it's difficult to concentrate on one project sometimes

So...just ignore anything you may see before this entry. It's all over two years old at this point. You can look at my Livejournal if you want to see anything I've written since then. Until now. Up to a few months ago, LJ was my home, but since then I've ventured outside that enclave, seen a lot of new stuff like real RSS and Atom and Ajax and APIs. Stuff I never thought about before. Now I try to read Slashdot and kottke and I furrow my brow and I look like a big sweetie. I don't really know what's being discussed a lot of the time--I'm a stranger in a strange land. But I find that it's really not enough just to be into books and fantasy and film and adventure. There are plenty of other factors to take into consideration, like true love and friends and science, discernment, sexual experiementation, bifurcation and more. Part of that is my experience with psychedelics, and the city, and life. But more importantly, this growth is a part of me, innate characteristics expressed, a few lines of the program designed to innovate, explore, and discover something new and unexpected, a vibrant juxtaposition, a creature of joy and actual transcendence. So part of that is this transformation into the Other, a digital transformation. To Be Continued.

This is a pretty cool progressive/conspiracy theorism site.

stopsleeping

Update: The Cost Of War in Iraq

A grenade attack killed a U.S. soldier in Iraq Wednesday, bringing the total combat deaths to 147, equaling the total in the 1991 Gulf War.

The Pentagon said military expenses for the war and its aftermath have cost the United States $48 billion to date, with a monthly price tag over the next couple of months estimated at more than $3.9 billion.

The Big Board

July 15, 2003
Casualties: 147
Cost: $48,000,000,000

Goals Accomplished

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Saddam Hussein's Status: Unknown
WMD Locations: Unknown
Iraqi Independence: Unknown
Estimated Time of American Departure: Fucking Unknown

atari archives

IraChernus-JamesonAndPostmodernism

Outrage At Administration Lying Misses A Crucial Point

Who is Fredric Jameson?

Merge, Left: What Progressives Can Learn from the Right Wing's Rise

We need ALL the help we can get.

Ocean's Bounty is Gone

one of the saddest things i've ever read. am i an alarmist? people who say i am an extremist can go jump in a cesspool. that's what the human race has created. 6 billion people and what has the human race become? bipedal swine. endless ravagers of all things good and plentiful. wastrels who cloak themselves in hypocrisy.

Scientific American: Parallel Universes -- [ COSMOLOGY ] -- Not just a staple of science fiction, other universes are a direct implication of cosmological observations

HoogerBrugge

Rum and Monkey

Adbusters

project: ultraviolet

iwantsacrifice

Edit Journal Entries neil gaiman's journal

don't give me that blank look.

What Kind of Drunk Are You?

Rum and Monkey

Which Colossal Death Robot Are You?Don't fault me for my insanely cheesy children's TV spinoff. Bandai Entertainment has dearly paid for their chicanery. I serve no master in my battle to rid the world of poorly-conceived marketing tie-ins. I AM MEGAZORD!!! KAPOW!!

How Much Is Enough?

In the battle over how many troops are needed to keep the peace in Iraq, one thing is clear: Republicans are just as guilty of wearing rose-colored glasses as we are, the"give peace a chance" granola-eating anarchist segment of the population. How else to explain the administration's grossly underestimated figures? Rumsfeld dismisses the notion of "hundreds of thousands" of troops as "inaccurate." There are now 160,000 troops in Iraq, and most analysts say we need more. How much closer can you get to "hundreds of thousands" and still be inaccurate?

In addition, Wolfowitz of Arabia said the Iraqis would welcome us with open arms. Maybe that was true on CNN for about five minutes, but I think the Iraqi people's goodwill has probably run out, after being invaded, bombed and desecrated in the name of "liberation." And he was positive that other countries, including France, would be glad to help recontruct and police Iraq. Well, guess what? Apart from our "new Europe" friends, we don't really have any other volunteers, and we really don't want any. And we're pretty sure we don't want the U.N. stepping in to help us.

So, America, who is going to foot the bil but us? Maybe everyone who derided us as unpatriotic should consider volunteering.

Bush Off on Road to Europe 'Old' and 'New'

What's up with "old Europe" anyway? Why can't they get with the program?

But seriously, folks, the terms are as useless as could be. It's like, anyone who disagrees with us is "old" Europe, and anyone who agrees is "new." Who made Bush the King of Europe, anyway?

I guess Karl Rove did.

War Profiteers Card Deck

Now here's a "most wanted" card deck i'd be proud to carry in my pocket. Includes Henry Kissinger as the Queen of Hearts, Dick Cheney as his King, and of course, Dubyah as the Joker.

Instant-Mix Imperial Democracy (Buy One, Get One Free)

White House Insider Cleans Up Bush's Image on Film

Is this a joke?