] In response to the editorial concerns about his independence,
] Mr. Kissinger said, "I think The New York Times will
] apologize for this editorial when our report is submitted."
]
] He promised that the report would be "nonpartisan, thorough
] and something that will permit the American people, when
] it is finished, to say that a full accounting has been given
] of the facts and circumstances that led to this tragedy."

Kissigner is upset with NYT over their editorial. It takes some guts to directly address such criticism. Most of these sort of people simply ignore it.

RE: Kissinger Returning to Political Stage With 9/11 Post

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Salon.COM has now partnered up with Francis Ford Coppolla's ZOETROPE magazine and is publishing one story per quarter for two weeks. This is a good read, catch it while you can!

excerpt:
Bart and the team he now worked with -— whom he carefully avoided naming -— had a very early alpha version for a piece of software that implemented the concept of "story actants," active story parts whose data structures determined not only how they would react to manipulation by other agents -— including a story's reader -— but also how these parts themselves moved through the story space, signaling to each other and operating actively upon the unfolding sum of resources that composed the story. The environment in which his story actants ran, a system called DIALOGOS, sounded to me like a whole ecosystem of digital objects updating and informing each other as if they were simultaneously all characters, readers, and authors of their own tales. Here was a true Bakhtinian carnival landscape whose sole interest lay in keeping itself in perpetual motion. The code for the alpha version of DIALOGOS was still rough, unstable, and far from the finished product that Bart and his team envisioned. But Bart asked if I'd like to help road test it. I wasn't doing anything but working on a novel. I said I'd be happy to.

More fun Sci-fi short stories...

Literary Devices

] "This year, I'm thankful for the blessing of Total Information
] Awareness."

www.mnftiu.cc | get your war on | page seventeen

...sort of. People who want to believe in a conspiracy will do so regardless. And of course, I can't trust this guys reporting any better then anyone else's. However, it seems reasonably sober.

I meme this for one reason alone. I concur with the author that I want to know what the deal was with insider trading on the 911 event. No one has ever explained what the story was there. It just faded away. Its worth recalling every once in a while that there are loose ends that people are being awefully quiet about. I can't even think of a good set of circumstances that would lead them to simply trapping up about that.

As for the flight, I think its possible that they shot it down. We know that this was AUTHORIZED so if we are going to have a problem with it, we ought to. I don't. Furthermore, put yourself in their shoes, trying to figure out how to explain this, and imagine that hero story poping up. Yeah, I'd keep my mouth shut too. It doesn't matter except as a matter of policy, and if the policy issue should be debated, then we have standing to do so, because they were authorized to shoot it down. I don't disagree with the policy decision. Do you?

911 Conspiracy theories debunked...

] "Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly has declined to
] cite a single specific case in which the consent decree
] hindered a police investigation."

Local guys want the same leeway their big brothers got last year.

Police push for domestic spying

OK, I know Thanksgiving is over, and its officially Christmas Season, but I thought I would recommend this anyway. This is classic geek thanksgiving material.

Electric Sheep Thanksgiving 1998

] I know you’ve been thinking it. And if you haven’t, you probably
] haven’t been paying attention. The art we once called hip hop has
] been dead for some time now. But because its rotting carcass has
] been draped in platinum and propped against a Gucci print car, many
] of us have missed its demise.

Fuck Hip Hop

Jonathan Peterson provides line by line facts in response to Peter Chernin's talk, which I discussed here a few days ago.

Way.Nu: Breaking down Peter Chernin's Comdex Keynote