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.subvert the corporate media megalopoly
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.listen
democracy now! : air america radio : randi rhodes : mike malloy : unfiltered : majority report : radiopower.org : free speech radio news : ed schultz : public radio fan

.watch

the daily show with jon stewart : NOW with bill moyers : frontline

.organize
moveon.org : americans coming together : progressive majority : true majority : du : tribe.net : meetup

.vote
register : punk voter : electoral vote predictor 2004 : betavote (world vote)

.read

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.stop. laugh
get your war on : mister pants : boondocks : internet weekly report : onion : rtmark

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.progressive blog cartels
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.progressive think tanks
center for american progress : rockridge institute

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wonkette : sensible election

.propagate the art gate
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.cosmology by science
astro daily pic : bbc science/nature : better humans : honeyguide : intl dark skies : new scientist : science daily : science friday : union of concerned scientists

.news by the people

.ecosphere
climate ark : eco-portal : enn : forests portal : green biz : greenpeace blog : grist : planet ark : tidepool : vegan blog : viridian blog

.major nodes
alternet : amsam : antiwar : autonomedia : bartcop : buzzflash : ctheory : cannabis news : common dreams : corpwatch : corpwatch india : counterpunch : cryptome : disinfo : disinfopedia : eat the state! : guerrilla news network : haddock : indy media center : infoshop : infowars : memory hole : mojo wire : naked news : narco news : nation : news from babylon : nologo : smirking chimp : synearth : tapped : tom paine : truthout : underreported : unknown news : utne : war in context : what really happened : working for change : yellow times : znet

.girls rule!
code pink : adventure divas : bitch : bust : hip mama : bad babes : feminist.org : women in iran

.afropower
afrocuba web : black commentator : tbwt : africana

.dc
city paper : capitol hill blue : the hill : georgetown gonzo

.ny
gawker : gothamist : village voice : new yorker

.sf
sf bay guardian

.above u.s.
cbc : globe & mail : vancouver sun

.uk
bbc : guardian : telegraph

.the fertile crescent
aljazeera : abunimah : electronic intifada : ha'aretz : aron's israel peace weblog : arab news

.iraq
operation truth : occupation watch

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.land of murakami
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"I deplore brutality," he said. "It's not efficient. On the other hand, prolonged mistreatment, short of physical violence, gives rise, when skillfully applied, to anxiety and a special feeling of guilt. A few rules or rather guiding principles are to be borne in mind. The subject must not realize that the mistreatment is a deliberate attack of an anti-human enemy on his personal identity. He must be made to feel that he deserves any treatment he receives because there is something (never specified) horribly wrong with him. The naked need of the control addicts must be decently covered by an arbitrary and intricate bureaucracy so that the subject cannot contact his enemy direct."

-- William S. Burroughs, via Naked Lunch

m.i.t.'s blogdex : technorati : daypop : kinja : blogstreet : blog twinning : popdex


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.hardware
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wherein he blogs

"I am thrilled that she is not the color of buttermilk."


"As I cross the street, beyond the range of Foxy's all encompassing gaze, I am conscious of just how starved I am to see a larger than life reflection of myself. Foxy's semi-denimed derriere aside, the image of a Black woman as a desirable standard ideal is a tremendous statement."

"LONDON -- Three confidential documents from inside the World Trade Organization Secretariat and a group of captains of London finance, who call themselves the 'British Invisibles,' reveal the extraordinary secret entanglement of industry with government in designing European and American proposals for radical pro-business changes in WTO rules.

" . . . Reuters executive Henry Manisty offered his news service to the LOTIS propaganda effort. Manisty told the LOTIS group he 'wondered how business views could best be communicated to the public.' Reuters, he said, 'would be most willing to give them publicity.'

"'For a long time conspiracy theorists thought there had been secret meetings between governments and corporations,' said Coates. 'Looking at these minutes, it was worse than we thought. [The WTO GATS proposals] are a stitch-up between corporate lobbyists and government.'"


. . . from The WTO's Hidden Agenda, by Greg Palast . . . as reported by Tom Paine and Unknown News, and who else? You can bet none of the corpo-lines carried it; instead, all of the corporate news channels rigorously repeated the 'stain of seattle' quote with something akin to glee--as if such an OUTBREAK OF DEMOCRACY could ever be accurately titled as a 'stain!'

See also via CorpWatch:

The WTO, Forests and the Spirit of Rio

The Fate of the World's Forests

Me and my girlfriend attended the opening of this show at Seattle's own Roq la Rue last Friday, presently featuring the work of Seattle residents Shawn Wolfe and Jeff Kleinsmith.

Shawn Wolfe is probably best remembered for his work on Beatkit. I especially liked Wolfe's packaging of the RemoverInstaller (block of plastic), sold like action figures.

Hello, Crispin from COCA!

"In early 1998, I opened Roq la Rue as a venue for all the amazing talent I was seeing in Seattle that just wasn't getting shown, as it was deemed too 'unusual' or 'weird' by the local conservative bigwig galleries.

"For being such a notoriously 'alternative' town, the art scene sure wasn't. Plenty of blown glass and dark moody landscapes, but the stuff I liked to see--colorful, wild, emotionally-packed narrative or symbolic art--could only be found in comics, tattoo shops, Mexican folk art shops, and on record covers. What the hell was wrong with this town? . . . "

Kirsten Anderson has a weblog.

If you are not familiar with the life and work of r.u. sirius, let me refer you to a few choice words from his dossier:

"Sirius is probably best known for Mondo 2000, the legendary cyberian magazine that he cofounded and edited (between 1989 and 1993). Mondo 2000 promoted many of cyberculture's early trends and visceral images: Virtual Reality; Teledildonics; Infinite Personality Complexes; philosophers like Arthur Kroker, Timothy Leary and Robert Anton Wilson.

"Many of its key writers later wrote for Wired, and there have been suggestions that the latter magazine dumbed down the memeplexes for the mass mind."

I remember running across a pile of back issues of Mondo 2000 at a now sadly defunct bookstore in Seattle's U-District--what a find!

I think R.U. is a genius.

So I was very honored to receive an advance copy of R.U.'s new project: The Thresher.

A couple quotes from the back cover:

[coming this morning.]

Articles from the current issue (prescient!)

Request it at your local newsstand today!

R.U., recent: "Ignore the War: a Personal Declaration of Deep Neutrality

You can write to R.U. here

That pic of Oakenfold is just iconic, cementing the return of the larger sunglasses . . .

.menlorama

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abuddhas memes

by tony tross
Tony chases Eris and his own personal Buddha-kin from the icy outer reaches of the Yukon.


blogeur

by relton dupiniot
He likes to watch . . . blogs. The Anti-Velveeta of Weblogs.


thumbmonkey

by kirsten anderson
Kirsten invented and runs the best art gallery in Seattle: the Roq la Rue.

the little green footballs quiz

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Int'l Art Machine begins.

Letter on blogs I wrote, circa Spring 2k

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.culture is the salve

"Culture is the salve to the wound of mankind."
-- Copernicus Grape

.art
wooster collective : superbad : artchive : art crimes : illegal-art : laughing squid : ekosystem

.(web) design
a list apart : zeldman : k10k : xblog : design is kinky

.design (all)
d-sign

.music
kexp : grooved!strict : hyperreal : ninja tune : usounds : dublab : soma fm : protest records

.word
exquisite corpse : the thresher : zoetrope : mobylives : librarian net : newpages : bureau of public secrets


.cine
greencine daily : cinema minima : masters of cinema : indiewire : imdb : hacking netflix

.gamer's escape
gamefly.com : gamasutra : game girl advance : gamefaqs : kotaku

.luv
daze reader : erosblog : indie nudes : sacredwhore.org : nerve

.look
coccozella : fucker.net : complimentary utopian nudes gallery

.beyond
anomalist : joseph campbell foundation : erowid : killing the buddha : lycaeum : google

.group gropes
fark : linkfilter : mefi : mofi : plastic : wtf people

.pop
defamer : james wolcott : choire sicha : wow report : kottke

.more cool blogs
also not found in nature : bTang reBlog
: beyond the beyond
(bruce sterling)
: bifurcated rivets

cardhouse : cipango : diepunyhumans : fimoculous : geisha asobi : william gibson : girlhacker : gravity lens : j. orlin grabbe : incoming signals : invisible city : junk for code : la petite claudine : larkfarm : linkmachinego : mack white : memepool : milkandcookies : octopus dropkick! : opensewer : orwell today : overmorgen : plasticboy : portage : quiddity : rageboy : random-abstract : douglas rushkoff : shikencho : this modern world : travelers diagram : uppity-negro : wiley wiggins

.once there
ghost rocket : robot wisdom

.portals
aum : deep web : meme-stream 2.3 : bovine inversus

.memes ahoy
memes.org : conceptjunkies : cool hunting

.seattle
eat the state! : seattle weekly : fantagraphics : roq la rue : left bank books : miscmedia : tablet

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