The linked video is an extended remix of an Apache Longbow helicopter attacking several enemy combatants (they are carrying guns) in some unknown event/location in Iraq. Its more of this remix culture type thing I'm always ranting about..

I had a range of reactions watching this.. There is the whole getting blasted to pieces thing. Regardless of application, it never really sits right to me. However, one thing I am sure of.. This beats the shit out of carpet bombing. I just really dislike war. None the less, that guy feels busted. Lets hear it for precision weapons!

Links to a this, other various music videos, and a Windows Media format can be found at:
http://www.2c-i.org/index.php?command=video

I also found the original footage in the wild via Google: http://katarn3279.shackspace.com/224helicopter_kills.mpeg

2c-i | VDS-5 | Mechanized Killing [DiVX]

battle beatbox flautist

The man can do sick things with a flute, a mic, and a lexicon effects box. This is the most impressive one man act I have seen this year..

Tim Barsky

] Doug Z's Art is a mixture of thought, creativity, spray
] cans and imaginations. His work is unusual, ethereal and
] even mind warping.

This is great! I've been wanting Doug to have some kinda online presence for YEARS.

I have know Doug since I was 17. He has been producing art constantly since then. He deserves the title "artist" more then anyone else I know, because he is _always_ producing.

Doug Z Art Gallery

] The weirdest part is that when I show this piece at art
] shows, people are strangely amazed by it, as if the idea
] is something in the universal unconsciousness, waiting to
] happpen in the future! I tell you it is just uncanny the
] way people react to it, I've never seen anything like it.
] I think it is a premonitory painting.

Balls Deep has this as his desktop background.. I love it, however when I scale it out it looks like shit. I'm picky. Damnit, I want a native high-res version.

San Francisco Tsunami

This is one damn fine piece of web art. No, its many little pieces of webart loosely connected. A check at archive.org indicates it has existed since at least April 1, 2001. Its one of those sites that is very hard to come up with a description for. So give in and take a multi-media journey to the heart of ADD geek hipster university, where you will be learned in nothing particular. You will need flash. You will need RealPlayer. Yet, you will only need to point and click. At times you will be given choice, but do not dismay, because you are only going one way.

These robots are programed to rock.

Ming the Merciless

] No bullshit, no hassle, and no need to pay extortionate
] collector's prices for rare live performances.
]
] Here are the collected bootlegs of Bill Hicks live shows,
] available to download for free in mp3 form. We'll be
] adding to this archive with background information and
] further mp3s we can unearth, but in the meantime these
] files should provide a few further hours of listening
] entertainment for those of you who have already greedily
] devoured all of Bill's commercial recordings. Enjoy.

We need another Bill Hicks. I'm not going to be able to survive this war on terrorism without one.

The download site appears broken (overloaded?) right now, but I'm meme'ing the main page anyway so I remember to check it later. Its probably down because it started getting linked everywhere.. I'm going to give it a few days. Its worth waiting for.

Bill Hicks Bootleg Downloads

] Given the state of world affairs in March 2003, we have
] made this place for war murals and other graffiti artist
] war reactions.

Decius: In response to Rattles recommendation of Grafarc, I offer this: 8 pages of war related murals.

Art Crimes: War Art

Using the grafarc explorer, you can visit some of San Francisco's classic spots, see what they looked like in the past, and explore how they have changed over the years.

via Wired

graffiti archaeology

With the multidimensional twists that bind his music to his narrative, he's stitched the novel into a whole new set of clothes.

This is listed for only $14.99 on Amazon.

Neil Young is cool. I must pick up a copy of this.

Have You Heard the New Neil Young Novel?

Cable TV seems to have become the home of any programming with the least hint of political controversy. Meanwhile, the networks grow increasingly brave about broadcasting shows featuring lingerie models parading in the latest fashions, and ordinary people competing for cash by eating live insects.

Comments from Jeremy:

At this time of year, we can be thankful that "free" television is so aggressively engaged in its own creative destruction. Would that other outmoded industries shared this apparent zest for death.

The ineffectiveness of much-maligned "banner" advertising is not a failure of the Internet in general or the Web in particular. Rather, it is a sign of the times.

In the industrial era, the typical middle class laborer suffered through day after day filled with tedious, repetitive tasks. Many workers found themselves performing one simple task, over and over, for hours on end. Television was an escape and a diversion that delivered variety, in rapid fire segments, interspersed with messages from sponsors promising to satiate the public's new and growing desire for consumer products. At a time when much of the public was still employed in jobs that involved manual labor, an evening on the couch in front of the television was a well-earned respite after a hard day's work. The intangibility of television was a welcome contrast to the hard products of the assembly line, and the intentional inanity of the sitcom was simple escapism.

In today's world, sedentary "knowledge workers" spend their days at a desk, in front of a computer and a telephone, struggling to juggle a multitude of ill-defined tasks. In many cases, workers can no longer point to a pallet full of products, neatly packaged for shipment, as evidence of eight hours' effort well spent. Instead, they are left to measure their productivity by tallying up the number of emails sent and the PowerPoint slides generated. At the end of a day like that, broadcast television is far less attractive than it was in the previous era. When friends can reach each other by telephone, immediately, at any time of day or night, regardless of their location, without any prior coordination among them, and when even a "normal" family rarely gets everyone together for evening dinner, it hardly seems appropriate to demand that the entire nation sit down together for an episode of "The Bachelor." As the world of work becomes increasingly unreal, television adapts to the change, foil-like, to offer viewers the real, but it overcorrects, and thus ends up creating the surreal.

TiVo is the cellular telephone of television. TiVo does to time what mobile telephony does to space. To argue against the inevitability of TiVo is to deny the proven successes of Nokia, Motorola, Qualcomm, T-Mobile, and the rest. The broadcast flag is but a finger against the dam that is the Internet.

In this environment, the road less traveled by is the product less advertised, or not at all, and this will make all the difference. This apparent contradiction of Metcalfe's Law is in fact the very engine of growth in a network society, because it keeps the world forever in transition.

CBS Cancels 'The Reagans'