]It's well known that President Ronald Reagan used a color-coded
]calendar to keep track of his astrological predictions. But not
]everyone knows that these predictions were based on the wrong sign.

Astrology meets Astronomy and loses.

Your Astrological Sign is Not What You Think

] The Third Age Suit restricts the mobility of the wearer
] to give them an appreciation of what it is like for
] patients getting around the hospital.

Your own, private Bubba Hotep.

BBC NEWS | Health | The suit that makes you feel old

] You can create your own COLORCELL by choosing up to four of
] your favourite colors.
]
] Your cell is living in a virtual livingspace with cells from other users.
] There is space for 100 cells.
]
] Everybody can select their favourite cells once a day.
]
] Each day, the daily selections of each cel; get converted into fitnesspoints.
]
] Cells that seem to be likeable will become stronger (because they
] have been selected often).
]
] Cells that didn't get selected often enough will become weaker
] (apparently the color combination isn't very popular).
]
] There are various statistics about each cell (just click the cell),
] about the livingspace and the cemetery.

Colorcell Home - A reputation system for color combinations

I was just the co-host of Binary Revolution Radio, a weekely hacking show done out of FL, hosted by StankDawg (www.binrev.com).

A cool show where we talked about lots of topics, including Stripe Snoop.

The show notes should be posted here (http://www.binrev.com/radio/archive.html) here soon.

Acidus on Binrev radio [MP3]

I you would like to peruse Dan Gillmore's new book, its online in PDF form.

Dan Gillmore - We the Media

] Nine out of 10 eligible Afghans have signed up for
] landmark October elections, the United Nations (news -
] web sites) said Sunday, a resounding endorsement of a
] democratic experiment supposed to help Afghanistan (news
] - web sites) turn its back on years of debilitating war.

Yahoo! News - 90 Percent of Afghans Registered to Vote

] Raisethefist.com is not shutting down, and the RTF Direct
] Action Network will continue to grow and remain active.
] A 1 year sentence is not the end of this. It's just the
] begining.

Sherman Austin has been released from prison. He is the first and only person that I am aware of who has ever severed time in prison in the United States for thought crime. What might have been a juvenile fascination with anarchy will now be a life long mission. People who are fucked over like this don't grow out of it.

Austin is a canary in a coal mine. In the wake of 9/11 no one was interested in the idea that he actually didn't DO anything. He just operated a website. They nailed his ass to the wall anyway. First Amendment be damned...

I don't like Austin's politics. He is the worst sort of leftist. Motivated by blind hatred. But if he doesn't have the right to freedom of speech, then freedom of speech isn't a right anymore.

Raisethefist's Sherman Austin PATRIOT-Throttled

] "It's a pretty big stretch for her to claim any ownership
] rights, since on the Internet those rights are only
] extended for commercial use," Internet law specialist
] John Dozier of the Virginia firm Dozier Internet Law.

If you take a company's name and register is as a personal domain name they can sue the piss out of you for it, but if a company takes your personal domain name and names a book or movie after it you have no recourse.

CNN.com - Owner of katie.com says she was victim, too -- of privacy invasion - Jul 27, 2004

] A fallacy is, very generally, an error in reasoning. This
] differs from a factual error, which is simply being wrong
] about the facts. To be more specific, a fallacy is an
] "argument" in which the premises given for the conclusion
] do not provide the needed degree of support.

A collection of clue sticks for your next political "discussion." Read number 41 (Straw Man) for a good example.

Fallacies

tina wrote:
] Derrr, anarchist?

No. Anarchist implies absense of government. For some it also implies left-socialist economics. I'm not arguing for either of those things either. These are both policital philosophies. I'm arguing against the idea of having a uniform phiosophy that you apply to particular political questions. You take each issue in kind and ask what works. You're not striving for any particular utopian system of organization. You're not associated with any particular thought group.

Consider how people approach questions of how the Universe came to be.

Religious people assume that their faith's story of creation is true. New information is either integrated into this beleif system or it is attacked as heretical. Never is the ultimate conclusion questioned.

Scientific people (at least, idealistically) do not assume to know what the answer to this question is. As new information becomes available they integrate it into their understanding. They can describe the story that their current information points to, but that story is always changing.

Its a question of whether the conclusions guide the interpretation of results or whether the interpretation of results guides the conclusions.

In politics everyone has religion. A proposal to, say shorten the length of time that people can receive welfare benefits is supported by the right, because they beleive in a smaller government, and opposed by the left, because they beleive that the poor ought to be supported by a safety net.

These reflexive conclusions really have nothing to do with whether or not, or at what level, welfare actually accomplishes the goal of fighting poverty. I want a more scientific approach. One that looks at actions and results rather then philosophies.

] I'd stick with neo-liberal. You believe that free-trade
] capitalism will lead to greater human rights and more advanced
] technology, correct? That was what I had gathered from our
] brief talks.

Thats because those are the questions that you asked me. That hardly sums up my political thinking. In fact, "free-trade capitalism" is not something that I spend a particularly large amount of time thinking about.