tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81600062011-04-21T18:17:40.637-04:00The saga of one small prosimian trying to evolvedigitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.comBlogger1641100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1112990767872176032005-04-08T16:00:00.000-04:002005-04-08T16:06:07.873-04:00

Well, I was going to post part three is my oh-so-cheery series, "I Can't Fucking Take It Anymore," but it's Friday, the sun is shining, it's warm, the girls are all out in short skirts, and I've found a new blogging platform that makes me so very happy to be blogging again.Check out: http://digitalprimate.blogsome.comSuch excellent software, so many more features so better implemented than

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com38tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1112639445500733302005-04-04T14:30:00.000-04:002005-04-06T11:29:27.423-04:00

What the Bankruptcy Bill Could Do to You from the Black Commentator.The U.S. Senate has passed a dream bill for credit card and financial service companies that, if passed by the House, will land millions of American families in debt slavery. Rather than being able to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and make a difficult new start, families and individuals will be placed on long-term payment plans

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1112381446758273292005-04-01T11:39:00.000-05:002005-04-01T14:11:56.930-05:00

_w.a[wk]lk divine_ _pic[O.h].tour.still[born.cycles+sweet.meets]in.contained.nite.b.lank.et.caverns_contained.breath.a.bs.ences+st.ar[gent.ry].drifting_s[m]ooth.darkness.warmings_ anti-sapien.st[infotainment]age.sett[l]ing_spider.webbishness.in.tee.V.cabled.dreaming_back[+4]grounded.in.star.light.aloneness.s.pokes_ This is a, um, poem? Blog post? A bit of some arcane computer

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1111090333262957532005-03-17T15:07:00.000-05:002005-03-17T15:15:41.740-05:00

I've had a lot on my mind lately, and, yes, I know it's not real content, but content yourselves with these three very cool links:13 Things That do not Make Sense from New ScientistDIY Black Hole (is this really such a good idea?)...and last, but certainly not least and somewhat related to the above: How to Destroy the World. For real.btw, it's going to be a boy.

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1110826385477347592005-03-14T11:37:00.000-05:002005-03-14T13:53:05.606-05:00

I've just returned from a nice long holiday in the tropics (about which, however, nice it was, I suffered reservations about which I'll write later), and, newly relaxed, this morning I actually enjoyed my commute into work, forgiving even the most stupid of drivers their manifold sins. Over coffee, our maintenance man began his usual incessant and meaningless chatter with A Tale of Weekend

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1109900640357209042005-03-03T20:42:00.000-05:002005-03-03T20:44:00.360-05:00

I'll be on holiday in the DR for 10 days starting tomorrow, so there probably won't be a lot of bloggification between now and then. I will be checking email every other day or so, probably.

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1109868984254543692005-03-03T11:56:00.000-05:002005-03-03T20:17:59.030-05:00

The above is an interesting read. This is an interview with a member of the commission managing the implement ion of campaign finance reform. The long and short of it is, the ambiguous status of bloggers may leave us exposed to the same campaign finance restrictions in terms of supporting candidates that companies and other are. This may become a real problem.

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1109639803779184312005-02-28T20:16:00.000-05:002005-02-28T20:17:35.753-05:00

"The court finds that the president has no power, neither express nor implied, neither constitutional nor statutory, to hold petitioner as an enemy combatant," Floyd wrote in a 23-page opinion that was a stern rebuke to the government. Floyd, appointed by Bush in 2003, gave the administration 45 days to take action.The fact that it happened in my hometown makes me, for once, proud to have grown

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1109467754595342872005-02-26T20:29:00.000-05:002005-02-26T20:29:14.596-05:00

Baby Jesus in a blender. He shoulda blogged it.

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1109280605949338242005-02-24T16:14:00.000-05:002005-02-24T16:30:05.950-05:00

My friend Bravus caught this one on Salon. Good post about a very bad Department of Homeland Security hiring malware execs to run it's "privacy" program. I mean, really, it's as if they're trying to foment a torch and pitchfork wielding mob. Not that there's anything wrong with a good old fashion torch and pitchfork wielding mob.

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1109195721322727762005-02-23T16:55:00.000-05:002005-02-23T16:56:12.726-05:00

Spotted by Schneier on Security, this Economist article details exactly why the US' new passport protocols are not going to work; worse, why they're needlessly intrusive: The third, and scariest problem, however, is one that is deliberately built into the technology, rather than being an accident of its present inefficiency. This is the remote-readability of the chip, combined with the lack of

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1109091260607123962005-02-22T11:29:00.000-05:002005-02-23T16:49:40.650-05:00

Yesterday, reflecting upon Hunter S. Thompson’s suicide and it being the anniversary of Malcolm X’s assassination, I wondered if there was anybody left with the balls to both tell the truth and do something about it. HST exposed the Nixon years for what the sitcoms and the nightly news wouldn’t – dirty, bloody and insane - and he did it in a voice that compelled us to not look away. Malcolm X

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1109000999756022372005-02-21T10:49:00.000-05:002005-02-21T10:49:59.756-05:00

"The only thing that worried me was the ether." He was an inspiration and a tonic. I feel sorry for St Peter if he gives him any gruff.

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1108750803977932172005-02-18T12:29:00.000-05:002005-02-18T13:20:03.983-05:00

OK, back up on the privacy soapbox again.While it's true that I tend to be a somewhat paranoid person when it comes to privacy, especially data privacy, it's equally true that there are real risks out there. The scariest part is often that one has no idea from which dark corner the hydra ill spring. Here are a couple of examples.Today on Schneier on Security we face the Dread Loyalty Card in

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1107900475825569722005-02-08T17:05:00.000-05:002005-02-08T17:07:55.826-05:00

This is what it looked like in Central Park on my birthday. It was about 14C with no wind. It was not very busy.

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1107445943501901632005-02-03T10:52:00.000-05:002005-02-03T11:11:23.506-05:00

The new debtors prison, not just for po' folk anymore - "Among those whose illnesses led to bankruptcy, out-of-pocket costs averaged $11,854 since the start of illness; 75.7 percent had insurance at the onset of illness." The average bankrupt person surveyed had spent $13,460 on co-payments, deductibles and uncovered services if they had private insurance. People with no insurance spent an

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1107376453690060702005-02-02T15:34:00.000-05:002005-02-02T15:34:13.690-05:00

Well, I suppose it was really only a matter of time. I like the reporter's attitude: I have a suggestion: As long as government officials are fixing up reporters with dates, I would be happy to be escorted by my wife. If they can't work that out, I wonder if they have any pull with Halle Berry.

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1107208859197029872005-01-31T16:52:00.000-05:002005-01-31T17:02:05.236-05:00

First, we get the news that Bill Gates, who know a thing or two about making and, more importantly, keeping money is short on the Dollar (meaning, he's betting that it'll keep dropping in value relative to other currencies.) In his defense, he had this to say: "It is a bit scary. We're in uncharted territory when the world's reserve currency has so much outstanding debt.'' Then we get this

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1106860296322566902005-01-28T16:00:00.000-05:002005-01-28T16:10:33.813-05:00

From the above article: " . . . If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world." Wonderful. I sure wouldn't want the head of any Supreme Court of mine to have anything to do with that fancy, store-bought "sophisticated world." And, yes

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1106859145059511482005-01-27T15:50:00.000-05:002005-01-27T15:52:25.060-05:00

and how I've felt lately.

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1106152969406292852005-01-19T11:39:00.000-05:002005-01-19T11:47:47.350-05:00

I haven't been updating the blog for the past week or so because I'm working on adapting a new template for this blog and for another blog I'm starting soon. The new blog will be about my neighborhood, so not only am I working on the template, I'm trying to find reliable content. And, as a few people know, I edit CSS with all the dispatch and accuracy of an Airforce smart bomb at an Afghan

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1105465344299421272005-01-11T13:42:00.000-05:002005-01-11T12:46:23.726-05:00

Every Progressive's favorite security expert, Bruce Schneier, has a blog entry today ripping its way through all the big sites. He talks about two cities, Phoenix and Spring, TX, that have implemented systems to track when students get on and off of school buses; the former is a wireless ID system, the latter a fingerprint based system. He derides these systems as offering no real security to

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1104948793654754122005-01-11T12:20:00.000-05:002005-01-11T12:30:42.296-05:00

Columbia Journalism Review (linked above) has a excellent overview of the scandal surrounding CBS's supposedly "fake" documents establishing that President Bush the Younger was indeed AWOL. The blogosphere offers unique opportunities to finally wrest (some) control over the dissemination of information from those corporate interests that in no way align with those of the populace. That said,

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1104269413010569322005-01-10T10:50:00.000-05:002005-01-10T10:55:30.900-05:00

The above is an interesting article about the value of reputation in a post-scarcity economy. Using a premise recently popularized by Cory Doctorow (boing boing contributor and author of the interesting book, Down and Out in the Magical Kingdom, et al.), the story discusses several different online communities where one contributes (i.e., produces) in order to up one's reputation. In other words,

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1104944034571712302005-01-10T08:45:00.000-05:002005-01-10T08:50:58.680-05:00

Remember that guy in Jersey who did some very stupid shit with his green laser? The guy's an ass (even more so for trying to blame it on his daughter), but do we really need to prosecute him under out wonderful new anti-terror laws? He could get up to 25 years in prison and fines of up to $500,000. [whisper] No, really, trust us - we would never abuse these new powers [/whisper] And, FYI, I

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1105119590398188342005-01-07T13:39:00.000-05:002005-01-07T12:40:47.933-05:00

Ick! Hat tip to the Agonist.

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1105116732915971012005-01-07T11:52:00.000-05:002005-01-07T11:57:14.303-05:00

Definitely unethical and probably illegal. That's the "liberal" media for ya. Right. What a shumck. Hat tips to the Agonist and Boing Boing

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1105116024556906872005-01-07T10:00:00.000-05:002005-01-07T11:43:02.040-05:00

The whole day yesterday I had that Vientiane feeling. Well, not exactly, but something close to it. Although I usually fail, I enjoy trying to describe states of mind and feeling for which our language has no shorthand. So the "Vientiane" feeling comes from the time when Mrs. Primate and I were in Laos in early 1999. We'd been traveling around Asia for several months, but Laos was the only place

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1104511807388136162005-01-06T12:50:00.000-05:002005-01-06T12:50:07.176-05:00

Cool German site (with an English version) called Eye of Science - hat tip to boingboing I am such a sucker for these photos. It's a small world after all....

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1104950473158292712005-01-05T13:41:00.000-05:002005-01-05T13:45:27.310-05:00

Not that it matters now, but here's more presidential exit poll tomfoolery with a link to the leaked raw data.

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1104940883056696642005-01-05T11:02:00.000-05:002005-01-05T11:05:34.240-05:00

Good piece at dailykos detailing our future Attorney General's involvement in "justifying" the use of torture. Ya know, once upon a time, we used to wear the white hat. What the fuck has happened to us that not only is this man not going to jail, he's being appointed sheriff.

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1104938905987946832005-01-05T11:00:00.000-05:002005-01-05T11:03:51.786-05:00

Anyone still doubting that the current regime is more interested in making (more) money for the rich than safeguarding the public interest should have a look at the link above. Here's a sample: (The) FDA is spending taxpayer dollars to defend drug companies who are being sued in state court. Since August 2001, the FDA has expended over 600 hours to file at least six briefs on behalf of these

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1104937057586905122005-01-05T09:57:00.000-05:002005-01-05T09:57:37.586-05:00

Spy on strangers doing mostly boring things. Hat tip to boing boing.

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1104933490051644622005-01-05T08:56:00.000-05:002005-01-05T10:05:37.156-05:00

Have you been thinking about putting yourself up for sale lately? Ever wonder how much money you could get on the open human market? HumanForSale.com will attempt to place a value on your life using a variety of criteria in 4 basic facets of life (physical,mental,lifestyle,personality). This is obviously a very subjective matter and is not intended and does not claim to be scientifically accurate

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1104426526227640892005-01-04T14:00:00.000-05:002005-01-04T14:01:21.313-05:00

These are Russian mics available only through the Guitar Center. Their MK 319 model is very, very similar to a Neumann U49, one of the most famous (and expensive) mics in the world - and it retails for less than $200 dollars. I just got a factory matched pair of MK 012-B's (not shown on the website - you have to order them from the factory, but they look just like the MK 012s) to use as stereo

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1104800608895249822005-01-03T20:03:00.000-05:002005-01-03T20:03:28.896-05:00

This story is yet another good example of people putting their trust in the abstraction that is technology and its ability to do their work for them rather than using technology to implement common sense decisions. No matter how good or innovative, no technological solution is full proof. A cynical person might say that it's yet another attempt to make people feel that all the heightened

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1104767522551297842005-01-03T09:17:00.000-05:002005-01-03T10:52:02.550-05:00

You know it's going to be a strange day when it begins with bobcats. And you live 15 miles out from Midtown Manhattan. About six weeks ago, my wife and I adopted a stray cat some friends of our in the neighborhood had taken in. The cat is about a year old and is sweet, playful and smart. He'd obviously lived with a family before as he was housebroken and kept trying to get me to give him wet

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1104504819946906842004-12-31T09:53:00.000-05:002004-12-31T12:30:55.903-05:00

As always, use Bug Me Not to avoid giving the NYT your first born I've written about this before, but it still baffles me. I think it's perhaps the most egregious example of this regime's complete lack of concern for the "reality based" community, i.e., those of us actually concerned with, on the one hand, the possibility that this regime deliberately sabotaged ongoing undercover investigations

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1104503179780931462004-12-31T09:26:00.000-05:002004-12-31T09:26:19.780-05:00

My favorite excuse: Passengers initially had to wait onboard because the Grant County International Airport was not equipped to screen international travelers. Officials cleared a terminal and posted sheriff's deputies at the entrances before allowing passengers to leave but not until more than after 18 hours after boarding the flight.

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1104338067231252362004-12-31T08:52:00.000-05:002004-12-31T08:53:08.003-05:00

Somehow, somewhere an evil meme lurks at my office, infecting me over and over. Every day for nearly two weeks now, at some point the old Wham! song Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go starts playing in my head. Worse, it doesn't even play in the original; in my head, two different versions alternate: a Mexican mariachi band version and Japanese karaoke version. I don't know what sets this off. I

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1104426317002907952004-12-30T11:34:00.000-05:002004-12-30T12:05:17.003-05:00

My friend Bravus published the following comments on his blog about the political consequences of risk avoidance: I linked this story, Can governments save us from disasters?, as a comment to Fragile, below, but thought it was an interesting enough discussion to get into on its own. This issue was kind of a subtext in what I wrote there, but I was concerned more with honoring the dead and

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1104344434905685312004-12-30T11:25:00.000-05:002004-12-30T11:25:30.253-05:00

A somewhat reassuring article from WaPo (use bug me not to bypass the soul-sucking registration process) discussing the difficulties a terrorist organization would have procuring a working nuclear device. According to this, it's a lot more difficult than may be popularly believed: Such difficulties have led some nuclear experts to believe bin Laden would be more likely to try to build an

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1104350805045856872004-12-29T15:06:00.000-05:002004-12-29T15:06:45.046-05:00

Strange, very strange, and the first good news - relatively speaking of course - to come out of this mess. They must have known well in advance. Link from Boing Boing

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1104349683849958372004-12-29T14:48:00.000-05:002004-12-29T14:48:47.983-05:00

Total cost through fiscal year 2000: $7.5 million Having enemy soldiers throw down their guns and start humping each other: Priceless Methinks the Don't-Ask-Don't-Tell policy may have chaffed a little? OK, one more, I can't resist: is that a gun in your pocket or....

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1104335738424796042004-12-29T10:46:00.000-05:002004-12-29T10:55:38.423-05:00

I'm not sure what's a more telling symptom of our nation's advanced decay: Navy Seals torturing prisoners, someone taking photographs of Navy Seals torturing prisoners, or Navy Seals suing people who publish pictures of them torturing prisoners. Somehow, I don't think this is what President Bush the Younger means when he speaks of tort "reform."

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1104335000732409912004-12-29T10:41:00.000-05:002004-12-29T10:43:20.733-05:00

Does anyone know how to get two thick glasses unstuck from each other?

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1104262213324489572004-12-28T14:30:00.000-05:002004-12-28T14:30:13.323-05:00

This has got to be the weirdest blog I've ever stumbled upon since I've been stumbling upon them. It's not what you think, believe me. It is, however, SFW. The author of the above is also apparently the author of this.

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1104250386861660652004-12-28T11:06:00.000-05:002004-12-28T14:32:46.616-05:00

Richard Branson's soon-to-be-launched Virgin Galactic needs to meet up with Bigelow Aerospace's inflatable space stations. And I still want my flying car, gosh darnit. You thought we forgot about the flying cars, didn't you?

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1104023870757475332004-12-25T20:17:00.000-05:002004-12-25T20:17:50.756-05:00

And let the Festavus airing of the grievances begin!

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1103897249076694102004-12-24T09:07:00.000-05:002004-12-24T09:07:29.076-05:00

The man obviously doen't have a taster and enough duct tape. Link from fark.

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1103829864771689892004-12-23T14:24:00.000-05:002004-12-23T14:24:24.770-05:00

A spanish language blog from a guy living in Holland. Strange. Check out the picture of the bike in the second entry. Why I find this interesting when I can read only about 20% of I have no idea.

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1103827708497120682004-12-23T13:48:00.000-05:002004-12-23T13:48:28.496-05:00

FINALLY somebody gets it. I'll take 5 of each, please. (via boingboing)

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1103739639629609752004-12-22T13:20:00.000-05:002004-12-22T13:20:39.630-05:00

For all you fellow Ikea love/haters out there. The first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem.

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1103648299305465742004-12-21T11:58:00.000-05:002004-12-21T11:58:19.306-05:00

Praise the Lord and pass the ketchup.

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1103644170862383722004-12-21T10:19:00.000-05:002004-12-21T10:49:30.863-05:00

Not because they tell us anything we didn't already know, but because they lay out the problems so adroitly. The first is Bill Moyers' Harvard Medical's Global Environment Citizen award acceptance speech (republished at TomPaine.com). In it, he makes the critical connection between the world view of the current regime and their backers and how this affects environmental policy. Writing about

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1103568666099968212004-12-20T13:51:00.000-05:002004-12-20T13:51:06.100-05:00

Origami folding robots and tips on how to teach your robot to free itself when stuck in a trench. Just in case.

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1103565687575721562004-12-20T13:01:00.000-05:002004-12-20T13:01:27.576-05:00

Blog about the huge and largely unreported number of amputees returning returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Ironically, as we save more lives on the battlefield than ever before, we also create more men and women left alive but maimed. It's good to see someone is finally paying attention to these folks. I completely disagree with why they're over there, but we should all keep in mind that

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1103308473171997652004-12-17T13:34:00.000-05:002004-12-17T13:34:33.170-05:00

The coolest table you'll see all day, courtesy of NOVA.

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1103299776562194282004-12-17T11:09:00.000-05:002004-12-17T11:09:36.563-05:00

Just in case you think it can't get any worse than being secretly photographed while you engage in that most questionable of activities - buying stamps - it does: the system running the surveillance is Win XP. Invasive AND stupid. What's not to like?

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1103211982635948062004-12-16T10:46:00.000-05:002004-12-16T10:46:22.636-05:00

This is exactly what we don't need to become, a fearful nation regarding every transaction with our fellow citizens as suspect. When people, mostly sarcastically nowadays, say we should or shouldn't do something because that would mean the "terrorists win" they should be thinking about ideas like this one. Radical Islamists and the terrorists and insurgents informed and partly motivated by them

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1103210164655674322004-12-16T10:13:00.000-05:002004-12-16T10:16:04.656-05:00

I think it's to hide them from the forces of darkness that inhabit the higher channels. WBGO WFUV Both with streaming audio, for those so inclined.

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1103075420434790312004-12-14T20:28:00.000-05:002004-12-14T20:50:20.433-05:00

I just spoke to an old friend of mine. He is the same age as me (37 going fast on 38) and was diagnosed with lung cancer just before Thanksgiving, After the initial biopsy came up malignant, they assumed the cancer was small and localized. A lobectomay would do. Once they got in, however, they discovered more metastasis than they'd imagined, and removed his entire left lung. The cancer had

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1102965011977472292004-12-13T14:10:00.000-05:002004-12-14T08:59:54.666-05:00

Picture009.jpeg Originally uploaded by digitalprimate. What a bang! (So shoot me - it's been a slow day)

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1102963642934611482004-12-13T13:47:00.000-05:002004-12-13T14:12:01.876-05:00

The above is a rather rhetorically heated rehashing (yes, I'm going to alliteration hell) of the new intelligence "reform" bill. Fuck me with a stick. I mean, it's not like they couldn't already spy on and arrest people without cause then hold them in solitary confinement without legal representation indefinitely - but do we really have to institutionalize it? Is Congress really that

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1102962285947488282004-12-13T13:24:00.000-05:002004-12-13T13:24:45.946-05:00

Stolen from BoingBoing. A powerful reminder of the often hidden costs of this war and an equally terrible reminder of the amazing advances in technology warfare unfortunately produces: less than one in 10 soldiers injured in combat now die. Warning: some of these images are quite graphic and possibly NSFW.

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1102946069620675742004-12-13T08:54:00.000-05:002004-12-13T08:54:29.620-05:00

Brand managers all across the world wet themselves. They then soon feel confused, ashamed...out of control.

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1102707764240426002004-12-10T14:42:00.000-05:002004-12-11T20:59:15.500-05:00

Two interesting articles about our feathered and furred friends. The first discusses a paper coming out in Science suggesting that the corvid family (crows and jays) are as intelligent as the great apes. That in itself is fascinating enough, but the following quotation caught my eye: "What's so interesting is that while Western scrub jays may not have language, the research shows they've got

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1102690316410225062004-12-10T09:51:00.000-05:002004-12-10T09:51:56.410-05:00

Bloomberg story about President Bush the Younger's regime supporting the display of the 10 Commandments in US courts, arguing that it's part of our cultural heritage. One the one hand, burning witches and lynching blacks is also part of our cultural heritage; on the other hand, I'd be willing to cut this administration some more slack on this issue if they actually followed the 10 Commandments.

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1102689460024651712004-12-10T09:29:00.000-05:002004-12-10T09:38:19.936-05:00

This "900" scam came over our company fax yesterday. I've got to hand it to them: it's the first time I've seen someone trying to take advantage of both stupidity AND Democratic angst. Only $3.95 per minute to fax some folks in England (450 High Road, Essex, UK - a place apparently without a postcode) to express your outrage. I'm a little curious, though, as to how they intend to fulfill their

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1102605084203613482004-12-09T10:11:00.000-05:002004-12-09T15:19:31.486-05:00

The above is a neat piece detailing how Santa Claus is slowly pushing out the more native Christmas traditions like some exotic and invasive species in a delicate ecosystem. Some background from the article: The myth of Santa Claus evolved from the fusion of two figures: gift-bearing Saint Nicholas and the representation of the infant Jesus known as "Christkindlein" (Christ child), which later

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1102600938099137102004-12-09T08:55:00.000-05:002004-12-09T09:05:28.140-05:00

I managed to snap a camera phone pick of this guy a week after the election. As far as I know, he walked around the Bronx for a couple of days with his head down carrying the cheap plastic flag, never speaking to anyone, just sort of all Indian-with-tear-in-eye. I felt compelled to approach him, but he seemed to be doing some kind of personal penance. I left him be and took the photo as

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1102516370206179352004-12-08T16:32:00.000-05:002004-12-08T16:47:32.896-05:00

This showed up on Boing Boing this morning, and I was stuck by this line: 57 percent of the imaginary companions of school-age youngsters were humans and 41 percent were animals. One companion was a human capable of transforming herself into any animal the child wanted. (emphasis added)This instantly reminded me of Philip Pullman's excellent trilogy, His Dark Materials. The trilogy is a retelling

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1102518986882623542004-12-08T10:16:00.000-05:002004-12-08T10:22:30.930-05:00

Someone over at the Agonist just put this up. It's a article detailing how public advocacy groups are using the Internet and associated resources to circumvent the current regime's attempt to hide its activities from public scrutiny. The article also highlights a new umbrella organization for groups dedicated to insuring Americans have access to the tax funded activities of their elected

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1102515411102736282004-12-08T09:04:00.000-05:002004-12-08T09:16:51.103-05:00

After much deliberation and many an evening spent seaching the depths of my soul (and many a morning wishing I hadn't), I've come to the conclusion that, indeed, my friend newpaltzer was correct: Basil Hayden's is the suprior small batch Bourbon for sipping. Dave Broom of Wiskey Magazine calls it, "A sassy little glass: the charmer to Booker’s bruiser. A midday Old Fashioned."

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1102443588299055882004-12-07T13:08:00.000-05:002004-12-07T13:19:48.300-05:00

This is a fantastic article by Thomas Powers laying out the case that the current problems at the CIA are a symptom of a what he calls a "sea change" in world affairs. He deftly describes the nature (and changing nature) of the Agency's dual responsibilities to the President and the nation, and how the current administration has subverted this relationship. He describes exactly how dangerous a

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1102432205608823932004-12-07T10:10:00.000-05:002004-12-07T10:10:05.606-05:00

The future is closer than we think, literally.

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1102388147341049222004-12-06T21:55:00.000-05:002004-12-06T21:55:47.340-05:00

From /. Just in case you doubted that a few determined people can't seriously fuck shit up.

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1102366826255199372004-12-06T16:00:00.000-05:002004-12-06T16:00:26.256-05:00

Dear jumpin jebus this is weird. Kind of Dr. Doolittle meets James Bond -esque. What the fuck are these people doing with all these dogs?

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1102357168627264952004-12-06T13:18:00.000-05:002004-12-06T13:19:28.626-05:00

Interesting bit from wired news about the unintended consequences of blogging. Or, rather, blogging things you shouldn't and getting caught. Most of these examples have been in the news before, but this little article puts them in the same place and into context.

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1102351957288935432004-12-06T11:52:00.000-05:002004-12-06T11:52:37.286-05:00

"Now, the IRS is preparing to assign late next year $13 billion in owed taxes to private companies for collection." So you just gotta wonder if these private collection companies have to obey the Do Not Call list. No, I didn't think so either.

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1102352522995886642004-12-06T11:43:00.000-05:002004-12-06T12:02:02.996-05:00

As I've gotten into blogging, I discovered that I'm becoming loathe to reveal the contents of my RSS feed list as this is my main source of content I don't write myself. I was just about to put a permalink to We Make Money Not Art on my sidebar when I realized that now everyone else will know about this cool site - and I will become subsequently less cool. No more, "where does he find all this

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1102018188793407572004-12-02T15:07:00.000-05:002004-12-02T15:09:48.793-05:00

Last night Mrs. Primate and I went to see the late showing of The Incredibles (a fantastic flick, by the way), and as we were driving out of our neighborhood, the road we usually take was blocked by pylons. We had tremendous winds in New York yesterday, and I live in a neighborhood with many old trees, so I figured that one of them had been blown over. I was a little surprised when, returning

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1102000190849325972004-12-02T10:09:00.000-05:002004-12-02T13:36:41.946-05:00

This story on the front page of the Washington Post today details how our tax dollars are being used to instill "shame-based, fear-based, medically inaccurate messages" to our children. Wonderful fairy tails about the dangers of becoming pregnant from mutual masturbation and darker stories of how nearly all gay teen boys are HIV positive. I'm so glad that our leaders are concentrating on

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1101218667432714692004-11-23T09:04:00.000-05:002004-11-23T09:06:10.650-05:00

Camera phones don't do so well when both the subject and "photographer" are moving. His jacket says: Highlander/There Can Be Only One. I guess it's tough being a washed up immortal. The wooden paneled restaurant to the left is the Dominican place where I get my cafe con leche.

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1101217806531039702004-11-23T08:50:00.000-05:002004-11-23T08:50:06.530-05:00

Then again, I never met a Kiwi I didn't like.

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1101134140417691102004-11-22T09:35:00.000-05:002004-11-22T09:35:40.416-05:00

Thought what they did on purpose was scary?

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1100886260213268292004-11-19T13:38:00.000-05:002004-11-19T12:44:20.213-05:00

There's something so wrong about this, I just can't figure out what it is. The designer had this to say: "Thanks Tails" are tails for cars. An organ which express appreciation. To make it easier to understand, it is not expressed by language but by the gesture of tails of dogs. I consider this as an art work only when this is manufactured. This project is progressing with cooperations of

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1100834245308834642004-11-18T22:13:00.000-05:002004-11-18T22:17:25.306-05:00

Gotta love that cute little Rhinovirus!

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1100718021996796932004-11-17T14:00:00.000-05:002004-11-17T14:00:21.996-05:00

Ever wonder who would win if Spiderman fought Wolverine? if Buffy fought Xena? Well, wonder no more.

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1100618556630408732004-11-16T10:22:00.000-05:002004-11-16T10:22:36.630-05:00

Seriously. Don't do it.

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1100616707409468402004-11-16T09:30:00.000-05:002004-11-16T09:52:32.206-05:00

Holland, my adoptive land, is in trouble, and I think the trouble there is indicative of a wider problem with Western style democracies. The Dutch are having a difficult time maintaining their famous emphasis on social justice and everyone getting along (samenleving) in the face of a growing and increasingly militant Muslim population. The problem is Holland is complex, so here’s some

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1100537268056363762004-11-15T11:47:00.000-05:002004-11-15T11:47:48.056-05:00

William Gibson posted this on his blog this morning. Not such a bad idea, if we can get them ALL to move.

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1100529475544846842004-11-15T09:37:00.000-05:002004-11-15T09:37:55.543-05:00

So that's where I left it.

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1100279119604003422004-11-12T12:05:00.000-05:002004-11-12T12:05:19.603-05:00

An interesting take on social networking analysis. Here's an excerpt: In the hands of law enforcement officials, social network analysis is like a chainsaw, both useful and dangerous. Saddam Hussein was captured with the aid of link diagrams that revealed his vulnerable connections, not just to the major malefactors in his government but to low-ranking yet highly trusted bodyguards, chauffeurs,

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1100195375339393742004-11-11T12:49:00.000-05:002004-11-11T12:49:35.340-05:00

An excellent article about how big media has utterly failed to report accurately on science related issues. As the article demonstrates, this failure has enormous policy implications.

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1100125336992207462004-11-10T17:22:00.000-05:002004-11-10T17:22:16.993-05:00

pretty much sums up my views at the moment. Keep in mind I grew up down South.

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1100115149744564392004-11-10T14:32:00.000-05:002004-11-10T14:32:29.743-05:00

Example of fact being stranger than fiction #446

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1100114226479473082004-11-10T14:17:00.000-05:002004-11-10T15:09:05.343-05:00

No, of course the Right doesn't want to impose their values on us. They just want to be left in peace to live their lives they way God intends. Which, of course, kind of sucks for the rest of us who have to share this country with these idiots. Their right to express their moral values ends where mine begins. I just wonder what happens when you get a Christian Scientist or a Anthroposophist

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1100025530538428012004-11-09T13:29:00.000-05:002004-11-09T13:38:50.536-05:00

This little gem came up on an othewise legit RSS feed of mine today and was too funny not to post. I give you, the Robospanker 2003! But Wait! You say you don't want your inlaws, friends, family - oh hell, anyone really - to know about your little "hobby?" No problem, the Robospanker 2003 converts to a stylish desk: As Drew Curtis might say, "Still no cure for cancer."

digitalprimatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00983335856386327841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160006.post-1100013057253544152004-11-09T10:10:00.000-05:002004-11-09T10:10:57.253-05:00

"In a free society, where the legitimacy of the government must reside in the consent of the governed, "trust us" is a totally unacceptable response to the citizen's demand for proof of the integrity of his vote. It is doubly unacceptable, when "trust us" is uttered by an employee of a private company, the officers of which have announced their support of a political party and of candidates whose

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