randomWalks

Wartime Lies: A Consumer’s Guide to the Bombing, Alternet via booknotes.

I mentioned to Joseph Atick of Visionics that the City of London was thinking about using his technology to establish a database that would include not only terrorists but also all British citizens whose faces were registered with the national driver's license bureau. If that occurs, every citizen who walks the streets of the City could be instantly identified by the police and evaluated in light of his past misdeeds, no matter how trivial.

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Taxonomy of anti-war chants.

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Médecins Sans Frontières today rejected U.S. ‘humanitarian’ airdrops as useless and dangerous. MSF-USA has photos taken by Afghan refugees at a camp near Peshawar.

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Wired has done a great job of collecting links about Afghanistan.

Herblock.

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MeFi war thread.

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Updated info about chemical and biological terrorism at the Stimson Center.

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Gerson, 37, is an owlish man who fills yellow pads with doodles when you ask him a question. He says he believes that social justice must be central in Republican thought. ''The great stories of our time,'' he told me, ''are moral stories and moral commitments: the civil rights movement, the War on Poverty.'' He and the president get along well. The president calls Gerson ''the scribe.'' They share an intensely felt Christianity.

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The Media Cover-Up of the Gore Victory by David Podvin.

“Wired is collecting Web sites whose content is posted either by people living in Afghanistan, or by recent expatriates. I’ve started with these,” says senior editor Paul Boutin.

I love printables:
posters for peace
war resisters league anti-war flyers
hate-free zone posters
unamerican propaganda
maps (afghanistan)
free dmitry
adbusters pdfs

Also printable:
better times sustainable living flyers (“make your own snacks')
2001 calendar
october calendar
musical staff paper
dollhouse accessories
mothers against peeing standing up
And with that I think it’s time to stop.

The Chairman Smiles - Exhibit of posters from the former Soviet Union, Cuba and China.

Vaginal Davis and Margaret Cho.

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Pick up a jar. Those tiny ice-like formations on the bud are THC crystals. Now smell it. If you're a marijuana user, you'll say, "Wow!"

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There is nothing anti-American about opposing the drive to war by Mike Marqusee.

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poetry on the subject of virgules and whatever that other thing was.

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Two great links from today’s xblog: 5inch custom CDR media (I especially like the bitmap and fuk blanks) and Nooface, a slash-style site “in search of the post-PC interface”.

How did GRAPE-NUTS cereal get its name?

• the blue version
• the "official" version
• my favorite version

In making the world safe
For US corporations
We have made the world unsafe
For US citizens

One of the very interesting side effects of our Freenet is the almost immediate rise of a parallel Internet. Because our community is diversified and technophile enough, after a few days people already had the first Freenet public web pages out targeting fellow Freenet participants. One guy put up a small web page selling his consulting service for people needing help with configuration and installation issues. A student in the neighborhood is starting a Freenet web site (which eventually might become accessible from the public Internet as well) offering to do the shopping for people, including home delivery. Our internal IRC site is pretty much in demand and there are almost always neighbors to find there for chats or discussions.

"I'm glad he's dead with the rest of them, and I don't like feeling something like that," Samantha finally said. "But he wasn't just a bad tipper -- he killed people."

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“Virgulesolidus.com” is available.

United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission - Nuclear Site Locations: “This site is no longer available.”

Why doesn’t the government want you to see these photos of the WTC site? The photographer was detained and his digital storage media nominally erased, but he managed to recover the 72 photos and they’re now being mirrored globally. There’s nothing especially surprising or shocking in the few I’ve looked at; what’s interesting I suppose is that these photos, like the hundreds posted in the days following the attack, haven’t been filtered through the media apparatus of professional photographers who answer to editors who answer to bankers who answer to the almighty dollar.