randomWalks

I’ve been to a place where Flash is a beautiful thing.

Harrison, 58 - who worked as a carpenter before finding fame - rushed back into the Los Angeles bank and grabbed the broom.

It’s a word, it’s a plan, it’s … Letterman!

The amount of time depicted is so great that the record at [the La Brea tar pits] began one-hundredth of an inch from the end of the ribbon.

You could have filmed ''Survivor'' for 400 years if it had been African-Americans, from slave ships to plantations to lynchings to shootings in housing projects to police brutality. Forget about promoting products. How about exclusive CBS footage of black folks being shafted for promotions?

Latinos must be scratching their heads, too. How come the cameras at the border were not from CBS but from the INS? Haitians did not get a million dollars trying to flee to Florida from a military coup. They got the baking heat of asphalt at Guantanamo Bay. And do not forget the Golden Venture, the decrepit ship that in 1993 spit 286 emaciated Chinese immigrants out into rough waters off Queens after 100 squalid days at sea. Ten immigrants died trying to swim to shore. The United States detained many of them for more than three years and sent 170 of them back to China. None of them ''Got Milk.''

The [music] industry will take whatever steps it needs to protect itself and protect its revenue streams. It will not lose that revenue stream, no matter what. Sony is going to take aggressive steps to stop this. We will develop technology that transcends the individual user. We will firewall Napster at source -- we will block it at your cable company, we will block it at your phone company, we will block it at your [Internet-service provider]. We will firewall it at your PC.

A full-scale reproduction of a slave ship docked at the adjacent Washington Channel will have a walkway at its cross-section to give visitors a vivid sense of the captivity and journey of African slaves during the "Middle Passage." Lifelike figures will occupy the hull of the ship to illustrate the horrid and cramped quarters of the vessel.

A great Eddie Breen piece on eBay: In aqua-hell, Flame Bass is eaten over and over.

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.

Let’s be clear about this..
Legal: http://24.15.107.67/DeCSS/DeCSS/
Illegal: http://24.15.107.67/DeCSS/DeCSS/
Everybody see the difference? Good. I’m not sure about the following links; best to assume they’re illegal too. Kids, don’t click this at home:
search for DeCSS at Disney’s search engine
DeCSS (descramble) – mp3 of the code put to music [must listen]

If you don’t know what I’m talking about, listen to 2600’s Emmanuel Goldstein discuss the recent ruling in the MPAA’s lawsuit against his site on yesterday’s Democracy NOW!

I’ve never been that impressed with super glue, but I’m gonna have to try this trick to keep my Palm stylus from slipping out all the time.

Pop vs. Soda in the middle-west?

Well, I didn’t make the best of the Monkeyfist Daily Churn, but I wasn’t really trying.

You are about to be put into a time machine and sent back 1,100 years, never to return. You must make your way in a hostile, alien environment, armed only with your wits and three books. You can choose any books you like -- as long as you've actually read them sometime in the last five years. What three books do you take?

• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  On OHYoS: What qualities of life does this novel celebrate?
• Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac
  Jack's encounter with madness at Big Sur
• Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
  the annotated Watchmen

The clouds are alive.

I’m looking for some HTML and CSS references to keep handy on my Palm.
memoware CSS search
CSS doc reference file from memoware
memoware HTML search

Nintendo unveiled their next gaming console today – GameCube. “The company also showed several game demos for the system including Pokemon, Wave Race, Metroid, Zelda and Star Wars”!

Read an interview with Scott McCloud at Feed. thanks, girlhacker.

At the top of my wishlist: TV SETS: Fantasy Blueprints of Classic TV Homes by Mark Bennett.

Ralph Nader and Dr. Drew were on Politically Incorrect Monday night. You can read the transcript here today. In a few days, it should be available at http://abc.go.com/pi/transcripts/transcript_20000821.html.

Everybody loves the sound of a train in the distance.

Have you geeks seen surfraw yet? Definitely a fun toy.

You should follow that ‘stop bubbling’ link, by the way. Our friend dj didn’t do it justice with his lack of introduction… it’s possibly even cooler than the wooden mirror I linked a while back.

Naked women are a very much liked and classic sujet in many ad-campaigns. Using the same simple means we are trying for general irritation. These women though are doing it free will, for no money at all, using here feminine self confidence. So it could not fall into any sexist, mysoginist field. Nakedness could be seen as very old revolutionary tradition (Delacroix's "freedom" leads the people up to the Hippierevolution of 68), it's an elementary form of protest. Our work had to happen very spontaneously and quickly. It's aim was to point at the once more crucial state of Austria's politics. We want to let everyone know with our breasts and faces, that discrimination of any kind is very much part of Austria's everday life. We wanted to show our faces, we didn't want it to be an anonymous action. We don't need to hide,we are saying no to the momentary situation with all the confidence there is.

Bubbling this link to the top: Retrogression Magazine: A journal of music and revolution because the site is active again after a couple months of dormancy.