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Invader Zim
Saturday, March 31, 2001
YOU WILL SUBMIT FILTHY STINK CREATURES!
'Invader Zim' kicks ass.
It's easily the best 'toon in years.
'Fairly Oddparents' is pretty good too. Watch 'em both!
Hourly STD DMSP/POLAR Auroral Activity Report
Saturday, March 31, 2001
Since were still in the middle of a geomagnetic storm, this might be useful if you can't see the aurora because of light pollution or because you live too far south (like me).
Note that the top image is not up to date.
Other links of interest:
Earth hit by solar storm
POLAR - Exploring the Magnetosphere Into the Solar Maximum
Space Environment Center Home Page
Out for a stroll
Saturday, March 31, 2001
An odd photo if it hadn't been taken in the West Bank.
The very latest SOHO images
Friday, March 30, 2001
Gotta keep an eye on those coronal mass ejections.
Also see SpaceWeather.com and SOHO: Exploring the Sun.
The Organization Kid
Friday, March 30, 2001
"They are responsible, safety-conscious, and mature. They feel no compelling need to rebel—not even a hint of one. They not only defer to authority; they admire it. 'Alienation' is a word one almost never hears from them. They regard the universe as beneficent, orderly, and meaningful. At the schools and colleges where the next leadership class is being bred, one finds not angry revolutionaries, despondent slackers, or dark cynics but the Organization Kid."
I think the rebellious backlash is going to come with the generation who are children right now.
At least I hope so.
Shiny happy overachiever types bug me.
Thanks, World New York :)
Nicola Tesla: Genius, Prophet, Mad Scientist
Friday, March 30, 2001
Good background material on one of the most important, yet largely forgotten inventors of the past century.
Calling him a mad scientist seems unfair to me.
U.S. church grabs spotlight with book burning
Friday, March 30, 2001
Book burning is alive and well.
"The church modeled the book burning on a biblical passage from the New Testament's Book of Acts, which describes how former practitioners of magic burned their books in public. Bender said the church had never held a book burning before but might try it again if doing so would 'accomplish something positive toward expressing our love for God.' Meanwhile, publicity has not hurt. 'We got some people mad at us. But it's good to have publicity. It's good,' he said."
Is this any different from Taliban religious fanatics blowing up Buddhist statues? No, I'm afraid not. Remember this?
How Kiwi Girl Became U.S. Hero
Thursday, March 29, 2001
FBI praises teenage narc as school shooting hysteria continues unabated. How about a nice big round of applause for the thought police?
In other free speech news: Anti-Abortion Site Wins Appeal.
As apalling and morally reprehensible as I find the opinions of these particular anti-choice zealots, the First Amendment must protect all opinions, not just ones that we like or find socially acceptable.
I suspect my liberal credentials just went down a notch. Oh well.
Farmer offers refuge for deformed animals
Thursday, March 29, 2001
Check out the six legged cows. Weird.
Love for St. Bernard Meat Angers Swiss
Thursday, March 29, 2001
Dog eating still popular in China.
Arkansas revives evolution debate
Thursday, March 29, 2001
Sometimes I'm embarrased to tell people I'm from the South.
Professor plans flying power station
Thursday, March 29, 2001
Tethered 'gyromills' could be powered by jet stream winds.
Saudis to stamp out Pokemon
Thursday, March 29, 2001
Alas, poor Pikachu!
They See Where Others Hear
Thursday, March 29, 2001
Did you know I considered calling this weblog 'synesthesia'?
I thought it was too obscure a reference.
Armed Police Now Tolerated on School Campuses
Sunday, March 25, 2001
"'The armed officer is becoming the norm,' said Ronald Stephens, executive director of the National School Safety Center in Westlake Village. 'I think this is one of the messages that should go out to perpetrators of school crime. Schools are demonstrating the same [willingness] to use firepower that the shooters are using.'"
Geez, that makes me feel so much better!
I don't like to read 'schools' and 'firepower' in the same sentence.
I always joked about high school being nothing but a prison camp.
Turns out I was right.
Oil and Websites Don't Mix
Friday, March 23, 2001
Opinions opposing Bush's Alaska oil drilling spree get yanked from government website.
Free speech? Common sense? Sorry, no sale.
Save the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge petition
Just sign it already! :)
Burning Mir
Friday, March 23, 2001
What goes up must come down.
Health-Care Bloc Attacks Privacy Rules
Friday, March 23, 2001
Kiss your medical privacy rights goodbye if Bush gets his way.
Are there any business groups he won't sell us out to?
Conelrad
Friday, March 23, 2001
A nice addition to my pop cultural nuke fixation.
Bush suspends Clinton Mining Restrictions
Friday, March 23, 2001
It just gets worse and worse.
Why isn't anyone in Congress doing anything to fight Bush?
Earth Last is an opinion piece which nicely sums up my feelings.
The Bush administration insists that we're facing economic disaster so they can get their tax cuts for the upper crust passed and have an excuse to sell out everything to corporate lobbyists.
I haven't seen such baldfaced lying since Clinton said "I did not have sex with that woman". In this case, there's much more at stake than just admitting to a blow job.
U-Turn on Emissions Shows Big Energy Clout
Thursday, March 15, 2001
Energy lobbyists own Bush, but you already knew that.
Bush's big reversal
How Bush's promise to cut greenhouse gas vanished into thin air
Democrats Seek to Reverse Bush Emissions Decision
Wednesday, March 14, 2001
File under 'for what it's worth' and 'too little, too late'.
I loved seeing Senator Chuck Hagel (R - Nebraska) on TV tonight: "We need more CO2 emissions! CO2 is good for corn!" Pure propoganda from a lying bastard or is he just delusional?
If idiots want to bury their heads in the sand and it only screws them, that's fine by me. When it screws the whole damn planet, I get angry.
The ultimate elevator music
Wednesday, March 14, 2001
Silophone is a unique combination of recycling, internet interactivity and audio art. Bravo!
Thanks, Arts Journal :)
Who Blew the Dot-Com Bubble?
Wednesday, March 14, 2001
This article blames media groupthink. Clearly they are part of the problem, but what about the thundering herd of investors who raced out and plunked down their life savings without doing the slightest bit of homework on their investments?
Greed will always trample common sense.
Wall Street analysts know about as much as where the stock market is going as my dog does. They are nothing but glorified salesmen. If investing were as simple as they make it out to be, we'd all be millionaires.
Bush U-turn angers environmentalists
Wednesday, March 14, 2001
Bush turns out to be a lying sack of shit; sells out to the far right and energy lobbyists while feigning ignorance. Cheney is pulling Bush's puppet strings and he's as anti-environment as they come.
We won't be fooled again.
Bush Backs Off Campaign Pledge To Curb Emissions
Viking-Z
Friday, March 9, 2001
The writer is suffering from an excess of serenity, and does not feel like doing any more work. There are complete notes here on how to deal with Responsibility For, Responsibility To and Freedom From. The basics of all the writer knows and how to do it are on this site. Details of current conspiracies and villainy are not on this site as the details change too quickly.
Or something. Seems like I always come across stuff like this when my mind is burnt crispy-crunchy. My head hurts.
Perhaps trepanation is the answer.
Bush 'serious on climate change'
Thursday, March 8, 2001
Has he seen the light or is it just cheap talk? We'll see.
Along the Scenic Route
Tuesday, March 6, 2001
Harlan Ellison, prophet that he is, predicts road rage decades before it actually happens. I remember reading this story about thirteen years ago in the bibliographic tomb that is Alderman Library and thinking 'it's a bit far fetched'.
Now it's not. Car Wars? We're living it. Almost.
Go find a copy of 'Deathbird Stories' It's worth a look.
Life Is a Cabaret, And Death Is Conceptual Art
Monday, March 5, 2001
Cadaver art on display in East Berlin.
This is neither new or original.
Honoré Fragonard was doing this over two hundred years ago.
Thanks, Arts Journal :)
All Your Brand Are Belong to Us
Monday, March 5, 2001
I swore I wasn't going to contribute to the 'All Your Base Are Belong To Us' braindrain (easily the most annoying pop cultural internet plague since Wassup!), but I'm a fool for a good ad parody. I especially like the Nokia and Ford Excursion ads.
Wouldn't it be a lark if advertising was this truthful?
Thanks, XBLOG :)
Everything2.com
Saturday, March 3, 2001
A temporal black hole, only slightly less addictive than crack.
Richest 1% Will Get 22% of Cut, Bush Says
Saturday, March 3, 2001
The right wingers can't accuse me of pushing liberal propaganda: Bush said it, I didn't. Fifty one percent of tax cuts will go to those making over one hundred thousand dollars.
For the rich: new racing yachts, vacation homes and luxury SUVs.
For the rest of us: steak and eggs at the local Waffle House. Yum!
UN warns Taleban over Buddha statues
Friday, March 2, 2001
Religious fascists destroying unique and ancient Buddha statues.
Fascism is not a term I toss about with reckless abandon.
Remember what the Nazis did to 'degenerate art'.
Leonard Nimoy Should Eat More Salsa Foundation
Friday, March 2, 2001
Salsa. It is a difficult concept. It is not logical.
Nasa clips its wings
Thursday, March 1, 2001
Bush admin lays waste to NASA, throws away billions spent.
The ISS now becomes a sad joke, no better than Mir.
Pluto-Kuiper? Dead.
Shuttle replacement vehicles? Dead.
Our future in space? Coughing like a three pack a day smoker.
Remember, the important part is that all those deprived millionaires get their huge tax cuts. God, what a shitty news day.
I'm depressed. Somebody shoot me.
Also see: NASA Watch
A Little Pot Propels a Big Federal Case
Thursday, March 1, 2001
Supreme Court drives another nail in Fourth Amendment's coffin.
Don't scoff. It could happen to you.
Time running out for orangutans in the wild
Thursday, March 1, 2001
Wild orangutans likely extinct by end of decade.
Battle Over Alaska Begins
Thursday, March 1, 2001
Have the Democrats grown a spine, at long last? Instead of backpedaling furiously from Clinton's 'legacy', it's time for them to take a stand and quit selling out to the far right.
"a recent Associated Press poll that found 53 percent of U.S. voters oppose drilling in the refuge and only 33 percent support it."
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Bush doesn't care what the public thinks. The vast majority of Republicans are ready to bend themselves into a pretzel to sell out to corporate interests. Political sellouts are a bitch, especially for threatened arctic wildlife. Remember kids, the highest political office in the land is always for sale if you can cough up enough campaign finance money. Clinton and Bush prove that.
Americans United For Separation of Church and State
Thursday, March 1, 2001
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."
The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution
I don't want to live in a Christian theocracy, do you?
Note to readers: I added a 'current read' link to the left column, on the off chance you might be interested. The link is to Amazon. I know, I'm always railing about the horrors of commercialism, but I couldn't find a better place to link. If you know of a better place, let me know. I'm going to add some book reviews here too.
(February entries here, the rest here.)
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