“Fight the Real Enemy”: “Now, if I were to go out and take down some Internet sites, I wouldn’t waste my time with Yahoo! That’s for kids … which is what you are, cyberstupids. It’s pointless. There are sites out there that are begging for a large, steaming serving of whupass. If you had any guts, cyberwussies, you would make a new list. And the ten sites below are where I would start.”

Winning entries from the Adbusters Creative Resistance Contest:

“…we challenged people to

create social marketing concepts that best represented their

concerns about the world we live in. Here are some of the

best. The contest generated submissions from over 300 people

around the world: activists, students, graphic designers,

illustrators, photographers, painters, filmmakers, digital

artists, writers and poets. Their entries ranged from spoofs

to caustic commentary and included everything from school

projects to guerrilla protests. All of the submissions were

designs to change the way people think and act.”

Archbishop Desmond Tutu: ‘Our country did not go the way of Nuremberg, to bring the perpetrators

of such crimes to trial…Our country rejected the other extreme of a blanket amnesty, as

happened in General Augusto Pinochet’s Chile….

Our country chose a middle way of individual amnesty for truth. Some

would say, what about justice? And we say retributive justice is not the

only kind of justice. There is also restorative justice, because we believe

in Ubuntu — the essence of being human, that idea that we are all

caught up in a delicate network of interdependence. We say, “A person

is a person through other persons.” I need you in order to be me and

you need me in order to be you.’ [via iBoy]

Honoring a Heretic Whom Vatican ‘Regrets’ Burning. Freethinkers and atheists gathered to honor Giordano Bruno in observance of the four hundredth anniversary of his burning at the stake. Bruno, a Dominican priest whose scientific investigations led him to believe that the universe was infinite and the teachings of the Church irrational, refused to recant to save his life. ‘The pope has marked this Holy Year as a time for the church to

apologize for past errors and excesses, from the Inquisition to the

persecution of Jews. Today, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the Vatican

secretary of state, said the church “regretted” that it had resorted to

violence in Bruno’s case, but pointed out that Bruno’s writing was

“incompatible” with Christian thinking, and that he therefore remains a

heretic.’

A coronal mass ejection is headed for Earth:

“Yesterday, a medium-sized solar flare erupted from a sunspot group near the

middle of the solar disk. It was accompanied by a

coronal mass ejection (CME) that appears to be

headed directly for our planet.

>

There’s no cause for

alarm — CMEs aren’t dangerous to people — but this

one could trigger beautiful aurorae and other

geomagnetic activity when it passes by our planet

around February 20.” [via Abby, thanks]

How High Maintenance Are You?

“Fight the Real Enemy”: “Now, if I were to go out and take down some Internet sites, I wouldn’t waste my time with Yahoo! That’s for kids … which is what you are, cyberstupids. It’s pointless. There are sites out there that are begging for a large, steaming serving of whupass. If you had any guts, cyberwussies, you would make a new list. And the ten sites below are where I would start.”

Winning entries from the Adbusters Creative Resistance Contest:

“…we challenged people to

create social marketing concepts that best represented their

concerns about the world we live in. Here are some of the

best. The contest generated submissions from over 300 people

around the world: activists, students, graphic designers,

illustrators, photographers, painters, filmmakers, digital

artists, writers and poets. Their entries ranged from spoofs

to caustic commentary and included everything from school

projects to guerrilla protests. All of the submissions were

designs to change the way people think and act.”

Archbishop Desmond Tutu: ‘Our country did not go the way of Nuremberg, to bring the perpetrators

of such crimes to trial…Our country rejected the other extreme of a blanket amnesty, as

happened in General Augusto Pinochet’s Chile….

Our country chose a middle way of individual amnesty for truth. Some

would say, what about justice? And we say retributive justice is not the

only kind of justice. There is also restorative justice, because we believe

in Ubuntu — the essence of being human, that idea that we are all

caught up in a delicate network of interdependence. We say, “A person

is a person through other persons.” I need you in order to be me and

you need me in order to be you.’ [via iBoy]

Honoring a Heretic Whom Vatican ‘Regrets’ Burning. Freethinkers and atheists gathered to honor Giordano Bruno in observance of the four hundredth anniversary of his burning at the stake. Bruno, a Dominican priest whose scientific investigations led him to believe that the universe was infinite and the teachings of the Church irrational, refused to recant to save his life. ‘The pope has marked this Holy Year as a time for the church to

apologize for past errors and excesses, from the Inquisition to the

persecution of Jews. Today, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the Vatican

secretary of state, said the church “regretted” that it had resorted to

violence in Bruno’s case, but pointed out that Bruno’s writing was

“incompatible” with Christian thinking, and that he therefore remains a

heretic.’

A coronal mass ejection is headed for Earth:

“Yesterday, a medium-sized solar flare erupted from a sunspot group near the

middle of the solar disk. It was accompanied by a

coronal mass ejection (CME) that appears to be

headed directly for our planet.

>

There’s no cause for

alarm — CMEs aren’t dangerous to people — but this

one could trigger beautiful aurorae and other

geomagnetic activity when it passes by our planet

around February 20.” [via Abby, thanks]

With games like these, who needs life?

England’s in love with alien embryos.

Life is hard for TWA Flight 800 skeptics.

Reality Ain’t What it Used to Be: Robert Anton Wilson ponders thirty-five years’ legacy of Bell’s Theorem.

A World Community of Old Trees: an eco-art project in progress by June Julian.

R.U.Sirius interviews Stephen Gaskin on Al Gore, cannabis, and hypocrisy. I’ve followed Gaskin’s pilgrim’s progress since the ’60’s as one of the enduring honest presences in the counterculture whose actions are on the scale of his words.

Biar Witch Project sequel lost in the woods seeking product promotions.

According to a promotional packet entitled “The

Blair Witch Franchise,” kids will soon be able to play

four different “Blair Witch” PC and PlayStation

games, read “Blair Witch” comic books, collect

“Blair Witch” trading cards, and play with “Blair

Witch” action figures designed by “Spawn” creator

Todd MacFarlane.

The packet also promises “Dozens of New Licensed

Products — Computer Accessories, Jewelry, Apparel,

Leather Goods, Stationery … and many more.”

With games like these, who needs life?

England’s in love with alien embryos.

Life is hard for TWA Flight 800 skeptics.

Reality Ain’t What it Used to Be: Robert Anton Wilson ponders thirty-five years’ legacy of Bell’s Theorem.

A World Community of Old Trees: an eco-art project in progress by June Julian.

R.U.Sirius interviews Stephen Gaskin on Al Gore, cannabis, and hypocrisy. I’ve followed Gaskin’s pilgrim’s progress since the ’60’s as one of the enduring honest presences in the counterculture whose actions are on the scale of his words.

Biar Witch Project sequel lost in the woods seeking product promotions.

According to a promotional packet entitled “The

Blair Witch Franchise,” kids will soon be able to play

four different “Blair Witch” PC and PlayStation

games, read “Blair Witch” comic books, collect

“Blair Witch” trading cards, and play with “Blair

Witch” action figures designed by “Spawn” creator

Todd MacFarlane.

The packet also promises “Dozens of New Licensed

Products — Computer Accessories, Jewelry, Apparel,

Leather Goods, Stationery … and many more.”