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| "The future masters of technology will have to be lighthearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb." -- Marshall McLuhan, 1969 |
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Kevin Sites Blog: Fallujah Street by Street |
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| Topic: Current Events |
9:52 pm EST, Nov 14, 2004 |
Our humvees pass by a body of a man in the center of the street. There is a hole through his left eye socket where a Marine sniper round passed cleanly through. Insurgent snipers begin firing in front of the Marines. One round pierces the Kevlar helmet a twenty-year-old Mark 19 gunner -- in my vehicle. He is badly wounded. He's put in a canvas stretcher and six Marines run through the streets carrying him to a waiting military ambulance. The Marines know they are being hunted. Boxed from the east and the west in a treacherous kill zone by an enemy they can feel -- but can't see. Their superior firepower is checked by the insurgent's knowledge of the city -- their cunning in using blind alleyways and the crooks and crannies of buildings to pick off the Marines. Kevin Sites checks in from the front lines of the Battle of Fallujah. You can almost smell the gunpowder, as you sit safely behind your monitor. Semper fidelis! Kevin Sites Blog: Fallujah Street by Street |
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Georgia Voter Information |
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| Topic: Local Information |
2:25 am EST, Nov 10, 2004 |
] The purpose of this website is to advocate that the State
] of Georgia compile and distribute a Voter Information
] Guide to voters in the State prior to each election and
] primary. This website will explain the concept, why its
] important, and what individuals can do to help make it a
] reality. This website will also act as a clearing house
] for information about efforts to improve voter education
] in the State of Georgia. Tom said he'd do something about this, and he is. Go Tom! Jersey could use voter information guides as well. Maybe what Tom is doing here will inspire me to take on something else I don't have time for. Georgia Voter Information |
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| Topic: Miscellaneous |
12:15 am EST, Nov 3, 2004 |
Decius wrote:
] You are about to be punched in the stomach. That sinking
] feeling is your heart wondering which direction the swing is
] going to come from. I choose to paraphrase. "That sinking feeling in your stomach is your heart deciding which direction the swing is coming from." I've been playing games of pool all night deciding which way the election will go. Stripes have been the Democrats, Solids have been the Republicans. You will hear the results tomorrow. RE: Fear |
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| Topic: Elections |
2:44 pm EST, Nov 2, 2004 |
Camera phone image from Santa Clara... via BoingBoing. Brian Nicks, the voter who got this screen, says a local tv cameraman got some footage of the screen as well. votesaveerrror.jpg |
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William Gibson is blogging again... |
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| Topic: Miscellaneous |
8:56 am EDT, Oct 15, 2004 |
] ...because, as the Spanish philospher Unamuno said, "At
] times, to be silent is to lie."
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] ...One actually has to be something of a specialist, today,
] to even begin to grasp quite how fantastically, how
] baroquely and at once brutally fucked the situation of
] the United States has since been made to be. Gibson blogging again is likely a sign he has finished writing his next novel. I get the feeling that Win Pollard's character is going to be developed more.. William Gibson is blogging again... |
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Memestreams.net 'Its dot com!' |
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| Topic: MemeStreams |
5:30 pm EDT, Oct 6, 2004 |
Memestreams.com now points to Memestreams.net... and there was much rejoicing! Memestreams.net 'Its dot com!' |
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Wired News: California bans anonymous speech on the Internet |
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| Topic: Internet Civil Liberties |
12:56 pm EDT, Sep 28, 2004 |
] Now, any Californian who shares files with more than 10
] people must add their e-mail address to the file. Those
] who break this law could be fined up to $2,500, spend a
] year in jail or both. Anonymous speech on the Internet is now illegal in California. The MPAA is coming to your state next. Wired News: California bans anonymous speech on the Internet |
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