There have been plenty of stories about technical problems associated with municipal-level WiFi projects, but this one may be a first. The WiFi network designed to cover Bowdoin College and its neighbors in Brunswick, Maine has been put off indefinitely, due to worries over whether or not the network needs to be wiretap-ready for the FBI.
united arab emirates company to oversee u.s. ports of new york, new jersey, baltimore, new orleans, miami, and philadelphia. u.s. commitee on foreign investments found ‘no problem’ although the fbi says uae was an important financial and operational base for nine eleven hijackers..
http://mosnews.com/news/2006/01/16/brother.shtml
Doctors said the embryo belonged to Namyatov’s unborn brother who had spent 35 years in the body of the patient.
Namyatov’s fellow villagers doubted the explanation given by the doctors. Some even surmised the object removed from Namyatov’s body was an extraterrestrial organism.
http://www.btplc.com/Innovation/News/timeline/index.htm
past presents the future. bt’s predicted innovations for the next fifty years
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4566526.stm
year end list from bbc
http://thaspot.thuglifearmy.com/
hip hop/urban blog host. perfect companion to gmail. why? because g is for gangsta
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4174519.stm
our taxdollars are developing a ‘gay bomb’ for military purposes .. once they stopped working on the “Who? Me?” device that makes folks fart
http://labs.systemone.at/retrievr/
retrievr. drw thngs nd gt flckr pctrs tht rsmbl yr drwng. vwls r fr lsrs
http://www.infowars.com/articles/ps/school_washington_pupils_given_patriotism_test.htm
washington state’s ‘politics, patriotism, and protest opinionnaire’ from english class
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/transport/article334686.ece
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article334684.ece
the nsa tracks everything you write or phone about. next theyll track everywhere you drive or walk like the uk’s license plate tracking plan
http://www.physorg.com/news9273.html
“Perhaps the sexiest part is the solution we put together will make the passenger experience less intrusive”
grammar be sexy too
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=10362257
picnic table with wheels. and an engine.
http://www.oase.udk-berlin.de/%7earam/rscreen.mov
‘random screen’ by aram bartholl. made with candles and beer cans
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.01/fraud.html?pg=1&topic=fraud&topic_set=
click fraud clogs, splogs, and zombie networks
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.01/interior.html
coolest rooms according to wired
http://www.ctrl.org/essay2/JFKHIT1.html
while reading about the nsa and seeing that stabilized jfk video, i ran across this anonymous conspiracy theory allegedly researched for ten years before being published ten years ago. other than being a few years off schedule and sounding like a crazy at times, this guys predictions are frighteningly on point.
What the Group wanted by the time of the “incubation
period” [1995-2000] was a society that was uneducated, amoral,
uncommitted to democratic institutions, living in fear, with a
sudden and very drastic reduction in spendable income
simultaneous with societal chaos.
…
dramatically increased media [TV] portrayal of violence and
joblessness [role models have no jobs, bad guys live in big
houses, etc.; begin your reading with The Early Window,
by Liebert & Sprafkin], reduced the standards of education and
early training for rational thought [see Endangered Minds for a
partial account] and fostered every possible dislocation in family
structure they could engineer
Overintellectual anarchists unite!
How the hell did Conan get his hands on the Walker, Texas Ranger archive again?
It’s hard to imagine anything more necessary than this comic book. Or imaginative.
http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20051110.gthits10/BNStory/Technology/
computers predict hit singles. they even chose the release order of christina aguilera’s singles from stripped
http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020392
Serotonin and Depression: A Disconnect between the Advertisements and the Scientific Literature
http://www.dclxvi.org/chunk/
c.h.u.n.k. 666
http://www.nbc4.tv/slideshow/news/5090857/detail.html?qs=;s=8;p=news;dm=ss;w=400l
fountain installation laced with lsd
http://www.thatvideosite.com/view/833.html
ali g beat boxes to anti-abortion demonstrators
http://www.house.gov/apps/list/hearing/ca18_cardoza/bush_administration_breaks_record.html
bush borrows more than previous forty two presidents combined
http://www.mr-jones.org/katazukue/index.html#vidimg
self-cleaning desk
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/11/10/infrared_portrait_ph.html
inrared photography
This report from Tiny Mix Tapes makes me furious:
http://tinymixtapes.com/2005_11_01_archivenews.htm#113152691415817238
“Brian Wilson is picking up litigious vibrations, and they’re coming from his cousin! The music legend, who released the long awaited SMiLE album last year to wide spread critical acclaim [TMT Review], is being sued by his first cousin and former Beach Boys bandmate Mike Love. The lawsuit has been primarily provoked by an advertisement in Britain’s The Daily Mail, which gave away 2.6 million copies of a Beach Boys compilation.
“Wilson shamelessly misappropriated Mike Love’s songs, likeness and the Beach Boys trademark, as well as the ‘Smile’ album itself, ” claim Love’s lawyers. Love is looking to be compensated for millions of dollars in profits stemming from the give away, which he says undermined sales the band would have otherwise made from the album. He is also seeking another million dollars to be used for international advertising. In addittion to Wilson, the suit names The Mail on Sunday, Associated Newspapers LTD., Bigtime.TV, Sanctuary Records Group, and others. “The people around Brian have used him for their own financial gain without regard to his rights, my rights, or the rights of the estates of his deceased brothers, Carl and Dennis, and their children, ” a statement by Love said.
Love is currently the sole owner of the right to tour under the Beach Boys name which, depending on how you look at it, could mean he’s shamelessly misappropriating much of Brian Wilson’s work. What’s worse, being sued by your cousin or being sued by a dead guy? Love and mercy to you and your friends tonight!”
Fucking rediculous.
Mike Love is suing cousin Brian Wilson over SMiLE — which he was instrumental in preventing its release in 1967 and fucking up Brian’s mental health as well. He complained that he didn’t understand lyrics like ‘columnated ruins domino’
Dr. Eugene Landy, Brian’s longtime confidant, believes that Love should not have been allowed to use the Beach Boys name unless Brian would agree to write and/or produce 80% of the material due to contractual obligations with former labels. Love continues recording and touring as the Beach Boys to this day despite the deaths of Wilson brothers Carl and Dennis, with 1988’s ‘Kokomo’ being the only ‘hit’ since Brian’s departure.
Mike and Brian have a history of problems despite sharing writing credits on classics like ‘Surfin’ Safari,’ ‘Fun, Fun, Fun,’ ‘Do it again,’ ‘The Warmth of the Sun,’ and fucking ‘Good Vibrations’
Love, however, was usually supportive of Brian’s songwriting, as he had authored nearly all of their hit originals with many contemporary articles saying “Brian is the genius of the group” and “Brian is the group” which was naturally resented by lead singer Mike Love. “It’s a bitch of a persona conflict trip going” said Brian. Carl and Mike were pissed, but other brother Dennis consistantly supported Brian’s artistic and legal efforts before his drowning in 1983.
This isnt the first time the two have opposed each other in court.. in 1990, Brian’s mother Audree, brother Carl, and cousin Stan Love (Mike’s brother) brought suit to ask a judge to declare him incompetent and appoint a conservator to handle his affairs.. all while Brian is in a major court case with Irving Almo Music, publisher of A&M records, to regain songwriting copywrites to a number of hit songs (a multi-million dollar catalogue his father Murray sold in 1969 for $700,000). Murray is also responsible for Brian’s deafness in one ear resulting from constant abuse throughout his childhood.
The two cousins also cowrote ‘California Girls,’ but Murry Wilson, Brian’s dad and Beach Boys publisher, listed Brian as the sole author..
“so in other words we have our problems but it’s ok, they’re worked out. I worked it out with him” said Brian in an august 1988 interview for Bay Area Music magazine.
well. not quite.
Bill Holdship spoke with Brian in 1991 about the band’s dynamics since Brian stopped touring with the group in the late sixties…
“Earlier in May of 1990, shortly after the conservatorship suit was filed Brian flew up to San Francisco for a couple of gigs two nights in a row. He walked backstage to the dressing room and not having seen these guys for months, Mike’s response wasn’t ‘hello’, but rather to walk up to Brian and stand as close as possible, intimidating Brian, and playing up to Brian’s fear of Mike. And then the first words out of his mouth were: ‘Those shoes look hideous’. When Al Jardine walked up and said to Brian ‘What are you doing here?’ Brian said ‘I work here. These are my songs.’ Al was quiet for a moment and then said ‘Well just don’t sing them like you’re a Vegas lounge act.’ And Carl didn’t say a word to Brian that whole night. … Equally unbelievable was that during the second show Al Jardine left in the middle of the concert. He just walked off the stage because he had a plane to catch.”
In a 1994 interview by Melodye Dorst with Mike Love, he bitched about not getting writing credits for ‘California Girls’ and ‘I Get Around’, saying:
“Brian has gotten, deservedly, a lot of credit, but I haven’t been given the credit I deserve. Professionally speaking, that’s the most personally impactful thing I can think of when your own cousin and your own uncle cheat you, it’s a real drag. Brian has his excuses, I guess you say, or excuses could be made, or it could be rationalised because he’s had a series of mental problems, nervous breakdowns, and he’s diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic … But, most of his adult life he’s been under the control of other people which is sad.”
Love, during the SMiLE sessions, was adament in continuing their tried-and-true pop formula of their old songs (which they discovered were still very popular, especially in the UK.. and returned to for songs such as ‘Do it Again’) rather than the experimental musings of Brian and Van Dyke Parks, who contributed all of the lyrics and significant musical aspects of SMiLE.
Holdship also spoke with Van Dyke Parks on the SMiLE subject, of which he said in reference to Mike Love’s criticism:
“I do think it’s unfair that the words should have been analysed so dismissively as they were. I think that that was wrong to do because, in fact, what I was trying to do was pursue Brian’s vision. And all I know was that I never changed a syllable of his in his melodies. That’s soverign. Melody is what comes from God. Melodies are feelings; words are thoughts.
…
It’s understandable to me that Mike Love didn’t like them. They were more sophisticated than he was capable of doing himself, and I can see — now that I look back on it — how he might have had some animosity toward me because, in fact, I took his job — the job that he wanted so desperately.”
Thirty years after the aborted SMiLE sessions, Love asked Parks,
“What do those words mean? ‘Over and over the crow flies, uncover the cornfield.’ And I was able to tell him, again, ‘I don’t know!’ I have no idea what those words mean. But I don’t think it’s an ugly picture. I think it’s a pretty picture.”
Ironically, in Love’s Dorst interview, he says Pet Sounds is his favorite album (Brian began recording SMiLE before Pet Sounds was finished) “because of the orchestrations and arrangements. Because it’s not just about cars or girls or school, but it’s about feelings; however, I think there was a screw up on that which was that they didn’t include ‘Good Vibrations’ on that album because it was being worked on about the same time. Had that been included, it really would be my favorite.”
Sure, Mike. Sure.. Unfortunatly it was never included on an album until 2004 (though many songs that appear on SMiLE were released in other forms on various releases and box sets), when Brian unveiled a completed SMiLE with its intended climax…. Good Vibrations.
Dorst asked Love, “What is the biggest motivation for giving up your summer every year and going out on the road?
Money! Because then we don’t have to go very far the rest of the year because we make enough money during the summer to relax and do some other things during the winter. That’s basically it.”
Aside from money, Love seems to be spitting up words that would be appropriate coming from Brian.
Domenic Priore quotes Van Dyke Parks in his article “When Two Great Saints Meet…”:
“Brian Wilson wanted to transform his message from fast cars and the illicit underbelly of eroticism, and extend his focus to something of a different nature, representing his greater understanding. I say the effort we all made in the ’60s was necessary at the time. The foolishness was incidental. We got something done: we got out of Vietnam, we redefined what a song can do. There’s blood, sweat and tears, there are hard lessons learned, and I feel totally at peace with the product of our participation. The only rub for me was that Brian and I did not put out a record together, to completion. We did not bring a record to press.”
I’ll conclude with another Parks quote from Holdship:
“I knew when I met Brian Wilson that I was the only person that could encourage him to be himself. I think Brian then was pushed to an act of great courage — to develop the definition of what a song could do — and I think he pursued it. And, risking all, I think he was overwhelmed by the self-interests of the other fellows in the group, who were.. uh, almost irrelevant to this vision he had of the American Deam. I think I was part and parcel of what it was. And I was abetting him in that effort. So, I think they shot the messenger, but at least they didn’t lose the message.”
oh yeah. and fuck mike love. brian deserves better, especially from family
My first little piece of the internet. Because the web was too simple.
For all you steampunk/rube goldberg folks.
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/nation/13070288.htm
ne rve gas at sea
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/11/LI2005041100879.html
follo w the memos
http://thenonist.com/index.php/weblog/permalink/the_erotic_coloring_book/
e r otic col o ring bo ok fr om ni neteen seventy-five
http://www.physorg.com/news7869.html
c oper nicus was in pol a nd all a long
http://s52.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1IUG92LV9WK6I0PPZ9DY1YKE7S
holo graph ic per forming g orill a z
http://www.undergroundkent.co.uk/maunsell_towers.htm
for me r f o r t
http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/at/vida/paginas/ev8.html
ai a r t
http://ispots.mit.edu/
is pots
http://infosthetics.com/archives/2005/11/air_traffic_map_visualization.html
v is ual iz e air t raff i c
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2005/10/28bartlett.html
res p onsi ble sp am
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9842701/
elements of style musical
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4396230.stm
hormonal chicks are prettier
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051027/ap_on_re_us/brf_woman_hanged
suicide mistaken for halloween decoration
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1849406,00.html
underground city
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,14932-1836864,00.html
john peel’s favorite forty fives
http://www.gotouring.com/razzledazzle/articles/dazzle.html
razzle dazzle battleships
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/11/01/scooter_libbys_novel.html
scooter libby wrote a novel featuring sex with children
http://www.areasofmyexpertise.com/hoboes.html
henry played this on his show monday night, much to my amusement. the author recites seven hundred hobo names he thought up. they are wonderful and now people have begun illustrating them:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/700hoboes/
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000323065935/
rokr replacement to have bluetooth stereo headphones
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,121828,00.asp
flexible cholesteric lcd screen can display an image without power
http://news.com.com/2300-1008_3-5916072-1.html
real babel fish is more like babel tentacled spider attached to your chest not slithered into your ear
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/nyunderground/docs/nymain.html
new york underground
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/11/LI2005041100879.html
the post on cheney
http://audium.blogspot.com/2005/10/os-mutantes-on-brasilian-tv-video.html
os mutantes on video!!!
http://faculty.nmu.edu/ims/sears1.htm
jenga sears tower
http://www.jottings.com/100-oldest-dot-com-domains.htm
oldest dot coms
1. 15-Mar-1985 SYMBOLICS.COM
2. 24-Apr-1985 BBN.COM
3. 24-May-1985 THINK.COM
4. 11-Jul-1985 MCC.COM
5. 30-Sep-1985 DEC.COM
6. 07-Nov-1985 NORTHROP.COM
7. 09-Jan-1986 XEROX.COM
8. 17-Jan-1986 SRI.COM
9. 03-Mar-1986 HP.COM
10. 05-Mar-1986 BELLCORE.COM
11= 19-Mar-1986 IBM.COM
11= 19-Mar-1986 SUN.COM
13= 25-Mar-1986 INTEL.COM
13= 25-Mar-1986 TI.COM
15. 25-Apr-1986 ATT.COM
http://www.worth1000.com/cache/contest/contestcache.asp?contest_id=7686&display=photoshop#entries
another grand worth1000 contest
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4348404.stm
http://video.lisarein.com/dailyshow/oct2005/10-06-05/10-6-05-avianflu.mov
the bird flu is coming!
http://www.clerks2.com/
kevin smith is making a sequel to clerks!
http://www.sci-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=38629
printable chip
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18825201.100&feedId=fundamentals_rss20
supersolids
http://www.flight404.com/blog/?p=20
http://www.1stavemachine.net/video/smallreel_2.mov
3d animation [more at 1stavemachine.net]
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18825196.200&feedId=info-tech_rss20
iris on the move
http://uglypc.ggh.org.uk/chrisb/old_tv/old_tv_mp3/
http://soundamerica.com/sounds/themes/Television/
old tv show themes
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/4326286.stm
wallace and gromit burned
http://www.beatnikpad.com/archives/2005/10/05/musicians-who-blog
musician bloggers
http://www.germancarblog.com/2005/10/lamborghini-intel-powered-notebook.html
lamborghini branded intel laptops
http://www.medgadget.com/archives/2005/10/in_the_works_a_1.html
no prick blood sugar testing
http://www.aresa.dk/
genetically modified plant detects landmines by turning red
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nb20051007a8.htm
toyota (!) creates air-purifying plant for your house
http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1321
apple vingle?
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8155&feedId=online-news_rss20
synthetic cannabinoid may stimulate brain cell growth
http://gdisk.sourceforge.net/
use your gmail account like a portable drive
http://www.hmnews.org/article2720.html
tobacco lowers iq?
http://occasionallyoriginal.com/archives/82/google-global-wi-fisatellite-based-internet/
google global wifi via satellite?
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/terrorism/july-dec04/terror_8-3.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9665308/#051012a
thirteen coincidences of ‘credible threats’, higher terror alert announcements, and arrests of terror suspects during political trouble during the bush administrations stay.. he fucks up on that storm so he says someones bombing the subway.
http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/article/66432
Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 12 October 2005
By: Muhammad Abu Nasr on: 13.10.2005 [04:28 ] (4850 reads)
·Iraqis apprehend two Americans disguised as Arabs trying to detonate car bomb in a residential neighborhood of western Baghdad’s al-Ghazaliyah district on Tuesday.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-institutions_government/guantanamo_2854.jsp
bushes like abusing in guantanamo
http://www.pezmp3.com/
pez mp3 player
http://www.audiobulb.com/
click projects. sine me up
http://web.mit.edu/2.009/www/lectures/10_ArchimedesResult.html?kari
archimedes death ray?
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20051011.wxvonnegut11/BNStory/Entertainment/
if god were alive today, he’d be an athiest. says eighty two year old vonnegut
http://imaginaryfoundation.com/store/wholesale03.html
keep it surreal