Toying With Musical Instruments at the MIT Media Lab

Esso can’t censor all of cyberspace! From "Can Esso silence your voice?":

One of Esso's complaints to the French court was that a Google search of "Esso" resulted in the StopEsso site showing up number three on the page.

Related links (just doing my part to help boost them in Google's rankings):

• stopesso.org
• StopE--o France -- censored
• StopE$$o France -- uncensored

The Manifesto of the Futurist Programmers (1991), based on the Manifesto of the Futurist Painters (1910)

Carnival Booth: An Algorithm for Defeating the Computer-Assisted Passenger Screening System, by Samidh Chakrabarti and Aaron Strauss, May 16, 2002.

Chapter 1 of "The Facade" by Michael S. Heiser.

Q: What's the title of the new opera by Stephan Wolfram (channelling Mikhail Glinka) where a mad scientist resurrects Nicholas II of Russia as a cellular automaton?

(wait for it...)

A: "A-Life for the Czar"! Bwa-ha-ha-ha!

When in southwestern Michigan, be sure to visit the BENTON HARBOR / ST. JOSEPH KOA Kampground: "10 minutes to Lake Michigan beaches. In heart of fruit belt and u-pick farms. Fish on lakes and rivers or salmon and trout charters on Lake Michigan. Near golfing, Deer Forest, kids museum and nature center. Plus tours of wineries and atomic plants."

United Students Against Sweatshops -- maybe there is hope for the future after all.

Web Site Barred From Linking to Danish Newspaper Web Sites. See also:

• Updates on the War on Links, from newsbooster.com
• Google's cache of newsbooster.com
• Internet Archive's cache of newsbooster.com

DRCNet: US to Resume Airplane Shootdown Program

Hactivismo announces Camera/Shy ("may prove destabilizing for dictators").

Let's call it Harry Potter 4 and 3/4's: "Harry Potter And Leopard Walk Up To Dragon", by Anonymous. On sale at a bookstore near you -- if you live in Beijing. Anybody know where I can illegally download a pirated copy?

Mirror.co.uk - THE ROGUE STATE - foreign correspondent JOHN PILGER on America's bid to control the world. Time for a regime change.

"Distributing a Mind on the Internet: The World-Wide-Mind" (2001), by Mark Humphrys, who believes that America has the moral right and duty to "invade and depose any regime" that supports "the evil religious fascists that attacked New York". Now there's an unholy-- uh, I mean unsettling juxtaposition. Geez, hasn't this guy watched "Colossus: The Forbin Project"? What happens when w2mind.org decides that all the filthy carbon-based units are evil religious fascists?

Scores are killed by US bomb at Afghan wedding. Outraged? Support the International Criminal Court, and donate to the UNHCR.