#infoAnarchy Chump Archives for 2004, 2005

Texan snowball on eBay
posted by rik at 2005-01-06 20:25

seti: hurry, only 2 days left (on the auction; unknown how many on the snowball itself)

Hitachi to release 1/2 TB drive soon
posted by Zerodhero at 2005-01-06 18:45

Apple sued by user for iTunes DRM
posted by Zerodhero at 2005-01-06 18:40

D to the I to the P to the S to the H to the I to the T to the S
posted by cryptomail at 2005-01-06 17:37

I need some ideas for this site :) (www.blogmeariver.com)
posted by cryptomail at 2005-01-06 17:12

How Nintendo boss silenced Steve Ballmer
posted by nene at 2005-01-06 15:55

seti: they're not cutting any corners in that Wired article in spelling out the exact phrase!

http://hugeurl.com
posted by simmo at 2005-01-06 14:14

simmo: to tangra, with love
simmo: http://www.abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com/

laws which more accurately embody our ideals .. less accurately fit our reality, until we find that we are all breaking all of the laws, all of the time, and the police no longer know their role, in fact no longer *have* a role, only powers, and then we know only one thing, that we have failed utterly
posted by simmo at 2005-01-06 11:12

sexy oriental martial robot
posted by aminorex at 2005-01-06 05:44

simmo: marital?
aminorex: martial. someone sedate me before i blow
simmo: looks just like a plastic pig with marital aids stuck all over it -- Frank Zappa

Get transcripts, realvideo of "The Power of Nightmares" here
posted by aminorex at 2005-01-06 05:23

simmo: before posting this link, aminorex said "Leo Strauss"
simmo: if your browser has trouble with realmedia, grab these with mplayer -dumpstream: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/video1/Nightmare.rm http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/video1/Nightmare_Part_2.rm http://images.indymedia.org/imc/washingtondc/media/application/10/power_nightmares_3.rm
simmo: Start with part 3 - quite funny!
simmo: more source suggestions, perhaps some better quality versions of pt1&2 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/10/299579.html
simmo: donkey links to these avis and more

ABC .au Philip Adams interviews some guy about naziish, US Administration-inspiring philosopher Leo Strauss
posted by simmo at 2005-01-06 05:16

simmo: arundati roy also on this episode
simmo: <aminorex> arundati roy is hot
simmo: the current administration isn't the first to follow these Straussian ideas imho, nor do people need Strauss to figure these ideas out
simmo: I think this stuff used to just be called 'cynicism'
simmo: perhaps sometimes also 'bigotry' and 'arrogance'
aminorex: realpolitik. but it's a clique now, with power, used murderously. hence it has conspiracy cachet.
aminorex: similar cliques created antecedent fascist regimes
simmo: other smartarse intellectualisation from Late Night Live

Holy fuck me senseless
posted by simmo at 2005-01-06 04:05