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VirusHead Project Playlist

VirusHead Project Playlist

I discovered a very fun application at my cousin Kim’s MySpace page. Project Playlist allows you to search for mp3s and create a playlist. You can post the code anywhere you like. I’ve got it on the VirusHead MySpace page too. Facebook even has an application add for it. Thanks Kim! Here’s my current playlist. I’ve got it set to randomize, but not to auto-play. You have some choice in the colors, too.

Lunar Eclipse

Lunar Eclipse

Check out photos of the lunar eclipse at The Raven’s Journey! A total eclipse of the Full Moon in Pisces, and I slept right through it… just too early in the morning for me. Here’s video from Chattanooga, TN. Post links to more photos, if you know of some.

Saturday Laurie Anderson Video

Saturday Laurie Anderson Video

I think I’m out of Laurie Anderson’s PSAs, so I’m moving on to other Anderson videos for the Saturday post. This one is “Mach 20,” about proportional speed and information-carrying vehicles… [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=SirOxIeuNDE[/youtube] Would they know that they had been sent for a purpose?

Adobe Semaphore Pynchon

Adobe Semaphore Pynchon

The semaphore (four rotating disks of light) atop the Adobe tower in downtown San Jose is indeed transmitting a message. Never heard of a semaphore? There are multiple meanings. In programming, it concerns methodology for mutual exclusion (see “excluded middles” below), parallel processing, and synchronization. Predating the electrical telegraph, the semaphore was defined as an optical telegraph that conveyed information via visual signals – towers with blades, shutters, flags and so on. semaphore I wonder to what extent the Adobe…

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Your Lost Liberties

Your Lost Liberties

A must-read. This sums it up. Five Ways Bush’s Era of Repression Has Stolen Your Liberties Since 9/11 By Matthew Rothschild, The New Press. Posted July 24, 2007 at AlterNet. From the new book You Have No Rights: Stories of America in an Age of Repression. Chilling stories of ordinary Americans whose everyday liberties have been violated since September 11. One small bit: The 1976 Levi guidelines prohibited the FBI from investigating the First Amendment activities of individuals and groups…

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