chaizzilla

a little light reading

2005-11-18T10:40:00.000-08:00

The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page
by Burton J. Hendrick, 1923
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/memoir/Page/PageTC.htm
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The Western World propaganda about Macedonia and the Macedonian Nation!
by Macedonian Revolutionary, 2004
http://www.pppindia.com/bb/msgs/1611.html
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The Secret Agent
by Joseph Conrad, 1907
http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/15/27/frameset.html
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Morningside Mix, links to all sorts of South Asian stuff
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00fwp/mgsdemix/bookmarks.html
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Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife
By Julian Hawthorne, 1884
http://www.eldritchpress.org/jc/sa/sa.html
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The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians
by Xenophon (431-354 B.C.)
http://isis.library.adelaide.edu.au/pg/etext98/pltis10.txt
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On Forsyte 'Change
by John Galsworthy
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/g/galsworthy/john/change/index.html
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The Right Honourable Jeanne Mathilde Sauvé
http://www.gg.ca/governor_general/history/bios/sauve_e.asp
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Clayton Antitrust Act, 1914
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=488
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Progressive Platform of 1912
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=607

Cooper's Law

2005-07-24T17:04:00.000-07:00

"If this happened at a rate of doubling every 2.5 years, it would be another 60 years before we would have the capability of delivering the entire radio frequency spectrum to every single individual—this is the ultimate goal of IntelliCell smart antenna processing."

speaking directly of the dread

2005-06-26T14:00:00.000-07:00

where words meet images

Music Lab-- General (Columbia University)

2005-04-23T05:34:00.000-07:00

"Music Lab is a research project conducted by scientists from Columbia University to learn about how people form opinions about music. If you participate in Music Lab you will have a chance to download free new music. "

blog ART / leary calls /

2005-04-23T05:01:00.000-07:00

"Pour les cinquante ans de la naissance du Pixel, Claude Bossett, un artiste viennois offre une contribution conceptuelle avec un portrait peint d'un pixel."

Beeb defends Ceefax IP

2005-04-23T04:53:00.000-07:00

"Britain's Publically Funded TV broadcaster – the BBC – is furious that a Dutch businessman, Hendrik Noorderhaven, has placed a teletext search engine on the Web using its content."

Милорад Павић :: khazars.com

2005-04-23T04:45:00.000-07:00

"The author of 'Dictionary of the Khazars' has once more found a new, as yet unseen type of literary play for you: a delta-novel! It’s a tale of love and a detective 'multy-ending story' that diverges into one hundred branches and leads you towards one hundred different endings. Each copy has a different end, and so your copy will differ from all other copies. Every reader obtains his personal one. You will have a UNIQUE ITEM!"

Enterzone 8: Visions of the Dead: Political Rap

2005-04-23T04:35:00.000-07:00

"Mickey: Seems to me you're running some old program from the turn of the century that looked good on paper but ended up being run by the same bunch of bullshit bureaucrats wherever they tried to put it into action.
Sister Child: Right on! We need our own revolution, not some pre-packaged Marxist bullshit. That wasn't Dr. King's dream!
BX: Yes it was!
Sister Child: No it wasn't!
BX: Martin and Malcolm, George Jackson, Stokely and Mao ... baby, it's all the same dream! And it's yours if you want it!
Weir: If your dream's expansive enough to put Martin & Mao on the same mountain, I guess there's room for ours too.
BX: Negative! Them cats were not sittin on no mountain top high on LSD singing Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band & meditating on their dicks!
Bill Kreutzman (entering room): Somebody say party time?!"

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Greenland's warming ice flows faster

2005-04-21T19:06:00.000-07:00

"In March 1999, Nasa reported that the Greenland ice sheet was thinning by up to one metre a year. The scientists said then they thought the probable explanation was that water was filtering down to the bedrock, making the ice likelier to slip off. They did not then suggest a link with climate change."

BBC NEWS | Programmes | Crossing Continents | Italians struggle with Mussolini legacy

2005-04-21T18:07:00.000-07:00

"Unlike Germany, Italy has never faced up to its role in World War II, preferring to see itself in the role of victim, argues Filippo Focardi, a historian from Florence University."

Flood Stories from Around the World

2005-04-17T12:00:00.000-07:00

"The stories below are flood stories from the world's folklore. I have included stories here if (1) they are stories; (2) they are folklore, not historical accounts or fiction by a known author; and (3) they involve a flood."

The Claremont Institute: Jaffa Versus Mansfield

2005-03-29T20:22:00.000-08:00

[if you happen to both see this message and read that essay, and in the process of reading that essay find bits of a particular song or movie or book or something or other vaguely floating around in your head, lemme know. -- c.]

The Weather Underground, the documentary

2005-03-26T16:42:00.000-08:00

"In October 1969 hundreds of young people, clad in football helmets and wielding lead pipes, marched through an upscale Chicago shopping district, pummeling parked cars and smashing shop windows in their path.

This was the first demonstration of the Weather Underground's 'Days of Rage.' Outraged by the Vietnam War and racism in America, the organization waged a low-level war against the U.S. government through much of the 1970s, bombing the Capitol building, breaking Timothy Leary out of prison, and evading one of the largest FBI manhunts in history.

The Weather Underground is a feature-length documentary that explores the rise and fall of this radical movement, as former members speak candidly about the idealistic passion that drove them to 'bring the war home' and the trajectory that placed them on the FBI's most wanted list."

mb21 - Teletext Then and Now - Live feeds

2005-03-26T16:26:00.000-08:00

"TELETEXT ON THE INTERNET

LINKS TO LIVE TELETEXT FEEDS AROUND THE WORLD"

The Salem Witch Trials, 1692

2005-03-25T23:43:00.000-08:00

"Martha's husband, Giles, was also accused of witchcraft. He refused to enter a plea of guilty or not guilty and under church law was tortured by having heavy rocks placed on him until a plea was obtained. Giles refused to talk throughout the ordeal and died. This was on September 19, two days before his wife's execution."

BBC NEWS | History File | Yugoslavia & The Balkans | 1900

2005-03-25T23:32:00.000-08:00

"The word 'Balkan' comes from Turkish: it means mountain and has been applied to the area since the early 19th century."

The great leap forward_SOHO China

2005-03-25T23:28:00.000-08:00

"To write almost anything about the Commune by the Great Wall - even for Domus - is to feel complicit in a well-orchestrated and seductive public-relations campaign. But that is exactly what the 'Commune' is about: a sophisticated real-estate operation with significant cultural content that places contemporary Asian architecture at the centre of a global stage."

European Graduate School EGS Media Art Internet Film Communications Master and PhD Program Graduate Post-Graduate Studies

2005-03-25T20:51:00.000-08:00

"The comprehensive program of the European Graduate School EGS is distinguished by the cordial interaction of eminent faculty members with students who are the best of their generation. A true international mix. Our students are outstanding graduates as well as filmmakers, artists, web designers, computer programmers, college instructors, writers, actors, photographers, theater directors, teachers, journalists, graphic designers, musicians, critics, and editors."

Dahr Jamail's Iraq Dispatches

2005-03-25T20:48:00.000-08:00

"Weary of the overall failure of the US media to accurately report on the realities of the war in Iraq for the Iraqi people and US soldiers, Dahr Jamail went to Iraq to report on the war himself."

MuseON!ru - ВКЛЮЧИ МУЗУ!

2005-03-24T19:16:00.000-08:00

"The MuseON Contest has been organized by a new generation of musical producers who want to change the current situation with regards to the showbiz industry in Russia. Nowadays the Russian music industry is closed to the vast majority of talented performers and is instead controlled by those individuals who possess sufficient financial and media resources. Under these conditions the Russian musical scene is filled with low-quality manufactured music of a very narrow genre. We hope to address the limitations currently present in the Russian music industry and offer freedom of choice and accessibility through which talented musicians will be able to reach their audience. To realize this objective, we are using one of the present day's main technology achievements, the Internet."

SLUGMAG.COM :: Neither Humorous Nor Appropriate Since 1989

2005-03-24T14:59:00.000-08:00

"Utah's bleak conservativism has only encouraged Salt Lake's strong, colorful, diverse counterculture of music and art to flourish with a vengeance. The strong independent voice of SLUG Magazine was born in 1989."

Peer Resources - Famous Mentor Pairings - Historical, Spiritual, Political and Civic Leaders

2005-03-24T12:08:00.000-08:00

"Virtually anyone can benefit from having a mentor. From ancient history to modern times, political, civic and spiritual leaders around the world have acted as mentors and have had mentors."

The Carlyle Group

2005-03-22T19:38:00.000-08:00

"Established in 1987, The Carlyle Group is a private global investment firm that originates, structures and acts as lead equity investor in management-led buyouts, strategic minority equity investments, equity private placements, consolidations and buildups, and growth capital financings."

About Metamark

2005-03-22T19:02:00.000-08:00

"Over at perl.org we needed a 'short url' type service we could trust to work for years, years and yet more years to come. There are a bunch of similar services; but not operated by us, how could we trust they would keep running? While testing we also found too many odd bugs and design decisions in the other similar systems to really trust them. So there we were; reinventing yet another wheel. :-)"

[Venezuala[sic] is the new Russia]

2005-03-21T17:05:00.000-08:00

"Jesus Christ, man. My guess is that you couldn't find a clue with a fucking search warrant. They are ALL in it for themselves and always have been. Democrats, Republicans, 'independants'....all of them. Don't like it here you simple minded shit? Move to Venezuala and see how you like the smell of that shit."

One Chord To Another - Finnish pop site

2005-03-19T22:01:00.000-08:00

"The main focus is on Finnish pop music, but being a romantic fool who gets easily excited about anything that touches or moves him to tears, there will always be some pointless talk about pop records in general." [yay! :) ]

Beria Degenerate

2005-03-09T18:48:00.000-08:00

"The subject: Lavrenti Beria, head of the NKVD in Stalin's USSR, serial rapist, a desk murderer as well as a hands-on sadist. This brings the quasi-Left-wing representation in Beria up to parity with the quasi-Right."

EnergyBulletin.net | Willful blindness

2005-03-09T18:42:00.000-08:00

"The Republicans will certainly be disgraced by the coming vicissitudes that they allowed the nation to sleepwalk into. But the Democrats may have less credibility in the future because they were not obligated to defend a foolish status quo, and they did anyway."

[exactly how is this a "problem understanding terrorism"?]

2005-03-09T18:14:00.000-08:00

"Soros has long had a problem understanding terrorism. Last year, his venomous Bush-bashing led him to compare the Abu Ghraib prison-abuse scandal to the 9/11 attacks, adding that the president's 'War on Terror converted us from victims into perpetrators.'"

The Pavelic Papers | Home

2005-03-09T17:55:00.000-08:00

"The Pavelic Papers is an independent research project exploring the history of the Ustase movement, one of the most resilient and brutal terrorist organizations in history. Our aim is to compose a narrative focusing on the entire history of the Ustase movement, from its beginnings among Croat exiles in Vienna, Austria in 1929 to the killing fields of the Independent State of Croatia and the fugitive shores of Argentina and America."

Sobaka :: No One Left to Talk To: The Death of Aslan Maskhadov

2005-03-09T17:51:00.000-08:00

"It's been said that myth is more important than history, because people are willing to suffer and die for myths but not for history. Put another way (as we've said here before), it doesn't matter if something's true as much as if people believe that it's true. And nothing matters more right now than the myth, rather than the actual history, of Aslan Maskhadov."

Threshold Fears and Unanswered Questions About 9/11

2005-03-09T17:38:00.000-08:00

"Overall concerns with the official version of 9/11 have been published and discussed by scholars and writers around the world including: Jim Mars, Nafeez Ahmed, Michael Ruppert, Cynthia McKinney, Barrie Zwicker, Webster Tarpley, Michel Chossudovsky and many others. The response to most has been to label these discussions as conspiracy theories unworthy of media coverage or further review. Pursuit of a critical analysis of these questions is undermined by the psychological barrier about 9/11 issues as threshold concepts - too awful to even consider."

New York WATERFRONT Blueprint

2005-03-08T16:23:00.000-08:00

"This Blueprint is intended as a guide that brings together practical visions for new parks and open spaces on the waterfronts of all five boroughs. From Red Hook to Tribeca, Flushing to Harlem, St. George to Hunts Point and back down to the Battery, there are residents, activists, community groups, environmental organizations and leaders in government and elected office who see the potential of a waterfront renewed. Their visions made this guide to the future possible."

Transitions Online: Chechens Through the Russian Prism

2005-02-18T21:03:00.000-08:00

"For the Soviet mind, ethnic difference, no matter how subtle, is the most fundamental distinguishing mark among human beings." (so says the the mind of the so-called "Transitions Online" crew, anyway)

PIR Privacy Policy (namebase.org)

2005-02-18T20:44:00.000-08:00

"PIR distinguishes between those listed in NameBase, and those who use NameBase. This distinction is based on the conviction that individuals and groups who have some measure of political, social, or cultural power, automatically forfeit their privacy rights to the precise extent that their power influences the lives of others. This principle is not only philosophically sound, but it is also a legal principle. For example, U.S. libel law makes a distinction between a 'public' person and a 'private' person."

fm4.ORF.at / Et tu, Google?

2005-02-18T20:30:00.000-08:00

"Some of the first concerns Google generated were due to their cookies. Cookies are little text files that help the webserver track information it might need about you or your visit. These files are relatively short lived, and when the CIA tied to implement one with a 10 lifespan, they were beaten silly in the court of public opinion.

Google's have an expiration date of 2038."

>>An attempt ...<< (monochrom, 2002)

2005-02-18T20:27:00.000-08:00

"This approach tries to address the problematic of national representation in an art context – being neither able to represent a country nor willing to do so – and to name it further. Thus, it was not only an already established big national artist, Thomann, (whose name and biography links 'Austrian art history' with all progressive avant-garde moments of art, leftist politics and pop since the 1960s), but also the artistic-creative offspring/reservoir of a country: the location factor 'art.'"

ZNet | Science | Apocalypse Now

2005-02-18T20:23:00.000-08:00

"Floods, storms and droughts. Melting Arctic ice, shrinking glaciers, oceans turning to acid. The world's top scientists warned last week that dangerous climate change is taking place today, not the day after tomorrow. You don't believe it? Then, says Geoffrey Lean, read this..."

monochrom: New monochrom content // Let's network it out: Background story

2005-02-18T19:59:00.000-08:00

"Since February 2000 Austria has been governed by a very right-wing government. Thus the independent art curator’s selection of monochrom as Austria’s national representatives at the São Paolo Biennial 2002 was a quite an interesting political statement. We decided to do a tactical-ironical project. Instead of doing an exhibition as monochrom, we decided to send Georg Paul Thomann to Brazil. Who is Georg Paul Thomann? He is a fictitious 57-year-old Austrian avant-garde artist. We wrote his complete biography (around one hundred pages) and asked fellow artists, writers and pop theorists to write articles about his life and work, which were published as the catalogue of the exhibition."

MemoryBlog: FDA Scientist Censored at Drug Safety Summit

2005-02-18T18:08:00.000-08:00

"David Graham, the high-profile scientist at America's Food and Drug Administration, has been banned from presenting new information about a controversial type of painkiller at a three-day summit on their safety starting today." (16 February 2005)

'Conspiracy Theories'and Clandestine Politics

2005-02-18T18:05:00.000-08:00

"So strong is this prejudice among academics that even when clear evidence of a plot is inadvertently discovered in the course of their own research, they frequently feel compelled, either out of a sense of embarrassment or a desire to defuse anticipated criticism, to preface their account of it by ostentatiously disclaiming a belief in conspiracies."

Bush Tort Reform: Executive Clemency For Executive Killers

2005-02-18T18:01:00.000-08:00

"At their best, tort lawyers are cops who police civil crime. Just as a wave of burglaries leads to demand for more policemen, the massive increase in litigation has a single cause: a corporate civil crime wave."

Australian Antarctic Division - Evidence of widespread changes in the Southern Ocean

2005-02-18T00:44:00.000-08:00

"At every station we sampled in the deep basin between Antarctica and Australia, the deep waters were cooler and less salty than they were 10 years ago. Our measurements suggest that the movement of water between the warm surface layers of the ocean and the cool deep layers is changing. Ocean circulation has a big influence on global climate, so it is critical that we understand why this is happening and why it is happening so quickly. We used to think of the deepest layers of the ocean as being very stable in their properties and current patterns. These new observations show that the dense water produced around the periphery of Antarctica is capable of rapid and widespread change."

CBC.ca - Canada and the New American Empire: Water

2005-02-18T00:40:00.000-08:00

"Will the response to the drying of our continent be different from the others? Will the South covet the water in the North? Or will the Americans revert to dryland agriculture, severe conservation, full economic pricing and other management approaches? In the context of North American bilateralism, such questions warrant intense scrutiny."

style.org > Mapping the Iraqi Election

2005-02-17T15:02:00.000-08:00

"Today the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq released provisional election results1, shown below superimposed on maps of Iraq’s 18 governorates. Maps are shown for each of the 8 parties that won more than than 45,000 votes. Out-of-Country (OCV) votes are shown in red."

As Union Nears Win, Wal-Mart Closes Store

2005-02-17T14:51:00.000-08:00

"Wal-Mart Stores Inc. says it will close one of its Canadian stores, just as some 200 workers at the location are near winning the first-ever union contract from the world's largest retailer."

Johnny Depp Loves France over Hollywood

2005-02-17T14:47:00.000-08:00

"Johnny Depp claims the best thing he ever did for his career was quit Hollywood to live in France. The heartthrob actor turned his back on the glitzy showbiz lifestyle six years ago to set-up home with girlfriend, French singer Vanessa Paradis, and admits he has never looked back."

The Sitxth Great Lake

2005-02-16T18:14:00.000-08:00

"Featuring the Essex Green, this is an album of joyous laid back country melodies. Acoustic melodies and plaintive vocals prevail in a record that proves absolutely charming. 'Across The Northern Border', at the very start of the album, gives a perfect representation of what's to come. It's sepia-toned and wonderful, female vocal at once twangy, homely and warm, and it's strangely soothing to boot. This is like a homecoming concept album, the sort of thing that when you come home from work makes you wish you had a porch to sit on and that you weren't on the top floor of a big block of flats."

Gates taking a seat in your den

2005-02-16T17:38:00.000-08:00

"No, I'd say that of the world's economies, there's more that believe in intellectual property today than ever. There are fewer communists in the world today than there were. There are some new modern-day sort of communists who want to get rid of the incentive for musicians and moviemakers and software makers under various guises. They don't think that those incentives should exist."

Kyoto Protocol lives

2005-02-16T16:45:00.000-08:00

"Just minutes ago a ceremony to mark the treaty's implementation today was concluded at KICH, featuring a keynote speech by Nobel Peace Prize-winning environmentalist Wangari Maathai of Kenya."

(In heaven with) Richter Sviatoslav 1915 -1997

2005-01-20T19:58:00.000-08:00

"Few pianists have been such a lucrative target for the pirate's craft as Sviatoslav Richter (1915-1997). His reluctance to make studio recordings after 1970 has resulted in an estimated 200 CD titles, mostly of live broadcast material of varying provenance and sound quality marketed without Richter's agreement. There are innumerable references to Richter on the Internet, however the two most thorough are Paul Geffen's Richter Discography and Ates Tanin's Recorded Richter."

Imagining the Unimaginable - The terrorist in my novel versus the real ones. By Jennifer Egan

2005-01-20T13:59:00.000-08:00

"a celebrity culture as beguiling to Americans as it is abroad, a culture that proliferates not through some grand Machiavellian scheme but through sheer demand—is, from his own perspective, even more insidious. But acts of violence can't defeat it."

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall

2005-01-20T12:39:00.000-08:00

"Under the new Ownership Society, apparently, Republicans are so dead-set on letting people control their own money that they're going to go out on to the international capital markets and borrow a few trillion dollars so they can give it out to people so they can put it into the stock market. Of course, if individuals are more inclined toward conservative investment strategies they can purchase bonds and thus lend back to the Treasury the money the Treasury just borrowed so they could put it in stocks."

2002-09-06T14:52:00.000-07:00

National Geographic,
T E X T F I L E S,
King Country Metro Guide to Area Parks & Recreation,
vegweb regional recipies,
more recipies , Seattle Stories,
The Consortium for Independent Journalism,
Seattle Indymedia,
FlyingFish,
disinformation,
Milieux: The Costume Site,
PLO Negotiations Affairs Department,
Jane's Security News,
Jane's Intelligence Review,
The Nation, Guardian Online,
Guardian Unlimited Observer,
PBS, Federation of American Scientists,
NPR,
Outside Magazine Online,
George Monbiot,
Plastic,
realastrology,
USGS,
GOES,
USGS CVO,
The Whistle Shop,
Harper's Magazine,
The Situationist International Text Library,
The Baffler,
NOAA,
This Modern World,
Daypop Top40,
The Kwan Um School of Zen,
NOAA Magazine,
Michael Moore,
Greg Palast,
AlterNet,
The National Review,
The Progessive,
Dharma Trading Co,
Dover Publications,
Lark Books,
Calvin & Hobbes,
Government Executive Magazine - The Earlybird: Today's headlines,
Radio.Weblogs.Com,
The Watson Report,
US House of Representatives,
ActiveBass.com,
Owls Eye Nature Photography,
US Senate,
The Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation,
The Knesset,
NOAA National Weather Service, Seattle,
Environment Canada (good for world weather in imperial units),
The Democratic Party,
LoC's US Congress on the Internet,
Senator Maria Cantwell (WA),
Senator Patty Murray (WA),
Representative Jim McDermott (Seattle),
the eXile,
National Defense Magazine,
Economist.com,
The Boreal Forest Network,
Habitat for Humanity,
The Taiga Rescue Network,
WRI Forest Frontiers Initiative,
Amnesty International,
Intro to Russian Language Learning (U Sussex),
FuckedCompany.com,
Roll Call Online,
nature.com,
Heart of America NW,
SPIDR,
TAP: The American Prospect Online,
Intelligence On-Line: Global Strategic Information,
Everything Burns,
UNEP Arctic Portal,
UNEP/DEWA/GRID-Geneva,
Doonesbury Town Hall - Daily Briefing,
Arctic Research Consortium of the US,
NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center,
Fortune,
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting,
Environmental News Network,
International Herald Tribune,
Alaska Volcano Observatory,
refdesk.com,
CounterPunch,
F R E E P I E,
Internet History Sourcebooks Project...

2000-06-27T08:07:00.000-07:00

boo.