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SFBG: Goth is dead. Long live Goth.

originally posted by xowie

"It’s not like I had this un-ambiguous thing of ‘Oh my god, we must stop bombing and turn it over to the World Court.’ So these were more just personal comics about how I’d been feeling about the whole situation. And I was drinking heavily when I made them, frankly. I’ve gone through a lot of Jim Beam in the evenings, because I’ve been working whole days in a midtown Manhattan office, listening to sirens and re-booting cnn.com, which is like the worst thing you can do to yourself psychologically."

originally posted by xowie

Don't worry, at first glance these things might look baffling and complex, but they'll quickly become second nature to you once you actually start cleaning up after your disgusting messy self you utter, utter filthy bastard.

originally posted by xowie

I'm not justifying what happened on Sept. 11, but it's clear that when Bush said if you're not with us, you're with the terrorist -- when he said he wanted the man dead or alive -- he was calling out the posse, and black people know the posse. They come by and get you in the middle of the night and kill you without due process.

Beetle Bailey? At The World Trade Center? How weird is this?

There are 11 President Bushes, three Mayor Rudolph W. Giulianis and one National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice.

originally posted by xowie

Apparently, someone asked Raymond Chandler once what he thought of Hollywood ruining all of his books. And he took them into his study and pointed up to the shelf where they all were, and he said, "Look, they're there. They're fine. They're okay."

Realtime Javascript Editor: “Type your code on the left and see the output immediately on the right.” Cool!

My wife wants to read some ghost stories, so here is the Shadowlands true ghost stories site (recommended on MetaFilter) and many more sites at open directory: ghost stories.

From World New York:

US broadcasts to Afghanistan available at 8700 kHz, shortwave. Or, listen on the Internet by tuning a web-controlled shortwave radio to that frequency.

In Jalalabad, the Sultanpur Mosque was hit by a bomb during prayers, with 17 people caught inside. Neighbors rushed into the rubble to help pull out the injured, but as the rescue effort got under way, another bomb fell, killing at least 120 people. In the village of Darunta near Jalalabad, a US bomb fell on another mosque. Two people were killed and dozens--perhaps as many as 150 people--were injured. Many of those injured are languishing without medical care in the Sehat-e-Ama hospital in Jalalabad, which lacks resources to treat the wounded.

originally posted by xowie

the hampshire historical society

"They don't want you to hear these other voices out there," McKinney said at a public forum in Clarkston. "Help me come up with a strategy to get through this white noise that's been put out 24 hours a day."

originally posted by xowie

There are no mobile phone transcripts of Afghan civilians bidding farewell to their loved ones as the cluster bombs rain down around them, no immediate images of the impact of the wayward missiles on unlucky suburbs. Unlike those who perished in the World Trade Centre, the dead in Afghanistan do not have names, only numbers. And, given the limited access to the area, even those are questionable.

originally posted by xowie

My new weblog has already been hacked! (Thanks adam.)

originally posted by xowie

retroCRUSH presents the worst pre-fab Halloween costumes ever.

Many Blacks Have Doubts. Here’s Why (washingtonpost.com)

A Smarter Web (MIT Technology Review) in which Mark Frauenfelder (BoingBoing) explains the semantic web – I’m looking forward to reading this.

Nowar Collective: Poisoning the Well by Rahul Mahajan

Pilgrimage to a Holy Place (washingtonpost.com)

On the northern perimeter of the site, at Chambers and West streets, an elevated walkway over West offers the most panoramic view. From here, the huge wasteland looks like the handiwork of a stupendous meteor.

If only it had been. People could call it an act of God. There would be no one to blame.

Toxic chemicals have been detected at levels exceeding federal safety standards in the soil and air around the still-burning rubble of the World Trade Center, according to documents compiled by the Environmental Protection Agency.

In addition to the dioxins, PCBs, benzene, lead and chromium found at the site, the EPA data released Friday showing low levels of contaminants had been found in the water and sediment of the Hudson River.

The Bomb With A Loaded Message (washingtonpost.com)

“Is taking the picture down the right response?” asks Cathy Renna, GLAAD’s New York spokeswoman. “I actually want the picture to run, but with context. It gets to something we need to discuss, which is that it’s okay to be in the Navy and to write ‘fag’ on a bomb and drop it on a terrorist. That word is still okay with some people, and these are the kinds of things you might see if you happened to be gay and were serving in the military. It exemplifies every single reason why our work is as relevant as it was on September 10."

Of Microbes and Mock Attacks: Years Ago, The Military Sprayed Germs on U.S. Cities

Between Sept. 20 and Sept. 27 of 1950, a Navy mine-laying vessel cruised the San Francisco coast, spraying an aerosol cocktail of Serratia and Bacillus microbes – all believed to be safe – over the famously foggy city from giant hoses on deck, according to declassified Army reports. According to lawyers who have reviewed the reports, researchers added fluorescent particles of zinc-cadmium-sulfide to better measure the impact. Based on results from monitoring equipment at 43 locations around the city, the Army determined that San Francisco had received enough of a dose for nearly all of the city’s 800,000 residents to inhale at least 5,000 of the particles.

Two weeks after the spraying, on Oct. 11, 1950, Mr. Nevin checked in to the Stanford Hospital in San Francisco with fever and other symptoms. Ten other men and women checked in to the same hospital – which has since been relocated to Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. – with similar complaints. Doctors noticed that all 11 had the same malady: a pneumonia caused by exposure to bacteria believed to be Serratia marcescens. Mr. Nevin died three weeks later. The others recovered. Doctors were so surprised by the outbreak that they reported it in a medical journal, oblivious at the time to the secret germ test.

Thoughts in the Presence of Fear by Wendell Berry.

originally posted by xowie

Frank Rich, How to lose a war.

originally posted by xowie