Month: June 2006

  • Congress Considering Adding MySpace to Data Retention Requiments

    Again, What about the children! and The terrorists will win! are invoked: In those meetings, Justice Department representatives went beyond the argument that data retention was necessary to protect children–and claimed it would aid in terrorism investigations as well. During Wednesday’s hearing, politicians also claimed that social-networking sites were not doing enough to verify that […]

  • Tuesday Morneeen

    The power meter on the laptop is a bit wonky. It says I have only 5% left when it had been charging all night while I continued backing my data offsite. It is taking days since I’m fitting 40GB through an FTP connection. But I’ll feel better once it is completed. Ron and I had […]

  • Armed Madhouse: Who's Afraid of Osama Wolf?, China Floats, Bush Sinks, The Scheme to Steal ‘08,No Child's Behind Left, and Other Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class War by Greg Palast (Mindmap)

    Must read. You know Greg Palast as the ex-pat journalist that reports for the BBC and reported to the rest of the world how the 2000 election was FUBARed while no one in the US did a damned thing. He’s back. Armed Madhouse is a complete tour of the greedy, selfish assholes that run our […]

  • Dan Rather Wishes

    Does anybody else harbor a secret fantasy of Bill Moyers, Dan Rather and Ted Koppel all getting together and doing a total news media takedown with blistering documentaries and reportage?

  • Andymatic 017 Gay Podcast

    Andymatic 017 Gay Podcast Dr. Eric from drericsblog.com and I work out the world’s problems.

  • Got 30 More Seconds?

    I snagged a nomination for those blog award – but now I need your vote! Hp me nab the prize! Vote early, vote often! http://andywibbels.com/sherpa/

  • HOWTO: Design a Civil War

    Another facsinating comment on Metafilter details why Iraq is failing – it was designed to slide into civil war. Iraq as a country is designed to fail. [T]he British carefully used their monopoly over cartography to ensure that these newly independent entities were cut up into chunks that would perpetuate ethnic strife and provide a […]

  • HOWTO: Tell AT&T To Fuck Off

    From Metafilter: On the eve of its hearing on charges that it assisted in the government’s illegal spying on millions of Americans, AT&T, the largest phone company in the United States, has changed its privacy policy to clearly establish its ownership of its customers’ personal account information. Because your records aren’t yours. They can do […]

  • UK: 1 Surveilliance Camera for Every 14 Citizens

    Coming soon to a nation near you: It’s not a silver bullet. Take the example of the Brixton bomber [David Copeland, who planted three bombs in London in 1999]. The police gathered all the CCTV footage from all the cameras in Brixton, but it took 50 detectives over 20 days to plough through all the […]

  • Ron's Takedown

    As the weather gets warmer, intolerance seems to settle in like a humid mist. Ron and some friends were walking on Briar and someone woman passed them and said Fucking faggots. Ron laid in to her and told her that she’s in the wrong neighborhood to be making those kinds of remarks and told her […]