I just can’t leave this one off the site. The Japanese Penis Festival. Read on for more shocking details…

Give the humans a little knowledge, and they make outrageous predictions. Take Bryan Sykes who thinks we may eventually have no males left. I for one think nature is smarter than that. She’s managed to get us here, inspite of asteroids, volcanoes, plagues and other wonderful acts of god throughout time.

I haven’t really started digging into this site, but it looked really juicy, so I thought I’d just post it. Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic music. 140 genres, 635 samples, 312 files.

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Here’s a conspiracy from hell. I, and many other unhappy cellphone owners, have been anxiously awaiting November 24 when supposedly number portability will kick in. Apparently some providers may just ignore the law and Congress may help. Big Business, afterall…

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I’ve been out of the loop apparently. Bloody “masses” of animal or human body parts have been found all over the building. Is this a joke?

Restaurant lovers love Zagat for it’s reviews. But, Gawker proclaims this new site Add Your Own could spell doom for Zagat. I might agree.

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It’s been a while since I read 1984, but I seem to remember moments where it was difficult to find privacy, where they had to take special precautions to have an unsurveilled moment. Many people believe that is happening as we speak.

I’ve featured Gizmodo and other sites before, but now I’ve run into this site Mobile Burn. If you’re in the market for a new phone, or will be as I am, as of November 24th, check mobile burn regularly.

So I’m always featuring Japanese art because I find more of that, but here’s an interesting link to the art of Zhu Xain Jair. This is marginally work-safe, it’s pretty tame stuff, very artistic. Maybe someone would be offended, I don’t know. Really beautiful pieces though, and I encourage everyone to take a look.

I just saw one of these in NYC, and thought it was great. The deception dollar features a photoshoped dollar bill (front and back) encouraging people to ask questions about 9-11. It is a really cool idea. It’s sort of disinformation back at ya, in the form of a slightly larger than real size dollar bill. The best is the total information awareness bit which is only a slight change from the normal masonic pyramid on the back of the $1 greenback.

That rhymes, if only the situation were as cute…

You’ve probably all heard about the Jetblue fiasco. They’ve now quietly appologized and promised not to do it again.

Well I’m going upstate this weekend for my brother’s bachelor party Saturday night, so I’ll be partying with you guys in spirit. For those in the city…

Saturday 9.20
Rubulad Presents an Enormo Birthday Bash

I wrote about this literally damned drug before. Here’s some more stories from Daniel Pinchbeck visting with the Bwiti in West Africa. I guess it’s like a key to the mind. Brings new meaning to our cultures prohibition of these medicines of old. Time to lock them up, and throw away the key. Lycaeum resource page.

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I’m not sure if I can bite this off and chew on it… Apparently Christianity is in decline… Ahem, maybe in Europe. Then again one of the authors they advertise on this site writes about how great McCarthy was.

There’s always a demon, if it’s not that damn Ecstacy which no one can agree if is good or bad, it’s the damn drink. Now that tobacco is on the way out, prohibition on alcohol is probably soon to follow…

A little late for labor day now but still very relevant nonetheless, Molly Ivins speaks out about work, unemployment, and the good ol’ boys on capital hill.

This story made such an odd and incongruous argument, that I had to post it.

Who says there’s nothing good happening in the world. Here’s an example, this company MagnaTune seems to be doing everything right. Buy what you like after listening to streaming samples, splitting profits 50/50 with artists, MP3 + WAV downloads of music you buy. It really sounds too good to be true!

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Scientists have discovered a fossil of a rodent as big as a buffalo. That must have been one big New York!

I’ll let all you twisted m-f’s figure out what this site is about.

You may have heard of war dialing, and war driving but have you heard of warchalking? Take it to the next level with psychalking.
Locate those psychic hot-spots quickly and easily!

This to me is pretty underhanded legal leveraging/monkey wrenching which is done in a moment of desperation. Can stop those p2p filesharers with threats, then we’ll try hacking them. If that doesn’t work, drag out the porn connection. I mean look at all the hoopla over Trudeau mentioning… gasp… m..m..master..bbb… I can’t say it, someone might hear!

Remember those funny cows all over NYC? I heard they made it as far as Chicago. Now it seems they’ve made it to Japan!

I love these sensationalist stories. STD’s on the rise, those damn kids are at it again. This time with dogging parties.

Is this just a matter of seeing what you want to see? We’ve got protestors = terrorists and growing prison populations, quickly eroding privacy even collecting DNA fingerprints for all good citizens, and widespread email + telephone surveillance. Military propaganda is reasonable, but treating mental health with drugs is falling out of fashion. At least now they’re being consistent with what RAW calls the war on (some) drugs. Plenty of casualties there, including Tommy Chong, and the integrity of scientific research.

Something a little more positive than some of the other news lately, beautiful Japanese newspaper woodblock prints.

We talked about drones before, and mostly in the context of military uses. It’s only a matter of time before we see them domestically.
Homeland Security senturies which will be coming soon to a friendly sky near you.

If you’re thinking of going to Thailand on… umm…. business, take a look at these ten commandments first.

There is one thing I often notice about science, and that is it’s ability at criticism which somehow always comes out as negative, a somehow defeated view of the universe. So it’s with no surprise that we find that cellphones may not cause cancer, but on the other hand we might be conducting the biggest “human biological experiment ever”, that may make us senile in the prime of our lives.

For more fear mongering, it seems a major geothermal pressure is building under Yellowstone National Park and could explode at any time.

“Only a handful exist in the world but when one erupts the explosion will be heard around the globe. The sky will darken, black acid rain will fall, and the Earth will be plunged into the equivalent of a nuclear winter. It could push humanity to the brink of extinction.”