* glenn greenwald reiterates a point that i made earlier today:
"The cause of this irrationality, this inability to view the terrorism threat with any perspective, is not a mystery. Terrorists like Al Qaeda deliberately stage attacks which are designed to instill fear in the population far beyond what is warranted by the actual threat-level posed by the terrorists. That's the defining tactic and objective of terrorists. Fortunately for the terrorists, in the United States, Al Qaeda has a powerful ally in this goal: the Bush Administration, which for four years has, along with Al Qeada, worked ceaselessly to instill in Americans an overarching and excessive fear of terrorism."* i havent done a 'highlights from the server logs" for a while - this one from "iraq.centcom.mil "
who googled "cindy sheehan evil" - thankyou rush limbaugh. does that make anyone feel safer?
* i cant remember how many times i've pointed out that repugs are more scared of impeachment than is warranted by the apparent democrat silence on this issue - they usually push limbaugh and his ilk to pre-emptively dismiss the idea. here's another example from the National Journal:
"Expanding on the Conyers gambit, Paul Weyrich, a veteran conservative leader and the chairman of the Free Congress Foundation, went even further. "If you have a [Democratic] takeover in the House, Bush will be impeached," Weyrich bluntly predicted in an interview.* i've been meaning to inject a little non-political discourse into this blog - and i've failed dismally. here's a story tho - i used to be a raver of sorts - in a different decade - and a tech-freak. there's an australian version of lollapalooza called The Big Day Out - they always get an incredible line-up and i've been on many an occasion. to be clear - its a big multi-stage summer music festival. i'm only guessing - but i guess they have something like 80 performers in ten different venues. yesterday was the melbourne edition - and i heard something i've never heard of before - The Silent Room. apparently, what happens is that they have a shed with two different DJ's playing simultaneuosly - and it's silent. no speakers. how's that? when you walk into the shed, you are given a pair of wifi headphones with two settings - one for each DJ. so everyone is dancing, as normal, but there's no ambient sound. how cool is that?
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Haha, funny to see it here. Dj NO aka. Nico Okkerse? Say hi to him from Rotterdam...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2090-1934929,00.html
http://www.433fm.com/frameset.php?taal=1
thats him!
fascinating project. have you been to a gig?
No, but I know him, sort of. So I knew about the project before it became a real success. It took a few years to really catch on.
cool.
it's a fascinating concept - because one element that i love about dance parties is the communality/tribalness of a bunch of people collectively dancing to the same beat (individually and/or collectively)
i read a couple of articles which seem to suggest that what happens in practice is that groups of friends all tune into the same channel and dance together - which kinda makes sense. in fact, i imagine that the dancefloor would basically (eventually, unconsciously ) split in two - where the people dancing to channel 'A' gravitate toward each other, and the same for the second channel. people dancing 'together' to different beats is probably more likely to look (and feel) like an epilepsy convention more than anything!
maybe i'm wrong and perhaps it's no different to being at a dance party where people are on all different types of drugs and therefore 'hear' the music differently, and therefore dance differently. in that situation, for example, its not unusual for a stoner to be dancing next to a speedfreak etc - even though they are on different wavelengths.
Hey Nico,
Wonderful to see you on the web with the silent disco.
Big Hug. Best of memories — back in Rott' playing music together. ThnX.
Fred
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