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sCrAwLz foR Saturday, April 05, 2003 PNAC.info - Exposing the Project for the New American Century An effort to investigate, analyze, and expose the Project for the New American Century, and its plan for a "unipolar" world. BlogShares - Are You listed?
Virus may trigger global recession THE DEADLY virus sweeping the Far East could tip the world economy into recession, Wall Street experts forecast yesterday. Parasite T.V. Warning! Silly fun zone ahead! | Lower income=more video games Study finds homes with income less than $35,000 spend 50% more time than those over $74,000. Perri the obnoxious, booze-loving clown is dead at 51 Perri, a recreational drug user, started abusing cocaine. He grew a long white beard, something you don’t often see on clowns. “I probably was too messed up on drugs to shave regularly. Or, ya know, I didn’t want any razor blades next to my face while I was high up on coke.” Gossip spread through the French Quarter about Perri’s drug habit. Rumors had it that his rubber chicken was stuffed with a bag full of coke. And, at the same time he was blowing balloons for the kiddies on Jackson Square, he was dealing marijuana out of his clown box to pay for his $200 a day habit. Perri attributes his downfall to being “too high and mighty. I was showboatin’. Let too many people know my business......" None of your sense of humor are belong to us What started as an April Fool's joke involving bad grammar landed seven people in jail Tuesday. The Poetry of D.H. Rumsfeld Recent works by the secretary of defense. Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber In the fall of 1958 Theodore Kaczynski, a brilliant but vulnerable boy of sixteen, entered Harvard College. There he encountered a prevailing intellectual atmosphere of anti-technological despair. There, also, he was deceived into subjecting himself to a series of purposely brutalizing psychological experiments -- experiments that may have confirmed his still-forming belief in the evil of science. Was the Unabomber born at Harvard? A look inside the files. Can Your PC Become Neurotic? It is true that machines are becoming more complex and "intelligent" everyday. Does this mean that they can exhibit unpredictable behavior like HAL, the supercomputer in 2001: A Space Odyssey? Do we have to fear our PCs? The Worst Novel Ever Written...is Now Free A while back, we pointed to Gene Weingarten's Washington Post review of the so-called "Worst Novel in the World", Robert Burrows' The Great American Parade. We recieved an email this morning from a reader that said; " I wanted to let you know that the place where I work, Lulu.com, has the book available for sale in print, and free for online reading. Any of your readers who were interested in seeing what the book was about can now get a copy or read it online if their interest was piqued by your earlier blog entry." Bacteria talking to to each other, squid with no shadows... Bonnie Bassler, an associate professor of molecular biology at Princeton and a recipient of the MacArthur Foundation 'genius' grant has discovered a secret about microbes that the science world has missed for centuries. The bugs are talking to each other, and plotting against us. -chiaroscuro KGB General Yevgeni Primakov, has been hired as a consultant by the US Department of Homeland Security When the NICA (National Identity Card Act) gets passed, the Posse Comitatus Act gets overturned, a few other pieces of legislation yet to be proffered get passed, the White House will have more control over the American people than the Kremlin had over the Russian people when Stalin was alive. He said that and then he laughed. The Second Superpower Rears its Beautiful Head There is an emerging second superpower, but it is not a nation. Instead, it is a new form of international player, constituted by the “will of the people” in a global social movement. The beautiful but deeply agitated face of this second superpower is the worldwide peace campaign, but the body of the movement is made up of millions of people concerned with a broad agenda that includes social development, environmentalism, health, and human rights. This movement has a surprisingly agile and muscular body of citizen activists who identify their interests with world society as a whole—and who recognize that at a fundamental level we are all one. These are people who are attempting to take into account the needs and dreams of all 6.3 billion people in the world—and not just the members of one or another nation. Consider the members of Amnesty International who write letters on behalf of prisoners of conscience, and the millions of Americans who are participating in email actions against the war in Iraq. Or the physicians who contribute their time to Doctors Without Borders/ Medecins Sans Frontieres. | Baghdad Envoy Plays a Prank A couple hundred thousand troops have invaded his country and his capital is under daily airstrikes, but that didn't stop Iraq's ambassador to Russia from getting into the spirit of April Fools' Day on Tuesday. Reptilian Agenda Better to be safe than sorry? One can never know for sure can they? Therefore, dig in and be prepared, just in case. Besides, we've heard that the Crocodile Hunter may soon be serving Mr. Icke with a cease and desist letter (something about stealing his schtick), so it may not be around much longer. WHITE HOUSE TO END DRUGS & TERROR ADS Also Stops Study That Found Campaign Wasn't Working The Fight to Control Your Mind Should the government have the right to alter the biochemistry of your brain? Richard Glen Boire, codirector and legal counsel of the Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics, says no, and he's making his case before the Supreme Court. In Sell v. US, the government argues that it can drug Charles Sell, a dentist from Missouri, in order to make him competent to stand trial. Boire, whose amicus brief argues that Sell has a right to integrity of mind, explains why cognitive liberty goes way beyond this one case. | Chinese hacker groups to hack U.S. & U.K Chinese hacker groups are planning attacks on U.S. and U.K. based Web sites to protest the war in Iraq, the Department of Homeland Security warned in an alert that it unintentionally posted on a government Web site yesterday. Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time, part of Alex Boese's Museum of Hoaxes Web site. Boo Cheney In solidarity with Make Fun of the Cheneys day, we bring you the Ask Dick Cheney! Unofficial Official Simulator. It’s as plausible as the man himself: It's Alright, Maw-I'm Only Bleeding This "lost interview" between Mondo 2000 Editor-in-Chief R. U. Sirius (Ken Goffman) and Todd Brendan Fahey, author of Wisdom's Maw, marks the beginning of an exhaustive research project on the elusive "Captain" Al Hubbard, the legendary OSS agent-turned-psychedelic messiah, and who turned the CIA, Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley and thousands of others on to LSD | The Vortex Theory? Site claims: This new and revolutionary thesis has just passed the refereeing process in Russia. Five of Russia’s most distinguished scientists from three of Moscow’s most prestigious universities have reviewed, authenticated the mathematical proof of the Vortex Theory Thesis, and have authorized its publication. "There no doubts, that all is correct. I myself and the scientific employees of the Leading Institutes of Russia. Street Servers: Open Source Networked Neighborhood The always-fertile minds at Headmap have published a think-piece about the way existing information about places could be used as infrastructure for open source geoinfo systems. A few intriguing examples mentioned were San Francisco, London, and Barcelona. | A friendly piece of advice When invading an oil-rich country like Iraq you might not want to name your helicopter bases in the country "Exxon" and "Shell" -- especially when some of the world believes your war against terrorism is really a war for oil. | Supafly: Location-Based Virtual Soap Opera In Chapter One of Smart Mobs, I described the evening I spent driving around Stockholm with a car full of fanatic players of a mobile, location-based game, Botfighters. Steven Johnson, in a recent Slate article, tipped me to a new game, also location-based, from the same company: Supafly. -Howard Rheingold Drunks Tank Dollar According to the Washington Post- three drunks brought the dollar down! Students for an Orwellian Society: Because 2003 is 19 years too late. What is SOS? Ten Thousand Monkeys 47th Issue Such strange times. I'm having a hard time unfocusing from the news reports long enough to be able to think of what to write for this intro. It should be something about spring, rebirth, and all that jazz, don't you think? ANYWAY, rather than headlessly blither on about it all, I think it's best if I just say: This is the 47th issue of M10K, it's damn good, and I hope you enjoy it. Stanford expert on artifical intelligence dies at 68 Robert Engelmore, a long-time Stanford University computer expert and an authority on artificial intelligence, has died of an apparent heart attack at the age of 68. The Menlo Park scientist died Tuesday. He was helping to rescue his 5-year-old grandson while swimming in Hawaii when he apparently suffered a seizure.Engelmore and his grandson Jack were swimming when they were overwhelmed by several large waves. After helping lift the boy to safety, Engelmore was pulled out to sea. Lifeguards who reached him a few minutes later found that his heart had stopped. The Museum of Unworkable Devices Perpetual motion machine proposals are often dismissed by scientists in a manner which appears to the layperson as hasty rejection using dogmatic assertions that such machines are prohibited from working by the "laws of thermodynamics". This does not satisfy the person who knows a little physics, but considers the laws of thermodynamics a bit mysterious. The very character of such laws is off-putting to the average person, because they have an air of finality and negativity. Military-Industrial Complex Speech, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961 Once more, from the top... Geeks Without Borders San Francisco's North Beach has a long history of eccentric street culture, but if you find yourself in the neighborhood this Saturday, you are likely to witness a new twist: small groups of people clustering together to read text off of cell-phone screens, then embarking on some kind of oddball group activity—retrieving a suitcase that's been hidden atop a tree, persuading strangers to try on insane outfits—and then huddling together again to peer at their cell phones. NSA Behaviorial Modification Procedure "The following procedural outline documents typical techniques, processes, explanations, and definitions of the National Security Agency's Behavioral Modification Procedure using Subliminal Implanted Posthypnotic Suggestions through acoustically delivered phonetically edited language elements combined into scripts without somnambulistic preparation in the subject." | Avenging Angels of Western Civilization: Paroxysms and Orgasms of War Sometimes I can almost empathize with those screaming for Saddam Hussein's blood. The appeal of martial drums and trumpets can, after all, be very seductive to those of a certain psychological bent. I imagine there is a vicarious thrill in the prospect of (watching other people) risking their lives. Adrenaline races through the body. Limbs tremble in excited anticipation. All the senses are engaged. Primitive passions buried deep within the reptilian centers of the brain are awakened. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the... Vault... Lots of press and discussion popping up about cheating in online games, and its effects on the gaming communities in which it happens. The New York Times recently ran this piece, which was an interesting look into the issue, and the wonderful folks over at GameGirlAdvance linked back to the year 2000 piece at the Game Developers Conference on the same topic. All very interesting stuff - but the thing that blew me away was a fairly recent development on the Stormhammer Server of Sony's Everquest Legends. The names here are removed to protect the innocent... half baked cookies in the oven fruitcakes on the street Dear Future Employer: My Comment to Gary Hart's New Blog Good Evening Mr. Hart, Israelis Trained US Troops In Jenin-Style Urban Warfare
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