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These filtered brainwaves are then 'fed back' to the individual in the form of a video game displayed on a screen. _ _ I'm 25, live in NYC, work for a nonprofit institute for cancer research in electronic communications, walk, sing, and am madly in love.

On your bedstand then? (wink) I am 32, I design on occasion and also have a fascination with growing things. I've been known to do a bit of yoga, I knit lovely socks and I will kick your ass in backgammon or cribbage.

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alex: sorry, i sort of cheated and went back to clarify my post after i put it up. basically, i was an undergraduate student there, and as far as thursday goes, i was djing on the quad for this summer festival-type thing. i also work there, at the smart museum and at the music department. beyond that, i don't do very much, really. how about yourself? time for introductions, perhaps.

mary: nice one. university of chicago represent! i just graduated from there a little over a month ago. physics is one of our strong suits (it was the place where nuclear energy was discovered). Also: http://www.uchicago.edu http://home.uchicago.edu/~jkmeier/

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'The archaeologist Jacquetta Hawkes once said that every age gets the Stonehenge it deserves,' added Miles. 'For example, in the 1960s, at the dawn of the computing era, researchers argued that you could use Stonehenge as a giant calculating machine.' Later, in the more mystical New Age, it was argued that the monument was really a spaceport for aliens, while, in the Middle Ages, it was said Stonehenge was built by giants. 'By those standards, this latest idea seems to say something quite odd about the twentyfirst century.' Vagina Power! I think Dave needs to lighten up a bit. He sounds like a first-class dream-bashing bore!

The specs say: 5.8" x 3.3" x .9" Which is slightly smaller than my hand. This is the way of the future, to be continuously connnected, reachable, mediated. I can't say that I would buy this model, but I imagine when the sleek and sophisticated model appears, one will find its way into the house ... Indulging my inner 7-year-old

I know a very tiny bit about fractal formations in nature. Briggs and Peat were suggested to me as a starting point. And I will read Jeff Noon. Needle in the Groove, you say?

I wonder if anyone here has any local information on Reykjavik. I am contemplating a weeklong stay there for the end of the summer and would love to rent an apartment/studio and maybe a car. In NYC we have an online listing service called Craig's List that is extremely helpful in finding these things... anything similar in Reykjavik? Also, anything -- cultural or historical or downright interesting -- to check out while there?

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Metalikkka -JB Here are a few things that work, Barrie: Tea Tree Oil Soap (Dr. Bronner's is excellent) A bit of sun Lots of water Green drink daily (like Greens+, will clean your blood and liver) A facial (which is always wonderful) It's just your raging hormones. God bless 20 year old men!

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In following the Tour de France and the protests that interrupted the riders I constantly hear Media drop the name Jos� Bov� with the only qualifying information "radical farmer" and no mention of what the protests signify. From the website FoodFirst (perhaps comrades-in-arm with SlowFood?) I found his biography rich with the fight against GMOs, corporate agribusiness and the ruin of small farmers: During the 1970s in his native France, Bove and his wife helped to organize land occupations to prevent the expansion of military bases onto farmland in the Larzac plateau, and in 1976 he spent three weeks in prison for his role in the invasion of a military outpost. In 1987, he and colleagues established the Confederation Paysanne (CP), an organization composed of and for French small farmers and for their continued existence. The following year, Bove and the CP organized an event in Paris -- "Plowing the Champs Elysees" -- to protest EU farm policies. And, in a move that led to international fame and a six-week stay in prison, Bove organized and helped in the partial demolition of a half-constructed McDonald's in his hometown of Millau in 1999. On many occasions, he has also demonstrated his internationalism in defiance of governmental authority. For example in 2001, he and 1,000 Brazilian peasants uprooted three acres of Monsanto's genetically-modified soy in Rio Grande do Sul, and as a result he was deported.

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What's your view on solar power, tidal power? Solar power is simply the most wonderful way to make electricity. Panels can be integrated into buildings beautifully and they collect heat for your hot water AND electricity from the same surface. Passive solar heating of your house interior is done by simply letting the sunshine in through your windows. Its elegant, its silent, its powerful, its private. Even when its distributed for communities, look at some facts: If 1000 acres of Iowa land were covered with solar panels, the energy produced would: * equal the energy use of 111,000 homes * displace the consumption of 438,480 tons of coal per year * keep $10.9 million from being exported from Iowa to pay for fossil fuels * avoid 1,200,000 tons of CO2 per year * avoid 2,900 tons of NOx per year * avoid 33,000 tons of SOx ozone and carbon monoxide (CO) Solar-thermal systems collect the sun's heat to warm buildings, heat water, dry crops or destroy waste. Solar heating has been used in the United States for more than a century, with the first patent issued in 1891. Currently, more than 1.2 million buildings in the nation have solar water-heating systems, along with 250,000 solar-heated swimming pools. The amount of sunlight in Iowa will support most solar hot-water systems, even during winter months. Thats impressive. In France, you can get a grant to have your house "solared" - thats money well spent. Each house that reduces its drain on the grid is a good thing, and since solar panels are "expensive" there is a barrier to entry to most folks. Speaking of scams, Shell is planning to develop solar systems that they install in your home for you. You dont own them; they come with a meter you pay Shell for the electricity that the sun generates........a perpetual money making machine! Given this, what do you think I think about Tidal Power?

I saw this windmill on my trip to Ontario. Lovely. It powers about 600 homes. If we do some simple math, does this mean that a windmill 1/600th the size of this one could power my home? I think that would be the ultimate, a distributed model, though in Vancouver, a water-wheel would be more appropriate. It's certainly another example of human nature: a good idea, starts small, gets developed to its most massive, imposing scale, and those opposed (must?) fight back in physically destructive ways to make change. Are we ever going to get to another way of doing things?

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[...]The wind farms will all be sited about five miles from the coast, and will take account of any areas of special interest such as bird sanctuaries. They could consist of up to 300 turbines each, but Ms Hewitt said they would be far enough offshore not to be noticed from the coast. [...] hmmmmmmmmm "While we all want more electricity to be generated from all forms of renewable sources, offshore wind requires enormous capital investment and carries high transmission costs," he said. "Claiming that one home in six could be supplied with electricity generated by offshore wind power sets a new standard of absurdity." [...] The Guardian suck it and see!

Sony Pictures Digital has struck an agreement to purchase all of Sonic Foundry's desktop software products and related assets. CULVER CITY, Calif. & MADISON, Wis. � Sony Pictures Digital and Sonic Foundry�, Inc. (NASDAQ: SOFO) announced today Sony Pictures Digital has struck an agreement to purchase all of Sonic Foundry's desktop software products and related assets for $18 million cash and assumption of certain trade payables, accrued liabilities and capital leases associated with the desktop software business. The acquisition of Sonic Foundry's desktop software follows the recent retail release of Sony Pictures Digital's Screenblast� Movie Studio� and Screenblast� Music Studio� video and music-mixing applications created in conjunction with Sonic Foundry's award-winning software team. Sale of the desktop software assets includes Sonic Foundry's popular, industry-leading ACID�, Sound Forge� and Vegas� series of software products, as well as other related assets. Sony anticipates maintaining the group's Madison, Wis. base. The Board of Directors of Sonic Foundry has approved the transaction and certain shareholders have agreed to vote their shares in favor of the sale. Approval of the agreement may be subject to Sonic Foundry shareholder approval and other various conditions (see details below). "During the past three years, we have come to recognize and admire Sonic Foundry's engineering expertise and value their software applications. We are excited to integrate this world-class team and their products into our ongoing efforts to produce and deliver the next generation of consumer entertainment services," said Patrick Kennedy, executive vice president of Sony Pictures Digital. "The sale of our music and video digital software products is a key milestone in Sonic Foundry's history," said Rimas Buinevicius, chairman and CEO of Sonic Foundry. "We couldn't pick a better partner than Sony Pictures Digital to carry on the same passion and success we've achieved over the past 12 years," he said. "Consummation of this agreement will give us the cash we need to pay our debt and allow us to focus our attention on writing the next successful chapter of Sonic Foundry's story - rich media - and building upon the early success we've already achieved with our Web presentation solution, Media Site Live�."[...] http://www.sonicfoundry.com/news/ShowRelease.asp?ReleaseID=536

Alas, living in Blighty so much has to be made more efficient. Simply replace $var1 and $var2 in the statement above with alternatives from the lists below to create an equally valid statement. lets try it: The whole transport system has to be made more efficient, and the wasteful car driving culture has to be controlled. Simply banning the manufacture cutting the numbers of cars would reduce the amount of road capacity needed dramatically The sentence fits. The variables fit. Its all true! Since the congestion charge has been running in London, the roads around where we travel have been transformed for the better. All it took is someone with some guts to do what needed to be done. They are talking about making the M25 a 4 lane highway. Only a complete idiot would think that the roads can be expanded indefinetly. Just when does anyone think that someone will say "we cannot buld new anymore"? When every last blade of grass has been Tarmac'd? When all the roads abut all the other roads? when everyone in the UK lives in the sea because the car is the main inhabitant of the UK? Building wind farms is a scam. Companies get hundreds of millions in funding from central governments (both here and in France) to build these windfarms, which are not commercially viable. Its another way for slick dudes to swindle the public, and its all done in the guise of environmentalism and clean energy. The fact of the matter is that electricity is too cheap when it is priced correctly, wind farms will be commercially viable, and you wont have to pay someone to put up a farm, they will grow out of theground like giant beating trees. Anyone who has heard these things knows what I am talking about when I use the word "beating".... Someone has to stand up and say: "there is no more electricity". Then, the price will start to adjust itself according to demand, the market for high efficiency bulbs and "dead man" / "no one here switches" will explode, and we will not have to suffer these dreadful windtowers spoiling the land and seascape for generations. Did you know that there are groups of people who go out with crossbows and long lengths of steel cable, who shoot at wind turbines? Turbines are very delicate, and once they are wound up with many meters of steel cable all sucken (yes, sucken) into their gears and gubbins, costs $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ to repair....all it takes is 4 guys with crossbows & cables, and a farm can be put out of action for many many weeks. Its already happening....spanners in the works!

Wow, Ben, I rarely hear anyone mention Charles Biederman. His theories on abstraction in art and what it means for us as a species are enlightening. My good friend Chris Benincasa is making a documentary on him and has visited his home in Red Wing, Minnesota several times to shoot video and interview. I have been a major fan of Guy Davenport's work for some time now. His collection of essays, The Geography of the Imagination is an incredible foray into the possibilities of the human mind in the arts and sciences. His short stories put his theories to work while culling from social utopian concepts to create modern worlds of fun, love, seeing, sex, creation and harmony. Starting with the Jules Verne Steam Balloon could do you no harm. While in Los Angeles I read Chinua Achebe's selected essays under the collected title Hopes and Impediments. Wonderful insights into imagination and the possibilities and responsbilities of modern fiction writing.

Audiopad Audiopad is something I have developed with electronic musician and fellow Media Lab graduate student Ben Recht. It is a composition and performance instrument for electronic music which tracks the positions of objects on a tabletop surface and converts their motion into music. One can pull sounds from a giant set of samples, juxtapose archived recordings against warm synthetic melodies, cut between drum loops to create new beats, and apply digital processing all at the same time on the same table. Audiopad not only allows for spontaneous reinterpretation of musical compositions, but also creates a visual and tactile dialogue between itself, the performer, and the audience. Audiopad has a matrix of antenna elements which track the positions of electronically tagged objects on a tabletop surface. Software translates the position information into music and graphical feedback on the tabletop. Each object represents either a musical track or a microphone. WATCH THE VIDEO

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unbelievably good piece of news http://www.countryguardian.net/case.htm "The noise from a wind turbine comes from both the mechanical gearing and from the aerodynamic properties of the rotating blades. The former can to a degree be controlled and insulated and some makes of turbine are quieter than others. The more intrusive noise comes from the effects of the blade moving through the air and the industry has had virtually no success in controlling this. Indeed, it has probably not tried seriously to do so. The web site of the VESTAS turbine manufacturer is revealing: "The new design allows the blades to cut so aggressively through the wind that the kilowatt counter runs as much as 17 - 19% faster than even its highly competitive predecessor. Development work on this turbine has focused on one factor: profitability." [Country Guardian's italics - and it should be noted that these are the latest machines, a fact which undermines the industry's claim that only the early machines created significant noise levels. Theses turbines were erected at Ireleth in Cumbria and in 1999 The Westmorland Gazette reported: "Barrow's chief environmental health officer said the council was taking action against the noise nuisance."]"[...] Hmmm the NIMBYs are rustling! The whole electricity grid has to be made more efficient, and the wasteful end users have to be controlled. Simply banning the manufacture of wasteful light bulbs would reduce the amount of capacity needed dramatically. There are light bulbs available now that can produce the same amount of light as ordinary incandescents for 60% less electricity. Forbidding the manufacture of these juice gobbling is an obvious first step. There is enough electricity produced already, if we make efficient use of it, we dont have to find more sources to feed increasing demand; increased effeciency should slacken off the pressure. Then there is the problem of the transmission lines, which are horribly inneficient. These all need to be replaced with cables that are near transparent as possible in terms of juice loss. It will cost billions to retrofit the entire grid, but surely this is a better thing to spend money on than COLONIZING OTHER COUNTRIES...right?

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This is a picture of an "Iranian" man demonstrating in the USA, for "regime change" in Iran. Someone set me straight; this guy ALREADY LIVES IN A DEMOCRACY right? He lives in a democracy, he has access to the entire world, and inside the continental USA every type of landscape imaginable. WHY DOESNT HE MIND HIS OWN BUSINESS and STFU??

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I just had my electric and gas meters read. London Electricity has aparenty been bought by Electricit� de France. "Bright sparks GOOD to hear that creativity is not dead. Electricit� de France (EDF), the owner of London Electricity, launched its new brand this week, renaming itself the truly inspired EDF Energy. The no-nonsense name replaces the myriad brands that made up the old London Electricity group. What a pity that Interbrand�s consultancy fee of �2 million wasn�t quite as modest. " The Times hmmmm looks like they were using internet exploder when they came up with the new identitiy!

How Mr Willcock's brush with Pc Muckle struck a blow for freedom

By Philip Johnston (Filed: 12/07/2003) If opponents of identity cards want a champion, they need look no further than the late Clarence Henry Willcock. He was the last person prosecuted in Britain for refusing to produce his wartime ID card and he spearheaded a public campaign that led to their abolition 50 years ago. Next week, David Blunkett will seek to revive the idea. What neither he nor anyone else knows is whether the spiritual heirs of Mr Willcock propose to stand in his way. Are the British of the 21st century less protective of their liberties than their forefathers? Mr Willcock, like Mr Blunkett a Yorkshireman, considered that the State needed a very good reason - such as a war - to require a free-born British subject to possess an identity card. For Mr Willcock, being asked to produce an identity card five years after the emergency that made them necessary had ended was a straightforward infringement of his liberty. ID cards were introduced in 1939 but remained in use after the war to help in the administration of food rationing. The Labour government professed to find them distasteful yet did nothing to hasten their demise. The police had powers to see ID cards in certain circumstances. If an individual did not have one when asked, it had to be produced at a police station within two days. This was where the law stood when Mr Willcock, 54, was stopped by Pc Harold Muckle as he drove in Finchley, north London, on Dec 7, 1950. The constable asked him to produce his national registration card. Mr Willcock refused. Pc Muckle then issued him with a form to produce the card at any police station within two days. When he had failed to produce his identity card at a police station, Mr Willcock was charged under the provisions of the National Registration Act 1939. In the magistrates' court, he argued that the emergency legislation was now redundant because the emergency was clearly at an end. The magistrates convicted Mr Willcock, as they were obliged to, but gave him an absolute discharge. He decided to test the law in the higher courts. Each found against him on the grounds that the statute remained in force and could only be reversed by an Order in Council. In 1951, the Tories won the general election, and abolished ID cards the following year. Mr Willcock lived just long enough to see them go. He dropped dead in the National Liberal Club in December 1952 while debating the case against socialism.

Finally, can anyone recommend some good books? as I said before, Empire, Antonio Negri http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/HAREMI.html is what I will be reading this summer, as well as catching up with Baudrillard and re reading the Bhagavad Gita. My shopping list includes 'Derek Jarmans Garden' I read this, read it. sooooooo many recommendations to give... Now now, we know better than that!

Marriage may tame genius Thursday, 10 July 2003 Creative genius and crime express themselves early in men but both are turned off almost like a tap if a man gets married and has children, a study says. Satoshi Kanazawa, a psychologist at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, compiled a database of the biographies of 280 great scientists, noting their age at the time when they made their greatest work. The data remarkably concur with the brutal observation made by Albert Einstein, who wrote in 1942: "A person who has not made his great contribution to science before the age of 30 will never do so." "Scientific productivity indeed fades with age," Dr Kanazawa says. "Two-thirds (of all scientists) will have made their most significant contributions before their mid-30s." But, regardless of age, the great minds who married virtually kissed goodbye to making any further glorious additions to their CV. Within five years of making their nuptial vows, nearly a quarter of married scientists had made their last significant contribution to history's hall of fame. [...] uh oh

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bit anal with regard to cleanliness there must be some stomach flora that is being killed; probably by toothpaste or household bleach / disinfectant that is causing this spike in severe allergies. someone needs to correlate the introduction of each surficant and optical whitener etc that has been introduced in the last 50 years, against the figures on the rise of severe food allergies. or something like that....

Toronto team says charcoal limits peanut allergy shock Michael Higgins National Post, with files from news services Canadian doctors have discovered that a substance readily available at most pharmacies could prove to be a life-saver for people suffering from potentially fatal peanut allergy. Activated charcoal has been used for years to treat the effects of poison, but Dr. Peter Vadas of St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto said it can "put the brakes" on an allergic peanut reaction. If taken early enough, the activated charcoal acts on the peanut protein in the stomach and prevents the allergen entering the bloodstream and causing the severe reaction. "This provides us with another tool for treating the reaction. Even more than that, it is also a means of very effectively nipping in the bud the reactions when they are still at a very mild stage," said Dr. Vadas, director of the Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, where the discovery was made.[...] Canada.com

mail it to me please.... and this was in today's telegraph: Children 'can grow out of peanut risk' By Roger Highfield (Filed: 11/07/2003) Children who have a severe reaction to peanuts can outgrow their allergy, a study says. It recommends routine re-testing of sufferers. The allergy affects up to two per cent of young children. It can be triggered by as little as 1/1000th of a peanut and is the leading cause of anaphylaxis, which can constrict airways in the lungs, severely lower blood pressure, cause swelling of the tongue or throat and sometimes even death. In a study of 80 children aged from four to 14 with well-documented peanut allergies, researchers found that some children lost their potentially life-threatening complaint. Among those who did, there was a low risk of recurrence. The findings by a team at Johns Hopkins children's centre and Arkansas children's hospital were published yesterday in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. Dr Robert Wood, the senior author of the report, said: "We once thought peanut allergy was a lifelong problem but now believe that those with low levels of allergy antibodies may outgrow it. "Because of the tremendous burden peanut allergy can cause for children and their families, I recommend that children with it be re-tested regularly: every one or two years."

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Some Xbox Fans Microsoft Didn't Aim For

AFTER a 31-year-old Manhattan financial executive received Microsoft's Xbox video game system as a gift in January, he walked to a store and bought a half-dozen game titles. The video game industry would have been pleased to hear it. After he played those games a few times against computer-controlled opponents, he got a bit bored and signed up for Microsoft's Xbox Live service, which enabled him to play against other people online. The video game industry, again, would have been pleased. After a few months on the Xbox Live network, in May, he got a bit bored again. This time, however, he opened his Xbox and soldered in a chip that allowed him to change the console's basic computer code and bypass its internal security technology. After installing a new hard drive, he transferred about 3,000 MP3 music files to the system and downloaded illegal copies of 3,500 old-time arcade games. Then he installed the Linux operating system, which allowed him to use the box essentially as a personal computer. [...] [...]By e-mail, Mr. Steil, the German leader of the Xbox Linux project, declared: "In very simple words: The Xbox is cheaper than a PC. The Xbox is a lot smaller than a PC. The Xbox looks better (next to a TV set). The Xbox is more silent. Therefore it's an ideal Linux computer in the living room." That was probably not the vision Mr. Gates had in mind.[...] XBox Linux Project Hacking the Xbox: (An Introduction to Reverse Engineering) by Andrew "bunnie" Huang

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Empire What Hardt and Negri call an "Empire" is the successor of 19th-century imperialism. Best exemplified by British and French colonial domination, imperialism was characterized by territorial domination over certain societies, mostly in Africa and Asia. The European national state organized this form of exploitation, and Europe acted as a cultural, political, and economic metropolis orbited by distant colonies. The British Empire, for example, had to establish rigid boundaries between itself and the French Empire in order to ensure its competitive economic advantage over the latter, and white Londoners had to be differentiated from colonial subjects to justify the massive flow of profits from the periphery (Johannesburg, Hong Kong) to the center. Imperialism functioned by producing limits. Traditional imperialism, however, did not survive World War II. What arose from its ruins was Empire, a new system of domination that no longer separated "inside" (ruling country) and "outside" (colony). Empire aspired to "globality"--a world with no boundaries, a world in which First and Third Worlds are inseparably intermingled: Fifth Avenue and Harlem, Mexico City and Chiapas, Beverly Hills and South Central, and so on. Biopower But how is Empire to establish domination over global populations without the police powers of a nation-state? Hardt and Negri's answer lies in the idea of "biopower" (literally "power over life"). By means of mass communication technologies (television, radio, public relations, and advertising), Empire leaves the task of policing to the individual: "Go ahead. Buy that car and let the little fascist in your head take over!" This is the new society of control: There are no more prisons, only inmates. You don't finish school; remedial education is always in session. You're never healthy, but always in therapy. And the army is no longer a place where you learn how to kill, it's a career-resource center. But, argue Hardt and Negri, this is not to say that people have now become happy robots. The field of politics has been displaced from the national liberation and socialist politics of old to a new kind of "biopolitics," formally set into motion by the social movements of the late '60s. There will be no new Soviet Union, no second Gandhi; what replaces all that is the politics of everyday life--biopolitics constituted by struggles for individual and collective autonomy in the present, such as women's right to choose, sexual liberation, the fight against police profiling, etc. The Multitude Biopolitics produces the multitude. In the past, nation-states had been so successful as forms of political domination because they made people believe, through various ideologies, that they had a stake in the state--that they were "the People," the central actors who, by sheer force of will, moved the machinery of "democratic" government. But in the brave new world of Empire, there is no more nation-state that "the People" can be hoodwinked into believing they still control. Political and cultural identities become pluralized. Nobody is satisfied with being an "American" any longer; you're now a Jewish feminist lesbian of Russian decent. Though biopower reaches into the capillaries of society, inciting individuals to consume more and more commodities, this new system has no means of extending control over political allegiances. Hardt and Negri call this situation "the multitude"--an irreducible multiplicity of political-cultural subjectivities. The flip side of this new system? There is no more proletariat in the traditional Marxist sense. Whereas Marx and Lenin had argued that the (white, male) industrial workers were the vanguards of the Communist society, in Empire, such a configuration is no longer possible. Whether the question is one of maintaining capitalism or of overthrowing it, there can no longer be a center of agency. Since political identities are radically pluralized on a global level, but also linked by a global situation (Empire), revolutionary agency must itself be decentralized. There will be no vanguards--only a multitude of potentially coalescing revolutionary movements. In short, according to Hardt and Negri, "The deterritorializing power of the multitude is the productive force that sustains Empire, and at the same time the force that calls for and makes necessary its destruction. They draw the conclusion that Empire is, by its very nature, an unstable system poised for implosion. This, however, is not an occasion for sadness, but joy. The global reach of the multitude's rebellion--exemplified in the protests against global finance that have since rocked the world since Empire's publication--means that global communism is within reach. Hardt and Negri offer three potential demands for this movement to take up: the global right to immigration (global citizenship); the global right to a social wage; and finally, global collective ownership of the means of production, which is not only the factories of old, but also the means of producing and circulating information. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the end of Empire. http://www.thestranger.com/2001-08-16/books.html Those of you who have been paying attention know that they have missed something out; The Multitude can instantaneously stop the preparation and waging of war. Aparently, the authors next book is on this very subject, how to permanently puyt a stop to war. This is a great concern for them (and us) because perpetual war is, according to the authors, the only way that the power of The Multitude can be controlled in the post capitalist world. Thankfully the solution has already been designed.

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Shortwave Numbers Stations Irdial Disks 1997 Reviewed by: Michael Heumann Static. Faint voices. Seven slow, monotonous tones. A pause. Suddenly, you hear music?one of those wind-up songs played by a child's toy. The melody repeats three times. A pause. Suddenly, you hear a female voice counting off the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0 in German. A pause. She repeats the numbers. A pause. The children's toy melody returns. So begins The Conet Project, perhaps the greatest collection of found art ever produced. This is not only a monumental work; it is also a monument, a testament to 50 years of Cold War espionage, a living document of the world's most secret agencies. That most of these agencies are still around today merely enhances the importance of this work. [...] http://www.stylusmagazine.com/musicreviews/the_conet_project.shtml

"These two deep-sea animals have come to a very agreeable arrangement. Hermit crabs have long soft bodies that must be protected. So they like to live safe inside other objects, typically shells. As shells can be rare in the deep sea, these hermit crabs have worked out a way to live inside a relative of anemones and corals known as �zonathid�. Most corals and anemones need a hard surface on which to settle and grow. Most of the deep sea is mud and sand, so hard surfaces are rare. By these two animals getting together, they both benefit. The crab has a safe home in the tough leathery body of the zonathid, it may even be protected by the coral�s stinging tentacles. In return the coral gets carried to new places that might have more food, including the sorts of foods that the hermit crab scavenges. It is not known how this union starts but it�s possible that the two get together from a small size and grow up helping each other out."

"The scientific name for this strange deep-sea eel says it all. Eurypharynx means �all throat� and pelicanoides means �pelican-like�. This all-black fish has a tiny head and eyes and has a huge mouth with small teeth and a big soft-bag throat. At the tip of its tail is a small light organ that glows pink but can also flash red. It seems that this eel hunts by waving the tip of its tail in its open mouth, drawing in schools of small shrimps and other crustaceans. Once inside the eel very slowly closes its mouth so that the shrimp don�t even know they�re trapped. Then the water is squeezed out through gill openings and the shrimp are trapped and swallowed."

This name doesn�t do this fish justice. One researcher onboard suggested a name like the Starburst Anglerfish would be more appropriate. This is the female of this strange anglerfish. She has very long fin rays, and hairy tubes all over her head. These tubes are known as �neuromasts� and are extensions of the sensory structures found in the lateral line system of most fishes. They must help her detect her prey, soon captured in her large toothy mouth. Less than 20 specimens have ever been collected of this species, only six in the entire Pacific and Indian oceans (in an area two thirds of the earth�s circumference!). To show how rare many of these deep-sea fishes are, this species is considered the �common� member of the family! Others are only known from a single specimen. Like other anglerfishes, males are very different. They are small and have simple fins. In this species, the male latches on to the female and doesn�t let go. Their skin fuses and he stays as a permanent pimple with eyes, drinking blood and making sperm. http://www.oceans.gov.au/norfanz/CreatureFeature.htm

mary, what / where is that bike ? I wish I could say it was in my garage, but alas, not today. My friend just bought one and she tells me it is fantastic, a bit heavier than a regular bike, but the hills are "smooth and easy". This one is particularly sleek, isn't it? I am due for a new bike, the old Peugeot gets me around, though I'd like a more stylish one for special occasions (like every day!). I do like the Schwinn city cruisers ... Considering the alumni are mostly English, does anyone have a good recipe for scones? I bought some sour cherries at the farmers market on the weekend and I think they would be lovely in a scone with some chocolate.

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Blunkett's card trick

(Filed: 07/07/2003) You can often tell a bad idea by the arguments deployed in its favour. So it is with David Blunkett's proposal to introduce identity cards for everyone over the age of 16, at a cost of �39 each. Each of the claims made by the Home Secretary in support of his pet scheme is wrong. First, Mr Blunkett says that there is strong public support for the idea. In fact, the Home Office's recent consultation exercise focused on the concept of an entitlement card, a very different prospect. The state is perfectly within its rights to demand that benefits claimants identify themselves. There is a world of difference between being asked to justify yourself in order to claim a subsidy and being asked to produce your papers when you are going about your lawful business. The Home Secretary goes on to argue ID cards will help fight crime. This is one of those assertions that is forever being made, but hardly ever substantiated. Muggers and burglars are unlikely to leave their identity cards behind at the scene of the crime. The public mood is said to have changed since September 11, 2001, but no one has explained - or even seriously tried to explain - how ID cards would have thwarted those bombers, many of whom died in possession of forged papers. Nor, by the way, are ID cards a solution to illegal immigration. The root of the asylum problem is not that we cannot find clandestine entrants, but that we never enforce their deportation. It is typical of Mr Blunkett - and of New Labour - that, instead of seeking to repatriate the hundreds of thousands of false claimants who have already been ordered out, he should seek eye-catching, if unrelated, new powers. More faulty still is Mr Blunkett's central proposition, as set out in a letter to his Cabinet colleagues: "The argument that identity cards will inhibit our freedom is wrong. We are strengthened in our liberty if our identity is protected from theft; if we are able to access the services we are entitled to; and if our community is better protected from terrorists." It has become trite, especially in this, his centenary year, to describe things as "Orwellian". Here, though, is the real thing. In an appendix to Nineteen Eighty-Four, Orwell describes how a concept can be traduced if the words used to express it lose their meaning. The example he gives, uncannily, is the word "free". Now here is Mr Blunkett using "freedom" to mean more state control. Any doubts as to the wisdom of the scheme must surely be removed by the Home Secretary's final argument in its favour: that we are "out of kilter with Europe". Indeed we are, thank heaven. Policemen in Britain are seen as citizens in uniform, not agents of the government. The balance of power between state and individual is, in general, tilted toward the latter. That which is not banned is presumed to be allowed, and we do not expect to account for ourselves unless we have done something wrong. Mr Blunkett might usefully heed Orwell's contemporary, Aldous Huxley: "Liberties are not given - they are taken."

Blunkett's ID cards 'threat to freedom' By Toby Helm, Chief Political Correspondent (Filed: 07/07/2003) David Blunkett was accused by civil liberties campaigners last night of planning "the biggest threat to freedom since the Second World War" after a leaked memo showed he is pushing the Cabinet to back national identity cards for everyone aged 16 and over. The Home Secretary insists in a memo to Cabinet colleagues that rather than limiting freedom, his plan for ID cards would reinforce people's sense of liberty by making it easier for them to use services and protecting them from criminals and terrorists. It is understood that he wants to introduce legislation in the autumn to allow cards to be brought in within the next few years. A full Cabinet discussion is expected within the next fortnight. Plans for ID cards, abandoned in the mid-Nineties, were revived amid concern about security following the terrorist attacks on September 11. The Home Secretary believes that it should not be compulsory to carry the card but says that people could be forced to produce it within days if asked to do so by police.[...] What is much more likely is that they will lock you up until one of your relatives or mates turns up with your card. Any fool will have the common sense to abscond if he is already wanted for some offence. All of these reassurances are just empty words, the same as the words spoken about how the public's reaction would be taken into account in the consultation. Lies lies LIES!

This will really stop terrorism, not that a terrorist would be able to give a false name address and then relocate or carry out their actions in the between days. All of the 911 men had valid IDs. This is complete and utter hogwash from beginning to end. And the line about "our european partners all have to carry ID cards" is total bullshit; just because they have something awful doesnt mean that anyone else, anywhere else, has to accept it. This is Bliars Britain; they didnt count the true number of objections in the consultancy, then they counted it but said that it doesnt matter because the people who voted against it were "highly organized". So they are just going to do it anyway just like they illegally and imorally attacked and colonized Iraq in the face of well orgainzed and unprecedentedly large demonstrations. Yet again, so much for "democracy".

Ha, you fell for it like the fascist you are. I tricked you, it wasn't me! My eyes dont lie, all this means is that your brother doesnt look like that hero!

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Thank you, Chris. Now let me get this straight ... everyone fills their car up with their prized possessions, rolls to a big field, puts the stuff on display, sells it to the highest bidder, AND they put up a huge bouncy castle with a slide too? What am I doing in Canada.

You are a Mod. Yeah baby.

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Claus, your brother looks like a hero.

The aim was to hit as low as possible, to hurt, to show who has the power and how he intends to use it. With arrogance, violence and without pity. "I like it!"

awesome! Solar system similar to ours discovered

whoa.

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How can you resist not changing the answers? Fifties ladies fashions are lovely. Pencil skirts, A-line skirts, buttony blouses with ruffly sleeves, gloves and hats, pumps! and all that lipstick ... fabulous. I don't know about this though: Anyone yearning to get this look on? On second thought, it could be quite cute, with the right shoes ...

Did I say "T-Model Ford"?

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Ha!!!

Today, I walked down Cork Street as part of an almost random walk, and wandered into a few of the galleries. The Entwistle is putting on "Paris is Burning" when I walked in, the following titles had just displayed: "Instrumental Version 2001" I found out later that what I had watched was this: The Portuguese video artist Joao Onofre, (b. 1976, Lisbon) filmed the chamber choir Coro de Camra da Universidade de Lisboa singing an acappella version of The Robots by Kraftwerk from their 1978 album Man Machine. It was a very pleasant surprise.

no nothing. And that my friends, puts pay to that I think.

Mistrust Mixes With Misery In Heat of Baghdad Police Post

Frustrated Reservists See a Mission Impossible By Anthony Shadid Washington Post Foreign Service Tuesday, July 1, 2003; Page A01 BAGHDAD, June 30 -- To Staff Sgt. Charles Pollard, the working-class suburb of Mashtal is a "very, very, very, very bad neighborhood." And he sees just one solution. "U.S. officials need to get our [expletive] out of here," said the 43-year-old reservist from Pittsburgh, who arrived in Iraq with the 307th Military Police Company on May 24. "I say that seriously. We have no business being here. We will not change the culture they have in Iraq, in Baghdad. Baghdad is so corrupted. All we are here is potential people to be killed and sitting ducks." To Sgt. Sami Jalil, a 14-year veteran of the local police force, the Americans are to blame. He and his colleagues have no badges, no uniforms. The soldiers don't trust them with weapons. In his eyes, his U.S. counterparts have already lost the people's trust. "We're facing the danger. We're in the front lines. We're taking all the risks, only us," said the 33-year-old officer. "They're arrogant. They treat all the people as if they're criminals."[...] Washington Post

Downloading huge files is a PITA if you are on a slow connection, on the other hand, lo fi interfaces are a blessing. It just feels like there is....everything... missing from Blogger lo-fi!

2nd Day. 2nd Track: 2nd Day. 3nd Track, since the 2nd is 404 (yes 3nd!): ******************** Boing! *************************

same missing character in Opera... also, the only interface you can get in Opera is the /lofi/ one, which i dont like at all..bye bye Opera for blogger...I wonder what it looks like on the P800?

"Claus Eggers S?rensen" Dano says this is a problem with the encoding, tried each of the western encoding options, and none of them "work".

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