Monthly Archives: April 2008

links for 2008-04-19

Oregon: our laws are copyrighted and you can’t publish them
(tags: copyright oregon radicaltransparency littlebrothervsbigbrother policestate)

Florida: taking photo of undercover cop not a crime
(tags: police liberty littlebrothervsbigbrother)

New issue of OVO, “Money” theme, features Klintron

The new issue of Trevor Blake’s OVO Magazine has many names familiar to Technoccult readers and/or Esozone attendees (and some not so familiar): Anonymous, Dmitry Babenko, Johnny Brainwash, Klint Finley, Witta Kelssling-Jensen, Vincent Al Ken, Ruggero Maggi, Mail Art Paul, Willi Melnikov, Thom Metzger, Emilio Morandi, No Institute, Wes Unruh, Carlos Valdez and Edward Wilson.
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Trippy Japanese artist Satoshi Sakamoto interviewed by Klintron

I interviewed Satoshi Sakamoto for the newly (re)launched R/evolutionary XChange shop:
R6XX?You call your work “surnaturalism.” What does that mean to you?
Satoshi: ?I have been calling my work “surnaturalism” consistently since I was 23. I use “sur” to differentiate between supernatural and surrealism. Also the name “surnaturalism” suggest its roots in surrealism. The surrealistic melting clock […]

Amnesty International: Unsubscribe Me


Witness article in Reason Magazine

The site was created by Witness, a Brooklyn-based group founded by the globe-trotting pop star Peter Gabriel in 1992. Conceived in the wake of the Rodney King beating, the group initially focused on getting camcorders into the hands of human rights activists around the world. The goal, in Gabriel’s phrase, was to create a network […]

links for 2008-04-17

Cost of living in the suburbs vs. the city, with transportation factored in
(tags: economics environment seattle urban suburban)

Wishful thinking

Please see update/correction in the comments
Two economic crises face the world today: the credit crunch resulting from the subprime mortgage crisis, and the food prices crisis precipitated by the demand for biofuels. Both are problems we should have identified and solved years ago, but didn’t. Why did we ignore the warning signs and allow ourselves […]

links for 2008-04-15

Inequality statistically increases under Republican presidencies but not under Democratic presidencies
(tags: economics politics)

Hillary’s extremist position on Israel
“Hillary Clinton believes that Israel’s right to exist in safety as a Jewish state, with defensible borders and an undivided Jerusalem as its capital, secure from violence and terrorism, must never be questioned.”
(tags: israel clinton politics hillary 2008 global […]

links for 2008-04-12

Bush signed memo allowing torture in 2002
(tags: politics torture)

Nomads at last
(tags: mobile nomad)

links for 2008-04-10

Should cities be subsidized instead of suburbs and rural areas?
(tags: urban suburban rural)

links for 2008-04-09

Truckers Protest, the Resistance Begins
(tags: politics economics business work)

Survivalism not just for survivalists anymore
(tags: politics economics security trends)

61% of historians agree George W. Bush is the worst president in history
in 2004, only 12% were willing to call him the worst
(tags: politics)

Where Was Media When Sub-Prime Disaster Unfolded?
(tags: economics media politics)

Pocket sized video projectors for $350?

TIRED of hearing other people’s cellphone conversations? It may become worse. Soon you may have to watch their favorite television shows and YouTube videos, too, as they project them onto nearby walls or commuter-train seatbacks.
Pint-size digital projectors are in the works. These devices, when plugged into cellphones and portable media players, will let consumers beam […]

“These come from trees” stickers for paper towel dispensers

These Come From Trees.

New drug warrior series on Spike TV

Promo copy:
DEA agents put their lives in the hands of a drug and weapons trafficker turned informant as they mount an operation to burrow deep into Detroit’s drug underworld. Each undercover buy and daring raid brings them one step closer to a deadly showdown with a violent drug kingpin.
Radley Balko:
Or with an unarmed mother of […]

links for 2008-04-04

Wonkette lists various times John “McNasty” McCain has lost his temper in public
In 1995, at the Capitol, McCain had a “scuffle” with 92-year-old Republican Senator Strom Thurmond. That’s right, McCain tried to beat up the one person who was even older than McCain himself.
(tags: 2008 politics mccain)

Addidas moves Portland operations, lays off employees
(tags: business work […]

links for 2008-04-03

Max Mosley faces calls to quit as Formula One chief after ‘Nazi’ orgy
I had no idea Oswald Mosley’s son was the boss of Formula One. Huh. Well, his private life is his business.
(tags: nazi sex sexcrime business)

Cops bust root beer kegger
(tags: liberty policestate)

The sad case of the Colomb Family
(tags: policestate liberty drugwar)

Power of […]

Mike Gravel: Helter Skelter


links for 2008-04-02

Record levels of immigration have had “little or no impact” on the economic well-being of Britons
(tags: immigration politics global)

http://reason.com/news/show/124944.html
(tags: culture politics liberty policestate race ronpaul 2008)

Microsoft Surface Coming To AT&T Stores
(tags: tech)

YouTube ‘rape victim’ actually statutory rapist?
(tags: sex sexcrime internet)

links for 2008-04-01

a google horror story: what happens when you are disappeared
(tags: google security tech)

Many examples of guerilla marketing campaigns

Guerilla Marketing presentation from Geek Graffiti class.