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Combat Diaries
Bills itself as "The Alternative Fortean Times." Contents include:
Chapter 1: Mimetics Part 1 by Jack Hardy
Chapter 2: Occult Nazis from Outer Space Part 1 by Alex Constantine
Chapter 3: The Great UFO Crash/Retrieval Syndrome by Betty Baxter
Chapter 4: Implants, Mind Control, and Cybernetics by Luukanen-Kilde MD
Chapter 5: Charles Fort in the Drainage Sump by Patricia Farson
Chapter 6: Alien Abductions: DNA Sample by Bill Chalker
Chapter 7: The Murder of Doctor David Kelly by Jim Rarey
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White House Puts Limits on Queries From Democrats
The Bush White House, irritated by pesky questions from congressional Democrats about how the administration is using taxpayer money, has developed an efficient solution: It will not entertain any more questions from opposition lawmakers.
The decision -- one that Democrats and scholars said is highly unusual -- was announced in an e-mail sent Wednesday to the staff of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees. House committee Democrats had just asked for information about how much the White House spent making and installing the "Mission Accomplished" banner for President Bush's May 1 speech aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. [more]
As many of us have noted from the beginning, the Bush administration is a dictatorship in the making. If they are allowed to use the Diebold machines without a receipt-system in the 2004 election, there will not even be the possibility for democracy in America for a long, long time.
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Mesons violate Bell’s inequality
The famous Bell's inequality of quantum mechanics has been tested in a high-energy particle physics experiment for the first time. The inequality was violated by three standard deviations in experiments with B mesons at the KEK laboratory in Japan - yet again confirming the predictions of quantum theory (arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0310192; J. Mod. Optics to be published). Previously most Bell's inequality experiments have been performed with photons or ions.
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Ruins show 'lost city' of the Incas was part of vast complex
07 November 2003
The world's most famous "lost city" - the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu in Peru, found in the early 20th century - was part of a much larger complex, according to sensational new archaeological discoveries.
While investigating a mountain ridge facing the Andean city, an Anglo-American expedition has discovered a previously unknown series of high-status sacred ceremonial buildings scattered over at least a square mile of jungle.
So far, using airborne infra-red reconnaissance and exploration of the jungle itself, the team - led by the British explorer Hugh Thomson and the American archaeologist Gary Ziegler - have found 33 previously unknown buildings. They also found seven others which had originally been located by the American explorer Hiram Bingham in 1912, but the whereabouts of which had been lost, as Bingham left no compass bearings.
The new area istwo miles from Machu Picchu itself. The expedition has identified, as well as the buildings, eight plazas, seven 10ft-highplatforms and a series of walled walkways connecting structures. The buildings include a massive storehouse, a probable sun temple (resembling in several ways the great sun temple in the Inca capital, Cuzco, 45 miles away), and a two-storey observatory, for watching solar equinoxes and solstices.
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Arthur M. Young
ARTHUR MIDDLETON YOUNG (1905 - 1995), inventor of the Bell Helicopter, cosmologist, philosopher and author of The Reflexive Universe and The Geometry of Meaning, addresses issues in physics, mathematics, consciousness and evolution. Author Tom Robbins calls Arthur Young "the greatest theoretical genius since Einstein." At this website you can explore Young's "Theory of Process" through his writings and his extensive video and audio legacy. Learn about ongoing work to extend the theory into new areas from medicine, cognitive science, brain research and cellular biology to developmental psychology, problem solving and organizational planning.
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THE VICISSITUDES OF THE THEME IN DREAM SERIES
Are dreams connected? If I dream about a dog on Monday and again on Tuesday, is there anything to be learned by looking at the contrast between the two dreams? If, on Monday, the dog bites me and, on Tuesday, I manage to get away, does this represent any kind of improvement?
While groups of dreams are often studied and compared, the development of the theme is a largely neglected topic. This dissertation explores the vicissitudes of the dream theme. What happens to the theme in the course of a number of dreams? Does the theme show development? This dissertation reviews the treatment of dream themes in psychotherapy and dream research. Apart from Jung and his followers, the dream theme receives little attention although it is often used implicitly -- for example in the study of the nightmare. An examination of Jung's work shows how Jung utilized the dream theme. The dissertation uses the dream journal of Emanuel Swedenborg from 1743 to 1744 and examines series of dreams quoted in published papers from the perspective developed in the dissertation.
DAVID JENKINS Ph.D.
PRACTICAL DREAM WORK
http://www.practicaldreamwork.com/
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Bulletproof Deville targets big guns
It's probably more than most people need to make a run to the grocery store, but the 2004 Cadillac Armored Deville almost guarantees a safe return.
General Motors Corp. will start taking orders in a few days for a bulletproof Cadillac Deville that will be capable of withstanding attack from weapons as powerful as a .44-caliber magnum handgun.
"It's security in an insecure world," said GM's Al Gagne, head of the armoring project.
The Deville goes on sale in January and will be sold nationwide through 22 Cadillac dealerships with specially trained sales staffs, including stores in Grand Rapids and Ann Arbor.
GM has not set a sales target, but expects the car to appeal to security-conscious shoppers such as corporate executives, celebrities and government officials. Buyers' identities will be kept confidential.
Chicago-based Scaletta Moloney Armoring will add armor protection to the Deville, which is built in Hamtramck. Scaletta has also beefed up other Cadillacs, Lincolns and military vehicles.
Pricing hasn't been announced, but Scaletta CEO Joe Scaletta said armoring typically adds $40,000 to $200,000 to the cost of a car. Unarmored, the Deville costs about $50,000
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Depp to star in ‘Rum Diary’
Hunter S. Thompson’s first novel tells the story of his adventures in journalism
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Nov. 5 — It was 1959. Fired for kicking in a candy machine at a small-town newspaper, Hunter S. Thompson fled to Puerto Rico, where his vagrant journalist lifestyle inspired his first novel, “The Rum Diary.” THOMPSON’S BOOZY year marked by cockfights, bowling alleys and pursuit of the governor’s daughter is now being made into a movie, starring Johnny Depp, who first portrayed the legendary cult writer in “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”.
“I didn’t know Johnny Depp could act until he played me,” said Thompson, 66, during a telephone interview from his home in Woody Creek, Colo.
Puerto Rican native Benicio Del Toro makes his directing debut, and Nick Nolte and Josh Hartnett co-star. Shooting is scheduled to start in December.
According to Thompson, he was working at the Middletown (N.Y.) Daily Record when the candy machine cheated him of a nickel. After he smashed it and was fired, he moved to New York’s Adirondack Mountains to begin a novel, living off unemployment checks.
Then a sports editor opening at The San Juan Star grabbed his eye. Thompson was rejected by managing editor William Kennedy, who went on to win a Pulitzer in 1984 for his book “Ironweed.” But Kennedy predicted that Thompson would write “the great Puerto Rican novel.”
Writer Thompson then covered cockfights on the outlying Puerto Rican island of Vieques for El Sportivo, which was billed as the Caribbean’s Sports Illustrated but turned out to be little more than a doomed bowling tabloid.
To supplement his income, Thompson worked as a male model for Bacardi Rum and wrote freelance articles. He lived in a wooden beach shack in Loiza, a community of mostly Yoruba slave descendants a 25-minute drive from the capital.
“It was the best house on the beach,” Thompson said. “I would take some scuba gear and pick up those big lobsters off the reef with rubber gloves. It was perfect.”
He commuted to San Juan on a motorscooter to frequent El Patio de Sam, a local watering hole still hopping in San Juan’s colonial district. For fun, he would shoot rats at the San Juan dump with a .357 Magnum.
“My only regret is that I didn’t run off with the governor’s daughter,” Thompson said, unable to remember which daughter of former Gov. Luis Munoz Marin caught his fancy. “I still have a seashell she gave me in Aruba.”
The novel begins with reporter Paul Kemp on an airplane bound for Puerto Rico. He joins The San Juan Daily News — modeled after the paper that turned Thompson down — in the midst of financial problems on an island aflame in political turmoil.
Like Thompson, Kemp finds himself trying to balance his job and a cast of imported misfit colleagues with his appetite for rum and sun.
“I was writing about what it was like to be among vagrant journalists,” Thompson said, confirming that most of the book is based on reality<
“Fiction is based on reality unless you’re a fairy-tale artist,” Thompson said. “You have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you’re writing about before you alter it.”
The book was initially rejected by an agent and got buried beneath Thompson’s other projects. Resurrected 40 years later and published in 1998, it offers a glimpse into Thompson’s youth before the hallucinogenic episodes famously chronicled in “Fear and Loathing.”
It came before the spawning of Thompson’s gonzo brand of journalism where fiction is, in his words, truer than any reportage. Today Thompson, 66, has written more than 10 books, writes a column for ESPN.com and is a regular contributor to Rolling Stone.
He plans his first visit back to Puerto Rico since those halcyon days to act as consultant once shooting begins in December.
“We’re going to come down and take over the island.”
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Mad TV- The Return of Bunny Swan
from: TV GUIDE ONLINE
http://www.tvguide.com/news/
On the occasion of its 200th episode (airing Saturday at 11 pm/ET), Fox's Mad TV is doing something really crazy: It's bringing back a passel of its most popular former players, among them our personal favorite, Alex Borstein. "[Seeing the old gang again] was like Friday the 13th, only scarier," she tells TV Guide Online with a laugh. "It was kind of like we'd been gone forever, yet we felt as if we'd never left."
Best of all, for the reunion, the funny lady has resurrected Mrs. Swan, the loopy manicurist character she based on her (apparently certifiable) grandmother. "We went to the post office recently to get her passport renewed," she relates, "and she gave me her ID to show the lady there, and that's when we found out it had expired... which she actually already knew, but was trying to pull a fast one on them!
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MAGNUM PHOTOS
1970's carnival strippers
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The Sect of Homokaasu - The Gematriculator
The Gematriculator is a service that uses the infallible methods of Gematria developed by Mr. Ivan Panin to determine how good or evil a web site or a text passage is.
Basically, Gematria is searching for different patterns through the text, such as the amount of words beginning with a vowel. If the amount of these matches is divisible by a certain number, such as 7 (which is said to be God's number), there is an incontestable argument that the Spirit of God is ever present in the text. Another important aspect in gematria are the numerical values of letters: A=1, B=2 ... I=9, J=10, K=20 and so on. The Gematriculator uses Finnish alphabet, in which Y is a vowel.
Experts consider the mathematical patterns in the text of the Holy Bible as God's watermark of authenticity. Thus, the Gematriculator provides only results that are absolutely correct.
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Fun with (more) car lighters
Ways to use it
Cigarette lighter sockets can even provide power to help you do things you probably should not do while driving. Brewing coffee, and other things.
The Pink Pussycat Boutique, an "adult novelty" store in Manhattan, sells a variety of devices that can be plugged into car cigarette lighter sockets. We'll go no farther.
If you get a flat tire, Safetycentral.com sells a 12-volt impact wrench for removing lug nuts. Among other car lighter-friendly devices the site sells are a 20 oz. coffee pot, a frying pan, an oven, a curling iron, an electric cooler and a special adapter so you can plug multiple devices into one lighter. That way you can make breakfast, curl your hair, run your impact wrench and maybe light a cigarette while you wait for your beer to get cold.
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Rick's Hat Check Room
The Internet’s seventh-best on-line hat collection!
Welcome to Rick's Hat Check Room and check out my hats! If you're a returning visitor, my What's New page will keep you posted on the day-to-day improvements. Also, make sure to take a look at the Articles section for great research and background information created specially for hat collectors!
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Mickey Mouse ears
Old man that I am, I still remember the original Mickey Mouse Club from the fifties with Roy, Jimmy, Annette, Darleen, Cubby and all the rest of the Mousketeers. It took me another fifteen years to win my ears—these are from Disneyworld in Florida from the opening year, 1972.
Egypt
Egyptian “fez”
If you ever visit the bazaar in Cairo, the chances are you’ll be steered to the section north of the main thoroughfare. Here, the shops are filled with junk for tourists—badly made scarabs and ushabti figures, brass coffee sets, jewelry, etc. But if you venture to the south, you’ll find the bazaar the Egyptians themselves use, filled with spices, fruit, rugs—and a fez factory. That’s where I bought this one back in 1988.
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Breaking up isn't hard to do: Hit 'send'
Dawn Capone thought instant-messaging would be a good way to "talk" with her boyfriend of six months when his cell-phone battery died.
Wrong. On their first IM "date," the man - a 36-year-old computer consultant from West Philadelphia - made Capone a victim of the latest form of commitment-phobia haunting singles: the Internet dump.
"I am breaking up with you," the boyfriend typed, as Capone watched aghast at the keyboard at her home in Blackwood.
"We are no longer a couple."
"I am logging off" - and he was gone.
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ICON SEX IN THE AOL STYLE
hmmmmmmmmmmm...can't really post any of them so I'll link to a discussion regarding them:
Discussion:
http://suicidegirls.com/boards/Dirty+Talk/25751/
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clowning4christ
We at Clowning for Christ International are dedicated to the teachings of Jesus Christ and are focused on the great commission:
"Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age".
(Matt 28: 19,20 NIV)
Merchandise:
The Clown from behind the Cross t-shirt.
This shirt is a 50/50 cotton/poly of excellent quality.
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Changing sign only adds to the speeding fine
Changing sign only adds to the speeding fine
November 7, 2003
NOBODY likes copping a speeding fine – but few would go to the lengths Carlos DeMarco did to avoid one.
The Sydney man yesterday appeared in court accused of dodging two fines by stealing a 70km/h speed sign and erecting it under the speed camera that caught him in a 60km/h zone.
His plan collapsed when he was seen taking photos of the sign and the speed camera to prove his "innocence".
NSW Road and Traffic Authority officers found the sign had been attached with roofing screws to a power pole.
Sydney's Parramatta Local Court heard DeMarco, 39, was snapped speeding in a 60km/h zone twice in November last year, doing 70km/h the first time and 75km/h the second.
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The Sex Code --- Version 1.2
Instructions For Use
The Sex Code is broken down into a large number of categories of two basic types: miscellaneous categories and preference categories. In both cases, your code for that category will consist of a letter, possibly with modifiers before or after it, and a number of plus and/or minus signs (this number could be zero). The letters are case sensitive, that is, lower case and upper case are not the same thing. The miscellaneous categories occasionally have special rules, and they each tell you how to use the plus and minus signs for that category (if applicable); the preference categories all work the same way, described below.
When you have gone through the code and selected your choices for each category (feel free to ignore some that don't interest you or you have no opinion on or whatever), string all these codes together with spaces between them. This is your Sex Code. You may want to put it in your signature and/or on your web page.
Note: You put your codes together in the order the categories appear, even if you skip some: it makes it much easier for someone else to decode.
Example Sex Code
SPoSlSi/Bi/MaEr A22 W--:++ !H w+ h+ D++ P43 E+++ a++ Ag++ ?Ar+ ?b+ cg+++ C++++ ?Co+ d+ ?Di e fr+++ ?fg+++ ?Fg-r ?Fi- ?g++ i ?I- k+++ m+++ ?n+ p+ P(+) ?r++ ?s++ S+++ ?Sc--- ?Sw++ ?t+ wa++ ?Wa--
The *meaning of the above code gives you an idea of the type of information that can be encoded in a very short space with this code. This is my code, by the way.
*SPoSlSi/Bi/MaEr
I'm a single polyslut who is bisexual, male and european.
A22 W--:++ !H w+ h+ D++ P43 E+++
My age is 22, I like people in the healthy range of weights (from rather skinny to rather fat), I don't much care about people's height, and I myself and a bit chubby and tall. My minimum comfort level for sexual activity is once every two days (assuming I can get some!), I'm only 44% pure, and I'll try anything a few times.
a++ Ag++ ?Ar+ ?b+ cg+++ C++++ ?Cd++ ?Co+ d+ ?Di e fr+++ ?fg+++ ?Fg-r ?Fi- ?g++ i ?I- k+++ m+++ ?n+ p+ P(+) ?r++ ?s++ S+++ ?Sc--- ?Sw++ ?t+ ?T++ wa++ ?Wa--
I love anilingus, I love giving anal sex and I haven't recieved it but think I would like it. I haven't bound or been bound but think I would like it. I can't do without giving cunnilingus for long (can't recieve it cuz I'm male!). I can't get horny without some cuddling. I haven't try dressing up but think I'd like it, but probably more in women's clothes than other costumes, like using dildoes, haven't been involved in disciplining, don't know if I'd like it, am sort of indifferent on using edible things. I can't go long without being felated (like most guys :-), and I haven't done it to anyone else but think I'd get addicted to it real fast. I haven't been involved in foot play but think I'd dislike giving and be indifferent on receiving, and fisting I haven't tried and don't think I'd like much. Group sex I'd really like to try, intercourse I'm sort of indifferent on, infantilism I haven't tried and don't really want to. Kissing and mutual masturbtion I require, haven't tried net sex but expect to like it, like phone sex, sometimes like pain play and am sometimes indifferent. I haven't tried role playing (at least sexually) but expect to like it, same with submission, I require that my sex be safe, scat turns me off badly, haven't tried swinging but expect to like it. Haven't used toys other than dildoes, find the idea interesting, haven't participated in sacred sex, but the idea turns me on, like watching and being watched, and am rather turned off by watersports.
Pant pant pant pant...
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Church Sign Generator
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Rebels against the alien Raj
This article focuses on three trickster deities: (1) The Old Testament figure Lucifer, the "Light-Bearer," who, in defiance of Yahweh, brought self-awareness to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden; (2) the Greek deity Prometheus, who rebelled against the authority of Zeus and gave fire to mankind; and (3) the ancient Mesoamerican god Quétzalcoatl, the "Feathered Serpent," known to the Maya as Kukulkan, who was forced into exile because of his efforts on behalf of mankind.
I posit that these and other trickster deities (e.g. the Old Norse god Loki, who built Valhalla but later turned against the supreme god Odin, and the pan-Polynesian god Maui, for whom the island is named) are mythological reflections of one or more extraterrestrial dissidents who rebelled against the Alien Raj's "Prime-Directive"-type policy of non- interference in human affairs--except when it suits the aliens' immediate agenda--and were punished for their actions by the Raj.
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NO PROBLEM = Know Problem
an excerpt:
And so I hate to be too hard-line about it, but I’ve come to believe that "No problem" is a seemingly benign expression run terribly amok, to the point of destroying what vestiges of civility we have left here at the beginning of the 21st century. The man with the umbrella notwithstanding, the pitch of "No problem" is narcissistic: It changes the nature of the arrangement between myself and another person. Whereas once I might have said, "You’re welcome" (to my services, kindness, etc.), I now say it’s "no problem" (for me to do something for you). So I was unsurprised to discover that, according to the O.E.D., the term appeared in its current usage at the dawn of the Me Decade. With its feel-good group-therapy sessions and forced casualness, the pre-eminent personal-style statement of the 70’s was a kind of nonstop expectorating confession. While I remain convinced that the pop utopia created in that decade was almost entirely about hair, we in the new century still bear the burden of far-out 70’s language.
Back In The Day- Calculator
http://www.happyrobot.net/robotchow/backintheday.asp
People are always talking about how good things were "back in the day". Recently I have noticed people abusing this phrase to describe a wide range of time, almost to the point that "back in the day" seems to be just a good day someone once had.
At happyrobotUSA, setting and obeying standards is important to us, so we have built an official and nationally sanctioned "back in the day" calculator.
Select the year you were born, press submit, and via computers on the "internet" we will tell you your own individual time frame for "back in the day".
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Voyager May Be at End of Solar System
The Voyager 1 spacecraft, the most distant human-made object, has reached the end — or perhaps just the beginning of the end — of our solar system, scientists argue in two new studies.
As of Wednesday, 26 years after its launch, NASA (news - web sites)'s Voyager 1 was 8.4 billion miles from the sun. That's 90 times the distance separating the Earth from our star.
As the robotic spacecraft continues to push far beyond the reach of the nine planets, two teams of scientists disagree whether it passed into the uncharted region of space where the sun's sphere of influence begins to wane.
The sun sends out a stream of highly charged particles, called the solar wind, that carves out a vast bubble around the solar system.
Beyond the bubble's ever-shifting boundary, called the termination shock, lies a region where particles cast off by dying stars begin to hold sway.
That region, called the heliopause, marks the beginning of interstellar space and the end of our solar system. Whether Voyager 1 reached that mark or is still on approach remains unclear, with scientists providing evidence for both claims. Details appear Thursday in the journal Nature.
"Neither explanation is certain," writes Len Fisk, of the University of Michigan, in an editorial accompanying the two studies.
Scientists have long theorized that a shock wave exists where the hot solar wind bumps up against the thin gas of the interstellar medium. A similar shock wave precedes aircraft flying faster than the speed of sound, causing a sonic boom.
NASA's Voyager 1 transmits pictures from Saturn
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Mary As Goddess:Mary Magdalen
The Penitent Magdalene
Georges de la Tour
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Written Record
In seeking to unravel the mystery of the Marys in the New Testament, it is important to note at the outset that the Gospels were a later-recording of an oral history. In fact recent scholarship confirms that it is unlikely that any of the New Testament writers actually knew the historical Jesus (B,C,D *). The earliest New Testament records, Paul's Epistles, were written circa 51-57 CE, and the other books were written nearer to the end of the century. Many of the Biblical accounts of Mother Mary and Mary Magdalen were written 50 years or more after the death of Jesus of Nazareth (B,C,D *). In addition, it is quite clear that the existing Bible today underwent additions, deletions, and translation changes over the centuries. In fact, the Bible as we know it today was not even compiled until the 4th Century CE, and no known manuscripts of the New Testament are older than the 4th Century. What exist are copies of copies (B,C,D *). However, many other Gospels were written that were not included in the official cannon. Among them are the Gnostic Gospels. Surviving copies of the Gnostic Gospels predate the surviving Biblical manuscripts by 200 years (A,B,C,D *).
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Henry Lincoln and the mystery of Rennes-le-Chateau - a short history
Henry Lincoln's Guide to Rennes-le-Château
(videos for sale -with short real player clips)
Thousands of people climb to the isolated hilltop village of Rennes-le-Château each year, drawn by the mystery surrounding the priest Bérenger Saunière and his unexplained riches. But few discover the wealth of fascinating detail hidden here.
Henry Lincoln's investigations over the last thirty years have given him a unique and intimate knowledge of this special place. For many years he used to take small groups of enthusiasts to visit the key locations, explaining at first hand the 'slow discovering, the alarms and excursions, the hard work, the farcical adventures... all the history and mystery that have made the village world famous'.
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Rennes-le-Château Home Page News
20 August 2003 Added link to The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown
20 April 2003 - Added link to MemoryMap for ordering Mélanges Sulphureux, containing Le Serpent Rouge
10 April 2003 - Added Au Coeur de Rennes to accomodation section
18 February 2002 - Added Death on Gower by Joanna Greenlaw
13 January 2002 - Added obituary of Dr Paul Courrent (1860-1952)
30 November 2001 - Added new book "Rennes le Chateau - Rätsel in den Pyrenäen" (German)
25 October 2001 - Added new section of Videos
20 September 2001 - Added link to Questing Conference 2001, at which Marcus Williamson, Editor of the Rennes-le-Chateau Home Page, will be speaking.
20 June 2001 - Added The Templars' Secret Island, the new book by Henry Lincoln and Erling Haagensen
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Rennes-le-Chateau Portal
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Rosslyn News:Rosslyn in Plaster
Esoteric London - A plaster replica of Rosslyn Chapel goes on display
For those who are planning a vacation or business trip to London but won't have the opportunity to venture outside the capital due to time constraints, it might be useful to know that a full-sized replica of part of Rosslyn Chapel is on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Sections of Rosslyn's Lady Chapel, including the world-famous Apprentice Pillar and "coded" stone cubes, as featured in THE DA VINCI CODE, were diligently molded, recast, and reassembled among other world-famous curiosities in the V&A's Cast Courts. The facade of Santiago de Compostela and even copies of the effigies of the knights in the Temple Church have been reproduced by enthusiastic Victorian craftsmen who aspired to create a juxtaposition of the highlights of an eccentric Grand Tour of Europe within the confined space of two overwhelming museum exhibition halls.
Rosslyn Chapel experts have commented that the replica of the carvings on display in the V&A, which were cast during the Victorian renovation of this unique chapel, are actually more finely detailed than the original existing carvings in the chapel, which have deteriorated over the intervening years since the plastercasts were made.
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Streetwise guide to conquering the universe
The NASDAQ is littered with the corpses of pansy-ass wimps who couldn't get it up when it came to business. The men had no balls, the women had no tits. What's wrong with you people? Didn't you learn anything? There are only 7 lessons, honey, and none of 'em are pretty.
Taking over the universe and stroking your own ego are mutually exclusive goals, that's why the guys who've come out ahead have all, at one point, given it. That's right, sweet-cakes, the world is a dirty, dingy place. Flowers are sex organs, birds are violent descendants of dinosaurs, and honey is just bee vomit. You want polite? Read a fairy tale, sister, because the real world does not brush under its fingernails and it does not starch its collar.
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Extreme Solar Flare Alert
Powerful Active Region 486 has produced one of the most intense solar flares ever measured. The event began at 12:29 P.M. MST (1929 UTC) on November 4th and rose quickly to exceed X17 on the GOES-12 X-ray sensor. By 12:44 P.M. MST (1944 UTC), the GOES sensor was saturated and remained that way until 12:56 P.M. (1956 UTC), suggesting this event extended well in to the very highest flare category, the X20 plus range. This massive flare produced a category R5 (extreme) radio blackout. All short-wave communications through the sunlit hemisphere of the Earth experienced complete blackout conditions.
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Interstellar Communication Through Biodynamic Signals
Historically, the alleged reception of signals of an extraterrestrial origin dates back to the very beginnings of radio. In fact, we find that the recent history of the investigation into interstellar communications is almost completely restricted to the science of radio astronomy - a technology which is quite limited due to the necessity of obeying the confines of the electromagnetic spectrum. Early in his career, Dr. L. George Lawrence recognized this limitation, and sought to overcome it by introducing a means of communication which was not bound by conventional electromagnetic laws. "Biological" or "Biodynamic" communication, as Lawrence called it, found its medium completely outside of the electromagnetic spectrum, and therefore solved many of the problems facing the prevailing radio-astronomical methodology of interstellar communication. To comprehend the complexity of these problems, we must briefly detail the historical background of conventional interstellar communications (hereinafter referred to as ICOMM).
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Five questions with Andrew Dice Clay
The Diceman cometh again, and nothing is safe from his vitriol -- not even parsley. The maligned herb is nothing compared to his take on obese people, shoplifting and keeping up with the Joneses. How much of this is shtick vs. reality? You be the judge. He performs tonight at the Rosemont Theatre.
Q. What're you most looking forward to about coming to Chicago?
A. Mancow's wife is going to cook us dinner. I've already given my direct order for the meal -- skirt steak and potato. Nothing fancy. I don't like going to restaurants 'cause they always give you what you don't ask for. They cover food up with green crap. They put leaves on top of a steak. I don't remember my mother giving me a steak with a leaf on top of it.
Q. What do you think of society today?
A. People are lazy and fat. It makes me sick to see a guy wearing a 10x shirt and taking a scooter to his car 'cause he's too lazy to walk. Then everyone's competing to have the latest thing, like the car you bought last year isn't good enough and your TV isn't thin or wide enough to be cool. Or cameras with phones in them. When did picture taking and making calls at the same time ever come into play?
Q. What do you like about America?
A. The freedom to be able to sell that stuff and give people the choice if they want those things, as stupid as I think they are. I'm still old school. I like the bubble screen better than the flat screen.
Q. What's a good motto to live by?
A. Never pay full price. Never feel bad if you go into 7-Eleven and steal something. You've got to start small before you can become like Winona Ryder. Oh thank heaven it's 7-Eleven. With my kids, it's like I'm having a party when we go shopping. I tell them to grab a toy or two. That's what you wear big shirts for. I walk out on Thanksgiving like the worst hunchback in the world.
Q. Don't you worry that people will take comments like that seriously?
A. I can't worry about [ticking] anybody off anymore. I'm a comedian. It's the kind of comedy I do. ... I can't care less about people who don't like it. A lot of the new comics today get a little scared to say what's on their mind. I'm known as a filthy comic, even though I know what I say has valid points.
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A letter from Congressman John D. Dingell to the CEO of CBS Television-Leslie Mooves
A letter from Congressman John D. Dingell to the CEO of CBS Television-Leslie Mooves regarding concern for accurate depiction of the former President.
(PDF)
"As someone who served with President Reagan, and in the interest of historical accuracy, please allow me to share with you some of my recollections of the Reagan years that I hope will make it into the final cut of the mini-series: $640 Pentagon toilets seats; ketchup as a vegetable; union busting; firing striking air traffic controllers; Iran-Contra; selling arms to terrorist nations; trading arms for hostages; retreating from terrorists in Beirut; lying to Congress; financing an illegal war in Nicaragua; visiting Bitburg cemetery; a cozy relationship with Saddam Hussein; shredding documents; Ed Meese; Fawn Hall; Oliver North; James Watt; apartheid apologia; the savings and loan scandal (cont)
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'The Reagans,' From One of Them
Patti Davis on why the Ronald Reagan depicted in the biopic is nothing like the father she knows
an excerpt:
"Finally, CBS is doing the right thing about "The Reagans." Under pressure the network has decided not to air the two-part biopic, steering it instead to the cable outlet Showtime (like CBS, owned by Viacom). But just because a far smaller audience will now see the film (Showtime draws maybe a million viewers on a top night) doesn’t make this story any more accurate. According to the screenplay for “The Reagans,” my father is a homophobic Bible-thumper who loudly insisted that his son wasn’t gay when Ron took up ballet, and who in a particularly scathing scene told my mother that AIDS patients deserved their fate. “They who live in sin shall die in sin,” the writers and producers had him say.
CBS execs say the line about AIDS victims has now been deleted. I asked Bert Fields, one of America’s best known entertainment attorneys, who is not my lawyer but is a friend, to call CBS head Les Moonves and point out how painful the line was. My mother, through her attorney Ira Revitch, also wrote to Mr. Moonves asking for its removal. Not only did my father never say such a thing, he never would have. If you have any doubts, read the recently published book of his letters. They reveal a man whose compassion for other people is deep and earnest, and whose spiritual life is based on faith in a loving God, not a vengeful one. "
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Barbra Streisand Homepage : A Sad Day for Artistic Freedom
A Sad Day for Artistic Freedom ...Barbra Streisand
Posted on November 4, 2003
I am deeply disappointed that CBS, the network that in 1964 gave me complete artistic control in creating television specials, now caved in to right wing Republican pressure to cancel the network broadcast of the movie The Reagans. (And I say MOVIE - because this is NOT a documentary - it's a television drama.) The movie will now be aired on Showtime, where the difference in viewership is in the millions.
One can only imagine the kind of pressure that would compel CBS to take such an extraordinary action. This was an organized Republican spin machine at work. Remember the Dixie Chicks controversy? It wasn't the larger general public that called in to radio stations and burned CDs, it was a small group of right wing activists. In fact, now the band is more popular than ever, with a sold out summer tour.
I don't believe Democrats often, if ever, try to muscle the First Amendment like this. For example, in 1983, no one stopped NBC from airing Kennedy, a biopic that portrayed President Kennedy and other members of his family and administration as deeply flawed, even though the movie could have potentially been hurtful to Jackie Kennedy, who was still alive to see it, as well as to her children.
This is censorship, pure and simple. Well, maybe not all that pure. Censorship never is. Due to their experience with the restrictive English government, the framers of our constitution specifically included a ban on prior restraint in the First Amendment, which is an attempt to stop information from getting out there before the public has a chance to see it at all - exactly what is going on in this case. Of course, CBS as a company has the legal right to make decisions about what they do and do not air. However, these important decisions should be based on artistic integrity rather than an attempt to appease a small group of vocal dissidents. Indeed, today marks a sad day for artistic freedom - one of the most important elements of an open and democratic society.
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California Coastal Records Project -- Aerial Photographs of the California Coastline
Welcome to the California Coastal Records Project. Our goal is to create an aerial photographic survey of the California Coast and update it on a periodic basis.
We currently have over 12,700 photographs (totaling over 82GB) of the California Coast online, covering from the Oregon Border (42N latitude) to the Mexican Border (32.5N latitude), except for the Vandenberg AFB restricted area.
A random image taken as Image 13838 at N36 34.65 W121 58.87 on Tue Aug 12 13:59:51 2003
Nearest caption: The infamous pebble beach 'Lone Cypress' doesn't look so 'lone' when viewed from the ocean... (at Image 1130, 319 ft South)
N37 46.81 W122 31.05 Image 5765 Mon Sep 30 15:30:49 2002
The Cliff House, San Francisco
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Taking the Long View: Panoramic Photographs, 1851-1991
The Panoramic Photograph Collection contains approximately four thousand images featuring American cityscapes, landscapes, and group portraits. These panoramas offer an overview of the nation, its enterprises and its interests, with a focus on the start of the twentieth century when the panoramic photo format was at the height of its popularity. Subject strengths include: agricultural life; beauty contests; disasters; engineering work such as bridges, canals and dams; fairs and expositions; military and naval activities, especially during World War I; the oil industry; schools and college campuses, sports, and transportation. The images date from 1851 to 1991 and depict scenes in all fifty states and the District of Columbia. More than twenty foreign countries and a few U.S. territories are also represented. These panoramas average between twenty-eight inches and six feet in length, with an average width of ten inches.
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It's I*A*M, Baby!
Me--Dr. Menlo--am participating in NaNoWriMo this year. To kick myself in the ass you see. Am an old fuck now, getting on in dog years. Need to write more, even if it's crap. Well, this is all a fast draft, of course. A first draft. Written fast. In a month. A novel. Never written before. I've written about International Art Machine before, but never this, as an adventure novel. Half baked. Schmoozing in the adventure section. Art is the artifice, but also the trojan horse. Or something like that . . . we'll see.This is my marathon. P. Menlo.
(Pagan Moss is also participating, having recently closed up PSS, but her link isn't ready yet.)
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Massive Change - The Future of Design Culture
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New J.G. Ballard book out: Millennium People
The publication of his latest novel, Millennium People, may not have got backs up, but it certainly got the editors at the left-leaning London weekly The New Statesman to sit up straight and take note. The cover of a recent issue read: "Coming soon - the new poor." Below the headline a set of moneyed middle-class women were seen sharing a table (but not their wine) with four working-class men. The image, although it advertised an article on so-called first-world debt, was not far removed from Ballard's own sentiment: the middle class is the new proletariat.
"There is a lot of dissatisfaction among the middle classes today in England, the salaried middle class - doctors, solicitors, middle managers, civil servants, academics, teachers - that their salaries have not kept pace with inflation, that they are over-taxed. They have lost a lot of the status they once had, they've lost their job security and the kind of core beliefs that have always sustained the middle class: a sense of civic responsibility, the importance of education. Education is more and more perceived as a sort of con. It deludes the middle class into thinking that they have some sort of special skill. It doesn't guarantee anything. An arts degree is like a diploma in origami. And about as much use."
"I think the class system has begun to break down. We're in a time of major changes. The huge range of protest movements that we see - they are the millennium people because they're shouldering the burden of protest. They're aware that something is deeply wrong and that something needs to be done about it."
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Borges: Garden of Forking Paths - Author Homepage
Welcome to the Garden of Forking Paths, one of the most intriguing areas of the Libyrinth of Allexamina. Here you will find access to the garden planted by J.L. Borges, the Argentine writer, poet and philosopher. Although I tend the garden as well as I can, beware: among these sprawling labyrinths you will find illusions most seductive and truths most elusive. Let me show you around.
Look, here ? a beautiful poppy, yes? But some say that it has the power to unravel time. And here: yes, this narcissus-flecked pool. The locals contend that if you gaze into its depths too long, you are in danger of merging with your reflection and losing all sense of Self; for your image becomes that of all men. And there, a gallery of mirrors most enigmatic; and hanging here, by this coin: the skin of a most unusual tiger....
Jorge Luis Borges: A Forerunner of the Technology of the New Millennium
(PDF)
http://www.daimi.au.dk/~pnuern/ht99dc/sasson/final.pdf
Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
an excerpt:
The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries, with vast air shafts between, surrounded by very low railings. From any of the hexagons one can see, interminably, the upper and lower floors. The distribution of the galleries is invariable. Twenty shelves, five long shelves per side, cover all the sides except two; their height, which is the distance from floor to ceiling, scarcely exceeds that of a normal bookcase. One of the free sides leads to a narrow hallway which opens onto another gallery, identical to the first and to all the rest. To the left and right of the hallway there are two very small closets. In the first, one may sleep standing up; in the other, satisfy one's fecal necessities. Also through here passes a spiral stairway, which sinks abysmally and soars upwards to remote distances. In the hallway there is a mirror which faithfully duplicates all appearances. Men usually infer from this mirror that the Library is not infinite (if it were, why this illusory duplication?); I prefer to dream that its polished surfaces represent and promise the infinite ... Light is provided by some spherical fruit which bear the name of lamps. There are two, transversally placed, in each hexagon. The light they emit is insufficient, incessant.
http://www-personal.si.umich.edu/~rfrost/courses/SI110/readings/misc/Borges.pdf
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
by Jorge Luis Borges
http://aegis.ateneo.net/fted/tlontext.htm
an excerpt:
I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia. The mirror troubled the depths of a corridor in a country house on Gaona Street in Ramos Mejia; the encyclopedia is fallaciously called The Anglo-American Cyclopaedia (New York, 1917) and is a literal but delinquent reprint of the Encyclopedia Britannica of 1902. The event took place some five years ago. Bioy Casares had had dinner with me that evening and we became lengthily engaged in a vast polemic concerning the composition of a novel in the first person, whose narrator would omit or disfigure the facts and indulge in various contradictions which would permit a few readers - very few readers - to perceive an atrocious or banal reality. From the remote depths of the corridor, the mirror spied upon us. We discovered (such a discovery is inevitable in the late hours of the night) that mirrors hare something monstrous about them. Then Bioy Casares recalled that one of the heresiarchs of Uqbar had declared that mirrors and copulation are abominable, because they increase the number or men. I asked him the origin of this memorable observation and he answered that it was reproduced in The Anglo-American Cyclopaedia, in its article on Uqbar. The house (which we had rented furnished) had a set of this work. On the last pages of Volume XLVI we found an article on Upsala; on the first pages of Volume XLVII, one on Ural-Altaic Languages, but not a word about Uqbar. Bioy, a bit taken aback, consulted the volumes of the index. In vain he exhausted all of the imaginable spellings: Ukbar, Ucbar, Ooqbar, Ookbar, Oukbahr... Before leaving, he told me that it was a region of Iraq of or Asia Minor. I must confess that I agreed with some discomfort. I conjectured that this undocumented country and its anonymous heresiarch were a fiction devised by Bioy's modesty in order to justify a statement. The fruitless examination of one of Justus Perthes' atlases fortified my doubt.
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The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz
The third pamphlet in the enigmatic Rosicrucian trilogy, The Hermetic Romance or The Chemical Wedding appeared in Strasbourg in 1616. It described a bizarre adventure, rich in allegory and symbol, in which the principle character, an elderly Christian
Rosenkruetz, is invited to a wedding and undergoes all kinds of strange ordeals and mysterious ceremonies. He overcomes all obstacles and finds his way to what can be interpreted as spiritual enlightenment and alchemical transmutation. The seven event-filled days described in the story are allegories for the seven stages of the alchemical process. The Chemical Wedding was later claimed to have been written by Johann Valentin Andrea, a Lutheran pastor and a brilliant scholar. The wedding in the story seems to have been loosely based on the marriage of Frederick V, king of Bohemia to Princess Elizabeth, {eldest daughter of James I of England} in 1613.
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8.5GB DVD+R discs, drives to ship April '04
Expect double-layer, almost double-capacity DVD+R drives and media to hit the stores next April, members of the DVD+RW alliance say.
The technology, co-developed by drive maker Philips, and media specialists Verbatim and Mitsubishi Kagaku, adds a second recording layer to a standard-thickness DVD+R disc, taking the medium's capacity from 4.7GB to 8.5GB.
That's enough for four hours of DVD-quality material, 16 hours of VHS-quality content or two hours' archive footage. The discs are playback-compatible with existing DVD players and DVD-ROM drives.
Initial products will offer a write speed of 2.4x.
DVD+R DL, as the technology is known, was demo'd last month in Japan and shown to the press in London last week. Alliance members said the next step is to publish the format's specifications, a process which should be complete this year.
Officially, the Alliance says DVD+R DL hardware and media will ship during "the course of 2004", but privately a number of member companies said they are "hoping" for an April 2004 introduction.
That should provide a further boost for the DVD+R/+RW format, which is increasingly seen as the successor to the older DVD-R/-RW spec., thanks to its full multi-session compatibility with both DVD-ROM and consumer DVD systems. Essentially, DVD+RW discs can be re-edited even when the session has been closed - of 'finalised' - to ensure compatibility with DVD video playback. That said, there have been some claims about the level of DVD+R/+RW compatibility with consumer DVD players; the consensus appears to be that DVD-R/-RW discs, suitably finalised, are more likely to work with any DVD player than is a DVD+R/+RW.
Fortunately, the question of which format to go for is becoming made less relevant thanks to the growing number of DVD burners that support both media formats. The DVD+RW Alliance claims that next year pure-play DVD+R/+RW drives will outsell DVD-R/-RW units four to one. Also, dual-mode drives will also outsell single-format drives.
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Lao Tse - Tao Te Ching
Tao Te Ching. Chapter 4.
1. The Tao is (like) the emptiness of a vessel; and in our employment of it we must be on our guard against all fulness. How deep and unfathomable it is, as if it were the Honoured Ancestor of all things!
2. We should blunt our sharp points, and unravel the complications of things; we should attemper our brightness, and bring ourselves into agreement with the obscurity of others. How pure and still the Tao is, as if it would ever so continue!
3. I do not know whose son it is. It might appear to have been before God.
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Trojan Games
DRAMA AS 'PEEPER' IS EJECTED
Events at the Trojan Games took another volatile turn today as a spectator was dismissed from ringside during the women's 10-minute boxing match between USA's Tyra George and Russia's Evgenya Miranova. Officials were alerted when the unidentified man began to make noises that were audibly different from the usual cheers and chants associated with the event. "He was clearly in a state of arousal," said a Games spokesperson later. "We encourage audience enjoyment of the events, but this is something we have been trying to stamp out for some time now."
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"worldwide referendum" email from ET
It is not our responsibility to modify your future without you choosing it. Consider this message as a worldwide referendum! And your answer as a ballot!
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Was Orkney the ceremonial capital of ancient Britain ?
ORKNEY may have been the largest prehistoric settlement or ceremonial site in Britain, new research reveals today.
Archaeologists using the latest techniques to map under the soil discovered the world heritage site covering the Ness of Brodgar in Stenness, was a massive centre of activity in Stone Age times.
Orkney's landscape has largely managed to avoid the rigours of industrialised farming and may yet yield its secrets about the recently-surveyed site, which in terms of scale, puts the likes of Stonehenge, Avebury and Skara Brae in the shade.
Orkney Archaeological Trust (OAT) used magnetometry, a geophysical technique which measures magnetism in the soil, to trace the patterns of activity left by prehistoric Orcadians.
Ancient occurrences, particularly burning, leave magnetic traces that show up when analysed with hi-tech equipment. Buried features such as ditches or pits, when filled with burned or partially burned materials, can be detected, giving a picture of sub-surface archaeology.
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Theme park for Dracula rises from the dead
CONTROVERSIAL plans to build a Dracula theme park in Romania have been resurrected again just months after it seemed they were dead and buried for good.
The park will include among other things a giant Dracula roller-coaster, catacombs and a house of horrors.
And to keep Romanians happy there will even be a PR makeover to make it clear that the legendary Vlad the Impaler was actually a brave defender of Christianity, and nothing like Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
The original project was stalled when high-profile opponents, including Prince Charles and the world heritage organisation Unesco, protested against the building of the park on a site close to the rare medieval village of Sighisoara.
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The Art of James Koehnline
The Art of James Koehnline
Biography - James Koehnline
Born in Columbus, Ohio, Dec. 6, 1955.
Childhood in Flint, Michigan, Cleveland, Ohio and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Family moved to Chicago area in 1970, where I began to think of myself as an artist. Inherited my father's love of surrealism, fantastic art, William Blake, science fiction, etc., to which I added psychedelia, anarchism, sound collage, Eastern philosophy, etc.
Hung around with Chicago Surrealist Group during their International Exhibition at Gallery Black Swan in 1976, where I premiered my animated film, "Dogs Shall Eat Their Masters". Took a class with Harry Bouras in 1978 and he remained a friend and mentor until his death in 1990.
In the early 80s my old friend Scott Marshall drew me into radio work (WZRD) and a noisy band we called the Burden of Friendship. For a while the band's extended family formed the North Shore Industrial League, which held late-night noise orgies at a derelict steel foundry.
In 1985 I got together with six activist-artist friends to rent the huge top floor of an old department store in the Logan Square neighborhood and open the Axe Street Arena, a gallery and performance space for art and politics, with plenty of room left over for studios, and living space for 9+.
While curating the Haymarket Centennial International Mail Art Exhibition with Ron Sakolsky, I made the acquaintance if the mysterious Hakim Bey. I have been collaborating and conspiring with him ever since. Through Bey I was introduced to and joined the Brooklyn-based publishing collective Autonomedia, and the Moorish Orthodox Church. I worked as a librarian for three and a half years, spending much of my time at work doing historical research which eventually became the book GONE TO CROATAN, and most of my time away from work creating hundreds of black and white collages for the zine scene, 46 of which were collected in the book MAGPIE REVERIES.
In 1991, my girlfriend (now my wife), Andrea Frank and I moved to Seattle for a change of scenery. Here I got started doing book and magazine covers and illustrations, cooking up the Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints, working with Antero Alli on his quarterly journal of imaginative trouble, Talking Raven, doing a continuing series of CD covers for various projects of Bill Laswell's, and trying to make ends meet by dealing in used books and painting houses.
In 1995 I got a computer and started working in Photoshop.
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COAST TO COAST AM WITH GEORGE NOORY
This Week On COAST TO COAST AM WITH GEORGE NOORY
Mon 11.03 >>
Paranormal investigator, Richard Jackson,
believes in the reality of the Spirit World,
and helps people with hauntings as well
as demonic possession.
http://www.nespirits.com
Tue 11.04 >>
Hank Wesselman
-Spirit Traveling-
http://www.sharedwisdom.com
Wed 11.05 >>
William Henry
-Investigative Mythology-
http://www.williamhenry.net
Thu 11.06 >>
David Icke
-Big Brother Dictatorship-
http://www.davidicke.com
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What the Dutch do for fun
Our writer experiences firsthand the gentle attentions of the tickler.
Not enough giggles in your life? A team of Dutch artists might have the answer to your problem: A tickle machine. A machine made from a nylon-covered pinball operated via a computer-controlled suite of servos, motors and sensors whose entire raison d'être is to tickle you -- to tickle you steadily and relentlessly, with more single-minded tickle focus than even the most dedicated older brother. The machine is the creation of Erwin Driessens and Maria Verstappen, artist-inventors who really like to be tickled. The partners found that they were squabbling a little too often over whose turn it was to tickle whom. "All the time we say to each other, 'No, you have to tickle me,' and when the other one stops you feel like, 'Oh, don't stop, go on,'" says Verstappen. "You don't want to ask another person to do something that he doesn't like, that's only for your pleasure, so that made us think of building a robot to tickle us." Indeed, the robot tickler will never tire of tickling you. It will tickle you until you wet your pants.
