Art and Physics by Leonard Shlain

Art & Physics by Leonard Shlain

The most useful author I have read this past year.

HardBall Magazine - MSBL/ MABL

Index

Welcome to the 2005 MSBL/MABL World Series

Welcome to the 2005 MSBL/MABL World Series

SD Pheasants won the 58+ according to SF Argus

Only thing I can find here is

65+ where the Rushmores

are in championship round. I guess it has to be a major city location to get press, aye?

Citizens for Legitimate Government

Citizens for Legitimate Government

t r u t h o u t - Paul Krugman | Bernanke and the Bubble

t r u t h o u t - Paul Krugman | Bernanke and the Bubble

While the spotlight is on the incompetence of the Bush Administration and the failure of political leaders on both sides of the isle who is minding the store.

As the saying goes, just as 1000 lawyers chained together at the bottom of the ocean is a "place to start," so is this article.

Howard Zinn | It's Not Up to the Court

t r u t h o u t - Howard Zinn | It's Not Up to the Court


It takes more than following the law and going to war to get and preserve freedom. These are the lessons of history that are known only by a minority. Rosa Parks is a symbol of what it takes for the people's freedom.

Cheney Adviser Resigns After Indictment

Citizens for Legitimate Government


Aide to Cheney Is Indicted on 5 Counts in CIA Leak Case 28 Oct 2005 Vice presidential adviser I. Lewis "Scooter' Libby Jr. was indicted Friday on charges of obstruction of justice, making a false statement and perjury in the CIA leak case.

Rove Not Expected to Be Indicted Today - Yahoo! News

Rove Not Expected to Be Indicted Today - Yahoo! News

Looks like they got Karl by the short hairs. Touche!

The Wall Street Journal tops its world-wide newsbox with and NYT fronts lawyerly sources saying Scooter Libby is in for a very bad day while Karl Rove will apparently be stuck in purgatory:

Scooter Crash ...
By Eric Umansky
Posted Friday, Oct. 28, 2005, at 12:40 AM PT

Welcome to SDLN KidsCat

Welcome to SDLN KidsCat

Powerful Government Accounting Office report confirms key 2004 stolen election findings

October 26, 2005

The Free Press -- Independent News Media - Election 2004

Just like we have been saying all along.

AltWeeklies.com: Health & Science: Santa Fe Reporter: Environment): I Sing the Scooter Electric

AltWeeklies.com: Health & Science: Santa Fe Reporter: Environment): I Sing the Scooter Electric

Fun read.

TomPaine.com - Fitzgerald: Civil Rights Charges?

TomPaine.com - Fitzgerald: Civil Rights Charges?


Idle speculation or....???

MPR: Programs: The Morning Show

MPR: Programs: The Morning Show


Good morning internet listening for those not in the Twin Cities. Nice alternative to NPR Morning Edition. Hearing yesterday's weather reports and the time announcements is kind of weird though.

'Plame-gate' & Myth of the Renegade Aide

Consortiumnews.com

This piece reviews the whold criminal elements of the Republican presidency from Nixon, Reagan/Bush, ad infinitum

Miers Withdraws Under Mounting Criticism - Yahoo! News

Miers Withdraws Under Mounting Criticism - Yahoo! News: " My Yahoo! Mail"

American Mavericks: Listening Room

American Mavericks: Listening Room

Things to investigate this week before going off on a new composition of it own device.

The Tao Of Dubya/Lao Tzu/Religion/God/Armageddon/Way of the Tao/GW Bush/Osama Bin Laden

The Tao Of Dubya/Lao Tzu/Religion/God/Armageddon/Way of the Tao/GW Bush/Osama Bin Laden

Capitol Hill Blue: Death Watch at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

Capitol Hill Blue: Death Watch at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

A rant worth reading from time to time.

Wired News: Creating the Global Hot Spot

Wired News: Creating the Global Hot Spot

A true wireless system.

Clusterfuck Nation by James Howard Kunstler

Clusterfuck Nation by James Howard Kunstler:


"When the Museum of Bad Ideas is built by Steve Wynn in Las Vegas (designed by Frank Gehry), surely one of its remote galleries will contain this week's cover story in the New York Times Sunday Magazine about the suburban homebuilding racket titled 'Chasing Ground.' The story focuses on one of the nation's leading large production builders, the Toll Brothers, based in Philadelphia, and 'ground' is their own cute phrase for the parcels of meadow and cornfield that they magically convert into suburban housing subdivisions all over the nation.
"

Balancing Time and Newsweek

TomPaine.com - Home

MPR: Programs: The Morning Show

MPR: Programs: The Morning Show

Alternative to NPR Morning Edition repeats

Worlds' Fusion

Worlds' Fusion

Jamaica Gleaner - A poem per square mile - Thursday | October 20, 2005

Jamaica Gleaner - A poem per square mile - Thursday | October 20, 2005

Cultural Commons - Center for Arts and Culture

Cultural Commons - Center for Arts and Culture

CC in Review: Lawrence Lessig on How it All Began | Creative Commons

CC in Review: Lawrence Lessig on How it All Began | Creative Commons

Strange Rumblings at the Center of our Galaxy

Strange Rumblings at the Center of our Galaxy

Textsound: a mini conference

Textsound: a mini conference

Author: Academy irked by his argument, not ethics

Annapolis Autumn: Life, Death and Literature at the U.S. Naval Academy

In the book, Fleming says he raises the question of whether the academy can do a better job at preparing future officers for the Navy and Marine Corps, by changing the academy’s environment to encourage a willingness to question among midshipmen.

“I think they’re mad as blazes that anyone’s saying we can do it better,” Fleming said.

The International Review of African American Art

The International Review of African American Art


19.3 A special issue; "Rhythm of Structure: MathArt in the African Diaspora" examines the interface between mathematics and quantum physics and the visual art and material cultures of African American and other black people. Articles: Visual Forms in our Rhythms by John Sims; Work Dance of a Rhythm Master by Al Smith with physicist James Lindesay; Women + Art + Math: Beauty and Balance, Precision 'n Sass by Juliette Harris;A Geometric Bridge Across the Middle Passage: Mathematics in the Art of John Biggers by Ron Eglash; Imagining Meaning in Form To Remember Those Enslaved on the Continent by Brent Collins; Simon Gouveneur: Plotting A Metaphysics of MathArt by Andrea Pollan; Numbering on My Fingers and Toes by Howardena Pindell; Interweaving Art and Mathematics in African Design by Paulus Gerdes; Notes of a Math Art by John Sims and An Alchemy of Math Art.

I ordered copies of this and the current issue.

Serial - encyclopedia article about Serial.

Serial - encyclopedia article about Serial.: "During the 19th century, many popular writers earned a living from writing stories in serial form for popular magazines of the day. Many of Charles Dickens Charles John Huffam Dickens (February 7, 1812 – June 9, 1870), pen-name “Boz”, was a cherished English novelist, whom many regard as the most important of the Victorian era. During his lifetime Dickens is viewed as a popular entertainer of fecund imagination, while later critics championed his mastery of prose, his endless invention of memorable characters, and his powerful social sensibilities.

BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week: Karen Hughes

BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week: Karen Hughes

A few months old but still right on the mark for the Bush League

Something all English Teacher's should know and proclaim

LitLine: A Website for the Independent Literary Community

Quality literature is now at that point where it must be sustained by subsidy or it will become less and less available to present and future generations. Art lovers should understand that a collection of poems or a literary translation or an innovative novel is as different from a Hollywood biography or a new diet book or a best-selling novel as Bach is from U2. More generally, art lovers should recognize the difference between a commercial publisher driven by the market and a nonprofit publisher existing to serve a cultural function. While the first is self-supporting and may make large amounts of money, the second is devoted to literary art and requires subsidy to stay in business just like the art museum or the symphony orchestra or the ballet company or serious theater.


The publishing industry has always had economic and cultural agendas and a sense of its societal function generally at odds with those of serious authors. The result is that, despite some notable exceptions, the commercial publishing industry has for over 200 years privileged profit over art and has served literature well only when it could do so while making money.

HOW YOUR VOTE IS STOLEN: USA Style

This mail is something interesting that should receive further distribution. Please feel free to send it out.
Greetings
Fritz
Subject: Voting Machines Facts Summary


Dear Friends,
Please distribute the following facts about voting in the United States.
Let your friends know, because their TV won't....

1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S.

http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diebold


2. There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of the U.S. voting machine industry.

http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0916-04.htm
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html

3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers.

http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/private_company.html
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html

4. The chairman and CEO of Diebold is a major Bush campaign organizer and donor who wrote in 2003 that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/28/sunday/main632436.shtml
http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1647886

5. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel used to be chairman of ES&S. He became Senator based on votes counted by ES&S machines.

http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2004/03/03_200.html
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/031004Fitrakis/ 031004fitrakis.html

6. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, long-connected with the Bush family, was recently caught lying about his ownership of ES&S by the Senate Ethics Committee.

http://www.blackboxvoting.com/modules.php? name=News&file=article&sid=26
http://www.hillnews.com/news/012903/hagel.aspx
http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/000896.php

7. Senator Chuck Hagel was on a short list of George W. Bush's vice-presidential candidates.

http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_28/b3689130.htm
http://theindependent.com/stories/052700/new_hagel27.html

8. ES&S is the largest voting machine manufacturer in the U.S. and counts almost 60% of all U.S. votes.

http://www.essvote.com/HTML/about/about.html
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html

9. Diebold's new touch screen voting machines have no paper trail of any votes. In other words, there is no way to verify that the data coming out of the machine is the same as what was legitimately put in by voters.

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm
http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/041020evotestates/pfindex.html

10. Diebold also makes ATMs, checkout scanners, and ticket machines, all of which log each transaction and can generate a paper trail.

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm
http://www.diebold.com/solutions/default.htm

11. Diebold is based in Ohio.

http://www.diebold.com/aboutus/ataglance/default.htm

12. Diebold employed 5 convicted felons as consultants and developers to help write the central compiler computer code that counted 50% of the votes in 30 states.

http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,61640,00.html
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/10/301469.shtml

13. Jeff Dean was Senior Vice-President of Global Election Systems when it was bought by Diebold. Even though he had been convicted of 23 counts of felony theft in the first degree, Jeff Dean was retained as a consultant by Diebold and was largely responsible for programming the optical scanning software now used in most of the United States.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0312/S00191.htm
http://www.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm#how
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf

14. Diebold consultant Jeff Dean was convicted of planting back doors in his software and using a "high degree of sophistication" to evade detection over a period of 2 years.

http://www.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm#how
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf

15. None of the international election observers were allowed in the polls in Ohio.

http://www.globalexchange.org/update/press/2638.html
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/10/26/loc_elexoh.html

16. California banned the use of Diebold machines because the security was so bad. Despite Diebold's claims that the audit logs could not be hacked, a chimpanzee was able to do it! (See the movie here: http://blackboxvoting.org/baxter/baxterVPR.mov.)

http://wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,63298,00.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4874190

17. 30% of all U.S. votes are carried out on unverifiable touch screen voting machines with no paper trail.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/28/sunday/main632436.shtml

18. All -- not some -- but all the voting machine errors detected and reported in Florida went in favor of Bush or Republican candidates.

http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65757,00.html
http://www.yuricareport.com/ElectionAftermath04/ThreeResearchStudiesBushIsOut.htm
http://www.rise4news.net/extravotes.html
http://www.ilcaonline.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=950
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0411/S00227.htm

19. The governor of the state of Florida, Jeb Bush, is the President's brother.

http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/local/7628725.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10544-2004Oct29.html

20. Serious voting anomalies in Florida -- again always favoring Bush -- have been mathematically demonstrated and experts are recommending further investigation.

http://www.yuricareport.com/ElectionAftermath04/ThreeResearchStudiesBushIsOut.htm
http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/policy/story/0,10801,97614,00.html
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/tens_of_thousands.html
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1106-30.htm
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/110904.html
http://uscountvotes.org/


NOTE: Please copy the above list and distribute freely!
LET THE FACTS BE KNOWN! Thank you!

Want a cheap, fair, reliable, and efficient alternative? It exists! Check out the Swiss Voting System at http://www.swissvs.org

DECEMBER 2004 GALLUP POLLS
1 in 5 Americans believe the elections were fraudulent. That's over 41 Million Americans. You are NOT alone!
WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT
Get educated. Tell your friends what's going on.
Go visit http://VelvetRevolution.US

Bicycle Film Festival

Bicycle Film Festival

Wired News: Venice Is Deep in Thought

Wired News: Venice Is Deep in Thought

Hampton University - University Museum

Hampton University - University Museum: "19.3 A special issue; 'Rhythm of Structure: MathArt in the African Diaspora' examines the interface between mathematics and quantum physics and the visual art and material cultures of African American and other black people. Articles: Visual Forms in our Rhythms by John Sims; Work Dance of a Rhythm Master by Al Smith with physicist James Lindesay; Women Art Math: Beauty and Balance, Precision 'n Sass by Juliette Harris;A Geometric Bridge Across the Middle Passage: Mathematics in the Art of John Biggers by Ron Eglash; Imagining Meaning in Form To Remember Those Enslaved on the Continent by Brent Collins; Simon Gouveneur: Plotting A Metaphysics of MathArt by Andrea Pollan; Numbering on My Fingers and Toes by Howardena Pindell; Interweaving Art and Mathematics in African Design by Paulus Gerdes; Notes of a Math Art by John Sims and An Alchemy of Math Art.Artwork by: John Sims (cover); Jeff Donaldson; Al Smith; John Biggers; Simon Gouverneur; Howardena Pindell; Lisa Corrine Davis; Terri Foster; Charles Gaines; Francine Haskins; Vandorn Hinnant; M. Scott Johnson; Al Loving; Joe Overstreet; James Phillips; Adrian Piper; Kevin Sipp; Richard Ward; Joyce Wellman and Jack White (with commentary from several of these artists); images of quilts and artifacts; and documentary photography by Roland Freeman and Leigh Richmond Miner."

Produced by a search of Beauford Delaney Quincy Troupe

Hampton University - University Museum

Hampton University - University Museum

The Literacy Site : Help Children Read By Giving Them Their Own Books

The Literacy Site : Help Children Read By Giving Them Their Own Books