W Ketchup�
Who needs Kerry or his wife and her ketchup (or catsup, if you like) when you can have good 'ol 'merican ketchup! Damn straight.
Friday, October 29, 2004
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
William S. Lind On War
Here is the man who is one of the greatest military reformers of the past 30 years. I know what you are thinking but give him at least a couple moments of your time. His simple and scathing analisis of the war are at least as impresive as CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ's theorys of almost 200 years ago. good luck and good hunting
Saturday, October 23, 2004
Thursday, October 21, 2004
RollingStone.com: Politics - Fear and Loathing, Campaign 2004
RollingStone.com: Politics - Fear and Loathing, Campaign 2004
Ah yes, the good Doctor spilling ink on presidential politics. I especially like the part about meeting John Kerry in the early seventies, at a riot in front of the White House throwing a dead rat over the fence. Gonzo power!!
Ah yes, the good Doctor spilling ink on presidential politics. I especially like the part about meeting John Kerry in the early seventies, at a riot in front of the White House throwing a dead rat over the fence. Gonzo power!!
Fear and Loathing for the new millenium
Dr. Gonzo's take on the Debates.
If Nixon were running for president today, he would be seen as a "liberal" candidate, and he would probably win. He was a crook and a bungler, but what the hell? Nixon was a barrel of laughs compared to this gang of thugs from the Halliburton petroleum organization who are running the White House today -- and who will be running it this time next year, if we (the once-proud, once-loved and widely respected "American people") don't rise up like wounded warriors and whack those lying petroleum pimps out of the White House on November 2nd.
via BoingBoing
If Nixon were running for president today, he would be seen as a "liberal" candidate, and he would probably win. He was a crook and a bungler, but what the hell? Nixon was a barrel of laughs compared to this gang of thugs from the Halliburton petroleum organization who are running the White House today -- and who will be running it this time next year, if we (the once-proud, once-loved and widely respected "American people") don't rise up like wounded warriors and whack those lying petroleum pimps out of the White House on November 2nd.
via BoingBoing
Fear and Loathing for the new millenium
Dr. Gonzo's take on the Debates.
If Nixon were running for president today, he would be seen as a "liberal" candidate, and he would probably win. He was a crook and a bungler, but what the hell? Nixon was a barrel of laughs compared to this gang of thugs from the Halliburton petroleum organization who are running the White House today -- and who will be running it this time next year, if we (the once-proud, once-loved and widely respected "American people") don't rise up like wounded warriors and whack those lying petroleum pimps out of the White House on November 2nd.
via BoingBoing
If Nixon were running for president today, he would be seen as a "liberal" candidate, and he would probably win. He was a crook and a bungler, but what the hell? Nixon was a barrel of laughs compared to this gang of thugs from the Halliburton petroleum organization who are running the White House today -- and who will be running it this time next year, if we (the once-proud, once-loved and widely respected "American people") don't rise up like wounded warriors and whack those lying petroleum pimps out of the White House on November 2nd.
via BoingBoing
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
And so begins the next stage of evolution
This is so BAD-AASSS!
oh yeah and scary.
An pill-sized brain chip has allowed a quadriplegic man to check e-mail and play computer games using his thoughts. The device can tap into a hundred neurons at a time, and is the most sophisticated such implant tested in humans so far.
via Technoccult
oh yeah and scary.
An pill-sized brain chip has allowed a quadriplegic man to check e-mail and play computer games using his thoughts. The device can tap into a hundred neurons at a time, and is the most sophisticated such implant tested in humans so far.
via Technoccult
Friday, October 15, 2004
Techie comments on IndyMedia seizure
BACK WHEN the Internet was young – oh, say, eight years ago – there was a school of thought that held that cyberspace was its own sovereign nation.
For one thing, "The Net perceives censorship as damage, and routes around it." What government could control what was said on the Net?...
Maybe it's time to change that into, "Governments perceive the Internet as damage, and gang up on it."
via Slashdot
For one thing, "The Net perceives censorship as damage, and routes around it." What government could control what was said on the Net?...
Maybe it's time to change that into, "Governments perceive the Internet as damage, and gang up on it."
via Slashdot
Source of Puget Sound oil spill still unknown
State and Coast Guard officials estimated the spill Thursday at 1,000 gallons, state Ecology Department spokesman Larry Altose said.
Russian Girl's Life With A Yeti
FarShores CryptoDimension Article: Russian Girl's Life With A YetiA fantastic love story has been recently unveiled in St.Petersburg. Psychiatrist Nikolai Boyarchuk said that he had copied the text of the story from the file of a female patient. The doctor said that the story that happened to Oksana Terletskaya was absolutely real. He added that it would not be immoral to write about it in press, because the woman either died or she would never return to live with humans again.
The 19-year-old girl was "married" to the Bigfoot for almost a year
The 19-year-old girl was "married" to the Bigfoot for almost a year
Hakim Bey -- JIHAD REVISTED
Americanism & Islamism: a plague on both their houses. As for true
jihad, there's more going on in South America and Mexico now than
anywhere else. Maybe while President Tweedledee and the Imam ibn
Tweedledum bite each other's throats out on CNN, something interesting
might have a chance to emerge from the barrios of Argentina or
Venezuela, or the jungles of Chiapas.
via Klintron's Brain
jihad, there's more going on in South America and Mexico now than
anywhere else. Maybe while President Tweedledee and the Imam ibn
Tweedledum bite each other's throats out on CNN, something interesting
might have a chance to emerge from the barrios of Argentina or
Venezuela, or the jungles of Chiapas.
via Klintron's Brain
Bobby Fischer vows revenge on Bush
"You are going to pay for this and you're going to pay for your crimes in Iraq, too," Fischer said.
Thursday, October 14, 2004
Powered by sunlight
This may force the Ford Motor company to release the plans for alt. fuel
cars sooner than any one thought. If you were unaware ford motor co.
produce a good quarter of the car brands that you would recognize off
the bat for a test look here http://www.ford.com/en/company/about/brands/default.htm?source=rt&referrer=vehicles_default
cars sooner than any one thought. If you were unaware ford motor co.
produce a good quarter of the car brands that you would recognize off
the bat for a test look here http://www.ford.com/en/company/about/brands/default.htm?source=rt&referrer=vehicles_default
Bombers penetrate heavily fortified Green Zone in Iraq, killing 10 people
Insurgents penetrated Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone and detonated explosives at a market and a popular cafe today, killing 10 people, including four American civilians, in the first bombings inside the compound housing the U.S. and Iraqi government headquarters.
Wednesday, October 13, 2004
O'Reilly Hit With Sex Harass Suit - October 13, 2004
If any of you have Seen Out Foxed, you know what Bil will say to this.........
Shut UP!
He he he he!
Shut UP!
He he he he!
Roll Call - Who are novelists voting for?
Article on Slate interviewing different authors on who they support in the Presidential election.
Here's John Updike's take on it:
I look forward to voting for John Kerry, a man of exemplary intelligence who was brave in war and then brave in protest of war. I don't look for him to reverse our course in Iraq overnight, nor to provide quick fixes for global or national problems, but there are certain things I am sure he will not do: He won't try to pack the Supreme Court and other judiciary with anti-choice judges; he won't push for an anti-gay-marriage constitutional amendment; he won't try to perform voodoo economics with tax cuts and a raging deficit. The present president has his virtues and his good intentions, but I'm not sure the United States can afford four more years of his administration.
Here's John Updike's take on it:
I look forward to voting for John Kerry, a man of exemplary intelligence who was brave in war and then brave in protest of war. I don't look for him to reverse our course in Iraq overnight, nor to provide quick fixes for global or national problems, but there are certain things I am sure he will not do: He won't try to pack the Supreme Court and other judiciary with anti-choice judges; he won't push for an anti-gay-marriage constitutional amendment; he won't try to perform voodoo economics with tax cuts and a raging deficit. The present president has his virtues and his good intentions, but I'm not sure the United States can afford four more years of his administration.
Monday, October 11, 2004
FBI siezes indymedia web servers!
Oh my god. We're really screwed. Next thing you know they'll be comin for Last Word Books! Watch out free radicals of Olympia, our time may well be nigh.
Saturday, October 09, 2004
Yes sir, Mr. President, I would like to buy some wood.
Bush got a laugh when he scoffed at Kerry's contention that he had received $84 from "a timber company." Said Bush, "I own a timber company? That's news to me."
In fact, according to his 2003 financial disclosure form, Bush does own part interest in "LSTF, LLC", a limited-liability company organized "for the purpose of the production of trees for commercial sales."
What's really funny is Kerry got this info from factcheck, which Cheney tried to allude to in the VP debate. Cheney mistakenly refered to the site as "factcheck.com" But Cheney cited FactCheck.com, a for-profit advertising site based in the Cayman Islands.
The company decided to redirect traffic to the Soros site after it became inundated with hits — about 100 a second after the debate, John Berryhill, a Philadelphia lawyer for FactCheck.com, said Wednesday.
"This was to relieve stress on the service and to express a political point of view," said Berryhill, who spoke with the site's administrators shortly after the debate ended.
They picked Soros not only for his political views, Berryhill said, but because the billionaire could afford the costly deluge of hits the site would receive in the wake of the debate. Plus, the site administrators didn't want to point surfers to a candidate's site that was asking for money.
Unfortunately factcheck.com is no longer redirecting to Soros site.
Check the link for bloopers from both the candidates.
via BoingBoing
In fact, according to his 2003 financial disclosure form, Bush does own part interest in "LSTF, LLC", a limited-liability company organized "for the purpose of the production of trees for commercial sales."
What's really funny is Kerry got this info from factcheck, which Cheney tried to allude to in the VP debate. Cheney mistakenly refered to the site as "factcheck.com" But Cheney cited FactCheck.com, a for-profit advertising site based in the Cayman Islands.
The company decided to redirect traffic to the Soros site after it became inundated with hits — about 100 a second after the debate, John Berryhill, a Philadelphia lawyer for FactCheck.com, said Wednesday.
"This was to relieve stress on the service and to express a political point of view," said Berryhill, who spoke with the site's administrators shortly after the debate ended.
They picked Soros not only for his political views, Berryhill said, but because the billionaire could afford the costly deluge of hits the site would receive in the wake of the debate. Plus, the site administrators didn't want to point surfers to a candidate's site that was asking for money.
Unfortunately factcheck.com is no longer redirecting to Soros site.
Check the link for bloopers from both the candidates.
via BoingBoing
Friday, October 08, 2004
Bush's mystery bulge
You'll need to sit through a commericial, but it's worth it.
Ignore the strings, peasants, just keep your eyes on the funny dancing puppet.
also check out this site dedicated to this issue.
Ignore the strings, peasants, just keep your eyes on the funny dancing puppet.
also check out this site dedicated to this issue.
Wednesday, October 06, 2004
U.S. Inspector Says Iraq Had No Banned Weapons
Wasn't this already confirmed? Not that it doesn't bear repeating.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iraq had no stockpiles of biological and chemical weapons and its nuclear program had decayed before last year's U.S.-led invasion, the chief U.S. weapons inspector said on Wednesday, in findings contrary to prewar assertions of the Bush administration.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iraq had no stockpiles of biological and chemical weapons and its nuclear program had decayed before last year's U.S.-led invasion, the chief U.S. weapons inspector said on Wednesday, in findings contrary to prewar assertions of the Bush administration.
Utopia
Great online exhibit on utopias.
Utopia is the result of a collaborative effort between two of the world’s great libraries, the Bibliothèque nationale de France and The New York Public Library. It represents the first time that two such institutions have merged their staffs in order to produce a unified exhibition. Materials and topics included in Utopia reflect the strengths of both libraries’ collections, while representing the variety of utopian proposals and experiments in the Western world.
and from deeper in the exhibition...
Probably the "ambiguous utopia" described in Ursula LeGuin’s novel, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (1974), is the most appealing utopia I have ever encountered. The form of life depicted in this well-written novel is best described as communal (or communist) anarchism, and I believe that communal anarchism is, on balance, the most attractive form of life that human beings can share. Communal anarchism seeks to foster individual autonomy, self-development, and freedom within the framework of a genuinely communal society. The politics of communal anarchism are radically democratic and significantly decentralized. Economic life and material wealth (though not work) are recognized as having limited and only instrumental value, and contributions are based on ability, distribution on need. The ownership and possession of things and people is rejected, and solidarity or fraternity, and therefore mutuality and reciprocity, are regarded as important as, and as essential to, equality, freedom and justice. At the same time, The Dispossessed does indeed describe an "ambiguous utopia," by which is meant that the society is not merely imperfect in terms of its own ideals, but that the very idea of perfection is both impossible and undesirable. This is due in part to the fact that evolution or change is regarded as inevitable, and in part to the fact that the multiple goods and values which characterize communal anarchism are quite demanding (given the imperfections of human beings), and to some degree conflicting (given the complexities of social life), with the result that unwanted and undesirable consequences are unavoidable, and vigilance and struggle, readjustment, even revolution, is constantly required. - Dan Sabia, University of S. Carolina
Dig around, there is a lot of cool stuff here.
Utopia is the result of a collaborative effort between two of the world’s great libraries, the Bibliothèque nationale de France and The New York Public Library. It represents the first time that two such institutions have merged their staffs in order to produce a unified exhibition. Materials and topics included in Utopia reflect the strengths of both libraries’ collections, while representing the variety of utopian proposals and experiments in the Western world.
and from deeper in the exhibition...
Probably the "ambiguous utopia" described in Ursula LeGuin’s novel, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (1974), is the most appealing utopia I have ever encountered. The form of life depicted in this well-written novel is best described as communal (or communist) anarchism, and I believe that communal anarchism is, on balance, the most attractive form of life that human beings can share. Communal anarchism seeks to foster individual autonomy, self-development, and freedom within the framework of a genuinely communal society. The politics of communal anarchism are radically democratic and significantly decentralized. Economic life and material wealth (though not work) are recognized as having limited and only instrumental value, and contributions are based on ability, distribution on need. The ownership and possession of things and people is rejected, and solidarity or fraternity, and therefore mutuality and reciprocity, are regarded as important as, and as essential to, equality, freedom and justice. At the same time, The Dispossessed does indeed describe an "ambiguous utopia," by which is meant that the society is not merely imperfect in terms of its own ideals, but that the very idea of perfection is both impossible and undesirable. This is due in part to the fact that evolution or change is regarded as inevitable, and in part to the fact that the multiple goods and values which characterize communal anarchism are quite demanding (given the imperfections of human beings), and to some degree conflicting (given the complexities of social life), with the result that unwanted and undesirable consequences are unavoidable, and vigilance and struggle, readjustment, even revolution, is constantly required. - Dan Sabia, University of S. Carolina
Dig around, there is a lot of cool stuff here.
Tuesday, October 05, 2004
F*ck Big Media: Rolling Your Own Network
Oh Klintron, my friend, we are so glad you are back at your keyboard after your travels!! We get to pick your brains and find such tasty morsels as this:
The world is changing again. What happened to print a decade ago is about to happen to television. And television is far more potent than print. This time the revolution will be televised - and it will make the Web era look like a tempest in a teacup. They'll call you criminals, revolutionaries, thieves and saboteurs. And they'll be right. But fuck them. Fuck big media. You're the asteroid, just about to break the atmosphere, and wipe out those fucking dinosaurs.
This is from the latest addition to Klint's Link-Soup.
The world is changing again. What happened to print a decade ago is about to happen to television. And television is far more potent than print. This time the revolution will be televised - and it will make the Web era look like a tempest in a teacup. They'll call you criminals, revolutionaries, thieves and saboteurs. And they'll be right. But fuck them. Fuck big media. You're the asteroid, just about to break the atmosphere, and wipe out those fucking dinosaurs.
This is from the latest addition to Klint's Link-Soup.
N. korea Going Digital In Their Fight with Democracy
FT.com / World / Asia-Pacific - N Korea�s computer hackers target South and USNorth Korea has trained as many as 600 computer hackers to be capable of launching a cyber-war on South Korea, the US or Japan, South Korea’s defence ministry said on Monday. Now you and I both know that The U.S. has been using this same tactic for a long time. This does sound vaugley reminicent of a bruce sterling book where he talks about asian countries pulling tthe rug out from under the U.S. economy by open sourcing any softwear any one choses to produce.
Thanks Slash Dot for the tip
Thanks Slash Dot for the tip
Free Radio Olympia Changing Frequency
On October 29, Free Radio Olympia will move our broadcast signal from 91.3 FM to 101.9 FM. We are calling our community to help spread the word, to make sure all our listeners know to retune their receivers to 101.9 on 10.29!
Tell your family, tell your friends, hell, tell your enemies!
Oh and you can still listen to them on the web.
Tell your family, tell your friends, hell, tell your enemies!
Oh and you can still listen to them on the web.
Saturday, October 02, 2004
New open-source full GUI OS
The goal of Syllable is to create a reliable and easy-to-use open source operating system for the home and small office user. We also want to encourage developers to create an operating system that is intuitive, easy to use, and powerful.
Syllable is still being developed, but it is already stable and relatively mature, including the following features:
Booting usually takes less than ten seconds
A full GUI is built into the OS
Support for a wide range of common hardware devices, including video, network, and sound cards from manufacturers such as Intel, AMD, 3Com, nVidia, and Creative (see Azaka for a complete list)
Internet access through an Ethernet network (though PPP and PPPoE are not yet supported)
A graphical web browser (ABrowse) and e-mail client (Whisper), and hundreds of other native applications (see Kamidake for a complete list)
A journalled file system, modelled on the BeOS file system
An application launcher (like the Windows Start button)
99% POSIX compliance
GUI-based preferences tools for networking, display preferences, user administration, etc.
The entire source is available via the GPL
An object-oriented programming API
via Slashdot
Syllable is still being developed, but it is already stable and relatively mature, including the following features:
Booting usually takes less than ten seconds
A full GUI is built into the OS
Support for a wide range of common hardware devices, including video, network, and sound cards from manufacturers such as Intel, AMD, 3Com, nVidia, and Creative (see Azaka for a complete list)
Internet access through an Ethernet network (though PPP and PPPoE are not yet supported)
A graphical web browser (ABrowse) and e-mail client (Whisper), and hundreds of other native applications (see Kamidake for a complete list)
A journalled file system, modelled on the BeOS file system
An application launcher (like the Windows Start button)
99% POSIX compliance
GUI-based preferences tools for networking, display preferences, user administration, etc.
The entire source is available via the GPL
An object-oriented programming API
via Slashdot
Friday, October 01, 2004
Cool toys:
MSNBC - Mini WiFi locator locks in on networksMobile Edge’s WiFi Signal Locators. It is a small keychain/fob type of device which is a lot more sophisticated than it looks -– and to me it looks like one of those wireless, remote car door openers.
Slashdot | Green Party Candidate David Cobb Answers Your Questions
Oh, Slashdot, you think you are just a geek hangout, but you are really one of the best news sources for the 21st century. Oh how we love thee!
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