Chances are good that you have never been to vanillafruit.com, so check it out - chances are you’ll find something eclectic enough to suit your tastes.
… and if UNO strikes your fancy, I’m not too humble to take credit for assisting with the orange/grey remix.
Apparently some people believe that it is illegal to photograph federal buildings. Where did this hysteria first manifest? Post 9/11 paranoia? Does a photo of a building necessarily represent a security threat?
It is not illegal to take pictures of federal buildings or any other facility from a public sidewalk. Cryptome has taken hundreds in New York City, Washington DC and elsewhere. Cryptome has asked federal guards on several occasions about taking pictures; all said it was okay, a couple said this is your property not ours. On other occasions rent-a-guards have been hostile, act as though they have something to hide about their unimportance. In 2002 rent-a-guards at a CIA-State Department communications facility in Virginia (Warrenton Training Center Site D) confiscated camera and and video chips, saying they could be recovered by contacting CIA. Follow-up requests to CIA have been ignored.
- GSA Vigilante Assaults Photographer
article at Cryptome.org
Did you know that the General Services Administration is an independent agency of the United States government? Interestingly enough, all of the following organizations also belong to that category:
No thing made of flesh has this much promise, this much patience.
Words are not intent distilled like metal is.
Sleeping in has its disadvantages.
I picked up a couple of remix albums by Dr. Speedlove and was reintroduced to the work of Meg Lee Chin who is (and this is far from any exaggeration) one of the most unique artists I have had the pleasure of listening to.
I cannot offer any higher praise than the proof of her work - greatness speaks for itself, so take a listen to her spoken word tracks.
Do you share my penchant for declassified information? How about classified information?
If someone has decided that you are not authorized to see it, there is a good chance that you should.
In the spirit of giving censorship the middle finger, may I recommend Cryptome.org for declassified documents and WikiLeaks for information which hasn’t quite been declassified (or otherwise vetted) yet.
The time spent browsing is made worth it by gems like this one: the cost of a nuclear missile incident as determined by a military analyst:
It’s a good thing nuclear weapons are so inexpensive. And you thought your federal income taxes paid for schools and roads and the like.
A chemical plant explosion rocked an area west of Charleston, hurling a fireball hundreds of feet into the air, killing one worker and injuring a second.
They’ve got the who, the where, and the what - but not the how and the why…
Addendum: In case anyone was wondering, I had nothing to do with this.
Update: Still lacking on an explanation, though I love the platitudes regarding methomyl’s “immediate degradation” - it’s not often that toxic chemical releases are described as “no danger to human health”…
Institute site leader Nick Crosby said air quality tests conducted around the site determined that no harmful chemical exposure resulted from the blaze.
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“There’s no danger to human health,” he said. “I can confirm that our monitoring system did not detect anything.”
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He said people in the area may smell a foul odor, but there are no harmful effects.
Methomyl is known for toxic properties which extend well beyond having a “foul odor”. (LD50: 5 - 50mg/kg ingested)
I rarely read much of the news, though it does lead one to wonder - how often do reporters substitute a quip from a company spokesman/government official/authority figure for factual information?
I have a very interesting piece of information, however, I am at a loss for the best way to employ it. Any ideas?
Get a temporary job and pick a candidate for your state. Easy enough?
When you catch him-and I have no doubt you will-he’ll be wearing a double-breasted suit.
This humorous (in a manner that only true crime can be) tale of “dastardly deeds” made my day.
