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Looks like the upper hand is on the other foot, Saddam!

Listening to NPR this morning and I heard this funny shiznit about “Luxury Camping.” Check it out:

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Herein lies a pretty weighty collection of essays, all of them pro-pot, but each unique in its insight. It’s kind of staggering to see them all set down in this one place, since as Bill Hicks points out, we’re so used to the usual tripe served up by the man (Eat acid, go crazy, jump out window). But how about a positive story about drugs?

“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy compressed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream and we’re the imagination of ourselves. Here’s Tom with the weather…”
-Bill Hicks

Ha ha… But anyway, here’s a few I found particularly nifty. Post your favorites as comments, if you have any…

• Carl Sagan
• Marijuana and my Fear of Death
• Lady Chatterly Stoned

Hm, MTV news is a bit behind the times (Jul. 17) with this story (Sep. 20) (in spite of their claim that, “You hear it first!”) but since they’re in charge of deciding what’s new and popular, then they’ll probably end up looking like some damn good journalists when these girls make it big in America. Damn, I wish I owned a media conglomerate; things would be so much cooler =) But anyway, Russian lesbian teen-pop… Huzzah!!

No link today, just some free ideas that anybody can use but nobody will. Peer to peer filesharing networks, wireless data transfer, portable data storage. All the pieces are in place for information (music, I was thinking, but media/data in general, i suppose…) to reproduce itself, virally, sans user interference. It (information) should _do this!!_ If I’m walking down the street with my Nomad MP3 player, and some other guy is chilling nearby with an iPod, these devices should a) see each other b) compare tracklists and c) initiate a bi-directional transfer based on similarities encountered in the tracklist analysis! i.e. I’ve got Squarepusher on my player… Mr. iPod has Venetian Snares… Two strangers pass within millimeters of each other… We may never even see each other, but… Plinko! New hyper-drum-n-bass for both of us! Also, I’m sick and tired of trying to sync my music collections from home and work! iPod is all, “Fit your whole audio collection on a single device!” But Funk Dat! Hello… Hello Professor Egghead! Let’s talk about _my_ audio collection. I can hardly contain it to a dang 80GB disk, much less an 20GB iPod! The result of all this? Redundancy and wasted space! The solution? I’m not sure, but how about a big-ass RAID in my car (or briefcase, for the environmentally aware…) since that’s usually somewhere inside wireless networking range, I figure. Finally, let’s get broadband providers to quit scamming people with 1500 KBps download / 128 KBps upload setups already! The internet is not a broadcast medium! This is not television, and I am not a pair of eyeballs. I have a mouth too, and I’m using it to say “Fuck that!” Okay, I feel better now… Back to wanky Flash scripting and funky, funky dub reggae.