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got peace?

2006-12-25T09:02:00.000-06:00

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Ah, these times are so uncertain.
There's a yearning undefined,
And people filled with rage.
We all need a little tenderness;
How can love survive
In such a graceless age?

The more I know, the less I understand.
All the things I thought I knew, I'm learning again.

I've been trying to get down
To the heart of the matter,
But my will gets weak
And my thoughts seem to scatter;
But I think it's about forgiveness,
Forgiveness.
Even if,
Even if you don't love me anymore.
The Heart of the Matter

That you were once unkind befriends me now,
And for that sorrow, which I then did feel,
Needs must I under my transgression bow,
Unless my nerves were brass or hammered steel.
For if you were by my unkindness shaken,
As I by yours, you've passed a hell of time;
And I, a tyrant, have no leisure taken
To weigh how once I suffered in your crime.
O! that our night of woe might have remembered
My deepest sense, how hard true sorrow hits,
And soon to you, as you to me, then tendered
The humble salve, which wounded bosoms fits!
But that your trespass now becomes a fee;
Mine ransoms yours, and yours must ransom me.
CXX

I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written:
"The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.
And this is [will be] my covenant with them when I take away their sins." [1]
As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies on your account; but as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs, for God's gifts and his call are irrevocable. Just as you who were at one time disobedient to God have now received mercy as a result of their disobedience, so they too have now become disobedient in order that they too may [now] receive mercy as a result of God's mercy to you. For God has bound all men over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all.
Romans 11:25-32

"You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor [2] and hate your enemy.' [3]
But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that?
Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Matthew 5:43-48

listen

2006-05-02T23:04:00.000-05:00

Don't let it bring you down, it's only castles burning,
Find someone who's turning, and you will come around.

"Oft help will come from the weak when the Wise are foolish." Gandalf

and read along

America! America! God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control, thy liberty in law.

O beautiful for heroes proved in liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved, and mercy more than life.

The emperor must not be told night is coming.
His armies are chasing shadows,
Arresting whippoorwills and hermit thrushes
And setting towns and villages on fire.

In the capitol, they go around confiscating
Clocks and watches, burning heretics,
And painting the sunrise over the rooftops
While the people wish each other good morning.

The rooster brought in chains is crowing,
The flowers in the garden have been made to stay open,
And still dark stains appear on palace floors
Which no amount of scrubbing can wipe away.
Charles Simic, The Lights Are On Everywhere

The continuance of the war system must be assured, if for no other reason, among others, than to preserve whatever quality and degree of poverty a society requires as an incentive, as well as to maintain the stability of its internal organization of power.
Leonard Lewin, Report from Iron Mountain

The primary aim of modem warfare... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living... The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking into the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable...
Eric Blair, 1984

"It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest wall of oppression and resistance."
Robert F. Kennedy

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happy year of dog

2006-01-29T17:47:00.000-06:00

so your dogs ate the ~~goddampieceofpaper~~ constitution?
go figure how long you can use that excuse, kemo sabe
or, how much time we have left

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worldwide weather war

2005-12-13T01:24:00.000-06:00

Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain, and a path for the thunderstorm? Job

In the vast laboratories of the Ministry of Peace, and in the experimental stations hidden in the Brazilian forests, or in the Australian desert, or on lost islands of the Antarctic, the teams of experts are indefatigably at work...producing artificial earthquakes and tidal waves... George Orwell, 1984

An outlined history, via blogs, the captain, and the farther side of down under
At least we can be reassured that everything is under control

Now they're planning the crime of the century
Well what will it be?
Read all about their schemes and adventuring
It's well worth a fee
So roll up and see
How they'll rape the universe
How they've gone from bad to worse
Who are these men of lust, greed, and glory?
Rip off the masks and let's see.
But that's not right - oh no, what's the story?
But there's you and there's me
That can't be right
Supertramp, Crime of the Century

Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.

"Mayor Nagin is here from New Orleans, the Chocolate City! ... I'd like to welcome you to Washington, D.C., the chocolate city with a marshmallow center. And a graham cracker crust of corruption," said Colbert. "It's a Mallomar, I guess is what I'm describing, a seasonal cookie."

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all's fair, butt...

2005-05-05T22:29:00.000-05:00

"All's fair in love and war." Francis Edward Smedley
"Action is thought tempered by illusion." Elbert Hubbard

Keep them in the dark, and keep feeding them shit or
There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. Luke

Having now laid all the historical facts before the Person Sitting in Darkness, we should bring him to again, and explain them to him. We should say to him:

"They look doubtful, but in reality they are not. There have been lies; yes, but they were told in a good cause. We have been treacherous; but that was only in order that real good might come out of apparent evil. True, we have crushed a deceived and confiding people; we have turned against the weak and the friendless who trusted us; we have stamped out a just and intelligent and well-ordered republic; we have stabbed an ally in the back and slapped the face of a guest; we have bought a Shadow from an enemy that hadn't it to sell; we have robbed a trusting friend of his land and his liberty; we have invited our clean young men to shoulder a discredited musket and do bandit's work under a flag which bandits have been accustomed to fear, not to follow; we have debauched America's honor and blackened her face before the world; but each detail was for the best. We know this. Mark Twain, To The Person Sitting In Darkness

via, and, some better polish art

A ray of hope for those not in the mainstream scene, as long as you don't ~~ass~~, er, ask, or, um, tell !
If (...-)=V, beginning Symphony V, associates with Victory, then does (--- -- ---)= OMO, beginning LouieLouie, associate with Buggery ? ! I Fucked America In The Ass, Hard .com ?

"You give impotent people with evil intentions the power to represent you. Only too late do you realize that again and again you are being defrauded. You must come to realize that you make your little men your own oppressors, and that you made martyrs out of your truly great men." Wilhelm Reich

"[America's] insistence on predominance would unite the world against the United States and force it into impositions that would leave it isolated and drained. The road to empire leads to domestic decay because, in time, the claims of [executive] omnipotence erode domestic restraints." Henry Kissinger

And ; Or , Your Call, Bro

Or, try to ~~fcuk~~ people out of money with your magic turtle and incur charges of 'impersonating a god' ?
But, don't forget to remember, when curled up in a ball, that the hedgehog can never be buggered at all

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it ... always." Gandhi

Now I am about to go the way of all the earth. You know with all your heart and soul that not one of all the good promises the LORD your God gave you has failed. Every promise has been fulfilled; not one has failed. Joshua

Cornholier than Thou ?
As Annoying As This ?

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meanwhile out there

2005-04-25T22:48:00.000-05:00

happy 15th time going around that near star while orbiting that 3rd rock !
and many more ? going to the dogs ? going anywhere near this world ? this ?
find your way around out there. willing to go where no man has gone before ?

tough enough to make it out there
cool enough to hang out around here

convene
42

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marked and parked

2005-04-21T21:51:00.000-05:00

My people have been lost sheep; their shepherds have led them astray... Jeremiah
Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping. Simeon Peter
But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. John

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. -- Bertrand de Jouvenel

will you mourn with the 'losers', or, sing along with the 'winners'?
whatcha gonna do when they come for you? whoya gonna serve in the meantime?
come out of her, my people, so that you will not share in her sins...
a cloud if by day, a fire if by night

If you overesteem great men, people become powerless.
If you overvalue possessions, people begin to steal.

The Master leads by emptying people's minds and filling their cores,
by weakening their ambition and toughening their resolve.
He helps people lose everything they know, everything they desire,
and creates confusion in those who think that they know.

Practice not-doing, and everything will fall into place.

Tao Te Ching by Lao-tzu
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Oxyrhynchus

2005-04-17T17:50:00.000-05:00

OXey POxy WIKI paPYRI in the Land O' Goshen ? What colours be in your coat, or, ?
Oh, it really says celebrate !
Ozymandias
Ozzy man, Dios!
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stralloons

2005-04-13T23:48:00.000-05:00

is a [big fat floating robot] birdplane able to stop a speeding bullet?
that is, unlike the common loon, or this toon
got remote controlled headless zombie flies?
what to do until they get them stralloons up
the low budget solution?
the dronecology
gasbags at war

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yarnings

2005-04-04T01:16:00.000-05:00

What wrath of gods, or wicked influence
Of tears, conspiring wretched men t' afflict,
Hath pour'd on earth this noyous pestilence
That mortal minds doth inwardly infect
With love of blindness and of ignorance?
Edmund Spenser, Tears of the Muses

Political language is designed to make
lies sound truthful and murder respectable,
and to give the appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell

Demagogue: One who preaches doctrines
he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots
H.L. Mencken

"And in self-justification men inverted the usual verbal evaluations of actions. Irrational recklessness was now considered courageous commitment, hesitation while looking to the future was high-styled cowardice, moderation was a cover for lack of manhood, and circumspection meant inaction, while senseless anger now helped to define a true man, and deliberation for security was a specious excuse for dereliction. The man of violent temper was always credible, anyone opposing him was suspect." The Peloponnesian War,3.82, Pericles' Funeral Oration, Thucydides

take up, or leave off, the white man's burden ? !; other empires, and the seeds of the weeds that choke them
hearts & minds: so frail *, so full of fantasies, so very easily fooled; anti-semantic? pro-socialist? pro-war? pussywhipt?
a way out of, or into, the maze ? or, is our personal completion [not]the only resolution of our rude beast?
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groupthink

2005-03-26T16:39:00.000-06:00

ordering collective consciousness, the holonic infrastructure, the global brain, some research links, and, other views ?
rapture of the nerds, AI, eschatology, a philosophical challenge, an older separation from the system of the world
blinging nanointelligent microbehaviour; blinkered microintelligent nayed'no'behaviour
asian, and antarctic terroristas, and an amazon ant ambush bush
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boom

2005-03-21T04:03:00.000-06:00

don' blame us; iz Man ! not BOFH; gotta wonder what the dog and the pig think of humans now...
toonz ta take ta da fallout shelta
the largest non-nuclear explosion ever
thirteen presently unexplained things, and one more
control assplosions through harm's limitations; bumper toilet humour
fireup a fragment 'o fungus
do not press this button
bang; banging
bath balms
yo, foo !
pop
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a fine kettle o' fish?

2005-03-17T23:39:00.000-06:00

some interesting rainbow facts, a field guide, mythology, spirituality, symbolism, human energy, art, music, legends, family, bridges to nordic paradise, with some assistance, and where dogs await reunion with their human friends.
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mused

2005-03-14T22:15:00.000-06:00

not amused
runic sagas
london derriere?
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ego echo

2005-03-06T08:57:00.000-06:00

Narcissus, from "Narke" [Gk], meaning "numbness", refers to the narcotic properties of the plant.
Please also note the absence of the dog's reflected image on the surface of the pool above.

when self-indulgence becomes self-abuse, and, the remedy?
echocasting egology and its eventual entropic ending
unless you've got a one track mind
MEdIatiOn cLONE
the final frontier ?
beyond ?
alt

All you need is love
It is where you're meant to be
Love is all you need.

integrate
the hole truth
out of touched
connect the next nexus net ?
manipulated disinformation: false future recovered memory ?
but you can't fool all of the people all of the time

alt
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ho ho ho ho ho ho ho

2005-03-03T02:08:00.000-06:00

talk the talk, hoboglyphics, more signs, hobobuzz, history, art, culture, zine, worldtraveller, con a sewer, wha?, aaak!

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into mighty okes?

2005-02-25T05:25:00.000-06:00

off-repeated etymological idiotsyncrasies replete with antidotal usages for the lame man
uncyclopedia
hey, are those real ?
meet the FUDsters
multicultural cursology
quantum for the lame man
multicoloured sound shape movie
Rubik's eccentric very distant cousin
no good mind goes unpunished; will these bad deeds?

problem solution? dinosaur blog? mandatory accompaniment to all political speeches? a new eula?
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Free Mojtaba and Arash

2005-02-22T01:46:00.000-06:00

Hoder, who blogs, gives backstory (parts 1, 2), what's happening lately; an interview

"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer blogger and the sunshine poster will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of free speech; but he that stands by it now deserves the thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."

"The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology." JG Ballard

"When things turn weird, the weird turn pro."
"Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why." HS Thompson

A look at what is really happening in Iraq and a preview of the near, and possible, future for Iran? Balochistan banana stand? All "The Base" are belong to US, or just part of the plan? Another monumental exercise in futility in an alien culture? An unfortunately typical cross-cultural misunderstanding? a persistent bloody determination to conquer and prevail?

An historical perspective, a strategic change, an analysis, a deception, a disruption, a scrum, some pipedreams, a tragedy, a breakdown, a disenchantment, some hope, some possible perils, and an academic distinction for all those out there caught up in it. Meanwhile offshore...

Send in the robocops and (cookiemonsters?!) and predators to track them (fatal a track shun?) and turn up the pain gain

Here's the code if you want to copy and paste it to your blog, too:
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with a bang

2005-02-21T21:05:00.000-06:00

The Night Mayor of Woody Creek does not go gently.
Some words by and about the good Dr. Gonzo, and Ralph Steadman remembers
A fitting eulogy, and, a funeral I'm going to be sorry to miss.
Here comes the weirdness. Were they listening? How about Gary ?

According to biographer McKeen, Thompson imagined ending his life on the drive from Louisville to Eglin Air Force Base in the Florida Panhandle, at the halfway point where the road winds around Iron Mountain. "My concept of death for a long time," he told McKeen, "was to come down that mountain road at a hundred and twenty and just keep going straight right there, burst out through the barrier and hang out above all that ... and there I'd be sitting in the front seat, stark naked, with a case of whiskey next to me, and a case of dynamite in the trunk ... honking the horn, and the lights on, and just sit there in space for an instant, a human bomb, and fall down into that mess of steel mills. It'd be a tremendous goddam explosion. No pain. No one would get hurt. I'm pretty sure, unless they've changed the highway, that launching place is still there. As soon as I get home, I ought to take the drive just to check it out."

Although posthumously assured by his lawyer that his death had nothing to do with the 2004 election, or the contempt in which he held our recent "choice" of administration, I am nevertheless somewhat ashamed as well as saddened, as if I were somehow partly to blame, at what has happened in a few short years to Hunter's country, to our country, a supposed example for the world to emulate, a nation worth believing, worth following; one which he warned us time and again, in his own unique way, which must either have the courage and the decency to continually judge and correct itself according to those same principles upon which it claimed to base its moral and ethical standards, or risk becoming yet another failure, in the end more trouble than it was worth: part of the problem.

As he wrote in Rolling Stone, "The question this year is not whether President Bush is acting more and more like the head of a fascist government, but if the American people want it that way. That is what this election is all about." And, in Kingdom of Fear : "We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world - a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts... Get out of our way, or we'll kill you."

Hunter, I'm so sorry that you had to leave us like you did, in the state of affairs in which we all now find ourselves. However intentionally outrageous or bizarre, you were a much-needed voice of conscience, who will be as sorely missed as you will be difficult to emulate, and as much needed by us all now as you ever were.

So rest well, old man. You earned it. There's nothing more that you can say or do, and what lives on in your words will be up to us to remember, and to carry on as best we may without your help anymore. No big deal.

HST
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rights to chews

2005-02-18T05:13:00.000-06:00

"Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail." For that, you need to find a better human.

Speaking as a dog trapped in a human's body, when they get trans-species operations to work, I'm moving to Canada and hooking up with that special bitch, or, perhaps one of these foxes.
Or, what would happen if I dropped that "H" for an "R", and took a walk on the wild side...and, speaking of wild, these dogs kicked ass!
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hot potatoes

2005-02-17T05:44:00.002-06:00

what may be learned from it about what to do with that hot stuff; or, this hot stuff; with bullshit frosting?
how about a hand from these badboyz, who may be ruling this 'hood; or these, misruling this
more potatoes to juggle, some cracked branes, and a gnome like a gnat on a gnu.
is a lot of hot air getting us in a lot of hot water? but feel free to trash everything outside the gates ? yes
and, while we're dealing with big bummers, how about this new twist on viral marketing? hot or not?
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mirrored visions

2005-02-16T01:25:00.000-06:00

He'd let us in, Knows where we've been, In his octopus's garden...

Now you may begin reading the legendary Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci in RSSfeed at the bottom of my sidebar just above Captain Midnight by clicking "Leo's Notes" under my photo, and then clicking "Page n" under RSS Digest. Enjoy!
And, here's some links to his Art and Science to accompany the Notes, and Galileo's Compass
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animal farms

2005-02-15T05:09:00.000-06:00

do the following examples give animal husbandry a new meaning?

all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others, or, special creatures, or, anomalous felids

or suspiciously different ones (who just won't go away, or overstay, like these pests)

or, way out there where the busses don't run
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canine valentines

2005-02-13T10:02:00.000-06:00

After all, the whole thing started with our ancestors...

I lie belly-up
In the sunshine, happier than
You ever will be.

Today I sniffed
Many dog behinds-I celebrate
By kissing your face.

How do I love thee?
The ways are numberless as
My hairs on the rug.

Sleeping here, my chin
On your foot -no greater bliss-well,
Maybe catching rats.

Look in my eyes and
Deny it. No human could
Love you as much I do.

The cat is not all
Bad-she fills the litter box
With Tootsie Rolls.

Dig under fence-why?
Because it's there. Because it's
There. Because it's there.

I am your best friend,
Now, always, and especially
When you are eating.

My owners' mood is
Romantic-I lie near their
Feet. I fart a big one.

now one less

2005-02-11T11:06:00.000-06:00

the truth is a two-edged sword which cuts both ways

"The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less."
Arthur Miller [October 17, 1915 - February 10, 2005]

After having been asked by his biographer to compose his own obituary, he admitted that "no one fully understands himself," yet claimed credit for having "certain insights, from time to time, which are good and which are philosophically useful." These insights, he reflected with a combination of modesty and self-certainty, "could have been more useful to people . . . than they have been."
George Frost Kennan [Feb. 16, 1904 — Mar. 17, 2005]

But, at least there's Helium to lighten things up
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strange albums

2005-02-11T03:11:00.000-06:00

"Blessed be the cracked, for they let in the light"

A flawed concept: audio recordings of religious ventriloquism [a sight gag]? Another Red State thang?
How to use a hand puppet to meet, attract, and date tons of single women, and then let them cook for you from your favorite Bible Recipes, while listening to stories about ol' Roy wrapped in clingfilm.
Or, just sing along with that weird duck song while she knits a piggy dress for your favorite rodent.
Remember, fat is only ugly until you put a nipple on it, and, er, depilatorize a bit.
Depression means that you didn't do enough of this.
Some certainly sincere, yet, simply strange scenarios
More covers; and, more
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flights of fancy

2005-02-10T22:41:00.000-06:00

amflybious?
flightfully busy!
many short flights
further future flights?
flights of imagination?
largely a matter of perspective
the doors of perception? and other doors to others' spaces
charming eggcentricities, or concerns meriting consideration?
should they also try to give them flying lessons? (ref: singing pigs)
"Let us flee!", said the fly; "Let us fly!", said the flea; So they flew through a flaw in the flue.
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going for the baroque cycle

2005-02-10T07:04:00.000-06:00

latest, and earlier interviews, and some thoughts on rules, ethics, rights, money, ideas, and dilemmas, among other things
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we're being invaded

2005-02-10T06:29:00.000-06:00

they're showing up here, here, there, and everywhere like mushrooms (or, raspberries?)
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whozat fifth guy?

2005-02-09T01:17:00.000-06:00

Paul? SATAN?! You know? Who?! Really? No? A Coverup for a Larger Conspiracy? What goes on? And, what's with this artificial addition to evolution?
There's Silverbeatles comin' out of the woodwork! Quarrymen? That's going back in time a bit, eh? btw
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happy year of cock!

2005-02-09T00:34:00.000-06:00

Happy Chinese New Year, Grasshopper(s)!

But, Lay on Ground, Light Fuse, Don't Get Away = "Cock Up"
Here's your fortune, Cookie, some helpful taboos for youse to use, and some inscrutable epigrams
And, if you're into it, much more info than you would ever really need
Get your free .pdf chinese year calendar, or chicken thesis, or a list of other fun links
Confucius say, 'Man who go sideways through airport turnstile with erection, going to Bangkok!'
Time for a CockTail? Cocksoup? Or a Cock and Bull Tale? How about an interspecies transfer of H5N1?
Chicken? Control chaos in the coop with this clever clucker collecting coup.
MmmmMaoMao,MamaMmmmMaoMaoMao; SurferBird [The Cocks?]
Save the Cocks (forget the people)
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an example for us all

2005-02-07T21:20:00.000-06:00

it's not about the boat

tough cookie
the journey
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u GO, girl!

2005-02-06T04:42:00.000-06:00

Her Blog

"There could be some shortcoming or other on technical issues, but I will maintain moral standards so high that no one will be able to say later that they were mistaken today. We will build such a team that Ukraine will sparkle like a diamond."

"I know society is expecting a miracle from the government -- a social miracle, a miracle in establishing order and justice triumphing," she said. "We will make the miracle happen."

"The priority development of technology and market ideology have gradually ruined the spirituality of mankind. Our goal is to make the development of spirituality a priority. This is the first constituent of the progress. The second constituent is the desire for justice, not as a slogan but as a scientific method of improvement of society, which is based on determining, publicizing and settling all conflicts in society. Then, Ukraine will fulfill its historic mission and prove that it is able to become a model of spirituality and a pattern for building a fair society. This idea is capable of uniting the Ukrainian nation, intentionally split, deceived, and betrayed by the irresponsible authorities."

And they have fair elections. Hmmm... I wonder how much we'd have to give them in order to sweeten the deal enough for the Ukranians to let us have her for a few years in order to clean things up here so they sparkled at least as well as a clean toilet bowl, much less as a diamond? Anything less than the $14 trillion sinkhole we're already in up to our uglies would be a better bargain than what we've got now, and probably a deal at twice the price. The only risk would come from the jealousy of the wives of the millions of men paying undue attention to their new leader....
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happy groundhog day, earthlings

2005-02-02T07:53:00.000-06:00

so why is everybody standing around just staring at me?
zen and the art of contemplation of the meaning of groundhog day
but, if you see this shadow, or this, or, especially, these, be vewwwwy quiet...
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illuminating

2005-01-31T00:36:00.000-06:00

'Whoever feels the touch of my hand shall become as I am, and hidden things shall be revealed to them... Cleave a piece of wood and you will find me; lift up a stone and I am there.' The Gospel According to Thomas

When a country obtains great power,
it becomes like the sea:
all streams run downward into it.
The more powerful it grows,
the greater the need for humility.
Humility means trusting the Tao,
thus never needing to be defensive.

A great nation is like a great man:
When he makes a mistake, he realizes it.*
Having realized it, he admits it.
Having admitted it, he corrects it.
He considers those who point out his faults
as his most benevolent teachers.
He thinks of his enemy
as the shadow that he himself casts.**

If a nation is centered in the Tao,
if it nourishes its own people
and doesn't meddle in the affairs of others,
it will be a light to all nations in the world.***

Tao Te Ching
Lao-tzu
(551-479 BCE)

* Those who don't learn history are doomed to repeat it. And, they won't even know that they're repeating it, because they never learned it in the first place.
** In fact, a little-known ancient Taoist text which has recently come to light thanks to modern scholarship, clearly asserts that accepting one's own vile and reprehensible nature is the fastest, most efficient route to getting in touch with one's divinity.
*** You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.

I'm melting...melting...

ill ruminating?

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next steps

2005-01-26T04:32:00.000-06:00

“Prediction is difficult, especially about the future.” Yogi Berra

liquidity

liquid seeks its own level; information keeps seeking new levels; hunger for power is never satisfied
film without film; a wireless magic lantern show can be everywhere at once; the cuban revolution
necessary steps: how to help keep the whole thing from going south on us (view in realtime); get hoppin'; or, an escape
or just deal with the unpleasant surprise consequences resulting from seeming good intentions
and here's that next step we've all been expecting; drink this to that while standing on one of these
a few million of the Arabic version of these could bring peace to Iraq soon, right?
and, along these lines, how about developing opensource software for fair voting?
and, don't dial the dash, but you can draw the pig
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signs of the times

2005-01-24T03:32:00.000-06:00

"It is not possible to awaken someone who is pretending to be asleep." -- Navajo proverb

"If you do away with the yoke of oppression, with the pointing finger and malicious talk, and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday. The LORD will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land..."
Isaiah 58:9-11

or, not... but, after all is said and done (or not), what can you do, eh?
trust me, as the scorpion said to the frog, as they walked into the trap of their own making
they can trust they'll be getting fair and free democratic elections like our votescam here, which kills to coverup
which will all be academic after these macho cowboy lunatics get some serious shit flying fanwise in their gangwar
so act now before it's too late and order that special fantasy coffin you've always wanted to be able to go out in style
more handjive: how big is it? more mindjive: how true is it? par for the course?
onward "christian" soldiers as muy macho cowboys in a badly fcukdup spagetti western?

Who is the fool, who the wise man, beggar, or king?
Whether poor or rich, all's the same in death.

We will be known forever by the tracks we leave. -- Dakota Proverb

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist. -- Verbal Kint/Keyser Söze

an old plan for a new american century
complete with bought and paid for insurance
dealing with what comes out of the other end from them thar horns

The age demanded an image
Of its accelerated grimace,
Something for the modern stage,
Not, at any rate, an Attic grace;

All men, in law, are equals.
Free of Peisistratus,
We choose a knave or an eunuch
To rule over us.

Some quick to arm, some for adventure,
some from fear of weakness, some from fear of censure,
some for love of slaughter, in imagination, learning later ...
some in fear, learning love of slaughter;

Died some "pro patria, non dulce non et decor"
["for fatherland , not sweetness and not beauty"]
walked eye-deep in hell believing in old men's lies, then unbelieving
came home, home to a lie, home to many deceits,
home to old lies and new infamy;
usury age-old and age-thick and liars in public places.

Daring as never before, wastage as never before.
disillusions as never told in the old days,

There died a myriad,
And of the best, among them,
For an old bitch gone in the teeth,
For a botched civilization. Ezra Pound

And in the end the age was handed
The sort of shit that it demanded. Ernest Hemingway

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori
[How sweet and decorated it is to die for the fatherland]

And I always thought that the simplest words
Must be enough. That when I say how things are
Everyone's heart must be torn to shreds.
That you'll go down if you don't stand up.
Surely you see that. Bertolt Brecht

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perpetual motion

2005-01-05T12:24:00.000-06:00

if at first you don't succeed...

a compelling sensibility?
let's do the time warp again
therefore rabbithole day would fall on thursday, 26 january this year?

surf the spacewarps
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going postal

2005-01-05T10:48:00.000-06:00

Quanti Canicula Ille In Fenestra
How Much Is That Doggie In The Window?

"The room fell silent, its silence made deeper and hotter by a number of desperate men thinking hard and fast. They were, by their own standards, honest men, in that they only did what they knew or suspected that everyone else did, and there was never any visible blood, but just now they were men far out on a frozen sea who'd just heard the ice creak."

"Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known."

"Peel away the lies, and the truth would emerge naked and ashamed and with nowhere else to hide."

"The people who guard the rainbow don't like those who get in the way of the sun." PTerry
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elephants to the rescue

2005-01-03T10:26:00.000-06:00

gotta love them celebrity heffalumps; and, they've got talent
people and blogs to the rescue

such wonderful animals chained out in the rain...and they'll probably still work their butts off without complaint for the humans who treat them like this.
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daze of auld lang syne

2005-01-01T09:23:00.000-06:00

wee rrrrodents leahrn t' plaaay tuu!

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And auld lang syne?

CHORUS:
For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll tak a cup of kindness yet,
For auld lang syne!

And surely ye'll be your pint-stowp,
And surely I'll be mine,
And we'll tak a cup o kindness yet,
For auld lang syne!

We twa hae run about the braes,
And pou'd the gowans fine,
But we've wander'd monie a weary fit,
Sin auld lang syne.

We twa hae paidl'd in the burn
Frae morning sun till dine,
But seas between us braid hae roar'd
Sin auld lang syne.

And there's a hand my trusty fiere,
And gie's a hand o thine,
And we'll tak a right guid-willie waught,
For auld lang syne
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some old words for troubled times

2004-10-17T16:22:00.000-05:00

may they benefit all those with ears to hear and eyes to see

" ' "The LORD bless you and keep you;
the LORD make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you;
the LORD turn his face toward you and give you peace." '

especially if you think that you may supporting these and are having second thoughts about all that warmongering
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if you want this to continue

2004-10-10T18:35:00.000-05:00

then you've either got pigshit for brains, or you're trying to destroy this country;
but, if you think might is right, and fuck all that whining about peace, check this, Mr. BringitOn

is your money that good? could it buy you forgiveness? do you think that it could?
I think you will find when your death takes its toll that all the money you made will never buy back your soul

his resume

just the facts
without a clue
without a doubt
faith based coups?
wipe that smirk off
offshore outsourcing
unfair and unbalanced
bad faith based intelligence
they're voting with their feet
they're coming to put you away
another good reason for barring from public office those in the oil industry ?

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned

"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger. It works the same in every country." ReichMarshall Hermann Göring at the Nuremburg Trials

if, in the end, all logic is illogical, get bonus points for being creative
or, strictly democratically speaking, for being a member of the bacterial majority
perhaps, however, deconstructionism may have its constructive uses
or, just blow off the intellectual approach, and draw up some cartoons
or dispel some of that tension with some welcome humour (via)
for none of us really matter to them in their brave new world order

""Rational man" supposedly weighs the important, known variables and then makes that decision which is most likely to achieve the desired end (the greatest "utility"). Thus, we can say that public policy is founded on the notion that people calculate the utility of each decision, somewhat like a computer. But modern cognitive science has shown that people do not make decisions by calculating the utility of each decision. Thus, economic "rational man" is a fraud that leaves the public exposed to ongoing economic and political exploitation by corporate media experts. Moreover, this fraud provides economists and political leaders with effective "moral cover", or in the words of Adolph Eichmann, "a kind of Pontius Pilate feeling" that leaves them free of all guilt for their dirty deeds." Jay Hanson

"All this was inspired by the principle - which is quite true in itself - that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying. These people know only too well how to use falsehood for the basest purposes."

"Through clever and constant application of propaganda people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise."Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf
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native alien

2004-10-06T17:19:00.000-05:00

some native alien music, or some alien native?
a girls' guide to dating geeks, and vice versa
some geek pastimes, and their respective ramifications
spacegeex bearing gifts; or, dreaming of electric sheep?
vouldyou vant to vatch zom vorn? monkeys? robots?
how about a heterosexually-challenged gorilla?
how to at least appear to be a real geek, with style

Space is limited
In a haiku, so it’s hard
To finish what you

does your inner samuri arrange flowers and write haikus, or just cut deals and distinctions? curious?
or would he rather be a geek? and, as long as the topic is romance...
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burning desires

2004-10-03T19:31:00.000-05:00

the more we take, the less we become

lyrics
koyaanisqatsi
the trick is not minding that it hurts
what can happen if you just can't seem to learn that trick
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chinDOGu

2004-10-03T17:48:00.000-05:00

more on
4U2?
voulez vous les politics chindogu? les tampon socks? via
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read this please

2004-09-30T01:02:00.000-05:00

what are you people thinking?

and this too
what is he thinking?
for those of you with eyes to see
this whole mess is as serious as a train wreck
transform the light at the end of the tunnel from a crushing force into a helpful train of thought
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space virgin

2004-09-29T17:01:00.000-05:00

spaceshipone, mojave spaceport, other spaceports
and, its more terrestrially oriented cousin, globalflyer, circumnavigates
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semanticweb

2004-09-28T16:26:00.000-05:00

W3C
DAML
floating web
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muttzRus

2004-09-26T16:16:00.000-05:00

cross a bulldog with a shih tzu
see how hot I am
want to touch noses?
c'mon, let's play!
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splish splash

2004-09-25T18:16:00.000-05:00

slippin'n'slidin'

it's confirmed. it's changing.
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stop driving

2004-09-21T18:02:00.000-05:00

better to be obscene than not heard?
if you don't know the words, hummer a few bars, or just mog for the camera

speaking of riding obscenely large things......
common cause
ongoing effort
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processor health

2004-09-19T19:50:00.000-05:00

rosebud
play the game
rUa friend of bill?
smokin' AND inhalin'
when your processor needs a new drug
another small step for computing power
and I thought it was all because my guardian angel was a redhead with PTSD
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shouldahadablog

2004-09-19T19:26:00.000-05:00

Sep 19, 1995: The New York Times and the Washington Post publish the Unabomber's rambling, 35,000-word anti-technology screed, "Industrial Society And Its Future." In exchange, he promises to halt his bombing campaign.
commentary
his journal
some views on luddism, and,
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where he at?

2004-09-18T20:48:00.000-05:00

da temp?
he back!
fo all yo sizearching nizeeds
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escape

2004-09-16T15:57:00.000-05:00

some virtual portals that aren't really there
some other virtual portals that are fading away
some other virtual portals that are clogged with credulous pilgrims
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a bad day to drive

2004-09-14T17:00:00.000-05:00

a Nice trip

9/14/27
9/14/82
old roads
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lucky 13

2004-09-13T15:21:00.000-05:00

Phineas

On September 13, 1848, a 13-pound tamping iron is blown through the head of railroad construction foreman Phineas P. Gage, entering beneath his left cheekbone and exiting the top of his head. The metal bar lands 30 yards away, taking with it much of his left frontal lobe. Gage never loses consciousness, even while the doctors examine his wound. Two months later, he is well enough to return home and resume an active life of work and travel.
Visit the site
Reenactment
Tamp softly if you carry a big stick
The first elephant made to fly by a train
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy
A good drinking song to sing along as long as you've decided on having that bottle along
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9/11

2004-09-11T19:39:00.000-05:00

NOAA

Data Elements: Hurricane Ivan has maximum sustained winds near 145 MPH. See higher resolution image. copycat
Observation Device: GOES-12 1 km visible imagery.
Visualization Date: September 11, 2004 15:39:34
18:03:57N Longitude: 79:03:54W.
forces of nature
noah
9/11
archives
project rebirth
project demolish?
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french underground

2004-09-10T16:14:00.000-05:00

real underground

boo
background
skull culture
animals underground
paris underwater
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too much of a good thing

2004-09-08T22:57:00.000-05:00

limit of a good thing?
not enough of a good thing?
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September 9, 1839

2004-09-08T22:37:00.000-05:00

Photograph of the Japanese bridge from glass-plate negative of Monet's first studio in Giverny
first photographs
a long procession
engines of our ingenuity
recent photography
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happy birthday!

2004-09-07T18:17:00.000-05:00

here's your present via
some more creative logoogles
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ohmygoodness

2004-09-05T22:48:00.000-05:00

via
other visions, other trucks
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motatem

2004-09-04T15:51:00.000-05:00

murals
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I love LA

2004-09-04T15:05:00.000-05:00

El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río de Porciúncula founded by 44 Spanish settlers.
The blog founded by, like, 44 gringos much later, with a totally easier to remember name.
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create origami polyhedrals

2004-09-03T17:19:00.003-05:00

listen to this while the robots are folding
some reality theories, and other opinions
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September 3

2004-09-03T15:45:00.000-05:00

american poet edward estlin cummings dies from a brain hemorrhage after splitting firewood in north conway, new hampshire

Ho Chi Minh dies of heart failure in Hanoi, Vietnam. He had asked to be cremated and his ashes buried on three hilltops, but, contrary to his express wishes, Uncle Ho is embalmed and put on display in a mausoleum just like Lenin's.
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job security

2004-09-02T22:37:00.000-05:00

Meanwhile the same day, Vietnam declares its independence.
And, on a lighter note 22 years later, Sealand declares itself.

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September 2, 1752

2004-09-02T22:00:00.000-05:00

Birthdates of 3 through 13 September of that year become unavailable

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September 2, 1666

2004-09-02T20:34:00.000-05:00

fire and water
more history
the newspaper chronicle
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a cure for the common scold?

2004-09-01T16:32:00.000-05:00

when they think that you're "all wet"
deserving candidates for some hydrotherapy
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secret agents?

2004-09-01T15:32:00.000-05:00

On August 31 1983, Flight 007 was shot down by a rocket from a Soviet jet fighter. 269 innocent civilians died instantly.
Was it a deliberately hostile act or a tragic mistake?
Some compelling questions
So, why don't they make the whole plane out of the same stuff as they make the black box?
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September 1, 1923

2004-09-01T15:31:00.000-05:00

In elementary school we learned the date of the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 (Taisho 12) by memorizing this memnonic device: "Jishin hito-yure kuni sanzan" (earthquake one big shake, country is in ruins). "Hito" means one in Japanese. "Kuni," the word for country, can be separated into two parts "ku" and "ni", meaning nine and two, respectively. The "san of "sanzan" (in ruins) means three; thus, 1-9-2-3.
The economic repercussions of the disaster led to the Showa Financial Crisis of 1927.

Yokohama suffers 88 separate blazes, which rage unabated for two days, leaving 1.9 million survivors homeless.
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another despot

2004-09-01T13:42:00.000-05:00

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another fable, another foible

2004-09-01T12:28:00.000-05:00

some quaint tools of destruction
the madness begins at an early age
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grand canyon

2004-08-30T15:03:00.000-05:00

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deep creatures

2004-08-30T13:57:00.000-05:00

virtual creatures
pious creatures
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August 29, 1526

2004-08-29T17:31:00.000-05:00

Suleiman the Magnificent defeated and killed the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia at the Battle of Mohács.
where?
area history
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lesser gods

2004-08-29T17:03:00.000-05:00

another world
theoi, daimones, theres
more gifts bearing greeks
entertaining the spirit world
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August 29, 1966

2004-08-29T16:36:00.000-05:00

history
revolved
rotten history
concert pictures
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one pill makes you larger

2004-08-28T19:23:00.000-05:00

transtopia

credit
hieronymous (via)
mentatawareness
and these ones make you small
get your hieronymous bosch action figures here
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krak of dawn

2004-08-26T12:27:00.000-05:00

On Aug 27 1883, after three massive explosions over the previous 16 hours, the volcanic island of Krakatoa suffers a final, inconceivably destructive blast. The noise is heard 3,000 miles away in Madagascar. Two-thirds of the island's land mass collapses into the ocean, and the resulting 175-foot tsunami wipes away 163 coastal towns and villages along the Sunda Straight, killing 36,417 inhabitants.
more
121.3 years later
another 9.0, and perhaps the next big flush?
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looney tales

2004-08-26T12:00:00.000-05:00

further confirmation
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classics

2004-08-24T16:28:00.000-05:00

sloightly coived voision
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Win95 debuts

2004-08-24T16:03:00.000-05:00

I recently bought some new software and when i installed it, it told me to press the any key to continue.
I have a keyboard that's about one year old. I know technerology moves fast, but i can't find the any key.
I keep having to reboot when i get to this screen, thinking it is a problem with the software.
Do i need to upgrade my keyboard?
PEBKAC = Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair
brack humour
the cost
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blowin' it

2004-08-24T15:38:00.000-05:00

vesuvius
shaky neighborhood
volcanology
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August 24, 1572

2004-08-24T15:22:00.000-05:00

St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre (1572): Henry of Navarre
witness
backstory
opinions
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is odd or even odd?

2004-08-24T13:58:00.000-05:00

Red China commences the shelling of the islands of Quemoy and Matsu, which hold one-third of Chiang Kai Shek's troops. The United States threatens to intervene. A very strange compromise is worked out, permitting China to shell the islands on odd dates and Chiang Kai Shek's troops to resupply the islands on even dates. (credit)
backstory1
backstory2
about the islands
a david and goliath thang?
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european art

2004-08-23T16:01:00.000-05:00

art deco
drawings, prints
klimt
illustrations
credit
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far west art

2004-08-23T15:48:00.000-05:00

northamerican art archives
mexican movie posters
farther out there art
keep going
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far east art

2004-08-23T15:38:00.000-05:00

graphic art
photo art
childrens art
animation
prints
credit
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they're back

2004-08-23T13:55:00.000-05:00

they're coming
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stick it

2004-08-23T13:31:00.000-05:00

credit
how to help make it less unpleasant
some cajun humor to make you shake your head
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big brother's big boots

2004-08-20T11:27:00.000-05:00

prague in the the spring

In the early hours of August 20, 1968, 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks come to do some spring cleaning.
Another spring cleaning on this day 1051 years earlier.
23 years later a Baltic Woodstock shows Big Brother out.
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tune in

2004-08-19T19:39:00.000-05:00

antiqueradios
oldrussianradios
vintageelectronics
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August 19, 1953

2004-08-19T15:15:00.000-05:00

Spooks help overthrow the government of Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran and
reinstate Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who later crowned himself "King of the Kings".
25 years later

But wait! There's more!
1. President Kim Jong II (North Korea)
Responsible for as many as 150,000 prisoners doing forced labor.
2. Omar Al-Bashir (Sudan)
Responsible for the 20-year civil war that that has claimed two million lives and rendered four million homeless. He also routinely bombs civilians, tortures and massacres non-Muslims.
3. Saparmurat Niyazov (Turkmenistan)
Eccentric in his behavior, with instances such as forcing all government workers to memorize passages of Niyazov's book to keep their jobs. His latest antic has been to crack down on religious and ethnic minorities.
4. President Fidel Castro (Cuba)
Has recently arrested 75 human-rights activists, journalists, and academics, sentencing them to 19 year jail sentences, on average.
5. King Mswati III (Swaziland)
Leads a lavish life with a fleet of BMWs, a host of palaces, and frequent foreign trips, in contrast to the plight of Swaziland's 300,000 drought-stricken farmers.
6. General Than Shwe (Burma)
Responsible for the displacement of as many as 140,000 Burmese by decades of conflict.
7. Hu Jintao (The President and General Secretary of the Communist Party of China)
Responsible for the gagging of all media, and using 30,000 "Internet security agents" to monitor online use.
8. President Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe)
Responsible for the killing, torture and displacement of more than 70,000 people.
9. Prince Abdullah (Crown Prince Saudi Arabia)
Responsible for the "slavery-like conditions" for the 8.8 million foreign workers in the Kingdom, with Saudi women being treated as second-class citizens.
10. President Teodoro Obiang Nguema (Equatorial Guinea)
Deciding on his whims to kill anyone "without being called to account", in addition to amassing a 550 million fortune in a poverty stricken country.
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August 19, 1934

2004-08-19T13:38:00.000-05:00

Following the death of President von Hindenburg, 89.9% of the German electorate gives a plebiscite, which supports consolidation of the positions of President and Chancellor into a single office, thus ending Germany's brief experiment with democracy.
About fascism. About US.

What if they'd let him just be an artist?
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wheeeee

2004-08-19T12:54:00.000-05:00

Sputnik V launches up into earth orbit with Belka, Strelka, 2 rats, and 40 mice on board.
they're the first dogs to safely return
other animals in space
supersonic bears
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August 19, 1848

2004-08-19T12:16:00.000-05:00

mining camps
getting there
social history
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