BevNET.com: The Beverage Network “…the most extensive guide to new age beverages and much more!”

“Don’t link to hate sites!” David Goldberg’s Hatewatch catalogues websites of bigots. Film critic Roger Ebert takes him to task. “If I were somebody looking for hate on the Web, this would be a good place to start.” Does Ebert really think these people need help hating??

“It’s an unholy mix of encryption, anonymity, and digital cash to bring about the ultimate

annihilation of all forms of government. The system, which Jim Bell spent years talking up online,

uses digital cash and anonymity to predict and confirm assassinations.” Assassination Politics:

“Before … Bell went to prison, he suspected that most government officials were corrupt. Three years

behind bars later, the self-proclaimed Internet anarchist is sure of it.

After Bell, a cypherpunk who the United States government dubbed a techno-terrorist, is released Friday at

10 a.m. PDT, he plans to exact revenge on the system that imprisoned him.” [Wired]

The loggerhead at Metascene writes of “Ten Signs That I Am Becoming Everything I Once Despised”. By my count, my current score is 5 out of 10, but they’re not necessarily anything I “once despised”…

Latest installation of my Annals of Depravity: Miami Herald: Two Broward students arrested in murder plot: “The two girls arrived at Silver Lakes Middle School with a plot to murder their

rivals, carrying “kill kits” to make good on their plan.

According to police, the seventh-grade students planned to lure three of their

female classmates behind the school’s portable trailers on Monday, flog them on

their heads with a bag full of batteries, then slash their throats with an assortment

of knives.”

Recreational self-analysis.

Afterlife Codes Project: “The history and scientific foundation of the Susy Smith Project is described in Schwartz and Russek (1997c).

Briefly, one way to test the SOC hypothesis is to determine whether a key phrase known only to a person in

life (termed the sender) can be communicated after the sender has died (Berger, 1984). To ensure that the

key phrase is not inadvertently communicted by someone (such as a research assistant) who is living after the

sender dies, the key phrase is encoded by various coding systems and the correct key phrase is required to

decode the encoded information.”

Another Superficial Piece About 176 Beatnik Books

What Beat is. What Beat isn’t. Who it is and isn’t. Stuff like that.

By Richard Meltzer