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Mark Mothersbaugh (Of DEVO) has an ongoing art tour called "Homeland Invasion". He's traveling a show of very limited edition prints taken from his "postcard series" to various cities...including I might add, the ol' Roq la Rue (August 15th- get out your orange radiation suits and come on down!).
Mark is unbelievably prolific...and not one of his images is a dud. Plus- he is one of the most ego-less artists I've ever met, and he keeps his work affordable. Check the calendar for a city near you and check it out!

Make toys out of your friends....

This is the first sentence of this story. This is the second sentence. This is the title of this story, which is also found several times in the story itself. This sentence is questioning the intrinsic value of the first two sentences. This sentence is to inform you, in case you haven't already realized it, that this is a self-referential story, that is, a story containing sentences that refer to their own structure and function. This is a sentence that provides an ending to the first paragraph.

This is the first sentence of a new paragraph in a self-referential story. This sentence is introducing you to the protagonist of the story, a young boy named Billy. This sentence tells you that Billy is blond and blue-eyed and American and twelve years old and strangling his mother. This sentence comments on the awkward nature of the self-referential narrative form while recognizing the strange and playful detachment it affords the writer. As if illustrating the point made by the last sentence, this sentence reminds us, with no trace of facetiousness, that children are a precious gift from God and that the world is a better place when graced by the unique joys and delights they bring to it... | Via Reality Carnival

http://www.DoNotCall.gov

Feb. 6, 1993

Here is a collection of MP3s that include the best of this legendary show from 1993. Also included is a bonus track of a pre-show interview on KUSF radio, San Francisco with several of the participants .

The roster includes; Hakim Bey, Robert Anton Wilson, Nick Herbert, Rob Brezsny and Joseph Matheny.

Download them, pass them on and enjoy!
(Minor problem with the TAZ download page has now been fixed)

6 minute Quicktime excerpt of Trainspotting director Danny Boyle''s newest release: 28 Days Later.

Israel calls this a fence.

Scans of a Scientology recruitment booklet from the 70s. Bloody hilarious!

Radiohead's new album, Hail to the Thief, is their sixth. It was recorded in L.A. with Nigel Godrich, who produced each of the band's three previous LPs.

We've asked a collection of writers, musicians, actors and wise-men for their thoughts on this much-heralded release. They have answered, each in more-than-forty-nine, less-than-fifty-one words.

(Some of you may note the lack of female representation here. Our response: Sadly, they don't answer our email.)

This is Hail to the Thief in 50 words.

"This footage, obtained and presented exclusively by The Memory Hole, shows President Bush sitting in a Florida classroom for 5 minutes after he was told that the second Twin Tower has been hit and that America was being attacked. A truncated version of this footage that has been available online since June 2002 shows Bush for only 2 minutes, 10 seconds after being told. This new footage more than doubles this length of time.
Immediately below, you'll find still-frames from the video, one every 5 seconds starting when Chief of Staff Andrew Card gives Bush the news and ending when the scene abruptly ends. Below that is a longer introduction and explanation of this footage, including how you can get it yourself. "

Gizmodo's got a round up of 1983's most advanced technology, including a cell phone, laptop, and digital camera. The phone cost $4000. | Via William Gibson

Kids will get the chance to role play several careers at a theme park coming to Florida from the company Grupo Mágico Internacional. The park, which will be called Wannado, is Grupo Mágico Internacional's American version of its La Ciudad de los Niños ("City of Children") in Mexico City. Coca-Cola, American Airlines, General Motors and Nestlé are among the theme park's sponsors. Is this an interesting and fun way for kids to gain education and explore their interests, or an opportunity for corporations to more effectively brainwash children into worker drones? I think it sounds like a lot of fun, and I doubt that we'll see any real indoctrination, but you gotta wonder.

"Forty-one years after Airman Roke and his unit mates found themselves on the front lines of impending Armageddon, Camp Hero is welcoming thousands of civilian visitors in this, its first full summer season as Long Island's newest state park. Opened in September, the 755-acre park and nature sanctuary - which abuts Montauk Point State Park - is endowed with diverse wildlife, Montauk's only forest, three miles of hiking trails and spectacular 100-foot-high bluffs overlooking the Atlantic.

Here they stand, frozen in time, as if waiting for the attack that never took place. The net effect is eerie - but not nearly as weird as the role Camp Hero plays in the cultish world of UFO, alien abduction and government conspiracy theories. Among those who believe in such things, Camp Hero is the focus of intense speculation about bizarre experiments supposedly conducted here, many of them purportedly at a 'secret' underground facility. | Via NWD.

By WILLIAM GIBSON
"Walking along Henrietta Street recently, by London's Covent Garden, looking for a restaurant, I found myself thinking of George Orwell. Victor Gollancz Ltd., publisher of Orwell's early work, had its offices there in 1984, when the company published my first novel, a novel of an imagined future."

At the time, I felt I had lived most of my life under the looming shadow of that mythic year — Orwell having found his title by inverting the final digits of the year of his book's completion. It seemed very strange to actually be alive in 1984. In retrospect, I think it has seemed stranger even than living in the 21st century.

I had a valuable secret in 1984, though, one I owed in large part to Orwell, who would have turned 100 today: I knew that the novel I had written wasn't really about the future, just as "1984" hadn't been about the future, but about 1948. I had relatively little anxiety about eventually finding myself in a society of the sort Orwell imagined. I had other fish to fry, in terms of history and anxiety, and indeed I still do.

'There's a new article/report/white paper called Comics on the Internet: A Primer in 7 Parts that's showing up in all the right places. It's currently being cited over at Heath Row's Media Diet and The Comics Journal's Journalista blog. Media Diet says thinks it's the first report of its kind. The Comics Journal says it's how to migrate comic books from print to web and make it work. I think it's a somewhat comprehensive overview, and the bit about print-on-demand comics is interesting.' | Via Slashdot

The movie version of the classic Marvel comic book series "The Hulk" finally hit theaters last week after months of hype and a seemingly endless parade of licensed products and tie-ins. And not just the usual assortment of t-shirts, video games and action figures, either--look around a supermarket, and it seems every snack product has come out with a special Hulk flavor. If you've ever thought to yourself, "I wish there was a junk food with the color and consistency of nuclear waste," then run, don't walk, to pick up Jell-O's new Hulk-green instant pudding.

Of course, the Hulk has smashed his way into wireless as well--mobile entertainment provider Moviso recently announced a 12-month deal with Marvel to create Hulk-themed ringtones, graphics and games to support the movie, the eventual DVD and the comics themselves. Green pudding may break new ground in marketing, but by now, wireless tie-ins are old hat. Just this week AT&T Wireless announced a deal to promote the upcoming sequel "Lara Croft, Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life," while earlier deals included rival carrier Cingular landing the rights to "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle" and content provider Mforma locking in "The Italian Job" and "X-Men 2." For "The Matrix Reloaded," Samsung even created and marketed mobile phones specifically designed for use in the film.

If the list seems to contain pretty much every recent summer release except "From Justin to Kelly," that's the problem: When every movie has a wireless tie-in, it's not so big a deal anymore. Each tie-in includes pretty much the same thing--games, ringtones and graphics--and Hollywood cachet aside, the promotions aren't offering anything dramatically different from the standard content already available over wireless devices. And maybe established properties like "The Hulk" and "Tomb Raider" will have a wireless shelf life long after the movies come and go, but it's hard to imagine anyone still caring about downloading an "Italian Job" game even just a few weeks after the film's release.

For wireless carriers, content providers and handset developers to attract the moviegoing public, they must align themselves with the right films and offer entertainment options that exist nowhere else--most summer movies are pointless enough without dull wireless tie-ins making them worse. | Via Wireless Review

All babies born in Britain could have their DNA stored in a national databank as part of a £50m genetics initiative.

The Government has asked its watchdog on DNA technology, the Human Genetics Commission, to consider the case for screening every baby at birth and storing their genetic profile for future use in tailoring health care according to their needs and their genes.

It promises to outlaw the testing of someone's DNA without their consent and to prevent unfair discrimination based simply on genetic characteristics. [Note: Yeah, right.]

The embattled music industry disclosed aggressive plans Wednesday for an unprecedented escalation in its fight against Internet piracy, threatening to sue hundreds of individual computer users who illegally share music files online.

The Recording Industry Association of America, citing substantial sales declines, said it will begin Thursday to search Internet file-sharing networks to identify users who offer "substantial" collections of mp3 music files for downloading. It expects to file at least several hundred lawsuits seeking financial damages within eight to 10 weeks.

The Continuous Media Web (CMWeb) is a project that is developing a platform to generically perform annotation and hyperlinking of fragments of time-continuously sampled data in a Web-integrated manner.

Check out: http://www.annodex.net/ for technical details.

After trying in vain for 2 years to negotiate with Coast to Coast (Clearchannel geeks) and getting what amounts to the royal run around, we have decided to release the November 2000, Coast to Coast AM (Art Bell show) on MP3, via Kazaa and other P2P networks. Keywords for finding the files are: Joseph Matheny, Art Bell, Coast to Coast AM, Ong's Hat. They are broken into eight separate 30-minute segments and numbered accordingly. Download them and share them off your P2P clients so others may more readily access them.
We will be releasing these files via the web here for a short time, due to popular demand.

Researchers trawling the Tasman Sea have dredged up a veritable freak show of bizarre deep-sea creatures, including hundreds of rare and new species.

Deep-sea sharks, stingrays, rattail fishes and invertebrates (creatures without backbones) are among species discovered, while blobfish, prickly dogfish, giant sea spiders and other things not on a fish'n'chip menu were also caught in the nets.

Scientists on the month-long Australian/New Zealand voyage, on the research ship Tangaroa, also found extinct volcanoes as they mapped the sea floor during the 10,000-kilometre trip.

A leading scholar of South American antiquity believes the Inca had a form of non-verbal communication written in an encoded language similar to the binary code of today's computers. Gary Urton, professor of anthropology at Harvard University, has re-analysed the complicated knotted strings of the Inca - decorative objects called khipu - and found they contain a seven-bit binary code capable of conveying some 1,536 separate units of information, comparable to the estimated 1,000 to 1,500 Sumerian cuneiform signs, and double the number of signs in the hieroglyphs of the ancient Egyptians and the Maya of Central America.

If Professor Urton is right, it means the Inca not only invented a form of binary code more than 500 years before the invention of the computer, but they used it as part of the only three-dimensional written language.

The Swedish Institute of Computer Science is offereing what is to the best of my knowledge the first vitual graffiti system. Users download the GeoNotes software (available for Win2k, Linux, and Savaje OS) and can then leave or read messages in any area covered by Lucent wi-fi base stations.| Via Many to Many

A seminar paper on the psychonautic and cybernautic potential of immersive gaming.

(Typing by P.J. Gladnick)
I just saw The Matrix Reloaded and I have made a sacred Matrix Resolution: I will NEVER, under any circumstances, pay to see The Matrix Revolutions when it is released later this year.

Why torture myself again? It was sheer hell trying to keep my eyes open while watching The Matrix Reloaded. Actually I did doze off three or four times but can you blame me? The Matrix Reloaded was the most BORING movie I've ever seen. However, that is not condemnatory enough. The Matrix Reloaded was the WORST move that I ever had the misfortune to sit through. It even makes the horrid Crocodile Dundee In Los Angeles look like a cinematic work of art.

The Thing FM: Micro radio. In US (EU?) it's (quasi)legal to broadcast FM
transmissions that go short distance (like 200ft). This project's idea is
to distribute a signal on internet which can then be rebroadcast on FM for
radio listeners. | Via YAWN

Hung out with these fab folks this weekend. Saw them do some excellent shows and had some of the most refreshing and stimulating conversation that I've had with a group of young artists in a very, very, long time. Word on the street is that this band is on the fast track to becoming the next big thing in Indie music, so get a dose of Sunday Munich, ASAP. You won't regret it.

There were no peasants waving torches or pitchforks in this crowd, no procession up a winding, eerie mountain road to flush out the monster who'd been terrorizing their town.

The mob that gathered in Manhattan on Tuesday night was looking for something they referred to (without explanation) as a "Love Rug." Or at least that's what the couple of hundred people who gathered in Macy's department store told a bemused salesman, who may or may not have believed he was dealing with a commune of carpet-craving eccentrics.

The crowd of people was participating in the Mob Project, an e-mail-driven experiment in organizing groups of people who suddenly materialize in public places, interact with others according to a loose script and then dissipate just as suddenly as they appeared.

Worm? Trojan? Attack tool? Network administrators and security experts continue to search for the cause of an increasing amount of odd data that has been detected on the Internet.
Security software firm Internet Security Systems (ISS) on Thursday declared victory, saying that a new hacker tool that scans for paths into public networks was responsible. But many other security professionals--including those at Intrusec, the company that originally tracked down the hard-to-find code--believe that ISS jumped the gun.

The real culprit likely is still out there, said David J. Meltzer, founder and chief technology officer of Roswell, Ga.-based Intrusec.

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"U.S. Army Spc. Dandrea Harris handcuffs a family with plastic ties during night raid in Habaniyah Saturday, June 21, 2003. They had been unsuccessfully searching for an Iraqi man in an adjacent house who had recently tried to kill Iraqi informants working with the Army. Army officers later appologized to the family for mistakenly handcuffing them."

Another earlier "mistake":