The Synesthetic Anthology is done.
The group met yesterday to see the bound copy of the book and it is freaking smoking hot! The frog samurai’s revenge is oh-so-sweet in beautiful 4-color!
Jake and Luan have been, and will continue to, shop it around to editors and conventions, while the rest of us pimp it in our own special ways. So wish us luck!
We now returm you to your regularly scheduled Monday.
Carry on….
It’s all about The Golden Crescent.
Afghanistan expects record poppy harvest. Afghanistan will produce another record poppy harvest this year that cements its status as the world’s near-sole supplier of the heroin source, yet a furious debate over how to reverse the trend is stalling proposals to cut the crop, U.S. officials say.
Peruvian Cocaine – Same story, only with a different drug.
In our world there are wildfires to be found everywhere, raging destructively, but meditation is a control burn, slowly scorching all untended lots and malignant plantation manors back down to basic being, burning off all brambles and clutching bracken. This process is sometimes painful, but in the glow of observation the dams and dwellings of habit begin to collapse, almost imperceptibly. And as the distinctions dissolve brick by brick, cell by cell, hidden well-springs emerge, creating new spaciousness for an inner ecology no longer so constricted by a narrow sense of self.’
From the essay — A Wider Rotation by Austin Pick
Has been featured over at CBR. Scroll down about 3/4 and look for Weird West. Woot!
Human, All Too Human. A lot about Nietzsche I never knew.
Today is America’s wiretap the Internet day
Today, Monday May 14, is the day that all US network operators are required by US law to install back-doors to make it easier for cops to snoop on their traffic. This has been the law for voice switches for over a decade, where it represents a potential holiday for dirty cops who don’t have warrants use these back-doors (and criminals and corporate espionageists who want to eavesdrop on sensitive calls). Now it’s part of our data infrastructure as well. Nice one, America.
May 14th is the official deadline for cable modem companies, DSL providers, broadband over powerline, satellite internet companies and some universities to finish wiring up their networks with FBI-friendly surveillance gear, to comply with the FCC’s expanded interpretation of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act.
Congress passed CALEA in 1994 to help FBI eavesdroppers deal with digital telecom technology. The law required phone companies to make their networks easier to wiretap. The results: on mobile phone networks, where CALEA tech has 100% penetration, it’s credited with boosting the number of court-approved wiretaps a carrier can handle simultaneously, and greatly shortening the time it takes to get a wiretap going. Cops can now start listening in less than a day.
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/05/reminder_monday.html