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Isn’t the beauty of language it’s evolution? It’s lack of structure, and bounds? Well some don’t agree. But language is built with ideas, and memes.

The so-called “war on drugs” never ceases to insense me. It is absurd that Tommy Chung went to jail for selling glass pipes. Here are a few words from Deroy Murdock, a writer for the conservative National Review.

Want more info on arts and community and Williamsburg. Check out this hot site wburg.

The real skinny on partial birth abortions. Maybe a harsh byline, but I still have trouble understanding why we’re grappling with an issue that most of the rest of the “civilized” world has resolved. A lawyer gives his take.

Baroness, one of the many Queens of Fetish in NYC has invented the sucky bed. Here’s a gallery (usual warnings apply). If I can’t get you guys to comment on this, I probably can’t get a comment on anything!

[Geisha Asobi]

As you may or may not know, Toby Young used to write for the NY Press. I quite enjoyed his stuff, so always pique up when I find some stuff by him in other media now. He asks now if we can make glossy magazines as accountable as the securities industry…

“I hereby declare that when I say that argyle socks are ‘in’ this season no part of my compensation was, is, or will be, directly or indirectly, related to that specific recommendation.”

If you’re interesting in getting a new piece, take a look at this shop 55 Tattoo on 19th Street. They just opened, and I checked out their shop. Nice place, and excellent tattoos by Horifudo and others.

I thought this would be an interesting juxtaposition. Compare the crusader type rhetoric we hear today, versus the religion of the founding father’s.

Halloween’s tommorrow night. So many parties this weekend. What to do for a costume? Well, Nylon Designs has a find a costume page. Answer a few questions, and you’ll be surprised what it comes up with.

No one is in league, in bed, or otherwise handshaking under the table. So this Boeing story is totally false…

Bruce Schneier is the author of the phenomenal and insightful Cryptogram. Often putting common sense to questions of computer security, and after 9/11 more often bigger security questions, he says computerized terror profiling doesn’t work.

Not only are there spackers hacking hapless broadband customer computers to send SPAM and worse but there sections of IP addresses that are getting hijacked.

Interesting and amuzing weblog Big White Guy gives us a glimpse of HK.

This site is hilarious, if only for that picture of the guy who makes this stuff. He looks genuine!

“Here is a small collection of anti- masturbation devices I have invented to help the sincere born again Christian stop the sinful, evil, hellbound practice of MASTURBATING!
As of now, they are not being marketed because I am broke and a lot of stupid people are not interested in investing the money to produce them.”

Found a new and very interesting blog on future science + technology called Futurismic. And I still don’t get this whole string theory of life, the universe + everything…

Apparently the Baja peninsula in Mexico is selling like hotcakes to American’s in spite of the fact that the Mexican constitution forbids foreigners from owning coastline property.

You thought Karaoke was bad. The Germans have come up with a new spin. A male and female work together to fill in the audio of XXX movies.

I usually don’t cover tech industry stuff here. I get enough of that elsewhere, and it’s not usually very surprising. Here’s something I found which I thought was. Apparently 300 of M$ 50,000 employees run a blog, and in a lot of cases (though some not) they are looking the other way. Some argue this is likely the make the inner workings of Longhorn more open, and better in the long run. Looks like they’re embracing a little openness after all…

Conspiriologists love to follow the money. That’s why Mark Lombardi’s upcoming exhibit Global Networks at the Drawing Center should be fascinating.
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Some people don’t like Williamsburg, and I think a similar strong and parallel vein of thinking has dissed Tarantino’s latest oeuvre. But I don’t care. That’s part of the good of both. Some are even comparing it to Ulysses and similar controversies surrounding that work. I agree with Urban Outlaw.

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Something really cool happened over the streets of Gotham on Friday. A skywriter was paid to display the social security number of the CITI Corp’s CEO (formerly Citibank etc…). Incredible as it may sound, apparently privacy laws are so weak, that this is relatively legal. I guess the same can’t be said about some of the gov big boys, as there is some Patriot Act spin.

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Words of wisdom from the author of Geography of Nowhere, James Kunstler offers a sober thought or two on 9/11, interesting paintings of the auto-landscape, and the Clusterfuck Manifesto.

I’ve been checking out CL way too much lately, but some of this shit you just can’t resist. Like this one Getting Married…Need Potential Wife Now. My favoriate bit…
“I am looking forward to getting to know you better. Until step 5, there is a chance I will be dating several people at once in an effort to lock down Ms. Right. In the event that two or more candidates are approaching Step 5 simultaneously, I will hold a