You thought censorship only happened in China, or the former communist countries. You thought we had a free press? THink again. Powell’s interview is interrupted.

[Thanks SuperG]

According to this piece it was self-doubt from within the ranks of the military which caused those torture pictures to be released, not any type of activism, and that it reveals something deeper about America’s uncertainty about the war…

bOINGbOING print publication inspiration, Wet Magazine looks like it was way ahead of it’s time.

We’ve mentioned the Vaults of EROWID before. Here’s a positive piece at LA Weekly about how they’ve helped heal people.

The topic of psychoactive drugs is a many-headed beast, encompassing pharmacology and federal law, dirty needles and God.

Rubulad Presents: May-Hem!

Saturday, 5/15/04 at Dick Shea’s Dance studio ‘ 69 West 14th Street bet. 5th & 6th Aves.

I didn’t have a chance to post about the ITP Spring show though I did go. I’m going to make it up to you all with this weekend. Friday there’s a party at 66 Water Street in DUMBO.

Great photos of places + people in New York.

[kottke]

The Cargo Cults are not all dead. They’re coverting to another strange though more widely followed cult.

So it’s getting closer to reality, growing new teeth in old age, or if you get a few knocked out.

In Nigeria, when it’s time to collect, you bring along a friend. Not a pitbull, but a Hyena. If you’ve never seen one it looks like a cross between a wolf, a big rotweiler, and a tiger. I’d pay ‘em if I were you.

Susannah Breslin is at it again.

Cool site of disused stations of the london underground.

From boingboing a few weeks back, naughty paper dolls.

The job market is slow, so heads have been raised for some time over the issue of outsourcing. Of course it’s natural if you’re jobless to look to causes. Lawrence Katz argues that outsourcing does not reduce jobs in the long run. There is debate, and some turnaround.

I hadn’t heard about this at all until reading SF based boingboing today. It’s PACMAN being played in real life around Washington Square Park. I gotta check this out…

Annual Mayday celebration happens TODAY in Tompkins Square Park. Be there!