Not a lot of personal reflection lately…too much interesting stuff going on with the web, and MUCH to much work for school. 4 projects left for the semester….basically one every 3 days until the semester is over. Ick.
But on the positive, Bets and I have both found summer jobs, which is always a big deal for academia. Summer typically sucks, but this one should be pretty ok.
More complete abuse of the DMCA. Security talk cancelled due to cease and desist from lawyers.
http://features.slashdot.org/features/03/04/14/1846250.shtml?tid=153&tid=172
and here, for your reading pleasure, is one of the papers that was “threatened” by our friends the lawyers. It provides vital security information to this campus in that one of these systems is in use, OneCard. I am providing this as a service to the campus community, and invite the legal team that threatened the talk to do the same to me. I am not only currently enrolled in a Security class which makes this relevant material and protected by fair use doctrine, but as a library science student, this directly impacts the income of my workplace, which makes it necessary to my livelihood. Combine these reasons with the First Amendment, and you’ve got a nice challenge on your hands.
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Great Sasuke (a legendary Japanese professional wrestler) wins seat in legislature.
http://news1.iwon.com/article/id/318308|oddlyenough|04-14-2003::00:43|reuters|1.html
Masked Wrestler Wins Japan Assembly Seat
Apr 14, 12:32 am ET
TOKYO (Reuters) – Who is that masked man? One of Japan’s newest politicians.
A professional wrestler who fought his way to victory in local assembly elections under his ring name and wearing his trademark mask has vowed the mask will not leave his face even after he enters the staid halls of Japanese politics.
“This is my face,” the wrestler — known as “The Great Sasuke” — was quoted by the Nikkan Sports newspaper as saying of his black and white full-face mask with bright scarlet streaks and golden wings by the eye holes.
“I won support from voters with this face, and to take it off would be breaking promises,” the 33-year-old wrestler, whose real name is Masanori Murakawa, said of his victory in conservative Iwate prefecture, some 460 km (290 miles) north of Tokyo.
Catching opponents on the back foot to take one of 10 assembly seats, the wrestler said he now hopes to demonstrate his “superabundant power” outside of the ring as well as in it.
Sasuke’s vow to go masked into the halls of power in Japan, where battles have been fought in the past over legislators refusing to don neckties, has authorities scratching their heads.
“There is no law specifically forbidding it,” one Iwate prefectural official was quoted by Nikkan Sports as saying. “But now that he has won, we must look into the issue.”
In a sign, perhaps, that the rough-and-tumble world of politics may prove more bruising than expected, Sasuke was forced to limp his way up to the polling box with one ankle in a cast.
He attributed the injury to stumbling over a curb during the election campaign.
Just bizarre.
Here’s a PDF of a military file….playing cards for the soldiers in Iraq that have pictures of Iraq leaders so that everyone can identify them.
I kid you not.
Weird. Really, really weird.
Inspired by Justin’s email to Senator Edwards, I just fired off one of my own in response to the news that Senator Orrin Hatch has introduced legislation to eliminated the “sunset” date of the Patriot Act.
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Dear Senator Edwards,
It has come to my attention today that there is a measure within the congress to make the PATRIOT act a standing piece of legislature and remove the sunset date. This is appalling news, and I must say that as an opponent of the PATRIOT act from day one it concerns me greatly. In the post-9/11 US, it seems that individual liberties and freedoms are being eroded in the name of national security, when in fact it is those liberties and freedoms that make this country great.
As a librarian, I see myself as a defender of these freedoms of privacy and speech.
I oppose the so called “PATRIOT II”, I oppose the extension or elimination of the sunset date for PATRIOT, and I believe that it is time that the government stop reacting to world events with a campaign of fear, uncertainty and doubt.
Thank you,
Jason Griffey
Not a huge fan of mass media in general, esp. commercials…but geez this is a cool commercial.
http://www.honda.co.uk/newcars/accord300k.html
Rube Goldberg eat your heart out.
http://www2.gamesville.lycos.com/html_poke/poke_penguin.htm
No commentary. Just go there. Do it.
One tip: Keep poking.
Boy, I’m in a wierd humor mood…just spent the last 5 minutes giggling uncontrolably at this comic. Probably only funny to a game geek, but oh well.
In other news: have WWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYY to much work to do, and don’t wanna do any of it. Spring fever is setting in terribly.
Finally, bowing to intense peer pressure, I install comments on my blog. Thousands rejoice at the opportunity to tell me what they really think about me.
So, I took this test, and here are the results….try it out for yourself and see which Great Old One you are!
For those of you who have no idea what I’m talking about…google for Lovecraft Mythos
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I amShub-Niggurath! Shub-Niggurath is often called the “Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young”, and is the force of creation, life, evolution/mutation. She represent the force of the one universal constant (ie change) on the biological. She is often envisioned as a dark, low lying cloud, with goat’s hooves with numerous tenticals writhing from within. Her rites are best performed during a New Moon, or on Mid-Summer’s Eve. |
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