Category: Miscellany

If my upstreaming changes today work correctly, then this may be the final post to Radio Free Blogistan at the http://blogs.salon.com/0001111/ address, in which case, I want to make it very easy for any future readers directed here by old links (sorry, everybody!) to get to the new home page at radiofreeblogistan.com. If I were…

It’s Otis! He looooves us!. White liberal guilt has never been so deliciously skewered. (via MZ)

We are the alien overlords. I am reading in the New York Times our detailed plans for laying seige of cities in Iraq. We will attempt to control the minds of the inhabitants (demoralizing the fighters, calming the civilians), and systematically in our now infinitely superior ways conquer each city. (more)

veriSign / netsol evil. this new two-tiered password scheme of netsol’s, surely it is designed primarily to once again entangle passive Internet domain holders into staying with verisign out of inertia or, short of that, stuck like flypaper to the new authentication scheme until the inevitable renewal deadline passes. what is the easiest way to…

Question I just overheard me ask myself. “Where is my not-bag not-going?”

New work from Swigart and Niss at WORD CIRCUITS This just in. Robert Kendall announces two new works at the Word Circuits Gallery: * About Time by Rob Swigart * The Dancing Rhinoceri of Bangladesh by Millie Niss (www.wordcircuits.com) [artsflow {category: hypertext literature}]

Right fringe notices that Republicans are not conservative. Kevin Tuma hates FDR and Lincoln, favoring Goldwater and Reagan. What’s interesting about this article is that he voices the “dirty little secret” of the Republican party. It is not now and has never been a conservative party, especially not in the sense of small-government conservatism. [Bite…

Dylan @ the Greek 2002.10.11 notes. first impression of the band: a little more detail: the moon was going down the greek without the people …and some raw notesscribbled during the show:

Dylan rocked the Greek, yea verily. …and mightily he smote them. the rumored covers (Zevon’s “Accidentally Like a Martyr,” “Brown Sugar,” Neil Young’s “Old Man”), the reinterps of classics (just like a woMan, i ain’t ME babe), the recent material rousing the audience (Summer Days with its Charlie Christian, Django, old-timey feel with Charlie Sexton…

Accuracy.org fisks Bush. Find here a point-by-point refutation of Bush’s big speech…. [Bite Media]

The (other) mouse that roared. From Court News and Monster Weirdo come this report by DeVon Nolt of a lawsuit against Pixar and Disney on the part of Stanley “Mouse” Miller: The lead characters of the movie Monsters, Inc. were illegally copied from characters drawn by cartoonist Stanley Miller in the early 1960’s, according to…

Saw New Orleans piano genius Henry Butler last night with Amy DeNaio at the tiny 21 Grand performance space in Oakland…. Wow! [more at Bodega]

Beaver covers Borges covers Burton: ‘a tree falls…’. Check out William Beaver’s a tree falls amidst a forest of eyes, a branching hypertext we believe will be of… [artsflow] Playing with MT today, also catching up on some deadlines. Expect sporadic blogging with a chance of showers.

artsflow is moving

Could they possibly cram any more ads into The Onion?

I blame Ev.

Fog’s in. After two three days of blazing heat peaking in the midafternoon, it started to cool off yesterday and this morning the sky is totally socked in cloudy from the window of my breakfast nook. It’s a relief. The ultrahot weather has its charms, especially in the evening when its just balmy outside, but…