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"Let me be outraged and annihilated, but for one instant, in one being, let Your enormous Library be justified. "
-- Jorge Luis Borges, "The Library of Babel"


miércoles, octubre 31, 2001
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"When I was growing up, most of the kids in my neighborhood were fairly uncreative.  Instead of thinking long and hard about what you wanted to be for Halloween, you'd run with your parent to the store at the last minute, and grab a prepackaged costume made by Ben Cooper or Collegeville of some famous character.  Superheroes, Monsters, and Star Wars characters were usually the favorites, but every now and then you came across a few gems that really made you scratch your head."
I think of all the mothers who come in to the store where I work without their children and buy whatever's cheap. I know for a fact that there will be a few poor souls wandering around this halloween in jar jar binks costumes.



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When I was younger, and I guess when they were more active, I used to collect pamphlets from Jews For Jesus - with such eye-catching titles as "Do Athiests Go To Hell?" or some such, and likening the Simpsons as characters in the Bible. Well, it seems they've grown from the days of simply littering the streets of New York with their meme, and now they've got not just one web site, but two! "One if you ALREADY believe in Jesus -- and one if you DON'T." Oh, and don't miss their Flash propaganda: Dotcom Survivor. My favorite quote:

"That wisdom came from Jesus (Y'shua). His tribe was Judah. If you follow his lead you can be more than a survivor. He'll give you the password to life that no one can hack!"



martes, octubre 30, 2001
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heh, i've got bunches of thoose things at home, i've been collecting assorted pieces of propaganda for a few years now. it started as a small subdivision of the massive amounts of paper i hoard, but turned into a slightly more orginized project since i used it as a rescorce in sociology class. you can buy the little chick books at See Hear in the city, but i also got a few of them from this ultra right wing christain kid in my science class junior year. he was constantly protesting in and out of class- he didn't believe in evolution- as well as cells, dinosouars, atoms, the ice age, and lots of other important aspects of reality....
sigh... where in the bible does it say that cells are bad?



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have y'all heard of Chick tracts? they're those horrendous "Christian" pamphlets handed out in airports. my neighbor Mareth went to a very Christian college last year, and a friend of hers from there is deeply concerned that Smith will "turn her gay", so he's been sending her links to Chick pamphlets online, such as Sin City and Doom Town. makes me want to go out and kiss women, or something. well, ok, maybe not...




lunes, octubre 29, 2001
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....And now for something completely different...It's the return of the queer liberal brigade! Hurray Hurrah! I don't know what's gotten into me lately, maybe too much time spent in the heterosexist adult world, but I have been increasingly aware of my own sexual politics. I kissed a boy for the first time in nearly a year, and he's a really wonderful guy and an old friend, but it just didn't really do anything for me physically, you know? And every time I kiss a boy I end up questioning my sexuality. Part of me wonders if I've succomed to the pressure of my own internalized homophobia. The other part becomes saddened with the prospect that I could in fact be so gay that I can not simply approach my sexual relationships based on individual merit but that plumbing may have to be honestly considered. Either way I end up being rather dissatisfied with my stance - neither is politically satisfying. Michael Warner voiced a similar dissatisfaction in a Village Voice article from October 16th about gay characters in popular culture. He says, "What convinces straight Americans to accept gay people is that some of us are in long-term monogamous couples, go to church, want to raise normal children, and shop happily in our growing ncihe market. The more we can be convinced that this normalization is what we wanted, the less straight culture will have to change its own norms or institutions, and the less it will have to recognize more disreputable queers...The pursuit of media visibility has involved a systematic transfer of power (back into the hands of the straight majority)". It's like the straight majority is all of a sudden deciding who gets to be gay and how. Yuck and double yuck. This ideology makes me want to be outrageously flamboyant (whatever that means - and who decides that?), but of course, that would probably mean that I would have to submit the rest of my identity to my sexuality, which is something I've resisted for years now - it's like, just because I like women, why do I have to then become the epidomy of the chovanist pig with his head in his crotch all the time? Will & Grace seems to be doing to sexual freedom what Ally McBeal has done to feminism... and neither Will nor Ally seem to ever get any. Hmph. No fair. So, I've decided that, whether I end up with a "man" or a "woman" I will not get legally married until our legal system recognizes all relationships equally.



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dude, i thought that was supposed to be your porn star name. mine would be "Kingsley Devine." how... appropriate.

an alternative i've heard is to take the name of your first pet as your first name, and your mother's maiden name as your last. (also as porn star name.) mine, even more appropriately, would be "Princess Devine".



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From "The Name Game", published in McSweeney's:
Take your middle name as your first name. Take your mother's maiden name as your last name. That's your Romance Novelist name.
For me that works out to be the same as my grandfather's name. Should I be worried?



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anyone who wants a cheap long-distance phone card, try BigZoo. i can call italy for $0.065 (yes, that's six point five cents a minute), which is just dandy, as far as i'm concerned. they also have wicked cheap domestic rates : 2.9 or 3.9 cents a minute. try 'em out.

on the other hand: do not - i repeat do not - use Alocard to make long-distance calls. they advertised their rate to italy as one cent a minute plus a 50 cent surcharge, but i bought a $10 phonecard and it lasted about seven minutes. therefore, Alocard can blow me. and not in a good way.



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hm. anyone want to help graeme (who lives in san francisco, btw) get a job? he does artwork, among other things.

(at any rate, you should check out his work. i like it lots.)



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Jimmy-Ive been listening to Boards of Canada's "Music has the Right to Children" nonstop. I think its groovy. I also got the much anticipated new Saul Williams' album. Gill Scott Heron, meet Ozzy.



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A dissapointing but probably-accurate NYT editorial by Frank Rich:
"This is an administration that will let its special interests — particularly its high-rolling campaign contributors and its noisiest theocrats of the right — have veto power over public safety, public health and economic prudence in war, it turns out, no less than in peacetime..."



sábado, octubre 27, 2001
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The ACLU on the most recent round of scary "antiterrorist" legislation:
"This is an historic vote that based upon a false dichotomy: that safety must come at the expense of civil liberties. We can be safe and fight terrorism without substantially surrendering our civil liberties, and without giving enormous, unwarranted power to the executive branch - which can be used against U.S. citizens -- unchecked by meaningful judicial review."




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fuz -- i say them, because i associate the name PDQ Bach with the Smothers Brothers performances I saw as a kid. I think there were 3 of them onstage. In the one I remember best.. the old guy had an inner tube that he was swinging around his head... and the other two had similar found-objects. Good stuff. I think back in Rochester I may have a couple of them on VHS... I'd have to look.

jimmy tones -- BoC are great... latest media acquisition for me was the new Aphex Twin double-cd set. It's pretty decent, I'd suggest finding a kiosk and listening to it before buying it. Of course, you could always download it. =)



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Easy E fans might enjoy the virtuosic DJ Assault's recent magnum opus "Ass and Titties" (alternately "Ass'N'Titties"), which some have said renders him heir-apparent to the late Mr. Easy. For "obscure yet compelling" I could also recommend... a lot! But for now I will just say: The Boards Of Canada.



viernes, octubre 26, 2001
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christopher - PDQ bach? "them"? Perhaps you have him confused with someone else... but whatever - email me at hookmeup@fuzrocks.com, and I shall. And I actually already have a 60MB avi, and the mp3. No techno version, but I do have a punk cover..

zole - I have Nutz on ya Chin already, and find it both vulgar and not particularly amusing past the second playing. "Love in ya Mouth", now... Now that's a song.



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I would suggest Eazy-E, either "Nutz on ya Chin" or "Gimmie That Nut". They're hilariously creepy.



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fuz -- PDQ Bach? Hook me up! I think I was first introduced to them from one of their numerous appearances on the old Smothers Brothers Variety Show. Woo!

As for muppets I've got an mpeg of that silly Mahna Mahna song that's so infectiously wonderful. If you'd like, I can post it... but it's over 20mb in size. If you've got the mp3 (or the techno remix of it, for that matter) I'd also be interested. =)



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I've had a lot of time on my hands recently, and have become addicted to downloading mp3's. My only problem now is a lack of ideas for what in particular to look for... recently I downloaded as much smothers brothers as I wanted, some music from Dance Dance Revolution, as much Dan Bern as I could handle, a bunch of pete seeger, some Wyclef Jean, a whole bunch of muppets music, more PDQ Bach than I know what to do with, the complete works of the Actual Tigers, and various comedy and novelty recordings ( I love The Frantics ). So. Anybody have any obscure yet compelling artists/songs I should look into?



jueves, octubre 25, 2001
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"...I realised that I had probably made the right decision not to become a hairy, thin and ugly pornstar, after all."



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China's Golden Shield: Corporations and the Development of Surveillance Technology in the People's Republic of China

A report by Greg Walton released Thursday by Canada's International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development documents how Western corporations like Nortel Networks have been "an extraordinary ally" for the Chinese government in the surveillance and repression of political dissidents. Judging from the author and Acknowledgements, this report looks like a kind of followup to the Def Con Hacktivismo panel.
(via Openflows.org)



miércoles, octubre 24, 2001
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We were talking about the Penis Puppeteers a while back. Today, TopFive.com presents the Top 15 Signs Your Partner is Moonlighting as a Penis Puppeteer.



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I am surprised by the number of people who come into the store looking for outfits for come-in-costume weddings. I am also surprised by the number of people who choose to dress as hookers for said weddings. my boss says this is reletively common, during the year too, weddings where the guests are encouraged to come in any costume- and weddings with elaborate theemes that require dressing as a particular character.
a while ago one couple got married dressed as Luke and Leia from star wars- which sort of makes me wonder if they'd actually bothered to finish the seris. And two days ago a couple rented cinderalla and prince charming costumes for a second wedding. (she had young girls and they thought it would make the wedding fun for them)



lunes, octubre 22, 2001
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jimmy: I'm not really qualified to answer that question, but it seems everyone has been hurting lately.



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bc: So why is a computer security firm doing poorly right now? I'd (perhaps naively) think that security would be most company's number one concern in light of recent events...



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"I think with writing, in order to write almost anything - unless you're going to have a story that's just set with one character in a room and even then, I mean, almost anything you could imagine writing about, even if you've just got one character in a room, by extension there's a whole world outside it, which is having an influence upon the person in that room..."
-- Alan Moore

... and so here I am, under the influence, as it were. I choose to quote Alan because, besides having enjoyed Watchmen, I recently saw From Hell (based on Alan's graphic novel of the same name). Similarities between the two may be completely coincidental, however, and so my reading queue grows by one.

I also saw David Lynch's new film, Mullholland Drive. Typically, reviews are mixed. Personally, I did not enjoy it as much as I have Lost Highway and/or Twin Peaks, but obviously more than the audience in Greenwich who simply laughed for lack of understanding.

In other news, things are not going well for BindView, my previous employer. Yeah, "my previous employer" 'cause I was laid off. Bummer, but I've been preparing. In fact, I think this will improve a lot things for me. I've hence moved out of Boston - though I will miss it terriblly - and back to Greenwich for work in NYC. One door closes and another door opens, y'know?



domingo, octubre 21, 2001
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cmoore- Congratulations! In my experience, the Lonely Planet guides are all really good and pretty universally respected.



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holy shit. my dad just convinced my mom to buy me a plane ticket to europe for jan-term. holy shit. so as of a couple minutes ago, i'll be flying to Berlin on December 26 and flying out of Florence on Jan 21.

holy shit! my parents are awesome!

so... anyone know of any good "cheap travel" guidebooks for europe, or any not-to-be-missed sights to see?



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My computer's clock sets itself back one half hour at seemingly random intervals. This has made me late to a lot of things recently. Does anyone know why this would happen?

(Though, considering that Windows also has begun to claim that my D partition simultaneously has 600MB free and no space available, things might just be generally fucked.)




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against my psyche's screaming inhibitions, i'm posting the hypertext story i've written for my Hampshire class: it's called connections. be warned; it's pretty autobiographical, and much of it might be oversharing. read at your own risk. you can pass editorial comments along to me personally; don't post 'em here (but do feel free to give me some).

addendum 10/21: i've made some final corrections. it should be actually done now.



sábado, octubre 20, 2001
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ahhh, fun times spent at the U.S census website. on my day off the other day, i got wrapped up in scanning the 1990 census results names pages. i copied down a huge list of names i thought were interesting, along with the numbers that accompany them on the main pages (the frequency in percent and cumulative frequency in percent) this is just a small sample of what i found.
James is the number one guy's name and Alonso is last at #1219. Timothy ranks 27th for guys and 3342nd for girls. Tim (#170) and Timmy (#479) are listed separately; same for Dave (#271) and David (#6). Matthew is #25, Jose is #28, Benjamin is #66 and Nicholas is #64. Shirley (#936) is not very popular among men, but it's #27 on the women's list. Toby is 483rd for males, and 1545th among females, and Taylor ranks 805th among girls and 402nd among boys. For women's names in general, Mary is #1, Linda is #3, Amy is #32, Emily is #99, Caroline is #248 Jo is #250 Hilda is #263. Hedwig came in surprisingly far away from the bottom of the list at #1815, above Cinderella (#3736), and Evita (#4063) and Allyn is the least popular at #4275. Several names were omitted from the list entirely, and though I saw many really bizarre spellings of average names, "Brien" and "Mirelle" "Nikolas" "Daryn" and "Dara" were not up there.



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Is it just me or do weekends at college suck ass? It's like the Sunday morning grogginess for 48 straight hours.



viernes, octubre 19, 2001
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...and another lab shift from 2:30-4:00, in which zole sent me chicken wings are not for flying. he claimed: "the model game has nothing on this", and it's true.

cute AND fun. two great tastes that go great together.



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fridays i have a lab shift from 11:00am-12:30. at noon, some friends of mine emerged from the classroom next door and told me they'd been feeding models online, and made me come watch. you, too, can save starving models at adiosbarbie.com. go now, and watch their mouths grow disproportionately huge.



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t-dog: woah. i'll be there tonight to cuck your socks and watch you break a leg.



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Julian Graham informs me that "The readers of cmoore/blog will cuck your sock if you show them the contents of this link: http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/10/17/ret.us.propaganda/index.html

He's right, it is totally insane. Read it. And my socks will be available for cuckage at your respective leisures...



jueves, octubre 18, 2001
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My mom sent this link to me with the subject line "college classes for well rounded students"
THSP 599D Rhetoric of Star Trek
Fall 2001
TOS means original series; TNG means "Next Generation; STC means cartoons; DS9 means "Deep Space Nine"; VOY means "Voyager"; and MOV means movies.
In the summer of 1999, Garrett Wang who played Ensign Kim from Voyager spoke to the class.  I will do my best to have someone from the Trek Universe appear during one of our classes.   We will integrate him/her/them into the schedule and adjust the classes appropriately.
Viewings are shown in their entirety. Selections are edited for presentation. Note well: We have no final examination but we have five themes. Themes can be done on selections but not on viewings.  While I am trying to make learning fun, I am going to insist we read the readings on reserve on the library since it is not cost effective to purchase a book.



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accroding to pollstar, the beastie boys and a collection of random others will be playing in New York on October 28th.
too bad I work and it's my sister's birthday....




martes, octubre 16, 2001
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"What is good literature?" i haven't had to think about a coherent answer to that question since the last time I turned in summer reading....
It's always been a hard question for me since the whole idea of "good literature" is so subjective, and I have trouble picking one side of any issue. hrm..... This question needs more thought and I will come back to it after work today. I work almost full time at a costume shop, which is mostly enjoyable but really exhausting some days I work eight hours of more without a break, or even a chance to sit down, because we're so busy. I've been promised a raise and a better collection of duties once Halloween is over and the top floor converts back to a vintage clothing and antique shop, but until then I'm stuck running around shelving things and chasing small children. but i am running late, so more on this later




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The answer to both questions is the same for me... It's subjective. Porn is what turns me on, erotica turns me on intellectually, and writing that's just about sex doesn't. And writing, like any other art form, is good when it affects me in some way - it makes me see the world in a way I had not seen it before. A good writer, then, would be one who has written good writing. : )

And unlike sir Zole and Jesse Helms, I see no distinction between art and porn - art makes me feel, and porn turns me on. The two are most certainly not mutually exclusive, although they're not always the same, either.

Both of the pages I maintain have received some art, and some porn, and some pornographic art. And both have recieved some writing that's just about sex - almost all of it good.

I'm not sure how else you could define it, without resorting to a platonic ideal of "good writing". Me being a good little modern philosopher, I do not wish to. (Thank you, Joe Cruz)





lunes, octubre 15, 2001
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question: what is the difference between pornography, erotica, and just writing that's about sex?

question 2: what defines "good writing" to you? what defines a "good writer"?

discuss.



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Upcoming good music in the NY/CT/MA area:
10/23: DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist @ Irving Plaza in NYC.
10/29: They Might Be Giants @ Toad's Place in New Haven CT.
10/31: Massive Halloween drum'n'bass w. Reid Speed @ Asylum in New Haven CT.
11/4: Kid Koala & Bullfrog with DJ Logic & Project Logic @ Toad's Place in New Haven CT. Ohmigosh, this will make Koala's 10-minute Radiohead set seem like a retirement home.
11/6-11/10: Stereolab in Boston and NYC.
11/21: Mr. Scruff @ The Knitting Factory in NYC.
11/23: Ninja Tune Solid Steel Tour with Kev (DJ Food), DK, Bonobo & Four Tet @ The Knitting Factory in NYC.

Wowsers! I will at the very least be at Koala and Solid Steel, both of which will blow the faces off of all in attendence. Anyone want to join me?

(Also, on 10/22, Aphex Twin does 'Drukqs'; his first release in about three years. Can a US tour be far behind?)



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Your whimsy levels are too low. Try the effective remedy of Boy on a Stick and Slither. It's old school, and I did the PHP. But don't forget, there are other comics.



domingo, octubre 14, 2001
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"So here am I; neutral, stuck-in-neutral, neutered . . . not even stuck in the middle with Bill and Al, but trapped in right field with Dubya and Herr Ashcroft busy making plans for his own version of the Spanish Inquisition, unable to join the antiwar protests with a clear conscience because they could be wrong, not able to fly the flag because I don't believe in nationalism, not able to endorse the 'war' because it could be a dumb tactic leading to pointless deaths, unwilling to sacrifice my irony and foolish irreverence to the martial mood of the country or to a bizarre and pious import from the 13th Century."
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my friend veronica stopped by with her boys tonight. they're two guys who are driving across the country from michigan; their car broke down and she took them in. she's right--they're absolutely sweet. we ended up having a singalong with my guitar--the one guy plays a lot of dave matthews and is actually really good. i felt like an amateur (well, unity, you kinda *are*). we're all going to get together and watch weird movies tomorrow night.

my sweetie called me tonight. he's hanging out with my dad. i'm jealous. dad told him that he's glad we eloped! saved me from my mom. of course, this means i eventually have to tell my mom that i got married....she's going to be so pissed. this could be really funny.

cmoore, i'm trying i'm trying i'm trying to write something for deeplyfucked! you'll have to see whether you still recognize my writing whenever i finally submit something. --ooh. just had an idea. gotta go. :)



sábado, octubre 13, 2001
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I think I've definitely entered the world where who-you-know really matters. Starting Monday I will be the new intern/freelance writer for Studio 360, a radio magazine that uses art as a lense to look at everything else. I sat in on an editorial meeting there on Thursday and people were tossing around ideas about themes like Maps, Robots, Outer Space, etc. It seemed like everyone but me knew a Map expert, a Robot expert, or was themselves an Astronaut. Fortunately, I do know a Map expert, or at least I know someone who majored in cultural geography and now makes a living drawing maps. It looks like you cool kids will be my best career resource. And speaking of meeting rooms and geography, the Studio 360 meeting room looks out onto the beautiful WTC dust cloud - which puffs up about 3 blocks from our building. The air down there still sucks, and after a few hours of breathing it in I was hurting and wondering how the phlegm building in my throat would affect my radio voice. The block surrounding the WTC seems more like a movie set than anything else, strangely vacant and bright with many gawkers quietly looking on. North of Canal Street there's fairly little sign of the whole thing, and generally speaking it's not that bad. Still, I'm either crazy or a true New Yorker at heart to start working down there now - gosh, I hope it's the latter.



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... and then they go and do something like this.



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In other words, the West can live in peace with Islam. What is unclear is whether Islam can live in peace with the West.

The Economist often surprises me. Their (some years back) issue on the War on Drugs came down solidly in favor of legalization - there is no economic incentive to continue the "war", and many many against it. This time, they have a unique take on the current "terrorism crisis".


Addenda
An example of their official editorial position on drug legalization in Britain




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randomness #1:
each aspen grove is a single organism. hundreds of trees can share the same root structure, making an aspen grove the largest living organism on earth.
randomness #2:
my new vibrator sounds like a weedeater. i was playing with it the other day and when i turned it off, i heard a weedeater outside. my sweetie said it was the weedeater mating call.



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your assignment, if you care to accept it: go to deeplyfucked and read. then write your own and submit it. because what's more fun than trying to figure out which of your acquaintances wrote the porn you're reading, really?



viernes, octubre 12, 2001
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...officials from the Office of National Statistics are keen to point out that just because Jedi Knight has been given its own code, that does not confer on it the status of official recognition.



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"Gloria Foster , the distinguished African-American actress most recently known for her grandmotherly, spoon-bending performance as Oracle in 1999's sci-fi blockbuster, died of complications from diabetes Saturday at her New York home. She was 64."




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"Knowing how naturally nutritious and low-calorie semen is, men might expect women to be lining up for their daily doses of this creamy, protein-rich man-syrup. Of course, despite male fantasies, this certainly isn't the case."



jueves, octubre 11, 2001
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"Widdershins is a mail list for the discussion of the intersections of hacking and hacktivism, politics and government, cyberspace and meatspace - all rolled up into one. It is meant as a central location for discussing such things as world events in relationship to technology, proposed legislation and its impact on hackers, and the ever-changing cyber landscape viewed from the security explorer."




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i recently discovered that one of the boys in my Hampshire class does an online comic: Death to the Extremist. he complemented one of my in-class comments as "astute", so i'm pimping his comic on the blog. see how the world works?



miércoles, octubre 10, 2001
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sesame street: the new face of terror?




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I had never known there was such subtlety to family circus (read the reviews)



martes, octubre 09, 2001

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My favorite Spice Girl, Noam Chomsky, on U.S. foreign policy and relations with the Muslim world.
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lunes, octubre 08, 2001
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Yesterday four of my ex-housemates posed nude with 3000 other residents of Melbourne Australia to be photographed by New York artist Spencer Tunick.



viernes, octubre 05, 2001


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anyone studying spanish might find this Conjugation Trainer interesting.



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"The goal of U.S. policy, he said, should be to 're-engineer the perceptions of our enemies.' Suicide bombers have to be convinced 'they get nothing for dying for Allah,' and the people who support terrorists -- leaders or commoners -- have to be persuaded such violence is an insult to Islam and counterproductive. So Baxter proposed a Manhattan Project of 'perception engineering,' which would explore and develop a variety of means: psychological warfare, propaganda campaigns designed by advertising executives ('these guys were selling Chevrolets when they were crap with the "heartbeat of America"'); nanomachines that can invade the circulatory system and effect the brain and thought patterns of the target; cultural products that can engender warm feelings toward the United States. 'This World War III is a different war,' Baxter commented. 'It's an information war ... a war fought with ideas ... I can give you a valium and make you feel good. I can give you a musical score and engineer your perceptions ... All this is doable.'"



miércoles, octubre 03, 2001
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TNN (channel 46 in Middletown CT) has been running Star Trek The Next Generation nonstop all day long since Monday, and will continue through late Friday... TOO MUCH TREK!



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Security advisory for those of you using AOL Instant Messenger on Windows.



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Here's an example: secure a room. Option one: convert the room into an impregnable vault. Option two: put locks on the door, bars on the windows, and alarm everything. Option three: don't bother securing the room; instead, post a guard in the room who records the ID of everyone entering and makes sure they should be allowed in.

Option one is the best, but is unrealistic. Impregnable vaults just don't exist, getting close is prohibitively expensive, and turning a room into a vault greatly lessens its usefulness as a room. Option two is the realistic best; combine the strengths of prevention, detection, and response to achieve resilient security. Option three is the worst. It's far more expensive than option two, and the most invasive and easiest to defeat of all three options. It's also a sure sign of bad planning; designers built the room, and only then realized that they needed security. Rather then spend the effort installing door locks and alarms, they took the easy way out and invaded people's privacy.

Bruce Schneier makes a refreshingly down-to-earth commentary on national security and civil rights in the wake of September 11. With lots and lots of good links.
(via Danny Krizanc)



martes, octubre 02, 2001
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Verizon CO after WTC incident... these might be exclusive pics, but they also might be old news... I haven't bothered searching. I received them from an anonymous colleague.



lunes, octubre 01, 2001
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I imagine a hippy parody of Dune, where mint takes the place of spice, titled "Dude".



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whatever bitches, it's all about the mint



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My favorite from my name:
"Mr Leather Newt"

And I don't like fennel toothpaste at all. Down with the majority!



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Far too much fun for a tired person
Okay, this is far too interesting... considering everything...
So, I'm playing with the anagram generator, and about the first five or six hundred words given to me using my full (but not lengthy version) name, Angelie Margaret Peterson, start with "Menage-a-trois"
My favorite so far:
-Menage-a-trois partner glee

skipping the middle name is fun too...
-Generation sleep (by far the most fitting one so far)
-Elongate penis re
-Engineer apostle
-Engineer tops ale (Sounds like a headline about new kind of beer)
-Genitals e'er open (now I'm a whore)
-Prestige neon ale

I also get "Neoprene" in there, mmm... my favorite material

... must stop... ahh, too much fun

(Side note cmoore's brother [with her name and an a's help] is: a Carnegie-mellon rooky)