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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.

"They had nothing. All they had was a vocal group. They didn't have any instruments," says Flea, who graduated in 1980, two years after Proposition 13 was passed and school arts programs began getting the ax. At Fairfax, Flea was a member of the jazz band, orchestra, marching band and choir. If those programs hadn't been there, "for me it would have been completely devastating because that was the only reason I went to school." Performing at Fairfax 20 years later, he says he felt "shaken up about it. There was just no music for kids in public schools."

originally posted by xowie

LAW: The rush to Auden and Yeats; also Judith Lewis on our new censorship.

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“Unmediated.org” is available.

I only hate N.Y. because my parents live there. Waiving the flag by Erin Aubry Kaplan.

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The official game show of randomWalks just taped a week of shows with rescue workers and firefighters. Take one bong hit every time Bullard says “Tami”.

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When the towers went down, so did the sense of control that makes us feel like adults. In such moments of regression, we fall back on patterns that provided safety in childhood...Just as children cannot help but love their parents, regressed adults must rally 'round their leaders, and any critique or mockery threatens this bond.

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Simulating an Airport Software Base Station in Mac OS X.

Persian Lima Bean with Dill Rice (Bagali Shevid Polo)

In his latest link-filled <a href="" http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0109a.html>Crypto-Gram Newsletter Bruce Schneier takes a look at airline security, biometrics, intelligence, cryptography and steganography in light of the Current Situation. According to his analysis, the airline industry is, perhaps not surprisingly, taking measures aimed almost exclusively at establishing a sense of security among travelers rather than relying on experienced experts to increase actual security. Biometrics are simply not a viable solution to the problem of identifying one suspected terrorist in on the order of ten million travelers, and steganography, practiced properly, cannot be defeated. So what’s the good news? A remarkably sane and insightful voice is suggesting rational defense measures that stand a chance of working while preserving the freedoms that define America. It may not be much, but I’ll take what I can get these days.

Redesigning the OS X Dock by Brian Ellis. If Steve can get over his not-invented-here complex this will be the Dock circa Mac OS X 10.5.

Hurry up and drop that butter.

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Suddenly, this terrorist leader displaced Pamela Anderson as a popular Internet search term, and a new cluster of domain name registrants tried to seize the remaining unregistered cognates of the name. (Unlike the actual person, the now highly desirable osamabinladen.com was nabbed in 2000, as was the alternate spelling usamabinladen.com, registered to a possibly fictitious Usama bin Cocksucker in Helltown, Penn.)

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Interviews about death by Studs Turkel.
Color-print this flag sticker for your car.
A poem by Daniel Berrigan.
Awesome peace action in the Dam Square.
WP peace march photos.
Love love love in Union Square.
WTC steel recycled by Mafia?
Why we shouldn’t bail out the airlines.

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People keep saying that the world has changed completely since September 11th, but when I checked the Constitution it hadn't changed at all. Let's fix the real problems, sure. I've said that all along. But extreme measures, whether at home or abroad, are only going to make the problem worse. (...)

I've heard all the arguments for unquestioned obedience to authority in wartime, for example that only the military really knows what its doing, but those arguments apply to nearly everything. Besides, the military openly admits that it has no idea what it's doing. In a war without boundaries, a democratic people must be fully engaged with the war, contributing appropriately to the war but also regulating the government's conduct of it. That's what civil liberties are for. In fact, protecting civil liberties is a military imperative in an even more straightforward way. When our government violates civil liberties, it abandons its claim to moral and political legitimacy.

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B l o w b a c k blog (“when wartime decisions come to haunt the people that made them”) features comprehensive links and excellent blogging of the Current Situation.

On my way to pick up lunch I caught a few minutes of NPR’s news special Peace Rally featuring Bryan Becker (International Action Center), Michael Albert (Z Magazine), Michael Kelly (Atlantic Monthly), David Dellinger (Chicago Seven), and Judith Zuk (Brooklyn Botanical Garden) talking about this weekend’s anti-war activities in DC.

Rafe Coburn’s Primer on Raising Your International Literacy lists several resources which, taken together, will expand your understanding of the Current Situation as well as other Concurrent Situations, not to mention Situations to come.

The Mac Observer’s List Of Retail Locations That Will Carry The Free Mac OS X 10.1 Upgrade

Time and patience.

originally posted by xowie

"I was going to have a sign saying something like 'It would be fine if you stayed at 69,'" McFarlane said.

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World New York has archived its World Trade Center disaster coverage which includes personal stories and valuable links. I hope Grant wins an award for this, though I’m not quite sure who should give him what.