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Preach it brother Rollins!

spacemonkey1134 — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 00:01:06 GMT

Ok, so I'm not much of one for celeb indorcements, but... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut9-hgFbJWs&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fbaconreport%2Eblogspot%2Ecom%2F2007%2F08%2Fhenry%2Drollins%2Dbest%2Drant%2Dever%2Ehtml

Lee, avoid teh cornish duckies

spacemonkey1134 — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:00:17 GMT

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/28/doomed_ducks_sail_oceans_for_all_eternity/ Residents of the western UK and Irish coasts have been warned to expect an invasion by a vast flotilla of ghostly, immortal albino plastic ducks, according to reports. The tale of the floating, whitened bird-simulacra migration is a strange one, dating back many years. It seems that the plastic bathtime companions were originally made in China. They were on their way to America in 1992 when a terrible storm struck their vessel in mid-Pacific, and shipping containers holding 30,000 of the hapless playthings were washed overboard. A majority of the ducks - at that stage still tinted a healthy yellow - headed south, many of them reportedly finishing up in Australia, where they were doubtless accorded the traditional hostile reception. Ten thousand of the plastic anatidaens, however, went north, embarking on an endless odyssey across the world's oceans. Like the legendary Captain Vanderdecken in his ill-omened ghost ship the Flying Dutchman, the flocks of plastic kiddy-pals seemed doomed to roam the oceans for eternity. The luckless fleet of cursed, wandering sea-going toys - Flying Duckmen, perhaps - circled the northern Pacific for some years before a fresh horror befell them as they drifted into the Arctic. Here they became frozen into the pack ice, suffering untold torment in their icy prison as they slowly transited past Greenland into the Atlantic. Bleached pale by their hellish polar ordeal, the doomed ducks drifted onward. Thawed-out plastic voyagers have landed since the turn of the century in New England, Iceland and Canada, and one may have been found in the western Hebrides in 2003. A retired American oceanographer named Curtis Ebbesmeyer has monitored the ducks' progress for the past 15 years, and it's his prediction that the plastic playthings' perpetual peregrination may now be headed this way. Ebbesmeyer briefed the Evening Standard yesterday, saying that "We're getting reports of ducks being washed up on America's eastern seaboard. "It is now inevitable that they will get caught up in the Atlantic currents and will turn up on English beaches. "Cornwall and the South-West will probably get the first wave of them." The Times claims that the globe-trotting bath toys have become collectors' items, and sell for £500. If true, this could mean another greed-crazed beachcomber salvage flotsam bonanza frenzy, with hordes of opportunists descending on Cornish beaches hoping to get rich on the sea's pale, plastic bounty. We say: bad luck will surely come to those who seek to profit from the Flying Duckmen. Interfere with their eternal voyage at your peril.

Debt scams, beware

spacemonkey1134 — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:35:53 GMT

A scam debit collector started calling me on Sunday, attempting to collect a debt that I'm about 95% certain that I payed in 1995. I was suspicious the first time I contacted them, but offered to pay $100 a month until I could get it sorted out. (They offered a "deal" if I could pay 1/2 immediately, but declined that offer) After about 10-20 minutes, I decided that I needed more documentation from them, so I called them back. When I requested the documentation and re-iterated that I didn't believe that I owed the money, but that I was willing to pay if I did, they got nasty about it and said that I'd have to pay the whole amount as a lump sum. Well, it's been a few days and I've not recived the letter they said that was sent on last Friday. Standard consumer bullshit in these days of debt, right? Well not quite. I have a tendency to bitch to my family and close friends about this sort of thing and got some interesting feedback from a relative who is a lawyer in the south. I AM NOT A LAWYER AND THIS IS NOT LEGAL ADVICE. (sorry about that, but you know how things are, right?) Apparently this sort of debt (which never even showed up on my credit report, did I mention that?) has to be collected within 10 years and there is a whole scam debt collection industry based on the fact that people don't keep their records forever. Often they even give you a number that is not actually toll free, but looks like it is. Call the phone company and check first or you might end up with a bill from a fake company in another country that charges ridiculous sums per minute. The advice I was given was to call from a pay phone or other number that cannot be traced back to your person. Also be careful about what sort of information you give to the company in question, could be a phishing expedition. At this point I guess I get to set back and wait to see how this shakes out, but I was encouraged to let others know about this, so there you are, if you end up in a similar situation, do be careful call the phone company and make sure that the number is legit. Do get legal advice from somewhere and if you believe that you've been scammed contact you state attorney general about it. pezd out

this is wrong.

spacemonkey1134 — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:03:55 GMT

student arrested for counter protest http://hngkong.wordpress.com/2007/06/08/arrested/ here is his blog: On April 18th, I was arrested. This normally wouldn’t be big news, but the situation arround which I was arrested brings up serious questions. I was arrested at Kutztown University, where I am a student, because I decided to try to liven the mood after the Life and Liberty Ministries began to upset students. They came on campus with signs that featured aborted fetuses, lists of people who will be going to hell, and catchy phrases such as “JESUS OR HELL”. I have friends who are gay, and these people who came onto Kutztown University’s campus without permission or prior notice were upsetting students all over campus. I decided not to simply let them upset people, so I went to the bookstore and purchased a posterboard and sharpie marker and made my own sign. It said “Equal Rights for Robots”, a saying I thought no one would be able to take the wrong way. The protesters had been on campus for about two hours at this time, and the whole time the police were protecting them from the students. To my knowledge, the protesters at this time had not been asked to leave. With my sign in hand, I walked out and waved my sign in the air. I had some small support from students around me, as most saw the attempt at humor to lighten a rough situation. However, within about two or three minutes a police officer came over to me and told me to come with him. I was dropped off at the police area, searched and taken to the local precinct where I was held for an hour and a half. One of the protesters was held there with me, but I do not know why he was arrested. I was charged with Disorderly Conduct with intent to “alarm or annoy” and in the citation it says I was “warned repeatedly” to stop. Neither is true, and when I pointed this out to the officer who wrote it out for me he said something along the lines of I don’t care and made a comment along the lines of tell it to the judge. I plead not guilty and face a three hundred dollar fine or up to 90 days in jail if found guilty. After it happened, I tried to contact the local news and the school newspaper. Only one newspaper bother to contact me, the others didn’t believe me. The Morning Call - http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-kutztown-04182007,0,2550072.story WFMZ - http://www.wfmz.com/view/?id=86577 The Reading Eagle - It’s in the web archive, and you need to buy access to it. The Keystone, the school newspaper was initially interested in running my side of the story, but then quickly backed down from it when the school decided not to support me. In fact, according to one student who spoke to school officials right after my arrest, the school had me arrested because “We didn’t want any jokers.” Now, I cannot verify that quote myself, but this student is one I would trust to tell me the truth. This is what happened, and here are some pictures to verify the truth. Me With My Sign Me Being Arrested Their Picture Page 1 Their Picture Page 2 Their Picture Page 3 Their Picture Page 4 Edit: I’ve been receiving emails suggesting I start taking donations. I’ve even had a donation sent to my email, hngkong@gmail.com through PayPal. I really do appreciate it, but don’t think of this as begging. If I do not need the donations for my legal fees or fine, I will donate the money to a group like the ACLU which would use the money to help others who got into crappy situations with the police. So once again, if you really want to donate, use PayPal to sent it to hngkong@gmail.com, but only if you really want to. Any extras will be sent to a legal defense fund. Thank you everyone for your support.

I need to remeber this

spacemonkey1134 — Fri, 25 May 2007 18:13:18 GMT

from one of my faroite web-comix http://xkcd.com/c267.html

Stop looking at porn

spacemonkey1134 — Sun, 13 May 2007 17:30:09 GMT

unless you want to get your lover pregnant. http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1386177.htm Porn makes sperm better swimmers Judy Skatssoon ABC Science Online Wednesday, 8 June 2005 the race Pornography may turn sperm into better swimmers (Image: Science) Looking at pornographic images of men and women together can increase the quality of a man's sperm, a new study suggests. Pornography involving a woman alone or multiple women doesn't have the same effect. Evolutionary biologist Professor Leigh Simmons of the University of Western Australia says the effect is based on an evolutionary process observed in animals known as sperm competition. This occurs when semen quality increases according to the perceived risk of another male fertilising a female. "Males ejaculate more sperm, or sperm of better quality, when the risk of sperm competition [the probability that a female will mate with more than one male] is high," Simmons writes in the journal Biology Letters today. Simmons says his research now shows that just looking at an image of another man in action is enough to register as a case of sperm competition, causing a compensatory adjustment in the viewer's semen. "Our data show that image content can have an impact on men's semen quality," he says. "We show that ... human males viewing images depicting sperm competition had a higher percentage of motile [efficiently moving] sperm in their ejaculates." Putting it to the test Simmons says previous Australian research sparked his interest in exploring this twist on sexual selection. These studies show sperm counts are higher if men are given pornographic material before in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) procedures. Psychological studies also show that when men look at pornography depicting more than one person they prefer to see at least one more man. "It seems that men like to see other men in these images," he says. To test the theory, 52 heterosexual men aged 18 to 35 were shown two images over two separate days. One showed three women, the other a woman with two men. Masturbatory samples of their sperm were then tested for the number of sperm per millilitre of ejaculate and sperm motility, or ability to swim, which is associated with the ability to fertilise an egg. "We tested the evolutionary hypothesis that the men who viewed those sort of mixed sex images should have a higher semen quality if it was stimulating some innate evolved response to competition," he says. "We found men viewing images containing both men and women had higher sperm motility in masturbatory ejaculate compared to men who were viewing images of just women alone." It was not clear how pornography affected sperm count, he says. A new fertility aid? Simmons says the study needs replicating and it's too early to say whether looking at images of group sex involving men could be a useful tool in aiding fertility. Other lifestyle factors are involved in fertility, he says, such as avoiding alcohol and drugs. Dr Kylie de Boer, embryology director at Sydney IVF, says men involved in assisted reproduction are routinely provided with "light pornography" to assist them in producing semen. But she doubts that viewing pornography, of any kind, would have a major impact on a man's ability to fertilise an egg. "It's to help them with their arousal in what can be a stressful situation," she says. "The man's general health would perhaps be a more important factor in what [the quality of his sperm] is like."

RESTORE OUR RIGHTS

spacemonkey1134 — Mon, 07 May 2007 17:02:28 GMT

Petion from the ACLU to restore habious corpus pass it on https://secure.aclu.org/site/SPageServer?pagename=habeas_petition&s_site=email&JServSessionIdr008=foxktg9rj3.app24a

posting secrets

spacemonkey1134 — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:31:03 GMT

http://postsecret.blogspot.com/

something brock in my head

spacemonkey1134 — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:33:57 GMT

http://www.ooze.com/oozetv/pika.swf ok.... it's a window into the mind of a 14 year old who was inspired by an internet serch for the phrase "Fuck you"

Reverend Magdalen Legal Fund

spacemonkey1134 — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 14:34:50 GMT

http://www.pledgie.com/campaign/show/90 Rachel Bevilacqua (a.k.a. Reverend Mary Magdalen) lost custody of her son after a conservative custody judge was outraged at the fact that she is a member of the Church of the SubGenius. As a result of appearing in a adult-rated parody of Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ," custody of her son was taken from her and awarded to the boy's father (the couple was never married). Rachel and her husband have fought a long, expensive battle to win custody of their son, while her ex-boyfriend's legal costs have been entirely been handled by a pro-bono lawyer (who is a friend of his). Legal costs have exceeded $70,000 as of March 2007. See also: http://www.modemac.com/wiki/Reverend_Magdalen (This Pledgie page for donations was begun on March 10, 2007.)

Your tax dollars at work.

spacemonkey1134 — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 20:39:22 GMT

Remember, in a republic, every action of the government is an action on your behalf. http://www.sibetrans.com/trans/trans10/cusick_eng.htm “No-touch torture” It would be possible to assume from the evidence in the popular press that the use of music in “interrogation” is (as one of the sources for the 2003 BBC story, claimed) “rather new”. I’m sorry to report that my reading suggests otherwise; nor is it the random, rogue behavior of particularly sadistic (or musical, or creative) interrogators and MPs. Rather, it is one component of a standard set of interrogation practices developed by the CIA (in cooperation with English and Canadian intelligence agencies) over the second half of the 20th century–a standard set of practices that includes the hooding, stress positions, and sexual/cultural humiliation that the photos leaked from Abu Ghraib prison enabled us to see. Its advocates call this set of practices “no touch torture”.{12} In his 2006 book A Question of Torture, historian Alfred W McCoy traces the origin of “no touch torture” to a research program funded by the OSS, the CIA, and the intelligence services of Canada and Britain in the years after World War II. Concerned by Soviet success at “brainwashing” captives and destroying their wills, these agencies supported research at Yale, Cornell, and McGill intended to learn how we might do the same. {13} In the 1950s this contract research was concentrated in three areas: 1) the Canadian government funded research at McGill that explored the devastating impact of sensory deprivation and sensory manipulation–which would eventually include hooding; continuous noise (whether loud or not) and its opposite, soundproofing; temporal disorientation, and erratic provision of food and drink; 2) the CIA funded research at Cornell and Yale on the effects of self-inflicted pain–which would eventually include stress positions, and scenarios that provoked personal, sexual or cultural humiliation; and 3) the CIA funded research at Yale on the capacity of ordinary people to inflict lethal pain on others. The reports of these experiments reveal a universalizing naivete and cultural bias that seems laughable now. Yet their results are the core premises of what the European Human Rights Commission described in 1976 as a “modern system of torture” (McCoy 2006: 57). This modern system aims to combine “sensory disorientation”–isolation, standing, extremes of heat and cold, light and dark, noise and silence–with self-inflicted pain, both physical and psychological, so as to cause a prisoner’s very “identity to disintegrate”. {14} Whether that disintegration takes the form of induced regression (to infantile behavior) or induced schizophrenia, “the effect is much like that which occurs if he is beaten, starved or deprived of sleep” {15} . The prisoner becomes psychologically powerless before the authority of interrogators, both dependent and unable to resist. Moreover, the experimental data showed this “modern system of torture” to be much more efficient than beatings or starvation, producing psychological disintegration in a matter of days, rather than weeks or months. And, as one CIA researcher noted, it was hard to document, for with the exception of the standing (which can cause grotesque swelling/bruising of the feet and legs) these “techniques” leave no visible marks on the fleshy surfaces of a human body. Institutionalized in 1963 in the CIA’s Kubark Counterintelligence Interrogation Handbook, the techniques of “no-touch torture” were used–indeed, consciously tested again and again--by the CIA’s counter-insurgency forces in Vietnam into the 1970s, by the English in Northern Ireland, and by police units from Uruguay, Brazil, Guatemala, the Phillipines, Iran, Argentina and Chile who were trained at the US Office of Public Safety (1962-74), the US Army Intelligence Center in Fort Huachuca, AZ, or the US Army School of the Americas (based in Panama until 1976, and now based at Fort Benning, Georgia). {16} Although the CIA’s interrogation techniques are not mentioned in either the 1992 or September 2006 editions of the US Army’s Field Manual for Human Intelligence Collection (HUMINT), the principal textbook for training at Fort Huachuca, they seem to be part of Army interrogators’ and PsyOps units’ training there. (The music most often mentioned in accounts of this training is the song “I love you” associated with Barney the purple dinosaur.) In the field manuals, the elements of “no touch torture” are understood to be subsumed under the heading of “additional psychological strategies” by which interrogators are encouraged to implement any of the eighteen declassified “approaches” to an informant–approaches with headings like “fear up” and “ego down”. {17} If one reads the press and human rights organization accounts of “no touch torture” carefully, these incidents can all be traced not to uniformed servicemen, but to occasions when multiple-agency teams –that is, teams that include CIA operatives, and Behavioral Science Consultants--administer the interrogations. In part because CIA operatives are specifically exempt from the provisions of the Military Commissions Act of 2006, in part because the elements of “no touch torture” are part of what one might call the military’s oral tradition, all the elements of “no-touch torture” except waterboarding and extremes of hot and cold remain permissible under the recently-signed Military Commissions Act of 2006–permissible, and, to protect against international prosecution as violations of the UN Convention on Torture, retroactively pardoned. {18}

omfg!!!!!

spacemonkey1134 — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 15:13:01 GMT

T minus 31 hours and counting. I'll hit the dust on Monday. I'm still nervous about my costumes, I'm not the most experinced with makeing clothing. Anyway, I'm sure that it will all work out. I haven't been able to sleep right for the past two weeks, I'm like a child before christmass. Tired but happy. Be back in a week or so, thanks to the wonderfull burners who've helped me out!

I"M GOING TO BURNING MAN!!!

spacemonkey1134 — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:02:57 GMT

Wow! I'm excited, if you couldn't tell. god, I'm still buzzing from Aura Man... Thanks to Cookie puss and Willy from michigan I've got a ticket and food and a possible hook up for a ride out and back from the desert. GOD! I'msoexcitedifeellikejumpingupanddown!!!!

one word redux

spacemonkey1134 — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 20:48:56 GMT

everyone's doing it, so why not? Please leave a one-word comment that you think best describes me -- it can only be one word long. Then copy and paste this in your journal so that I may leave a word about you.

well, everybodys doing it...

spacemonkey1134 — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 15:22:43 GMT

personality test, intersting http://kevan.org/johari?name=pez+d