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News | Ellen Allien

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:04:07 -0700

I can't believe there aren't more than four reviews for this most adorable DJ. I've listened to her consistently for a long time. Not like other artists you like but never think to put on.

She's seriously talented, and she's worked with a ton of other artists. She's done remix work on people as mainstream as Beck and Thom Yorke, and I honestly prefer listening to her remixes than the originals.

0wnz0red in Swedish - Boing Boing

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:34:56 -0800

Cry Dctrw [is a] Twt

Anti-censorship internet hero disemvowels balanced and calm criticisms.

A few days ago on BoingBoing Cory Doctorow posted an announcement that, gasp, 0wnz0red was translated into Swedish!

If you scroll down to the discussion, you'll find some interesting points. The first comment was by Flying Squid. He says in a very polite way that it seems unreasonable for Cory Doctorow to use BoingBoing for personal PR. Cory responds with several paragraphs of "I can do what I want." Which is basically true. This happens to be the reason I don't bother reading BoingBoing and am not a member. There's nothing on that site I won't see elsewhere. Flying Squid responds by hanging his head in impotent apology.

My personal friend and roommate, Yeago, decides at this point to post a comment. Some time ago, a member of our personal mailing list suggested 0wnz0red as good reading and a long thread ensued, wherein I gave my criticism. Yeago quoted me within a polite frame. He even deleted the last few sentences which were perhaps too scathing for the BoingBoing readership. Shortly after this post Nutkin joins in, telling Flying Squid not to roll over, and that Mr. Doctorow's personal blog is where those posts belong. Seems reasonable. Shortly after this, Both Yeago and Nutkin were disemvowelled.

For those of you who don't know what that is, they removed all the vowels out of their comments, rendering them illegible without undue scrutiny. Teresa Nielson Hayden is the moderator responsible for this. She also runs the blog and moderates discussion at Making Light, where a response blog was posted (by her husband Patrick), and yet more disemvowelling occurred. For a Fulbright Chair on Public Diplomacy for USC, there seems to be nothing diplomatic in the way Cory Doctorow handles honest, balanced criticism. But Cory, I thought "Online Censorship Hurts Us All." True enough, but when "psychopathic trolls" participate in an otherwise civil discussion, it's okay to censor them. On this thread, though, there was no hate speech, no threats of violence, and no unsubstantiated flaming, just calm disagreement. If someone wants to post a violent, or, let's say racist comment, then sure. Delete it. Wtvr. After a wave of deletions and disemvowelments, the BoingBoingers say, don't worry, we're not really censoring that many people... they are all just "sock-puppets" of the same person. Yeago has never had anything to do with Flying Squid or Nutkin or TheCynic, or anyone else. None of the READERS are affiliated. Cory, Teresa, Patrick, all are. Hmph. The fact is these comments were NOT malicious trolling. A discussion which was uncomfortable for Mr. Doctorow's ego was squelched in the most childish way possible. Disemvowellment. BB has a nasty habit of doing this waaaay too much. Their defenders say that BB doesn't have to allow anything they don't like on Their blog. I say that if you are going to be that sensitive to calm disagreement, stop feigning to allow discussion, or get out of the public forum.

Here is a link to Yeago, where you'll find my criticism of 0wnz0red.

All this free speech-love is a matter of PR. The BoingBoingers are all fake, and Teresa Hayden is dense. She is on a Delete rampage to cover her mistaken charges of sockpuppetry. To defend themselves further, they routinely misrepresent the content of deleted posts and private emails from banned users.

http://www.faithbase.com/

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 10:50:04 -0700

A banner ad at the top of my MySpace homepage led me to this site. Of course I immediately went to see what Stumblers had to say about it. Apparently nothing. Four people like this site. None said a word about it. The only tag it was given was Matchmaking, Thanks to TellingHistory, which I find telling.

It is a social networking site. Connect with Christians across the country, share pictures and videos, chat with the "God-loving community", and search for love or soulmates. Catholics and Protestants alike, the whole Christian population is welcome.

I couldn't find any clear note on how many members there actually are. The most populous group seems to have about four hundred members. There were just under 1000 people online on a Saturday afternoon.

=(

Why do they have to be so separatist? Is it because they find it difficult to blend with the greater portion of MySpace society? Shouldn't that tell them something? What is with the Christian Youth? In the tweniteth century, all the West's best scientists and philosophers were in general agreement that Religion was on the outs. Yet here we are. They keep inbreeding. Now we have an army of supposedly educated twenty-somethings outraged at societal trifles they deem immoral, sharing and commenting on Fox.com stories. And voting. And donating all their money to evangelism. It will never go away.

UN independent rights expert calls for five-year freeze on biofuel production

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:19:17 -0700

From the page: "While the arguments for biofuels is legitimate in terms of energy efficiency and combating climate change the effect of transforming food crops such as wheat and maize into agricultural fuel is �oeabsolutely catastrophic” for hungry people and will negatively impact the realization of the right to food, he said.

�oeIt is a crime against humanity to convert agricultural productive soil into soil which produces food stuff that will be burned into biofuel.”

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The industrial space age

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 19:40:45 -0700

I've been saying this for YEARS! My friends always laugh at me like I'm crazy. Mine the asteroids. Build a real space station WHILE IN SPACE and save some trouble. Ugh. These NASA people are supposed to be rocket scientists. (=D Just kidding, kind of. I know people who work at NASA. Some are better than others.)

I mean the obvious argument here is that 1: the earth can give us whatever we need if we can pull ourselves together and stop fucking it up, and 2: we'll just fuck up space like we did earth. I say there's no reason not to use both ecologism and space-industrialism. Move excess industry to space, fix earth, make the energy switch, and all the while be developing that crucial bit of technology that will enable us to reorganize matter.

Fishers of Men (Part 2) AWESOME

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:11:24 -0700

wow2

Fishers of Men (Part 1) AWESOME!

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:04:14 -0700

Wow. Recruitment to the Priesthood. Apparently today's youth have been too distracted to heed the Call. Number of Catholics is up, and number of priests is down. Uh-oh.

Basically: priesthood is totally awesome, priests are regular guys, it's fun to be a priest, and priests are heroes. I mean, who will present the eucharist to the next generation?

Intelligence Squared US

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:20:20 -0700

IQ2US

In the words of my roommate, "It sounds like a liberal organization attempting to have the trappings of unbias."

Is Spreading Democracy in Middle East a Bad Idea? : NPR

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:19:26 -0700

It doesn't appear as though anyone here followed up and went to IQ2US.

And who really cares about NPR anyway? More of the same.

The Raw Story | Vitter secures $100K for Louisiana anti-evolution group

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:24:22 -0700

From the page: "In a move ostensibly aimed at providing "better science education" in Louisiana schools, Sen. David Vitter has secured $100,000 in taxpayer dollars to fund an anti-evolution effort spearheaded by a religious group politically connected to the alleged prostitute-soliciting Republican.

Vitter secured an earmark in an upcoming labor, health and education financing bill for the Louisiana Family Forum, which The New Orleans Times Picayune reports has "taken the lead in promoting 'origins science,' which includes the possibility of divine intervention in the creation of the universe.""

How are miseducated, ignorant schmucks even allowed to hold office? How is it that we are slipping back into the dark ages? Why does it take such insane effort to stop it from happening?