Month: November 2003

Rockstar’s new game Manhunt features you in an enclosed ghetto called Cancer City in a kill-or-be-killed showdown orchestrated by a psycho movie director who constantly whispers orders into your ear. Execution methods include plastic bag suffocation, crowbars and guns – lots of guns. This reminds me of that awesome faux reality series, The Contenders. Is […]

Nikki Hartman was down in Miami to demonstrate in protest against the FTAA. She was knelt and praying as a line of riot police advanced on her. They gave no order to disperse. She got up and ran away. They shot her with rubber bullets. Pictures here, here and here.

I can’t sleep so I thought I’d post some of the blog entries languishing on my laptop: (November 17th) I figured out an easy way to do a backup of my desktop. Just transfer the entire My Documents folder onto my laptop. I kept forgetting that I have a D drive on here – that […]

In the ever escalating war to castrate the English language of any relevance, usefulness or accuracy comes this little treat: The County of Los Angeles has requested that equipment vendors avoid using the industry term “Master/Slave” in product descriptions and labelling. To the tech geeks out there this is nothing new. Master/slave refers to when […]

To commemorate the 40th anniversary of America losing it’s perennial innocence, I rented Interview with the Assassin. It’s a documentary about an old guy that claims to have been the second gunmen in Dealey Plaza – the one behind the grassy knoll that fateful Dallas day. If you’re a conspiracy buff like I am, you’ll […]

See, these protesters got it right. The press only pays attention to spectacle – especially when they don’t like your point of view. Signs and chanting don’t get noticed anymore. This is fantastic because it is non-destructive as well as iconic, ironic and metaphoric as well. Cheers, to those across the pond!

I think in this case international law stood in the way of doing the right thing. Holy Christ – someone actually said it.

Add to the piece about hiding the caskets: Media seeking to cover a [soldier]’s funeral found themselves limited by new Pentagon regulations that went into effect on Thursday. The new guidelines state that “reporters are no longer permitted to stand at the rear of the mourners during the service,” and microphones “are not permitted ? […]

Researchers created a synthetic genome (genetic map) of the virus and implanted it into a cell, the virus became “biologically active,” meaning it went to work reproducing itself.

I’m pretty annoyed at Al Gore’s recent ‘heroics’ and speaking out on policy. Now that he’s not a candidate for president. Where the hell where you when the Florida election got scammed? Where the hell where you when the PATRIOT Act was given midnight revisions and slammed into law? Where hell where you when we […]