Tens of thousands are gathering right now on Market Street in downtown San Francisco. I've ducked into my office just off of Market to compose this article for Memestreams.

We made it down to where the march was supposed to gather: Embarcadero and Market St. Gathered here are a good 10,000 people without a doubt. And then it continues on a solid mass for a good 4 to 5 blocks.

I would say the crowd is easily 50-60,000. Perhaps more. Certainly more considering those who are leaving or approaching. This is the biggest protest I've ever been to.

It really makes my heart feel wonderful to see such a huge gathering of people opposed to the War against Iraq.

Power to the People. Down with Bush and the evil Oil Oligarchy.

Philippines vegetables. A reference for myself.

Common Philippine Vegetables, Fruits and Spices

An incredibly sweet 3D graphical frontend to NetHack. It's pretty unbelievable. Check out the sweet screenshots. Now I want to play NetHack again...

NetHack - Falcon's Eye

Helen Thomas, the most senior member of the White House press corps, really socked it to Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer on Monday over the issue of Iraq. Check out the hook while DJ revolves it:

Helen Thomas Socks it to the White House

Take your $20 from the recording industry and give it to the EFF.

SendItToTheEFF.org

] Friday, January 10, 2003
] "Detroit Project" Won't Play in Detroit
] Detroit TV stations are refusing to broadcast the Detroit
] Project's TV ads linking terrorism to gas-guzzing SUVs,
] and industry-funded think tanks like the Competitive
] Enterprise Institute have jumped in to attack the ads.
] Actually, the marketing link between SUVs and violence
] may run deeper than the Detroit Project realizes. The SUV
] craze got its start thanks to the first war in the
] Persian Gulf, which inspired automakers to adapt military
] vehicles for the consumer market. As even Fortune
] magazine admits, the auto industry has been deliberately
] marketing rollover-prone gaz-guzzlers as vehicles of
] aggression that appeal to consumers' "reptilian"
] instincts. Small wonder that,
] according to the industry's
] own market research, "the SUV is the car of choice for
] the nation's most self-centered people; and the bigger
] the SUV, the more of a jerk its driver is likely to be."
] Source: Detroit Free Press, January 10, 2003

Spin of the Day

] Brilliantly, seditiously remixed State of the Union
] address video.

This is really well done...

Deconstructing Bush...

Developing security web applications and services.

The Open Web Application Security Project

] "It is a well-known and widely accepted fact that, during
] wartime, news companies and governmental representatives
] fuse their voices together into one univocal beam of
] support for the national military objective. And, while,
] for many, this is a vital aspect of institutional
] patriotism, it is also a very dangerous and troubling
] reality. For, if the news media have abandoned their
] responsibility to objectively inform the population, then
] our concept of a democracy (which is founded on the
] ability for all citizens to choose their nation's destiny
] based on a full spectrum of information) is in desperate
] peril."

Guerrilla News Network: S-11 Redux

Here's another absolutely hilarious Strongbad email.
So cool an email, I thought you would enjoy it.

Strongbad's Email: Japanese Cartoon