The Mewl

Simone de Beauvoir: Ada Lovelace Day, The Weekend Edition

Yes, I know that Ada Lovelace day was Tuesday, March 24.  I know what I was going to write about, I just didn't have words in me the past few days.  I had known who I was going to choose a while ago.

Simone de Beauvoir

Technology is defined by Webster: a manner of accomplishing a task especially using technical processes, methods, or knowledge.

I am not going to defend my choice.  Simone de Beauvoir accomplished the task of establishing her thought and mind among the crowd of men, which is no easy task.  She stood with Sartre and Algren as peer and contemporary, not as student or associate

So I apologize for not writing this on the day itself.  I think today, March 28, 2009 is a better day to remember her and acknowledge her reach.  I mean, it is Nelson Algren's 100th birthday today, and I would rather write about her. 

Spiro Agnew Speaks Out - Side A

A classic from my parent's collection.  I don't know if it was something one of my parents listened to or if it was just collected and never listened to.  I listened to it.  Yeesh.  Anyways, here it is.  Remember, I was the one who did the Abe - Obama morph in February 2007, thus inspiring Obama's deep respect for Lincoln's legacy.  I am on the political cutting edge.

Abeama and Where Have I Been?

Ok ok ok ok.  I know I have been horribly horribly horribly silent here at The Mewl.  It's just been a crazy winter what with a new relationship and moving on to a new phase in my life.  It's been a fun little ride that keeps on going. 

I'm glad the Superbowl Shuffle got a lot of attention the past few weeks.  Too bad it stopped.  Oh well.

Anyways, I promise more content!  I do I do I do.  Why?  Cuz sping is in the air again!

Enjoy the animation from Old Abe!  Happy Birthday Abie Baby!

Dateline NBC: To Catch A Congressional Predator

Now, I generally don't make this a political blog.  There's quite a bit of that out there and I'd like to create my own little niche, hence you won't find only videos here, or only music.  I try to keep it original.

AT&T Whistle-Blower's Evidence

This entry is a copy of this story of off Wired News.  AT&T is trying to get the Electronic Frontier Foundation to take this out of circulation.

Former AT&T technician Mark Klein is the key witness in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's class-action lawsuit against the company, which alleges that AT&T illegally cooperated in an illegal National Security Agency domestic-surveillance program.

In this recently surfaced statement, Klein details his discovery of an alleged surveillance operation in an AT&T office in San Francisco, and offers his interpretation of company documents that he believes support his case.

For its part, AT&T is asking a federal judge to keep those documents out of court, and to order the EFF to return them to the company. Here Wired News presents Klein's statement in its entirety, along with select pages from the AT&T documents.

More after the jump.

This is not a political blog

but just in case you haven't figured it out yet.  No one is in charge.  Even the Illuminati stopped caring.

May Day

New pics on my Flickr account of the immigration march here in Chicago.  The most peaceful gathering of people I've ever seen.  Anti-war protests need more families at them to give them better cred.

and also go visit Attu Sees All!   Unless you just came from there.  Hello!

Boobs, Baseball, War, Torture

So I was watching the teevee, the news was on.  Sports, and spring training preseason games for the WORLD CHAMPION CHICAGO WHITE SOX!!!

They showed a clip of the homerun.  Past the fence, people were waiting, and I swear one of them was a topless girl.  Top right of the screen.  I'm 95% sure those are tan lines and nipples, and no bikini top.  She also has a slightly embarrased look on her face as she sits down and curls her knees up.

In honor of baseball season on the way and the warm bikini weather to go with it, here goes the clip.

Download the whole mpg here, you perv (28.9 meg .mpg)

And in fine continuation of a theme I present an interview with an old St. John's College classmate, Tony Lagouranis .

When it comes to politics, the media and all that sturff, I don't lecture here.  That doesn't mean I don't have strong strong opinions about things, you will see the bias in what I post.  But interviews as such are manipulative, and this is our local FOX affiliate interviewing him, so take it as you will.  He holds his own well enough for the little traps Suppelsa drops.  That's St. John's for ya.

Youtube knocked the audio a little outta sync. Download the whole clip here (60.3 meg .mpg) I'll get a smaller .mov up later.  I've got concerts to attend to - Neko Case!  Ray Davies!  Beth Orton!

more later!

UK Torture Papers - Craig Murray

I remember a comic book from the early 90's that had a physicist create a super cheap and easy way for space travel.  The gist of it was that somehow it slightly teleported the object by miniscule amounts in space/time.  Do it fast and repeatedly, and you can travel through space fast and repeatedly.  He called it the "Smoots Drive" after the MIT student who's body was used to measure the bridge there.
Of course, in the comic book the govenment he worked for tried to stop him from dissemenating the information for his Smoots Drive.
So before he was murdered, he posted the instructions to make a Smoots Drive on the global computer network.  Like I said this was probably around 1990 when I read this, so it wasn't an internet yet.

On that note, per the request of Craig Murray and following the example of The Daily Kos, I present to you the torture documents that the UK is seeking to suppress, I present them to you after the jump.