Well, it certainly has been a while hasn’t it. You see, this whole “blog” began because a few friends wanted to do at least something to help influence their world for the better. We had some things to say, we had interests we wanted to share, and we wanted an excuse to do some digging, researching, and uncovering. And in todays world its ever easier to share oneself with the rest of the world. If you have access to a computer and the internet, you can acquire everything you need to publish your own book, or even movie…

Open Office:
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first, lose the old Microsoft Office programs you may be using and download yourself the OpenOffice Suite here. Open office contains a powerpoint type program, an spreadsheet program, but more importantly, a nice MS Word compatable word-processing program. Use this free program to write that amazing book you’ve been putting off…but you’re going to need some images won’t you?

Gimp:
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Next, download Gimp here. Gimp is a great image manipulation program that is extremely versatile and comparable to photoshop, and possibly illustrator. It can save in both raster and vector formats, and I’ve used it to make animated gifs for my own website

Now that you’ve written your book, and created all the images necessary, you’re going to have to put it together in a publishable format…

Scribus:
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Now, just download Scribus here. Scribus is an open source free desktop publisher, which helps you layout your book in a nice professional way. I’ve used Scribus to put together a couple of my small comics…One of which is here.
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But wait, where are you going to publish this book, and how are you going to get an ISBN and all that stuff?

Lulu:
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Lulu is a great way for you to publish that book. It’s an online on-demand publisher that even helps set you up with an official ISBN and barcode for the cover.

Well, now that you’ve written your book, complete with graphics, and published it on Lulu, all that’s left is for everyone to buy it and learn everything you have to offer. Thanks for being so great.

Lucy.

Watch the Olbermann vid if you haven’t done so already.

Sorry for this horrible post. I’ve just watched two people I hate on tv: Katie Couric and George W. Bush.

I hate Katie Couric because she sounds patronizing and uncaring. She asked George Bush a question and then laughed as she said, “You can take the man out of Crawford, but you can’t take the, (he he he) Crawford out of the man.” I’m not sure if she knows her current events, but there is no Crawford in that man, he grew up in Connecticut.

I hate Katie Couric Yahoo Group

I hate George Bush because he smiles the most and almost laughs when he says things like, “The war on terror will be the focus of the 21st Century.” Now, I’m not saying it won’t, but I find it odd that this guy’s biggest smile sweeps across his face when he says this sentence, as if he and his friends may have something to gain from this idea…oh wait a second…

I hate Bush Site on Yahoo Groups

The Second Assignment came to me in the form of a DVD, indirectly passed from Judas. Titled “Star Dreams“, it is an extensive look into Crop Circles all over the world. The film left me with a very satisfied feeling that things were going to be okay. I don’t have that feeling very often, so I must say it has had a profound effect on my thoughts to this day. This beautifully filmed documentary really opened my eyes to a lot of universal truths, and strangely related to Narby’s book on many levels. There were a couple of parts that really moved me. One was a message broadcasted into space in the form of a radio signal by NASA in 1974. It was full of mathematical formulas-some apparently unsolved and pretty much stated that we are here and here’s what we know.

Well… supposedly a few years back, a reply was received in the form of a crop circle.
Here’s what it looked like:

The first notable difference is that the DNA strand shape just above the human figure in the 1974 message versus the DNA strand above the humanoid figure made in 2001 is not the same. Specifically, the respective DNA strands on the right hand side of both pictures are quite different. In the August 19 message, the DNA strand has 6 circles (6 nucleotide base pairs) per turn of the DNA while the 1974 message has 10 per turn, which is what we have in the DNA found on planet Earth.

Very few world-class molecular biologists know of such a 6-base/turn genetic material and yet this message appears to be saying to us that their off-Earth DNA is based upon that type of molecule. The point is, no hoaxer would use a 6-base/turn code to describe a DNA-like molecule because it is extremely rare here on Earth and its existence is only known by a handful of molecular scientists. However, in another planetary system, it could be quite normal.

The second noticeable difference can be found at the bottom of both pictures (above). In the right hand picture, there is an umbrella-shaped object over a capital “M.” This is a graphic representation of the radio telescope device that sent out the 1974 message. In the corresponding part of the returned message of 2001, the ETs seem to be saying that their communication device is different (see lower part of the left image above) and this is what it looks like. Here is where things get interesting. The pictogram made in this very same wheat field a year earlier is a blown-up version of their communication device and is a replica of that seen in the lower part of their returned message to us! Hoaxers aren’t this clever or imaginative.

The communication they are referring to.. is this this circle: Listed below are decoders trying to unlock the message in the field: SUGGESTIONS.

Suggestion 1. The circle partially overlaying the Alien visage, appears to contain digital information comprising of ones and zeros. (Either Flattened or erect corn).

Suggestion 2. The information is represented in 8 bit data segments of identical length, all bit positions being equally marked. There is a narrow separator or synchronisation bit (ridge) between the 8bit data fields.

Suggestion 3. It is highly probable that ASCII 8 bit encoding is used as the most common character used was SPACE that is represented by hex x20, this was used to separate the blocks of data segments. (Hex is a convenient digital way of representing the binary information contained in the message). The circle seems to be of simple 8 bits binary encoding, with characters represented by the ASCII character set. The language used is international English. The Circle is read from the inside out or counter clockwise.

Suggestion 4. Between each curved line of data, there is an empty separator line.

MESSAGE DECODING.
The pictures used to decode the text were taken from crop circle connector…
The pictures required orthogonal correction to ensure that as a near as perfect circle was presented. This is so that a view directly above of the circle was used when decoding the contents. Simple contrast enhancement was performed.

The message was decoded by using a marked bit of paper in the following manner… |blank|1|2|4|8|1|2|4|8|. The LSB (Least Significant Bit) is on the left; the MSB (Most Significant bit) is on the right. The paper was curled along the empty separator line, when reading the text. The blank part was placed ion the synchronisation bits.

MESSAGE CONTENTS (some missing)
This is the deciphering of the message:

The message consists of 26 words. Interestingly the English alphabet has 26 letters.

DETAILED DECODING
The Below table has two columns, the hexadecimal number and its English alphabet equivalent.”

42 B 65 e 77 w 61 a 72 r 65 e
20 SPACE 74 t 68 h 65 e
20 SPACE 62 b 65 e 61 a 72 r 65 e
72 r 73 s 20 SPACE
6F o 66 f
20 SPACE
46 F 41 A 4C L 53 S 45 E
20 SPACE
67 g 69 i 66 f 74 t 73 s
20 SPACE
26 &
20 SPACE
74 t 68 h 65 e 69 i 72 r
20 SPACE
42 B 52 R 4F O 4B K 45 E 4E N
20 SPACE
50 P 52 R 4F O 4D M 49 I 53 S 45 E 53 S 2E .
4 M 75 u 63 c 68 h
20 SPACE
50D P 41 A 49 I 4E N
20 SPACE
62 b 75 u 74 t
20 SPACE
53 s 74 t 69 i 6C l 6C l
20 SPACE
74 t 69 i 6D m 65 e 2E .
(no Idea what the following is)
45 E
45 E
4C L
52 R
49 I
4A J
56 U
45 E
2E .
54 T 68 h 65 e 72 r 65 e
20 SPACE
69 i 73 s
20 SPACE
47 G 4F O 4F O 44 D
20 SPACE
6F o 75 u 74 t
20 SPACE
74 t 68 h 65 e 72 r 65 e 2e .
57 W 65 e
20 SPACE
4F O 50 P 70 p 6F o 73 s 65 e
20 space
44 D 45 E 43 C 45 E 50 P 54 T 49 I 4f O 4E N 2E .

43 C (Following word damaged by tramlines–where tractors move through the fields and create those parallel stripes)
4F O
6E n
64 d
75 u
69 i
74 t
20 SPACE
43 C
4C L
4F O
53 S
49 I
4E N
47 G
07 BELL SOUND

Here’s a clear translation:

“Beware the bearers of FALSE gifts & their BROKEN PROMISES.

Much PAIN but still time.

(Damaged Word… translates as EELRIJUE or possibly BELIEVE.)

There is GOOD out there.

We OPpose DECEPTION.

Conduit CLOSING (BELL SOUND).”

There are many other interesting comparisons between the two messages. The best web site I’ve seen that explains them well can be found here.
Here’s what the whole circle looked like, including the message wheel. (I considered not showing this part because it has the potential of losing some readers to speculation, but this is what they found and I can’t help it if they look like “real aliens”!

From the Stars

Since I made that wild and ambiguous claim that there was going to be some breakthrough in the science world that would change the way we look at everything, I have been waiting to receive a beacon from NPR or where ever that will blow my mind away. Lucy, that is a pretty amazing find and the video is awesome!
As you may or may not know, I am getting married in 1 day less than a month. I am so excited about the event and my partner, with whom I am about to celebrate my life. The Very Reverend Jorge’ has been so amazing in this process, meeting with us as a true friend, mediator, and relationship councilor. No only is he preparing a beautiful ceremony with us, but he has brought some really important questions to the surface about what our hearts believe, which has allowed her and me (that’s the King’s English believe it or not) to take a step back and really discuss areas of our lives that we have chosen to stuff in a dark corner of our selves. What came out of this, has been an unexpected closeness and a window, if not a door opened, into the emotions of the other person. I feel that I know myself better and my future wife a lot better because of our spiritual catalyst, Jorge’.

In the mean time, the last several weeks have been weeks of sincere enlightenment for me. I have been bombarded with interesting theories, as if I have been given an invisible syllabus to follow from some metaphysical course. I have accepted my determination to understand our existence not only on Earth but also the existence within ourselves and because of this simple pledge to myself, I have been given signs from every direction that this is worth pursuing. The thing is, I don’t intend to be a part of the answer, just a part of the mystery.

The Course all started when I was finally able to procure a copy of The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge. This book is a gem for a student of Anthropology and Biology, both of which I studied extensively in school. Among the amazing conclusions Narby draws that indicate human knowledge was initially attained by cultures entering altered states of consciousness and allowing information to be passed from the one material that binds all life on earth: DNA. This explains how indigenous cultures have been able to survive thousands of years creating complex chemical concoctions from their environment. It also gives examples of how this method of attaining knowledge has transcended cultures across the globe until very recent time.

DNA is a single molecule with a double helix structure; it is two complementary versions of the same “text” wrapped around each other; this allows it to unwind and make copies of itself: twins! This twinning mechanism is at the heart of life since it began. Without it, one cell could not become two, and life would not exist. And, from one generation to the next, the DNA text can also be modified, so it allows both constancy and transformation. This means that beings can be the same and not the same. One of the mysteries is what drives the changes in the DNA text in evolution. DNA has apparently been around for billions of years in its current form in virtually all forms of life. The old theory—random accumulation of errors combined with natural selection—does not fully explain the data currently generated by genome sequencing. The question is wide open.
People spend hours each day thinking non-rationally. Our emotional brain treats all the information we receive before our neo-cortex does. Scientists are forever making discoveries as they daydream, take a bath, go for a run, lay in bed, and so on.
Both shamans and molecular biologists agree that there is a hidden unity under the surface of life’s diversity; both associate this unity with the double helix shape (or two entwined serpents, a twisted ladder, a spiral staircase, two vines wrapped around each other); both consider that one must deal with this level of reality in order to heal. One can fill a book with correspondences between shamanism and molecular biology.
I think we should attend to the words we use. “Consciousness” carries different baggage than “intelligence.” Many would define human consciousness as different from, say, animal consciousness, because humans are conscious of being conscious. But how do we know that dolphins don’t think about being dolphins? I do not know whether there is a “consciousness” inside our cells; for now, the question seems out of reach; we have a hard enough time understanding our own consciousness—though we use it most of the time. I propose the concept of “intelligence” to describe what proteins and cells do, simply because it makes the data more comprehensible. This concept will require at least a decade or two for biologists to consider and test. Then, we might be able to move along and consider the idea of a “cellular consciousness.”

The other point Narby makes, is how both biology and anthropology have reached a fuzzy point in their development where both are afraid and abstain from experimenting with intangible metaphysics. He states that this is where science ends and until we can get off our anthro-centric high horse and sit down with the few of these people that have not been absorbed into the material world, listen to what they have to say as face-value (as opposed to interpretation), we will begin to understand what these cultures have been trying to explain to us since the science of anthropology was developed a few hundred years ago.

More to come next week.

A couple months ago, some of the editors of this blog convened on a small island off the Eastern Coast of the USA. At some point, someone claimed that they heard on NPR that within the next few months, scientists would come out with a conclusion that will totally change everything we know about a particular subject in science. The trouble was, either NPR didn’t say, or our fellow editor couldn’t remember which field of science this revelation would affect.

I guessed it would be time travel, something involving worm holes.

But could it be Earth Science? Neal Adams, a professional animator and big name in the comics world, poses an incredible theory on an alternative idea to Pangea. First, watch the video on this link. If you have a slow browser, you might not want to skip this part…but if you have high speed, dude, watch this video

In case you have slow speed, I’ll reiterate the idea below, using Neal Adams’ illustrations of how the continents spread out the way they did:

This is how our Earth looks now.

We all know that the Eastern edge of the Americas lines up with the Western edge of Africa and Europe…

But what if all the other edges met too?

That would mean that our Earth was much smaller before, and as it grew, the continents spread out…If you’re still not sure about this theory, watch all of the other videos here
And listen to his recent radio interview here

Seeing if I could replicate the process very roughly, I printed out a small map of the Earth’s Continents:

I cut out the land masses, and tried to create a whole Earth, with no Oceans. Here’s what I got:

Not the greatest, but I’m working with paper which, while there is give, there is little room for the little maneuvers that a large land mass would have.

this not only works for Earth (putting the land masses together to form a smaller sphere) but from the videos linked to above, you learn that it also works for our moon, Mars, and other planetary objects.

I gotta hand it to our Commander in Chief, or at least his handlers, 10 reasons to be afraid + 7 reassuring words of governmental comfort in only 2 minutes of talking. Who says Americans aren’t efficient?

10:54 A.M. CDT

THE PRESIDENT: The recent arrests that our fellow citizens are now learning about are a stark reminder that this nation is at war with Islamic fascists who will use any means to destroy those of us who love freedom, to hurt our nation.

I want to thank the government of Tony Blair and officials in the United Kingdom for their good work in busting this plot. I thank the officials in Washington, D.C. and around our country who gather intelligence and who work to protect the American people. The cooperation on this venture was excellent — cooperation between U.K. and U.S. authorities and officials was solid. And the cooperation amongst agencies within our government was excellent.

This country is safer than it was prior to 9/11. We’ve taken a lot of measures to protect the American people. But obviously, we’re still not completely safe, because there are people that still plot and people who want to harm us for what we believe in. It is a mistake to believe there is no threat to the United States of America. And that is why we have given our officials the tools they need to protect our people.

Travelers are going to be inconvenienced as a result of the steps we’ve taken. I urge their patience and ask them to be vigilant. The inconvenience is — occurs because we will take the steps necessary to protect the American people.

Again, I appreciate the close cooperation between our government and the government of the United Kingdom. The American people need to know we live in a dangerous world, but our government will do everything we can to protect our people from those dangers.

Thank you.

END 10:56 A.M. CDT

Yes there are people in the world who want to kill other people in the world.
If you, Joe Internet Reader, are afraid that some of these people, the ambiguously defined Terrorists, may kill you, specifically, check out the odds and adjust your fear accordingly. Me? I’m a little more concerned about heart disease.

For Real Gentlemen, for Real. Enjoy, this is a copy of an article:

On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the American Stonehenge. Though relatively unknown to most people, it is an important link to the Occult Hierarchy that dominates the world in which we live.
The origin of that strange monument is shrouded in mystery because no one knows the true identity of the man, or men, who commissioned its construction. All that is known for certain is that in June 1979, a well-dressed, articulate stranger visited the office of the Elberton Granite Finishing Company and announced that he wanted to build an edifice to transmit a message to mankind. He identified himself as R. C. Christian, but it soon became apparent that was not his real name. He said that he represented a group of men who wanted to offer direction to humanity, but to date, almost two decades later, no one knows who R. C. Christian really was, or the names of those he represented. Several things are apparent. The messages engraved on the Georgia Guidestones deal with four major fields: (1) Governance and the establishment of a world government, (2) Population and reproduction control, (3) The environment and man’s relationship to nature, and (4) Spirituality.

In the public library in Elberton, I found a book written by the man who called himself R.C. Christian. I discovered that the monument he commissioned had been erected in recognition of Thomas Paine and the occult philosophy he espoused. Indeed, the Georgia Guidestones are used for occult ceremonies and mystic celebrations to this very day. Tragically, only one religious leader in the area had the courage to speak out against the American Stonehenge, and he has recently relocated his ministry.

THE MESSAGE OF THE GEORGIA GUIDESTONES

1. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
2. Guide reproduction wisely - improving fitness and diversity.
3. Unite humanity with a living new language.
4. Rule passion - faith - tradition - and all things with tempered reason.
5. Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
6. Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
7. Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
8. Balance personal rights with social duties.
9. Prize truth - beauty - love - seeking harmony with the infinite.
10.Be not a cancer on the earth - Leave room for nature - Leave room for nature.

Limiting the population of the earth to 500 million will require the extermination of nine-tenths of the world’s people. The American Stonehenge’s reference to establishing a world court foreshadows the current move to create an International Criminal Court and a world government. The Guidestones’ emphasis on preserving nature anticipates the environmental movement of the 1990s, and the reference to “seeking harmony with the infinite” reflects the current effort to replace Judeo-Christian beliefs with a new spirituality.

The message of the American Stonehenge also foreshadowed the current drive for Sustainable Development. Any time you hear the phrase “Sustainable Development” used, you should substitute the term “socialism” to be able to understand what is intended. Later in this syllabus you will read the full text of the Earth Charter which was compiled under the direction of Mikhail Gorbachev and Maurice Strong. In that document you will find an emphasis on the same basic issues: control of reproduction, world governance, the importance of nature and the environment, and a new spirituality. The similarity between the ideas engraved on the Georgia Guidestones and those espoused in the Earth Charter reflect the common origins of both.

Yoko Ono, the widow of John Lennon, was recently quoted as referring to the American Stonehenge, saying:

“I want people to know about the stones … We’re headed toward a world where we might blow ourselves up and maybe the globe will not exist … it’s a nice time to reaffirm ourselves, knowing all the beautiful things that are in this country and the Georgia Stones symbolize that. ” (1)

What is the true significance of the American Stonehenge, and why is its covert message important? Because it confirms the fact that there was a covert group intent on

(1) Dramatically reducing the population of the world.
(2) Promoting environmentalism.
(3) Establishing a world government.
(4) Promoting a new spirituality.

Certainly the group that commissioned the Georgia Guidestones is one of many similar groups working together toward a New World Order, a new world economic system, and a new world spirituality. Behind those groups, however, are dark spiritual forces. Without understanding the nature of those dark forces it is impossible to understand the unfolding of world events.

The fact that most Americans have never heard of the Georgia Guidestones or their message to humanity reflects the degree of control that exists today over what the American people think. We ignore that message at our peril.

Copies are available for researchers from Radio Liberty.

Have you ever wondered why people claim that income taxes are illegal, or why people would want to refrain from paying their taxes in the first place? I mean, don’t our income taxes go towards providing schooling, health care and other social programs?

The answer from Aaron Russo (Producer of The Rose, Trading Places, and Teachers) may make you want to do your own research into this realm. For instance, the 16th amendment (which allows the IRS to demand that people pay income taxes) was created the same year that the Federal Reserve Act was passed. Is there a relationship between the two, and is it possible that the reason for us paying our income taxes is to pay off interest to the “FED”, interest that if our government printed its own money we wouldn’t even owe?

And was the 16th Amendment actually ratified? Didn’t the Supreme Court declare that collecting income taxes was illegal since the 16th Amendment was never ratified?

If you’re curious about these questions (or their answers) click on the image above to see where you can see the new movie “From Freedom to Fascism” by Aaron Russo.

Awhile back, I mentioned my mom’s trip to Nigeria with the Seattle-based organization Global Citizen Journey. Well, she’s headed back there, this time volunteering to help wrap up a documentary about the oil-rich, yet poverty-stricken region.

Sweet Crude, a documentary currently in production, will tell the story of Nigeria’s Niger Delta—a story that has never been captured on film. Here, in the most populous country in Africa, at the mouth of the Niger River, billions of dollars of crude reside under the feet of a desperate people. This is a region where vast oil revenues and abject poverty stand in stark contrast. Where families face enormous challenges amidst environmental devastation. Where the issues are vastly complicated, the answers slow in coming.

This is the story of people struggling to eat in a land with no more fish. To live with the constant threat of war. To navigate the complexities of meaningful solutions to the most serious of circumstances. To simply survive, perhaps even thrive, if non-violent political solutions can emerge in a hurry. Whether they can succeed is our concern—the stories unfolding in the Niger Delta affect us all.

Watch the trailer here.
Read more about what’s going on the Niger Delta here.
Donate to help the crew & volunteers get there here.

A few weeks ago, I got real stubborn and stamped my feel like a child because I did not want to go to a restaurant that I know serves conventional food and [more than likely] uses hydrogenated oils as the base for their fry grease. So we had that great reunion of friends and I began explaining what hydrogenated oils were, only to realize two things: 1. I did not know exactly what they were, nor how to explain them coherently, and 2. My audience knows me well enough to know when I am bullshitting an answer.
Unfortunately, it was both cases.
It was a New Years resolution of mine to avoid “trans-fats” as much as possible and have been very good about doing so. Along with this, my fiancée and I have stopped shopping at conventional grocery stores, where it is impossible to have a pleasant experience, especially while having to read all the ingredients on the back of over-processed food just to see whether or not they were living up to my new standards. Fortunately, we have a wonderful Co-op right down the street that does significant research into every product they put on their shelves, weeding out the majority of the stuff one doesn’t want in processed and unprocessed food. (I say majority because they do still serve junk food, but it’s Kind Hippy Junk Food. We don’t buy that crap either.

“By our most conservative estimate, replacement of partially hydrogenated fat in the U.S. diet with natural unhydrogenated vegetable oils would prevent approximately 30,000 premature coronary deaths per year, and epidemiologic evidence suggests this number is closer to 100,000 premature deaths annually.”

What this comes down to, is much more than just changing one’s diet to become healthier. What needs to happen in our society if we expect a change, is to dangle our dollars like carrots in front of a burro to guide companies into more responsible practices. Some people claim that companies control the consumers, but on the contrary I believe that if people consistently buy products and support services that are transparent and prove their dedication to health and the environment, global well-being and economic responsibility, companies will listen change. They have to, if they want to survive. For instance, look how many grocery stores now are carrying organic lines than were 5 years ago. Money is the honey and it speaks all languages. A consumer revolution might not be the end-all answer, but it could get us on a more worthy track.

So here is the answer to why this stuff is the devil.
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Once a Day is back from Vacation…Hope everyone’s well rested and ready for more Blaahhhging.

I’m working on a theory: We’re all involved in a cult where its perfectly normal to sacrafice our time to the gods of “Work”. I started putting this together in the middle of a hellacious work-week where I put in over 90 extra hours within a week and a half. I started feeling resentful that I had to get up early every morning and return home late every night, rarely seeing my spouse and my cat. Then I started wondering why I do it even when I’m not working extra. Why am I sacraficing so many hours of my day?

The Answer: I’ve been involved in a job-cult ever since the day I was born; I’ve been brainwashed with kiddie books and quotations about the merits of having a job, and how there’s no way that humans could live without them. Think back to how often adults used to ask you what you were going to be when you grew up, as if you weren’t anything or anyone as a child, without that “job”. I have had the mantra “there’s no such thing as a free lunch” quoted to me so often I began to believe it was true. So instead of sacraficing babies on an alter to our pagan gods, we instead sacrafice our precious days to the god of “Job”.

So, among the many goals in my life, I’ve added a new one: Figure out how humanity can thrive without “jobs”. Who’s with me?

One of the things I love about Google News is the ability it gives you to see one story through the eyes of several outlets. For example, when a man suffers a ten-year erection from a faulty penile implant and sues the corporation who produced it, clever headlines are bound to follow.

Hard Times Made Easier
Stiff Penalty for Implant Firm
220K for a Hard Life
$400GS Will Help Him Through Hard Times

And my personal favorite:
Implant Fails: What is he Complaining About?

So, I just found out that Jesus didn’t exist.

Also, Christianity is all built on lies and falsehoods.

(Okay, this is all speculation. But visit the site, see the movie and tell me what YOU think.)

You can even view the trailor here: The God Who Wasn’t There

- The early founders of Christianity seem wholly unaware of the idea of a human Jesus

- The Jesus of the Gospels bears a striking resemblance to other ancient heroes and the figureheads of pagan savior cults

- Contemporary Christians are largely ignorant of the origins of their religion

- Fundamentalism is as strong today as it ever has been, with an alarming 44% of Americans believing Jesus will return to earth in their lifetimes

As I am still stuck in dialup land, maybe some of you with an hour to spare can watch Noam Chomsky’s West Point talk and give the group a synopsis.

From the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Noam Chomsky talks to West Point cadets about just war theory and the invasion of Iraq. During the talk, Professor Chomsky criticizes the work of Michael Walzer, an influential proponent of just war theory and the author of the popular “Just and Unjust Wars.” Following his remarks, Professor Chomsky takes questions from the cadets about international law and the Bush administration’s foreign policy.

From other comments on the web, it seems to have been worthwhile.

This may be old news, but in checking out Slingshot’s story from last night, it turns out that the great Mosquito Ringtone story is actually true.

In that old battle of the wills between young people and their keepers, the young have found a new weapon that could change the balance of power on the cellphone front: a ring tone that many adults cannot hear.

The technology, which relies on the fact that most adults gradually lose the ability to hear high-pitched sounds, was developed in Britain but has only recently spread to America — by Internet, of course.

[snip]

The cellphone ring tone was the offshoot of an invention called the Mosquito, developed last year by a Welsh security company to annoy teenagers and gratify adults, not the other way around.

It was marketed as an ultrasonic teenager repellent, an ear-splitting 17-kilohertz buzzer designed to help shopkeepers disperse young people loitering in front of their stores while leaving adults unaffected.

So I can hear it, but I would be very interested to perform my own study with different people on different computers or cell phones. At any rate, this brings up a couple questions for me:

1) Is the technology gap between generations widening at such a pace that could threaten the status quo and bolster Teen Revolt?

2) What else are humans doing with sound frequency that may be less innocent than discouraging loitering teens or sneaking text messages by aged teachers?

Also, I have to say that I’d much rather kids set their ringer to mosquito than have to hear Super Mario Brothers one more time. Not to mention more inappropriate choices.

Ah, for the days of good old-fashioned wholesome ringtones like these:

Licking an Envelope Ringtone—Again, playing on nostalgia, a real tear-tugger for the baby boomers. The lick-lick sound, then the kweek sound of folding the paper over. I can clearly imagine a cell phone ringing and a stranger nearby saying, “God, is someone actually performing that ancient domestic art of licking an envelope?”

The annual Webby Awards were a few days ago. It’s kind of like the Oscars for the Internet and is pretty extensive, though only seems to cover American websites. I really like looking at these sites from a design perspective, not necessarily for what they have to say, but the Remember Segregation site is pretty powerful. I found a few that I thought were interesting, but check out the whole awards site to see the winners. Enjoy.

http://www.remembersegregation.org/

http://www.bigfatinstitute.org/

http://youthink.worldbank.org/

http://www.experiencewonderyou.co.uk/

http://www.bookofcool.com/index_flash_content.htm
http://www.bebopjeans.com/

Last month, you may have been surprised to read of this little known fact from the National Institutes of Health.

“…[C]offee is the single most important source of antioxidants in the diets of Norwegians and of middle aged women in Iowa.”

If you’re like me, and are neither Norwegian nor a middle aged Iowan woman, then you’ll be glad to know that coffee may hold some benefit for the rest of us. The Archives of Internal Medicine just released a study suggesting that everyone’s favorite pie-accompanying beverage may actually prevent some of the damage caused by alcohol abuse.

Those who drank less than one cup per day were 30 per cent less likely to develop alcoholic cirrhosis, although this result was not statistically significant. But those who drank one to three cups were 40 per cent less likely - a significant result - and four or more cups per day cut the risk by 80 per cent. (link)

Being a man of eternal compromise, I believe I’ll start going a little heavier on the ol’ Irish Coffee. As long as it’s made with the good stuff, that is.