] John Perry Barlow: Dump the Doodads, and Retrofit
] the Brain
]
] Scott Adams: Puss Can Run, but He Can't Hide
]
] Michael K. Powell: Zap! The Form's Filled Out
]
] Donald J. Trump: Your Wish Is My Command
]
] William Gibson: Lies Exposed in Telltale Colors
]
] Moby: A High That Wouldn't Hurt
]
] Bill Joy: Memo to My Borsalino: Quiet!

Ideas Unlimited, Built to Order

want to PayPal for some nameless download out of an offshore data haven, something that feeds every piece of Web news I read through some unknowable outland server, some swift and anonymous meshing of fuzzy logics cooked up by sleepless programmers in Bangladesh or Burma; some voodoo thing that unfailingly highlights outright lies, spin and misperception - in different colors.

William Gibson: Lies Exposed in Telltale Colors

] The Wartsila-Sulzer RTA96-C turbocharged two-stroke
] diesel engine is the most powerful and most efficient
] prime-mover in the world today.

wow... 5,608,312 foot pounds of torque!!! Someone needs to build a muscle car with this engine...

The Most Powerful Diesel Engine in the World

] As of late October, sources indicate that a central
] recommendation is likely, but not certainly to be
] resumption of manned lunar flights to develop advanced
] technologies that can support U.S. astronauts working
] beyond Earth orbit to not only the Moon, but eventually
] on near-Earth asteroids and Mars.

Holy shit... to be delivered on 17Dec, the Centennial of Flight?

I'm not going to get into anything about Bush space policy right now, but I'm interested to see how the political fires burn around this, if indeed this is the announcement made.

Presidential review on space policy heading to closure | SpaceRef - Your Space Reference

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, head of oil giant Yukos, was seized by special forces at a Siberian airport Saturday. He was sent to Moscow and charged with a $1 billion (30 billion rubles) fraud and tax evasion.

Yukos -- as well as Russian businessmen and politicians -- said the arrest of Khodorkovsky, whose wealth was estimated by Forbes magazine at $8 billion and has funded two liberal opposition parties, was politically motivated.

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Putin bags another Oligarch. He's really consolidating his power. He effectively ended freedom of the press when he toppled Berezovsky's media empire, and renationalized the last independant television station... and then following Nord Ost, he has threatened to revoke freedom of the press for "bad coverage" when he is criticized. Now out goes Xodorkovsky. There will be more to come. Putin will never step down as President. When Bush says he can see into his soul, I believe it. One motherfucker to another.

The Oligarchs are all evil, bad men. Thieves on probably the largest scale the twentieth century has seen. But where Putin conquers, he does not bring reform. He replaces the toppled gang with his own... the FSB. The domestic branch of the former KGB.

Russia markets rocked by arrest: Putin bags another Oligarch

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OH THE HUMANITY!

The Google random picture generator

Decius wrote:
] This is probably the scariest Microsoft related footage that I
] have ever seen. Its called Dance Monkey Boy.

Its like a piece of horrible scat-bukkake someone links you to, and even though it makes you want to puke, you have to watch it 6 times...

RE: Steve Ballmer: When marketing goes too far... [MPG]

] The team created a glass block, two centimetres in diameter
] and three millimetres thick, containing about 400,000 to
] 500,000 individual channels.
]
] Thanks to a phenomenon called the electric double layer,
] when water flows through these 10-micron-diameter-wide
] channels, a positive charge is created at one end of the
] block and a negative charge at the other - just like a
] conventional battery.

Canadian team invents new power source, no moving parts, may be useful for powering nanotech devices.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Water sparks new power source

From the Scout Report: This fascinating collection of social hygiene posters (designed to inculcate certain social practices regarding hygiene, friendship, prostitution, and mental health) is culled from the fine holdings of the Social Welfare History Archives at the University of Minnesota Libraries.

There are some gems to be found here, and the collection is easily browsed. Consider "Beware of Chance Acquaintances" and "Danger in Familiarities".

American Social Hygiene Posters, ca. 1910-1970

] The reason that I have over 700 BBS programs listed on
] the documentary site is not just because there were so
] many platforms to program them, but because the balance
] of the software and the hardware against the very root of
] humanity's nature is a problem, a difficulty, far deeper
] and greater than any specific issues of the moment.

Latest post from Jason Scott on the BoingBoing sidebar waxes about his big picture conclusions about the BBS scene.

Why Jason Scott doesn't run a BBS.