Next week the Olympics will
Next week the Olympics will probably go to Beijing. I have mixed feelings about this - the PLA freaks me out ‘cause of where I live. I wish they would get rid of the Olympics.
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Next week the Olympics will probably go to Beijing. I have mixed feelings about this - the PLA freaks me out ‘cause of where I live. I wish they would get rid of the Olympics.
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Mike Godwin on the horror of DMCA.
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He inspired this pothead to go to law school.
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Funky comet A2 is visible in the early a.m.
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Later, they started handing out fake parking tickets to drivers they thought were dangerous. The concept was to actually create a people's database of dangerous drivers. The uses of such data was never clearly worked out. That and the many hostile encounters with drivers after handing them the "tickets" led to the project being scrapped.Carmageddon, from Collision of Interests, a NY-oriented anti-car archive.
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Drudge in Miami.
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I'm not a cultural translator. White folks can run along and catch up. If they get it, that's fine. This strip shows them how much they don't know about black people, but it doesn't teach them about black people.In The New York Times Magazine, a look at the remarkable success of Aaron McGruder's 'Boondocks' comic strip.
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Adam Engst on MacHack 2001.
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These men live privileged 21st-century gay lives, complete with live-in boyfriends and jaunts to Black Gay Pride weekend in Washington, D.C. They enjoy all the benefits of gay liberation while colluding in the popularization of primitive ideas about gay people. They don't set out to make this music, but neither do they object to it in any way.Hip-hop wouldn't be hip-hop without the "gay managers, publicists, songwriters, clothing designers, magazine editors, and lawyers [who] keep the rap juggernaut moving."
After the Smithsonian Folklife Festival packs up it’s taste of the five boroughs, DC Metro folk can find a bit of New York flavor at Fair Lakes shopping center in Fairfax which features a New York-style bagelry, a deli, and a pizza joint.
The public face of convert Buddhism in America is predominantly white and male and middle-class. Historically, the presence of blacks and women within this developing scene has been largely glossed over or ignored. Martin Baumann in the Journal of Buddhist Ethics estimated there were between 3 and 4 million American Buddhists as of 1997, and concluded that only 800,000 of them were "Euro-American."The Village Voice talks to bell hooks and Jan Williams about Black women and Buddhism.
Beyond Kaycee: more on-line Munchausen hoaxes.
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My brother found a fansite about the greatest show Nickelodeon ever aired, You Can’t Do That On Television.
Jon Langford’s NPR production Along for the Ride will probably interest you if you like punk music. I did not know I knew (and liked) a Mekons song.
The lucky slaves live on corn paste and bananas. The unlucky ones are whipped and beaten to harvest the almond-sized beans that are made into chocolate treats for more fortunate children in Europe and the United States.Mmm, chocolate.
For $99, this A/V transmitter looks like a great toy.
Before my brother heads off on his road trip (I love you, I hope you have a blast!) he ought to consider investing in this MP3-playing head unit.
There are so many places it's hard to choose one. There are so many regrets. I think Our Town is such a great spiritual and deeply existential play -- it became a meditation for me when I was in the production of it seven days a week. I only see through loss, death and my right eye (my left eye is very impaired). I only start to see the color of everything, the intensity of everything when I'm leaving it.Another Spalding Gray quote and another Spalding Gray link. Google's cache is the Net's Hamlet.
If I'm not present in the act of skiing, or if I think, "Hey, I'm skiing," that's when I go down.I am fairly sure that Spalding Gray is important, though I am not sure why. My friend who does not read randomWalks probably knows why.
In my life, when I'm not performing or working on something new, all I'm doing is walking and thinking. In skiing, I have no room for thought, I'm too busy doing. It terrified me because I love skiing so much, but I didn't know how to make a living at it and I'd always prided myself on making a living at what I loved.
New Pixar Film (Monsters, Inc.) in November. I’m there.
GW grows 50,000 cannabis plants a year, at unspecified sites in southern England under glass structures described by Dr Guy as a ‘cross between a spaceship and an operating theatre’.London stock market goes wild over GW, Britain's only legal cannabis grower.
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There's this ugly tendency just now for white heterosexual males to get all resentful and self-pitying, to whine about how they are supposedly being discriminated against, and consequently to vote Republican. It's high time we got rid of all that Michael Douglas-style backlash, and all that Woody Allen or Robert Bly 'sensitive man' horseshit as well. I'm not looking to define some new model of straight masculinity; I'm suggesting that we abolish such role models altogether. Make your life a work of art instead, as Oscar Wilde and Michel Foucault both recommend; try to be as singular and eccentric as free of models, as possible.From an interview with Steve Shaviro, professor of Film, Culture, and English at the University of Washington. His "theoretical fiction about postmodernism" Doom Patrols can be read online.
We really shouldn't allow people to vote on racism.washingtonpost.com: Md. Indians Seek Help To Change Team Names
