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Created by admin on Fri 22 of Dec, 2006 [09:34 UTC]
Last modified Sun 01 of Apr, 2007 [02:52 UTC] 
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Oh, we're free alright: If Fred Thompson runs for president, under "equal time" laws, Law & Order will have to be pulled off the air
 ."As a practical matter, the television stations would in all likelihood have to pull all of the Fred Thompson shows for the duration of his candidacy," said Andrew Jay Schwartzman, president of the Media Access Project.Thompson, who remains a member of the "L&O" cast, would likely leave the show if he decides to run, observers said. I didn't know this: During the 2003 gubernatorial race in California, television stations dropped all Arnold Schwarzenegger movies out of fear that showing them would require them to give countless hours of free airtime to all 134 other candidates for governor. I wonder if Gary Coleman was pulled completely off the air? next item Here's the LA brushfire story, in case you missed it. next item I didn't know Dennis Miller had a new radio show, but I just listened to his March 30th program, which will be archived on the official site for the next 119 days. I bet you can count on a fansite downloading the MP3s and archiving them longer, though. (Listen here )I've looked forever for the Dennis Miller rant generator, but it's no longer on the internet anywhere. Speaking of the rant, he didn't do one on the program. That's fine, I guess, he's a fine conversationalist, too. Guests included Michael Barone and Nick Bakay. Plus, people could call in! Next Item Omar Fadhil's home was raided by American stormtroopers in Baghdad !"Within 20 minutes the soldiers had completely searched the house and by then they seemed convinced that this household was ‘clean’. So we all went back to the back yard and gathered around the tasty-smelling fish. We all had some short friendly talk about food, booze, the city, the war, the internet, etc. At the end we stood together and took some pictures." As far as house raids go, that sounds like Stalin and Hitler, alright. In case you think the mention of booze is unusual, Omar and his brothers aren't really devout observant Muslems. Or maybe they were drinking fermented honey, which Big Mo said was OK in the Koran. Omar has been quoted by President Bush before. Next Item SeeDubya? writes some thoughtful opinions about the flying imams. It's hard to chose an excerpt from it, but I think I'll go with this paragraph: I just don't think this was much more complicated than a political exercise--an attempt to generate exactly the sort of "Rosa Parks" fawning coverage and sympathy for the plight of "oppressed" Muslims in America that the MSM was happy to provide. It was primarily, I think, a bid to establish Shahin and company as visible and credible spokesmen for Islam in America, and to scoop up some of the sweet Moral Authority that comes from victimhood. I think the primary intended audience was the American Muslim community who were supposed to appreciate the Flying Imams' leadership. I consider it another attack on our eyes. The ultimate Victorian hero, Sherlock Holmes, would today spend his whole life in racial counsiling for making use of his perceptive powers. Next Item The Times of London pokes fun of Mugabe, which makes Captain Ed happy ."The pinnacle of Rifkind's deliciously nasty satire comes when Mugabe writes that British propaganda consistently portrays Zimbabwe's abandoned farms, 1800% inflation, and collapsed economy in a bad light."  Next Item As This is the last of March, and I've linked and commented on Miller's radio show, I've listened to the last airing of the Penn Jillette Radio Show , which ran on CBS radio stations from the last time on March second. It doesn't really cover daily news, so it's still relevent and free nearly thirty days later. The programs will stay archived as podcasts as long as CBS allows them to be, and I wouldn't expect them to be pulled at any time. Penn made it clear the show isn't ending because of bad ratings, but because he's just too busy to do it.Seeing how he still does a magic show, the Showtime show, and Identity on NBC- as well as other side projects as such as Mike Wilson's documentary Michael Moore Hates America (which probably didn't make his Hollywood friends too happy)- I'll believe him. Last Item I've kept this cowboy trick shooter story pocketed for a time like this.That URL might not work. There's just something funny about that site. If it doesn't work, the search words "Epublishing Cowboy Sharpshooter Dispels Myth" will get you there. This line is just golden: "In addition to his sharp-shooting skills, Hamby is a ninth-degree black belt martial artists who trains and licenses people who are security guards, armored car personnel and private investigators. " I bet he's a computer hacker and a safecracker, too!
Hoaxes
Mapping OSINT Contacts
I've been kicking around some ideas for growing an OSINT (open source intelligence)
community through a contact list using the eXtensible Friends Network (XFN). Here's a simple XFN link creator that allows you to put together some relationships without hand-coding anything.And this is a friends network search engine .I think it will be commonplace for folks to search through these open friend networks in the near future, as people slowly start putting their contacts together on their own sites all across the web. I'm thinking about putting together a new contact category for a distributed yet formal open source intelligence community: the agent, or brother-in-arms, or some other suitable name. This has a few advantages to it. One, it puts together a ring of affiliates in the project that doesn't require a ring banner or webring widget for entry. This saves a lot of screen space for everyone that's already members of too many alliances. A relationship is established with one hyperlink. Second, it gives the community a chance to reap the rewards that early-adaptor status brings. If we're the biggest network when "the boom" starts, people pay attention to what our network is doing. Third, it establishes a measurable network of friends of the OSINT movement. While the number of active members might be small, people will get a basic idea of how many active internet users support the movement. Forth, it is a distributed network. The contacts, the "friends of liberty" will be able to find each other no matter what happens to the hub. It also won't be static, like blogrings that remain unchanged when the maintainer stops adding new members. The contact list will grow as long as there's an internet that allows the protocol. Downside, anyone can add anyone as a contact. The good news is you won't have to reciprocate links to spammers, and their friending pattern will quickly stand out to future spam-blasting techniques. Eventually, an eco system will arise to let people know who holds what sort of influence within the friends network. An advantage XFN has over, say, Technorati, is that you'll get to map out other relationships within the community. You'll get to see if someone's brother is also a brother-in-arms. I don't foresee Technorati being able to do that by monitoring traditional hyperlink traffic. Maybe this won't amount to as much as I think it could, but the cost of implimentation is nothing. Also, we have no idea what sort of tools will come along to compliment XFN if or when it takes off. I think the unknown benefits are worth giving this a shot. More traditional elements for an OSINT agency will soon begin groundbreaking...
Must Read
I found this instructional OpenID post something worth sharing
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Typekey Script
Two Proposals
Numero uno, I know I get a disproportionate amount of search-related visited to images, so I've been rethinking my 'classics ephemerides' project, in which I collect short classics for a differing random short each day. I was going to go with only text. One would have been fiction, with many horror stories, and the another would be short non-fiction; essays, columns, pamphlets. I was then doing to expand to poetry. All of these would have fallen out of copyright.
But seeing that images attract more traffic, it would be in my promotional interest to also include classic paintings. The first painter to come to mind was John Willian Waterhouse.  Once a fine art selection is chosen, we could consider expanding to a gallery of cartoons. Nombre dos, I've thought about reviving that "broken links" button that developers put on sites years ago. I assume that faded out with the rise of spam and wiki editors, and the fall of static pages in importance. I think it would be great to revive one that bots couldn't read, and would send PMs to everyone listed as an editor. I think it would be great if outsiders that don't have editing privilages could at least perform that notifying function. It would certainly help with less active wikis, the kind that might not have enough editors to fight back all the bots that would spam if anon editing were turned on. Does this make sense? I'm thinking it would be a nice plugin for mediawiki, as well as tikiwiki, so a small number of editors could take the pages going. All this hinges on whether those buttons were ever used correctly. I'm guessing they were, since so many pages had them for a few years. But then again, so many sites have Digg buttons now, and receive little benefit from those. At the very least, it would fill a nostalgia need. 
Make Us A Project!
I'm inviting viewers to quickly join into the design team by building a monkey pirate themed fighting game with M.U.G.E.N, some software that shouldn't require much work or skills to make an interesting program.
Check out this information , and use to contact link if you're interested.
Tools For Starting The RPG
Creation Asylum
offers some great scripts for RPG Maker XP, which should prove useful as we begin scripting our project.The scripts are written in Ruby, which is downloabable here .Okay, this project follows the open-source mantra of "update early and often," so please introduce yourselves to the basics of Ruby as I prepare for a more complete introduction to what project number one is.
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