Owning-Up
Friday, July 27, 2007
Surrealist and jazzman George Melly’s uncompromising, witty autobiography. He also wrote two other memoirs of his earlier experiences of childhood and the navy: 'Scouse Mouse' and 'Rum, Bum and Concertina' and the trilogy is now a Penguin Classic.
His last biography, about his then approaching 80th birthday - Slowing Down - is also published by Penguin.
Goodtime George. That's what they called him: Goodtime George. I've been reading his first book of autobiography on and off for a year or so. Great stuff. I nearly saw his last concert but forgot to go. He said it would be his last tour. Sigh.
Temperance Seven member and Jazz Record Restorer John R.T. Davies Dies. In this obituary is quoted a long description of his working methods.
Don Arden - Intimidating rock impresario. His methods were less pleasant.
Bad news from Manchester: Tony Wilson dies of cancer. He always impressed me by being quietly-spoken.
The Sea and Cake have made a 'rock album' - sounds like "krautrock loungecore" Sounds intriguing. Rock Cake I really hope they are as good as they are described.
Rip and Goodbye: "the complete dissolution of my library of compact discs". Many comments.
My All Time Favorite Prog Rock Recordings - chapter 39. Not mine, someone else's.
The shirt that Wreckless Eric wore on the cover of 'Reconnez Cherie' has turned up. His news section is better than most people's blogs.
Fake Steve Jobs on Robin Trower: Today's Music Depresses Me.
British rock fans of a certain age have copies of ZigZag magazine knocking about in their attic. Mine are in we what I call our library. Essential Rock Albums. They smell great. Since 1996, rocklist.net has been putting these old polls online.
Always sad when someone that everyone has heard of dies in obscurity. It happened to Mike Sammes but luckily Jonny Trunk was on hand to save some of his treasures: Music for Biscuits.
Trunk records are pretty good; also worthy for their excellent and lengthy sleevenotes are those other musical magpies RPM, for instance 'Magpie - 20 Junkshop Pop Ads & Themes' contains Andrew Bown's theme music to 'Ace of Wands'.
I've got some Joe Meek and Pet Clark compilations from RPM. Essential these days to get the dates and cover art for iTunes, so this Petula Clark discography comes in handy. Great graphics and some moody expressions from Pet.
Big Al Davies' Treemo channel.
Kevin Ayers' MySpace page:
This myspace site is presented by Kevin Ayers' management. Kevin is aware of myspace and thinks it is very cool, but he doesn't have a computer let alone an internet connection. He wishes people still sent telegrams. He is very touched by the kind messages left on his page and that there is still space in music collections for his efforts.Also among my very few friends on MySpace are Foul House because my friend's daughter is the singer. They are great live and should make an album ASAP.
The loudness wars: Why is there so much variation in volume in my music collection?
jTunes "The Insanely Great Songs Apple Won't Let You Hear."
Pitchfork.
The label Repertoire are putting out some nice editions on CD. I just got a triple disc of all the Pretty Things singles.
Vinyl Vulture: Record shops in London. The Digger's Guide to London.
Desmond Briscoe, Radiophonic Workshop founder, 1925-2007. Musique concrète and diegetic sounds.
Making Flippy Floppy - what a silly name for a music blog. How about a sensible name like Wibbly, or monkeyfunk, or Bubblegum Machine, which posts two wacky mp3s each week. Adult material such as emotion can be found in The Lefsetz Letter. Lefsetz also points us to Jeff Beck's 'Led Boots' at http://music.msn.com/crossroads which got me right there.
I don't know why people call Revelations: a musical anthology for Glastonbury Fayre "legendary" because I've got a copy downstairs. It's out on CD now, which is handy but it won't sound as good or have such an elaborate cover and inserts.
In Quest of Absolute Fidelity: The Saga of the Black CD – Finding Black Gold!
Uh-oh - or, as it says here: WOW: CBS Acquires Last.fm for $280 Million which is a shame because I've been on last.fm since it started as Audioscrobbler. You can bet they are going to screw it up somehow, like Yahoo did with LaunchCast and mailing lists and now Flickr.
Suzi Quatro unzipped. I never knew '48 Crash' was about the male menopause.
Music blog by Pliable: On an Overgrown Path. Good for classical music and exposes the fools who think the BBC or the Proms are "brands".
Richard Godwin admits he can't follow opera plots. I like that.
A musical pantheon: The desert island challenge: 24 records.
Great mp3s! The Barry Gray Music Sampler.
Motorhead Blogger.
Back in the groove: young music fans ditch downloads and spark vinyl revival.
Vinyl Vulture.
Playlist for those agonizing over their iTunes playlists - like me. ω 10:46:00 PM.
lit. links (revised)
Sunday, July 08, 2007
A short story by Herman Melville: Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street - is it simply absurd? Wikipedia describes the plot, so better read the thing first: the story can be downloaded from Project Gutenberg.
Henry James: The Lesson of the Master. Short but massive.Guardian Unlimited Books of the Year 2006 chosen by various critics and writers like Billy Bragg and Simon Callow.
Acquired: The London Collection. Packed with facts. Good fun. Keep in the loo to weigh down those old copies of Fortean Times and keep the splashes off your Schulz and Schott's.
Joanne Harris has written a childrens' book called Runemarks about "Norse gods at the end of the world".
Nigel Hamilton in his Biography: A Brief History calls Woolf's 'Orlando' "a spoof biography of Vita Sackville-West", which it is.
Still available: The Planet Suite by my old school chum Allen Ashley. Also don't miss his 'Urban Fantastic' and 'Somnambulists'. OhMyNews recently published an interview with Allen: Writing, Perseverance and Shaggy Dog Stories.
Mike Moorcock has a story in Kiss the Sky: Fiction & Poetry Starring Jimi Hendrix edited by Richard Peabody. I think the story was in a Hawkwind tour programme thirty years ago.
The music of science is Michael Moorcock's review of graphic novel 'Horace Dorlan' which, unlike its two predecessors, has some text. It sounds remarkable. Watchman meets Kafka.
'Nova Swing' by M John Harrison; Gollancz, £16.99, reviewed by Brian McCluskey.
Design: Envisioning Information by Edward Tufte. 3D into 2D.
Vampires meet modern TV: Fangland by John Marks.
In the Spectator, Matthew d'Ancona suggests that Prime Minister Gordon Brown's new book Courage: Eight Portraits is a suitable "page-turner" for the beach on your holiday. Not me, I'm going to Iceland. He also says the book provides a ninth portrait of Gordon himself. Sounds interesting.
The Open Library aims to include every book "our planet’s cultural legacy" and make them all available on the interwebnet.
SciFaiku, er, science fiction haikus.
NPR: Under the Radar: Books Not to Miss.
The official blog of Penguin Books UK: The Penguin Blog.
At last! Leading from the front page - six feminist magazines launch in the UK.
...when they launched their first issue last summer she had become particularly aware of a "massive wave of crap women's magazines. We thought we probably had something more interesting to say." Although the magazine didn't start out as a feminist project, it quickly became one - a natural result of trying to create a publication for women that didn't follow the usual mould.
Geek to Live: Turn your blog into a book, part II.
Something for all bloggers to aspire to, ha ha The world's longest diary.
The Biggest Geek and the SF List is one reader's list of significant genre novels. I disagree with most of it but the comments below are interesting.
English lessons via podcast from the Grammar Girl "a quick and dirty success". Librarian chic.
Guardian Unlimited Books. Book blogs at The Guardian.
Free books! Digital ones. eBooks from Adobe. They seem to be quite legible on-screen.
Semantic Soup is a Flickr group devoted to recording misuse of the English language. ω 3:50:00 PM.
The London Underground
Sunday, December 31, 2006
District Dave is a tube driver with an extensive web site.Going Underground has a blog which is great, and much more up-to-date. Annie Mole is responsible for these, you may have seen her on the BBC's tube night (great links here!), in which we saw the caring folk of the Lost Property Office. If you did, you'll be pleased to know that the family who left the ashes of a relative on a train have been tracked down: Underground Urnie found.
Book: Roberts, M.J. (2005). Underground Maps after Beck. Harrow Weald: Capital Transport Publishing.
London Underground Railway Society.
Tubeprune is not updated any more, but has lots of information on the London Underground railway system. ω 6:48:00 PM.
Love is here
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
All you need is Love, the new Beatles album.
This can't wait. If you have a hi-fi you need Love. Love is all you need. If you have an intimate knowledge of their music you will especially enjoy the mashups and segues.
Rock'n'Reel magazine has been relaunched. As they are giving away 5 CDs with a subscription in Europe, I couldn't resist this as a Christmas present to myself.
And while I'm on the Subject of Music... is by a man with a lot of CDs. And speaking of albums, I've been collecting them since 1974, so it was a big shock for me when Virgin removed its range of vinyl records from the Oxford Street megastore in London. Suddenly I didn't know what was out there anymore, without the browser bins to riffle through. It is as if iTunes were to vanish now. In 1984 the music industry promised us all the titles would come out on CD eventually, but half of them never did. Ah yes, I remember music... in the interests of bringing it back, here is one solution: Lost in Music.
Brian Eno's Neroli album is on iTunes for only £1.49! More low prices like this please.
Arthur Chisnall, Eel Pie Island promoter, 1925-2006. A good read. He also promoted independent thought, shortly to be made illegal.
The Novelty Rock Emporium is one of many blogs who put MP3 files of old records online, often sourcing music from junk stores. I love them. Some other good ones are Boot Sale Sounds currently featuring Michael Bentine and Charlie Drake and mod-ified music from 60s pop Singapore! - both these sites often include the cover art too. The Torture Garden (love it) and Feed me Good Tunes are more contemporary.
Jason Freeman had a problem: "People often ask me what music I listen to, and I find it difficult to describe my enormous music collection in just a few sentences." Luckily he is a programmer. I've given his solution iTunes Signature Maker a spin. This samples and mixes a sound file from segments of your favourite music on your computer. What for?
Maybe it will help you gauge your compatibility with your next blind date: "She seems nice enough, but her iTunes signature is just so atonal! Should I go with my heart or with my ear?" Or maybe an iTunes signature will figure prominently into a political attack ad: "If you're mad at him for raising your taxes, polluting our environment, and cutting the education budget, just wait until you hear the music he listens to…"Here's mine: short iTunes signature; long iTunes signature. Can you identify the twenty songs? It's the same songs in both samples. (Also in WAV format if you can't do MP4: short iTunes signature; long iTunes signature.) ω 8:25:00 AM.
Programmable computing devices
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Backpack for your mobile.GeekBrief TV is a tech news podcast presented by "Cali Lewis". She's cute and informative.
The Amiga is back! This article is old and a bit of a tease but brings us more-or-less up-to-date with the Amiga computer. For more info see amiga.org, amigaweb.net, amigaos.dk, wiki.aminet.net, www.amigafuture.de, www.amiga-hardware.com... in these days of Mac and Windows it might seem an anachronism but imagine how its virtual memory multitasking OS would fly on modern hardware.
For both Mac and Windows: Subway maps for your iPod. Or for webmasters, how about a portable CSS guide: just copy the westciv Style Master CSS podGuide to the Notes folder on your iPod.
Rather than packing an obliterator ray in your holiday luggage, you can remove unsightly people from your snaps with Tourist Remover, a free online photo tool.
PC myths: IBM's BIOS.
macbillboard has smashing desktop wallpaper, especially some beautiful isometric artwork.
Get free PowerPoint templates from A PowerPoint Blog.
Persuasive game: Disaffected! sounds a bit depressing to me. It puts the player in the role of a copy shop employee.
Disaffected! gives the player the chance to step into the demotivated position of real FedEx Kinkos employees. Feel the indifference of these purple-shirted malcontents first-hand, and consider the possible reasons behind their malaise -- is it mere incompetence? Managerial affliction?For Mac only: free games. Actually, most games are free for people like me who seldom get to level 3, thanks to demo mode. macgamefiles.com
David Weiss works at Microsoft as a software design engineer in the Mac Business Unit. A programmer, in other words?
todo.txt is a way of maintaining a to do list with text and scripts from the command line, on Unix or Mac OS X.
Julian Wright is doing superb work on mobile.feisar.com to make sure iSync works with all the latest Sony Ericsson mobile phones via Bluetooth and he also provides icons and themes. Makes me wanna trade-in my old Alcatel.
Mac Webdesign Workflow recommends some great software for making web sites - will he ever use Dreamweaver? Oh, the tension.
For all you presentation fiends, Les Posen's CyberPsych Blog is strong on Keynote. Al Gore and Steve Jobs do not use PowerPoint!
Hello Mac - the lost 1984 video clip collection. Steve Jobs spoke faster then.
I reboot my Mac at home every five or six weeks, when Apple sends me a system upgrade, otherwise I would never need to. Windows machines, on the other hand, need frequent rebooting. Crash Test.
The workaround is to reboot them periodically, and savvy Windows sysadmins typically do this as a matter of routine every month. If they fail to do this, their servers will progressively slow down, choking on their own detritus. Eventually, after a tad under 50 days, they'll automatically shut down, even if they're managing one of the most safety-critical tasks in the world.Announcing the Apple iProduct. The riposte: Apple Haters Unite!
Dashboard Widgets Showcase.
Take a virtual tour around Apple Store Fifth Avenue.
Realize your strange ideas and creative desires with Apple's iLife Tutorials for iPhoto, iMovie HD, Garageband, iTunes, iDVD and iWeb.
Naughty. HandBrake copies DVD films to iPod or PSP format. Update thanks to Technorati Profile I know this now called MediaFork.
A new use for old Macs: MacQuarium.
Hrmpf! is a good Apple blog.
295 different Apple Mail icons. I use the Boris Karloff icon.
I have dreams about taking this to concerts. iTalk is a high quality stereo microphone for the iPod. In the seventies I took a big cassette recorder with me to lots of concerts and no-one seemed to mind. It's tremendously evocative listening to Hawkwind occasionally filtered by the unique acoustics of the toilets in the Hammersmith Odeon.
Labels: Apple, computing, links, Macintosh
ω 8:58:00 PM.books... mostly sf
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Elastic Press have published many of my friend Allen's books, including The Elastic Book of Numbers which has just won a BFS award, and on Saturday 4th November they have a special event to launch a new anthology with a musical theme Extended Play, edited by Gary Couzens, with an introduction by Jean-Jacques Burnel. The event features live performances from Lene Lovich, Tall Poppies and Ciccone. Ten quid for three bands and ten authors!
Another old schoolchum Nick Papadimitriou has an essay in the new book London: City of Disappearances
edited by Iain Sinclair.VISCO is the Visual Index of Science Fiction Cover Art with some good articles on various sf, fantasy, weird and horror fiction magazines. Another way to explore the cover art from VISCO is SF Cover Explorer, by Jim Bumgardner, of krazydad.com, a great programmer I met on Flickr.
I'm a member of the Penguin Paperback Spotters' Guild group on Flickr, devoted to the art and design of Penguin book covers. See also Penguin books at the Design Museum.
The University of Otago's online exhibition Straight Jackets notes that "the general neglect of book jackets has resulted in a scarcity of early examples".
Of course we would not have these fascinating images and great reads if it were not for physical books, a medium that will survive this digital age as explained in Chris Mitchell's review of Double Fold in Spike magazine. (What's coming after digital? Analogue again, probably.)
Bookshops: Fantastic Literature. They have a nice email newsletter in which old duffers like me try to remember the titles of sf stories they read as youths. For more general than genre titles, also available by the yard, try Any Amount of Books on Charing Cross Road. I've been to the shop and climbed to high shelves many times. Download their enormous catalogue and read their news and trivia. Another good source is AntiQbooks.
For real sf nuts (remember Skyrack?) eFanzines are obviously fanzines online, in web or PDF format. A labour of love. Or here's a more professional magazine from the US: Locus. I keep up-to-date with science fiction with Ansible's estimable email newsletter. Sf fandom invented words like fandom and fen - the plural of fan. trufen.net is stuff for fans.
Download free science fiction books!
Why not catalog your books online in a big library thing? I did this on paper once, thirty-five years ago (no laughing please) and I can see that online you won't get the benefit of my lovely handwriting and doodles. Anyway, here's the entry for Olaf Stapledon.
Buy me a book for Christmas! Or better still, buy Elemental a short story anthology to raise funds for tsunami disaster relief with contributions by big name authors Brian W. Aldiss, David Gerrold and Larry Niven inter alia.
"We contacted Sir Arthur C. Clarke," said Kontis.If you're thinking of using Writely instead of Nisus or Word or whatever to write, then head for Google Docs. Authors can collaborate online! There is a revision history and word count. Documents can be saved in plain, HTML, RTF, Word, PDF and OpenOffice formats.
Clarke, the author of "2001: A Space Odyssey" among many other great works, lives in Sri Lanka and was directly affected by the disaster.
Savile assured the author that they were not asking him for a short story — because of his age and poor health, Clarke does not write much, if at all, anymore.
"We asked him to write the foreword," Savile said. "Within 24 hours, we heard back from him, and within another 24 hours, we had the foreword."
Aspiring writers sometimes ask published authors which pen they use... The Write Stuff. And mind your apostrophes!
Book reviews are always to be found at The New Statesman, like this review of So Now Who Do We Vote For? by Suzanne Moore or a review of A Woman in Berlin by J. G. Ballard.
Literary blogs: many are linked to in the excellent This Space.
Labels: books, links, rave, sf
ω 7:48:00 PM.More Miscellany
Friday, October 13, 2006
Some old links that I meant to blog in 2004: these ones are still online:
Craigley Heath! This interview with Josie Lawrence with Danny Baker (from his old breakfast show on BBC Radio London), Amy Lamé and Mark O'Donnell is still there and well worth a listen. Is it life-changing? perhaps. (Real Player required) It includes an encounter with a stage-door Jenny and a priceless clip of Alec Guinness at his most misanthropic in response to a Star Wars fan. If you enjoy this sort of thing, then Danny Baker now has a show in the afternoon and the last five days are online.
The Skewed Worldview of Lubin Odana is a blog I'll be adding to the links on the side of this page. He's a bit crazy and we like the same horror films.
The Modern Antiquarian is a resource for ancient sites in the UK and Ireland, such as Avebury and Stonehenge.
The Search for the Spider Pool (NSFW) is definitely not safe for work. The beautiful location for many 1950s nude photos still has its secrets.
Dialectical sex and gender: Cunnilingus in North Korea. Interesting comments - good music too! Strangely this may be safe for work. It may be.
The dark side of Mary Poppins.
Dennis Wheatley wrote A Letter to Posterity which is linked to in this BBC feature. "Your life does not matter, but your freedom does."
Michael Moorcock's Miscellany is back up after a hacking attack. Still as difficult to navigate as ever, but worth it to keep up to date with the great man's words.
Roberts Radio Ltd. website has an interesting history section.
A reporter tries to find some good in the armpit of America.
Stream of unconsciousness: conversing with Denny's patrons. Denny's is a cafe chain in the US selling fatty sugary food - like MacDonald's but for breakfast.
Worst album covers ever including a link to ten more ghastly images.
The Human Design System seems as bad as Scientology. I wonder why people go for this stuff. HDS is supposed to draw "from science and esoteric wisdom" but no pointer is given to either.
The Hillman Imp as driven by the Man in a Suitcase. ω 9:03:00 AM.
Scary songs
Saturday, September 30, 2006
Huge comment thread on Jarvis Cocker's appeal for memories of unintentionally Scary Songs to which I have contributed Rolf Harris's 'Jake the Peg'. Rolf's performance on Blue Peter with three legs protruding from his long coat greatly alarmed me as a child.
Plastic Fantastic lists the Guardian's Laura Barton's favourite independent record shops; readers supply the rest of the record shops in the UK.
The Stranglers and the Finchley Boys - a three part article - were not as violent as they were often painted! I remember them from the Hope and Anchor in Islington and an Damned/Eater gig at my Finchley school in 1977. The poor old teacher who was supposed to be controlling this event was very circumspect, if not largely absent, during the festivities once this lot turned up mob-handed.
Stylus Magazine all about music, not cuneiform.
Shindig! magazine reviews the four CD boxset of the complete works of Fanny: First Time In A Long Time. I love Fanny - no really, I've got two of their albums on vinyl.
Lemmy is a charming fellow - I've shaken his hand twice at Hawkwind gigs - and he was the son of a vicar, after all. What Lemmy gets up to at home is his own business:
Then my solicitor sent them a letter saying, 'We are appalled by this accusation. Miss Wilson was not tied to the bed: she was hanging from the ceiling.' They didn't reply.
Two years ago Andrew Orlowski wrote about How the music biz can live forever, get even richer, and be loved.
The Perfumed Garden has many John Peel sessions in MP3 form, whereas John Peel Every Day is more keen on BitTorrent.
Funtopia is Mick Farren's weblog.
Greg Shaw obituary. He was a pivotal figure in the US music scene.
The Stop Ashlee Simpson Petition.
Alex Ross: The Rest is Noise is a weblog that mostly covers music.
Wendy James: The Racine World.
PSF is Perfect Sound Forever magazine. The Vinyl Anachronist: Part L: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the iPod.
Mike Patto was in 60s group Timebox.
Freeway Jam is a very cool music weblog. Hope they start updating again. There are also cool musicians who blog, it says here.
Extensive John Cale website: Fear is a Man's Best Friend. You remember - he was the cool one from the Velvet Underground. That's three cools. Some people say Lou Reed was the cool one. Not me.
Similarly extensive is the Kiki Dee Information Bureau - enough to fill a DVD! The timeline is worth exploring for the beautiful images of old fashions and record designs.
Martin Guy's Delia Derbyshire - An audiological chronology.
The Spirit of the Page site devoted to Robert Calvert has been relaunched to better reflect the zeitgeist.
Sean's Alexis Korner Discography. Did Alexis ever make a bad record? If so I haven't heard it.
LOL! Lol Coxhill's site features an interview with Buck Funk.
Julian Cope presents Head Heritage Unsung which reviews forgotten albums. On Julian's features there are MP3 streams too.
Amazing Doctor Who tributes discography - many memories! This is part of a bigger website as is the music from Danger Man, with cover scans and MP3 files.
Bad science: alternative therapy fans are like hi-fi freaks.
Independent music: There's a musical revolution going on. ω 4:16:00 AM.
Save Water!
Friday, May 19, 2006
The Mayor of London floats his solution to England's drought: Ken Livingstone says "if it's yellow, let it mellow".
Call this a drought?
Plants love it, says Ken.
Conserve water.
Water Company Hypocrisy! or is it? Unfortunate, more like.
No drought order yet. Phew.
I've made a poster to celebrate Ken's advice. To print it in various sizes, get over to Flickr by clicking on the picture then find the 'All Sizes' button. You'll need a recent version of Flash. Please print it and post it inside the door of the nearest thunderbox.
Update: It's August and the water is holding out. July's heatwave is fading away. The water companies are using emergency supplies. The government is talking about a national grid for water. We've had a few downpours but they have been the "wrong sort of rain": storms that mostly run off into the sea rather than wet weeks, so Ken's advice still holds!
Update: 1st November and the temperature in London drops below 10ºC for the first time this autumn. The trees are still green.
Labels: environment, links
ω 1:44:00 PM.Worse than Watergate? More political scandals
Thursday, November 03, 2005
The Valerie Plame Affair.The Evening Standard: The Paper that Hates London
As El-Attar points out in his unpublished letter to the Standard, the only hatred and terror for sale in this case was the hatred and terror being incited by Robert Mendick and sold by the Evening Standard.
Craig's BookNotes has a new address AGAIN: now at http://booknotes.weblogger.com/ - cut and paste it where it counts. Meanwhile in 2004:
The Hutton Report seems to be largely forgotten now. Most people remember the '45 minutes' claim, and the 'sexed-up' assertion, which all seem to distract from the hundreds of deaths in Iraq that continue to this day. Hutton Inquiry.
Book: Blair's Wars: war without end which reminds me everyone should read Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four to understand phoney wars. Of course it all goes wrong when people believe they really are the enemy just because we are killing them and destroying their country's infrastructure. 100,000 Iraqi civilians dead. Why?
Attack on Faluja: Screams will not be heard.
MPs give harsh reception to ID card scheme - those were the days. Everyone's against it except the three or four people who can drive it through, it seems.
Greenpeace Oceans campaign to ensure we have food in the future.
Save or Delete is Greenpeace's campaign to protect ancient forests, so that we can breathe in the future.
News from Palestine: Arabic Media Internet Network. (Edward Said used to be here.)
Ben Hammersley on software patents.
Bush-backers-only policy riles voters at RNC rallies is an appalling example of control that Britain's New Labour woud be proud of. I find I am reading the US press as if I lived there now. And weblogs like Emphasis Added.
Secret Services harass blogger: We Interrupt This Madness...
U.S. Military Orders. Three Questions for President George W. Bush. US clears RFID chips for people.
They Voted for this Mess - the church in the US is telling people to vote Republican, despite it all. Good rant.
Book: Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?: Confronting 21st Century Philistinism apparently not written by an intellectual, according to the comments on Amazon, but the question is valid.
Children not welcome: The War on Youth.
British Apples: Fallen fruit. ω 4:01:00 AM.
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