Thank you Martin Braun!

Before 1996 it was unknown that the development of permanent weak tones in the human inner ear is influenced by descending signals from the auditory brain. These tones, the so-called spontaneous otoacoustic emissions (SOAEs), have been measured since 1979 with sensitive microphones in the ear canal, and they appear in the majority of healthy ears. For the persons who have them they are normally not audible. As a rule, only a few tones are measured per ear, but in rare cases there can be about 20. The tone frequencies are stable over many years. They range from 0.5 to 10 kHz, the majority lying between 1.5 to 3 kHz. [...] Thank you Martin Braun! ...and thanks for your "gamelan pelog scale of Central Java as an example of a non-harmonic musical scale: Interval distribution. ...and for your "Bell tuning in ancient China: bells of Zeng from 433 B.C"

Coming round finally

"If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood". {Henry David Thoreau, "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience", 1849} Thanks for those links AK. Now all thats needed is the fools from StopWar and all those other pacifier groups who facilitate war to get behind the only real solution, and put 10,000,000 people behind it. People are not stupid, at least it appears that SOME people are not entirely stupid. I said it before, marching is useless, and that some other type of action is needed...an action of iniaction, of 'will not', of geting O.U.T. Let them 'bring on' the Iran phase of the project, so that the entire war system can finally be dismantled.

The irresistable urge to tie it all together

http://www.bandtoband.com/

Rockin' the EMP

Dav, you were right, the jam rooms were the best part of the EMP. What a fun museum. Not only do you get to wander round with headsets listening to music and history, but they have a great collection of band posters and paraphernalia to explore. The guitar museum alone was worth it, beautiful examples of the lingeage of the guitar. And the Hendrix rooms were so fantastic! I think the best part was listening to Hendrix's songs and reading the lyrics from his original writings. So inspiring. And he had great penmanship. We tried our best to rock the jam rooms, however we were a little lacking in the guitar skills ... but we emerged quite invigorated! Overall, perhaps it was a little bit Disneyland-ish, but still a cool way to learn about music. I would not say no if I was asked to design an exhibit, what a fun project to work on!

rainy seattle

I am in Seattle this weekend, touring the city. A very wet rainy city. I am in the Seattle Public Library right now, and have already blasted through a roll of 36. Koolhaus has done a fantastic job, the building is incredible. I wish I had chose colour film now, because the colour shifts between spaces are clever. Stainless steel hallways to the elevators that open lime green. Computer stations all black with orange accents. Fantastic. Projections and surprising industrial textures. Loving it! However, there is a very wet dog sitting under the table next to me, a huge Samoid, who let her in here? Going to the Experience Music Project tomorrow, which I hear is great fun. I will report back.

The Iranian Threat: The Bomb or the Euro?

The Iranian Threat: The Bomb or the Euro? By Dr. Elias Akleh 03/24/05 "AMIN" - - Iran does not pose a threat to the United State because of its nuclear projects, its WMD, or its support to "terrorists organizations" as the American administration is claiming, but in its attempt to re-shape the global economical system by converting it from a petrodollar to a petroeuro system. Such conversion is looked upon as a flagrant declaration of economical war against the US that would flatten the revenues of the American corporations and eventually might cause an economic collapse. In June of 2004 Iran declared its intention of setting up an international oil exchange (a bourse) denominated in the Euro currency. Many oil-producing as well as oil-consuming countries had expressed their welcome to such petroeuro bourse. The Iranian reports had stated that this bourse may start its trade with the beginning of 2006. Naturally such an oil bourse would compete against London’s International Petroleum Exchange (IPE), as well as against the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), both owned by American corporations. Oil consuming countries have no choice but use the American Dollar to purchase their oil, since the Dollar has been so far the global standard monetary fund for oil exchange. This necessitates these countries to keep the Dollar in their central banks as their reserve fund, thus strengthening the American economy. But if Iran — followed by the other oil-producing countries — offered to accept the Euro as another choice for oil exchange the American economy would suffer a real crisis. We could witness this crisis at the end of 2005 and beginning of 2006 when oil investors would have the choice to pay $57 a barrel of oil at the American (NYMEX) and at London’s (IPE), or pay 37 Euros a barrel at the Iranian oil bourse. Such choice would reduce trade volumes at both the Dollar-dependent (NYMEX) and the (IPE). Many countries had studied the conversion from the ever weakening petrodollar to the gradually strengthening petroeuro system. The de-valuation of the Dollar was caused by the American economy shying away from manufacturing local products — except those of the military -, by outsourcing the American jobs to the cheaper third world countries and depending only on the general service sector, and by the huge cost of two major wars that are still going on. Foreign investors started withdrawing their money from the shaky American market causing further devaluation of the Dollar. [...] http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8354.htm

"ICH"

America No. 1?

America by the numbers

by Michael Ventura

02/03/05 "ICH" - - No concept lies more firmly embedded in our national character than the notion that the USA is "No. 1," "the greatest." Our broadcast media are, in essence, continuous advertisements for the brand name "America Is No. 1." Any office seeker saying otherwise would be committing political suicide. In fact, anyone saying otherwise will be labeled "un-American." We're an "empire," ain't we? Sure we are. An empire without a manufacturing base. An empire that must borrow $2 billion a day from its competitors in order to function. Yet the delusion is ineradicable. We're No. 1. Well...this is the country you really live in:

• The United States is 49th in the world in literacy (the New York Times, Dec. 12, 2004).
• The United States ranked 28th out of 40 countries in mathematical literacy (NYT, Dec. 12, 2004).
• Twenty percent of Americans think the sun orbits the earth. Seventeen percent believe the earth revolves around the sun once a day (The Week, Jan. 7, 2005).
• "The International Adult Literacy Survey...found that Americans with less than nine years of education 'score worse than virtually all of the other countries'" (Jeremy Rifkin's superbly documented book The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream, p.78).
• Our workers are so ignorant and lack so many basic skills that American businesses spend $30 billion a year on remedial training (NYT, Dec. 12, 2004). No wonder they relocate elsewhere!
• "The European Union leads the U.S. in...the number of science and engineering graduates; public research and development (R&D) expenditures; and new capital raised" (The European Dream, p.70).
• "Europe surpassed the United States in the mid-1990s as the largest producer of scientific literature" (The European Dream, p.70).
• Nevertheless, Congress cut funds to the National Science Foundation. The agency will issue 1,000 fewer research grants this year (NYT, Dec. 21, 2004).
• Foreign applications to U.S. grad schools declined 28 percent last year. Foreign student enrollment on all levels fell for the first time in three decades, but increased greatly in Europe and China. Last year Chinese grad-school graduates in the U.S. dropped 56 percent, Indians 51 percent, South Koreans 28 percent (NYT, Dec. 21, 2004). We're not the place to be anymore.
• The World Health Organization "ranked the countries of the world in terms of overall health performance, and the U.S. [was]...37th." In the fairness of health care, we're 54th. "The irony is that the United States spends more per capita for health care than any other nation in the world" (The European Dream, pp.79-80). Pay more, get lots, lots less.
• "The U.S. and South Africa are the only two developed countries in the world that do not provide health care for all their citizens" (The European Dream, p.80). Excuse me, but since when is South Africa a "developed" country? Anyway, that's the company we're keeping.
• Lack of health insurance coverage causes 18,000 unnecessary American deaths a year. (That's six times the number of people killed on 9/11.) (NYT, Jan. 12, 2005.)
• "U.S. childhood poverty now ranks 22nd, or second to last, among the developed nations. Only Mexico scores lower" (The European Dream, p.81). Been to Mexico lately? Does it look "developed" to you? Yet it's the only "developed" country to score lower in childhood poverty.
• Twelve million American families--more than 10 percent of all U.S. households--"continue to struggle, and not always successfully, to feed themselves." Families that "had members who actually went hungry at some point last year" numbered 3.9 million (NYT, Nov. 22, 2004).
• The United States is 41st in the world in infant mortality. Cuba scores higher (NYT, Jan. 12, 2005).
• Women are 70 percent more likely to die in childbirth in America than in Europe (NYT, Jan. 12, 2005).
• The leading cause of death of pregnant women in this country is murder (CNN, Dec. 14, 2004).
• "Of the 20 most developed countries in the world, the U.S. was dead last in the growth rate of total compensation to its workforce in the 1980s.... In the 1990s, the U.S. average compensation growth rate grew only slightly, at an annual rate of about 0.1 percent" (The European Dream, p.39). Yet Americans work longer hours per year than any other industrialized country, and get less vacation time.
• "Sixty-one of the 140 biggest companies on the Global Fortune 500 rankings are European, while only 50 are U.S. companies" (The European Dream, p.66). "In a recent survey of the world's 50 best companies, conducted by Global Finance, all but one were European" (The European Dream, p.69).
• "Fourteen of the 20 largest commercial banks in the world today are European.... In the chemical industry, the European company BASF is the world's leader, and three of the top six players are European. In engineering and construction, three of the top five companies are European.... The two others are Japanese. Not a single American engineering and construction company is included among the world's top nine competitors. In food and consumer products, Nestlé and Unilever, two European giants, rank first and second, respectively, in the world. In the food and drugstore retail trade, two European companies...are first and second, and European companies make up five of the top ten. Only four U.S. companies are on the list" (The European Dream, p.68).
• The United States has lost 1.3 million jobs to China in the last decade (CNN, Jan. 12, 2005).
• U.S. employers eliminated 1 million jobs in 2004 (The Week, Jan. 14, 2005).
• Three million six hundred thousand Americans ran out of unemployment insurance last year; 1.8 million--one in five--unemployed workers are jobless for more than six months (NYT, Jan. 9, 2005).
• Japan, China, Taiwan, and South Korea hold 40 percent of our government debt. (That's why we talk nice to them.) "By helping keep mortgage rates from rising, China has come to play an enormous and little-noticed role in sustaining the American housing boom" (NYT, Dec. 4, 2004). Read that twice. We owe our housing boom to China, because they want us to keep buying all that stuff they manufacture.
• Sometime in the next 10 years Brazil will probably pass the U.S. as the world's largest agricultural producer. Brazil is now the world's largest exporter of chickens, orange juice, sugar, coffee, and tobacco. Last year, Brazil passed the U.S. as the world's largest beef producer. (Hear that, you poor deluded cowboys?) As a result, while we bear record trade deficits, Brazil boasts a $30 billion trade surplus (NYT, Dec. 12, 2004).
• As of last June, the U.S. imported more food than it exported (NYT, Dec. 12, 2004).
• Bush: 62,027,582 votes. Kerry: 59,026,003 votes. Number of eligible voters who didn't show up: 79,279,000 (NYT, Dec. 26, 2004). That's more than a third. Way more. If more than a third of Iraqis don't show for their election, no country in the world will think that election legitimate.
• One-third of all U.S. children are born out of wedlock. One-half of all U.S. children will live in a one-parent house (CNN, Dec. 10, 2004).
• "Americans are now spending more money on gambling than on movies, videos, DVDs, music, and books combined" (The European Dream, p.28).
• "Nearly one out of four Americans [believe] that using violence to get what they want is acceptable" (The European Dream, p.32).
• Forty-three percent of Americans think torture is sometimes justified, according to a PEW Poll (Associated Press, Aug. 19, 2004).
• "Nearly 900,000 children were abused or neglected in 2002, the last year for which such data are available" (USA Today, Dec. 21, 2004).
• "The International Association of Chiefs of Police said that cuts by the [Bush] administration in federal aid to local police agencies have left the nation more vulnerable than ever" (USA Today, Nov. 17, 2004).

No. 1? In most important categories we're not even in the Top 10 anymore. Not even close.

The USA is "No. 1" in nothing but weaponry, consumer spending, debt, and delusion.

Reprinted from the Austin Chronicle. www.citypages.com/databank/26/1264/article12985.asp

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8191.htm

SETI is Comfort Eating

We physicists have accelerated particles in the vacuum chambers of expensive accelerators to speeds of 99.99 % of the speed of light. 11mps is absurd. Space is a very large vacuum chamber. These totally misleading comments rank on a par with Dr. Simon Newcombe’s claim in October, 1903, (2 months before the Wright Brothers first flight) that the only way man would fly would be with the help of a balloon. Dr. Bickerton in the 1920s proved “scientifically” that it would be impossible to provide enough energy to put anything into orbit. Dr. Campbell in 1941 “Scientifically” calculated that the required initial launch weight of a rocket able to get a man to the moon and back would be a million million tons. He was, because of his total ignorance about space flight, off by a factor of 300,000,000. All three were, like the SETI cultists, astronomers. With this track record, why believe any of their proclamations? I was involved more than 40 years ago in work on a fusion propulsion system able to eject particles having 10 million times as much energy per particle as in a chemical rocket. This of course was not presented. After all, I was just a promoter. [...] http://frankwarren.blogspot.com/2005/03/friedman-vs-jenningsreality-vs.html Yes indeed; eating greasy food is very comforting for nervous people...or people who need a gig for life!

Iceland of justice

Japan 'set to free' Bobby Fischer

Japan has decided to allow former world chess champion Bobby Fischer to travel to Iceland, despite US requests for his extradition, Japanese media reported.

Japan's justice ministry made the decision after being shown documents proving Mr Fischer had been granted Icelandic citizenship, reports said.

The chess player has already been detained for eight months near Tokyo.

He is wanted in the US for breaking international sanctions by playing a match in Yugoslavia in 1992. [...]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4374811.stm

Ah yes, a triplet forms in the heart and then passes to the keyboard: Iceland of justice

High Impact - No Nonsense

http://thediagram.com/5_1/index.html

Excellent beginning!

size fooobar

I think it's the size of BLOGDIAL which is slowing it down in the mud, because on other blogger blogs I use (which are much smaller) the load time and the post time is miniscular and problem free. Also, I think blogger really doesn't like it when two users are posting or accessing the "dashboard" at the same time??? f00b4r!

Its not you

Our XServe got hacked. do tell... It is you. The evidence says otherwise; multiple posts from multiple dudes and dudettes...blogger is teh f00b4r. Gotz to get rid of it. 'Pauls Boutique' - indeed - its everywhere. Included should be are the jeans that have 'juicy' across the ass. Oh yes!...'should be are' -'hardened prestootniks'.

Blogger Crapping out

Is blogger misbehaving badly?

Blogger Crapping out

Is it just me, or is blogger misbehaving badly?

the irish in me

I can't stand it when the blog lies emptly, yes emptly. Let me fill it. For the record, mary13 is essentially an Irish riff - every woman in my father's bloodline was named mary, as far as I can remember, even me. So take mary + heritage + cyborgian dreams and it's mary13 all the way. How more patriotic can you get???? Guinness to you, my dears.

If this isnt a warning, I dont know what is.

Identity Protection is Up to You
By Trevor Bauknight

Last week, Atlanta-based Choicepoint (http://www.choicepoint.com),
a giant consumer information clearinghouse revealed that some
of the massive amounts of personal data the company stores on
virtually every American citizen was compromised. We found out
about this because some 30,000 Californians received mail
warning them that the personal information in question may have
belonged to them. That was the tip of the iceberg.

Since the initial story broke, we have found out that the
compromised information was not restricted to Californians. Only
the notification was. Why? California is the only state where
the law requires such notification. The company says it sent out
an additional 110,000 letters when investigators told them that
people outside California may have been affected; but the Los
Angeles County Sheriff's office investigating the incident
suspects that the number of people affected may reach half a
million nationwide.

What is ChoicePoint?

ChoicePoint is a data broker holding some 19 billion records
obtained from government, insurance and business sources. The
Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC - http://www.epic.org)
describes the company this way: "According to a recent quarterly
statement filed at the Security and Exchange Commission,
ChoicePoint sells: 'claims history data, motor vehicle records,
police records, credit information and modeling services...
employment background screenings and drug testing administration
services, public record searches, vital record services,
credential verification, due diligence information, Uniform
Commercial Code searches and filings, DNA identification
services, authentication services and people and shareholder
locator information searches...print fulfillment, teleservices,
database and campaign management services...'".

Since its spinoff from Equifax in 1997, the company has built
its massive databases through the strategic acquisition of some
60 companies, among them: Pinkerton, Inc., a pre-employment
screening company; Bridger Systems, a USA Patriot Act compliance
company and Bode Technology Group, a DNA identification company.
According to EPIC: "At Privacy International's Big Brother Award
ceremony held in Cambridge, MA on March 7, 2001, ChoicePoint
received the 'Greatest Corporate Invader' award 'for massive
selling of records, accurate and inaccurate to cops, direct
marketers and election officials.'" Powerful stuff.

What Happened?

The ChoicePoint website points out (in boldface): "This
incident was not a breach of ChoicePoint´s network or a 'hacking'
incident, and did not involve any of ChoicePoint´s customer
information." They're right. The data wasn't stolen. It was
sold. And we can safely say that with a 22% growth on net sales
of $918 million and 4% year-over-year growth in net profit, the
company came out pretty well on the transactions.

Sometime last year, about 50 companies were set up for the
specific purpose of accessing ChoicePoint data and defrauding
private individuals, and these businesses became ChoicePoint
customers in their own right with working logins and passwords.
They proceeded to guzzle and exploit ChoicePoint data; and in
only a few months, at least 750 cases of actual identity theft
originated in the abuse of this data. Organized crime has taken
on new dimensions in the age of the Internet, and to say that
this was "not a breach of ChoicePoint's network", while
technically true, leaves the most important things unsaid.

As the infamous computer hacker Kevin Mitnick
(http://www.defensivethinking.com) points out in his book on
"social engineering" _The Art of Deception: Controlling the
Human Element of Security_, a determined criminal need not be
technologically-inclined to help herself to the data she wants.
ChoicePoint's failure was in doing the very thing it claims to
enable its customers to do -- verify that their customers are
who they say they are.

What Should You Do?

Everyone is potentially impacted by this incident. As private
individuals, you must be ever more vigilant of your personal
identity. Some of the best ways to do that are outlined at the
EPIC site above. Your credit report is usually the first
indicator that something has gone wrong, and checking it
rigorously and regularly for unusual queries, account activity,
etc. should be your first order of business. Mechanisms are
finally being put in place to allow you to do so free of charge,
and details are available at [...]

http://www.sitepronews.com/archives/2005/mar/16prt.html

How could you not quoth it

Sorry, just HAD to quoth the article Dav just linked:

One thing Green referred en passant struck me as both amusing and oddly resonant. Last year Geoff Travis was given some kind of Mojo Award for his lifetime’s contribution to British music, and at the ceremony, Green and Carl Barat from the Libertines appeared onstage to jointly present the award to their benefactor. That chalk-and-cheese pairing struck me as containing volumes--or at least a decent-sized essay--about the last 25 plus years of British independent music culture. The obvious thing to say would be to see it as symbolizing a contraction of vision, a loss of ambition, sonic risk, and a sense of purpose: from Scritti’s attempt to dismantle rock form and rock ideology to the Libertines rehashing of rock’n’roll's (in)elegantly wasted Romantic dissolute-ness, all that worn threadbare mythology and its attendant sonic clichés.

Lovely!

Banned!

http://www.audioscrobbler.com/user/BlitZace/ http://www.audioscrobbler.com/user/Reaper6699/ Banned!

War Games and Time Wasting

http://www.journalscape.com/pawns_unite I keep saying it. The only way to win is to GET OFF THE BOARD. THE BOARD IS FOR THE BIRDS... FOR THE BIRDS.

Neti potter

Let's try this again - Blogger bumped me! You are right, Akin. The neti pot solution needs some salt to prevent stinging, I guess to match the body's ph. I also believe it works as a disinfectant. I was very curious about neti when I heard about it, and it is a fantastic way to clean your nose, esp. if you feel a cold coming on or suffer from hay fever. I think the pot is a gentler method than snuffing, because you can slowly pour the water through your nose. You will laugh when you try it, but then the water comes out your mouth! You have to discover the proper tilt to the head to make the water flow, and it mightn't work the first few times you try. Just don't blow the water forcefully out though, it will back up into your ears and can be quite uncomfortable. On tooth brushing, if you can find a toothpaste made with neem, give it a try. You will never go back to sugary Crest again.

Neti Pots

The Neti Pot should be used with mildly salty warm water. The water should also not be tap water, which stings your membranes because it is chlorinated. The most amazing part of this for me is that Yogis practiced tooth brushing, and that this sperad into the west. Could this become as widely adopted as tooth brushing? Imagine the permutations in bottle shape and rinsing solution that would appear.

Neti Pots

The Neti Pot should be used with mildly salty warm water. The water should also not be tap water, which stings your membranes because it is chlorinated. The most amazing part of this for me is that Yogis practiced tooth brushing, and that this sperad into the west. Could this become as widely adopted as tooth brushing? Imagine the permutations in bottle shape and rinsing solution that would appear.

clean nostrils

When I began experimenting with yoga, I was introduced to nasal cleansing. I didn't use one of those apparatuses; instead, while showering, I cupped water in my hands, inhaled it through my nose and out my mouth. What resulted was a sharp, stinging sensation in my nostrils, lingering on the edge of refreshing. I gave up the practice after about a year, but after seeing this post I'm inclined to try again. I wonder what the benefit of using a netipot is.

You are next for this

Yoga is an ancient system of practical methods used to increase physical and mental well-being. The use of various Yoga techniques is spreading rapidly in our culture today. The cleansing technique of brushing the teeth has been practiced for thousands of years in the Yoga tradition, but it has only been common in Western culture for about 100 years. Now nasal cleansing is also becoming more widespread in our culture...

The laughs keep coming

"This is a really unexpected and unwelcome precedent where people who don't like decisions of our state courts can use an international court as their court of appeal," he said. "We have a system of justice that provides people with due process and review of their cases, and it's not appropriate that there should be some international court that comes in and reverses decision of our national courts." http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/03/11/vienna.convention/index.html This joke is still funny!

Micronews reports

http://www.entter.com/

seven inches

What's the favourite 7" single you own? Haven't looked at or played any 7"s in quite some time. Brought the lot down from the top of a bookshelf this evening to force a trip down memory lane, more than half expecting to be whisked back to the 90s by the sleek undesign of some photocopied sleeve. Memories in xerox'd form never materialized, but I did come across a couple of 7"s that are kind of interesting: the first couple of I'm Being Good singles on Infinite Chug; a The Dead C single on Forced Exposure that for the life of me I can't remember the sound of, or even purchasing; a Stock, Hausen & Walkman single on Eerie Materials that freaked me out in a good way when I first discovered their warpedness; and a compilation on RRR that fits 100 locked grooves on to a 7" record with submissions from the likes of Borbetomagus, Bee Queen, Con Demek, Skullflower, Caroliner Rainbow and 95 others. Oh for the want of a college radio show again...

Decisions decisions

What's the favourite 7" single you own? I thought about this for a while, and one of my favourite recent 7"s is by tetrapak '"My Brother's records ending". This beautiful, emotional, record evokes every time you ever played a record, in the space of a 7". It is pure genius on white vinyl.

Power over ethernet

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D-Link, an industry leader in networking, introduces the DWL-P200 Power over Ethernet (PoE) Adapter. The DWL-P200 delivers both data and electrical power to Ethernet-enabled devices using a single Ethernet cable. Using Power over Ethernet, you eliminate the need to place an Ethernet-enabled device, such as a wireless access point, near a power outlet, giving you more freedom in placement. The DWL-P200 Power over Ethernet (PoE) Adapter is simple to install, requiring no tools and no software. Its compact size makes implementation of the DWL-P200 easy. Plug the base unit into a power outlet, and then connect the terminal unit to your network device using any standard Ethernet cable. Once set up, the terminal device unit can output power to any compatible 5V or 12V Ethernet-enabled device. The DWL-P200 simplifies your installation of Ethernet-enabled devices, such as an Internet camera or wireless access points, by allowing you to place it beyond the range of standard power outlets. You can now mount these devices to a ceiling or outside without placing them near a power supply. With the DWL-P200 Power over Ethernet (PoE) Adapter, both power and data can be transmitted up to 328 feet (100m)* using standard Ethernet cabling with virtually no reduction in data throughput. Use the DWL-P200 with Ethernet-enabled devices where power outlets are not readily available.

Twenty thousand downloads...and counting

Top Downloads

1.	The Conet Project - Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations [ird059] Irdial 20,667 downloads
2.	Lackluster - You Are On My Mind EP [mtk119] Monotonik 4,402 downloads
3.	Aleksi Virta - ..Meets Torsti At The Space Lounge [mtk123] Monotonik 3,921 downloads
4.	Aphilas - Instrumentally Ill EP [mia049] Miasmah 3,687 downloads
5.	I, Cactus - I, Cactus [8bp033] 8bitpeoples 2,622 downloads
6.	Various - Monotonik Release Compilation #1 [mtk001-050] Monotonik 2,175 downloads
7.	Various Artists - Two Zombies Later [csr001] Comfort Stand 1,738 downloads
8.	Various Artists - Observatory Online Archives Vol.1 [os001-os014] Observatory Online 1,675 downloads
9.	Various - Monotonik Release Compilation #2 [mtk051-090] Monotonik 1,619 downloads
10.	Various Artists - Wakka Chikka Wakka Chikka: Porn Music For The Masses Volume 1 [csr049] Comfort Stand 1,496 downloads

Montage a Google

http://grant.robinson.name/projects/montage-a-google/

Numbers!

8200 = 8 + 2¹³ + 0 + 0. 8201 = 8 + 2¹³ + 0 + 1. 8202 = 8 + 2¹³ + 0 + 2. 8203 = 8 + 2¹³ + 0 + 3. 8204 = 8 + 2¹³ + 0 + 4. 8205 = 8 + 2¹³ + 0 + 5. 8206 = 8 + 2¹³ + 0 + 6. 8207 = 8 + 2¹³ + 0 + 7. 8208 = 8⁴ + 2⁴ + 0⁴ + 8⁴. 8209 = 8 + 2¹³ + 0 + 9. http://www.stetson.edu/~efriedma/numbers.html

low fat

(Does it really exist? ) ...Perhaps she meant "light" cream as opposed to "heavy" cream? Although, you can now find low carb milk in the States, they call it a "dairy beverage," I call it blasphemy.

cliche

Minor second: Sour Major second: Bitter Minor third: Salty Major third: Sweet Fourth: Mown grass Tritone: Disgust Fifth: Pure water Minor sixth: Cream Major sixth: Low-fat cream Minor seventh: Bitter Major seventh: Sour Octave: No taste Am I the only one to notice that she thinks the minor second and major seventh BOTH taste sour?! This is quite the most ridiculous, cliched report! I take offense to this woman who clearly associates "dissonant" sounds with "bad" flavors. The tritone is a simple cream-puff pastry, and the minor seventh is a creme anglaise. (The sixths have more nuttiness then cream to them.) I do agree that the minor third is a bit salty, but only a fool would think the octave has no flavor, the octave is oaky smell, a broad charcoal-like bouquet, with a fruitiness that lingers in your mouth.... This article is another underhanded attack on the complex deliciousness that is dissonance. You have to question the sensibilities of a person who thinks a fourth tastes like "mown grass," she is clearly longing for something long since past, some romantic, inane innocence.

dav, no. And sadly. I had nothing to do with it except only to know that it was going on, and read about it. I have witnessed the people taking the photos and inputing the metadata for it though, which is quite an operation. The output of my daily work slowly finds its home here. I would love to see this display of finding aids get richer and more usable a la that image database. My favorite part is in the Terms and Permissions, where it reads: "NYPL makes no representations or warranties that it owns or licenses any such rights nor does NYPL grant you any rights including copyright, trademarks, or rights of publicity belonging to any person, place, property, or subject matter depicted in any image. Further NYPL makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy of any information provided with the images. You are solely responsible for determining whether your use of any image requires the consent of any third party or the license of any additional rights, and you should not rely solely on the information provided by NYPL. If you are unsure of whether additional rights are needed for your use, you are responsible for consulting with competent legal counsel."

digital imagebase

My employer just unveiled the NYPL Digital Gallery which provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more. There are some fine things to view on/in it, if given a moment of one's time. Such as; the Trouvelot astronomical drawings This was the sort of thing that seemed a dream only 5 years ago, and now here it is... available.

Black Smoke

Baffling smoke signal? Not yet.

You have two Mac's...

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download syncOtunes(Mac / PC*)

You have two Mac's... You have two iTunes libraries... You never have all your songs on each Mac... syncOtunes synchronizes your iTunes libraries select the iTunes library file from your first Mac. open the iTunes library of your second Mac through a network share. syncOtunes compares the songlistes and creates a folder for each of your Mac's, containing the missing song files. import that folder into iTunes with an applescript, not needed files are automatically trashed, and you're done.

French army WW1 color photos

http://www.bigdandbubba.com/nicknacks/color_photo_was_invented_in.htm

Who is next to be extradited?

boydrice.com

coil

current 93

cyclobe.com

darkculture.net

middlepillar.com

strawberry switchblade

Some links.

Boyd Rice, has a project that you need to see. You can be sure that Mr. Rice is on the list of 'people to be taken down at the first opportunity'.

Oh Canada!

Shame on Canada!

Political Prisoner Ernst Zundel Deported Secretly & Whisked by Chartered Plane to Germany

Word has just reached me that Ernst Zundel was taken in a special, chartered (?) plane to Germany, where he reportedly landed at 10 p.m., German time, in Frankfurt. There, he will be arrested for "Holocaust Denial" allegedly found on the Zundelsite - and taken to the Mannheim Prison. So, once again, this is a "cyber war" involving an American website? Blue Ribbons to the fore!

March 1: CAFE comments on the deportation of Ernst Zundel

Feb 27: Statement from Ernst Zundel's Lawyers on the deportation

Feb 26 - Update on Deportation

Entire Text of Justice Blais Decision (PDF Format)

Media articles on case

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The judge presiding over his trial wrote: "Mr. Zundel has never advocated violence. This has been the basis of his position throughout the hearing. How can defending ideas, however unpopular or insulting, pose a safety concern for Canada?" But Judge Blais eventually concluded that the secret evidence tipped the scales in the opposite direction. "The information made available to me paints an entirely different picture. Mr. Zundel is not the avuncular figure looking on with some indulgence on the wayward excesses of some misguided souls who fail to understand his message of non violence. The evidence points to his own direct involvement with groups he pretends to know very little about..." There's a reason the ACLU famously defended the right of Nazis to march in Skokie: process is important. Denying one group, no matter how reprehensible, the right to speak paves the way to further abridgements (who decides what's reprehensible?). Relying on secret evidence is no way to run a free society, and punishing someone for even odious political views is wrong. (Remember this the next time Ottawa lectures Washington on human rights.) If the police had evidence of criminal mischief, it should be presented in open court, not offered as innuendo. The Canadian Civil Liberties Association was correct to decry Canada's bizarre procedures and unseemly haste to be rid of a political problem. -Declan -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Politech] Reporters Without Borders condemns "repressive" nations at U.N. Net-summit [fs] Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 23:49:58 -0500 From: Al Cabal To: Declan McCullagh ...and Ernst Zundel is to be deported from Canada to Germany after 2 years in solitary confinement with the fluorescent lights on 24/7 after having been snatched from the arms of his American wife by jackbooted Feds before lunch on a gorgeous winter's morning in their home in the mountains of Tennessee. It all reminds me of that old Chicago song --- "Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care?" Where is Frank Zappa now that we really need him? Who are the Brain Police?

From Hell,

Alan Cabal

Snarfed from Politech. On the one hand, they clamour for covert racist ID policy, on the other, they lock up overt racists for talking andwriting. Right.

Archives Hub: Botany

UK Archives Hub, Collections of the Month, March 2005: Botany Dog Rose Above: 'Wild Rose haups. Rosa Canina. Sidlaw Road, Strathmartine. September 1912'. Detail from Illustrations of Scottish Flora (1912-1913) by David R Robinson. From the Kinnear Collection, reference GB 0254 MS 103/3/5.

What it REALLY looks like!

http://toledohiphop.org/images/old_school_source_code/

Beautiful Warning

Driver Components mismatch. Exit is the only option.