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The Cave - Experimental Art Gallery is having an opening reception on February 1, 2003 from 7 to 11pm for Robert Taub.

Here’s a very interesting site called Public Campaign which offers a poster called “State of the Union” detailing big corporate contributions to various campaigns…

Funny and Scary:
This Republican site is rewarding people for signing & mailing automated letters to news editors that support Bush’s policies. Not only is the point system similar to the highly successful “Marlboro Miles^tm” and “Camel Cash^tm“, but it also involves a pyramid scam! They call it “building your own Team of activists…”.

According to this New Yorker article by Seymour Hersh the CIA knew at least four months ago about the N.Korea nuclear program. The really juicey bit was that apparently Pakistan was sharing technology with them…

The wild Kitsch Inn party has returned, this time to Don Hill’s. Check them out on Friday, January 31st.

Bush was in Scranton last week, shit-talking trial lawyers, and blaming them
for running doctors out of town due to high liability insurance premiums…

According to Channel News Asia, and Reuters, Singapore is considering implanting microchips in pet dogs and cats.

The of Smith College has an online gallery of flowers and other plants. They’re beautiful fractal patterns show mathematical symmetry. There are even some quicktime movies.

The Outsider Art Fair is this week Thursday through Sunday at the Puck building. There’s quite a list of exhibitors.

Believe it or not, Michelin is
planning to embed RFID tags inside it’s tires. Brings new meaning to the concept of improved tracking.

If you were able to see NYU’s Winter Show a few weeks back, you would have witnessed Daniel Rozin’s amazing wooden mirror, a computer/motor controlled fabric of wooden panels which respond to signals received via a video camera, and digitize a rough image of what’s in front of it.

Ever wanted to give or receive a flogging? Now’s your chance in this “Hol-litcal” satire. Brought to you by Sasha & the Female Bureau of Investigation and the Lunar Society…

The Japanese fashion fad Ganguro Girls has influenced Japanese artist Radical Suzuki in his new work…

Take a look at Digital Mona Lisa. It’s a rendering of the Mona Lisa as Ascii Art back in 1965.

Publisher Prentice hall is going to give open publishing a try. This is being published with a different license than the Creative Commons one we’ve mentioned…

Surprising but true, DailyCamera is reporting that a man was yelling and screaming obscenities, and waving a gun, so the SWAT team was called in…

Brought to my attention by this Disinfo article, Israeli forces will be targeting assassinations in the US, as well as other allied countries. From the original UPI article …

From Hintmag it seems that there’s going to be a little suare…

The Guardian is reporting a new credit card being tested in the UK. It can test whether you’re too drunk, and let you know.

As mentioned recently on Gawker and bOINGbOING, Ken Courtney is the owner of Just Another Rich Kid, a website selling t-shirts such as “I Fucked Paris Hilton”, and “I Fucked Gisele”…

So it seems there’s some good news on the horizon with respect to the Total Information Awareness program. It seems that some diverse groups, including the ACLU, and the American Conservative Union have come out urging congress to drop the program.

Doug Stoup is heading to the South Pole… by BICYCLE. This guy is an ambitious adventurer. He’s riding a specially designed ice bicycle built by Dan Hanebrink.

In this interesting image Divided We Stand, Valdis Krebs presents us with a cross-section of books, and shows some striking relationships between political books people are reading…

Anybody remember the artist painting a picture of the artist painting a picture of the artist on and on? This is the trippiest animated gif I have ever seen, and brings to mind…

EYEBEAM is throwing an exciting event for robot lovers of all ages, The second annual international ArtBots: The Robot Talent Show. The EYEBEAM gallery will host the event in mid-July of this year.

The ACLU has just released
Bigger Monster, Weaker Chains: The Growth of an American Surveillance Society. In it they outline the rapid technological changes and post 9/11 attitude changes by both the government, and it’s people which has brought this to our doorstep.

Freaky but true, Carl Whittaker has respected the request of his father, and had his tattooed skin preserved and framed after he died.

Here’s an interesting
poll done by TimeEurope. They ask “Which country poses the greatest danger to world peace in 2003?”

Wednesday, 2am, the US is way ahead at 80% of the vote. I wonder who has the most internet-connected computeres…

Well, you gotta hand it to these guys for originality. The Soap Lake Lava Lamp foundation will be dubbed SoLa LaLa. Can you say that with a straight face?

Two scientists, Donald Brownlee and Peter Ward of the University of Washington claim
that the end of the world is near, and has already begun.

They go on to say that the end of plants and animals will come in 500 million years. In what context is 500 million years near?