Something to make you sick to your stomach: DC 9/11: Time of Crisis (2003) (TV), starring "That's My Bush" star Timothy Bottoms. The script was written by Bush associate Lionel Chetwynd, in cooperation with Karl Rove. An excerpt:

Bush: If some tinhorn terrorist wants me, tell him to come and ge me. I'll be at home. Waiting for the bastard."
Secret Service Agent: But Mr. President...
Bush: Try 'Commander-in-Chief.' Whose present command is, 'Take the President home!'

It will air on Showtime a few days before the second anniversary of 9/11, and just two months before the presidential election.

It's not a Canon A70, but I'm considering buying a Fujifilm FinePix 1300 for $70, hacking in a radio shack 555 timer chip and a 128MB flash card to make a rig for time-lapse photography of my Melty Man project.

Foresight Exchange: an online "game" in which players buy and sell "idea futures" -- shares of a claim that may or may not come true at some determined point in the future. For example, claim Bush04 pays off if George W. Bush is still president in February of 2005. Claim SARS pays off proportionate to the log of the number of deaths attributed to SARS.

The Burning Man Project :: Welcome Home Coming soon.

The Onion: Gigli Focus Groups Demand New Ending In Which Both Affleck And Lopez Die. Thank god for the Onion for making our world bearable to live in.

FutureMap: a real-money information futures market for predicting terrorist action. I think this was actually a pretty good idea. It created a reliable channel for collating the resources of the open source intelligence population, the first step in reforming our broken intelligence infrastructure. As a secondary effect, it would have also created a channel for informants to get paid for reliable anonymous tips, without the risks associated with becoming a CIA asset. Too bad some sensationalist reactionaries threw a hissy-fit and had this experiment deep-sixed before it could even get off the ground.

Decision Support Systems, Inc. publishes lots of interesting papers. See the world from an intelligence analyst's perspective.

Mollie Stone's Market: sometimes mispelled "Molly Stone's"

The Dead Milkmen can relax. Bob Hope is dead. Finally, there is enough beer for the rest of us.

Love yer uggabugga blog. More politics.

Learn to play guitar. Rock and roll.

EFF: now has database of individuals being subpeonaed by the RIAA available for searching. Are you on the list?

Globalisation as a decidedly positive force in the world: "Open World: The Truth About Globalisation," by Philippe Legrain and "The moral case for globalisation," Peter Martin But sometimes things go wrong: "The 'free trade' fix is in"

It's been a while since I heard the conspiracy theory about the Bush administration using airport security regulations as a tool to harass political opponents? I never believed it -- too wacky. But wait, it's true. Oh heck.

Saddam Does Not Have "Weapons of Mass Destruction" - By Timothy Noah: A discourse about what is or is not a WMD, and how the phrase "WMD" has been perverted for propaganda.

Mark A. R. Kleiman: another good poli blog -- lots of details about under-reported stories, such as the Plame burn.

Ransom Center: Gutenberg Bible

MENDEL'S: carries a line of spray-on fabric paint for "juniors."

SpeedRing Indoor Kart Racing: a possible birthday event?

Infineon Raceway: Hey, I get 50% discount on tickets, nifty!

American LeMans Series: possible activity for this sunday.

Marked for Debt - The Bush administration says we'll grow out of our deficit. But the Bush tax cuts make that impossible. By Daniel Gross

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Silk Screen Printing Craft Kit

Flax Art

Burning Man :: Playa Artifacts

nebkamp: my burning man camp

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall

"There is nothing I like better
Than a jostle now and then
With the hands under the sweater
And the back that starts to bend
But before my eyes are open
I don't want to have to hide
From a simpleton still poking
With a thimbleful of pride"