Pentagon expands domestic surveillance.

And Bruce Schneier weighs in as well.

Oh, this is baaaad, bad, bad, people... wake up... wake up....

Pentagon Expands Domestic Surveillance

Ever since we started the Music Genome Project, our friends would ask:
Can you help me discover more music that I'll like?

Those questions often evolved into great conversations. Each friend told us their favorite artists and songs, explored the music we suggested, gave us feedback, and we in turn made new suggestions. Everybody started joking that we were now their personal DJs.

pretty neat

Discover Music - Pandora

Very cool generative, fractal, rule-based and algorythmic web art.

[ His earlier (?) work is also available at complexification.net, as well as some prints you can purchase. Personally, I really wish he offered a print of "substrate". I think it's wonderful to look at. -k]

Levitated

(CBS) The latest in Christmas trees by be the start of a new craze — or it may just drive Santa crazy.

A Chicago man has come up an item that could turn the holiday on its head: pre-lit fake firs that are upside-down, resting on what is usually the point at the top.

CBS News | A Topsy-Turvy Christmas | November 9, 2005 11:00:06

The agreement requires 30-year-old software designer Bram Cohen to prevent his Web site, bittorrent.com, from locating pirated versions of popular movies, effectively frustrating people who search for illegal copies of films. BitTorrent must remove Web links leading to illegal content owned by the seven studios that are members of the Motion Picture Association of America.

Warrenellis.com � MPAA/BitTorrent Follow-Up: Cohen Sells Glickman A Lemon

CNN was airing Vice President Dick Cheney's speech live from the American Enterprise Institute in Washington -- when a large black 'X' repeatedly flashed over the vice president's face!

The 'X' over Cheney's face appeared each time less than a second, creating an odd subliminal effect.

As this DRUDGE REPORT screen capture reveals, while one 'X' flashed over Cheney's face CNN ran a headline at the bottom of its screen: "CHENEY: I DO NOT BELIEVE IT IS WRONG TO CRITICIZE."

One top White House source expressed concern about what was aired over CNN. "Is someone in Atlanta trying to tell us something?"

Something was on the fritz with CNN's mind control equipment during Vice President Dick Cheney's speech at the American Enterprise Institute. For a short time, viewers were able to see messages normally only visible to people with the glasses from They Live.

A CNN official gave this response to the matter via TVNewser:

"Upon seeing this unfortunate but very brief graphic, CNN senior management immediately investigated. We concluded this was a technological malfunction not an issue of operator error. A portion of the switcher experienced a momentary glitch. We obviously regret that it happened and are working on the equipment to ensure it is not repeated."

Cheney, CNN, Matt Drudge, and the mysterious X

The Report TSA Is Trying to Bury


"Based on the limited test results presented to us, we cannot assess whether even the general goal of evaluating passengers for the risk they represent to aviation security is a realistic or feasible one or how TSA proposes to achieve it. We do not know how much or what kind of personal information the system will collect or how data from various sources will flow through the system. Until TSA answers these questions, it is impossible to evaluate the potential privacy or security impact of the program..."

PrivacyActivism.org -

The following pages depict
many things from the Star Wars universe re-created from a simple piece of
paper. On each page you will find a picture of a completed figure, a description
of its place in the Star Wars universe, and a short anecdote about my efforts
to re-create it. If the figure is one from my book, you will also see the
final illustration from the instructions for comparison. These designs were
all created for the Star Wars Origami book. I'm still trying to get it published.
If you are a book agent, publisher, or can help me get the book published,
I would be interested in hearing from you.
I hope you will enjoy
my work and become inspired to explore this art form.
This site was last updated
on November 11, 2005 with 2 new Guest Artists

Original Star Wars Origami designs created by Chris Alexander

Multiple restaurant managers fell for social engineering over the telephone, forcing employees to strip.

Crazy.

Newsflash! People Are Stupid!

Someone sent me these photos claiming they
were bizarre fish that were washed up on shore after the
recent massive Indonesian Tsunami. They look more like
clinical biological photos, though. Strange creatures
anyways. Imagine reeling one of these in on line and tackle?
Egads!!!

TonyRogers.com | Weird Fish - Indonesia - Indian Ocean Fish