The PowerMate (input device) and Synergy (iTunes software controller) are a sublime pair, mating this luminescent dial to my own heavenly radio.

I grabbed the latest issue of Adbusters without even looking at it because, well, Adbusters. Finding the live without dead time CD (features Allen Ginsberg, Negativland, Ani DiFranco, Saul Williams… and if you’re not listening yet I’ve got nothing left) mixed by DJ Spooky that subliminal kid,

did I mention Fugazi?

The top result of a google image search on ‘p2p art’:

"Mr. President, you're asking for $76 billion to pay for this war, and you'll probably go back to Congress to ask for more. Given the fact that there'll be severe deficits for as long as you are President, why not let your tax cut slide?"

"You offered an attractive bribe to Turkey in exchange for permission to use Turkey as a base from which to invade Northern Iraq. Was the vote of the Turkish parliament to refuse the offer an example of the democracy you're trying to establish in the Middle East?"

"How did you expect to win international approval for your plan to invade Iraq when you have repeatedly told the rest of the world that the United States is ready to act alone in virtually every field, as witnessed by your withdrawal from international treaties and agreements having to do with the environment, war crimes and other matters that the rest of the world considers important?"

"Mr. President, at your news conference last month, you mentioned the Sept. 11 attacks no fewer than eight times, even though no one asked you about Sept. 11 -- they were asking you about the invasion of Iraq. The Sept. 11 attacks were carried out by al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden. Will you please elaborate on the connection, if any, between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden, who, if his videotapes are to be believed, has about as much affinity for Saddam Hussein as you do?"

"Mr. President, you have spent billions of dollars on homeland security to see the nation's capital paralyzed by a North Carolina tobacco farmer driving his tractor onto the Mall. Did [Homeland Security] Secretary [Tom] Ridge miss a memo or two?"

"Does pre-emptive military action without provocation set a bad example for other countries who can claim actual provocation? India and Pakistan over Kashmir, for example. Greece and Turkey over Cyprus. South Korea, provoked almost daily by North Korea."

"And speaking of North Korea, Mr. President, who is the worse dictator -- Saddam Hussein or Kim Il Jong?"

"Kim is weeks away from turning North Korea into a nuclear power if he hasn't already done so. Saddam only dreams of becoming a nuclear power, so why is he a bigger priority than Kim? And why don't you send your so-called precision bombers to take out the one plant in North Korea that you know to be a potential source of nuclear weapons?"

"When I interviewed your wife, Mr. President, she said the best byproduct of ousting the Taliban from Afghanistan was the liberation of Afghan women. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told me the same thing when I asked him what the U.S. achieved in its war in Afghanistan. If the liberation of Arab women is so important to your administration, then why is the United States not invading Saudi Arabia?"

"Sir, would you say your policy of non-involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is working out? If so, for whom?"

"Is it possible that the war in Iraq will result in regime change in Great Britain?"

The Washington Post profiles Amy Goodman:

When former senator Bob Kerrey called a news conference to defend himself against charges he committed a war crime while a soldier in Vietnam, Goodman asked if perhaps a war crimes tribunal should be set up to examine the guilt of the war's architects, such as Henry Kissinger.

Kerrey's halting demurral made a few television broadcasts. But Goodman's question displeased some establishment media worthies. That Sunday, NPR reporter Mara Liason went on "Fox Special Report With Brit Hume" and complained that Goodman was not really a journalist and that no one would have asked such a question in Washington.

The problems reached a crescendo on August 9, 1995: the day Jerry Garcia died. "Everybody turned to 'NEW," St. John recalls. "They came to share the pain of losing Jerry, as they did when John Lennon died." But instead of a Garcia tribute, WNEW stayed in its format-of-the-moment: a mix of classic and alternative rock. Instead of "Casey Jones" or "Touch of Grey," listeners heard the Smashing Pumpkins.

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DXing.info: Monitoring Iraq: War of the Airwaves. (For the shortwave radio fetishists among us.)

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A few NPR segments I've been collecting:
• "The pornography industry has been a key driver in the development of new technology -- technology that eventually finds its way into widespread use." (Listen)
• dan savage on skipping towards gomorrah (Listen)
• skinwalkers on PBS' Mystery (Listen)
• covert marketing (Listen)
• 'clean flicks' (Listen)
• 'skinny water': the most scathing outrageous joke about of consumerism my feverish imagination could muster, come to life (Listen)
• santa cruz pot giveaway (Listen)
• florida 'terror event' (Listen)
• vocal sampling (Listen)
• bill frisell on his old-timey album (Listen)
• turqouise (Listen)
• anti-matter (Listen)
• movie falls (Listen)
• Present at the Creation: Thoreau's Walden (have you read Walden?) (Listen)
• ATC feature on RV travel (HTML)
• Life as a Blackman board game segment details
• remodeling plans at mosque (Listen)
• teen horror films and the indictment of the family (Listen)
• beth orton profile (Listen)
• hybrid cars (Listen)
• "minority" enrollment at highest levels ever in FL state colleges (Listen)
• uncle tom (Listen)
• Present at the Creation: the surfboard (Listen)
• explaining punk music to my 11-year old son (Listen)
• the theremin (Listen)
• reading up on Islam (Listen)
• braving the badwater ultramarathon (Listen)
• "During his visit to Mexico, the pope will canonize the country's most well-known early Christian Indian, Juan Diego. The church's altering of a traditional painting of Juan Diego from dark-skinned to pale has angered Indian communities in Mexico." (Listen)
• a miner speaks (Listen)
• Dirty Work: cleaning oil tanks in 100-degree heat (Listen)
• Russell Simmons joins Urban League board of trustees (Listen)
• 'Ozzy' (Listen)
• 'Maryam' 'a movie about a first-generation Iranian teenage girl.' (Listen)
• 50th anniversary of Chesapeake Bay Bridge (Listen)
• Present at the Creation: 'Animal House' (Listen)
• iced tea (Listen)
• summer songs (Listen)
• wilco (Listen)

BRAND: Was the crowd as large as expected?

MARSHALL: It was not as large as the organizers of the protest had predicted. They had said there would be 100,000 people here. I'd say there are fewer than 10,000. However, they did accomplish their goal of actually marching around the White House in one continuous stream of people. It is a little bit thin in some areas, but nonetheless, they have marched around the White House.

This utterly boring NPR story about the state of California’s lawsuit against Publishers Clearing House has one redeeming feature: the gentleman being interviewed sounds a whole lot like he could do the voice for Sesame Street’s Snuffleupagus.