Saturday, August 24, 2002

http://www.samadhi-yoga.com/yoginis56k.html
posted by mary13 , 11:09 PM Þ 

Microsoft warns about security holes

again? what a surprise! time to switch?

re: 2 summers ago.
i'm not sure if it's true as a quick search on news.bbc.co.uk didn't come up with anything, but i heard of a mob forcing a pediatrician out of her home because the illiterate news of the world reading scum didn't know the difference between helping children and sexually abusing childern. very very sad.

i'm off to singapore on monday for 3 weeks! lucky me. sorry i haven't been saying much. i have been ultra busy, but it should all pay off in the end...
posted by alex_tea , 6:03 PM Þ 

Death is the saddest thing in the world, because life is the most beautiful.

I find myself reading the obituaries again today. As if I wouldn't know when.

I'm not sure why I'm writing this. Maybe because I'm sad. Yeah, that's it. I don't feel sad, but I realize that I am.

My father said it after dinner yesterday, and I realized how much I missed her. I never thought about it that way, but it makes sense. My grandmother hasn't been conscious since september last year. Before that, she was just absent, but the last year, she hasn't even recognized her own daugher (my mother).

Last week, we think she had an embolism. I've visited her every other day since, even though she doesn't care - abbe does (abbe is faeroian for grandfather). I think he is coming to terms with it. They married in the thirties. I can't even think that far back, it doesn't make sense... Living that long with another person and then losing them. I can't think about that.

On the one hand, I wish for her to live forever, but I know that's not going to happen. On the other, I see abbe in pain and wish it would all just end right now. He misses her so much already. Today, he held her hand for 2 hours and she didn't show any signs of recognition.

I feel terrible. I hope abbe does alright, I really do. I love him, I love her. He told the same old story today, the story where I run towards him in huge boots, reaching above my knees. Red ones. Even though I'm a foot higher than him now, he still remembers how I ran in those boots, falling.

Mormor used to tell stories like that. I wish she still did.

Mom & dad have sort of accepted it, I think. They don't say it, but I get the impression they're waiting, now.

I miss her.
posted by Mikkel , 5:36 AM Þ 

HOLY SHIT I'M TIRED
what a week at work. Not much different than usual, but holy shit. TIRED.

Up: school starts on the 4th! Hooray! I'm in all the classes I want, too. How awesome is that?
My boss at work asked me to quit going to school and become a bindery operator there. "You'd make some money." Yeah, I'd also go INSANE. Most people don't understand that I don't really care about money... I just wanna be happy. Blah!
School! soon! GO! Anyone else here going to school?
posted by Barrie , 12:18 AM Þ 
Thursday, August 22, 2002

posted by captain davros , 11:30 PM Þ 

Cheers!
posted by captain davros , 11:30 PM Þ 

captain davros; for noise reduction try "Restoration NR" from Arboretum . Demo here, info here.
posted by slip , 3:13 PM Þ 

Josh, that sounds like fun! Bring a water gun, it could get ugly...

posted by mary13 , 6:33 AM Þ 
Wednesday, August 21, 2002

I am going totry my damnedest to be part of this on saturday night.

All City bicyclists are invited to rage with us, the New York City Bicycle Messenger Community, in an all night bike ride from the Bronx to Coney Island.



You and your gang (5-9 max) wearing your colors, must ride from checkpoint to checkpoint. Focus on teamwork more than speed! Judging will be based on attitude, completion of tasks, costume presentation, teamwork, and course execution. Local freaks have donated a Thousand Dollar prize for the gang with the best costume!

Outlaw Gang Racing: Nine soldiers max per gang. Make sure and wear your colors! All soldiers must stay together, but not all soldiers will finish. Who will get "busted"? Who will get "iced"?

Random Competitions will eliminate some of your gang. Trivia contests, mud wrestling and scavenger hunts will all be a part of it.

Multiple parties in NYC and Brooklyn will be mandatory stops throughout the night. Watch the movie for valuable clues and hints to routes and parties. Memorize the gangs! They could be your friends or enemies.

Watch out for The Rogues, a renegade crew whose only mission is to fuck with the other gangs, slowing them down and messing with their heads. Get eliminated from your gang and you join The Rogues!

The Start of the Race will be sundown in the Bronx at Claremont Park. Finish will be at Coney Island in Brooklyn at Dawn. You will be taking the train at some point during the night. There will be rest (party) periods during the night. Pay attention to the movie! Prizes and after-party TBA.
posted by Josh Carr , 5:28 PM Þ 

Innocent until proven guilty...


At this rate it will be just like a couple of years ago, with anyone vaguely weird/no-social being threatened by a lynch mob outside their own home.
Summer of 2000... And you thought Brasseye was funny!

Portsmouth, August 4
A 53-year-old man's house was bombarded with rocks after he was named as a convicted abuser of more than 140 children. His empty flat was surrounded by 150 people, a car was set alight and a policeman injured

Croydon, south London, August 3
Victor Terry, 78, received a copy of a letter sent out by Antimatter, a group that claims to champion the rights of parents, which incorrectly identified him as a sex offender. A man of the same name, but 30 years younger, had appeared in the News of the World

Lewisham, south-east London, August 2
Fifty-five-year-old Michael Horgan was the subject of 500 leaflets sent to neighbours that wrongly claimed he was a sex offender

Billingham, Cleveland, July 31
Two men were forced to go to the media to tell them they were no relation of a man named in the News of the World. An innocent man with the same surname had been attacked by vigilantes earlier

Plymouth, July 28
A family of five was forced to leave their home after a 60-strong vigilante group descended on them, mistakenly believing the father was a paedophile

Bristol, July 27
A 44-year-old disabled man's home was firebombed by vigilantes who accused him of being a sex offender. He has since gone into hiding and police are treating the attack as arson

Manchester, July 25
A man wearing a neck brace was mistaken for a paedophile and confronted by 300 angry people. He later backed the News of the World's campaign

Cumnock, east Ayrshire, July 23
On the same day as the News of the World began its campaign, an innocent man had his house vandalised by a group who believed he was a sex offender ............

posted by Alun , 12:14 PM Þ 

What audio editing software does everyone use? I use acoustica, which is okay. Anyone recommend anything for removing tape hiss?
posted by captain davros , 11:28 AM Þ 
posted by Alison , 8:27 AM Þ 

I think the basketball Jesus is evil. It's like he's taunting the kids by holding the ball up too high.
"And you can't knock me down, 'cuz I'm the son of God!"
posted by Barrie , 4:40 AM Þ 
posted by chriszanf , 1:10 AM Þ 
Tuesday, August 20, 2002

riaa ban: that is so so sweet i can hardly stand it!!
posted by john , 8:54 PM Þ 

Wise words from Ann:
"Now if you can save life by having a death penalty....."

Reminds me of Fur-Q on The Day Today.....
"You gotta kill people to have respect for people but you can't kill everyone or there be noone left to respect..."
posted by chriszanf , 8:17 PM Þ 

ISP Bans RIAA to Protect Its Customers - Holy. I thought that was some sort of typo first, but apparently, it's true. Goddamn. I hope it sticks and spreads.

So I thought, why haven't I done that myself before? A slashdot comment reveals the IP block that RIAA uses:
RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOC OF AMERICA (NETBLK-RECORDIN50-191) 1330 CONNECTICUT AVENUE NW SUITE 300 WASHINGTON, DC 20036 US Netname: RECORDIN50-191 Netblock: 12.150.191.0 - 12.150.191.255 Coordinator: EGAS, JACK (JE332-ARIN) jegas@riaa.com (2027750101) - Record last updated on 11-Aug-2001. Database last updated on 19-Aug-2002 21:20:16 EDT.

Good. Now I need to set up my firewall to block this (easy). If you have OS X or another unix-alike with ipfw installed, there's a tutorial here:
http://wopr.norad.org/articles/firewall/

If you just want the quick and dirty, do this: sudo ipfw add 1 reject ip from 12.150.191.0:255.255.255.0 to any

Note that this is not a sure fire solution. It does not block someone from sony, and it does not block the guy at RIAA who bought a connection. We need to block more IPs. :)
posted by Mikkel , 7:54 PM Þ 

Never one for a knee-jerk reaction, Anne Widdecombe speaks....and is spoken to...

Some common sense....
posted by Alun , 3:34 PM Þ 
Monday, August 19, 2002

Music Cos. Target Chinese Web Site

this is where that free music site pointed to before it went down:

MP3 MediaWorld
posted by Irdial , 10:13 PM Þ 

"Blocking access at the backbone level should be a last recourse, Cohn said. She said the music industry has ample resources to pursue any copyright violators directly, in Chinese courts if necessary, and should not turn to backbone providers as their private security force."

Music Cos. Target Chinese Web Site
posted by Josh Carr , 10:09 PM Þ 

I have just installed Linux (RedHat 7.3). This is the first time I've installed (any version of) Linux and it went with no problems! The next few days will be a bit of a learning curve that I'm looking forward to!

Davros, the 'SaveKaryn/DontSaveKaryn thing is hilarious. I first heard about her site through Plastic. Some of her comments in her 'daily buck' about how she saves money are just laughable. Someone on plastic commented that if thats what she considered 'saving' money was then by her standards he had saved $13 billion by not buying an aircraft carrier.

In relation to the hip hop video article, did anyone ever see that documentary on Channel 4 called, "Hardcore"? It was about a woman from Essex who went to America to break into the porn industry. Her agent was constantly trying to get her on his 'casting couch' in between taking her to his contacts and finally she was introduced to a filmmaker called Max Hardcore. This guy makes films with lots of anal and he likes to asphyxiate the women as well. Needless to say the experience had the girl on the next plane back to the UK.
I see porn to be like TV adverts. It's not real, it's performed by 'actors' with lots camera angles and takes to make it look 'glossy' and I'm left wondering what exactly it is they're selling.
posted by chriszanf , 7:55 PM Þ 

just got in my mail:

PGP 8.0 due in November with OS X support
PGP Corporation today announced it has received $14 million in venture funing
and that it has acquired PGP Desktop and Wireless encryption product lines
from Network Associates. The new company will immediately license and
support current versions of PGP products to current, lapsed, and new PGP
customers. PGP has posted detailed customer transition information on its
Website and will immediately accept orders for license renewal and new
software purchases as well as upgdrade freeware licenses via special
promotional pricing being offered through October of this year. The company
also PGP 8.0 which is due to ship in November of this year, which will will
include PGP Mail and PGP Disk. It will offer full Mac OS X support,
compatibility with PGP disks created on Windows, AES algorithm support, and
compatibility with older Mac OS 9 PGP disks. PGP Mail will integrate with
Apple's mail application as well as providing support for Microsoft's
Entourage. [print | email | 4 comments]

btw: learned how to ck my mail via telnet. pretty wikked!


posted by john , 6:08 PM Þ 

Let it be no secret that I enjoy some porn. But really, the blank look is not attractive. If it doens't at least look like there's passion involved, it's a complete waste of time.

I read this thing today, and laughed, then sighed:

George W. Bush, by hotthamir.

My fellow Americans, many of you are wondering why we invaded Iraq today.

In 1972, I deserted the Texas Air National Guard 18 months before my service time was done. So now the Pentagon can ruin me at any time by simply releasing my Vietnam era file showing I deserve a Court Martial. So now, I have to do whatever they tell me. (1)

Look at the bright side, America. My father's corporation, The Carlyle Group, is a bunch of cold war spooks in the business of buying down & out military contractors who mysteriously land big money Pentagon contracts after being acquired by Carlyle.(2) So at least I will personally profit from this unprovoked, unnecessary, expensive invasion. That is why it is important to get rid of the Death Tax. So that I can inherit Dad's war profiteer boodle.

But this is not the only benefit this war has to my family. Under Ronald Reagan, the United States secretly gave military assistance to Iraq even though we had fore-knowledge(3) that our ally Saddam Hussain would use Chemical Weapons, which he did. During my father's administration, we continued to arm, fund, and advise our ally Saddam Hussain, right up until the Kuwait invasion. So it is important that we drop many bombs on whatever buildings or bunkers contain documents that incriminate my father.

Some of you may ask, what good is it to destroy Iraqi records that incriminate President Reagan and my father, when US Government records are available in our free society, that prove the same thing?

Friends, I have already taken care of that. My Executive Order #13233 halted the orderly release of Presidential Papers to historians after the usual 12 years. Instead, my father's records will now be sealed from public scrutiny, forever. As will my records, twelve years from now.(4)

As you can see America, there are perfectly simple, clear reason why I have invaded Iraq despite massive public criticism from both Republicans and Democrats everywhere. Now please take a step back so that I can tee off and try out this keen new driver.

Fore!



(1) http://awolbush.com

(2) http://www.hereinreality.com/carlyle.html

(3)http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020818/ts_nm/iraq_usa_report _dc_3

(4)http://www.archivists.org/news/actnow.asp
posted by Mikkel , 3:54 PM Þ 

It was a very interessting article on black women (and men) i hiphop videos. With quite a lot of interessting issues

made me think that you could write the same about women (and men) in porn: They often have a blank look in their eyes, oddly robotic. And it makes one wonder why people enjoy it (both the porn and the hip-hop music videos) . Is it just the libido reacting? an unconcious mechanism in the brain?

How come people in general seems to like all kinds of stuff thats degrading to both ones brain and selfesteem... Is it when the human instincts react, regardless of what culture/civilasation and so on tells us?

(pardon my broken english, I really need a dictionary, but do not have one near me)...
posted by Alison , 11:09 AM Þ 

Van Halen. Hmmm.
Well, I used to like Aztec Cameras version of Jump. I must have been 12 then. Omigod.
And, with a strange sense of the confessional, I admit that the song in my head ALL BLOODY WEEKEND has been the bootleg remix of The Strokes/Christine Aguilera 'A Stroke of Genie-us'. AAAARGH!

Bought 2 'Music of India' records from 1967, Duets Volumes 1 and 2. Ravi Shankar, Vilayat Khan, Ali Akhbar Khan and other master musicians.

Yesterday was an all-day eat-fest and my stomach is still working overtime.
posted by Alun , 11:07 AM Þ 
posted by captain davros , 10:35 AM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 9:03 AM Þ 
Sunday, August 18, 2002
posted by Irdial , 9:53 PM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 4:54 PM Þ 

I went to the record store to get the Tim Hecker album this week, but it was not there (I saw it last week, but didn't pick it up - damn me!). I'll try again later.
Instead I picked up Dntel - Life Is Full Of Possibilities. Holy CRAP it's gorgeous and beautiful and simply amazing! Lovely IDM-based songs (yes, I hate that genre label), that couldn't get more sedate if they tried. Like floating on a cloud. Like My Bloody Valentine's "Loveless," but with more clicks and pops and tape noises, and replace the depression with lilting, love-filled happiness. Lots of drones and reverb that's as smooth as butter. SO GOOD. Essential.
posted by Barrie , 2:01 AM Þ 

Sooner or later you know they are coming.

In the video for Sisqo's popular "Thong Song", a large number of them are lined up on a beach. In Nelly's video for "Country Grammar," they are stationed next to expensive cars as they jiggle and gyrate. In Dr. Dre's video "Forgot About Dre" they're dancing on tables.

Their dances seem more like simulated sex acts. They often have a blank look in their eyes, oddly robotic. If their hair isn't naturally straight, they wear a wig. Sometimes you can't even see their faces, just a plethora of ripe body parts barely covered with thin clothing. They only appear in groups. There are a countless number of them, and even more waiting to take their places. Few of them ever become famous and even fewer are recognized by name. And worst of all, they have no voice, unless you count the sexual messages they communicate with their bodies.

"Chickenheads, hoochies, video ho's, jiggling flesh, everyone's got a name for them. You see them in every video, so you've got to call them something," said Chi Mogbo, a doctoral student in economics. "The names may be degrading but hey, if it walks like a duck and sounds like a duck…well." [...]

http://www.africana.com/DailyArticles/index_20000825.htm

posted upon seeing the intro page:

>
http://www.womeninhiphop.com/
posted by Irdial , 1:02 AM Þ 
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