Computer Security Awareness Video Contest Winners Several really excellent free videos on Cyber Security sponsored by the Educase/Internet2 Computer and Network Security Task Force

Arabs take over at 6 US Ports Bush helps incubate another 9/11: WASHINGTON — A company in the United Arab Emirates is poised to take over significant operations at six American ports as part of a corporate sale, leaving a country with ties to the Sept. 11 hijackers with influence over a maritime industry considered vulnerable to terrorism. more inside

Pupils Being Given 'Patriotism' Tests in Washington State Schools Wow. There's nothing Naziesque about this. "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" --Oz.

Court: feds don't need probable cause to track your physical location via cell grid Apparently we also need to be tracked as well...

Play 20 Questions with an AI Think of an object and the AI will try to figure out what you are thinking by asking simple questions. The object you think of should be something that most people would know about, but, not a specific person, place or thing.

My Favorite British Group Zero 7 Live Recordings from first US tour. Impressive live studio recordings, hot blond included!

X Marks The Asshat with a Circle and A Dot CNN Subliminal Programming Tells it like it is.

Profanity Kills if you're a Mormon! Gee Elizabeth Smart comes to mind. Is it me or is a pattern developing here?

Senator Rick Santorum's Generous Contribution to the English Language This is "Santorum"

Bush Forcefully Attacks! Hopefully with better results than his IRAQ ATTACK. Antother Typical Dry Alcoholic Simian Display of Pique!!

Why Democracy is Wrong. Democracy does not deserve the semi-sacred status accorded to it. In Europe, democratically elected politicians such as Jörg Haider, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Silvio Berlusconi, Umberto Bossi, Gianfranco Fini and Pim Fortuyn are a reminder of democracy's defects: an anti-racist dictatorship is preferable to a racist democracy. Democracy is expanding globally, but not because of its moral superiority. Military intervention is now the standard origin of democratic political systems. Any universal ideology will tend to crusades and messianic conquest, and democracies feel entitled to 'bring freedom' to other countries. Below, more on the ethical problems, definitions of democracy, the issue of inequality, the defects of democratic culture, the nation as the 'demos', the claimed justifications for democracy, and alternatives to democracy.

Bush Declares: 'We Do Not Torture' "We do not torture!" But we need an exemption for the CIA.--> Over White House opposition, the Senate has passed legislation banning torture. With Vice President Dick Cheney as the point man, the administration is seeking an exemption for the

Teflon has worn off the Moron For the first time in his presidency, a majority of Americans questioned President George W. Bush's personal integrity as his approval ratings on key issues fell to new lows in an ABC News/Washington Post Poll published on Thursday

Just what I always wanted! They must have a more advanced version for use on GW Bush, but it's sure nifty just the same!!

Democracy Arrives in Afghanistan! Basically, these bodies were decomposing, and needed to be buried or burned. So, in order to elicit attacks from the Taliban, the soldiers burned the bodies because they can't find the Taliban otherwise.

The Aberree was a 'zine, or newletter, published from 1954 through 1965. The Aberree shows that convention and uniformity weren't the whole story of the 50s, by a long shot. It also shows that Scientology, which has grown famous for its attempts to silence dissent and criticism, was trying to squelch debate 50 years ago ... with similarly ineffective tactics.

Meet Cage and Alice!! Testing the effects of habitual cocaine use on animals is NOT SAFE! Someone knows a little to much about habitual massive cocaine use. I wonder why they gave the hamsters opium instead? This is an extremely silly silly cartoon, that gets progressively worse each episode, until the mind altering and bending climax in Episode 5.