Friday, October 31, 2003

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH Yahoo! News - High School Girls Pummel Man Who Exposed Himself
Dav, you do not know how timely that link is, thank you! I got Mac'd up today, at long last! What, no deets? I did get this info through the grapevine today. Scary!
Immunologically, best protection is still likely from the single jabs Thats all that we need to know; its better to have single jabs, Autism risk aside, if this side effect is real. That is enough of a reason to refuse the multiple jab, and have the single ones. I got Mac'd up today, at long last!

Wednesday, October 29, 2003

Oh, I love the Northern Lights. Makes me feel homesick. I think Arc'Teryx has a fabulous line of technical jackets. Their dye-lots alone are worth it. My favorite winter coat is my long black leather, double-breasted trench coat, circa Norway 1970. I just had it cleaned and re-died, and it is gorgeous. You can just imagine the delight when my grandmother pulled that one out of her closet and gave it to me. It is perfect armour against torrential rains. But I also sport a cream fisherman's sweater on sunny days, and a long black wool coat for glamourous meetings. And of course, the gore-tex for skiing, but I saw some lovely clips of Marylin Monroe skiing in Lake Tahoe the other day, and now I am longing for a new ski outfit ...
Slashdot | White House Website Limits Iraq-Related Crawling
whoa
What are people wearing this autumn/winter in the northern hemisphere Patagonia raincoat (20 years old), Morley Sheepskin, (20 years old) and other natural fiber coats. Oh yes, and a smile.
Explanation: Yesterday, our Sun produced one of the most powerful solar flares in recorded history. Seen across the electromagnetic spectrum, the Sun briefly became over 100 times brighter in X-rays than normal. Over the next few days, as energetic particles emitted from these regions strike the Earth, satellite communications might be affected and auroras might develop. The flare and resulting CME, emitted from giant sunspot group 10486, was captured above as it happened by the by the LASCO instrument aboard the Sun-orbiting SOHO satellite. The disk of the Sun is covered to accentuate surrounding areas. The time-lapse movie shows the tremendous explosion in frames separated in real time by about 30 minutes each. The frames appear progressively noisier as protons from the CME begin to strike the detector. The SOHO satellite has been put in a temporary safe mode to avoid damage from the solar particle storm. Incredible!
Homeopathic medicines are simply extraordinary. You have to buy the hand made ones, which are the most effective. If you disline taking garbage like Dimetapp� or other antihistamines, Homeopathy is for you. Of course, if it doesnt work, you shouldnt take it. And if it didnt work, no one would...so do it! Thanks for the props. I forgot to mention one important thing - since taking the homeopathic remedy, I have not had another sinus cold. This was over 4 years ago. Absolutely true. Dav, those aren't your telephones? I was waiting in anticipation for another installation a la Captain.

Tuesday, October 28, 2003

The video for Kid 606's Sometime is ASTOUNDING.
Mozilla 1.5 was released on Ocotober 15! One incredible feature I found called Bookmark Keywords allows you to set keywords for your bookmarks so you can just type goo in your browser to get http://www.google.com or dict to get http://www.dictionary.com. However, it also lets you extend that by adding variables into the address so that you can type goo american martyrs to search google for american martyrs or dict nebula to get the dictionary.com definition of nebula.
Dav, I would get an OEM XP Pro disc with SP2 streamed in. If you ever need to reinstall from scratch, you wont have to install '98 first....
Has anyone ever tried any homeopathic remedies? I can feel the heat rising... Homeopathic medicines are simply extraordinary. You have to buy the hand made ones, which are the most effective. If you disline taking garbage like Dimetapp® or other antihistamines, Homeopathy is for you. Of course, if it doesnt work, you shouldnt take it. And if it didnt work, no one would...so do it! it's hard to understand how the remedies work. Does that really matter? How many things do you use every day without understansing precisely how they work? The only thing that matters is that it works as advertised, and does not harm you with dreadful side effects....why do you think the EU is out to destroy all alternative medicine Tens of thousands of trials have been done to ascertain the effectiveness of these remedies, over 100+ years. If anything is true about humans in the west, they are the first to stop doing something to their bodies if its discovered to be harming them. On the same subject, did you see the TV programme with James Randi, debunking the work of Jacques Benveniste? Watching that crazy old coot Randi in action is like watching witch burner light the pyre.
aren't into listening to music how could i NOT respond to that?!! People who are "against" audiophiles are one of several types of looser. They are people who have never heard a real system in action (the numbers of these "people" are now legion, thanks to digital), people who are jealous of the dudes who can spend $50,000 on a system (which is why they cry like biatches about the cost of cable and amps, when "after all, it all sounds the same anyway"), and finally the most pathetic of the lot, the people who CANNOT HEAR Yes, these people simply CANNOT HEAR PROPERLY, and so, they are basically cripples whining about their disability. They trott out the same drivel as any other skeptic, looser and jackass, instead of simply taking their portable CD player, putting their headphones on and getting on with their life, like the people who listen to music do. I have spoken.

Monday, October 27, 2003

Winds Continue to Spread Fires Across Southern California
I'm a big fan of Prescription for Nutritional Healing. I'm battling my psoriasis by nutritional means. My girlfriend and I have also begun the book's recommended fasting regimen (replete with enemas!). The amount of toxins we build up in our bodies from cooked food and preservatives is astounding.

Sunday, October 26, 2003

Has anyone ever tried any homeopathic remedies? I had done once, for a bad sinus cold, and it worked quite well. Tiny yellow pills in little vials, it's so fascinating.
These are two books I consult if I am feeling ill: Prescription for Nutritional Healing Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine Of course, I will always see a doctor if it is grievious, but this is where I start. Excellent information about nutrition, alternative therapies, supplements and disorders. But like anything, must be taken with a pinch of salt and no fanaticism. Otherwise you will find yourself drinking nothing but carrot juice and expounding the evils of yummy things like cheese and chocolate.
Antibiotics are very strong medicine and they do have side effects. Read through these links. Basically, when taking antibiotics, you are not only killing the bad bugs, but the good bugs too, especially those that ensure good digestion, thus the sluggish feeling. You need to take a probiotic (acidophilus and bifidus, which is found in yogurt) to help combat the antibiotic effects. Do you have a natural food store near you? They should know exactly what I am talking about!

Friday, October 24, 2003

Audiophiles aren't into listening to music, playing it, dancing to it, or any of the things you are supposed to do with it - although oddly enough they also aren't into objective reality, hard facts, critical reasoning, or any of the left brained activities that one would suspect people who can't dance would be interested in.

Wednesday, October 22, 2003

meau two, a hot bath with epsom salts would be a good thing for you. of course, plenty of water afterwards. i have been periodically reading the confessions, they are more interesting every day. far more depth and insight. fascinating! shame i have nothing to confess ... (smiles and looks sideways)

Monday, October 20, 2003

what the fuck? that dc LP is going for that much? i'd gladly part with mine for that price. why is that one so much more than the other copies going on eBay? i'm confused. isn't dave clarke a moron?
the best rapper coming out of the states Crispy New Freestyle http://www.angrynakedpat.com/network/icf/index.php

Friday, October 17, 2003

The following report was delivered to us by a high-level Brooklyn source: French public radio broadcasting in the Oise region has this summer implemented a new feature: 24-hour broadcast of an anti-mosquito frequency. This signal is transmitted similtaneous to the standard rock-and-roll fare, and apparently cannot be perceived by humans. Whether the mosquitoes liked French rock-and-roll enough in the first place to hang around the radio dial has not been documented.
im sorry. iTunes is NOT the bomb. Baz SuT is the BAWMB!
its called import folder. iTunes is the total bomb. everything is imporged. hear that pig squeal!
iTunes for windoze. Fascinating; On a VERY quick look, it seems like I cannot import all of my music files into iTunes; ie, to automagically organize them by artist etc. Freeamp's "My Music" does this of course, and brilliantly. My main problem MP3 wise is organizing many many files. For me, imporging doesnt mean ripping. It means imporging, as in eating spit roast pork with a jug of cider for company.
olfactory There is nothing like the smell of JFK. Or Manhattan. They are very particular, evocative, and powerful. Andrew will know what I am talking about when I mention the smell of places like The Electric Ballroom. A sweet mixture of old vomit, beer piss, cigarette butts mashed for years into the floor and carpets, and sweat. Yes, sweet.

Thursday, October 16, 2003

BRAZIL!

GM crops giant Monsanto pulls out of Europe By Robert Uhlig, Farming Correspondent (Filed: 16/10/2003) Monsanto, the American pioneer of genetically modified crops, said yesterday it was pulling out of its European cereal seed business. The move was widely seen as a sign that it has given up hopes of introducing GM cereals in Europe. It announced its decision on the eve of today's publication of results of farm-scale evaluations of GM crops, the final and most influential part of the Government's investigation into whether to allow GM crops to be grown commercially. The trials, which investigated the effect of GM maize, oilseed rape and sugar beet on farmland wildlife and biodiversity, are expected to give a mixed verdict on the technology. Two other Government reports on the economic benefits of growing GM crops and on scientific understanding of their environmental and health effects have also failed to present a strong case for rushing into commercial GM cultivation. There are also questions about the value of the GM maize trials, which did not take the vital factor of crop yield into account. Monsanto's announcement that it wants to sell its cereal development stations at Cambridge and in France, Germany and the Czech Republic, follows hardening resistance to GM crops throughout Europe. Insurers are not prepared to underwrite GM farmers and 98 per cent of 37,000[...] Telegraph 98% of 37,000 people polled said that they would not eat GM food. Deal with it.

Wednesday, October 15, 2003

Problems with mitochondrial DNA can cause infertility or disease and it was to try to solve this problem that the research was done. The patient was a 30-year-old woman who could not have children despite repeated IVF attempts because all her embryos arrested at the two-day stage of development. Following nuclear transfer and "electrofusion" to reconstruct the nuclei in its new egg, the researchers had five embryos that survived to the four-cell stage after 48 hours. These were transplanted into the patient's womb and three developed into pregnancies. One fetus was then aborted, in an attempt to increase the survival chance of the others. But one of the remaining pair died at 24 weeks of respiratory distress due to premature rupture of the membranes. The other died at 29 weeks due to cord prolapse. "We don't consider this a success because of the outcome," says Grifo. "But we were happy to see that the embryos created a viable pregnancy." He adds the foetuses were "normal genetically and morphologically". This story is so disturbing to me. That poor woman. What a horrible thing to go through! I wonder if she is okay?
Thank you for the birthday cheer. All of you are very sweet.

Tuesday, October 14, 2003

Hilarious! http://www.theolympian.com/home/news/20031011/frontpage/121390.shtml There cannot be anyone left, anywhere, that believes anything that comes out of a polititians mouth, or a journalists pen about this business, can there? These "tactics", these infantile psi-ops keystone cops student pranks cannot fool anyone any longer. Its over!
A human pregnancy involving fetuses with three genetic parents was reported by US and Chinese scientists on Tuesday. None were born, but the researchers say this was due to obstetric complications rather than the fertility technique used, and that it would work in future. [...] http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994266 Okaaaaaaayyyyy........

Monday, October 13, 2003

May you have a long and fulfilled life Mary...
Ah, the northern Canadian accent. I think (hope/pray) that I have trained those inflections and expressions out of my speaking voice, but in certain situations, with certain people, they come tumbling back. I can only describe it as 'goofy', with a very hard edge. We must go softly ... I am 33 today. It is a beautiful fall day, fresh and clean from many days of rain. I am going out to dig up the flower beds, and get them ready for spring bulb planting. It is Thanksgiving Day today, the national holiday, and hurrah, we will not be having turkey!
more on english. people i know from essex truncate any word they can at every opportunity; national westminster becomes nat west, abbey national becomes abbey nash, etc. they alzo cut off the ends of often used words, and then add the suffix "y" or "ie". Mobile becomes mobie, television becomes telly, gandma becomes granny etc. i jnow a man with two 11 year old daughters; when he speaks to them, he does this charming trick with every word he says to them... in front of whoever is there. he also raises the pitch of his speech by an octave when he does this. hmmmmmmmaaaaaarrrggghh!!!!!!!!l
I think not. You think not. You do not. And its all good. Its OK By Me®. YMMV Subject to change without notice.
How do you pronounce "Aunty" Ahem; Aunty is slang for "Aunt", the sister of your Father or Mother. Thats "Father", not "owldfellah", "dar" "$slangterm". If, however, you were to say "Aunty" it should be pronounced to rhyme with "can't", which of course, does not rhyme with "Ant" the insect. English is completely different from French, where "a" cest toujour "a". (I cannot write in French, ICYDN). Is there anyone in here who thinks that "Axe" sounds like "Acts"? The wonderful Mimi Majick DESPISES "bubble writing". ave'n you been o ha supamarke called escoes? I met some dudes from Bradford if I remember correctly; they had a superb way of saying "Grass" - a clipped, clear and very audible pronunciation. I do not like the sound of a Birmingham accent at all; I also dont like any "sing song" languages either, like Brazillian Portugese. Spanish sounds beautiful to me, as does German, French, Russian, Xosa, Hindi, Italian and Sanskrit. Chinese seems to my ears to be on the edge of being a singing language. Quebec French has some strange localizations, not altogether unpleasant. Pidgin english, whilst not a language, always makes me laugh. This includes the West African versions and the priceless Jamaican Pidgin; "Gwaaaaaan!" What a life!
>>Homonyms "Standard contemporary American pronunciation" That is not English, by definition. This should be more properly called a list of American mispronunciations of English. "Rain" and "Again" rhyme. "Again" is not pronounced as you would say "eggen" (a made up word for illustration)..... "The Chef refuses to butter your toast" I'm not making this up.

Friday, October 10, 2003

Mac OS X 10.3 to ship in 15 days' time [...] The release requires the new, 1.2.1, version of iSync, which adds calendar synchronisation and picture-based called ID for the Symbian-based Sony Ericsson P800, Nokia 3650 and Nokia 7650 smartphones. iSync now supports the Sony Ericsson T616 and the Z600. .Mac users who sync their bookmarks can now view, edit and use them from any browser by visiting http://bookmarks.mac.com. There's still no support for non-Symbian Nokia handsets [...] http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/33310.html Symbian and MacOSX. See Mac fix. Fix Mac fix! Fix and Mix Mac!
SunnComm to sue 'Shift key' student for $10m By Tony Smith Posted: 09/10/2003 at 20:47 GMT SunnComm has threatened Princeton PhD student Alex Halderman with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) for exposing a key weakness in the company's latest CD copy protection technology, MediaMax CD3. The company said today it will take legal action against Halderman for revealing how MediaMax CD3 can be bypassed by holding down a Windows PC's Shift key when a protected disc is inserted. [...] That is so silly. See them act silly. Silly Billies!
http://wsound.com/elinkstyle3.htm Go to Laurent Garnier ... in Detroit.

Thursday, October 09, 2003

it merely just runs along behind the floating box float:left; iswhat you need to make text flow around the right of a box.
BLOGDIAL isnt going local....ive been "boning up" on CSS; Blogger seems to be better for BLOGDIAL than Movable Type; it feels freer, looser. What Blogger needs is RSS. With CSS you have to change the way you think; tables make you lazy, CSS makes you think. Thats a good thing. I like thinking, dont you? See me think. See Alex think. Think Alex think! Think Akin Think! I think Alun thinks. Think hard Alun! Think hard Alex! Think hard Akin! Mary Thinks good. Good thinking Mary! Meau2 thinks deep. See Meau2 think deep. Keep thinking deep Meau2! See the sleek geek think deep. Keep thinking deep sleek geek!
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/visuren.html#positioning-scheme
http://www.emptypages.org/more/tags/calendar_iframe.html
More like: Thomas Malthus An Essay on the Principle of Population "An Essay on the Principle of Population, as it Affects the Future Improvement of Society with Remarks on the Speculations of Mr. Godwin, M. Condorcet, and Other Writers." It is an obvious truth, which has been taken notice of by many writers, that population must always be kept down to the level of the means of subsistence; but no writer that the Author recollects has inquired particularly into the means by which this level is effected: and it is a view of these means which forms, to his mind, the strongest obstacle in the way to any very great future improvement of society. He hopes it will appear that, in the discussion of this interesting subject, he is actuated solely by a love of truth, and not by any prejudices against any particular set of men, or of opinions.[...] http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/malthus/malthus.0.html

Tuesday, October 07, 2003

Sexton
Well...your alter poet is Sexton...not nearly as
bad as Plath...but still...CHEER UP, JEEEEEZ!

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Hmmm it (Qzilla) says im Kerouac, but we cannot all be Jack Kerouac, because we are ALL DEVO.

Monday, October 06, 2003

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Friday, October 03, 2003

Capt. Dav: I've been making music and sound with the Pure Data software. It is, as they describe it, "a real-time graphical programming environment for audio and graphical processing. It was planned as a free, better and more stable Max/fts, which has also been developed by Miller Smith Puckette at IRCAM."

Looks and sounds similar to MAX/MSP (if you're familiar with that), but this software is OpenSource (!!!) and runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OSX and IRIX. I've been building my own synths, but there are plenty of patches to download that have some fun instruments and DSP thangs.

Wednesday, October 01, 2003

"He's my man and all, man, but when you solely have an American state of mind, you're increasingly becoming a smaller part of the world."
I have a crush ...