October 31, 2010

* CTV estimate of 250,000 at Rally to Restore Sanity
* Google advertisements on 85% of all internet sites
* $1,000 fine for having Silly String in Los Angeles
* Andrew Breitbart not part of ABC election coverage
* Rand Paul county coordinator charged with assault


  


  October 30, 2010

* Estimated 2 billion habitable planets in the galaxy
* Text of comments at end of Rally to Restore Sanity
* Whitman says former housekeeper should be deported
* Angle will answer questions after becoming Senator
* Tancredo says Obama a greater threat than al Qaeda

* Ozzy Osbourne's genome reveals Neanderthal lineage
* China briefly stops shipments of rare earth metals
* Ohio McDonald's tells employees to vote Republican
* TSA pat-down option won't detect weapon up the ass
* ABC taps Andrew Breitbart for election commentary


  


  October 28, 2010

* NPR maps "grass roots" after attack by Republicans
* 5 changes Tea Party would make to the Constitution
* Arizona immigration law written by prison industry
* Joe Miller on-the-job political chicanery detailed
* "Glitch" paintings like JPEGs with encoding issues


  


  October 27, 2010

* NY Times Pentagon-subserviant coverage of Wikileaks
* Investors would force banks to repurchase mortgages
* Rand Paul volunteer pins-down & stomps on activist
* British Airways boss: stop kowtowing to US demands
* Square and other non-circular wooden gears [video]


  


  October 24, 2010

* Correlation of change in orbit with climate change
* "Umbrella terms" for collections of rare disorders
* Domain homepage after siezure by the US government
* Baseball's San Francisco Giants win NL penant race
* Longshoremen close Bay Area ports for Oscar Grant


  


  October 21, 2010

* Bush Medicare plan cost more than bailouts & HCR
* David Koch is chief sponsor of Tea Party rallies
* US voter George Soros gives $1M to Media Matters
* Ayn Rand devotee is a "Bible-believing Christian"
* Images of Dead Sea Scrolls to be available online

* File sharers would put torrent tracker into orbit
* MuckRock tool to facilitate & track FOIA requests
* VFW disbands PAC after extreme negative publicity
* Alex Haley interviewed Nazi Party founder in 1966
* Zach Galifianakis Vanity Fair swimsuit photoshoot


  


  October 20, 2010

* US government earned 8% return on the TARP bailout
* Job loss increase under Bush, decrease under Obama
* Joe Miller's private "guards" were active military
* Candidate can't name recent Supreme Court decision
* US e-voting once again predominantly closed source

* Federal court backs right to photograph courthouse
* Immigrants weren't given new names at Ellis Island
* NATO planes ferry Quetta shura to Kabul conference
* Videos of voyages through Tokyo set to electronica
* Hermaphrodite poems denounced by moralists in 1425

* Used-book salesman trawls shops with laser scanner
* Obama to appear on The Daily Show on October 27th
* Scalia & Thomas attended Koch Industries seminars
* Mrs Thomas leaves 730 AM voicemail for Anita Hill
* Holometer to test if 3rd dimension is an illusion


  


  October 19, 2010

* O'Donnell on separation of church and state [video]
* US ranks 49th in life expectancy; 5th in executions
* Netanyahu: West Bank construction "inconsequential"
* Pentagon tells recruiters to accept gay enlistees
* International open standard for docking in space


  October 18, 2010

* US founding fathers were deistic liberal humanists
* French refineries closed; 1000 gas stations closed
* Without fossil fuels our way of life would collapse
* Demand for natural resources has doubled since 1960
* Reporter cuffed by private security on public land

* Operation Payback targets antipiracy organizations
* Genesimmons.com now redirected to ThePirateBay.org
* IMF wavering from its mission of poverty reduction
* Association between religion & right wing politics
* Green candidates want end to corporate personhood


  October 17, 2010

* NYT reporter drinks ayahuasca in Ecuadorian Amazon
* Pictures of water balloons being popped with a pin
* Rand Paul's college group banned for mocking faith
* Mom, Baseball, and Apple Pie: playoff TV blackout
* Widely used chemical BPA declared toxic in Canada

* US shaken by surge of violence against gay people
* Terrorized Israeli settler rams car into children
* Business Software Foundation fears Open Standards
* Software removes objects from video in real-time
* Lessig reviews Facebook movie The Social Network

* MERS: The Mortgage Electronic Registration System
* The New Yorker magazine profile of Julian Assange
* 25% of US miltary applicants are too fat to fight
* Charity paying drug addicts $300 to be sterilized
* RIP Benoit Mandelbrot, father of fractal geometry


  


  October 16, 2010

* Tides Foundation CEO addresses Glenn Beck sponsors
* Immoral to order firefighters to watch houses burn
* Palestinians require map to recognize Jewish state
* Julian Assange criticizes decision by Moneybookers
* Background noise affects taste and texture of food

* Banks may get second bailout for foreclosure fraud
* Fed preparing another large investment in US bonds
* US electrical grid too unreliable to be vulnerable
* Method for detecting planets obscured by starlight
* How Mitt Romney got his book to be a "best seller"


  


  October 14, 2010

* Scientists suggest that cancer is purely man-made
* Pictures and video of Chilean miners being rescued
* Letterman comments on book thrown at the President
* Churches note anti-gay rhetoric after teen suicides
* Video: water droplet bouncing on hydrophobic carbon


  


  October 12, 2010

* BBC interview with 75 year old painter Paula Rego
* Spike Lee directs TV advert for Rachel Maddow Show
* Video: Vatican decree protected paedophile priests
* Asteroid passes within 40,000 miles of Earth today
* 8 miles of Los Angeles streets devoted to bicycles


  


  October 11, 2010

* The displacement of Palestinian villages is wrong
* Most Westboro Baptists are related to Fred Phelps
* Cindy Sheehan gets ticket for obstructing traffic
* 10th anniversary of Andrew Sullivan's "Daily Dish"
* Banksy directs couch gag for The Simpsons: google


  


  October 10, 2010

* Banks bet that fraudulant loans wouldn't be repaid
* Professional clown wins seat in Brazilian Congress
* Paid for by the Coven to elect Christine O'Donnell
* "Good old days" traced back to one weekend in 1948
* A radical pessimist's guide to the next ten years


  


  October 9, 2010

* 4chan hunts perpetrator, Reddit donates to victims
* Why US doesn't consider Israeli state as liability
* NSFW Insane Clown Posse "fundamentalist Christians"
* Better traffic flow without traffic signals: video
* "Pando" 100 acre Aspen forest is a single organism

* Congressional candidate from Ohio dresses as Nazi
* Westboro Baptists back building of Park 51 mosque
* Provocateur fired gun before Kent State shootings
* List of companies that have shipped jobs overseas
* US Chamber of Commerce runs TV ads for Democrats

* Google engineer deploys driverless car in public
* NY City officials outraged over anti-gay torture
* Campbell Soup halal-certified by Islamic Society
* Tea Party groups linked to English Defence League
* Secretariat won 1973 Belmont Stakes by 31 lengths


  


  October 8, 2010

* Letting house burn was the "Christian" thing to do


  October 7, 2010

* FEC should investigate Chamber's foreign funding
* GOP frames midterm election as referendum on Dems
* Video: complain about MSNBC, yet refuse to appear
* NRA backs incumbant despite GOP's rifle photo-ops
* Sarah Palin favorable rating 22%, unfavorable 48%

* Detroit property owners may lose right to garden
* Texas Attorney General demands foreclosure freeze
* Obama vetoes bill enabling interstate foreclosure
* Banks hiring people to break into occupied houses
* Thomas Jefferson addressed inequality of property

* Health care law upheld under the Commerce Clause
* US deported record number undocumented immigrants
* International competitive devaluation of currency
* Saturn's rings formed from large moon destruction
* Mr. Cranick failed to pay $75 fire department fee

* Collected narratives of recent cryptome.org hack
* Make hollowed-out book with an oscillating cutter
* Visitors send pictures to tree porn gallery [via]
* Pictures under freeway ramp leading to Bay Bridge
* Video: Hungarian workers shovel toxic red sludge


  


  October 6, 2010

* US Chamber of Commerce foreign funded attack ads
* Deal with hospital industry killed Public Option
* Whistleblowing site Cryptome hacked & vandalized
* Les Niqabitches of Paris wear burqas & hot pants
* Effects of decriminalized prostitution in Sydney

* The first openly autistic presidential appointee
* Ginger Ale 10% of drinks served by major airline
* Merrill Lynch brought Wall Street to Main Street
* O'Donnell's father not officially certified Bozo
* 2010 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival pictures


  October 5, 2010

* Most Republican Presidential contenders work at Fox
* Supreme Court could limit "free speech" at funerals
* Jimmy Carter swinging a hammer on World Habitat Day
* Man faces $30k fee for growing too many vegetables
* Corporation has rights of person without liability


  


  October 1, 2010

* Military-industrial complex orders escalation of war
* Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) fires homophobic staffer
* Queer adults to isolated queer kids: it gets better
* Michigan Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell
* Schwarzenegger signs law to decriminalize marijuana

* Rep. Alan Grayson explains foreclosure fraud crisis


  



* | * | *


Contact * Archive


"You are who you love, not who loves you."
-Charlie Kaufman, Adaptation, 2002



















































































Links
Archive
Contact
Images
Home

 Blogroll
robotwisdom
boing boing
jason kottke
waxy links

TPM
wonkette
cryptome
FDL

browser
onion
digby
beast

letters of note
arts & letters
sign and sight
convozine

mirabilis
bibliodessey
david byrne
sartorialist

PCL
yeti
cool dry
fimoculous

fafblog
shorpy
plep  [alt]
room 26

strangemaps
vintage scans
tim archer
metamarge

fivethirtyeight
big picture
northbankfred
zero currency

earth album
simon hoegsberg
that's delightful
camilla engman

existentialist cowboy
henry miller blog
andrew sullivan
cindy sheehan

crooked timber
kevin kelly
giga pica
bookslut

kunstler
all about jazz
zero hedge
brezsny

~*~


Copenhagen


Glyptotek


Helsinki


Mont St Michel


The Louvre


Versailles


Saint Helena CA


Berkeley CA


Berkeley CA


Seattle Murano


Sierra Nevada


Mookberry


[images]


D.H. Lawrence


Spherical Deck


Crossing Sahara


cut-up technique


Way of the Law


The Red Book: images


Winter 2010


Summer 2009


Winter 2008


Mt Eddy 2009


Jetlag 2007


Normandy 2007


Alameda 2007


Desolation 2006


Seattle 2005


Wayne and Max


d. 2008


Henry Miller  d. 1980


Earthrise 1968

Banned Books Online





Stinson Beach, CA


Jon Stewart


Stephen Colbert


Greenman


Standing Cat


Patti Smith


Great Lake Swimmers


Neko Case


Vince Mendoza


Liesa Lietzke


Daniel Suelo


Alan Grayson


Moloch in Cabiria


Dom Helder Camara


Public Property

Friends
bama
feng
gary
liesa
kristi
eddy
TDT
jon

Thanks to
Garrison Keillor
Howard Zinn [RIP]
Russ Feingold
Naomi Klein
Seymour Hersh
Philippe Sands
Rachel Maddow
Amy Goodman
Norman Solomon
Cornell West
Carol Mosely Braun
Jimmy Carter
Eliot Spitzer
Al Franken
Dennis Kucinich
Daniel Ellsberg
Stanislav Petrov
Charles Swift
Antonio Taguba
Bob Rae
Cindy Sheehan
Alan Grayson
Arianna Huffington
Martin Garbus
Robert Steele
Mike Prysner
Mike Gronstal
David Harvey
Gideon Levy
Reuven Moskovitz
Tariq Ramadan
Lubna Hussein
Muhammad Yunus
Nelson Mandela
Muhammad Ali
Assata Shakur
George Galloway
Vinay Gupta
Lula da Silva
Husain Haqqani
Mo Sochua M. Fukuoka [RIP]
Sepp Holzer
Wendell Berry
Eustace Conway
Paula Rego
Owsley Stanley
Papu Pirtola
Paul Watson
Peter Hammarstedt
Alan I. Leshner
Denis Rancourt
Josh Marshall
Russ Kick
John Young
Julian Assange
Barbara Ehrenreich
Catherine Fitzmaurice
Speed Levitch
Jean Sara Rohe
William K. Black
Richard Sanders
Jesse Ventura
Kinky Friedman
Jim Hightower
John Zerzan
Moses Pendleton
Sally Mann
Eckhart Tolle
Clark McKowen
Swami Beyondananda
Michael Reynolds
Richard Long
Daniel Suelo
Mark Boyle
Andy Goldsworthy
Doctor John
Neil Young
Willie Nelson
Steve Earle
Bruce Springsteen
Joe Craven
Marian McPartland
Stephanie Nakasian
Norah Jones
Kevin Kniestedt
Tracy Chapman
k. d. laing
Brenda Laurel
Lozano-Hemmer
Cory Doctorow
Nicholas Carroll
Bruce Schneier
Gottfrid Svartholm
Carl Malamud
Jim Jarmusch
Werner Herzog
The Coen Brothers
Errol Morris
Robert Altman
Robert Greenwald
Warren Miller
Ken Burns
Donald Miller
Marjane Satrapi
Alan Moore
Joep van Lieshout
Oliver Sacks
Trevor Marshall
Alva Noe
Robin Williams
Jon Stewart
Scoop Nisker
Martin Mull
Barry Cooper
Zach Calden
Nick Forster
Jello Biafra
Dave Chappelle
Whoopi Goldberg
Oprah Winfrey
David Letterman
Sarah Haskins
Brooke Magnanti
Anthony Bourdain
Max Keiser
Dylan Ratigan
Ed Schultz
Dave Ross
Jeff Sharlet
Glenn Greenwald
Matt Taibbi
Anderson Cooper
Rick Steves
Bob Costas
Bill Talen
Steven Fry
Natalie Portman
Jon Hamm
Sam Rockwell
Vincent D'Onofrio
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Gael Garcia Bernal
Mark Wahlberg
Viggo Mortensen
Chris Cooper
Tim Robbins
John Turturro
Johnny Depp
Henry Rollins
Patti Smith
Thom Yorke
Eddie Vedder
David Byrne
Ben Harper
Rob Brezsny
Mitch Singer
Genesis P-Orridge
Perry Farrell
Baaba Maal
Wang Dan
Bamjan
Banksy
Momus
Bjork

*
No Thanks
Malcolm Gladwell
M. Night Shyamalan
Carlos Mencia
Phil Collins
Oasis

~><~

Favorite
Smells
Fresh Basil
Lemon Blossom
Sandlewood Oil
Whiteflower

Movies
Barton Fink
Being There
Doctor Zhivago
Les Miserables
The Grass Harp
Enchanted April
Yellow Submarine
Bullets Over Broadway
V for Vendetta
Smoke Signals
Casablanca
Dead Man
Revolver
Dreams
Bliss

Cities & Towns
San Francisco
Copenhagen
Paris
Flam
Ashland
Port Townsend
Lawrence

Writing
What is Enlightenment?
Ether, God & Devil
Life Against Death
Genealogy of Morals
Civil Disobedience
To Kill A Mockingbird
Truth is Subjectivity
Doors of Perception
Childhood's End
The Ones Who Walk
Away From Omelas
Nova Express
and Candide

Writers
Miller
Reich
Jeffers
Everson
Burroughs
cummings
Lawrence
Baudelaire
Dostoyevsky
Kierkegaard
Nietzsche
Montaigne
Voltaire
Freud

Painters
Matisse
Cezanne
Van Gogh
Guaguin
Lautrec
Bonnard
Chagall
Renoir
Degas
Denis
Grosz
Doig
Crowe
Banksy

Building


~*~