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New photos put up on my Fotopic site

Like any good porn I’m both turned on and disgusted. CNN.com gets the war pr0n going. Taking their rightful place as George Bush’s Goebbels CNN has some rather tasteless toys to play with so their watchers will know exactly how the coalition intends to “liberate” the Iraqis. 3D aircraft models including firing missiles, dropping bombs and exploding marketplaces. And lots of glossy pictures of missiles, bombs and guns, including some tank money shots. My trousers are getting all hot now.

Strangely enough I’m listening to lounge music via MSN’s Music Lounge. Having been isolated to the BBC’s gulag in white city I’ m am condemned to the vagaries of online radio. But quiet surprisingly have found some good playlists on MSN.

I’m moved towards an abject sense of hopelessness by this collection of short stories. They focus around the human races tendancy towards self destruction. Aptly illustrating the pointlessness of the works of man with pointless but emotive stories played out by pointless and desolate characters. Most of them have no real conclusion, if they do then it is bleak and suggestively fatal.

Do not read in the presence of razor blades.

This Guardian Story sums up, with all the supporting legalities, my feelings on the US’s charges against Iraq.

Now I don’t support the Iraqi’s at all and I do believe that a large part of Saddam Hussein’s regime is guilty of all sorts of crimes against his people. However these examples of US hyper-rhetoric pot-calling-the-kettle-black type talk do no help at all. There ar plenty of other crimes to level at Saddam and his cronies without rolling out some petty ones like this. Like the article says the US are just as guilty of the similar crimes and just have a completely dismissive might is right attitude. Everyone of their reasons for keeping their own illegal detainees is covered by the Geneva convention.

What did they expect when they got into this.

The aptly titled Mesh book.

Via a BBC news piece on a pub in Tuffnel Park that has one installed. You can post pictures onto a screen in the bar.

I found number 1 and 3 of the 2manydjs mashups. Both very cool, but number 2 is definitly the bollocks. There is a fair amount of track repitition between the three albums, but they are still kept feeling fresh. Worth laying your hands on if you can. I got mine at Amoeba in LA. Haven’t seen it here in the UK at all.

Haiku’s for all the periodic table. I’m a bit dubious about some of them, but a few ring nicely.

I found these kicking around. More experiments in my HaikuPrime concept. Each line must be a prime number of sylables, and a prime number of lines. Ideally the total number of syllables ought to also be a prime but that is also considerably harder.

/Flesh will slow me
/Digital wont let me down
/Come revolution

/Slow Old Organic
/Lost Upgrade Path
/Non-Extensible
/Proprietary
/Evolution of the Body

/Come to me as code
/I want to upgrade
/Your soul
/Built with me
/Made as new
/Engineered for
/Recursive Generations Together

Giant Sloths.

Just the other day I saw a couple of skeletons of giant ground sloths and harlan’s ground sloth at the La Brea tar pits in LA. I’m also especially fond of the giant sloth skeleton at the natural history museum in London. It reminds me of all those sloth pictures I saw in natural history books while growing up.