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take a proper gander

Instrument in God's hand? Toy in Thyssen's hand!
Check out these anti-Hitler, satirical magazine covers from the 1930's. It's easy to forget that this kind of art, and this kind of market-driven insanity, are nothing new.

wtf is going on?

i feel like the government is spying on me working on my comptuer... i'm researching this article on the carlyle group to be distributed at a demo, and everytime i get into it, my computer crashes. i know it sounds paranoid, but if script kiddies can figure out back orifice, you've gotta imagine the feds have some shit better than carnivore that they're not talking about. perhaps i need a better firewall...

reap what you sow

perhaps cheney's ties to halliburton (in relation to the co.'s government contract awards) will not go swept under the rug ... the dept. of the interior has taken halliburton out of the running for the deal to rebuild iraq. (c/o aphid)

i still say we need independent counsel investigation... particularly of cheney's secret energy meetings. let's impeach both the bastards! whaddaya make of the speaker and where's a man like ken starr when you need one?

heads-up

more on thursday's die-in from the bergen record | bend over good citizens, the gop's about to fuck us again | of course this war's not profit driven... how dare you | you are being lied to

randomotica

a dry spell is coming | this dipshit got what he deserved | ah yes, permanent favorite nation trade contract w/china but war on iraq | why they really want us to buy duct tape | this is just some bizarre shit

can there just not be fnords for once, for fucks sake?!

according to one less-than-reputable middle eastern source, dick cheney's daughter is planning on being a human shield in iraq ... or not, according to the washington times ...

but let me ask... who's less trustworthy? foreign press with an anti-imperialistic agenda, or the washington times, the paper founded by deranged messianic cult leader sun myung moon, who himself just so happens to have a sordid relationship with the bush dynasty? shall we just say, they're all full of shit?

moore on war / more on war / moron war

our friend isabel writes...

My friend and her husband are visiting from Cincinnati, when I asked them if they saw Michael Moore at the Oscars, they asked me who that was, when I told them it was the guy who won for best Documentary for "Bowling for Columbine", her husband said, "oh, is that the guy who made a fool of himself", I was like "what?!?!, that guy is my hero"!! My friend said, "Isabel, lets not talk about war because we have 2 different opinions about it, it's like talking about religion"

Her husband works at Jeff Ruby's, a popular restaurant in Cincinnati and said that Jeff Ruby banned all French products from all of his restaurants. I wish there was a way to stop people from eating at any of these restaurants. It just makes me mad, and sad about how ignorant people could be. I could be wrong, but it just seems that everyone from these conservative cities and towns, such as Cincinnati are all totally for the war and won't even hear of anything else. What a world!!!

our other friend monica suggested i post links to slate's "war on the web" part 1 and part 2, but i'm not particularly sure why.

supreme court to decide...

can gay people fuck?

fare hikes goin' through

nyc subway fares are going up to $2 in two weeks

nyc shutdown in progress

in case you hadn't noticed, thousands of demonstrators have taken to the nyc streets today for a massive die-in in protest of the war in iraq, and with little regret. a decoy rally at rockefeller plaza has set the stage for hundreds of direct actions to be performed by smaller affinity groups throughout the city. 5th ave. is 0wnz3r3d! crandan & throg are on the scene...

[update 1:06] as of this time, i can not reach cran or throg, but legal aid says neither of their names are on the list of arrestees thus far.

[update 4:02] throg and ten others were arrested this morning during the die-in at 48th and 5th. crandan is doing prisoner solidarity outside 100 centre street at the moment.

[update 8:14] crandan's doing prisoner solidarity outside 1 police plaza (once again, the police lied about where they were taking arrestees). go show your support!

godspeed you black terrorist

Before even having a chance to leave the station, the group was reportedly surrounded by police cars and FBI agents who, a representative for Chicago's Abbey Pub, where the band played this weekend, said had guns drawn. The band was held for questioning for roughly three hours before finally being released as innocents.

believe it or not, members of godspeed you black emperor (one of my most favorite bands ever) were swarmed by police at an oklahoma gas station and questioned as suspected terrorists. i suppose that's not an entirely innacurate description... (c/o richie)

rivers of babylon

By the rivers of Babylon,
Where we sat down,
And there we wept
When we remembered Zion.
(Psalm 137:1)

Oh, the wicked carried us away in captivity,
Required from us a song,
How can we sing King Alpha's song
Inna strange land?
(Psalm 137:3-4)

So, let the words of our mouth
And the meditations of our heart
Be acceptable in Thy sight.
Oh, verai!
(Psalm 19:14)

click here for an mp3 of rocker t's performance of this melodians classic @ last year's national rainbow gathering.

photoshop treachery

if the u.s. loses... (c/o relicious)
certainly a far cry from the original booby-bizatch with the open crotch.

jakeneck peoples show your love

hey kids... some of you noticed the little mobius pledgedrive in the corner and sent in gracious contributions, and for that i humbly thank you. your support is encouraging. we've really got something great going on here.

still, i'm a man on a mission. lemme 'splain—our server can currently host a maximum of 30 domains (like the44.net or jakeneck.com). at this time, we're at full capacity. in order for our network to grow in proportion to our community, it's necessary for us to increase the number of domains that we can host. this requires us to upgrade our server license, a pricey endeavor compared to our monthly fees. the good news is, after last week's contributions, we're only $170 away from our goal.

those of you who have yet to do so—reach in yo' pockets! show some love! even you righty bastids! you know we love having you here! lord knows you love coming here! you's like the yin to our yang n' shit... hook a nizza up! there's only more where this came from...

partake in the gift economy. word to your aunt. [x]

you think you really know me?

how well do you know mobius? and if you think that's tough... how much do you know about the 44?

[updated 3/26] here's an easier mobius quiz.

radical ideas

over the past few months i've noticed that i've accumulated a massive amount of things... things that i'm not necessarily using, and things i don't want to throw away. i'd rather see them put to good use, n'ah i mean? well, a couple of weeks ago i thought about the idea of running a free store. and i think right after i was stricken with this idea, i heard about this girl who was running a free store in my neighborhood, tho i have no idea where nor how to find her. anyway, after having read hakim bey's essay "the occult assault on institutions," i am more determined to make this idea a reality. so, i'm pitching this to you, my "bee," to see who else in the jakeneck clan would be down for to collaborate on a little purging festival... just take all the junk and funk you're too attatched to to throw away, but not so attatched that you couldn't part with, and we'll set up a free flea market one day this spring. anyone interested?

i'd also like to discuss the possibility of conducting a monthly potluck. anyone got any interest in that?

oh, and one more thing: in my mass accumulation of shit over the past few years, i've built up a huge library of political and religious propaganda and all sorts of miscellaneous and interesting documents from all different sides of the fence. i've collected some really interesting shit and i'd sort of like to donate the archive to a library but doubt any would be interested. i'd be even more excited to put the whole thing online, but the scanning is so arduous and time consuming, and the hard drive space it'd take would be enormous... anyone have an ideas for what i could do with all this stuff? this one dude, chipe rowe was doing a 'zine for a while called chip's closet cleaner, which took all bizarre shit like this and assembled it into a monthly publication. neat idea, but also impractical for me right now... what could i do with all this stuff?

more handy technology for the active activist

i've just created a upoc group that will allow members of the jakeneck crew to broadcast sms messages to each other via their cellphones. if you're planning on attending any demos with us and want to be in contact, or if you'd like to provide ground support (such as calling lawyers and loved ones), please let me know so that i can add you to the member list.

talk about misappropriation

Cheney's Halliburton got the first contracts awarded for rebuilding Iraq. Considering that Halliburton put over $100,000 into the 2000 Bush Campaign, it would appear that the Iraqis will also be indirectly paying for Bush's re-election.

This Post is Not About the War in Iraq, Protests, or Getting Arrested

Believe it or not, Jakeneck massive, but some of us have been looking for an escape to all this wartime madness lately. All this arguing and protesting can get to be too much after a while. That's why last night I took my girl to The Greatest Show On Earth. I hadn't been to the circus since I was a small child, so it really was an amazing experience. For two hours I was able to forget about how much I hate my job, the war raging in Iraq, and the new RHP record and just be five years old again. I highly recommend you do the same if you get the chance.


What you see in the photo above is a 16-foot claustrophobic steel sphere called "The Globe of Death." Inside the globe, a record-breaking six reckless motorcyclists (the Torres Brothers) orbit within inches of each other at speeds up to 60 miles per hour! And that was only one of the highlights. Besides the requisite tightrope walkers, clowns, performing elephants, tigers, and dogs were these insane Chinese acrobats from the Hebei Troupe, who take the Wonder Wheel to a whole new level, as well as the "showstopper" of this, the 133rd edition of The Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus,.... Bailey's Comet. What is Bailey's Comet, you ask? Well, to find out, the circus will be in town at the World's Most Famous Arena through April 13th.

bowling for district of columbia

On behalf of our producers Kathleen Glynn and Michael Donovan from Canada, I'd like to thank the Academy for this. I have invited my fellow documentary nominees on the stage with us, and we would like to — they're here in solidarity with me because we like nonfiction. We like nonfiction and we live in fictitious times. We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. Whether it's the fictition of duct tape or fictition of orange alerts we are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you, Mr. Bush, shame on you. And any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up. Thank you very much.

michael moore sticks it to bush at academy awards. press conference video here.

who can you trust?

today's top headline: a chemical weapons factory has been discovered in iraq.

now i'm not gonna say this didn't happen... but i would just like to throw clinton's 1998 bombing of a sudanese aspirin factory on the table, and for a moment wonder as to whether this is just another lie. it was only last month that we were told about a chemical weapons plant in iraq that turned out to be no such thing. how many times can you cry wolf and expect us to come running?

i've heard enough stories of cops planting drugs on people to establish being this suspicious... the weapons we expect to find are american weapons we provided him with, right? so what's to stop the u.s. from planting their stash on iraq to justify this war?

In Oil We Trust

A new design for the dollar bill.

fight back

check out the nyc guide to war profiteers

viva la crandan

crandan is seriously the most courageous man i've ever known and i am honored and priviledged to call him my friend. he has once again been arrested defending our rights and our freedoms, and demanding just, representative democracy. i am currently awaiting further information from legal aid to find out where he's going to be held so that we can organize solidarity. after being arrested at washington sq. north & 5th ave., he was taken to the javitz center where he was/will be transferred from a paddy wagon to a metrobus and then taken to (most likely) central booking. (after my own skirmishes w/the police, i joined a raging drum circle in the park, while unbeknownst to me, dan was participating in the sit-in that led to his arrest.)

[update 7:58 pm] crandan is being held at 1 police plaza—the same spot they had us on f15. i'll likely be heading down there shortly. COME OUT AND SHOW YOUR SUPPORT!

for full details of today's events go to indymedia. the coverage on the main page is completely accurate by my account. more details of our own personal experiences to come. after drumming/carrying a drum from 42nd st. to washington sq. (and then playing in the park for two hours), i'm a bit too tired to recap right now. one funky highlight—i was marching side-by-side with q-tip and he was gettin' down on my drumming! ;) bigup to throg, yarow & co., who joined us today.


this is the poster i made for the rally.
we got yelled at a lot about castro,
so after about an hour of being harangued by socialists,
we tore his picture off.
on a side note, don't believe any bullshit about crowd estimates from the corporate media... ny1 is reporting 100,000 people... it was at least 1,000,000. we left 42nd st. at 12 pm and at 4:30 the streets were still completely filled with people up to 34th st.

cnn's full of shit too: they report, "some marchers said police used pepper spray against the demonstrators." the connotation is that the marchers are untrustworthy and thus you can not believe what they said. i personally witnessed a young man get sprayed in the eyes and then crandan wash the dude's eyes out.

[update 8:12 pm] i just fucking saw ny1 report that the protesters maced the cops. what unmitigated bullshit! i myself saw—and cheered—as the wind (or what i prefer to call the hand of god) blew the mace back in the cops' own faces. fuck that noise!

[update 10/23 12:27 am] i've been standing in solidarity outside 1 police plaza with various people's law collective & anarchist black cross members waiting for cran's release. as of yet, very few individuals have been let go. i'm writing from my friend dwight's place... he lives only a few blocks away from central booking. 'bout to head back... just came to warm up real quick. it's about 41 degrees out there.

also—please ignore my sister aviva's ramblings in the comments on this post. she's a fundamentalist/fanatic. if jews blew themselves up, she'd be first in line. she says i'm a traitor and disgrace to my grandparents because i stand for what i "merely perceive to be" justice in my "uninformed" view. in her view, only religious zealotry and paranoia is relevant, and the worse is expected of the world.

[update 10/23 12:12 pm] crandan got out at around 4:10 a.m. he was rather surprised to see me standing there in the waiting penn. ;) we hung around a little longer, spoke to some of the other kids, and then headed back to brooklyn. he's currently crashed on my futon. another happy d.a.t. for a dis. con. charge.

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awww yeah, bergen county represent

give it up for the teaneck five, who "created a human chain using lock boxes made of PVC piping to blockaded eastbound traffic on Route 4 in Teaneck, NJ at the height of rush hour to pronounce loud and clear that Americans can not go about 'business as usual' while innocent people are killed by US bombs in our name." (c/o pretefunk)

surrealism launches attack on human ontology

a national guardsman has changed his name to optimus prime. that's almost as funny as voltron, but generally more frightening.

chopper crashes and friendly fire more deadly than combat

16 soldiers were killed yesterday in a chopper crashed in kuwait. think that's rough? get the whole skinny at sexveggie.

audioblogger is in the house

next to the hiptop (or perhaps in conjunction with), i think audioblogger is likely the most useful tool for demonstration situations... it will allow me to blog two minute audio recordings via cellphone. it's a little annoying that you have to enter your whole phone number and pin before every post, because in such a scenario, time is of the essence, but i figure they'll work caller i.d. into it soon enough. hopefully i'll be able to sneak an update from a jail cell or something, if the need arises.

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he's going for a record

crandan's been arrested again ... i feel like a pussy ... i went to times sq. after work to see if i could rendezvous with him and wasn't able to get a hold of him. after standing in the rain for a half hour and watching the cops prepare to uh 'clean up,' i decided it best not to get arrested on a school night and went to class instead.

i called dan repeatedly during class and got no answer. after school i went up to union square to see what was up over there and found the entire park fenced off and hundreds of cops surrounding the park's permiter. i called dan's girlfriend to see if she knew where he was and found out he's been arrested again. the nlg called her to say he's being held at 100 centre st., but that's where they said we were last time, and we weren't. i can't find the nyc hotline number on imc either, so i can't call to find out what he did. there is nothing about any of today's actions on nycimc, and i'm really bugged out by that... the last post was around 7 pm.

now after getting off the phone with the plc, i'm told he's at the 18th precinct, manhattan north, 306 w 54th st. he's getting a desk appearance ticket and he'll likely be out in a few hours. they won't let any lawyers in to talk to the arrestees and they don't know what the charges are yet. it's likely going to be disorderly conduct... again. oy gevalt.

dan, you're my hero.

btw, an independent commission plans to review the behavior of the nypd in protest situations, next week.


ny1 | washington post | reuters | ny times | cnn

[update 10:21] imc is working again...seems they had an outage. here are some photos and here are some comments about the feeder march dan said he'd be participating in.

[update 10:30] dan's been released. expect a play by play forthcoming.

[update 11:00] this recent report to imc seems to confirm much of what dan just told me of his experience. he'll be home soon to tell you himself. apparently throg was there too.

apocalypse impending

    
colorado gets its worst blizzard ever, tornado hits georgia, kills six, earthquake splits world wide open swallows humanity hole, fire rains down from the sky..."caught in new york, beneath the animals of the village..." there's love in the air tonight. (c/o darieus)

you want it, you got it

let's get this party started—right! let's get this party started—quickly! uh huh, uh huh!

you buy this shit?

holy crap

a catholic analysis of new age mysticism (c/o plastic) | neil gaimain tackles cthulu | this idiot makes it bad for everyone

here's some interesting news... we were the third to post five of the web's top memes on blogdex today. keep it up kids!

Mercy Corps

Feeling like all that debating, shouting, writing letters and making phone calls to protest the war on Iraq is doing NO GOOD?
(...and apparently it isn't...)

Put your money where your mouth is.

first casualty

an anti-war activist fell to his death while trying to hang a banner from the Golden Gate Bridge.

and so it begins

get your war on

now if only it still mattered

last month, the onion reported—

U.S. Capitol Cleaning Turns Up Long-Lost Constitution

WASHINGTON, DC—Lost for nearly two years, the U.S. Constitution was found Tuesday behind a couch in the Governor's Reception Room. "Wow, I forgot all about that thing," said U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT), who found the historic document while vacuuming. "Nobody knew what happened to it. Guess it must've fallen back there during a meeting." After making the find, Dodd spent several minutes rereading some of his favorite old amendments.

in a stunning case of life imitating art, the fbi has just recovered a missing copy of the bill of rights. (c/o becca)

randomotica

stuff to keep your surfing self busy...

• the imf admits globalization is no good for the poor.
• the air force is authorizing soldiers to shoot trespassing anti-war demonstrators on sight.
• what does clearchannel have to gain from sponsoring pro-war rallies?
• it's ok to be a sweaty beast, so long as you don't stink like fish.
• coming soon to a bar mitzvah near you. (c/o relicious)
• when you download mp3s, you're not just downloading communism, now you're funding terrorism too.
• here's my next t-shirt acquisition. this one's for ray.
• if you live in nj and we go to level red alert, the state's terror tsar says don't leave the house. (c/o politech)
• check out the all new pornografux.
• captain tractor has surrendered.

god, the world is just an opening funnel of intrigue.

scott me up, beamie!

The entire situation is reminiscent [...] of the old Star Trek episode "Patterns of Force," in which Federation history professor John Gill becomes the drugged leader of a Nazi planet.

GILL (seen on TV at a rally): If we fulfill our own greatness, that will all be ended. Working together --

SPOCK: Captain, the speech follows no logical pattern. Random sentences strung together.

MCCOY: He looks drugged, Jim, almost in a cataleptic state.

GILL: ...reach our goal, And we will reach that goal. (cheering) Every thought ... directed toward a goal. This planet ... can become a paradise, if we are willing to pay the price. As each cell in the body ... works with discipline and harmony for the good ... of the entire being --

damnit jim, i'm a doctor, not a sex machine! (c/o tom tomorrow)

liberty, fraternity, equality? go back to europe...

In case you thought the anti-French rhetoric wasn't completely batshit already, this site is kicking it up a notch. (c/o tom tomorrow)

what'd the farmer say when he lost his tractor?

in protest of bush's cuts to farm subsidies, a tobacco farmer has parked his tractor in the reflecting pool at the washington monument, and claims to have enough amonium nitrate to blow your aunt to kingdom come.

loshn codfish

welp, apparently no one's reading jewschool, cuz i've been asked why i haven't posted anything about the talking fish about a dozen times now.

yes, ladies and gentlemen, it's true... a new square chosid claims that a fish spoke end-time prophecies to him in the holy tongue, and people are flipping for this story like fish on a boatdeck.

the guardian reports, "many believe the carp was channelling the troubled soul of a revered community elder who recently died." in judaism, the concept of reincarnation exists, but it suggests that when one dies, whatever portion of themselves (or their soul) did not fulfill its earthly duties, will be reincarnated into a lesser being to complete its goal. jews often believe people are reincarnated as fish. the idea is that someone will catch the fish, say a blessing on it and eat it, thus elevating that portion of the soul to olam haba, "the world to come."

but this whole hebrew talking thing seems just a little fishy to me. it reminds me of that ridiculous big mouth billy bass (as seen on tv). god that thing's annoying. you know you can hack those things and teach 'em to talk hebrew, right?

oy, what's next? talking gefilte fish?

btw—for those of you who don't get the title, holy tongue in hebrew is "loshn kodesh." loshn means tongue, however, and kodesh is holy, so the title doesn't say "holy codfish," but rather "codfish tongue." even so, i thought it was a damn good pun, if i do say so myself.

here we go again

Impeach Bush

Vote to Impeach Bush

a great one for work

"whatcha doin bob?"
"i'm gettin' a tan!" (c/o relicious)

Oscars Blacklist Anti-War Stars

Here's yet another significant story apparently being ignored and uncovered by the warmongering mainstream American press. The new McCarthyism is here, friends, but I guess the real question is, did it ever go away?

randomotica

a passenger carrying anti-war signs in his luggage found a note from a luggage inspector criticizing his "anti-war attitude." (c/o fonadi)

on april 14, the nyc mta will be phasing out subway tokens completely. i wonder why.

had to remove the quizzes. quizilla's down or somthing.

drum circle madness

nyc drum & dance is taking over the L train today for a community drum circle... haven't made it down to the station yet, but i suspect much fun for all.

it's been somewhat disappointing that i haven't been able to make it to the jcc's drum cricle on thursday nights since i've been taking classes tuesdays & thursdays, but i'm looking forward to spending purim with the event's organizers, shoshana jedwab and rabbi jill hammer, who are organizing an interperative megillah reading/drum circle for 'the new shul', at the 1st presbyterian church (12th & 5th) on monday, march 17 @ 7:30 pm.

i am also very excited for spring, which means the annual ny rainbow picnic and drum circle is coming. yay!

also, along the lines of mystical gatherings, jeff mach (who some of you may know from our old bbsing/rocky horror days) and his collective of omnimancers are hosting a magickal get-together for experienced practicioners in new jersey on june 7. click here for details. (and if any of you remember cliff lowe—i think he ran one of the more popular hermes boards in the neighborhood—check out his site, necronomi.com.)

how to stop the war

this piece was just forwarded to me by lester grinspoon, professor emeritus at harvard, former chair of norml, and author of both marijuana: the forbidden medicine and marijuana uses. dr. grinspoon is a very well respected doctor in the field of psychiatry and has testified before congress numerous times on the medical benefits of marijuana. what one has to do with the other is irrelevant... i just wanted to give the man a plug.

national guard in the subways

what gives? we were on level orange alert last month and i didn't see one soldier... now we're on the more moderate level yellow, and tonight, on my way home from my friend's house, i saw four national guardsmen with m16s (the last time i saw national guard was at grand central and they didn't have guns) posted at the 6 stop on 59th and lex, and then two more at the union square station. service between times square and the brooklyn bridge was suspended due to "an incident" at canal street. anyone have details? [reposted to imc for further inquiry]

bloomberg is a dork

...at least, that's the word according to new york magazine. "the classic hopkins grad isn’t just a dork; he’s a dork with a superiority complex." new york reports that bloomberg's approval rating is down to 46% and rapidly decreasing. (c/o bonnie)

as an employee of the board of trustees at johns hopkins, my friend bonnie used to chauffer bloomberg around. based on her interactions with "hizzonner," she suggests that the guy is not just a dork, but a dick too—a dick with a sordid history (to his own admission)... but a history, not unlike dubya's, that says what's good for the goose, ain't good for the gander. or, in other words, "i'll have all the youthful indescretions i want... you, on the other hand, are going straight to jail."

that shamrocks my face

crimethinc is reporting plans to infiltrate st. patrick's day parades internationally with leprechauns against the war. imc ireland reports a slew of planned st. patrick's actions. this could most certainly be a fun occasion on which to express our dissent. let's just hope the leprechauns don't go the way of this one particular easter bunny...

on a side note, this st. patrick's day is also purim, the jewish masquerade festival. click here to learn about the holiday. also check out the post for february 26, 2002, on shtv classic.

ok come on now people

all this reactionary anti-france stuff is starting to get really ridiculous. what's next? removing words of french origin from american-english?

some french are so frightened of american scorn, they're hiding the fact that they're french. at least now they know how french jews feel.

now you see it, now you don't..

Police snipers at last month's protest in NYC? What snipers?

sowing the seeds of anarcho-mysticism

the ap reports today that a group of israeli peace activists were distributing mystical literature to jews and palestinians on the jerusalem/ramallah border in hopes of triggering a spiritual resolution to the ongoing israeli/arab conflict.

this episode got me thinking a lot... check out shtv for an in-depth exploration into the relationship between anarchism and mysticism.

"uh dude... we think you need an intervention."

new software monitors your web surfing habits and reports to your friends if you've visited any naughty websites. think of the blackmail potential! (c/o darieus)

Just when you thought the music industry couldn't get any shadier than it already is.....

...Just when you thought that they couldn't attempt to manipulate and exploit the record buying public any more than they already do, or artificially create any more stars and hit records than they already have. Just when you thought that music was still primarily an artform created by and for human beings, they go and do some shit like this. Man, this is too much.

Scroll down to where it says "Computer Hits" to be thoroughly sickened.

it's a boy

mazal tov to my friends nancy and artie on the birf of their son, artie jr., 7 lbs. 7 ozs., da day before yestaday n' stuff. yaaaay!

state of the union: the remix

fonadi shares this brilliant chop job of shrub's state of the union

kissin' ye blarney stone

guiness wants to make st. patrick's day a national holiday. as if it's not practically one already... their justification? because "it's fun!"

just who is this st. patrick character anyway? and who is this snake charming impostor? hakim bey offers the following:

According to orally-transmitted teachings of Noble Drew Ali, founder & Prophet of the Moorish Science Temple of America: -- Ireland was once part of the Moorish Empire; that is, the celts were Moslems, & there were black moors from N. Africa also present in Ireland. But the moors were expelled by militant Christianity -- this event is disguised in the legend of St. Patrick's expelling the snakes - for which reason the MST celebrates St. Patrick's Day, in a mood of irony perhaps, in expectation of an eventual Return.

more on that here.

[update 03/12/03] interesting follow-up c/o metafilter: the koran is currently being translated into gaelic.

crew meeting minutes

listserv's not up yet and i don't want to lose momentum on this, so i'm posting it here. the following are the results of the 03/09/03 jakeneck crew meeting. the evening's attendees were: mobius, aphid, crandan, foozmeat, abstractpoetic & bycenator.

[initally written for the listserv] jakeneck operates on consensus. as team members, your input is invaluable and essential to our project's success. if you would rather not clutter your inbox with this discussion because you feel you have little input, feel free to unsubscribe. we won't hold it against you. but if you've got feelings regarding the following resolutions, please toss 'em into the ring and join the discussion.

at the very least, read this post in its entirety so you can see the direction in which we'd like to take the site.


immediate issues:

• content -- we are in consensus that the postings have been a little too politico-centric and that the rampant leftist radicalism is both frustrating and depressing to our visitors. we want to tone down on the politics just a bit, and focus a little more on culture: art, science, music, etc. we want to keep people informed, for certain. but we want to give them what to smile about too. lord knows in these dark ages we could use a little pick-me-up.
  
  with the creation of a scratchboard (see below) we might be able to tone down on the politics by sharing links and waiting til someone's got something strong to say who combines those links into one post. this is a temporary fix while we work out a long-term solution.
  
  we should also try to be a little nicer to commentors who disagree with our views. we're not winning any converts by tearing into them.

future software development:

• scratchboard -- a single, shared textarea with a submit/save button that allows blogmembers to leave notes and reserve links for later postings.
• radio station -- ray, prete & i used to do a bi-weekly radio show on the old shtv. we'd like to revise this concept but more democratically by employing a system similar to andromeda but using fooze's code. blog members would have the ability to upload segments to a web folder which can then be played as one continuous stream. thus we can have a weekly radio show that does not need to be edited together and which is archived over time. this can also be used to create an ongoing exquisite corpse project.
• advanced commenting system -- break out the commenting system into a threaded message board. each month will be a folder and each post will be an individual topic. when a person hits comment they will be taken to the threaded message board.
• truncating posts -- we want longer posts to be clipped to one paragraph and then given a [more] link which breaks out the post to either another page or expands it on the current page.
• photo gallery -- i'm just throwing this in... it'd be nice if we can upload images to galleries.
• filtering -- add topics to posts. allow users to filter posts by topic or blogger.
• "stream of consciousness" metasystem (this is the biggie) -- imagine there were three tiers to the website:
  
  level 1. standard blogging, just as it exists now, but with a few basic enhancements.
  
  level 2. metablogging. blogmembers will have the ability to go to level 1 and link posts of a similar vein, perhaps using checkboxes and a submit button. it will preserve the original material on level 1, but merge the content into one post on level 2, attributing the original authors and bidirectionally linking to their original posts. the blogger will then be able to edit the content of the metapost and formulate a more comprehensive post from the original material. this feature will also apply to the comments area. comments can be broken out and contributed to level 2 posts and their authors attributed as well.
  
  level 3. metametablogging. double the pleasure of level 2, but adds the ability to integrate more multimedia content and to alter the display of the page itself, so you end up with more permanent features, such as this piece.
  
  the original idea behind jakeneck was to create more comprehensive feature content, as opposed to recycling the blogdex top 20, as most blogs do now. this system would allow those of the blogcrew who are happy linkdumping to continue doing so, and those of us who want to work on the bigger picture to do so as well. thus, instead of recycling memes, we consolidate them into new ones, and get listed on blogdex ourselves.

please post your responses to the comment field and we'll try to shift the convo over to our listserv once it's up and running. i'll post a permalink to this post as soon as it starts sliding down the page.

case dismissed

just got back from court... charges were dropped. "as of march 10, the nypd has failed to file a legally acceptable accusatory instrument with this court. there is no need for you to return to court on this summons." know what that means? bogus charges. praise "bob".

i had a statement prepared too... was gonna say sumfin' like:

federal judge barbara jones denied our permit to march on february 15th, citing "heightened security concerns." it was later discovered that the department of justice filed a friend of the court brief asking the judge to deny the permit. james madison, the fourth president of the united states once said, "the means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home." when our permit was denied, our first amendment right to peaceable assembly was denied. it was not for saftey's sake, no, but rather a tyrannical attempt to supress dissent against an unjust war.

two-time congressional medal of honor awardee major general smedley butler, of the u.s. marine corps, said, "war is just a racket... there are only two things we should fight for. one is the defense of our homes and the other is the bill of rights. war for any other reason is simply a racket." with that said, when i sat in the street on february 15th, i did what any responsible, patriotic american should have done: defended the bill of rights in the face of tyranny. and if that makes me a criminal, then i suppose i should be found guilty.

didn't get the chance tho. no sweat i guess... justice was served.

i should've known

skull n' bones in 2004 (c/o canaan)

oooh, my teeeeef!

i need to see a dentist. i can feel the inside of my teeth aching. but first i need dental insurance. bastards.

damn you coca-cola and your lemon-lime beverages.

worst. president. ever.

the original snub, and the one thereafter.

surreality

Da MiddleFINGAHZ: check it
mobiustrip 44: is this satire?
Da MiddleFINGAHZ: i hope so
mobiustrip 44: haha

so what gives?

the suspense is killing me

it gets better and better every day

gotta love the negligence (c/o arik)

Dan Rather Is Clowning You

Can the mainstream television newsmedia possibly spin and inappropriately angle their reporting any more that they already have? Why, yes. Yes they can.

And in other news,.... I can't believe that it's 2003 and we're still dealing with shit like this.

connecting the dots

dot dot ditty dot dot dash yo ... damned if i know

have i mentioned that i'm rapidly growing agoraphobic

la da dee da, cuz iraq's the threat

mondo monolith

Well, anybody in their late teens or early 20s who doesn't want to riot is either dead or too enlightened. And corporate globalism is worthy of militant opposition. On the other hand, a lot of these young "anarchists" are sort of like Moslem fundamentalists ... extremely purist and moralistic. Opposing technology is idiotic. In a world of 6 billion the only way out is by overwhelming scarcity with self-replicating production technologies like bio and nanotechnology. Besides, one would have to kill 99.9% of the American people to get them to agree to live the meat and technology and entertainment free lifestyle that the Unabomber anarchists would like to impose on us. Including me. But they're young, and they did what needed to be done in Seattle.

cyberculture kingpin and fortyfour network affiliate r.u. sirius discusses his upcoming book, counterculture through the ages: from abraham to acid house, in the new webzine new world disorder, an offshoot of the nwd weblog, whose author is an occasional reader of our own...

rave act back with a vengeance

the new version of the rave act could effectively destroy the live music entertainment industry by punishing musicians, promoters and venue-owners who have had a "drug offense" committed at their event. for more info, check out the musician's guide to drug policy reform.

you work at seven eleven

according to the asia times khalid shaikh mohammed died in the raid on his apartment. how could he possibly be in u.s. custody then?

if the man is really dead, how much you wanna bet he still manages to testify that iraq is somehow tied to terrorism?

others suggest it is more likely that this death notice is a deposit of strategic information that would then allow the u.s. to torture the shit out of mohammed, because if the man's dead, he's no longer protected by the geneva convention.

i'm tellin' you, these fuckers are just plain crazy. don't trust any of 'em.

awww yeah

now that's what i call worker exploitation

bizarre behavior

convicted jesus steals its freedom while another loses its own