Five postwar suggestions for George W. Bush...
'A year and a half after invading Afghanistan, the United States is about to seize control of another volatile, strategically vital patch of Muslim real estate riven by ethnic and tribal fault lines. As before, in its war against the Taliban, administration officials are issuing grandiose assurances about noble intentions.' here...
12:50 AM 3/26/03
Iraq blog...
'One man's view of life in Baghdad.'
3:14 AM 3/23/03
War goes online...
English Al-Jazeera website hacked.
9:32 PM 3/22/03
Words of war...
Unsure how to support the Bush administration at this critical juncture? Now, you can strike a blow against our enemies by simply reworking your vocabulary. Go vocabularize!
6:40 PM 3/21/03
The thirty-year itch...
'Three decades ago, in the throes of the energy crisis, Washington's hawks conceived of a strategy for US control of the Persian Gulf's oil. Now, with the same strategists firmly in control of the White House, the Bush administration is playing out their script for global dominance. More.
7:16 PM 3/20/03
The anti-war movt...
The whats, wheres, and whys
8:51 PM 3/19/03
On the verge...
'We are standing on the verge of World War III, and the consequences of the beginning of military action in Iraq are to a large extent unpredictable...' More.
10:09 PM 3/18/03
A Post-Saddam scenario...
'Iraq could become America's primary staging ground in the Middle East. And the greatest beneficial effect could come next door, in Iran. More.
1:15 AM 3/17/03
Caskets as canvas...
"Now might be a good time to see Peter Lee's latest works of art, before they go underground. Six feet under, to be precise, because this prolific Oakland artist and muralist has been painting on an unusual canvas of late— caskets." More
12:55 AM 3/16/03
The Weather Underground...
Though it has been years in the making, the timing of this documentary portrait of the Weathermen— college students who spent the '70s planting bombs and plotting revolution —is uncanny. Watch the film, and it's impossible not to wonder what response the Weather- men's bombs might provoke today. Read the review.
12:26 AM 3/15/03
Empty V...
Has MTV lost its vision? "MTV has refused to accept a commercial opposing a war in Iraq [directed by Academy Award winner Barbara Kopple], citing a policy against advocacy spots that it says protects the channel from having to run ads from any cash-rich interest group whose cause may be loathsome..."
From The New York Times, 13 March 2003
9:18 PM 3/14/03
If the universe is a program...
"If the universe is a program, several questions suggest themselves: Does it terminate? And if so, when and how? Anti-big bang collapse or heat-death whimper? Is it buggy? Efficient? Object-oriented or procedural? What is the clock rate of the processor? Who wrote it, or is writing it? And is he hiring?" More.
2:01 AM 3/13/03
F15 resources...
Peace posters, pamphlets, props...
1:12 AM 3/12/03
Think Pink!
"A new political movement calling for playful, passionate engagement shows its true colors." Code Pink is women for peace.
11:56 PM 3/11/03
Super sheroes...
Number of female characters with supernatural powers on major U.S. network-television programs last season : 20
From Harper's index
6:12 PM 3/10/03
Courageous sheroes...
"Reflect on the lives of inspiring women who have shaped our history."
7:40 PM 3/9/03
Today is women's day...
Do something extraordinary for your woman.
8:21 PM 3/8/03
'Peace' shirt leads to man's arrest...
This is exactly what the enemies of America want. This is what they crash planes on buildings for: To make 'democracy' unsafe for America, 'freedom' unfit for the American man. To turn that once great American dream into a grave American nightmare.
Any student of history and insurrection knows this too well: The object of terrorism is simply to terrorize. To make America terrified not so much of its enemies, as of its own people.
Now who's winning the real war? Read + rage
1:37 PM 3/7/03
New art.ill.ery...
Rigor Mortis: sketches for an imaginary rock album.
8:16 AM 3/6/03
Apes r us?
For decades, scientists have maintained that chimps are at least 98.5 percent genetically identical to humans. But the results of a new study call that figure into question, claiming large chunks of the human and chimp genomes as vastly different. More.
3:16 AM 3/5/03
Google: net hacker tool du jour...
'Why bother pounding at a website in search of obscure holes when you can simply waltz in through the front door? Hackers have recently done just that, turning to Google to help simplify the task of honing in on their targets.' More.
11:32 PM 3/4/03
Oily arms...
"To understand the intersection of the Gulf's oil economy and Washington's neo-imperialist strategy, one need only consider where the US has stationed its troops. Since 1991, Washington has built a network of military bases that encircle the Gulf, while delivering billions in military aid to the region's governments. In this interactive data map, MotherJones.com details the relationship between Gulf oil and US arms."
9:18 PM 3/3/03
Marching in circles...
"The slogan of the times is 'Another World Is Possible.' That's true, but making that possibility a reality will require more planful action and less self-indulgent expression." More.
10:45 PM 3/2/03
Mind quote # 5...
'Once you can see the boundaries of your environment, they are no longer the boundaries of your environment.' —Marshall McLuhan
1:13 AM 3/1/03
Words = worlds...
By itself, globalization is much too simplistic a word to tell us anything. The term is so murky that we may need to discard it, or at least develop some new phrases to bring realities into focus. From Globalization and its Malcontents
11:35 AM 2/28/03
Virtual gramophone!
'With a few hours to kill one evening, a 22-year-old Israeli student writes a program that reads sounds from scanned images of vinyl records.' More.
9:18 PM 2/27/03
Not quite stereo...
This is punk?
Fuck Hip Hop.
10:08 PM 2/26/03
Patron saint...
Just when you thought you've heard the last from him, pop goes the weasel! Vonnegut at 80 should be canonized. All those in favor. thumb your noses!
11:08 PM 2/25/03
Spread vi now spreading...
Finger to linger: spread issue iv (hash) is now up and running. Featuring poems by Sydney-based Transtasman poet Stephen Oliver, the bum poet extraordinaire and Panorama poetry awardee Dong Makabali, the young poet Sedfrey Manabat, and a certain contributor who simply goes by the name Julie.
Also in this issue are critical prose contributions by the prolific literary academic and Pushcart Prize nominee Davis Schneiderman and the English-born, post-Crete island resident, and now Andalucian-based writer Neil Grimmett. Go get them while they're hot!
4:36 AM 2/24/03
What is fear of Google?
Is Google the new big brother of the information age? Is there really reason to be terrified of this incredible search engine machine?
Read the tract And then you decide.
11:36 PM 2/23/03
Mind quote #4...
'Do you know we are ruled by tv' —Jim Morrison.
9:16 AM 2/22/03
Writing's on the 3D wall...
'The worlds of literature and immersive technologies are coming together at Brown University, where the school's first graduate fellow in electronic writing is creating stories on the wall of a computer-generated cave.'
10:13 AM 2/21/03
Duct tape and cover?
'On Sept. 11, 2001, a terrorist attack killed nearly 3,000 Americans, a tragedy of enormous proportions to be sure. But, among the list of causes people died that year, it represented a fraction of a percent of the total. The highest death toll from a single 2001 event came in January's giant earthquake in Gujarat, India, which claimed 15,000 lives. Nevertheless, 9/11 has thrown America's collective psyche into an irrational fear and turmoil.' More.
11:43 PM 2/20/03
Bush's nuclear dreams...
'The Los Alamos Study Group, an anti-proliferation watchdog group based in New Mexico, has published a classified administration memo which reveals that the White House has scheduled a meeting of Pentagon officials and nuclear scientists in August to discuss the construction of a new generation of nuclear weapons...' More.
10:52 PM 2/19/03
Color-coded crises...
What to do in a crisis situation? How to deal with an emergency?
Take it from official America: Save the world one color at a time!
10:17 PM 2/18/03
F15: The numbers say it...
Rome: 2.5 million
Madrid: 2 million
London: 1.5 million
Barcelona: 1 million
Paris: 800,000
New York City: 500,000
Berlin: 500,000
Seville: 250,000
Melbourne: 200,000
Athens: 200,000
Oviedo, Spain: 200,000
Montreal: 150,000
Baghdad: 100,000+
Dublin: 100,000+
Los Angeles: 100,000
Brussels: 100,000
Lisbon: 100,000
Las Palmas, Spain: 100,000
Cadiz, Spain: 100,000
Amsterdam: 80,000
Toronto: 80,000
Stockholm: 80,000
Los Angeles: 75-100,000
Glasgow: 60,000+
Oslo: 60,000
Seattle: 55,000
Mexico City: 50,000
Montevideo: 50,000
Stuttgart, Germany: 50,000
Thessaloniki, Greece: 40,000
Copenhagen: 35-40,000
Berne, Switzerland: 40,000
Sao Paulo: 30,000
Girona, Spain: 30,000
Vancouver: 30,000
Goteborg, Sweden: 30,000
Tokyo: 25,000
Budapest: 20,000
Newcastle, Australia: 20,000
Vienna: 20,000
Lyon: 20,000
Perth, Australia: 20,000
Irunea, Basque Country: 20,000
Montpeilier, France: 15-20,000
Luxemburg: 15-20,000
Buenos Aires: 15,000
Rio de Janeiro: 15,000
Helsinki: 15,000
Canberra, Australia: 10-15,000
Trondheim, Norway: 11,000
Kolkata, India: 10,000
Johannesburg: 10,000
Minneapolis: 10,000
Zagreb, Croatia: 10,000
San Diego: 10,000
Philadelphia: 10,000
Edmonton, Canada: 10,000
Auckland: 8-10,000
And other cities: Tel Aviv: 1500, Adelaide, Bellingen, Bregenz: 1500, Bratislava, Cape Town: 5000, Christchurch, Dunedin, Durban: 3000, Iraklio: 4000, Maine, Patras: 3500, Prague: 1000, Quito: 250, Rethimno: 2000, Rhodes: 2000, Santiago: 3000, Taipei, Tampere: 2000, Tudela: 5000, Turku: 5000, Volos: 3000, Warsaw, Wellington...
(source: independent media center)
11:56 PM 2/17/03
Mind quote #3...
'Peace is a powerful thing' —Me.
6:66 PM 2/16/03
Busy, busy, busy...
Although we try as best we can to give some semblance of order to the seeming chaos that is spread (sifting, sorting, systematizing, that sort of stuff), we cannot oftentimes help it if the site navigation, despite the effort, remains impossibly dense, anti-intuitive, user-unfriendly, hopelessly hogwash to the many aesthetically refined of taste and temperament.
We will not con you and say there is a method to the madness. There is no method to the madness.
It, is, quite, simply, mad.
5:19 PM 2/16/03
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