Homeland Security Art Exhibition
February 5, 2004My friend CJ Lee has just launched her new site containing documentation of her excellent installation exhibitions and projects. Her latest project in progress is a Homeland Security Garden, which incorporates 200 “security kits” submitted by the public (full disclosure: including one of mine). This will definitely be a great project to see in exhibition…
Public Access TV hate-speech
February 4, 2004Today while channel surfing I landed on the “Judaism” programme screening on BCAT (Brooklyn Community Access TV). The speaker was the Orthodox Rabbi Mordechai Friedman. It was a sickening programme. Friedman and his co-host described a long list of African Americans (including Bill Cosby, Condoleeza Rice, Colin Powell, Al Sharpton) as “Simians”, and just to…
Open Source Software in Iraq
February 2, 2004The geek blog Slashdot has an interesting interview with a journalist in Iraq who is a member of the Iraq Linux User Group. As the country emerges from political (incl. internet) repression, the open question is whether it will then come under corporate oppression, namely beholden to Microsoft’s pricing.
Eco-Friendly Bio-Plastics
February 2, 2004Courtesy of Kirsty, a report of a plastic and clay composite which reduces hydro-carbon use. Also, use of feathers in plastic production has recently been reported. While we shouldn’t need further animal products to replace wood fibre use, clearly other fibre products could offer similar benefits, particularly hardy fibres such as hemp and flax.
Recent Film Recommendations
February 1, 2004The Revolution Will Not Be Televised gives a unique look at the degree to which corporate media not only backed the side of the coup attempt against Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, but actively participated in creating the illusion of propriety of the coup, to serve their corporate masters. The film is unique in that it…
Paranoid Shift and Conspiracy
February 1, 2004A review of the formation of the concept of military-industrial conspiracy, including a short update of Prescott Bush (The U.S. presidents grandfather) dealing with the Nazis during WWII. In precis, it illuminates the inertia in changing of public opinion, such that the majority of the first world population still holds to the belief that their…