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Nov 30, 2009

Digest for November 30th

— lifestream @ 6:15 pm Perm Link Cosmos
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Published Digest for November 29th.

Nov 29, 2009

Digest for November 29th

— lifestream @ 6:17 pm Perm Link Cosmos
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Published Digest for November 28th.

Nov 28, 2009

Digest for November 28th

— lifestream @ 6:16 pm Perm Link Cosmos
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	Mary Kadderly will be in the @KMHD_Jazz_Radio studio at 1:45pm and I think they said she’d be performing her Festé songs from Twelfth Night. [jgbell]
	Shared CHIRP.
	Shared Patrick Stewart: the legacy of domestic violence \| Society \| The Guardian.
	Published Digest for November 27th.
	It occurred to me that zombies, unbridled consumerism, are a post-industrial double of the pre-modern werewolf, unbridled animal passions. [jgbell]
	Shared ‘Meep’ Banned From Local School – Boston News Story – WCVB Boston.

Nov 27, 2009

Digest for November 27th

— lifestream @ 6:17 pm Perm Link Cosmos
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Published Digest for November 26th.

Nov 26, 2009

Digest for November 26th

— lifestream @ 6:15 pm Perm Link Cosmos
Filed under: Digest

	"The thing about time is that time isn’t really real. It’s all your point of view … Try not to try too hard. It’s just a lovely ride." [jgbell]
	"The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time." [jgbell]
	RT @xenijardin: <sigh>. RT @somebadideas: younger people I know or work with don’t even know what PGP is. To them privacy is being … [jgbell]
	Shared Simple Ruby script to convert any website to Music – AlphaCore.
	Shared CIA’s Lost Magic Manual Resurfaces \| Danger Room \| Wired.com.
	Listening to a The Mr. T Experience station via Pandora on my Roku … http://tinyurl.com/yfpzk76 (A recommended OST for #kingdork reading.) [jgbell]
	RT @FakeAPStylebook: "Stove-top stuffing" is highly dangerous and causes 40% of all ass burns treated in emergency rooms during the year. [jgbell]
	RT @R_A_W: Eric C. Anderson: Beijing Quietly Signaling Intent to Flee U.S. Debt http://bit.ly/6z7NAM [jgbell]
	RT @MagicalBuffet: In honor of Thanksgiving, The Magical Buffet proudly presents, "A Turkey Named Brotherhood"! http://tinyurl.com/yjehn … [jgbell]
	RT @FakeAPStylebook: Your Thanksgiving edition should have a front-page story assuring people that someone else is feeding the homeless. [jgbell]
	When I like a track in a Pandora station the scope is just that station right? Not a universal like or didn’t across stations? [jgbell]
	Shared Chronic Youth.
	Shared Boyd Rice.
	Shared The Vessel Of God – An Introduction To The Grail Research & Esoteric Writings of Boyd Rice.
	"It was like a weird pajama party … I wouldn’t be standing, you know, in high heels for a bunch of strangers unless I was getting paid." [jgbell]
	@FakeAPStylebook You are totally on a roll today! [jgbell]
	@tinotchka The last 4 from @FakeAPAStylebook have been hilarious! [jgbell]
	RT @FakeAPStylebook: Do not call it "saying grace." Instead call it "offering gratitude to the Immortal One True God of Christianity an … [jgbell]
	RT @FakeAPStylebook: FOOD WRITERS: Do not mention your mom’s stuffing. That was between us and her. [jgbell]
	"… we wanted to have an alternative … that offered citizens the options of being something other than a consumer or an employee." [jgbell]
	Published Digest for November 25th.
	Shared Pumpkin Pie Spices, or How to Roll Your Own \| blackhoundblue.
	Shared Technology, Books and Other Neat Stuff – The city that science fiction forgot.
	Shared Strange Horizons Columns: Becoming New: Young Adult SFF and the Adolescent Body, by Karen Healey.
	"We already have enough lunatics in this ramen shop. We don’t need another." [jgbell]
	@newseasons Thanks for posting that info, and have a great day! [jgbell]
	Shared Thanksgiving Maskers – Boing Boing.
	Oh, a little slice of Wednesday for this particular Thursday: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptLD0kCoHG4 [jgbell]
	"Thanks for the last and greatest betrayal of the last and greatest of human dreams." http://tinyurl.com/yfdy7j4 [jgbell]
	"the Pilgrims continued to rob graves for years" http://www.powells.com/biblio/2-9780684818863-9 [jgbell]
	RT @warrenellis: Here in Britain, of course, it’s Thank Fuck We Got Those Weird Jesus Bastards On The Boat Day [jgbell]

Nov 25, 2009

drop

— John Bell @ 6:43 pm Perm Link Cosmos
Filed under: Notebook, Poetry

with the last drop of the one I bought
i realize i shouldn’t have stopped
need at least a half dozen to drink
to make this thinking stop
i’d ask if she feels broken like i do
but i feel so broken i’m afraid to

Digest for November 25th

— lifestream @ 6:15 pm Perm Link Cosmos
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	Published Digest for November 24th.
	@plutopsyche Isn’t that some special corollary to Rule 34? [jgbell]
	@plutopsyche May this will help: http://tinyurl.com/ykwpuvh [jgbell]
	Shared nthposition online magazine: The Air Loom Gang: James Tilly Matthews and his visionary madness.
	Shared YALSA » Twilight and Abusive Relationships.
	Shared Captain’s Log – what do you see in him again?.
	"What use has the world for a king without a kingdom?" "It needs him." [jgbell]

Nov 24, 2009

Digest for November 24th

— lifestream @ 6:15 pm Perm Link Cosmos
Filed under: Digest

	Finished #kingdork by @frankportman last night. Both different and familiar. Mirror, mirror Partridge Family to #andromedaklein Scooby-Doo. [jgbell]
	OH in the jury room: "I’m a different kind of elitist snob." [jgbell]
	RT @FakeAPStylebook: Refer to new media as "new new media," but only if you like like it and are prepared to go steady with it. [jgbell]
	@davegray Now, you’ve got a thing with that one! [jgbell]
	Shared USC professor creates an entire alien language for ‘Avatar’ \| Hero Complex \| Los Angeles Times.
	Shared Betwa Sharma: Forbidden Rituals At The Hajj.
	All cases have been held over to the afternoon, so I’m already free for lunch and don’t have to be back until 1:30 … [jgbell]
	Well, that’s done. I’m a real Citizen now, I guess. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_5UZfwX0ss [jgbell]
	Published Digest for November 23rd.
	Only 3 jury panels called, though some were asked to stay just in case one case needed extra; but, I was released without being called once. [jgbell]
	RT @kmangalam: "Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others." Oscar Wilde [jgbell]
	@hrheingold All things download automatically. It sounds like you mean you want an inline viewer not a helper app. [jgbell]
	@hrheingold Don’t know off-hand about Windows or Linux, but there’s http://code.google.com/p/firefox-mac-pdf/ [jgbell]
	"When did the floodgates open?" "When the water got here." [jgbell]
	Shared Scott Mendelson: Bella is a indeed lousy role model, but do we only care because she’s a girl? Five terrible male role models in guy-centric blockbusters..
	Maybe back off a bit from lambasting Bella until there’s less gender hypocrisy about role models, says http://bit.ly/6m0GKk [jgbell]

Nov 23, 2009

insight

— John Bell @ 6:35 pm Perm Link Cosmos
Filed under: Notebook, Poetry

are you broken
waiting in the dark
hoping for insight
into the nature
of shadow and light
giving up the day
living for the night
taking the time
to tick tock away
another chance
for success?

Digest for November 23rd

— lifestream @ 6:15 pm Perm Link Cosmos
Filed under: Digest

	Shared Aaron Cohen – the slave hunter \| World news \| The Observer.
	It’s really annoying when I forget who I am. Or, fun. Depending on the circumstances. [jgbell]
	RT @lilithsaintcrow @RichelleMead: Cats for gold! Finally, a real use for all that old jewelry. http://www.catsforgold.com/ [jgbell]
	RT @chrisbrogan: Have you ever felt the stirring need for a revolution? http://bit.ly/8BirEu [jgbell]
	RT @dailydish: The Neuroscience Of Reading: Stanislas Dehaene, chair of Experimental Cognitive Psychology at the Collège de Franc… htt … [jgbell]
	Published Digest for November 22nd.
	"You can’t be what you were So you better start being Just what you are" [jgbell]
	"You’ve got your eyes looking for something That can never be found – like a reason Good god I don’t need a reason" [jgbell]
	It’s Fugazi time on the home front, apparently. [jgbell]
	"And now I feel like I’m Under your skin Like I’m over your eyes I’m at the tip of your finger" [jgbell]
	"We speak the way we breathe Present air will have to do Rearrange and see us through Stupid fucking words Tangle us in our desires" [jgbell]
	@CaseyContrarian I just watched "Let the right one in" the other day myself. Really striking and original. [jgbell]
	My cry tape in ‘91 was quite simply one side Fugazi’s 13 Songs and the other side Sadhappy’s Spin Cycle and Sideways Laughing on auto-flip. [jgbell]
	Shared DP: Welcome.
	Shared King Dork .
	Shared Classical Drug Use: Greek and Roman Drug Freedom : Narco Polo.
	Shared Narco Polo.
	Oh, right. This is what getting up too early feels like. I’d sort of forgotten. [jgbell]
	That little 20 year old pocket knife on my keychain … I always forget. Nice security professional reminded me. Will it still be where hid? [jgbell]
	Suppose I should also change the definitely NSFW desktop on my laptop too … [jgbell]
	Time to check in! Hi ho, hi ho, it’s off to line up for jury duty I go … [jgbell]
	@CaseyContrarian Oh. I missed that it was also a book. I’ll totally check that out! [jgbell]
	The 5 laptop stations are almost insultingly scarce compared to the number of seats in this room. [jgbell]
	But, there’s a nice, tiny branch of the Multnoma County Library in the room … [jgbell]
	I liked the point about jury duty being a direct role in government during orientation. [jgbell]
	The point of asking "After all, how often does government ask your opinion and actually listen?" was amusing to hear on a couple levels. [jgbell]
	No chance to be on a grand jury, unfortunately. That was selected last week, apparently. [jgbell]
	Well, @hermeticlibrary caught up to me on twitter followers today, after long since completely pwning me on facebook. [jgbell]
	Although, I’ll probably lose a few, as I seem wont to do, with all my tweets today. [jgbell]
	First group of jurors called, but I wasn’t one. Technically, I’m a juror already, just not on a jury. [jgbell]
	Shared Lovecraft, baby! Horror in music is still as easy as H.P..
	RT @HowardLovecraft: BayGuardian on my influence on music: http://bit.ly/4ncukY They do not mention a personal favorite: http://bit.ly/1 … [jgbell]

Nov 22, 2009

Digest for November 22nd

— lifestream @ 6:15 pm Perm Link Cosmos
Filed under: Digest

	Shared Just Bite Her Already.
	"Oh, but you’ll take your fall like a tightrope walker, but you’ll never hit the ground. No, no. You’ll be dancing on nothin’" [jgbell]
	"Oh well, now you’re the Saint of the Sinners, boy. So won’t you buy us all another round? Oh buy us all another round, Saint Judas" [jgbell]
	Listening to Mark Growden interview on @KMHD_Jazz_Radio … http://www.last.fm/music/Mark+Growden [jgbell]
	RT @plutopsyche: http://twitpic.com/qfflr – Best friend Jo performs Omnikrom’s Danse la Poutine. squich squich [jgbell]
	Published Mark Growden at Mississippi on Nov 22nd at 8pm.
	Published Digest for November 21st.

Nov 21, 2009

Digest for November 21st

— lifestream @ 6:16 pm Perm Link Cosmos
Filed under: Digest

	RT @davegray: Digital Habitats: stewarding technology for communities » Tech Stewards as ethnographers http://post.ly/D58t [jgbell]
	@avandonsel Word. But, really, it seems to me to be a permanent revolution, always has been and will always be ongoing. [jgbell]
	"I know why the caged bird sings, Nance. It hurts. The bird hurts." [jgbell]
	@avandonsel Actually, I realize now I had none of her books in my queue either, and have just rectified that. [jgbell]
	@davegray Email, notes, essays, sketches, diagrams, graphics, opaque trails of influence, lots of communication ephemera in my #work-wake [jgbell]
	@avandonsel Betraying Spinoza, Incompleteness and 36 Reasons got added. [jgbell]
	Published Digest for November 20th.
	RT @chrispirillo: Eating Indian food is a "naan event." [jgbell]
	Liked Black Powder.
	Listening to Motor tracks http://www.last.fm/music/Motor/_/Black+Powder and now http://www.last.fm/music/Motor/_/Punkture [jgbell]
	Time to win the lottery: http://www.realtimelords.com/checkout.doctors.coat.html [jgbell]

Mark Growden at Mississippi on Nov 22nd at 8pm

— John Bell @ 5:05 pm Perm Link Cosmos
Filed under: Events, Music, Portland

Mark Growden will be at Mississippi Studios on Sun, Nov 22nd at 8pm with 3 Leg Torso.

Mark Growden – Saint Judas

Nov 20, 2009

Digest for November 20th

— lifestream @ 6:16 pm Perm Link Cosmos
Filed under: Digest

	Shared Goethean Science Site.
	"On the other hand, you can’t just leave an unsolved code kicking around in your life." [jgbell]
	Published Digest for November 19th.
	Shared The Evolution of the God Gene – NYTimes.com.
	Shared Joseph Smith: America’s Hermetic Prophet.
	Shared The Secret Sun: AstroGnostic: Trapped Here on this Alien World.

Nov 19, 2009

Digest for November 19th

— lifestream @ 6:17 pm Perm Link Cosmos
Filed under: Digest

	Published Digest for November 18th.
	Quick public service announcement for my peeps north of 40º: time to stock up on batteries, candles, less perishable food and so on. [jgbell]
	"Every good woman I find robs me. But at least I got to do it with them. Things have gone downhill. Now they rob you before." [jgbell]

Nov 18, 2009

Digest for November 18th

— lifestream @ 6:15 pm Perm Link Cosmos
Filed under: Digest

	"Life is a strange, fast trip. I’m just glad we all have seats." [jgbell]
	Published Digest for November 17th.
	"At first they think that you’re one of them. But … they realize that you’re not. You’re always … one of the others. You’re like us." [jgbell]

Nov 17, 2009

Digest for November 17th

— lifestream @ 6:16 pm Perm Link Cosmos
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Published Digest for November 16th.

Nov 16, 2009

Digest for November 16th

— lifestream @ 6:19 pm Perm Link Cosmos
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	Shared Librophiliac Love Letter: A Compendium of Beautiful Libraries \| Curious Expeditions.
	Shared http://curiousexpeditions.org/.
	Shared Tomb of Illumination Folio.
	Published Digest for November 15th.
	Shared Never-before-seen ‘Star Trek’ pilot found – The Live Feed \| THR.
	Shared Mandelbulb: The Unravelling of the Real 3D Mandelbrot Fractal.

Nov 15, 2009

Digest for November 15th

— lifestream @ 6:24 pm Perm Link Cosmos
Filed under: Digest

	Shared Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric.
	Shared Split Definitive: A Review of Slavoj Žižek’s The Parallax View « Generation Bubble.
	Shared Generation Bubble.
	Shared FT.com / Weekend Columnists / Harry Eyres – Does science need religion?.
	Liked Oli Lemieux training trampoline wall Dralion Cirque du Soleil.
	"Suffering is easy. Putting on a happy face while everything around you is curdling into chaos – that takes real skill." [jgbell]
	@thebkwyrm If you’ve access to them on DVD, check out Davinci’s Inquest. Amazingly good procedural. [jgbell]
	Published Digest for November 14th.
	@thebkwyrm Ah, cool beans. I love that show too. It’s super fantastic! And, moreover, the soundtrack. [jgbell]

Nov 14, 2009

Digest for November 14th

— lifestream @ 6:17 pm Perm Link Cosmos
Filed under: Digest

	"… many still seek me out; a green jewel they must possess. But see how I destroy their lives." [jgbell]
	Shared Philip Gallo at The Hermetic Press.
	Shared 7 More Alan Moore Comics That Could Get Librarians Fired \| Underwire \| Wired.com.
	Shared Student Press Law Center.
	Hail! Hail! Hurrah! [jgbell]
	Oh. Well. So much for that, then. [jgbell]
	Ok! Ok! You win. I’m on my way! @HomegrownSmoker last two days for winter Yo! Today and Saturday 12~5. All items 6bucks and up get 1buck off [jgbell]
	Published Digest for November 13th.
	I travelled far from the land of twitter to taste the vittles at @HomegrownSmoker and pronounce them good! [jgbell]
	Shared Bearskinrug, The Homepage.
	Shared Wildcat General Strike \| Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters.
	Buy Nothing Wildcat General Strike Nov 27/28th http://bit.ly/2a3p9N [jgbell]

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