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Saturday, February 15, 2003

Scholar Invents Fan To Answer His Critics (washingtonpost.com)
Mary Rosh thinks the world of John R. Lott Jr., the controversial American Enterprise Institute scholar whose book "More Guns, Less Crime" caused such a stir a few years ago.
In postings on Web sites in this country and abroad, Rosh has tirelessly defended Lott against his harshest critics. He is a meticulous researcher, she's repeatedly told those who say otherwise. He's not driven by the ideology of the left or the right. Rosh has even summoned memories of the classes she took from Lott a decade ago to illustrate Lott's probity and academic gifts.
"I have to say that he was the best professor I ever had," Rosh gushed in one Internet posting.
Indeed, Mary Rosh and John Lott agree about nearly everything.
Well they should, because Mary Rosh is John Lott -- or at least that's the pseudonym he's used for three years to defend himself against his critics in online debates, Lott acknowledged this week.
posted at 10:29 PM

Gentle Swastika by ManWoman - Published by Flyfoot Press
Using over 400 rare and unique photos and illustrations, visionary Pop artist ManWoman shows you the playful ways the Swastika was used before World War Two especially in America where it was the homegrown lucky sign of Native people.
posted at 10:03 PM

Friday, February 14, 2003

I found a Hartman Value Profile calculator that was broken. Here is a fixed version which refers
you back to the original site at the end. I can't figure out who wrote the darn thing, so I can't let them know. If you take the other version, you always get a very very low score on the Attitude Index.

posted at 9:01 PM

Wednesday, February 12, 2003

Patriot II Draft Legislation
Excerpts. In each case "this provision" refers to a different provision, I didn't cut and paste them all in order, but they're all in there. I don't know how good this information is, but if this is the real deal, it's more than a little worrisome:

Electronic manufacturers increasingly are producing devices that are capable of performing multiple functions--e.g., cell phones that also can send e-mail like a Blackberry, and that include a calendar like a Palm Pilot. Multiple functions are also illustrated by ordinary home computers, which may, for example, be used to send and receive e-mail messages, to engage in oral communications through an Internet phone service, to store sent and received messages, and to store other information. Current law does not make it clear that the authorization (e.g., under an electronic surveillance order) to monitor one of a device's functions also entails the authority to monitor other functions.
This section accordingly amends 18 U.S.C. § 2518(4) to make it clear that authorization of electronic surveillance with respect to a device, unless otherwise specified, may be relied on to intercept and access communications through any of the device's functions.

This provision would enable the government to obtain credit reports on virtually the same terms that private entities may. Specifically, it would amend § 1681b(a)(1) to allow law enforcement officers to obtain credit reports upon their certification that they will use the information only in connection with their duties to enforce federal law.

This provision would create federal authority, in the Attorney General, to conduct autopsies when necessary or appropriate in the conduct of federal criminal investigations.

This provision would extend the existing administrative-subpoena authorities into investigations involving domestic or international terrorism. It also would prohibit a subpoena recipient from disclosing to any other person (except to a lawyer in order to obtain legal advice) the fact that he has received a subpoena.

This provision would allow the Attorney General to establish databases of DNA records pertaining to the terrorists or suspected terrorists from whom DNA samples or other identification information have been collected.

This provision would modify federal law to clarify that the United States may seek search warrants, pen/trap orders, and ECPA orders, in response to the requests of foreign governments.

This proposal would amend federal law to provide that any person who, during the commission of or the attempt to commit a federal felony, knowingly and willfully uses encryption technology to conceal any incriminating communication or information relating to that felony, be imprisoned for an additional period of not fewer than 5 years.

This section amends section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code to suspend automatically the tax exempt status of any group upon its designation as a "terrorist organization" under the several authorities. It also denies deductions for any donations made to such organizations during the period of suspension.

posted at 11:04 PM

creamedpeas. episode six.
I committed this gravest sin of my lifetime when I was a 5 year-old boy back in Bang Zon District, Bangkok, Thailand. A couple of my neighborhood friends and I unanimously thought shooting and killing house lizards-yes, those tiny little creatures that can be seen not only peacefully living on the ceilings of almost all of the houses in Thailand but also making themselves useful by helping us get rid of all the house bugs and insects--with blow-pipes & homemade darts (made from 2-inch tailor pins tied on the heads with some shredded plastic straw robe) was so exciting and entertaining.
posted at 9:44 PM

Monday, February 10, 2003

creamedpeas. episode eight.
This isn't biology, it's bad renaissance art. It's not important to know how girl parts work. Just be aware that they're beautiful. Like a flower.
posted at 10:22 PM

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