Still awaiting DSL installation at the new place… As you might have guessed, blogging is going to be kinda limited for awhile.
January 2003
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Sitting around doing a lot of thumb twiddling
Burnin’ it old school
myimages/digital-vinyl.png” alt=”" hspace=”10″ vspace=”10″ align=”right”>Verbatim is now offering CD-Rs that look like old vinyl 45s.
[via Amateur Hour]
Would you like to play a game?
Hey kids, let’s play Gulf War 2!
This is a projection of the most likely outcome of a new war in the Gulf. I used sophisticated temporal algorithms and historical semiotic analysis to achieve an accuracy rating of 99.999%. It’s the mother of all Flash games.
[via MetaFilter]
Fun facts about Kaliningrad
MetaFilter links to the city of Kaliningrad a.k.a. the ancient city of Königsberg, home of the famous 7 bridges topology problem.
Post WWII life under the Soviet Union wasn’t kind to Kaliningrad, which is now one of the ugliest cities in the world and a destination for “shock tourism.”
However much booze you have is not going to be enough
Ladies and gentlemen, the State Of The Union Drinking Game
Daypop Top 40]
Biohacking amoral soldiers
The Village Voice looks at military research into development psychoactives that will prevent soldiers from feeling guilty about the people they kill in war.
Happy fscking Monday.
[via Politics in the Zeros]
Propaganda. And then what happens after the war?
Emma of Late Night Thoughts offers an excellent primer on how to recognize propaganda, with specific reference to how it’s being used in The Current Situation. Worth reading no matter where you stand. Emma’s analysis of the post-Gulf War II situation is worth a read too.
[via Electrolite]
Worst… president… ever
The Daily Breeze quotes veteran White House journalist Helen Thomas (whose recently exchange with Ari Fleischer about unelected leaders made the rounds of the blogosphere) on the quality of the current presiding executive:
She seemed to have sympathy and affection for everyone but George W. Bush, a man who she said is rising on a wave of 9-11 fear — fear of looking unpatriotic, fear of asking questions, just fear. “We have,” she said, “lost our way.”Thomas believes we have chosen to promote democracy with bombs instead of largess while Congress “defaults,” Democrats cower and a president controls all three branches of government in the name of corporations and the religious right.
As she signed my program, I joked, “You sound worried.”
“This is the worst president ever,” she said. “He is the worst president in all of American history.”
The woman who has known eight of them wasn’t joking.
[via Radio Free Blogistan]
Pelton and companions freed
From the AP Wire:
An American writer and two hikers emerged smiling from the Colombian jungle Friday after being escorted from a war zone by right-wing paramilitaries but leftist rebels still held captive two other foreign journalists.Robert Young Pelton, a freelance writer and TV reporter, said he and his companions, Megan Smaker and Mark Wedeven, were not mistreated. He said he held nothing against the paramilitary United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, or AUC, which encountered the trio in a jungle-covered region along the Panamanian border, for removing them from the area when fighting broke out.
“Even though we were not happy about being kidnapped or being kept away from our families and our jobs, they had a reason to do so,” Pelton, author of a guidebook called ‘The World’s Most Dangerous Places, told a TV reporter.’ “After all, it is their country and their war.”
[via LA EXAMINER]
Stop the humanoid! Stop the intruder!
The Cyborger will tell you what your name would mean if you happened to be a shallow imitation of humanity with a dark purpose.
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