Privacy Jurisprudence and the Apartheid of the Closet, 1946-1961 by William N. Eskridge, Jr. is worth a read. “The object of this Article is to explore the legal regulation of same-sex intimacy between 1946 and 1961 from the perspective of the closet.”
Archive > August 2004
It seems about time to re-post that I enjoy listening to the kooky kitchy sounds streaming from Luxuria Music.
Amazing astronaut adventures to be had at Something Awful!
If you miss my atheist writing here at pleasant, go get an eye full at American Samizdat.
Macshift is a free command-line MAC address changing utility for Windows XP. StopListening is a free software tool which you to very easily raise the security of a fresh Windows 2000/XP installation to a Unix-like level. And both of these links come to you via tinyapps.org.
“The Mashin’ of the Christ” was/is Negativland’s top-secret-not-for-viewing video response to the number one film in America. Negativland decrypted, downloaded and mashed up the most violent religious film ever made along with over 27 other Hollywood portrayals of Jesus to create their own vision of the last moments of Christ’s life… all in four minutes and 14 seconds. Is Christianity still stupid? Is Communism still good? Negativland hoped that no one would ever find out for sure.
But that hope was dashed on Easter Sunday, 2004, when the video project was stolen from Negativland’s hard drive, and then, just last week, released onto P2P networks worldwide. Negativland’s friends and lawyers who had seen “The Mashin’ of the Christ” had strongly advised against a public release ever occuring (the “anti-circumvention” provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act says that doing this sort of decryption to make collage is illegal), but since God is said to see all secrets, only the public is left to be surprised by this unauthorized birth from Negativland. Voracious pirating of this work has spread across the Net and in the last few days high-resolution versions of “Mashin’” have even been appearing on P2P networks disguised as a complete copy of “The Passion of the Christ.”
Until personal or legal threats suggest otherwise, a link to the P2P networks where this video can be found is on Negativland’s website.
G. W. Bush on the philosophical differences between himself and John Kerry: “Let me put it to you bluntly. In a changing world, we want more people to have control over your own life. And that’s a difference. There’s a difference in philosophy, when you think about it. That’s why you’ve got to be careful about this rhetoric, we’re only going to tax the rich. You know who the… the rich in America happen to be the small-business owners. That’s what that means. Just remember, when you’re talking about, oh, we’re just going to run up the taxes on a certain number of people … first of all, real rich people figure out how to dodge taxes. And the small-business owners end up paying a lot of the burden of this taxation.” [1] [2] [3] [4] Thank you to the humanoid for these links.
Mark Trahant is a reporter for the Seattle P-I (a newspaper). He recently asked President G. W. Bush the following question about Native Americans in the United States: “What do you think tribal sovereignty means in the 21st Century, and how do we resolve conflicts between tribes and the federal and state governments?” Trahant reported GWB’s reply as: “When conflicts arise, he said they should be worked out sovereign to sovereign.” But here’s what G. W. Bush really said… “Yeah. Uh, tribal sovereignty means that. It’s sovereign. It’s, you’re, you’re a, you’re a–you’ve been given sovereignty, and you’re… viewed as a s-s-sovereign entity. (Audience laughter.) And, therefore, the relationship between the federal government and… tribes is one between s… s-s-sovereign entities.” Is there any credibility to the claim that the mass media is not presenting an accurate representation of the President of the United States? To find out, listen to an mp3 of the ‘s-s-sovereign’ statement here, watch the full 1.5 hour event in RealVideo here, then read the White House transcript here and the Seattle P-I report here.
Solid bronze, £22,000 to construct, weighs 3,500kg. That’s some good vandalism!
Phooey! Phooey on the left and on the right as well!
Debian sez the Creative Commons aren’t free enough.
March 2, 1998: Time Magazine publishes Why We Didn’t Remove Saddam by George Bush (Sr.) and Brent Scowcroft. “We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq. The coalition would instantly have collapsed, the Arabs deserting it in anger and other allies pulling out as well. [...] Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the U.N.’s mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the U.S. could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land. It would have been a dramatically different – and perhaps barren – outcome.”
August 2000 or earlier: Time publishes Why We Didn’t Remove Saddam online.
October 2002 or later: Time removes Why We Didn’t Remove Saddam from the Internet. The table of contents for the March 2, 1998 issue no longer includes this essay by a former President of the United States.
August 2004 or earlier: Time claims “The page you’ve requested is an excerpt from a book by Brent Scowcroft and George H. W. Bush titled A World Transformed, which appeared in the March 2, 1998, issue of TIME magazine under the title Why We Didn’t Remove Saddam. It has been removed from our site because the publisher did not grant us rights to sell the piece online through the TIME archive.”
August 6, 2004: pleasant posts a link to archived copies of Why We Didn’t Remove Saddam from time.com, and a link to a scan of the original article at The Memory Hole.
“Two Londons there are; there’s the one you can see all around and there’s the other city under the skin of this… Cities aren’t what you think, see. If you make it past the first ordeal, I‘ll tell you what cities really are and what they want.”
