• Wikipedia Phase III Features
• Tricster – Proffesional fireart and poi performance artist
• Trance Music Videos, Singles, Live Sets
• Maaz’s Genre Map, a sub-genre discussion
• Wikipedia: Electronic Music
• linked before, but always good: The Electronica Primer + Timeline

CIA Seeks Probe of White House – I remember the mainstream news not picking up on this earlier (ahh, permalinks would be useful)… I’ve found it interesting how easily distracted and lazy the media has been on covering these types of major, serious wrongs by the the administration (compare to the ridiculous bruhaha’s surrounding Clinton). In my book, compromising national security, walking over the bill of rights, destroying our international good will relations, and the budget are far worse than getting a blowjob, but what do I know?

• Recomendo – Kevin Kelly recommends cool stuff (books, tools, software, videos, maps, gadgets, hardware, websites, or gear that are extraordinarily handy or useful for individual and small groups)
• Virtual Travelog – John Harris’ weblog. Writes a wide range of snippets centered around design/tech/culture
• Orange Cone – some nice thoughts on tech/social effects

20th Anniversary of RMS’s Original GNU Post. h2odragon sums it up:

All HAIL RMS! Agree with him or not, his efforts have made your life better.

Insane: The Borg Megacube – The Complete Star Trek: Next Generation Seasons 1 – 7; list price: £449.99 (at 176 episodes that’s about $4.25/ep)

Random thought: mapping out each blogger’s ‘sphere of interest’ by what they link to; you could make a topic-map out of that w/ some visualization tool if those were categorized, being able to see overlap and also what sites to read to get a variety of sources.

• Pol A82:H3 -The Politics of the Internet Reading List
• Computers and the Law (2 Credits) IT-803

Got back from Cinema Electronica + afterparty (great set by Amon Tobin). I voted for We Want Your Soul (dir by happy) as the best of the bunch, although a couple of the others were also quite good.

Roman Coppola’s Funky Squaredance had a few great moments (the blinking on the up/downbeat is brilliant) but overall didn’t quite capture my imagination.

Hmm, sorta sorry that I missed the Videos That Rock! – a bunch of those I know are great.

I just discovered videos.antville.org, a blog which aggregates/tracks links to cool vidoes.

Soon on DVD: Director’s Label

Building a Balancing Scooter – apparently not hard (of course, that’s coming from a who works on walking robots for a living)

See also: SMU nBot, Ted Larson’s Balancing Robot

So, I spent most of my time today reading about John Titor. I’m almoster certain I’d come across this a while ago, but not in the bloog, so here we go:

• The Story of John Titor – Was he a brilliant fraud, or an ordinary soldier from 2036?
• John Titor – Time Traveler
• Other links – fun links to some real and not so real stuff
• dmoz: science: physics: relativity: time travel – wackiness

While it’s highly unlikely to be true, Titor’s postings do make you go hmmm… (as in considering all that we take for granted) and if nothing else, makes for a great parable.

Does the civil war start in such a way that with this foreknowledge those willing will have time to remove themselves to safer locations.

Yes. You will be forced to ask yourself how many civil rights you will give up to feel safe.

Will you readily be able to identify the enemy.

They will be the ones arresting and holding prople without due process.

So wait, did the civil war already begin?

(it’s occurred to me that the Titor posts could quite possibly be an art project of some sort. if it was a student project, I hope he got an A, it’s quite more effective and smart than that whole mess of stupid e-bay tricks projects)