Two engineering students were walking across campus when one said, "Where did you get such a great bike?" The second engineer replied, "Well, I was walking along yesterday minding my own business when a beautiful woman rode up on this bike. She threw the bike to the ground, took off all her clothes and said, 'Take what you want.'" "The second engineer nodded approvingly, Good choice; the clothes probably wouldn't have fit."

Doctor, you forgot something!
(Thanks to James)

"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience." --Howard Zinn

This weekend's San Francisco protest helicopter photos

Just saw another excellent film: Bleak Moments

bushoncrack.com

Pigs in DC

Where is dissent?

US oil stocks are down to their second lowest level since 1976

The 12480 alphabet was "designed to show how a true alphanumeric writing system looks and works. 12480 is not based upon phonemes, but rather upon binary. It achieves complete universality with an optimal amount of applications from its binary basis. A writing system based on phonemes will only last as long as the human voice is used. 12480's binary foundation will last as long as numbers exist."

"EMI created the 42nd symphony by analysing some of Mozart's other 41 and extracting 'essence of Mozart'. It used this to generate a brand-new composition in which Mozart nevertheless 'wrote' every note and decided every detail of harmony, rhythm and instrumentation. 'There's no expert in the world who could, without knowing its source, say for certain that it's not Mozart'"

Utterly, unbelievably amazing image transformation software, Image Anologies
example

Add your own floor to Mr. Wong's Soup'Partments
(Thanks to Mike)

"The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson." --President Franklin Roosevelt, in a letter to an associate dated November 21, 1933
(Thanks to Mike)

"Boustrophedon is a reading- / writing- style that alternates direction every line. It was originally created by the ancient Greeks. Once one gets good at reading the 'backwards' text, reading (and writing) can go much faster, as the eye (or hand) does not have to whip back to the margin when the end of a line is reached. One simply goes down a line and continues in the opposite direction."

Boustrophedon Text Reader

GNU Radio: Open source software-based ham radio

Students for an Orwellian Society

"The Paketto Keiretsu is a collection of tools that use new and unusual strategies for manipulating TCP/IP networks. They tap functionality within existing infrastructure and stretch protocols beyond what they were originally intended for. It includes Scanrand, an unusually fast network service and topology discovery system, Minewt, a user space NAT/MAT router, Linkcat, which presents a Ethernet link to stdio, Paratrace, which traces network paths without spawning new connections, and Phentropy, which uses OpenQVIS to render arbitrary amounts of entropy from data sources in three dimensional phase space."

Existential Phenomenology and Dreams