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The excellent Z Magazine speaks to the propaganda war.

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Apparently, and I’d never make an allegation unless I had done complete, painstaking, thorough research for months or even years first, but some believe we had the opportunity to use drones and could have gotten bin-Laden before 9/11.

According to this article a government funded study found that these gentlemen all suffered from neuroses based on “fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity”.

Schneier’s monthly is out again, and more goodies that are sure to shake you up a bit.

Read on to find out how once semi-transferable tickets can once again be semi-transferrable.

Despite the attention grabbing headline, I think this research is pretty interesting. Joan Roughgarden thinks Darwin got it wrong about sexual selection, and diversity, and is doing some controversial theorizing.

Just finished reading Valis, Phillip Dick’s first in a trilogy he wrote following his self-described “invasion of my mind by a transcendentally rational mind”. The book finishes up with an Appendix called “Cryptica Scriptura”.

All self-respecting civilizations back in the day had a writing system. China, Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Maya. For a long time anthropologists have been struggling with the Inca’s because they seemed to be missing this important component to an organized society.

Stephen Wolfram is a renegade to science. Knowing how dogmatic science has become since the good old days of Copernicus, that may not be radical enough.

David Warsh waxes on about everything from Theory is the Root of Peace to terror futures which we mentioned previously. My take is that economists are often big on theory, but short on the real-world. Interesting reading though…

Warren Ellis author of the Transmetropolitan comic now has a weblog to eat up more of your time.

Vernor Vinge was the author of True Names, published in 1981. His contemporaries are Minsky + Touring. He has a lot to say about our approaching singularity, but I’d like to see him joust with Jaron Lanier who dubs these folks Cybernetic Totalists.

This funny site Hipsters are Annoying has a funny piece on two fictional hipsters talking about friendster profiles while getting coffee at Verb Cafe.

Outraged by the government project to bet on terror futures, a bunch of smart-alec folks (ya gotta love ‘em) have put together a similar online market to predict American government transgressions. Here are the folks that bring you this wisdom.

I’ll definitely look forward to getting ahold of a copy of this book.

A lot of the greats of this generation, Laurie Anderson, David Bowie, and Keith Haring consider him a great influence on their work.

According to this story they’re back in fashion.

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Albeit he had some very bad material up there, and perhaps he was making it easier to get such information. But nevertheless, isn’t speech, and information still protected? I guess depending on the speech, that can now be considered an act of terror. Watch your mouth!

Forget the lingerie ladies. Now you can just spray on those legs. Hey, works for me!

I know you guys all love this shit right? Most of it should be theoretically worksafe, but I’m not really sure…

It appears that some research has shown the Atkins diet only works because it reduces your overall caloric intake. Interesting reading.

This Christian site claims they can help you with your transgressions. It’s a site for x-gay people. Just read the testimonials and see.

God Healed My Marriage
With a wonderful wife, two lovely daughters, a large home in the suburbs and a responsible position in the local church, who would have ever suspected my exclusive homosexuality and frequent trips into the parks, porno shops and gay bars.

I have a lot of theories about drug interaction and the brain. Some of which lie in the path of anti-depressants. I suspect that no one would argue they needed a drug to deal with a tragic death in the family. We understand

This fashion designer claims that these underwear are for me. I guess men *COULD* wear them if they really wanted… My favorites are the cute bikini briefs. Too bad snake charmer ain’t sellin’.

Conspiriologists (is that a word?) are going to have enough material to take us far beyond the JFK assasination conspiracies we’ve been hearing about for so many years. Take this NYT piece linking Saudi spys to 9/11.

Here’s a great piece on America’s growing prison population despite a tremendous downturn in crime. Should we be more concerned about the cost to taxpayers, or the bigger question?

A couple of weeks back, Santa Cruz, CA was host to a special evening with our favorite Robert Anton Wilson - Maybe Logic. Disinfo has coverage.

I covered cyborgs + body mod before. Prepare yourself for kuro5hin to take you on a trip where you’ve never been before.

This test helped me quickly shed light on my ignorance of the Middle East. And I figure I have half a clue. How can we begin to understand politics, and people, if we don’t even know where they live?

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I’m a big fan of maps in general. That’s why I can say this Citidex Manhattan map deserves special attention. No real-estate broker nonesense, these are the real neighborhoods, with real detail. Find more at Gawker from historical maps, to transportation + more.

This is a first for NDS, but I figure it’s of interest to readers… some dirt cheap flights.

I swear, four of five years ago no one would believe this was true. We would say it must have happened in China. But it didn’t folks. A kid was arrested at Boston’s Logan airport for a note he had left in his bags.