this is stupid.

dead pigeons, on the other hand. . .

War can be so cute!

Interesting post and conversation.

Probably, also, the first time Amsterdam and Utah have ever been used as concurrent nouns.

If my brain had panties, they'd be wet.

Exciting.

In Paracelsus’s time the energy of universities resided in the conflict between humanism and theology; the energy of the modern university lives in the love-affair between government and science, and sometimes the two are so close it makes you shudder.
-- Robertson Davies, The Rebel Angels

I wonder if Nottingham gets government funds for more specific and "scientific" graduate/research projects.

But I don't wonder what they'd think of my collection of public, government documents pertaining to the t word.

"The device – dubbed MEDUSA (Mob Excess Deterrent Using Silent Audio). . ."

Medusa turning soldiers to stone, stopping a crowd; Medusa defeated by a mirror-shield: use a mirror, now.

The acronym sends chills. And is telling, if you reflect.

#12 @ Nelson.C. The perspective is off and the image has no metadata. There are several reasons each of those things could happen; I just find it curious.

So, this is cute, but it looks like the camera on the pole was added to the image. Perhaps it should say "created" and not "shot"?

Mmm. I wonder how many of these offices are tied to the popped housing bubble. And I want to see a series of the houses that were then disrupted/abandoned because of those offices, not just the offices. . .

I don't eat before I travel or when I travel by plane; I've also have never had a problem with jetlag. I'm not a mouse, but this little study did make me pause and reconsider my habits.

Having your laptop looked at during border crossing isn't a huge deal UNLESS
a. you do have data you're not suppose to have AND that can be recognized OR
b. you have data that you are allowed to have BUT it looks suspicious

So, the real question is: what do you look at everyday that someone else might mistake for something dangerous?

This also makes me happy. Now if people will just run it. . .

What's most fascinating is that he's also hacking human behavior, too. Sweet.

And this link, to a NYTimes article on post-9/11 babies: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D04EEDB1E3DF932A25755C0A9649C8B63

From a John Waters interview on NPR where he listed the Ballard film as one of the best, saying: "Crash (1996); David Cronenberg, director: Not the 2005 Oscar-winning film by the same name but different subject. The NC-17 rated film was "about people who were sexually turned on by car accidents. It's a great movie. I used to play car accident as a child, so it spoke to me.... very arty. This was also either very well-reviewed or very hated by the critics. It caused a lot of controversy."

The Futurists are still alive and well, I see. And it's good to find beauty and affirmation in destruction.

I wonder what results this will generate if you go looking for CIA black sites or other politically sensitive information. Intriguing. . .

Bad costumes, terrible faux german, and more than two people make this event a "NAZI theme[d] orgy." And there are calls for resignation.

But Abu Ghraib-- with real costumes, worse english, and more than two people-- and. . . nothing. . .

Could people please learn to distinguish personal, private sex from political, ethically suspect sex AND demand resignations accordingly?

The most frightening aspect of this is that there are places, virtual and real spaces, where this sort of 'censorship'-- via tagging, manipulation of search terms and parameters, etc-- is happening constantly, without clue or trace.

As for the idea of the internet as a medium for "true democracy," the idea that there's a true way is what allows censorship to thrive and these sort of situations to arise. And democracy hasn't been looking all that promising for the past 8 years.

I have higher hopes for the internet.

*sigh*

So much work to be done. . .