Hoaxes, frauds, stings and culture jamming, Sniggle.net has them all.
From the Hitler diaries through perpetual motion machines, if some
dunce paid good money for it, you’ll probably find it covered.
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Archive for January, 2005
David Brin envisions a future in which the world is plastered with e-info—virtual Post-It notes, e-advertisements and other data—that we can access via glasses, earbuds and other technologies that link wirelessly to databases and instantly deliver information to us.
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“This is a war against terrorism, and Iraq is just one campaign. The Bush Administration is looking at this as a huge war zone,” the former high-level intelligence official told me. “Next, we’re going to have the Iranian campaign. We’ve declared war and the bad guys, wherever they are, are the enemy. This is the last hurrah—we’ve got four years, and want to come out of this saying we won the war on terrorism.” Seymour Hersh reveals the Bush oligarchy’s rotten core in the New Yorker.
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Intrepid reporters at Expatica have discovered a new element: Atomium. From a report on renovations to one of the best known features of Brussels: “The balls of the giant iron atom at Heysel are being re-plated in weather-resistant steel, instead of Atomium, in a bid to restore them to the shiny state they were in back in 1958.” Atomium is, of course, the name of the monument. The giant balls were plated with aluminium. Might I suggest a spot of proofreading, guys and gals?
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Austrian artist Peter Gric has on his website an interface so beautiful and artwork so amazing it positively hurts.
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European initiatives for introducing visas containing biometric data appear to have been scuppered for now, albeit by petty bureaucracy rather than good sense. The Council of Europe’s Visa Working Party is scheduled to discuss available options at its meeting in Brussels on 12-13 January 2005.
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From the Status Report of the House Judiciary Committee Democratic Staff: We
have found numerous, serious election irregularities in the Ohio
presidential election, which resulted in a significant
disenfranchisement of voters. Cumulatively, these irregularities, which
affected hundreds of thousand of votes and voters in Ohio, raise grave
doubts regarding whether it can be said the Ohio electors selected on
December 13, 2004, were chosen in a manner that conforms to Ohio law,
let alone federal requirements and constitutional standards. A full PDF version of the report is also available.
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For the true lovers of Japanese cinema (yes, you know who you are) there’s Midnight Eye:
Leading filmmakers as diverse as Quentin Tarantino, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Darren Aronofsky and Walter Salles acknowledge its influence; Hollywood churns out remakes (The Ring, The Grudge, Dark Water) and imports its filmmakers in the hopes of recreating its magic – Japanese cinema today is a force to be reckoned with, whose influence can be felt on a global scale.
www.midnighteye.com
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Ever felt like molesting a statue? Felt up the Venus de Milo lately? Come on, what’s she gonna do? Slap you? At www.statuemolesters.com.
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Yes, we’re still beating this dead horse, and we’ll continue beating
until we find a cure for equine death syndrome. “The Iraq war was not
only irrevocably part of the war on terror—who could think, gazing at
the car bombs and beheadings every night on television, that they were
any different?—it had become a leading part of the ideological response
to the threat of terror: a first step in the expansion of the holy
cause of freedom.” Mark Danner explores in the New York Review of Books.
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MOQ.org is a forum for discussion of the Metaphysics of Quality, proposed by Robert M Pirsig in his books Lila: An Inquiry into Morals and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
An epileptic-unfriendly design, but the articles are quite readable and
well worth the effort. A definite recommendation for the true Pirsig
fan.
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