Build the universe!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spore_(game)

http://ftrsummary.blogspot.com/2005/11/ftr-531-interview-with-lucy-komisar.html
FTR #531 Interview with Lucy Komisar about Offshore
Recorded October 30, 2005
http://spitfirelist.com/?p=157

Featuring the brilliant investigative journalist Lucy Komisar,
this program highlights the use of "Offshore" entities to
evade taxes, maximize corporate profits and finance a
variety of criminal enterprises...

I think this deserves two snigger points.

\__/ \__/

BS
FV, TX
--------------------------------------------------------------

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/09/dayintech_0919

1982: At precisely 11:44 a.m., Scott Fahlman posts the following
electronic message to a computer-science department bulletin board at
Carnegie Mellon University:

19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman :-)
From: Scott E Fahlman

I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers:

:-)

Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark
things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use:

:-(

http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2008/09/securi...

Airport Pasta-Sauce Interdiction Considered Harmful
Bruce Schneier 5 hours ago
Airport security found a jar of pasta sauce in my luggage last month.
It was a 6-ounce jar, above the limit; the official confiscated it,
because allowing it on the airplane with me would have been too
dangerous. And to demonstrate how dangerous he really thought that jar
was, he blithely tossed it in a nearby bin of similar liquid bottles
and sent me on my way.

There are two classes of contraband at airport security checkpoints:
the class that will get you in trouble if you try to bring it on an
airplane, and the class that will cheerily be taken away from you if
you try to bring it on an airplane. This difference is important:
Making security screeners confiscate anything from that second class
is a waste of time. All it does is harm innocents; it doesn't stop
terrorists at all.

Times like this I move like iron filings in a magnetic field - trite
simile, I know, but I'm TYPING here, okay? - towards William S.
Burroughs and his colleagues and even epigones (though I think that's
mostly an unfair term).

Gnostic sarcasm and hilarious imagery in a dank mood from Our
Shakespeare...Beats, hippie intelligentsia, RAW-niks.

Who have visions of various utopian scenarios, but also soberly look
often at what's at the end of out forks...Who have ground out a
working way to deal with the abuse of

Everyday language.

And shrieking metal with Dionysius on lead guitars, playing solos at
superhuman legato, no melody left by the singer to go on, so the solo
a composition within the song, panic-stricken diminished descents,
whammy bar effects like "nothing but bombs" (Ginsberg), the themes
informed by Road Warrior iconography.

"Blinding terror...

"No radio contact!...

"March or die!...

http://tinyurl.com/6pva72

http://tinyurl.com/6rpy3j

http://tinyurl.com/57o8do

http://tinyurl.com/5ux5va

http://tinyurl.com/69q43y

http://tinyurl.com/58dr4o

http://tinyurl.com/6qlawz

http://tinyurl.com/6ns7tk

http://tinyurl.com/6pxhmb

http://tinyurl.com/5slo2y

http://tinyurl.com/5rvxnr

http://tinyurl.com/6z7mj9

(please add your own here)

http://timesonline.typepad.com/uselections/2008/09/palin-linked-el.html

Palin linked electoral success to prayer of Kenyan witchhunter
Hannah Strange (sic)

Times Online

The pastor whose prayer Sarah Palin says helped her to become governor
of Alaska founded his ministry with a witchhunt against a Kenyan woman
who he accused of causing car accidents through demonic spells.

...
I don't know what it means, I just found it fascinating. I doubt she
knew at the time what else this minister was up to. The sermons at her
own church are far more relevant ...

Great Taleb essay over at edge.org ( http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/taleb08/taleb08_index.html
) which I do not cut-and-paste here because there are graphs you'll
want to see.

Tom Buckner

On Sep 13, 11:37 pm, RMJon23 aol.com> wrote:

On Sep 15, 9:54 pm, Yobar wrote:

Voodoo curses are good for many things but apparently not for
explaining away tax fraud. That's good to know.

Is the voodoo curse the reason you don't want the story archived in
google groups?