Just happened to be lucky enough to tune onto the right channel at the right time.. Caught it from Vamos on.

] Austin City Limits caputres one of the year's biggest
] rock 'n' roll reunions as legendary alt-rockers the
] Pixies perform. With vintage fire the band takes the
] stage to perform their classics filled with brutal noise
] and impressionistic lyrics.

Set list:

] Here Comes Your Man
] Where Is My Mind?
] Wave of Mutilation
] In Heaven
] Vamos
] No. 13 Baby
] Cactus
] Isla de Encanta
] Monkey Gone to Heaven
] Velouria
] Gouge Away
] Debaser
] Tame
] Hey
] Gigantic
] Caribou

] Recorded: 10/18/2004

PBS - Austin City Limits - The Pixies Live

Try not to scream...

] Alan Greenspan is expected to retire next year. The Bush
] administration, because of its nature, will have a hard
] time finding a successor.

NYT | Krugman - The Greenspan Succession

] "We need to be very well informed. We need less Hollywood
] news and a little more hard news," Turner said in an
] opening 10-minute address. That young people get much of
] their news from sources like Jon Stewart on Comedy
] Central was, in his view, "frightening."

Oh yes.. Rupert Murdoch and Fox News were compared to Hitler and the Nazis previous to WWII. That's not mentioned in this article, but its the big buzz around the net. In my humble opinion, Turner has the right to invoke Goodwin's Law whenever he pleases. As the law states, the argument will only end in forfeit. Bad news for Ted. In the end, bad publicity for Murdoch, and possible legacy for Goebbels. We already knew Ted was nuts, and we love him all that much more because of it. I could hang with Ted. We'd be best buds.

] "I forgave Russia for despotic communism, so I can forgive Jerry Levin."
] "That's why I started that restaurant business,"
] "It's not as exciting as the bombing of Baghdad, but people have
] to eat. They've got half the fat of beef burgers,"

When I was last in Atlanta, Decius and I made an outing for dinner to Ted's Montana grill. I think its safe to say without having a board meeting to discuss it, Ted's Montana Grill gets the Industrial Memetics two thumbs up. We had a nice talk about alternative media over a lovely dinner of alternative meat. My bison meatloaf was mighty good. Elvis would have loved it, and in my book that's all that matters.

Variety.com - Turner takes a stand (again)

I recently joined MySpace. Any MemeStreams users on there should befriend me.

Myspace.com - Nick's Profile

] What follows, surprisingly given our times and political
] climate, is refreshingly vulgar, completely un-PC and,
] much like the original, an expected excuse for extremely
] sadistic humor and gore. Where the first film now seems
] boring and slow, the new version is upbeat and
] well-paced. Happily and sadly, the first and only fully
] clothed female victim to get tied up and quartered by
] horses is the film's only waste of T in a movie
] overflowing with T&A. Many viewers may be offended by the
] black humor and straight-up racist jokes that pepper the
] film's dialogue, but those of you can rest assured that
] everyone gets their due by the end. It'll be
] interesting to see how the red states will react to such
] a searing and scabrous document of the South. Englund
] seems to imbue Mayor Buckman with a well-judged imitation
] of President Bush, and even the lives of his two sons in
] the film appear to closely ape those of the Bush
] daughters.

Fangoria reviews my cousin Tim's directorial debut.. They approve.

Fangoria - Review - 2001 Maniacs

] The Fermi II nuclear power plant was suddenly shut down
] today after hundreds of gallons of possibly radioactive
] water leaked into a containment structure. The leak was
] reported stopped about 10 p.m.
]
] "They have an unidentified leakage in the dry well,"?
] Viktoria Mitlyng, a spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory
] Commission, said Monday night. "Basically it is water.
] Where it came from we don't know. It may or may not
] have radioactivity in it."

Nuclear accident outside Detroit... Being someone who grew up next to a nuclear power plant, I always make note of these.

toledoblade.com | Water leak shuts Fermi II nuclear plant

] The US military is planning to deploy robots armed with
] machine-guns to wage war against insurgents in Iraq.
]
] Eighteen of the 1m-high robots, equipped with cameras and
] operated by remote control, are going to Iraq this
] spring, the Associated Press reports.

] Mr Quinn says there are plans to replace the computer
] screen, joysticks and keypad in the remote-control unit
] with a Gameboy-style controller and virtual-reality
] goggles.

BBC NEWS | US plans to deploy 'robot troops' in Iraq

] When Robert Moran drove back to his law offices in Rome,
] N.Y., after a plane trip to Arizona in July 2003, he had
] no idea that a silent stowaway was aboard his vehicle: a
] secret GPS bug implanted without a court order by state
] police.
]
] A federal judge in New York ruled last week that police
] did not need court authorization when tracking Moran from
] afar. "Law enforcement personnel could have conducted a
] visual surveillance of the vehicle as it traveled on the
] public highways," U.S. District Judge David Hurd wrote.
] "Moran had no expectation of privacy in the whereabouts
] of his vehicle on a public roadway."

Comments from Decius:

Yowzer... The police "could have" visually observed the vehicle, but they didn't. They attached a tracking device to it. A tracking device it a wholly different animal and has wholly different privacy implications. The expense require to visually track an individual car's every movement, without being observed, is extremely high. An individual might have no expectation of privacy with regard to the specific location of his car at a specific time, but there is a reasonable expectation of privacy with respect to the specific location of his car at every time.

One might also inquire as to whether this tracking device stopped working the minute this individual pulled off of a public road and onto private property? Its doubtful.

This ruling implies that as one tracking device has no privacy implications, then presumably 1000 tracking devices have no privacy implications, as 1000*0=0. Moving from the idea that the police have every right to tail your car on a public road to the idea that the police can electronically track the location of every car at every time is a massive leap of logic that has little basis in common sense.

Furthermore, one would think that the process of attaching a tracking device would have some private property concerns. Is it legal for me to attach anything I want to your car? Can I put a audio recording device on your car? (Apparently so, according to one of the rulings in this article!)

Anothing article linked in here discusses a very very tenuous barrier that the courts established to prevent the FBI from wiretapping cars using their on-star systems. Apparently its only illegal if it might interfere with emergency road side services!

We're rapidly approaching a period of time when technologies like these will allow the police to monitor your every movement and record your daily conversations. If we will not properly apply the 4th amendment to this domain the results will be terrible.

No court order required for GPS bugs! (More dumb judges.)

] According to the DREAD Advantages Sheet, "unlike
] conventional weapons that deliver a bullet to the target
] in intervals of about 180 feet, the DREAD's rounds will
] arrive only 30 thousandths of an inch apart (1/32nd of an
] inch apart), thereby presenting substantially more mass
] to the target in much less time than previously
] possible." This mass can be delivered to the target in
] 10-round bursts, or the DREAD can be programmed to
] deliver as many rounds as you want, per trigger-pull. Of
] course, the operator can just as easily set the DREAD to
] fire on full-auto, with no burst limiter. On that
] setting, the number of projectiles sent down range per
] trigger-pull will rely on the operator's trigger
] control. Even then, every round is still going right into
] the target. You see, the DREAD's not just accurate, it's
] also recoilless. No recoil. None. So, every "fired" round
] is going right where you aim it.

According to this, it can basically fire a column of steel, at a operator defined length.

Defense Review - World Exclusive Video! DREAD Weapon System: Devastating, Jam-Proof, and Silent.

] What does it say about the Central Intelligence Agency
] that its agents can crack the secret codes of enemy
] nations but can't unravel a coded sculpture sitting
] outside their cafeteria window?

] This is good news to Elonka Dunin, an executive producer
] and manager at Missouri gaming company Simutronics, who
] is obsessed with cracking Kryptos and thinks that the
] more people who work on the puzzle the quicker they'll
] solve it.
]
] "We have lots of different theories that we're chasing
] down," Dunin said of her band of sleuths, which includes
] some CIA employees. "But there's no way we'll know
] whether we're on the right track until something comes
] loose."

Elonka and Kryptos is currently featured in a front page story in Wired.

Wired News: Solving the Enigma of Kryptos