COMPARATIVE
BIOGRAPHY
Things
Other People Accomplished When They Were Your Age
Enter
an age and see a list of accomplishments performed at that age.
POLITICS
10 Things You Should Know about John McCain (but probably don't)
Open Letter to Norm Mineta Regarding the Events of 9/11
Time Magazine's Dedication to the Truthiness
Jesusisms
vs. Bushisms
Remarkable
parallels between the words of Jesus and the sayings of the 43rd President.
Election
Watch
9/13/06: A new study
of the Diebold touch-screen voting system by Princeton University shows
that a computer virus can be introduced into one machine and spread
to others,
undetectably stealing a few votes here, a few votes there.
But no one would
be diabolical and bold enough to game the election system, right? On
the
other hand, who believed that Enron would game
the electricity market?
Oh, did we mention
that Walden O'Dell, who was CEO of Diebold until leaving for
personal
reasons (i.e., an impending class action securities fraud lawsuit),
told Republicans in a fundraising letter that he was "committed
to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president"?
And that his replacement was reported to have given the maximum allowable
$2,000 contribution to George W. Bush's campaign, in violation of
Diebold's corporate policy?
Honest Republicans
should be as concerned about this issue as honest Democrats. After
all, there are Democratic hackers too...
Read
the Princeton study and see the demonstration video!
Read
the story on Salon.com.
Bush
informed Gore during the 2000 debates that national disasters were "a
time to test your mettle." I hope there are no more tests. So
far, his administration
- Didn't
want to hear about terrorism until after 9/11
- Used 9/11
as an excuse to go after Iraq
- Let bin
Laden escape
- Lied about
WMDs to justify the war
- Failed to
plan for the aftermath of the war
- Turned Saddam's
den of torture into our den of torture
- Appointed
a political hack to head FEMA
- Botched
the recovery effort in New Orleans
- Cut taxes
on the wealthy while running up a huge deficit
- Illegally
used secret branches of government to spy on the American people
Time
for Bush & Cheney to Go - Keith Olbermann
Washington
Post article
George
Will essay
Molly
Ivans essay
Education Watch
No
Child Left Untested
Destroying the
love of learning, one kid at a time
Fascism Watch
12
Warning Signs of Fascism
CONCEPTUAL
ART PROJECTS
The "I
Hate My Life" Project
Smiling/Frowning
Mona Lisa
This is a hybrid image in which Mona Lisa is smiling when you're up close
and frowning when you're far away (or looking at a thumbnail).
The
Clockworks Project
An
online diary of what I was doing and thinking
each time a random timer beeped
Incorporating
Dogs into Art
The
Dollar Project
I
distributed dozens of dollar bills rubber-stamped with messages asking
for return of the dollar or information as to its whereabouts
MISCELLANEOUS
Photos of recently
discovered Crap Circles,
strange circular feces formations.
Photos of Fort
Ord and the Impossible City
Message
Found in a Rat
Belch Beer
So good, you'll want to taste it twice.
SHORT
STORIES
"The
Talking Cat"
A very short, allegedly true, story.
Boring Bedtime
Stories: An Anthology for Insomniacs
A collection of stories
designed to be as uninteresting as possible — your contributions
are requested.
"The
Girl Scout Cookie Project"
What
happens when your local scout troop goes on strike and refuses
to sell
cookies containing trans fatty acids (TFAs)?
"A
Dollar for Your Soul"
Based
on a true story about a high-school
soul-selling pyramid scheme,
this story originally appeared in Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy
Magazine. A Russian
translation was done by Andrei
Novikov and published in December
1993 in
Yesly ("If") magazine, which has been voted Europe's best
science fiction magazine. Since its circulation in 1993 eclipsed
that of MZBFM,
it appears that far more people have read this story in a Russian
translation
I
knew nothing
about
"The
Vision Vine" 
A short story about virtual
reality and entheogens, originally published in Whole Earth
Review.
It's also about tribal cultures in conflict with modern civilization.
The magazine Transdimension
Vista published a Japanese
translation without my knowledge
or permission, so
I'm using this graphic without their permission. (Also see Google's
translation of
the Japanese version back to English.) The story
was then translated
into Russian (from the English version, of course) and published
in the May 2002 issue of Yesly
magazine.
"DreamNet"
An unpublished story about dreaming and networks. No one has bothered
translating this.
