Tray Parker and Matt Stone made South Park. They made a movie of South Park. They made That’s My Bush. More recently, they made Team America. But have you ever heard of How’s Your News?
Archive > September 2004
DATE TO SAVE – Dating to Save People from Hell.
The White Rose Society: fighting the rise of the new fascism. Liberal/Progressive talk radio audio archives… over 2.2 million hours of liberal/progressive talk radio served! Including, with permission, my favorite from Air America Radio, Mike Malloy.
I hereby predict that John Kerry will be the next President of the United States. The polls are demonstrabably inaccurate, because they are not including many voters who use cell phones, voters newly re-enfranchised, and first-time voters – in other words, young voters who are in the main supporting Kerry. It doesn’t hurt that the majority of world leaders – and, I venture, the majority of worlds financial leaders – have had their fill of Bush. They won’t be voting, but think of it this way: when the zoo keepers (who are the ones really in control) get enough complaints about the chimp that throws too much of its own poop around, that monkey isn’t at the zoo much longer.
The challenges to this prediction come in the form of non-voters, Nader voters, insecure voting machines, funny business at the polls, infomercials in the form of polls & news, and whatever October surprise Bush has planned. Nothing much I can do about the October surprise. I counter the fishy polls and phoney news with pleasant, American Samizdat and OVO. There are people with more smarts than me on the voting machines. Nader voters, please pinch your nose and vote against Bush (ie for Kerry) instead. And you non-voters, well, vote. For Kerry.
The two of them will be in the same room at the same time, not debating, at their first of three debates this Thursday. Just heard that Air America will be broadcasting it without advertisements.
Greetings to our readers in Flordia. Many people complain about the weather, but here’s a suggestion on something to do about it. And cost a US vet his job at the same time! What a deal.
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is so very, very good – right up to one part, then all the things that make it good go away and it turns into a generic action film. 2/3rd good, 1/3rd so-so but a so-so that is uncomfortably bad considering how good the good parts are. I likes me some futures from the past, and I hope to see a good past future someday… in the future.
Is Soviet moon base with lunar rover!
It’s an old atheist joke that places of worship usually have lightning posts. Now they have something else, too.
Noam Chomsky: Holocaust revisionist?
BADITUDE brings forth a new age of Industrial through a strict regimen of WORKING OUT and KICKING ASS. BADITUDE music is specifically designed to produce endorphines and replenish electrolytes while creating an environment conducive to dancing. BADITUDE will make you get huge, fast! BADITUDE will break through the barriers that impede the UBERMENSCH, with a force that rivals earthquakes and hurricanes. Religious types, assholes, wussies, and nerd…BEWARE. BADITUDE IS HERE.
At some point before the 1960s, a soldier named Don Martin was stationed in Germany. Don liked to build model aircraft but balsa wood was hard to come by. His answer was to use what he had in a frugal fashion and make tiny aircraft – so tiny, in fact, that they fit inside a matchbox. The idea of making teeny tiny aircraft had its own appeal, and design contests for building matchbox-sized aircraft took off from there.
Skype is a voice-over-Internet program. It is free and comes in Windows, Linux, Macintosh and other flavors. Skype works when you run the program – no confusing settings to set, which sets it apart from many other voice-over-Internet programs I’ve tried. There are no advertisements, no intrusive forms to fill out, no spy programs hidden inside. It isn’t open source, but if you can endure not knowing the code you’ll be glad you gave it a chance. If all parties involved have skype then the call is free, including long distance and international calls. If you call skype-to-phone – that is, if you have skype and the other person just has a phone – there is a small fee. The most recent call I made was USD$.02/minute. It works best over a high-speed connection, but somehow it worked as good as a phone using my dial-up connection. Consider this a vote of confidence for skype.
Palm Pilots come with a program called Avant Go, which copies Web pages into a Palm-readable format. Then came Plucker, which does the same thing a little better and is an open-source program. J-Pluck is a java program that does what Plucker does but adds just a few more features. And now J-Pluck has spawened Sunrise, which adds more features while remaining free (but is not open source). Just thought you might like to know.
Football shirts, philosophy shirts… oh, why can’t someone offer both?
“The world’s first commercialised genetic test for determining intracontinental subpopulation (ethnic) admixture of individuals could lead to the development of more specific, better-tolerated and more effective drugs in the future.”
What was the first board game played in outer space? Answer.
Group Art Show
Photography, Collage, Painting
Saturday, September 18 2004, 7:00-10:00 pm
$3.00 suggested donation benefits DHOR‘s Community Space Fund.
10% of all proceeds from art sold also benefit the Fund.
Camille Audelo, Mary Beattie, Trevor Blake, Shannon Graham, Bay Hall, Dana O’Leary, Selena Staley, Curtis Walker
Haven Coffee
3551 SE Division Street
Portland OR
503-236-6890
Found in the sandbox at Wikipedia…
What worries you most about the week ahead?
* Answer 1: The possibility of a negative social confrontation at the institute I am about to enter.
* Answer 2: Slaughter on the roads
* Answer 3: The apparent (try “obvious”) social decay caused by the hip-hop culture
* Answer 4: Silification of the plants.
* Answer 5: Having bad hair days
* Answer 6: Death. And the lack of punctuation on every other answer.
* Answer 7: The weekend
* Answer 8: The proliferation of political ignorance in the minds of the youth…and the old…and…okay, they’re all ignorant fools who should be fed to wild dingos.
* Answer 8.5: Nothing.
* Answer 9: Jo momma
* Answer 10: Having to face reality
* Answer 11: Having to listen sort out more misinformation from electoral candidates.
