Selected Discography of Les Baxter including an interview with Les
Friday, October 10, 2003
Thursday, October 09, 2003
Art or a vague, postmodern, random waste of materials?
Unamused Swedes find 70 pair of shoes filled with butter as art installation piece.
Its not even original (artist Yu Xiuzhen did the same thing back in 96)
At least when Yoko Ono screamed and broke teacups with a hammer she cleaned up after herself.
Unamused Swedes find 70 pair of shoes filled with butter as art installation piece.
Its not even original (artist Yu Xiuzhen did the same thing back in 96)
At least when Yoko Ono screamed and broke teacups with a hammer she cleaned up after herself.
A few months ago it was a black magic marker. Now its just holding down a shift key.
Under normal circumstances, the antipiracy software is automatically loaded onto a Windows machine whenever the Hamilton album is run in a computer's CD drive, making traditional copying or MP3 ripping impossible. However, simply holding down the Shift key prevents Windows' AutoRun feature from loading the copy-protection software, leaving the music free to copy, Halderman said.
Under normal circumstances, the antipiracy software is automatically loaded onto a Windows machine whenever the Hamilton album is run in a computer's CD drive, making traditional copying or MP3 ripping impossible. However, simply holding down the Shift key prevents Windows' AutoRun feature from loading the copy-protection software, leaving the music free to copy, Halderman said.
Wednesday, October 08, 2003
FBI bugs Philadelphia mayor Street's office.
"Do we believe that the Republican Party, both at the federal level and state level, is pulling out every stop to get Pennsylvania in 2004? Absolutely," Keel said. "Is the Republican Party capable of dirty tricks? I think that is well-documented."
"Do we believe that the Republican Party, both at the federal level and state level, is pulling out every stop to get Pennsylvania in 2004? Absolutely," Keel said. "Is the Republican Party capable of dirty tricks? I think that is well-documented."
Tuesday, October 07, 2003
Walter Cronkite: The New Inquisition
What makes this administration's legal bloodthirstiness particularly alarming is the almost religious zeal that seems to drive it. So, what we are seeing now is a confluence of two streams of American thought. One of those streams represents those who believe security must have priority over civil rights.
What makes this administration's legal bloodthirstiness particularly alarming is the almost religious zeal that seems to drive it. So, what we are seeing now is a confluence of two streams of American thought. One of those streams represents those who believe security must have priority over civil rights.
Monday, October 06, 2003
Putin checks in on Bush's WMD-less oil war, warning that Iraq could "become a new center, a new magnet for all destructive elements." (NYTimes)
Sunday, October 05, 2003
Saturday, October 04, 2003
Friday, October 03, 2003
Think the Segway is cool but can't justify spending more than the cost of a motorcycle on something that does 15 mph top speed? Then build your own.
Thursday, October 02, 2003
Bookmark the brilliant Online Picasso Project, featuring almost 7000 works. Courtesy of Metafilter.
Blaming India for the "jobless recovery" - an oxymoron if I ever heard one.
Please tell me that nobody is actually going around speaking the phrase "best-shoring", and that the journalist just made up this little nugget of trite offensiveness.
NYTimes offers a different perspective of effects of globalized labor today, by examining the life of a girl assembling false eyelashes in a Chinese sweatshop.
Two months later, bitter that the pay turned out to be much lower, exhausted by eye-straining and wrist-wrenching work, and too poor to pay the exit fee the boss demanded of anyone who wanted out, they decided to escape. But that was not easy. The metal doors of their third-floor factory were kept locked and its windows — all but one — were enclosed in iron cages.
Please tell me that nobody is actually going around speaking the phrase "best-shoring", and that the journalist just made up this little nugget of trite offensiveness.
NYTimes offers a different perspective of effects of globalized labor today, by examining the life of a girl assembling false eyelashes in a Chinese sweatshop.
Two months later, bitter that the pay turned out to be much lower, exhausted by eye-straining and wrist-wrenching work, and too poor to pay the exit fee the boss demanded of anyone who wanted out, they decided to escape. But that was not easy. The metal doors of their third-floor factory were kept locked and its windows — all but one — were enclosed in iron cages.
Wednesday, October 01, 2003
McSweeneys article on the 'Dear Mr. President' letter project by author Gabe Hudson.
Explanation here. The author's site.
I mean, we have a website for the book, and the government's been tracking it. There's a device on the website that tells us who's been coming to it. We even had a FBI agent lurking around at my recent readings. Also, other little things have been happening. Like the website keeps crashing for no good reason. And each time, my friend, who does everything with the site and who's really good at this stuff, has had to work many, many hours before he could get the site back up. He says whoever is causing this has pretty major skills.
Click here to speak your peace to the radical-right wing court-appointed office occupant yourself.
This is my favorite letter:
Dear Mr. President,
A lot of American citizens are scared to write you a letter.
Make of that what you will.
Sincerely,
Jessica Rabinowitz
Explanation here. The author's site.
I mean, we have a website for the book, and the government's been tracking it. There's a device on the website that tells us who's been coming to it. We even had a FBI agent lurking around at my recent readings. Also, other little things have been happening. Like the website keeps crashing for no good reason. And each time, my friend, who does everything with the site and who's really good at this stuff, has had to work many, many hours before he could get the site back up. He says whoever is causing this has pretty major skills.
Click here to speak your peace to the radical-right wing court-appointed office occupant yourself.
This is my favorite letter:
Dear Mr. President,
A lot of American citizens are scared to write you a letter.
Make of that what you will.
Sincerely,
Jessica Rabinowitz
"I would have...I would have eaten his shit."
Well. That surely is um... saying something, Mrs. Dr. J. Yeah... Well... Ahem.
Damn.
Well. That surely is um... saying something, Mrs. Dr. J. Yeah... Well... Ahem.
Damn.
Hollywood's strategies on digital media always remind me of the picture of the snake eating its own tail. In a story that perfectly illustrates this, MPAA President Jack Valenti has decided that Oscar screeners are likely sources of DVD piracy, and will not be sending screening copies of DVDs this year. This means that independent and small-run films won't get seen, and the field will effectively be narrowed to only the biggest budget films. In doing this, not only is Valenti calling his own industry a bunch of thieves, but he's even further homogenizing an already watered down media by excluding new and different voices. Meanwhile, they'll keep blaming everybody but themselves...
Rancid's new album is available in its entirety via streaming player on the band's website. So get streaming, punk!