blogdial? should be drunkdial!! staying up for the world cup final right now. wasted. isn't that just peachy? akin, do you know how to do the orbit mapping with celestia??

we are not blocking traffic..."we ARE traffic!"

word chris that is funny as we have a critical mass ride here in vancouver as well. i am guessing it's the same group, maybe? ok all, here's the news and it's good. there are two projects TES has going one for Finning.ca and the other for BCGas. The lead on BCGas wants me as his implementation server team lead with 5 guys under me whom i would coordinate tickets and troubleshoot the highend stuff. the backend of it is getting worked on now as TES management has to ok for around 20 new positions of which i will be the first hire. f-ing wikked right? didn't think i'd get to lead a team for quite a while here in vancouver. and at a major telecom contracted to a utility isn't a bad place to start! sorry for all the job shite posting i will resume nomal stupidness asap. i am just super f-ing excited!!!!! thanks blogdialians for all ya support! patsy cline and johnny cash = country at it's absolute finest!

returned from TES with super positive feedback on the senior architect roles open. i will let you know if they pull from our team or from the other companies group but i think we are a shoe in as one of the people on our team worked for TES for 2 1/2 years so..... we'll see. f-ing tight market here.

Howard Jacques, of *** ***** *****, ******, **** *** said to me today, that he saw on a Number 12 Routmaster®, bus, two plasma displays showing dolpins, waves, captions about the power of the sea and fantazy paradise imagery. Then, the captions read, "this bus is protected by CCTV" whereon they showed the passengers on the top a live feed of those riding on the bottom, and then they showed the people on the bottom a live feed of the passengers on top. They then promoted a charity, at which point, he said "No". Some quotes that come to mind: "Television screen is the retina of the minds eye "Brian Oblivion" Videodrome "Charity is the only cheap amusement of the rich, and even for this, the poor pay" The starlit Mire

Ive been playing for *an hour+* oh well. its Friday.

in Celestia, set the clock to 5577777, and be looking at the earth. oh yes.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mil.millington/things.html Things my girlfriend and I have argued about

Area 51 Escapee Speaks

http://www.skop.com/brucelee/

Holy!!!. Big(v. major) interview in the morning for Telus Enterprise Solutions on a project for BCGas utility. Team of four on 140 machines and 30 sites at 3rd level support on the project. I am f-ing craming!!! Please send your good thoughts my way at 10:15am PST tomorrow, danke!

entropy as relates to 106's pathetic concept: def2: A measure of the disorder or randomness in a closed system. disorder of the coconut is more like it. def 5.Inevitable and steady deterioration of a system or society. nuff said!

Tetrapack: "Radii of my brothers' single" "My brother's records ending" 7" White Vinyl A *very* special record indeed. A piece of pure Kunst.

hell in a handbasket

'QUICK 106" was born from a brainstorming meeting with Alan Lawson, Music Director, our research company consultant and myself," stated Program Director, Bill Minckler. "We noticed that our consultant's attention span was about seven seconds and the idea of this new format just grew from that!" I don't think I'd be publicising the fact that I couldn't keep someone interested in conversation for longer than 7 seconds. Yes, Bill, you are f**king boring and you just told the whole world.

Hmmmmm shorter and shorter attention spans equates directly to entropy effect. 2nd law of thermodynamics. "Dumb and Dumber". What was this about again?

entropy my dear sir, entropy.

Have we all died and gone to hell?

http://www.quick106.com

Clear Channel debuts QUICK 106 in Portland

(Portland, OR)...In a radical departure from mainstream radio formats, Clear Channel has created a totally new approach to traditional broadcasting. Friday, June 21st at 12:00 Noon, STAR 105.9 FM (KSTE-FM) changes its name and format to "QUICK 106" ...only the Best Parts of your Favorite Songs ". "QUICK 106" was designed to address the short attention span of today's busy music fan," said Program Director Bill Minckler. "'QUICK 106' will feature an active library of more than 11,000 songs. 'QUICK 106' is truly the most variety of music ever heard on Portland Radio. Each day you'll hear the Best Country, Top 40, Rock and Adult Hits and lots more of them," Minckler continued. "'QUICK 106" was born from a brainstorming meeting with Alan Lawson, Music Director, our research company consultant and myself," stated Program Director, Bill Minckler. "We noticed that our consultant's attention span was about seven seconds and the idea of this new format just grew from that!" An additional outcome of the research study showed that Portland Radio Listeners wanted to know each song title and artist. "QUICK 106" has gone to the extent of numbering every song so the listener will simply need to log-on to www.Quick106.com to look up the song number for each title and artist. "QUICK 106" will play an astonishing 426 songs each and every hour."'QUICK 106" will surely be a favorite to busy Portlanders that need lots of music in a flash," said Minckler "QUICK 106" is owned and operated by Clear Channel Communications. "QUICK 106" can be heard at 105.9 FM over the world wide web at www.Quick106.com.

that is completely amazing. i think it was the entire deep field map that showed on a grand scale a structure of the known universe and galaxys in the shape of what appeared to be a human figure(like da vinci's proportions of man drawing). perhaps that is vain for me to think it looked like that but it did. amazing. very curious as worldcom burps. at asn701, nodes everywhere may be rerouted. this really could be a big deal if worldcom bites it. many people are going to be getting overtime pay for sure. of course this would never happen, um...right? has anyone ever run or installed Roxen before? just tinkering..

In celestia, use the ] to turn on all the stars. say navigate, and then go to sol. while holding down both mouse buttons, slide backwards untill all the stars coalesce. use the left mouse button to rotate everything. Can you see the shapes? Its almost horrifying....

that ruling will probably stick for like 20 minutes if that. i mean look at the dollar bill. deeze things are way too entrenched in the pysche of the 'masses of molasses' as it were. You Know Your a New Yorker When: ...you never use the words "grande" and "coffee" in the same sentence. -NY Times

Pledge of Allegiance ruled unconstitutional June 26, 2002 Posted: 3:04 PM EDT (1904 GMT) SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- For the first time ever, a federal appeals court declared the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional Wednesday because of the words "under God" added by Congress in 1954. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the phrase amounts to a government endorsement of religion in violation of the Constitution's Establishment Clause, which requires a separation of church and state. "A profession that we are a nation 'under God' is identical, for Establishment Clause purposes, to a profession that we are a nation 'under Jesus,' a nation 'under Vishnu,' a nation 'under Zeus,' or a nation 'under no god,' because none of these professions can be neutral with respect to religion," Judge Alfred T. Goodwin wrote for the three-judge panel. The appeals said that when President Eisenhower signed the legislation inserting "under God" after the words "one nation," he wrote that "millions of our schoolchildren will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty." The court noted that the U.S. Supreme Court has said students cannot hold religious invocations at graduations and cannot be compelled to recite the pledge. But when the pledge is recited in a classroom, a student who objects is confronted with an "unacceptable choice between participating and protesting," the appeals court said. "Although students cannot be forced to participate in recitation of the pledge, the school district is nonetheless conveying a message of state endorsement of a religious belief when it requires public school teachers to recite, and lead the recitation of, the current form of the pledge," the court said. The case was brought by Michael A. Newdow, a Sacramento atheist who objected because his second-grade daughter was required to recite the pledge at the Elk Grove school district. A federal judge dismissed his lawsuit, but the 9th Circuit ordered that the case proceed to trial. "I'm an American citizen. I don't like my rights infringed upon by my government," he said in an interview. Newdow called the pledge a "religious idea that certain people don't agree with." The government had argued that the religious content of "one nation under God" is minimal. But the appeals court said that an atheist or a holder of certain non-Judeo-Christian beliefs could see it as an attempt to "enforce a 'religious orthodoxy' of monotheism." http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/06/26/pledgeofallegiance.ap/index.html

http://www.aspma.com/trubee.htm Peace & Love I got high last night on LSD My mind was beautiful, and I was free Warts loved my nipples because they are pink Vomit on me, baby Yeah Yeah Yeah. Stevie Wonder's penis is erect because he's blind It's erect because he's blind, it's erect because he's blind Stevie Wonder's penis is erect because he's blind It's erect because he is blind Let's make love under the stars and watch for UFOs And if little baby Martians come out of the UFOs You can fuck them Yeah Yeah Yeah. The zebra spilled its plastinia on bemis And the gelatin fingers oozed electric marbles Ramona's titties died in hell And the Nazis want to kill everyone. Stevie Wonder's penis is erect because he's blind ... etc.

http://totl.net/VirusScanner/ Human Virus Scanner!

http://www.act-of-kindness.com/AboutUs.aspx Turn the concept of money on its head, and change the world!

http://www.tv4.se/lattjo/kojan/bilbanan.asp Submitted without comment :]

again just because... lxtea: print 'em and we'll buy 'em!! (just as soon as we get the davesque *$s and the 'batting for..' ones ;)) dude skid row is playing in oxford?? i am fucking there man!

I work on Cowley Road and I bloody hate it i can tell, it looks like your eyes are going to pop out every time you turn red, too funny dav! Listen in to my stethoscope on a rope international lullabies, human cries thumps and silence, the language of violence algorithmic, cataclysmic, seismic, biorhythmic you can make a life longer, but you can't save it you can make a clone an then you try to enslave it? stealin' DNA samples from the unborn and then you comin' after us 'cause we sampled a James Brown horn? -michael franti

colo facility junction medusa. cowley road ep?

that is a really good point btw.

All Audiogalaxy had to do is shut down its American operation and move everything to Iran. Intelectual Property is Haram, so they could exist there perfectly legally. The movie streaming company that used to run out of Taiwan has moved to Tehran, and no one is bothering them there. America is not the center of the universe; these directory servers need to simply move; shutting down is a sub optimal response. Just imagine it; the RIAA and MPAA destroy innovation in the west, forcing a "brain drain" to Sharia countries, making them the new centers of innovation and software development in the world....THINK ABOUT IT.

"The elite involved in the black programs are among the smartest people on the planet, but even so remain deeply puzzled by much of what they've learned. They tend to regard the public with disdain, like undisciplined and unruly children incapable of handling information of extraordinary complexity. While officially supporting democracy, the black program elite in reality espouse a kind of benevolent dictatorship or enlightened oligarchy by those, such as themselves, who have earned the right to know and to make decisions in the best interest of civilization, to which the ordinary person, being lazy and easily distracted, is not motivated or qualified to contribute anyway. The average American cares more about the Super Bowl than about life elsewhere in the Universe. The intellectual mentors of those with clout and power are Plato and Machiavelli, not Aristotle and Jefferson. Over the past 50 years, the highest courts have accepted and upheld the precedence of national security over the First and Fourth Amendments. So even if the public wanted to know, that would not constitute a legal need or right to know. The elite are doing their patriotic duty by trying to control the situation within the established rules of national security." http://www.ufoskeptic.org/secret.html UFO Skeptic

the world of tiffness as for vodka, i prefer mine ice cold with lemon... though as i sit here at work i am terribly envious of you, mikkel. have fun and i want pictures!

snorting vodka This is for real right? Its the second time that I have heard that this is done; just how fuckkin cRaZy are you whippersnappers??!?!? Eh??!!??

wfmu loves to play bob hund. crazy crazy sounds...

can we get a pic dav?

because of moby's bad breath!

wow, mikkel: the Roskilde Fest looks amazing. and you will know us by the trail of dead andrew wk anti pop consortium antibalas bob hund common dirtbombs alec empire Love w/ arthur lee (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) slayer spiritualized television yeah yeah yeahs ... and on and on and on how the hell are you going to decide which acts to catch? why don't festivals such as these exist in the US???????????????

coming next: the microsoft toaster and the microsoft programmable handy wipe. oooh, i'm so paranoid and stupid that i'll trust you to take care of it. ok..... i'm going to close my eyes now. you hold my wallet and just please take care of it won't you?? jihad....i can't even address this choice of words. It�s easier to vandalize a Web site than to program a remote control. this is not true and it's this mindset that pushes people even farther away from having a clue as to what is actually happening on the web. as if it's some big mystery. "the big scary unknown internet". fear fear fear and more fear. fear the unknown and stay under someone else's control. like a cult of the moronic. noone will ever know it all but that is no reason not to try! the vast majority of people don't even know how to properly use their email so frankly i couldn't care less if they sell 5 billion of these systems. i'll never buy one but perhaps some people should have someone else take care of their own lack of "_________" when it comes to the internet. whether it's m$ or someone else. because if/when i get 1 more email from some friend with the subject FW:FW:FW:FW:FW:FW: i think i am going to completely blow a cog.

Palladium will die a death, just like Hailstorm. No one will buy into M$ controlling what software can and cannot run on a machine. It's just pie in the sky.

http://www.shatters.net/celestia/ This is what it looks like...breath taking.

"Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions." Albert Einstein

J Robert Oppenheimer & Albert Einstein:

TOP SECRET DRAFT June 1947 Relationships with Inhabitants of Celestrial Bodies Relationships with extraterrestrial men presents no basically new problem from the standpoint of international law: but the possibility of confronting intelligent beings that do not belong to the human race would bring us problems whose solution it is difficult to conceive. In principle, there is no difficulty in accepting the possibility of coming to an understanding with them, and of establishing all kinds of relationships. The difficulty lies in trying to establish the principles on which these relationships should be based. In the first place, it would be necessary to establish communication with them through some language or other, and afterwards, as a first condition for all intelligence, that they should have a psychology similar to that of men. At any rate, international law should make place for a new law on a different basis, and it might be called "Law Among Planetary Peoples", following the guidelines found in the Pentateuch. Obviously, the idea of revolutionizing international law to the point where it would be capable of coping with situations would compel us to make a change in its structure, a change so basic that it would no longer be international law, that is to say, as it is conceived today, but something altogether different, so that it could no longer bear the same name. If these intelligent beings were in possession of a more or less culture, and a more or less perfect political organization, they would have an absolute right to be recognised as independent and sovereign peoples, we would have to come to an agreement with them to establish the legal regulations upon which future relationships should be based, and it would be necessary to accept many of their principles. Finally, if they should reject all peaceful cooperation and become an imminent threat to the earth, we would have the right to legitimate defense, but only insofar as would be necessary to annul this danger. ***** Another possibility may exist, that a species of homo sapiens might have established themselves as an independent nation on another celestrial body in our solar system and -1- evolved culturally independently from ours. Obviously, this possibility depends on many circumstances, whose conditions cannot yet be foreseen. However, we can make a study of the basis on which such a thing might have occurred. In the first place, living conditions on these bodies lets say the moon, or the planet Mars, would have to be such as to permit a stable, and to a certain extent, independent life, from an economic standpoint. Much has been speculated about the possibilities for life existing outside of our atmosphere and beyond, always hypothetically, and there are those who go so far as to give formulas for the creation of an artificial atmosphere on the moon, which undoubtedly have a certain scientific foundation, and which may one day come to light. Let's assume that magnesium silicates on the moon may exist and contain up to 13 percent water. Using energy and machines brought to the moon, perhaps from a space station, the rocks could be broken up, pulverized, and then backed to drive of the water of crystallization. This could be collected and then decomposed into hydrogen and oxygen, using an electric current or the short wave radiation of the sun. The oxygen could be used for breathing purposes; the hydrogen might be used as a fuel. In any case, if no existence is possible on celestrial bodies except for enterprises for the exploration of their natural riches, with a continuous interchange of the men who work on them, unable to establish themselves there indefinitely and be able to live isolated life, independence will never take place. ***** Now we come to the problem of determining what to do if the inhabitants of celestrial bodies, or extraterrestrial biological entities (EBE) desire to settle here. 1. If they are politically organised and possess a certain culture similar to our own, they may be recognised as a independent people. They could consider what degree of development would be required on earth for colonizing. 2. If they consider our culture to be devoid of political unity, they would have the right to colonize. Of course, this colonization cannot be conducted on classic lines. A superior form of colonizing will have to be conceived, that could be a kind of tutelage, possibly through the tacit approval of the United Nations. But would the United Nations legally have the right of allowing such tutelage over us in such a fashion? -2- (a) Although the United Nations is an international organisation, there is no doubt that it would have no right of tutelage, since its domain does not extend beyond relationships between its members. It would have the right to intervene only if the relationships of a member nation with a celestrial body affected another member nation with an extraterrestrial people is beyond the domain of the United Nations. But if these relationships entailed a conflict with another member nation, the United Nations would have the right to intervene. (b) If the United Nations were a supra-national organisation, it would have competency to deal with all problems related to extraterrestrial peoples. Of course, even though it is merely an international organization, it could have this competence if its member states would be willing to recognise it. ***** It is difficult to predict what the attitude of international law will be with regard to the occupation by celestrial peoples of certain locations on our planet, but the only thing that can be foreseen is that there will be a profound change in traditional concepts. We cannot exclude the possibility that a race of extraterrestrial people more advanced technologically and economically may take upon itself the right to occupy another celestrial body. How, then, would this occupation come about? 1. The idea of exploitation by one celestrial state would be rejected, they may think it would be advisable to grant it to all others capable of reaching another celestrial body. But this would be to maintain a situation of privilege for these states. 2. The division of a celestrial body into zones and the distribution of them among other celestrial states. This would present the problem of distribution. Moreover, other celestrial states would be deprived of the possibility of owning an area, or if they were granted one it would involve complicated operations. 3. Indivisible co-sovereignty, giving each celestrial state the right to make whatever use is most convenient to its interests, independently of the others. This would create a situation of anarchy, #@ the strongest one would win out in the end. 4. A moral entity? The most feasible solution it -3- seems would be this one, submit an agreement providing for the peaceful absorption of a celestrial race(S) in such a manner that our culture would remain intact with guarantees that their presence not be revealed. Actually, we do not believe it necessary to go that far. It would merely be a matter of internationalizing celestrial peoples, and creating an international treaty instrument preventing exploitation of all nations belonging to the United Nations. ***** [SNIP!] Respectfully, /s/ Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer Director of Advanced Studies Princeton, New Jersey /s/ Professor Albert Einstein Princeton, New Jersey here

bdawg money grip, i read that too and was thinking that the term "conspiracy theory" doesn't really apply when it very well could be the truth. more like educated summation or something. but we can forget about this thought mode ever being adopted by the general american public as i had a very difficult time even selling my mom(super ex-hippie and open minded thinker) on the pentagon truck bomb issue. people just don't want to believe the truth that they are confronted with. it's like facing your own individual deepest level personality problems. the truth can be a negative magnetic attraction to most people. ignorance is bliss it is said.... so glad our blogdial crew has it going on upstairs!

i though the b3ta link to nazi kitten this week was a bit much as well.

holy they/he is/are good.

nice peenie weenie. isn't the music life the sh*t? tgfdod pedals!

A triplet: a supergroup: Role Model 500

Rolemodel!

http://www.media.kth.se/~me99_kin/

this makes me so happy i can hardly stand it. tgfb3ta sometimes...

http://www.noisemusic.org/ n o i s e

http://www.pawfal.org/Software/SSM/ Spiral Synth Modular Homepage

"No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music." Billie Holiday

http://www.micromusic.net/

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Just got in from the micromusic do at brick lane... Rolemodel was totally superb! Dual gameboys pumping intricate chiptunes. Top class, true Arkanoid. Great crowd, great fun, drank beer....cooooool!

The words governor or steersman or G-man are used to describe those who manipulate words and communication devices to control, to bolster authority - feudal, management, government. And to discourage innovative thought and free exchange. We describe a person who relies on static, verbal abstractions, conformity to dogma, reliance on authority, as a vassal or G-person or G-man. From which we get G-think, G-text, G-babble, G-berish, vassaline, vassalize. -Timothy Leary

holy! that is intensive. 15,000 runs is major i had no idea that that much traffic was being generated at all. still his rights are limited and easily shut off as you showed but frankly i am shocked at the number of runs generated on his site; completely. it really depends on the size of the images being pulled i guess but frankly this point is null when you can just take the referer out of the equasion. i guess i underestimated the use of fusker, greatly = kudos to you for making such a useable tool. so at 143g over 7months that is like 20gigs a month upstream which is lot but with that type of content one would assume he has a t1 laid(pun intended!) or something with a huge ceiling which would allow that sort of traffic. if my dsl provider saw 20g a month leaving here i would get shut off. but then again as you said, just close the door. end of story. good luck mikkel.

" What the hell is wrong with you, I will not rest until you are shut down." -what the hell is wrong with you admingonebad@knownothing.spaz??? 400$ in bandwidth in a month huh? i seriously doubt that would be possible.

Full Index Status Visit this page to begin an index of your site, to view the status of your last index, or to view the status of an index that is in progress. Your Last Index was Successful The last index of your web site index completed 32 seconds ago. It took 22 minutes to crawl 302 pages and index 302 pages containing 260807 words for a total of 4983120 bytes. 28341 word endings, 0 synonyms, and 27145 sound-alike words were included in the index.

!!!!!!!

"According to Jung, when the psyche projects its contents onto an archetypal symbol, there is always secrecy, fascination and high energy." I had a meeting with a paper rep today and she gave me a box of pencils and a new journal to write in. The pencil box is wrapped in letter-pressed cream paper (the script is calm green) and the pencil jackets are tranquil blue, urban gray, ivory, serious black... black erasers too. I feel spoiled.

like....totally tubular quote#2: "nonetheless *$s is and will always be a vehicle for a few at the top to make money off of white suburban college students to embare-assed to work at mcdonalds." //fun in the smtp realm indeed.

i am having an intense discussion with a someone regarding the *$s ad. i would like to post it but it may be too personal and i would not want to breach their privacy however it is very very interesting. it regards intent and publicity, here is an excerpt from one of my responses: "i do not believe that any publicity is good publicity. without attention to events and then making that attention public there is no activism." it's an extremely indepth discussion we are having and i am sharing the spirit of an healthy intellectual debate.

" then the fence would cut those Israeli citizens that live on the Palestinian territory off from their fatherland." interesting choice of words. a truly talented person who simply amazed us with the depth of her approach.

Lovely: http://www.freefarm.co.uk/

Home Depot stops doing business with federal government

http://www.stltoday.com/

STARBUCKS YANKS AD MOCKING 9/11

http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/50613.htm

http://english.pravda.ru/main/2002/06/17/30477.html

if someone comes up to you and asks you, you want drugs? what do you tell them? "I *am* Drugs."

say: drugs(used to) work. 'i watched what's been created and it's sad to see what is music from the future turned to popstar puppetry replaced by droids and clones machines with no souls edited interviews and preformatted shows music globalization inner cities do not know that the minds that conceived this are critical to the flow' m600

if someone comes up to you and asks you, you want drugs? what do you tell them?

http://www.warhogprod.com/en-us/dept_109.html

http://www.scitron.co.jp/

"Creative Integration for Digital Integation"

http://www.m3rck.net/
http://www.thedesignersrepublic.com/
http://www.miasmah.com/
huh?

The nice guys!

http://www.defocusrecords.co.uk/

http://www.konsumer.de/goodstuff/core.php

http://www.halcyon.scene.org/

http://www.thewhizzinator.com/

"The proposals are to be put on hold indefinitely in the face of huge opposition, which the home secretary conceded his department totally failed to predict. " So, if less people complained they would have brought it in?? These people are morally bankrupt. Labour have a man who is clearly incapable of understanding anything about human rights in one of the higest positions in government. It is beyond absurd. There is nothing in place, no checks and balances to stop any new legislation like this coming around again; this is the fundamental flaw of western democracies, and what is becoming the central flaw of American Democracy. No rights of the individial are written in stone, everything is up for grabs depending on the current situation. This is totally wrong, and dangerous. One way or another, we are all going to end up living in a Taleban style state, because there is nothing written in stone to prevent it from happening. European states are already way ahead; all rights conferred on the individual in the EU are conditional all rights in Germany (for example) are conditional. We should not have to go through this nonsense every time a cretinous new ass monkey gets the Home Office hot seat and wants to make his mark. A thick black line needs to be indelibly drawn across which no government can cross. Ever. This line needs to automagically prevent any legislation like RIPA from even being considered because it crosses the line. Until this line is drawn, we will be forever sending faxes and begging like paupers for our rights. The pain lovers will say that freedom is not free and it has to be fought for. The people who died and risked thier lives in WWi and WW2 will tell you that they fought very hard indeed thank you and why should they and thier decendents have to fight the same battles over and over again, this time, against traitors from inside. A time has to come when the fighting is over, otherwise, we are going to live forever in struggle, and that my friends, is BULLSHIT. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_2051000/2051117.stm

http://www.iwanhoe.com/

http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/ee71gm/microfest_2002/index.html
http://goto80.myhardman.com/
http://goto80.myhardman.com/link.html
http://www.lektrogirl.com/
http://www.pusstracks.com/
http://www.vorc.org/en/

from the Hornby Island site that Mary posted: Take the bus from Vancouver or Victoria to Buckley Bay (about 1 hour north of Nanaimo). Then walk on to the ferry to Denman Island. There is NO public transport on Denman Island so you need to ask someone on the ferry for a ride across Denman to the Hornby Island ferry. (This is a common activity and generally supported by all but the most selfish drivers).

News Search

BETA

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prisoner.iana.org have been event logging this machine for a while and.... Event Type: Failure Audit Event Source: Security Event Category: Account Logon Event ID: 677 Date: 6/17/2002 Time: 5:56:35 PM User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM Computer: xxxxx Description: Service Ticket Request Failed: User Name: xxxxx User Domain: xxxxx.xxxxx.xxxxx Service Name: DNS/prisoner.iana.org Ticket Options: 0x40810010 Failure Code: 0x7 Client Address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and then i read: http://www.matrix.net/publications/mn/mn1005.pdf. also: http://law.utoledo.edu/publications/Gibbons-Cornell.htm try searching the machine and see what you come up with. ?

Curious Puzzles Two designers just completed a major project and are celebrating with one single bottle of wine.They want to be sure that each other only drinks half the available wine but they have no glasses or any other container, or anything with which to mark the bottle. How can it be done? hmmmmm... one for you, one for me...

bikes are the best. it is the only way to get around vancouver (even when its raining, you just need the right gear. or a hot shower at the end of the ride. there's that line when you accept you're going to be wet, and you just succumb... ). i'd like to take a road trip or two to the islands this summer... i think its the best way to see the countryside, you can go fast, yet its easy to stop and check things out too. and you don't have to worry about parking, fueling up is always a joy, repairs can be done yourself, its true freedom! like that feeling when you are ripping through the traffic, when its all backed up on a hot day, lines and lines of it, and you just speed right by the cars, zing! see you later!

Have you ever had to make a business or personal telephone call, but didn't want that call to be traceable -- from either end, for any reason? A confidential business client, a prospective employer you are calling from your workplace, your doctor or counselor, a personal acquaintance -- these are all examples of calls you might not want showing up on your workplace telephone log or your cell phone bill.

anonymous call forwarding capability. Once connected to the network, and validated by your secret account number, you simply dial the number you wish to call, and HushTel" connects you, just as if you made the call directly, with two crucial differences -- one, the receiving party (even if they are set up to not accept "blocked numbers") will see only a HushTel network number; and two, any records reflecting your outgoing calls will show only the HushTel toll-free number you originally dialed. Anyone calling that number to check on the call will only hear the discreet message: "Please enter your number now," which you will know as the prompt for your account number but which will be meaningless to anyone else.

Read about it here...LOOOOOONG URL

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triplet: g-8 is enough

Like I said:

"United Artists Pictures bears an illustrious reputation as one of Hollywood's oldest and most successful film companies. Known as "the company built by the stars," the studio was established in 1919 by the distinguished ensemble of Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith - all legendary players of the silver screen. The budding company immediately captured the world's attention, as it began to make its indelible mark on Hollywood history. Setting a new direction for the entertainment industry, United Artists embarked on a course that ultimately would revolutionize the motion picture business. From its genesis, United Artists sought to "further the artistic welfare of the motion picture industry" by promising creative freedom to actors and filmmakers alike. The company's unique brand of independent production pioneered the concept of one man-one film, granting filmmakers unprecedented autonomy and a share of the profits. Rather than own production facilities and soundstages, United Artists functioned almost exclusively as a distribution entity. This philosophy gave the company an edge over competitors far richer, eventually forcing the major studios to follow suit by branching into independent production in the 1940s. Having led the way for independents, United Artists has enjoyed an unparalleled reputation throughout decades of history as a forum for artists to nourish the projects other studios refused to risk." http://www.unitedartists.com/

Triplet: Universal Artists Network

Artist Network 69 Dean St, Soho, London UK, W1D 3SG Due to the unprecedented level of interest and the number of enquires recieved, the Artist Network can not accept any unsolicited creative submissions. Should you wish to submit any creative material, this must be done through an agent or your management company. The Artist Network will return all unsolicited material to the sender unopened. http://www.artistnetwork.com/

this is how insanely large the forest fires in western U.S. are at the moment. the acres burning are up to 103,000 acres this morning. Heat signatures (in red) and smoke plumes (light blue haze) are visible from fires burning in Colorado and New Mexico, in this image from the NOAA on June 12, 2002. The fire, which began on Saturday and raced across Colorado's drought-stricken landscape, has now become the largest wildfire in state history, burning up 85,000 acres (34,000 hectares) by late Tuesday. It was thought to have been started by an illegal campfire. The fire is so big and so intense that a second elite fire command was set up, an unusual step. REUTERS/HO/NOAA

"If you ever doubted that a small group of women can change the world, you won't after you've heard this story. Hundreds of women in Finland have pledged not to bear children for the next four years unless their country's parliament nixes plans for a fifth nuclear power plant there. In making this commitment, these women have truly put their wombs where their ideals are." http://www.planetark.org/

g8 countdown = 9days http://www.g8.gc.ca/ http://www.g8summitsecurity.ca/g8/ http://g8.activist.ca/ http://knitting.activist.ca/ "The Government of Canada, in partnership with non-governmental organizations, is helping to create additional forums to provide the opportunity for Canadians(?) to engage in informed discussions about the Kananaskis Summit and its key policy priorities and challenges." -ooooh, yippie!!! do i have to buy a ticket too?

Your total score is: 75 Although you could have scored worse, our experts have pinned you as being "annoying". -but you all already knew that anyway.

Wow: "The greatest lie of our market-based system is that time equals money, in all circumstances."

http://www.amiannoyingornot.com/ranking.asp

Oh hell yeah: http://www.tali.com

YES!!

We won't deny our consciences

Prominent Americans have issued this statement on the war on terror Friday June 14, 2002 The Guardian Let it not be said that people in the United States did nothing when their government declared a war without limit and instituted stark new measures of repression. The signers of this statement call on the people of the US to resist the policies and overall political direction that have emerged since September 11 and which pose grave dangers to the people of the world. We believe that peoples and nations have the right to determine their own destiny, free from military coercion by great powers. We believe that all persons detained or prosecuted by the US government should have the same rights of due process. We believe that questioning, criticism, and dissent must be valued and protected. We understand that such rights and values are always contested and must be fought for. We believe that people of conscience must take responsibility for what their own governments do - we must first of all oppose the injustice that is done in our own name. Thus we call on all Americans to resist the war and repression that has been loosed on the world by the Bush administration. It is unjust, immoral and illegitimate. We choose to make common cause with the people of the world. We too watched with shock the horrific events of September 11. We too mourned the thousands of innocent dead and shook our heads at the terrible scenes of carnage - even as we recalled similar scenes in Baghdad, Panama City and, a generation ago, Vietnam. We too joined the anguished questioning of millions of Americans who asked why such a thing could happen. But the mourning had barely begun, when the highest leaders of the land unleashed a spirit of revenge. They put out a simplistic script of "good v evil" that was taken up by a pliant and intimidated media. They told us that asking why these terrible events had happened verged on treason. There was to be no debate. There were by definition no valid political or moral questions. The only possible answer was to be war abroad and repression at home. In our name, the Bush administration, with near unanimity from Congress, not only attacked Afghanistan but arrogated to itself and its allies the right to rain down military force anywhere and anytime. The brutal repercussions have been felt from the Philippines to Palestine. The government now openly prepares to wage all-out war on Iraq - a country which has no connection to the horror of September 11. What kind of world will this become if the US government has a blank cheque to drop commandos, assassins, and bombs wherever it wants? In our name the government has created two classes of people within the US: those to whom the basic rights of the US legal system are at least promised, and those who now seem to have no rights at all. The government rounded up more than 1,000 immigrants and detained them in secret and indefinitely. Hundreds have been deported and hundreds of others still languish today in prison. For the first time in decades, immigration procedures single out certain nationalities for unequal treatment. In our name, the government has brought down a pall of repression over society. The president's spokesperson warns people to "watch what they say". Dissident artists, intellectuals, and professors find their views distorted, attacked, and suppressed. The so-called Patriot Act - along with a host of similar measures on the state level - gives police sweeping new powers of search and seizure, supervised, if at all, by secret proceedings before secret courts. In our name, the executive has steadily usurped the roles and functions of the other branches of government. Military tribunals with lax rules of evidence and no right to appeal to the regular courts are put in place by executive order. Groups are declared "terrorist" at the stroke of a presidential pen. We must take the highest officers of the land seriously when they talk of a war that will last a generation and when they speak of a new domestic order. We are confronting a new openly imperial policy towards the world and a domestic policy that manufactures and manipulates fear to curtail rights. There is a deadly trajectory to the events of the past months that must be seen for what it is and resisted. Too many times in history people have waited until it was too late to resist. President Bush has declared: "You're either with us or against us." Here is our answer: We refuse to allow you to speak for all the American people. We will not give up our right to question. We will not hand over our consciences in return for a hollow promise of safety. We say not in our name. We refuse to be party to these wars and we repudiate any inference that they are being waged in our name or for our welfare. We extend a hand to those around the world suffering from these policies; we will show our solidarity in word and deed. We who sign this statement call on all Americans to join together to rise to this challenge. We applaud and support the questioning and protest now going on, even as we recognise the need for much, much more to actually stop this juggernaut. We draw inspiration from the Israeli reservists who, at great personal risk, declare "there is a limit" and refuse to serve in the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. We draw on the many examples of resistance and conscience from the past of the US: from those who fought slavery with rebellions and the underground railroad, to those who defied the Vietnam war by refusing orders, resisting the draft, and standing in solidarity with resisters. Let us not allow the watching world to despair of our silence and our failure to act. Instead, let the world hear our pledge: we will resist the machinery of war and repression and rally others to do everything possible to stop it. From: Michael Albert Laurie Anderson Edward Asner, actor Russell Banks, writer Rosalyn Baxandall, historian Jessica Blank, actor/playwright Medea Benjamin, Global Exchange William Blum, author Theresa Bonpane, executive director, Office of the mericas Blase Bonpane, director, Office of the Americas Fr Bob Bossie, SCJ Leslie Cagan Henry Chalfant,author/filmmaker Bell Chevigny, writer Paul Chevigny, professor of law, NYU Noam Chomsky Stephanie Coontz, historian, Evergreen State College Kia Corthron, playwright Kevin Danaher, Global Exchange Ossie Davis Mos Def Carol Downer, board of directors, Chico (CA) Feminist Women's Health Centre Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, professor, California State University, Hayward Eve Ensler Leo Estrada, UCLA professor, Urban Planning John Gillis, writer, professor of history, Rutgers Jeremy Matthew Glick, editor of Another World Is Possible Suheir Hammad, writer David Harvey, distinguished professor of anthropology, UNY Graduate Centre Rakaa Iriscience, hip hop artist Erik Jensen, actor/playwright Casey Kasem Robin DG Kelly Martin Luther King III, president, Southern Christian Leadership Conference Barbara Kingsolver C Clark Kissinger, Refuse & Resist! Jodie Kliman, psychologist Yuri Kochiyama, activist Annisette & Thomas Koppel, singers/composers Tony Kushner James Lafferty, executive director, National Lawyers Guild/LA Ray Laforest, Haiti Support Network Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor, Tikkun magazine Barbara Lubin, Middle East Childrens Alliance Staughton Lynd Anuradha Mittal, co-director, Institute for Food and Development Policy/Food First Malaquias Montoya, visual artist Robert Nichols, writer Rev E Randall Osburn, executive vice president, Southern Christian Leadership Conference Grace Paley Jeremy Pikser, screenwriter Jerry Quickley, poet Juan Gumez Quiones, historian, UCLA Michael Ratner, president, Centre for Constitutional Rights David Riker, filmmaker Boots Riley, hip hop artist, The Coup Edward Said John J Simon, writer, editor Starhawk Michael Steven Smith, National Lawyers Guild/NY Bob Stein, publisher Gloria Steinem Alice Walker Naomi Wallace, playwright Rev George Webber, president emeritus, NY Theological Seminary Leonard Weinglass, attorney John Edgar Wideman Saul Williams, spoken word artist Howard Zinn, historian

some good news

" Bits EP etc..." ooooh!!! a new band to ck out..never heard of them before. danke! b.s.: just not on leather seats!

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The European Union is accumulating a vast range of powers that pose, as human rights organisations such as Statewatch and Liberty have consistently argued, a threat to civil liberties across the continent of Europe. For example the EU now has its own police force, EuroPol, whose officers enjoy diplomatic immunity from prosecution and unlimited powers of search and surveillance. Article 52 of the EU's inappropriately named Charter of Fundamental Rights gives Brussels the right to suspend any liberty in the 'general interest' of the union. Article 107 of the EU treaty says that it is an offence for any elected representative to even write to the European Central Bank in an attempt to influence its policies. Article 109 of the new treaty of Nice will give Brussels the right to remove the funding and speaking rights of political parties in the European Parliament. Article 7 will enable the EU to remove the voting rights of entire member governments in the Council of Ministers. These and other measures, taken together with the completely undemocratic structure of the EU, mean that the system of Brussels based government that is taking shape, represents a huge threat to the basic freedoms of ordinary Europeans. Across Europe, groups and individuals are waking up to the reality of the authoritarian system the political elite has been quietly working towards. It's time for ordinary Europeans who value democracy and civil liberties - the real pro-Europeans - to take action against this sinister centralisation of power before its too late. http://www.democracymovement.org.uk/

Have you said your piece yet?

David / Richard, Great piece about the new measures, however, no one is asking the proper questions about this, as outlined in this piece from Counterpane by security expert Bruce Schneier. *** How to Think About Security If security has a silly season, we're in it. After September 11, every two-bit peddler of security technology crawled out of the woodwork with new claims about how his product can make us all safe again. Every misguided and defeated government security initiative was dragged out of the closet, dusted off, and presented as the savior of our way of life. More and more, the general public is being asked to make security decisions, weigh security tradeoffs, and accept more intrusive security. Unfortunately, the general public has no idea how to do this. But we in computer security do. We've been doing it for years; we do it all the time. And I think we can teach everyone else to do it, too. What follows is my foolproof, five-step, security analysis. Use it to judge any security measure. Step one: What problem does the security measure solve? You'd think this would be an easy one, but so many security initiatives are presented without any clear statement of the problem. National ID cards are a purported solution without any clear problem. Increased net surveillance has been presented as a vital security requirement, but without any explanation as to why. (I see the problem not as one of not having enough information, but of not being able to analyze and interpret the information already available.) Step two: How well does the security measure solve the problem? Too often analyses jump from the problem statement to a theoretical solution, without any analysis as to how well current technology actually solves the problem. The companies that are pushing automatic face recognition software for airports and other public places spend all their time talking about the promises of a perfect system, while skipping the fact that existing systems work so poorly as to be useless. Enforcing a no-fly zone around a nuclear reactor only makes sense if you assume a hijacker will honor the zone, or if it is large enough to allow reaction to a hijacker who doesn't. Step three: What other security problems does the measure cause? Security is a complex and inter-related system; change one thing and the effects ripple. If the government bans strong cryptography, or mandates back-doors, the resultant weaker systems will be easier for the bad guys to attack. National ID cards require a centralized infrastructure that is vulnerable to abuse. In fact, the rise of identity theft can be linked to the increased use of electronic identity. Make identities harder to steal through increased security measures, and that will only make the fewer stolen identities more valuable and easier to use. Step four: What are the costs of the security measure? Costs are not just financial, they're social as well. We can improve security by banning commercial aircraft. We can make it harder for criminals to outrun police by mandating 40 mph speed maximums in automobiles. But these things cost society too much. A national ID card would be enormously expensive. The new rules allowing police to detain illegal aliens indefinitely without due process cost us dearly in liberty, as does much of the PATRIOT Act. We don't allow torture (officially, at least). Why not? Sometimes a security measure, even though it may be effective, is not worth the costs. Step five: Given the answers to steps two through four, is the security measure worth the costs? This is the easy step, but far too often no one bothers. It's not enough for a security measure to be effective. We don't have infinite resources. We don't have infinite patience. As a society, we need to do the things that make the most sense, that are the most effective use of our security dollar. Some security measures pass these tests. Increasing security around dams, reservoirs, and other infrastructure points is a good idea. Not storing railcars full of hazardous chemicals in the middle of cities should have been mandated years ago. New building evacuation plans are smart, too. These are all good uses of our limited resources to improve security. This five-step process works for any security measure, past, present, or future: 1) What problem does it solve? 2) How well does it solve the problem? 3) What new problems does it add? 4) What are the economic and social costs? 5) Given the above, is it worth the costs? When you start using it, you'd be surprised how ineffectual most security is these days. For example, only two of the airline security measures put in place since September 11 have any real value: reinforcing the cockpit door, and convincing passengers to fight back. Everything else falls somewhere between marginally improving security and a placebo. *** I think that it is obvious even to the casual observer that the current measures proposed by the Government are an overreaction to 9/11. The new powers do not pass any of the tests enumerated above, and clearly this fact has to be brought to the center of the debate, if the right decision is going to be made i.e. the measures are to be comprehensively struck down. There are many other reasons why these proposals are unworkable; the main one being that anyone that wishes to be anonymous and leave no traces of his or her activity online can do this with no extra software or hardware. Certainly, any target will be aware of this, and will swiftly move to hide their communications. The only communications left visible will be those made by ordinary people, and thus, there will be nothing for the authorities to search for. These measures will not prevent terrorism, and will cost the telecoms industry billions in new and intrusive infrastructure. The social costs will be immeasurable; we will be living in a country that will bear an uncomfortable resemblance to the former East Germany, where the omnipresent STASI could poke into the affairs of every person at will. In every way these proposals are ill advised, and it is important that someone asks the right questions, since it seems that no one on either side of the house is aware of precisely how the internet and cellular telephony works; if they did understand the details, not one of them would propose measures like this, because it is abundantly clear to anyone that what the Government is asking for is simply not a solution to the very real problems faced in the fight against terrorism. best ./akin sent to The Guardian 6/12/02 9:21AM http://www.stand.org.uk/

"There's another solar system like ours, and it's very close by." This is not news. Also, what does "very close by" mean? To an ant, the space between the bread bin and the sugar bowl is very far. This type of reporting is "scripted reality conditioning". Have you noticed that every few weeks there is another "Amazing Discovery" to do with planets around other systems and life on other planets? We (or should I say the sheeple) are being systematically conditioned to accept the reality of intelligent bipedal creatures, flying in their advanced (compared to us) craft. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,53188,00.html

Rolling Stone, meanwhile, has struggled to keep its readers and advertisers. in the face of competition from magazines like entertainment Weekly and the music magazine Blender. Mr. Wenner has decided on a gamble that his storied magazine which has published Tom Wolfe and Hunter S. Thompson among others can be reconfigured for a new kind of reader. The current audience for Rolling Stone has grown up on "Fear Factor," not "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/13/business/13MAG.html

Im working with a french repro house on a simple print job: the following conversation happened just 20 minuets ago: LuZers: We cant open the file you sent us. me: Did you manage to unstuff it? LuZers: yes. me: so what is the problem? LuZers: when we open the file in illustrator it is 500megs me: so what is the problem? LuZers: When illustrator gets to 486megs, it says it cannot open the file. me: hmmmm it opens perfectly here... LuZers: can you send us the uncompressed file on CD, we would be able to open it then. me: what? the uncompressed file, wether you have it on your hard drive or on CD is exactly the same! LuZers: Please send it anyway, so we can open the file. me: Ok, no problem. CAN YOU FUICKING (yes "fuicking") believe that? This is the most incredible illustration of computer illiteracy that I have heard for ages.... FYI:

i have to use stuffit PC because they cannot unpack ZIP files.

I have to save all the files as illustrator 8 EPS (which means HUGE FILE SIZES) because they cant open native illustrator files with illustrator (go figure)

They dont understand how to cut and paste a URL from an email so that they can download a file from a website. Not one goal scored in the World Cup by France...This comes as no surprise at all!!! All better now.

i will say it again: twenty three, schmenty three 13 is where its at "According to my calculations, the orbit of this planet is precisely 23 Venusian years" Wiley Coyote

re: previous article June 13, 13 new planets, an orbit of 13 years... i will say it again: twenty three, schmenty three 13 is where its at unless we add my b-day + b-month 13+10=23 aarrrggghhhhh!

blatantly shining positivity

anthony, no i wish we did live up there but then we would have to totally telecommute and get a satellite for highspeed access and that is shakey. those photos were up past whistler in the lilooet valley and up tward 100 mile house in the BC province. ck this house out though: strictly boat access!! (and that water....just incredible) you go mikkel! tell 'em like it is! (i'd say your english is damn fine sir. better that most people who are EFL!)

BLACK MOTHERFUCKER

is what you are loooking at right now. Go: "View" >> "Use Style" to loose your style. And unless you meet me on a good day Ringo....Your Life

Today im going to try and install dual style sheets so that blogdial displays in text if you select the text stylesheet.

Here are some interesting stats on browser usage...We are totally Mozilla over here, and everything is tested against it. Opera 6 displays everything beautifully except the dashed border (you /do/ see that dashed border dont you?). IE5/6 display perfectly, including dashed border. We therefore pretty much cover everyone. The only thing that I wish we could achieve is to validate 100% compliant against the standards...but hey, /what-a-kanna-yudu?/

Browser Trends

This discusses trends in the major browsers, listed in order of popularity:

• Internet Explorer 5.x: ~53% of page accesses, down from 80% a year ago. Usage peaked at 82% in Aug 2001, then tumbled with the advent of IE6.
• Internet Explorer 6.x: ~37% of page accesses.
• Netscape 4.x: ~3.6% of page accesses, down from 7% a year ago. This percentage should continue to shrink slowly, then shrink more rapidly as NN6 becomes stable.
• Internet Explorer 4.x: ~3.0% of page accesses, down from 8% a year ago. [B3] This percentage is shrinking as people upgrade their browsers.
• AOL: ~5-6% of page accesses. These accesses are also included in the percentages for Internet Explorer, since AOL's browser uses Internet Explorer. This percentage should remain about the same in the near term.
• Mozilla and Netscape 6.x: ~1.2% of page accesses. This has grown significantly since the release of Netscape 6.1.
• Opera: ~1.0% of page accesses. [B2] This has recently been growing slowly but steadily.
• Netscape 3.x: ~0.05% of page accesses. This percentage is shrinking as people upgrade their browsers. [B1]
• Internet Explorer 3.x: ~0.05% of page accesses. This percentage is shrinking as people upgrade their browsers. [B1]
• Internet Explorer 2.x: ~0.05% of page accesses. This percentage is shrinking as people upgrade their browsers. [B1]
• MSN-TV (WebTV): no page accesses are reported for MSN-TV users, but this is likely due to poor browser-detection code: sloppy code can identify old MSN-TV browsers as IE2, and newer versions as IE4. There is good evidence that this happened: when newer versions of MSN-TV came out, the reported number of IE2 users dropped precipitously; the drop suggests that about 0.8% of page accesses might be MSN-TV users. Note: since MSN-TV is available only in certain regions, the percentage will be much higher for sites attracting visitors from these regions; data suggest that, for the US and Canada, it is ~2%.
• Older Browsers: very few use older versions of Internet Explorer, Opera, or Netscape; web designers can generally disregard them.

http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/stat_trends.htm

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COSMIC DECEPTION: LET THE CITIZEN BEWARE

Steven M. Greer MD Director, The Disclosure Project http://www.disclosureproject.org Imagine this: It is the summer of 2001, and someone presents you with a script for a movie or book that tells how a diabolical terrorist plot unfolds wherein both 110 story World Trade Center towers and part of the Pentagon are destroyed by commercial jets hijacked and flown into those structures. Of course you would laugh, and if you were a movie mogul or book editor, reject it out of hand as ridiculous and implausible, even for a fictional novel or movie. After all, how could a commercial jet, being tracked on radar after two jets had already hit the World Trade towers, make it through our air defenses, into the most sensitive airspace in the world, and in broad daylight on a crystal clear day, slam into the Pentagon! And this in a country that spends over $ 1 billion a day to defend itself! Absurd, illogical - nobody would swallow it! Unfortunately, there are some of us who have seen these scripts - and of far worse things to come - and we are not laughing. One of the few silver linings to these recent tragedies it that maybe - just maybe - people will take seriously, however far-fetched it may seem at first, the prospect that a shadowy, para-governmental and transnational entity exists that has kept UFOs secret - and is planning a deception and tragedy that will dwarf the events of 9/11. The testimony of hundreds of government, military and corporate insiders has established this: That UFOs are real, that some are built by our secret 'black' shadowy government projects and some are from extraterrestrial civilizations, and that a group has kept this secret so that the technology behind the UFO can be withheld - until the right time. This technology can - and eventually will - replace the need for oil, gas, coal, ionizing nuclear power and other centralized and highly destructive energy systems. This 5 trillion dollar industry - energy and transportation - is currently highly centralized, metered and lucrative. It is the stuff that runs the entire industrialized world. It is the mother of all special interests. It is not about money as you and I think of it, but about geo-political power - the very centralized power on which the current order in the world runs. The world is kept in a state or roiling wars, endless poverty for most of Earth's denizens and global environmental ruin, just to prop up this evil world order. As immense as that game is, there is a bigger one: Control through fear. As Werner Von Braun related to Dr. Carol Rosin, his spokesperson for the last 4 years of his life, a maniacal machine - the military, industrial, intelligence, laboratory complex - would go from Cold War, to Rogue Nations, to Global Terrorism (the stage we find ourselves at today) to the ultimate trump card: A hoaxed threat from space. To justify eventually spending trillions of dollars on space weapons, the world would be deceived about a threat from outer space, thus uniting the world in fear, in militarism and in war. Since 1992 I have seen this script unveiled to me by at least a dozen well-placed insiders. Of course, initially I laughed, thinking this just too absurd and far-fetched. Dr. Rosin gave her testimony to the Disclosure Project before 9/11. And yet others told me explicitly that things that looked like UFOs but that are built and under the control of deeply secretive 'black' projects, were being used to simulate - hoax - ET-appearing events, including some abductions and cattle mutilations, to sow the early seeds of cultural fear regarding life in outer space. And that at some point after global terrorism, events would unfold that would utilize the now-revealed Alien Reproduction Vehicles (ARVs, or reversed-engineered UFOs made by humans by studying actual ET craft - see the book 'Disclosure' by the same author) to hoax an attack on Earth. Like the movie Independence Day, an attempt to unite the world through militarism would unfold using ET as the new cosmic scapegoat (think Jews during the Third Reich). None of this is new to me or other insiders: The report from Iron Mountain, NY, written in the 1960s, described the need to demonize life in outer space so we could have a new enemy. An enemy off-planet that could unite humans (in fear and war) and that would prove to be the ultimate prop for the trillion dollar military-industrial complex that conservative Republican President and five star general Eisenhower warned us about in 1961 (no one was listening then, either...). So here is the post-9/11 script - one that will be played out unless enough people are informed and the plan can be foiled because they will be unable to fool a sufficient number of citizens and leaders: After a period of terrorism - a period during which the detonation of nuclear devices will be threatened and possibly actuated, thus justifying expanding the weaponization of space - an effort will ramp up to present the public with information about a threat from outer space. Not just asteroids hitting the Earth, but other threats. An extraterrestrial threat. Over the past 40 years, UFOlogy, as it is called, combined with a mighty media machine, has increasingly demonized ETs via fearsome movies like Independence Day, and pseudo-science that presents alien kidnappings and abuse as a fact (in some circles) of modern life. That some humans have had contact with ETs I have no doubt; that the real ET contact has been subsumed in an ocean of hoaxed accounts I am certain. That is, real ET events are seldom reported out to the public. The Machine ensures that the hoaxed, frightening and intrinsically xenophobic accounts are the ones seen and read by millions. This mental conditioning to fear ET has been subtly reinforced for decades, in preparation for future deceptions. Deceptions that will make 9/11 look trivial. I write this now because I have recently been contacted by several highly placed media and intelligence sources that have made it clear to me that hoaxed events and story-lines are imminent that will attempt to further ramp up the fear machine regarding UFOs and ET s. After all, to have an enemy, you must make the people hate and fear a person, a group of people, or in this case an entire category of beings. To be clear: the maniacal covert programs controlling UFO secrecy, ARVs and related technologies - including those technologies that can simulate ET events, ET abductions and the like - plan to hijack Disclosure, spin it into the fire of fear, and roll out events that will eventually present ETs as a new enemy. Do not be deceived. This hogwash, already the stuff of countless books, videos, movies, documentaries and the like, will attempt to glom onto the facts, evidence and first-hand insider testimony of The Disclosure Project, and on its coattails, deliver to the world the cosmic deception that falsely portrays ETs as a threat from space. Do not be deceived. By commingling fact with fiction, and by hoaxing UFO events that can look terrifying, the Plan is to eventually create a new, sustainable, off-planet enemy. And who will be the wiser? You will. Because now you know that after 60 years, trillions of dollars and the best scientific minds in the world pressed into action, a secretive, shadowy group - a government within the government and at once fully outside the government as we know it - has mastered the technologies, the art of deception and the capability to launch an attack on Earth, and make it look like ET s did it. In 1997, I brought a man to Washington to brief members of Congress and others about this plan. Our entire team at the time met this man. He had been present at planning sessions when ARVs - things built by Lockheed, Northrup et al, and housed in secretive locations around the world - would be used to simulate an attack on certain assets, making leaders and citizens alike believe that there was a threat from space, when there is none. (Before he could testify, his handlers spirited him away to a secret location in Virginia until the briefing was over...) Sound familiar? Werner von Braun warned of such a hoax, as a pretext for putting war in space. And many others have warned of the same. Space based weapons are already in place - part of a secret parallel space program that has been operating since the 1960s. ARVs are built and ready to go (see the book 'Disclosure' and the chapter with the testimony of Mark McCandlish et al). Space holographic deception technologies are in place, tested and ready to fire. And the Big Media is a pawn, now taking dictation from the right hand of the king. I know this all sounds like science fiction. Absurd. Impossible. Just like 9/11 would have sounded before 9/11. But the unthinkable happened and may happen again, unless we are vigilant. Combine all of this with the current atmosphere of fear and manipulation and there is a real risk of suspending our collective judgment and our constitution. But know this: If there was a threat from outer space, we would have known about it as soon as humans started exploding nuclear weapons and going into space with manned travel. That we are still breathing the free air of Earth, given the galacticly stupid and reckless actions of an out of control, illegal, secret group, is abundant testimony to the restraint and peaceful intentions of these visitors. The threat is wholly human. And it is we who must address this threat, rein it in and transform the current situation of war, destruction and secret manipulation to one of true Disclosure and an era of sustained peace. War in space, to replace war on Earth, is not evolution, but cosmic madness. A world thus united in fear is worse than one divided by ignorance. It is now time for the great leap into the future, a leap that moves us out of fear and ignorance and into an unbroken era of universal peace. Know that this is our destiny. And it will be ours just as soon as we choose it.

thanks for the 1.1 tip barrie i'm downloading it now. i may not sound like a team player but i don't want to run the talkback builds but i couldn't find a version without this feature. oh well interested to see it anyway. //actually i already had that one installed (1.1a) :) duh! long day.......

from a friend Look closely at the skyline of this tapestry. It's called Summer's Triumph and was created in Bruges in 1538 and is currently held at the Bayerisches National Museum. What are those things??????

pics from mini outing up the bc province rods:just did some research and need to know more please tell!!! there seems to be a lot of self promotion around this phenom which makes me a bit queezie. i just don't trust this jose escamilla guy for some reason. i think he could be doing more harm than good if you know what i mean. i need to know more!!!

Did any of you see "Rods"??

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personally i prefer....

NO!

I stick to my personal opinion, as an immunologist, that I would take the single jabs. The immunological reason for this is that immune responses against 3 pathogens developed singly are, in most cases, going to be stronger than those developed as a result of concommitant exposure to those pathogens. And this is true for all antigens, not just MMR. So, if we take the MMR jab, will we be less protected from each of the diseases? Hepatitis and other vaccinations need to be "boosted" is this the case with each of the three elements of MMR because they are given in a triple dose? Wether it is statistically safe or not, I still question why these three vaccinations are being given at the same time. Who developed this concept, and for what exact reason? Giving the three together: was this ever subjected to testing? The FDA in the states takes decades to approve such an innovation, how long and under what scrutiny was the MMR shot put? It seems to me that releasing this report AFTER millions have been jabbed like lab rats in a huge test of triple dosing is not Good Science® and Public Health Policy; it should have been tested as safe BEFORE it went into widespread use. I'm not believing a word of this report. The motivations behind MMR are impure and commercial in nature. MMR is tainted, and simply not worth the risk. The question now is, where to get the shots quickly, as there is a TWO YEAR WAITING LIST in the UK for single jabs.

takashi murakami - S.M.P.Ko2 was on display at the gallery, 3 giant transformer women with danger decals all over. fantastic! we do use pdf's as much as possible (avec drivers from our service bureau, always a good idea), but sometimes it is easier to have your pre-press make a change for you instead of trafficking files back and forth. i love it when i know that i am sending one big snapshot of a page, its such a relief to not worry about the output. we went on a tour of our (new) service bureau, and they do have every device known, its funny, they have this stack: syquest on the bottom, jaz, then zip, consecutively smaller and less expensive. also a giant morgue of equipment, not so funny, all outdated, left to sleep, after so many bright colours and thoughts and images ran through them. a giant scitex image setter, looks like its made out of cast iron, just sitting there... that little green man is peeking at me at the bottom of the blog window... kind of looks like my cat when she's hungry... As for left hands, does it make a difference when you are navigating a webpage? I've often wondered if left-handed people would prefer a left-oriented interface, if there is such a thing, or if there is no difference. Just a thought...

An electric guitar. Enable to play six guitars at the same time by remote controlling through the pedal organ with a built-in 100V controller. Compact, easy-to-play carp-shaped glass harp. Turn the handle to move the glasses round. Maywa Denki are a Japanese duo (brothers, actually) of musicians/engineers/instrument builders. some of their creations are out of control interesting. I stumbled upon them at the Moma DOT.JP site where you can watch a video of that carp harp at work. wow. the sound of glass spinning against itself. do your self a favor and dig into the site to find that video. once you get into the site the video can be found in Dispatch 8.

Acrobat should solve font issues All they have to do is set Distiller to embed fonts by default....how hard can that be? Obviously too hard!!! Anyone remember Replica? it was released around the same time as Acrobat, and allowed you to make 5 replica documents before you had to buy the software. Anyone with a replica reader could then read the WYSIWYG document. Of course, it died a death, and Acrobat surged forward to take over everything in a viral fashion. Another example of how letting go of your IP can grow your user base exponentially.

I am interested in UNIX but don't know where to start basically. Turn OSX on, and then get Think UNIX by John Lasser. Open a terminal, and you will be learning what UNIX is. Whenever you get tired of learning, you have a most beautiful and useful interface to reatreat to, and all the Mac apps that we know and love, running in a rock solid environment.

http://www.anythingleft-handed.co.uk/

When you use a Mac, all the complex issues of it's internal guts are hidden away from you. Even if you wanted to delve into it to try to figure out what is going on, you can't. Often you just have to restart the computer and wait for the smiley face. There are no CONFIG.SYS equivalents, because the Macintosh engineers didn't want you poking about inside[6]. This is an argument AGAINST the old MacOS; it restriced its usage to the dumb and the frightened. MacOS was an os for children and frightened rabbits scared of anything that had "computer" written on it. Because youcould not get into its internals, it literally was not a serious OS, unlike unix and windows, where you could make what you wanted, if you had the will to do it. Also, it was marketed as a computer OS for education. It has to be the only product for education that is designed to make you not have to think. Then of course, there were the technical specs of the macos, which were utterly pathetic (ie no multitasking). Of course now, MacOS is the ultimate OS, because they TOTALLY THREW AWAY THE OLD MACOS AS PATHETIC and put a pretty face on UNIX. This action is an admission that the old MacOS was not up to scratch, and that in fact UNIX is the ultimate OS. The mac expertise in interfaces and design is excellent window dressing on UNIX. The mac motto is "Think Different" this was rather odd, coming from a company that designed something to save you from thinking. As for file differences between PS/Mac, any repro house worth its fees will have PCs and Macs running concurrently, they will have Acrobat for resolving all font issues and will advise you about how to make sure your files arrive ok and run out perfectly. We had all these problems years ago, and there used to be a workaround for any problem, usually by installing a printer driver for tht rip that the repro house was running and then printing to file, zipping it and BOOM it works perfectly. Acrobat has solved all of these problems; you can now run any file out on any platform from an Acrobat file, (and i mean Acrobat Pro obviously). The weakest link in these cases are the operators who do not know about software, and who cannot advise the client. It has to be said that Quark Inc. are dropping the ball. Really, any version of QuarkXpress should be able to open any other (lower) version of a quark file, perfectly. Version 5 still wont do this, and adds a whole bunch of near useless HTML features that no one will use.....

okay, that was a flip answer, i was in a hurry to get outside. pc vs mac. well, we do have font issues. the printers do not like our files, though i think that pdf workfloes are a good answer, my team is not in agreement. i must support them, it is important. also, things on the screen are not always what they seem, alignment is an issue, not to mention all the bugs in programs not designed for pcs... sucks when you set up style sheets et al, and they don't transfer through the network. or when you open your file somewhere else and its a mess. i hear more winge-ing about not knowing the os than anything else... personally, i'd rather have local admin rights and a raise instead, but majority rules. i am interested to see how things change when we introduce a new platform, i am expecting great things... now off for gelati. 188 flavours, including pale ale beer sorbetto... i am not kidding.

Barrie, you should wear a little mask when you are doing jobs like that... try a little salt water in your nose, it will help. Alex, that image was drawn by mary-drunk-driving-auto-pilot-illustrator-with-one-eye-closed-for-balance. and then feeling the need to share. i will download AutoIll when i get home... as for your comments on pc's, I like my pc. Dual processor, 2 mirrored drives, 256MB, she's not so bad. Don't know why, but they want to buy me a new G4 for work, so i will let them, and then i can report to you the differences, its been soooo long.... Syncronicity: I flicked the tv on the other day to martha stewart fly fishing. scary, v. scary. note to anthony - avoid the beige fedora, functional, yes, fashionable, no. syncronicity of another kind: i found the shell of a robin's egg today. Two thirds complete, the end just popped right off. and there is a partial solar eclipse happening right now! so i gotta go! the light is just amazing...

what should be simple is actually not; notice how when the page loads there is a margin on the left? when it finishes loading, the margin DISSAPEARS. It was worse before, the posts got progressibely further from the left...Having a marathon sesh...need a BREAK for JAVA.

templates are temporarily FUCKED!!!

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Another proposal would change marriage laws to require a person living in Denmark to have an apartment and $5,800 in the bank before marrying a foreigner, effectively barring marriage to the unemployed. If the couple divorce during the seven-year waiting period, the foreign spouse would be sent home.

http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/article/0,13005,901020225-203630,00.html

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has written to the government, questioning the legality of the plans under international law.

The governments of Sweden, Belgium and France have also sent a joint letter expressing their "profound concern" about the legislation.

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/04/10/1018333372160.html

"Integration problems are more often than not caused by the intolerance of the immigrant parents themselves who reject the thought of their children becoming fully integrated into mainstream Danish daily life," he said.

Mimicking the late US president John F Kennedy, he said that immigrants should "ask not what Denmark can do for you but what you can do for Denmark".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Refugees_in_Britain/Story/0,2763,681550,00.html

what is Sky One? ah, i just looked and it's tv but those not in the uk cannot see it without a satellite hookup. i feel discriminated against®!!

Everyone be sure to watch "Rods" on Sky One, Monday at 9:00PM

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http://www.redandyellow.com/

i tried to jump down the 6 stairs in the front of our house drunk last night and skinned my hand. this after realizing we had lost the keys and i had to climb thru the window. yep drunk as a skunk. we got up at 1pm hurting...heads pounding to find the flower bed partly crushed in the imprint of a falling body. ah, beer in a pitcher.

"color the debate" very funny!

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Rock on Alex T!!

What an eloquent response, giving us deep insight into what you think. This is exactly what I am always talking about; cheap, superficial nonsense, adding nothing, thats not even interesting to read or funny...just nothing. A perfect example of this generations potency; negligible, useless and dull. Given the choice between people who say "Bollocks" and just about anything else ill take the "anything else" thank you very much, at least its a thing. These are the words of the people who complain much, but do nothing, and have no solutions even theoreitical, for the sake of discussion.. Pathetic. Empty. Useless. I would cry out "Die Republican Die" but does saying "Bollocks" by itself mean that you are a Republican? Republicanism is "Bollocks" of course, but it doesnt work in reverse to figure out just what it is that you actually think.

dude, i'm sorry, but that's some serious bollox right there.

Well said Anthony. Monarchy. People who hate it, and who dislike individuals in it don't understand the history of England. There have always been "bad" apples in every family, so when people say that some need to be "removed" this is simply nonsense. Also, those saying that the Queen should abdicate for Bonnie Prince Charlie also understand nothing about Monarchy, sucession and primogeniture. The Monarchy is an unbroken spine of time, that stretches from the past into the present, holding the body of the UK, and more recently, the Commonwealth together. They are the physical embodiment of continuity and the long term stability of this nation. Those that focus on the wealth of the Monarchy are jealous, petty and stupid. They have no imagination, and little self belief. They probably don't have children, and if they do, don't yet understand that they are going to die, and that their children are going to be left behind, alone. Anyone who grasps that, immediately understands what sucession, trans-generational stability and primogeniture are all about, because its personal. The French, having a revolutionary government, have outlawed primogeniture; it is illegal to pass your wealth on to your first child, or any of your children singly. They have done this because they understand that this is how power is preserved across generations. Thier aim is to systematically destroy the power of the sucessful, and turn the whole nation into an army of equal slaves. The Monarchy, especially the British Monarchy, by its very existence does infinitely more good than harm, and I submit to you that there are very few prime ministers that the public would select to rule them over any of the monarchs since absolute rule was thrown out. They are simply more trustworthy, slower to anger and truly have the interests of this country at heart. Think about it; if you could choose, would you rather have Tony Blair or The Queen as your absolute ruler? The Canadians, Australians and all the other Commonwealth countries are getting the Monarchy for free. They get to key into that line of time, feed on that stability and experience, they are brought together because of it, and the world of the commonwealth has goo d relations because of it. I submit to you that if every nation on earth was part of the Commonwealth, we would be far better off than if we had a world government controlled from New York by the United Nations. We would also be better off in an EEC that was lead by Monarchy, instead of the banana squeezing, tomato sizing, metric enforcing, unelected, grey beaurocrats that now command everyone with absolute power. Monarchy is a reasonable institution; its influence, and wisdom honed by centuries of history and decades of experience. GW Bush became president of the most powerful nation on earth, without ever having visited another country. Who is more fit to bind the world together, and ease the tensions between squabbling nations: Queen Elizabeth, or George Bush? Believe it or not, you are not the first generatinon of young men and women. There have been millions of people just like you, hot headded, ignorant, eager to question and destroy; hell, I was just like that myself! The fact of the matter is, human life is trans-generational. There will be people who will live after you have gone. We should not try and re invent the wheel every generation, especially at the behest of hot headed young bucks, who would throw away a thousand years of building for an ill founded idea. Change must be incremental if it is to be safe in the long run. When we try and start from "year zero" we get terrible mistakes like "The Cultural Revolution" which destroyed much of the past of China, in a misguided attempt to replace an old system with something foreign and new. They have all woken up now, but its too late; thier ancient temples and books have been irretrievably lost, thanks to one hot headed generation that thought that it had the answers to everything. What can they say now to the rootless generation that followed? "It was an error". These are the actual words used by the Chinese government. No apology can suffice for this crime, and the people who are still alive that participated in that crime can only cower in shame at what they did. I say to you, stop and think. Calm down. Dont let petty thoughts and jealousy rule your thinking. Try and think about the long run, about stability and longevity, because your offspring will have to live in the mess that you make today. Its your responsibility to keep the place tidy for those that will follow you. It also has to be said that the ability to put yourself in the position of another person is a crucial life skill. If you can do that, you cannot hate Monarchy, because it could just as easily have been you who can trace thier family back one thousand years, including all the property that they have ever owned. It amazes me that people think that time started with them, that the world came into being just for them, and that they came from nowhere. This is what we call "rootlessness" an absence of knowledge of ones place in the stream of history. Ah yes, the early morning Blog!!!!!