Great story in the vein of his Transmetropolitan Graphic novels. (One-day DPH rent-party, to cover costs incurred by massive bandwidth overages due to Stunts and many thousands of people looking for The Dirty Stuff. If you like the little story thing, drop a couple of coins in the old man's hat, and he can bring you more Stunts, and more importantly more of The Dirty Stuff. I thank you.)
Sunday, September 12, 2004
Reason: Historia Discordia: Meet Kerry Thornley, the second Oswald
Blessings and curses upon thy soul Malaclypse Jr.
via Disinfo
via Disinfo
Saturday, September 11, 2004
Blast, Mushroom Cloud Reported in N. Korea
O.K. This is a little scary.
The blast in Kim Hyong Jik county left a crater big enough to be noticed by a satellite, the source said. ... Experts have speculated that North Korea might use a major anniversary to conduct a nuclear-related test, though there was no immediate indication that the reported explosion on Thursday was linked to Pyongyang's efforts to develop nuclear weapons. "It remains unclear whether it was a deliberately planned nuclear test or it was just an accident," the source in Seoul told Yonhap. "But it doesn't seem to be an ordinary explosion."
via Slashdot
The blast in Kim Hyong Jik county left a crater big enough to be noticed by a satellite, the source said. ... Experts have speculated that North Korea might use a major anniversary to conduct a nuclear-related test, though there was no immediate indication that the reported explosion on Thursday was linked to Pyongyang's efforts to develop nuclear weapons. "It remains unclear whether it was a deliberately planned nuclear test or it was just an accident," the source in Seoul told Yonhap. "But it doesn't seem to be an ordinary explosion."
via Slashdot
The New York Times > Opinion > On the Voting Machine Makers' Tab
The New York Times > Opinion > On the Voting Machine Makers' Tab
And a left, then a right...and another left-sounding editorial from the NYTimes. Yeah!!! and the crowd goes ape-shit!!
And a left, then a right...and another left-sounding editorial from the NYTimes. Yeah!!! and the crowd goes ape-shit!!
The New York Times > Opinion > Preventive War: A Failed Doctrine
The New York Times > Opinion > Preventive War: A Failed Doctrine
In these times of corporate media conglomeration and the ever increasing "self-censorship" of our supposed independent news media, it is strangely comforting to hear the editorial board at the NYTimes announce:
"If facts mattered in American politics, the Bush-Cheney ticket would not be basing its re-election campaign on the fear-mongering contention that the surest defense against future terrorist attacks lies in the badly discredited doctrine of preventive war."
Thank you NYTimes, for at least trying to sound independent.
In these times of corporate media conglomeration and the ever increasing "self-censorship" of our supposed independent news media, it is strangely comforting to hear the editorial board at the NYTimes announce:
"If facts mattered in American politics, the Bush-Cheney ticket would not be basing its re-election campaign on the fear-mongering contention that the surest defense against future terrorist attacks lies in the badly discredited doctrine of preventive war."
Thank you NYTimes, for at least trying to sound independent.
Mark Hamill talks about next Star Wars Trilogy
Coming Soon! - Latest News
O.K. so this ahs nothing to do with the stuff we normally cover, but is cool nonetheless.
via Slashdot
O.K. so this ahs nothing to do with the stuff we normally cover, but is cool nonetheless.
via Slashdot
Global to Local: Speculative Fiction Writers ponder the social future
Locus Online: John Shirley: Global to Local
Locus Magazine interviews SF writers Cory Doctorow, Pat Murphy, Kim Stanley Robinson, Norman Spinrad, Bruce Sterling and Ken Wharton.
This is a great line-up but why did noone think to add Ken Macleod?
Cory Doctorow: “I think the Ashcroftian terrorist witchhunts, coupled with the fiscal irresponsibility of massive tax-cuts and out-of-control cronyist military adventurism will be regarded as the world mistake in this part of the American century by debtor generations to come who find themselves socially and economically isolated from the rest of the world. When the US dollar starts to drop against the laser-printed post-Saddam occupation Dinar, an unbacked currency, you know that your economy is in the deepest of shit.”
via Slashdot
Locus Magazine interviews SF writers Cory Doctorow, Pat Murphy, Kim Stanley Robinson, Norman Spinrad, Bruce Sterling and Ken Wharton.
This is a great line-up but why did noone think to add Ken Macleod?
Cory Doctorow: “I think the Ashcroftian terrorist witchhunts, coupled with the fiscal irresponsibility of massive tax-cuts and out-of-control cronyist military adventurism will be regarded as the world mistake in this part of the American century by debtor generations to come who find themselves socially and economically isolated from the rest of the world. When the US dollar starts to drop against the laser-printed post-Saddam occupation Dinar, an unbacked currency, you know that your economy is in the deepest of shit.”
via Slashdot
Grouper Download
Grouper Download
Only in beta, and so far only for Win 2000/XP, but this could easily be the future of P2P networking.
via BoingBoing
Only in beta, and so far only for Win 2000/XP, but this could easily be the future of P2P networking.
via BoingBoing
Friday, September 10, 2004
dr. menlo: promoting people over profits since 2000
dr. menlo: promoting people over profits since 2000
you'll have to scroll down a bit, but Dr. Menlo has some great anti-propaganda links up right now. FreewayBlogger is especially cool.
you'll have to scroll down a bit, but Dr. Menlo has some great anti-propaganda links up right now. FreewayBlogger is especially cool.
Tuesday, September 07, 2004
ATM
As small business owners we went to the ATM the other night to deposit ourmeager profits from a few days sales, and the ATM asked us if we wanted a receipt for our transcation; giving us the option of English or Spainish. One of my business partners chose Spainish. We received a receipt for our deposit. My business partner commented that it was ridiculous that we could get a receipt for a bank deposit, but voting machines wouldn't give you a hard copy of your vote. The three members of our collective present at the time laughed. A couple of days later, another member of our collective, upon making a deposit, noticed that the company that made the ATM was Diebold, the same company that makes the voting machines and the computers that count the votes.
So I started tabulating some of the info that I remembered hearing about Diebold in the last couple of years. Things like Walden O'Dell, chief executive of Diebold Inc., campaigning for Bush in Ohio, and stating in a letter that he is, "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year." Or Mr. O'Dell organizing $1000 a plate fund raisers for Bush, and promising to raise $100,000 for Republican war chests.
Friends, if we have another Florida this year, it may just be time to think long and hard on the words of Thomas Jefferson : "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
So I started tabulating some of the info that I remembered hearing about Diebold in the last couple of years. Things like Walden O'Dell, chief executive of Diebold Inc., campaigning for Bush in Ohio, and stating in a letter that he is, "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year." Or Mr. O'Dell organizing $1000 a plate fund raisers for Bush, and promising to raise $100,000 for Republican war chests.
Friends, if we have another Florida this year, it may just be time to think long and hard on the words of Thomas Jefferson : "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
Monday, September 06, 2004
jibber jabber: Political Prisoner in NYC
jibber jabber: Political Prisoner in NYC
1st person account of conditions for RNC political prisoners.
via BoingBoing
1st person account of conditions for RNC political prisoners.
via BoingBoing
Local M.D. comments on recent overdoses and Drug Prohibition
Living -The Olympian
Great guest story in the Olympian about the recent rash of heroin overdoses in Thurston county, in which emergency physician Joe Pellicer ruminates over the role of the illegality of narcotics in these tragedies.
Great guest story in the Olympian about the recent rash of heroin overdoses in Thurston county, in which emergency physician Joe Pellicer ruminates over the role of the illegality of narcotics in these tragedies.
This is what Bush's Freedom looks like
Newsday.com - Long Island News#photo
Benjamin Traslavina, a 16-year-old Malverne High School student, was on the floor of the Republican National Convention with a student leadership group when he got too close for the Secret Service's comfort to a protest that erupted suddenly....Even though the Act Up protesters told authorities that Benjamin wasn't part of the group, he was taken away in metal handcuffs. They took his camera and threw away his film. He also had credentials, but those were taken too.
via Chapel-Perilous
Benjamin Traslavina, a 16-year-old Malverne High School student, was on the floor of the Republican National Convention with a student leadership group when he got too close for the Secret Service's comfort to a protest that erupted suddenly....Even though the Act Up protesters told authorities that Benjamin wasn't part of the group, he was taken away in metal handcuffs. They took his camera and threw away his film. He also had credentials, but those were taken too.
via Chapel-Perilous
SPK - terrorist group, industrial band, more...
SPK - terrorist group, industrial band, more...
found by picking Klintron's Brain
he says:
anarchist mental patients trained in explosives and karate. For real.
found by picking Klintron's Brain
he says:
anarchist mental patients trained in explosives and karate. For real.
Retro-Hard-Boiled Pulp Fiction
Hard Case Crime
This publisher is printing pulp crime fiction in groovy old school sensationalist covers. Cool.
via BoingBoing
This publisher is printing pulp crime fiction in groovy old school sensationalist covers. Cool.
via BoingBoing
Saturday, September 04, 2004
Is That Jobs in Your Pocket?
Wired News: Is That Jobs in Your Pocket?: "While Steve Jobs is out of action convalescing from a cancer operation, a 12-inch, plastic facsimile of the Apple CEO is up and about evangelizing the Mac.
Jobs' surrogate is the mini iLeader, a GI Joe doll dressed up to look like the famous CEO."
Jobs' surrogate is the mini iLeader, a GI Joe doll dressed up to look like the famous CEO."
Friday, September 03, 2004
Democracy Now! | Crashing the Party: Famed Indian Writer Arundhati Roy Goes Inside the RNC
Democracy Now! | Crashing the Party: Famed Indian Writer Arundhati Roy Goes Inside the RNC
Amy Goodman and the Author of "The God of Small Things", at the RNC.
via American Samizdat
Amy Goodman and the Author of "The God of Small Things", at the RNC.
via American Samizdat
Portable HERF Gun
Portable HERF Gun
Ok so you are a peaceful activist, demonstrating for your cause du jour, and you'd like to be able to "non-violently" protect yourself from LRAD's and whatever new-wave crowd control electronic devices that Shrub's Gestapo may throw at you.
Check out these links
plans for sale to "experienced researchers."
or better yet this link.
and if you know better (or you find better)or find better you should post comments.
Ok so you are a peaceful activist, demonstrating for your cause du jour, and you'd like to be able to "non-violently" protect yourself from LRAD's and whatever new-wave crowd control electronic devices that Shrub's Gestapo may throw at you.
Check out these links
plans for sale to "experienced researchers."
or better yet this link.
and if you know better (or you find better)or find better you should post comments.
boingboing blogging use of Sonic weapons in NYC
Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things
Things are getting a little heavy about 10 blocks from here -- police are reported (widely) to have shown up at a large demonstration manning an LRAD. What's an LRAD? Long-range acoustic device. Military non-lethal technology being tested in Baghdad and Fallujah, and it looks like, right now: NYC.
First two links off Google: one, two.
relevant story on ABC
Where's my frigging EMP grenade, dude?
Things are getting a little heavy about 10 blocks from here -- police are reported (widely) to have shown up at a large demonstration manning an LRAD. What's an LRAD? Long-range acoustic device. Military non-lethal technology being tested in Baghdad and Fallujah, and it looks like, right now: NYC.
First two links off Google: one, two.
relevant story on ABC
Where's my frigging EMP grenade, dude?
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