Saturday, September 28, 2002

thank god for ERD commander.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q305228


! TOTDOMOKUN !
posted by john , 11:44 PM Þ 

TOTC !=SCAM!

I have been personally informed by the creator of that site that the files for the TOTC WERE deleted by the ISP, and that they have been restored AGAINST the wishes of the police! Taken from the "come get me" page on the site:

Host Europe, acting for the Obscene Publications Unit, agreed to reconnect my web server on the strict condition that I did not to attempt to put thinkofthechildren.co.uk back up in its original form (which is exactly what I have done). I have been warned by both the Met. and Host Europe that if I reactivate thinkofthechildren.co.uk it will be closed down immediately. Again.

I have taken the decision to ignore this threat and to reactivate the site in order to force the police to obtain a formal warrant for its closure. I am hoping that Host Europe value their reputation amongst the Internet community enough to avoid taking the site down (again) until such a warrant is obtained.

If the site should suddenly vanish from the Internet, I would be delighted if anyone wants to set up a mirror. The more the merrier. Please download the current .zip archive of the site here, unpack the archive and read the readme.txt file.

NTK backpedals furiously:

Posted on http://www.ntk.net

[...]
[ UPDATE: NTK would like to clarify that we do not believe - as
may have been implied by other sites - that the takedown of
www.thinkofthechildren.co.uk was faked or some sort of PR
"stunt". We have no reason to disbelieve their own account of
it: http://www.thinkofthechildren.co.uk/metfax.shtml , given
some ISPs' enthusiasm for pulling pages nowadays. Plus, we've
been asked to point out that the site is "entirely unconnected"
with email newsletter THE FRIDAY THING, and is a personal
project of one of its editors, hence the similar mailing
list and web hosting setups. We still think that individuals
hoping to enlist public sympathy in cases like these should be
more forthcoming in disclosing potentially relevant info - but
hey, memo to self: check AUP before posting from work account.
http://www.thinkofthechildren.co.uk/
- back again now. And good luck to 'em! ]

[...]

Time to get some new batteries for the scamometer MB...
$paul_car_bottle ++
posted by Irdial , 11:05 PM Þ 

SCAM SCAM SCAM!

"Did anyone else notice that the little pop-up mailing list window connects to a site called the friday thing, whose copyright notice goes to AllTheThings whose "...team includes writers from Channel 4, The Guardian, The Observer, The Evening Standard, Cosmopolitan and many more"?

Looks more like someone trying to drum up they're own publicity."

Says a Metafilterer


From NTK:
>> HARD NEWS <<
wandering clues

To be honest, we could probably have guessed who was behind
spoof "concerned parents" site THINKOFTHECHILDREN.CO.UK, shut
down this week for allegedly "inciting mob violence". It's a
familar M.O.: the heavy-handed satirical sideswipes, the
cultivated sense of moral outrage, the studious collecting of
email addresses. (No, not us, you idiots. Well, not this
time.) Oh, and the fact that he mailed us saying he doesn't
want people to think he just set it up as PR for another site
that he does. Well, as readers of METAFILTER pointed out, if
you don't want people to jump to that conclusion, it might be
best to avoid putting a link to it in the source to your popup
window. And maybe try using different nameservers in the whois
record too?

if this is a traffic hose scam, its misfired; the site is back up, restored by the person who created the site. This means that his/her ISP didnt n00k the account, and that it was deleted voluntarily which is different from being "taken down" by the authorities. In the UK, there is a term, named "bottle", which can be freely substituted for the word courage. If you are going to do a site loaded with Nitro Glycerine like thinkofthechildren, then you need to have lots of bottle to carry it through to the end. Chris Morris is an example of a dude with LOTS of bottle.

Nothing to see here, move along!
posted by Irdial , 10:02 AM Þ 
posted by mary13 , 4:56 AM Þ 

Carthag: fuck
Carthag: crap
Carthag: this hot chick ive known for like 5 years
Carthag: down at the pub
Carthag: i was like, goddamn, long time, cause it was
Carthag: its been like a year or so
Carthag: and we were talking
Carthag: convo came to a lull
Carthag: i looked into her eyes
Carthag: she looked back
Carthag: then she hugged me and said
Carthag: you keep looking at me like that
Carthag: and i was like, yeah, i missed you
Carthag: then i find out she had a bf and i was like damn
Carthag: fuck
Carthag: ARSE
Carthag: AEHRAHTAHGrs
no. 1 son: I'LL HAVE TO TAKE OFF UR PANTS MB
Carthag: OK
no. 1 son: argh
Carthag: totally annoying, mna
no. 1 son: weak
Carthag: she even hugged me repeatedly
Carthag: so we decided to go to a karaoke bar sometime and she got my #
Carthag: so we'll see what happens
Carthag: hope i can shove that fucker out
Carthag: goddamn fuck
no. 1 son: just be cool and wear tight pants mb
Carthag: haha
Carthag: dude
Carthag: i look like shit in tight pants
Carthag: not _the_ shit mind you
no. 1 son: put the banana in the recipe. chicks love that
Carthag: long legs + tight pants = big ass.

Carthag = me.
posted by Mikkel , 4:28 AM Þ 
Friday, September 27, 2002

http://www.thinkofthechildren.co.uk/

Think of the Children: Taken Down by THE METROPOLITAN POLICE!!!!

What sort of weak minded, lilly livered ignorant vermin would think that that site was anything but humor?

The mind boggles....
posted by Irdial , 6:03 PM Þ 

The Guardian's British Blog of the year.
posted by Irdial , 11:47 AM Þ 

I have a mint copy. It is in a thick silver cover, with a huge embossed hexagon, streching over the entire face. I paid 25 for it in the '80s.
Bitch!
posted by Alun , 11:17 AM Þ 

Andromeda Strain! I've been hunting for a copy of the soundtrack on vinyl for ages....

I have a mint copy. It is in a thick silver cover, with a huge embossed hexagon, streching over the entire face. I paid 25 for it in the '80s.

"Howdy..."
"Howdy Doody!"
posted by Irdial , 11:14 AM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 11:12 AM Þ 

Andromeda Strain! I've been hunting for a copy of the soundtrack on vinyl for ages....

How Blaaaauuuuuurrrrrrrrgh is seen by many people nowadays...
posted by Alun , 11:11 AM Þ 

Who? (revised)

SECRET DR SHOE
ERECTS HORDES
HE ERECTS RODS
DOS ERECTS HER
ERECT HERDS SO
ERECT DRESS HO
DR ERECT HOSES
OCHRE DESERTS
TORCHES DEERSS
CHROEDER SET
CROSSED ETHER (creep the ether feather!)
SECRET HORDES
TORCH SEEDERS
COSH DESERTER
posted by Irdial , 9:39 AM Þ 

A BLDG I LO
A BLDG OIL
A BOLD GIL
A BOD GILL
A BIG DOLL
A GIB DOLL
A GLIB OLD
A GLOB LID
A BOG DILL
A BOG LDL I
A GOB DILL
A GOB LDL I
A LIB GOLD
A BILL DOG
A BILL GOD
A BOLL DIG
A LOB GILD
DAB GIL LO
DAB GO ILL
BAD GIL LO
BAD GO ILL
ADLIB LOG
BALD LOG I
GAB LID LO
GAB DOLL I
GAB DO ILL
BAG LID LO
BAG DOLL I
BAG DO ILL
GLOBAL ID
BALI GOLD
BAIL GOLD
LAB DIG LO
LAB GOLD I
LAB ID LOG
LAB LID GO
LAB DO GIL
ALB DIG LO
ALB GOLD I
ALB ID LOG
ALB LID GO
ALB DO GIL
BALL DOG I
BALL GOD I
BALL ID GO
BOLA GILD
AD GLIB LO
AD BOG ILL
AD GOB ILL
AD LIB LOG
AD BILL GO
AD LOB GIL
DAG LIB LO
DAG BOLL I
GAD LIB LO
GAD BOLL I
ALGID LOB
GLAD BOIL
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GOLDA LIB
GOAD BILL
DALI GLOB
DIAL GLOB
LAID GLOB
LAD BIG LO
LAD GIB LO
LAD GLOB I
LAD LIB GO
LOAD GLIB
GILA BOLD
GAIL BOLD
GAL BID LO
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GAL LIB DO
GAL LOB ID
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LAG LIB DO
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GALL BOD I
ALGOL BID
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ALL BID GO
ALL BIG DO
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ALL BOG ID
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LAO BLDG I
posted by Irdial , 9:29 AM Þ 

Death Rattle

EasyInternetCafe - the high street Internet café chain - is to protest outside the High Court in London tomorrow against the threat of a gagging order from the music industry.

The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) is to apply for an injunction against both easyInternetCafe and the easyGroup from publicly discussing the ongoing battle between the two parties.

The row centres on a demand from the music industry for £100,000 in lost revenues after it claimed easyInternet Cafe allowed people to burn music onto CDs.

When the BPI first launched its complaint it had demanded an eye-watering £1m.

Originally the BPI warned easyInternet Cafe that it would get "bad PR" (shurely 'far more customers?' - Ed) if it became public knowledge that easyInternetCafe customers had been downloading music files protected by copyright onto CDs in its stores.

But easyInternet Cafe claims it's got nothing to hide, and even opened its doors for the BPI to check its computer records. It also maintains it stopped allowing people to burn CDs a year ago.

Said the company in a statement: "Now the BPI have done an about-turn and are attempting to gag easyInternetCafe from discussing anything further, presumably because they are embarrassed that it has become public knowledge they have tried to extort as much as £1 million from easyInternetCafe"

So, tomorrow easyGroup boss, Stelios, and a bunch of loyal workers will dress up in orange boiler suits and take part in a public protest outside the High Court.

They will carry banners that will defend their right to free speech by declaring: "We will not be gagged".

They will also run with placards calling for the "music industry cartel" to stop "milking the consumer with their over-priced products". Oh, and they'll also call for the legalisation of music downloads.

Sounds like it could be a real hoot. ®

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/27286.html
posted by Irdial , 8:38 AM Þ 

As an "artist," that creative commons idea intrigues me. I'll bookmark it for later use. Retroactive copyright sounds evil, might I add.

I'm sure my father, who has but a few teeth remaining, would applaud the teeth-growing process. As long as they aren't grown in RAT INTESTINES. Whoaah!

Akin: SLAAAAAAAAVE 4 EVAH!@#
*shoots self in head*
posted by Barrie , 6:18 AM Þ 
Thursday, September 26, 2002

Just saw the play Feelgood at the theatre. Go fucking see that. Accurate as hell on the political climate in the western countries today. They did a very good job adapting it to the Danish parties/persons/media, too. Props & thumbs up!
posted by Mikkel , 10:36 PM Þ 

Profits from piracy

"Evidence is mounting that cracking down on software copyright infringement may not be good for business."

Of course, we have all been saying this for years. OS "piracy" and copying is GOOD for everyone, because a large percentage of people "convert" to paying customers; the more copies you have distributed, the more chance you have of getting a conversion.

The same goes for music obviously. Anyone who doesnt understand this, is simply on another planet, or a "Slave 4U" :]

Article on Salon
posted by Irdial , 8:10 PM Þ 



it's because I'm bored out of my skull running samples through a machine

I couldnt find a picture of the "No growth" sample from "The Andromeda Strain" so this one will have to do Alun!
posted by Irdial , 7:16 PM Þ 

Has anyone read Mark Leyner?
I recommend all his books. But especially My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist.
If I've forgotten that I've mentioned this before, it's because I'm bored out of my skull running samples through a machine and strange themes are lingering in my head. His latest thing is Wiretap (http://www.audible.com). I havn't heard it. Sigh.
posted by Alun , 6:57 PM Þ 

Suggested by "2 in Touch"

H30
M25
posted by Irdial , 6:54 PM Þ 

Creative Commons, developed by Lawrence Lessig, provides a technological means through which content creators can publish their work unconstrained by current copyright restrictions. It's an ambitious project requiring complicated protocols that let authors tag their works as publicly available and help readers locate and reuse those works. "It's a conservancy, like a land trust, where people can get access to content in the public domain that otherwise wouldn't be there," says Lessig.
posted by Josh Carr , 6:40 PM Þ 

from that Larry Lessig article in Wired:

In Article 1, Section 8, the founding fathers not only instructed Congress what to do regarding copyright — secure "for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries" — but also stated why they should do it ("to promote the progress of science and useful arts"). Of course, Lessig's complaint includes the idea that Congress' continual extensions make a mockery of the word "limited" (one professor called it perpetual ownership "on the installment plan"). But the main thrust of Lessig's argument rests on the fact that, as with previous extensions, the Copyright Term Extension Act not only grants new copyright holders a longer term of exclusivity, it grandfathers in previous works. A retroactive extension of copyright clearly violates the Constitution.

In Lessig's view, the wigheads in Philadelphia had laid out a bargain for creators of intellectual property: We want you to develop original art and science, so we'll give you an incentive — a temporary monopoly on the use of your work. In theory, this means that Walt Disney would lay out the money to make a cartoon knowing that he'd have a certain number of years to collect the royalties. Yet granting Walt (or his heirs) a longer period for works created before most of us were born doesn't promote progress; Steamboat Willie is already here. Obviously, a retroactive extension can't provide an incentive — "Gershwin isn't going to write any more music," notes Lessig. To the contrary, the cause of "art and science" actually suffers under retroactive extensions, because works that otherwise would have been returned to the public are kept in private hands.
posted by Josh Carr , 6:27 PM Þ 

Bad science or pointless to say the least!
posted by chriszanf , 6:15 PM Þ 

The Bizz send in the heavies
posted by Alun , 2:55 PM Þ 

If Clinton was up to his neck in shit, it's because he's standing on Dubyas head.
posted by Alun , 1:36 PM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 1:17 PM Þ 

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-959544.html

University bans controversial links
By Declan McCullagh
September 25, 2002, 4:13 PM PT

The University of California at San Diego has ordered a student organization to delete hyperlinks to an alleged terrorist Web site, citing the recently enacted USA Patriot Act.

School administrators have told the group, called the Che Cafe Collective, that linking to a site supporting the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) would not be permitted because it violated federal law.

[...]
posted by Irdial , 11:28 AM Þ 
posted by captain davros , 10:17 AM Þ 

Looking at the paper inner sleeve of one of my Michael Schenker Group LPs earlier this morning, I was reminded of a mantra that tried to stop us swapping music long before MP3s and file sharing over the internet.

"Home Taping is Killing Music" (accompanied by a skull and crossbones with a tape, which I once saw rewritten incidentally as "Home Taping is Skill in Music" ;) ).

This appeared in blue print on the papery inner sleeves of all sorts of records, in spite of the home stereo market in the UK at the time being dominated by easy to use Amstrad-esque twin cassette deck midi systems. Just as PCs these days come with CD burners and internet connections and all the capacity to share music, but hey, you'd better not use it, someone back then at a record company sought to try and stop people doing what they wanted to with things they'd bought for their own entertainment, be they records or tapes or even their own stereo.

Music wasn't killed by home taping, by my mates asking "do us a tape" or offering to "do you a tape of it". Moreover it never stopped people wanting to own the originals, or make compilations (I mean, who says you have to like every track on an album?)

As another metal band accidentally said, if you played their records backwards, Do It, Do It, Do It.
posted by captain davros , 10:15 AM Þ 

How does a computer work? i.e. What is 'the eternal feedback loop' that gets going every timeyour computer does something?

Environmentally friendly fire.
Atomic bomb squad.
Smoking gun control.
Laser cannon fodder.
(Bit Star Wars on the last one.)
Shooting Star Wars.
(Inspiration is everywhere)
Spy satellite of love.
Dogs of War and Peace
Groundhog Day of the Jackal
Enough already!
posted by Alun , 9:55 AM Þ 

[...] Ritter dismissed the arguments put forth by President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair as ``speculation and rhetoric and unsubstantiated intelligence.''

``You're asking people to go off and fight and die for their nation. We have to make sure it's for a worthy cause, not because someone has a grudge against Saddam Hussein,'' Ritter said. ``The concept of going to war on secret evidence without putting that evidence out there is absurd.''

http://www2.bostonherald.com/news/national/ritt09262002.htm
posted by Irdial , 9:07 AM Þ 

nice one bmoney grip.

hey guess where i am? work of course. fk'd isn't it??
saunderson for pres!! h.e. double honkey sticks(ah canadian
humour) i'm serious. pres kms. think about it.

btw: the only reason i am not at home snuggling with my far better half
is because snmp sucks!!!
posted by john , 8:53 AM Þ 

Despite being frighteningly robotic in appearance, Al Gore's thoughts are not. Interesting fellow.
I wonder who the next democrat candidate will be? Dead, maybe?
posted by Barrie , 5:43 AM Þ 
Wednesday, September 25, 2002

tripl33ts:
cruise missle toe
critical mass spectrometer


yeah to al gore. anyone who wrote such a book as he deserves full and total
respect. it's ashame the coup pushed this man out of office. yes, that's right: COUP!!
pretzelman can suck a big egg.
posted by john , 10:18 PM Þ 

posted by Irdial , 7:58 PM Þ 

Dusk from my bedroom window, last night

Having looked, the CM site is VERY out of date!
posted by chriszanf , 6:34 PM Þ 

Critical Mass on friday @ 6pm, Waterloo bridge.
come.to/londoncm
posted by chriszanf , 5:13 PM Þ 

!!!
posted by a hymn in g to nann , 2:42 PM Þ 

Tom Cruise Missile
posted by Irdial , 8:47 AM Þ 

"By shifting from his early focus after September 11th on war against terrorism to war against Iraq, the President has manifestly disposed of the sympathy, good will and solidarity compiled by America and transformed it into a sense of deep misgiving and even hostility. In just one year, the President has somehow squandered the international outpouring of sympathy, goodwill and solidarity that followed the attacks of September 11th and converted it into anger and apprehension aimed much more at the United States than at the terrorist network - - much as we manage to squander in one year's time the largest budget surpluses in history and convert them into massive fiscal deficits. He has compounded this by asserting a new doctrine - - of preemption."

"Far more damaging, however, is the Administration's attack on fundamental constitutional rights. The idea that an American citizen can be imprisoned without recourse to judicial process or remedies, and that this can be done on the say-so of the President or those acting in his name, is beyond the pale."

"Regarding other countries, the Administration's disdain for the views of others is well documented and need not be reviewed here. It is more important to note the consequences of an emerging national strategy that not only celebrates American strengths, but appears to be glorifying the notion of dominance. If what America represents to the world is leadership in a commonwealth of equals, then our friends are legion; if what we represent to the world is empire, then it is our enemies who will be legion."

The complete speech of Al Gore.
posted by Irdial , 8:02 AM Þ 

On the DMP: holy SHIT! That's definitely evil. But as john said, no one can encrypt analog transmissions. Not that I'd buy a protected CD anyway... unless they somehow hid the fact off the packaging, and even then me buying a major-label CD is a rare case.
Very, very ironic that my copy of Peter Gabriel - Up is in very high quality mp3 form... heh heh heh.
I remember the last person I sent Godspeed You Black Emperor mp3s to bought some of their CDs. Interesting, no? These are artists who truly do benefit off of record sales. Think Peter Gabriel is dependant on sales? No, but Geffen is.

As for all out war on Saddam: I'm a pretty pacifistic guy. I hate guns and I hate wars, and I definitely hate people dying. Is this unfashionable? How can one fight without violence against someone like Saddam?
posted by Barrie , 6:45 AM Þ 

working late....again! thanks to yes ufo's though it's enjoyable!

who knows what forms forms forms the night would
have taken otherwise. and that utrecht one, awesome. head bangin'!!! ;p
posted by john , 4:44 AM Þ 

posted by john , 2:43 AM Þ 

This restriction made those two countries into "nice places".
-i find this incredibly dynamic and interesting!!!!
world protection and economic growth beyond imagination if you start a war...
(and aren't already a third world country ;) )
....hmmmm. see it can go both ways. i could talk about that for hours.

and......wow!!! holy!!!!
If he wont disarm, then all out war should be waged on Iraq.
-that is definitive to say the least. isn't that the claim already?? you were
being sacrastic or.....

it is truly ashame that we as humans aren't ready for a leaderless earth. someday
though we will be if the fools with the tools don't kill us first!
posted by john , 2:22 AM Þ 

btw: peter gabriel? who??? -exactly. this is the only way
they will ever listen. make ¢ense? nope, it makes change.
posted by john , 2:17 AM Þ 

yes evil indeed, but there is a very easy and logical
solution(two actually):
1. whatver output device you use(unless you are forced to be using) to play cd's
most likely uses an rca cable. and viola so does a dat player!!
play in/record out-done! one cannot encrypt analog waves and
have them be properly audible, right? twist the speaker wire and
bind to rca even!!! basically think like a roadie! if that wouldn't be a solution then
a quite room with some good speakers and a great mic would do it
too. and which leads me to my next point. aren't we really only
talking eminem and whitney houston anyway....thus:

2. what self respecting "artist" would choose to have their much put
out by a label/distributer who would use this or similar technologies?
answer: who cares!! -exactly! boycott the artist and the technology
becomes mute.®
posted by john , 2:02 AM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 12:59 AM Þ 
Tuesday, September 24, 2002

someone clever emailed:

> i'm just interested on your takes regarding formats - you very
> generously give most of your back catalogue away on mp3 - a wise move
> as it take people to the hub of label activity rather than a faceless
> download site where the identity and root of the track is lost ...
posted by Irdial , 8:45 PM Þ 

The Glasgow MP said: "The (UN weapons) inspectors are the only people who can be trusted with this information - not people with a propaganda interest in drawing up dossiers."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2277932.stm
posted by Irdial , 7:49 PM Þ 

SAy \/\/h4t??

"We have got to get across to people that there is no difference between illegal file sharing or selling copies of the latest Oasis album and stealing it from a shop."

"Theft is theft, and it is the artists that suffer," added Mr Howells.

Mr Navin, who has worked at several major music companies including BMG and Warner Music, said that technological advances meant "legitimate means of distributing music" were "under threat".

D33r Mr. butts3x0r
U g0tz a |00z4 d4tz w3rKIn 4u r1t3, b1zn0tch! h3 k33p t4lk1n L1k3 h3 41n7 g0tZ n0 c3ntz! WTF? U = p3n1s 1n U aZZ!

sux0rz 2BU /\/\uzick bIz! h0p3 u 4|| g3tz ur NUTZ ch0ppa 0ff!

4nd btw copyright is |-|4r4/\/\
posted by Irdial , 7:23 PM Þ 

BBC Poll

VOTE RESULTS
Is the Iraq dossier a compelling case?
Yes 38.22%
No 61.78%
14347 Votes Cast
Results are indicative and may not reflect public opinion

CNN Poll

Created: Tue Sep 24 07:06:39 EDT 2002
Has the UK's dossier strengthened the case against Saddam Hussein?
Yes votes 78% 10026 votes
No votes 22% 2775 votes
Total: 12,801 votes
posted by Irdial , 5:53 PM Þ 

Someone clever called the dossier:
"REGURGITATED SOPHISTRY"
posted by Irdial , 5:41 PM Þ 

Did anyone read the dossier?

As far as im concerned, what it says is irrelevant. What needs to be done is to ban Iraq from manufacturing weapons or running any kind of Army, just like the Japanese and the Germans were forbidden to have armies or arms after WW2. This restriction made those two countries into "nice places".

And of course, in Japan, the monarchy was left 100% intact after the war.

Arms prohibition will be enough to put pay to any fears of what "The Lion of the Desert" could get up to. Sadam Houssein should remain in office; who runs Iraq is no ones business, and forcibly ousting him will only make more enemies for the UK. If anyone doesnt like Iraq, dont trade with Iraq, dont play games with them; boycott them and bring them to sense, just like South Africa was brought to its senses by boycotting.

Oh yes, and ALL sanctions should be lifted.

Without an army, Sadam Houssein is harmless.

If he wont disarm, then all out war should be waged on Iraq.

And that is that.

That CANT POSSIBLY be right, right?
posted by Irdial , 4:44 PM Þ 

Sad...

UN demands Israeli retreat

· New resolution passed
· US abstains from vote
· Nine die in Gaza City fighting

Predicatable, damnable and spineless...
But the near unanimous vote in New York, from which only the US abstained, appeared to have had little immediate impact in the Middle East as nine Palestinians today died in fighting in Gaza City.
posted by Alun , 4:21 PM Þ 

beck's newest out today ...... follow the preview link
posted by a hymn in g to nann , 1:26 PM Þ 

WOW!!!!!! A must-see!
posted by Alun , 11:25 AM Þ 

Mary, the photo reminds me of Andreas Gurskys work to some extent.
See here...and here for links to Gursky.

My fave of his is maybe the shoe store.

This photo was used in Adbusters...
posted by Alun , 11:22 AM Þ 
posted by Alun , 11:11 AM Þ 

that's a really, really beautiful picture. Wow.
posted by Barrie , 6:43 AM Þ 
Monday, September 23, 2002



19 Objects with Potential | Peter Garfield
posted by mary13 , 7:52 PM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 6:55 PM Þ 

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Federal health officials have put together guidelines for vaccinating within five days the entire U.S. population against smallpox in case of a bioterrorist attack.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent a manual to all 50 states and Washington on Monday with instructions on how to vaccinate entire populations within a week of an outbreak.

http://www.cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/conditions/09/23/cdc.smallpox.plan/index.html
posted by Irdial , 6:50 PM Þ 


Davin's old girlfriend had two nice cats that she loved very much. But when she moved into a new apartment that didn't allow cats, VEDA and URCHIN had to find a new home. Luckily Davin worked in a large and friendly record store where the cats could live!!! The nice customers would play with the cats, and they got a lot of attention. On one particularly slow afternoon Davin tied a microphone to URCHIN and recorded the cat's unique happy purring sound. Windy (co-owner of STORMY RECORDS) helped hold the cat down while Davin pulled the ropes tight. Although I wasn't there I imagine for forty-five painful minutes a small cat trying to squeeze and squirm its way out of a seemingly folkways-esque torture device. I know everyone loves their own cat and thinks that its the most special cat in the world, but this cat in question is not my cat. In fact, I'm super allergic to cats and not especially fond of any cat. If I really think about it, I would say I'm actually against the concept of owning pets. All politics aside, this CD is great!!! It's about 45 minutes long and contains two tracks. The recordings capture the sound of a very warm and deep rumbling sound. It sounds distant, mysterious and beautiful. Davin and Windy claim that no harm came to any animals during this recording and that urchin only makes this sound when he's happy and being held nicely by someone he loves and trusts. -Warn Defever

they even mention the Conet Project ...
posted by Josh Carr , 3:35 PM Þ 

Remember Barrie:
When things do not kill you, it only makes you stronger.
posted by Alison , 9:40 AM Þ 

Peter Gabriel - Up
A refreshing, original and creepy change from the schlocky, bloated "world-beat" sound that was "OVO."
It's in some ways a return to the paranoid, claustrophic third album. Very happy with this one.
posted by Barrie , 7:44 AM Þ 
Sunday, September 22, 2002

once we do away with the concept of "president" then
i say, this man for one of the cabinet oracles!!


any other votes? fuck what that pathetic fox network is trying
to push. it's like "survivor" for REAL!!! do you get me??
posted by john , 6:42 PM Þ 

sa-ton sa-ton
courtoisie j-lew
posted by john , 6:14 PM Þ 

http://www.bmr.org/campaign/

I got some free tickets to se Ryuichi Sakamoto at the RFH. The concert was interesting, but what was REALLY interesting was the free brochure given to every punter.

This was one in a series of concerts sponsored by "Respect the Value of Music", a campaign to "raise awareness in the media and among consumers of the value of music".

Now, after having read that website, do you think that its really needed have to take this garbage to task? Probably not for the initiates....but just for the lurkers:

Copying is not stealing.
Copying is your right (explicitly so if you are an American)
Everyone benefits from copying music.
There are no living dinosaurs on the earth.
Do you get me?
posted by Irdial , 12:25 PM Þ 

America goes INSANE:
http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/20/american.candidate.ap/index.html

TV show set to select a presidential candidate



Friday, September 20, 2002 Posted: 5:36 PM EDT (2136 GMT)

NEW YORK (AP) -- There's a real president, a fictional president on "The West Wing," so why not a presidential candidate chosen by television viewers?

That's what the FX hopes to produce. The cable channel announced on Friday the start of a series, "American Candidate," designed to pick a TV-endorsed potential president.

"We think it's a marriage of a tried-and-true concept, as shown by 'American Idol,' with a down-home political spin to it," said Peter Liguori, FX president. "We are a nation where, quote-unquote, anybody can become president, and this is a concept that gives everyday folks a forum to express their point of view and have people respond to it."
posted by Barrie , 9:46 AM Þ 

Good god. I just spent an entire week without internet, because I figured my cable modem was broken. I had to actually go to their service centre and get it replaced. I bring it home and it still doesn't work. Then I hook it up directly to my computer, not using the router, and it does work. So, I can only imagine that my router fried itself and fried the cable modem as well. Or the cable modem fried, then fried the router. Weird.
I also just smashed my windshield while replacing my wiper blades. My dad put the arm of the wiper into its lock position and I accidently moved it with my hand, so the wiper arm came crashing down on my windshield, breaking the glass something fierce - and if I don't replace it before winter comes around, the entire windshield will become a big dangerous spiderweb. Fun. The glass was in bad shape before, but I was planning on replacing it next summer. Now, because of my complete STUPIDITY, I'm now out of about 300 to 400 dollars. Yay.
I also got a speeding ticket for 90 dollars - again, my STUPIDITY at work. Have I mentioned that I've now beaten down my previously low low self esteem down to like, -50%? Yeah.
Not to mention the approx. 200 dollars I have on my Visa from school supplies - which will probably go up to about 300 as I still have not finished buying supplies (total spent on supplies so far is around 350-400 dollars).

I was supposed to get a pay raise at the beginning of the summer, ie 4 months ago. I still haven't gotten it. Depending on how many more levels of bureaucracy my raise application has to go through, I probably won't be compensated for it for another month or so. I HATE big corporations.
I'm also supposed to get a small scholarship, but it's being given by the provincial government, so I expect turnaround on that to be around 4 or 5 months. THANKS FOR BEING HELPFUL, ALBERTA.

Have I mentioned how insane school is? I have 6 classes. A "lot" of classes is supposed to be 5 - and of that 5, 3 should be lectures and two should be labs. I have 4 labs, and 2 lectures. The labs each are 6 hours a week, and each somehow expect another 6 hours each outside of each class - by each class, I mean each 3 hour class. So that's half a day of homework, expected, for each of those labs, a week. Fucking tell me, how can I do two days worth of work when I have 6 classes, need for sleep and eating, and the fact that I drive 2 hours every day to and fro school? Not to include the studying I have to do for the lecture classes.
I'm wondering how horribly I will do in school this year. With such a ridiculously stupid schedule, how does the department expect me to be a "good student" without dying? I didn't even decide to take this many classes. It's a requirement! They probably expect everyone to live on campus and breathe money. I guess I'm just a fuck-up then. Whatever.
That whole "friends" thing is working out too well either - all this working it giving me less and less time to socialize, save the people I go to class with, who I barely talk to.

NOT to include my family's financial status - namely my dad. His ex-wife, my mom, is trying to get him to pay for my sister's meagre schooling (probably around $3000). He also is paying for mine ($4500). My mother also expects a $600 child support cheque from him every month - for my 22 year-old sister. Hmmm. If she doesn't get the cheque, she sends the gov't thugs after him, who do such nice things as suspend his driver's license. My dad also has to pay mortgage, utilities, and astronomical car insurance payments - something I'd help out with if I could, but I can't.
I'd work if I could, but going by what I've said about my school schedule, I'd easily fail every course if I had to hold a part time job as well.

I'm not having a good time of my life right now. I really really hate the world and every stupid fucking thing I read in the paper. I hate the corporations and the economists and the stupid fucking stock market and all the fucking MONEY that keeps everyone back and keeps them from being happy.

Or maybe I'm just a whiny spoiled angsty white boy who doesn't know what "real" living is and is just spouting off angry vitriol because he's not 30 and hasn't "been around the block" and doesn't know what "hardship" is and who can just stuff it because he still has food and a house and everything. Doesn't mean I'm happy or want to live. Bah, fuck it. I'm just a whiner, right?
posted by Barrie , 12:04 AM Þ 
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