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GACK SOY PRODUCTS Dylan's "Hurricane" plays on the radio here while I start my second cup of coffee, I see the following: There's a guy typing at a fold-up keyboard on a PDA. Freaky, it's practically a laptop. Freakier still: In the very next booth two grrls play chess with the largest pieces I've ever seen in Milwaukee. 8" tall each piece. Or the Queens are maybe 10" even. Wood blocks. Quite a contrast to the guy with the "laptop," eh? _______________________ SCAREY SCAREY SCAREY!!! _______________________ YIKES! dARPA Seems To Have Just Released A Sinister Plan Which I Don't See How Anyone Could Be Proud Of As A "Life's Work. Jasmine Strong writes the following about it at Global IMC. The US defence research agency, DARPA, today announced its strategic long-range plan. It made worrying reading. The DARPA was required to release a long term plan under Senate Report 107-151's accountability program. In clarifying DARPA's mission there was palpable doubt from the management of DARPA over the future of the agency. It points out: "None of the most important weapons transforming warfare in the 20th century -- the airplane, tank, radar, jet engine, helicopter, electronic computer, not even the atomic bomb -- owed its initial development to a doctrinal requirement or request of the military." That's all well and good- excepting that they got the history of the computer wrong- but the disturbing part comes next. DARPA states that it plans to automate the battlefield, developing autonomous 'swarms' of hunter-killer robots, robot tanks and killer drone aircraft. Perhaps this isn't too surprising; many militaries have wanted for quite some time to get their people out of the line of fire and telepresence would seem to be a good way of doing that. This, however, makes it effectively possible to fight a riskless land war, to march robots through the chemical and nuclear wastelands of a first strike. Worse, an autonomous robot army could present similar problems to landmines; how does one track down and deactivate them if they lose communication? More fundamentally, does the US really need to be any better at beating up smaller countries? It seems they're quite good enough at that already. If they can eliminate the last elements of risk on the battlefield then the only thing left to do is to fortify the country against terrorist attack and go on the rampage. What's more, it represents an escalation in telerobotic warfare. In a war between two robot armies, the only people who stand to die are the civilians. The "assured use of space" is the next worrying topic. The five-pronged approach to the problem of other people having satellites includes a new "rapid small-payload launch vehicle", which sounds awfully like a missile capable of reaching synchronous orbit to me. "Space Mission Protection and Denial" is about stopping others from launching things towards orbit and "Space-based Engagement" is vaguely defined as extending the orbital capabilities already available to the military. The militarization of space represents another escalation in military capabilities. The scary stuff doesn't stop there. The second half of the report concerns longer-range research projects intended to prevent the human from becoming the "weakest link" in warfare, the disturbingly-titled "bio-revolution". They define this as "[exploiting] life sciences to make the individual warfighter stronger, more alert, more endurant, and better able to heal". This does not sound at all good. They cite direct neural interfaces to computers and military hardware as an example of this, but that doesn't add up; it seems more likely that their goals would be achieved through genetic modification or advanced pharmaceutical intervention. The military of the future doesn't sound like it would be much fun to be around. http://www.darpa.mil/body/strategic_plan/strategic_text.htm GREAT BUMPERSTICKER IDEA FOR A CAR THAT'S A GUZZLER: ___________________ THIS VEHICLE STOPS AT ALL GAS STATIONS ___________________ CONCEPT OR MEME? YOU DECIDE "Wow. Someone needs to tally up war on drugs, war on terrorism, and war on communism and estimate how many bologna sandwiches could have been given out for free to every world citizen each day for years instead." StarWarsLexicon. You ready for this? Key: C3PO = Opec. r2d2 = adar (short for radar???) So what about yoda? Or Luke Skywalker?? Anagram: lukky dysleky war oea ____________ COMING SOON: WEIL HUMMER ___________ Is there a new building being brought up to sell exclusively Hummers in your town? What timing, eh? Maybe we're just one purchase away from mass oblivion. I feel like I'm in a worst episode from a bad sci fi movie. Let's see if I got this right. If the war on communism seemed to just draw more and more "communists" into this country, and the war on drugs every bit more made drugs rampant all around the nation, I'm absolutely frightened over the side effects of this "war on terror." ____________________________ RESERACH AID: Anyone know this? What kind of kafiya did jews wear centuries ago, and what were they called? ____________________________ IN HOLLYWOLLYOLLY NEWS: Britney Spears denies accusations that she snorted cocaine at a beach nightclub called the Crobar. Her lawyer is going to slap defamation lawsuits onto all 5 or 6 of her accusers including Star magazine and E! I mean how on earth would a grrl like Hitme Britney get any, anyhow??? It's not like coke and heroine and stuff are readily available to actors and recording artists or anything... AND IN MORE ... NEWS: Are you angry about spam? So is AOL. America OnLine is pressing for tougher federal restrictions against sending out all those free offers to "just anyone..." Oh wait... N E W S F L A S H : NYammys Not Nearly As Boring As They Mighta - Film At 11. Hello Simon my old friend, I fin'ly sing with you again. OK, I've got a pot of coffee brewing -- it's time to watch the annual NYammys on TV. It's nice to see Garfunkel and Simon not lip synching. They're singing live AND altering some of the harmonies and even a couple words to their "Sound of Silence." I wonder who you have to pay (and what) to get permit to do THAT. Oh. Yeah. I called this year's caligulaic, bombastic, plastic, orgyastic, annual-post-superbowl-pre-war event NYammys. First I thought of calling it the Dammmys since it's so damned. But it's also so overly NYC this year. So NYammys it is. My friend Jasmine, a recording artist in England says maybe they should call it the Sonys. Common side effects are headache, nausea and abdominal pain. Sheryl Crow's guitar strap read "No war" during her duet with Kid Rock, but her hair diplomatically obscured the "No" portion of her political statement. Really? I never saw it. Maybe they airbrushed it out for my viewing. Or used Claritin. Gone like Ashley Judd's nose-ring. They say she had a peace-sign necklace on too. Maybe her neck-hair obscured that too, or something. So let me ask you. Madison Square Garden. What, was Radio City Music Hall booked?? Dustin Hoffman says for the first time in the NYammys' history it's hosted by no one except the people of New York. Hmmm. You mean they've tried to remove the commercial from the rock? The biz from the muzic? Oh, you mean host host, not sponsor host. I get it. Along with his announcement there was a long period of time without ads OR sponsorship announcements. I really started to think maybe the city itself'd underwritten the event. So Gwen Stefani comes out in a tight sportsbra with the word "LOVE" stamped across it. And the drummer, well, he's got a bra on too. She's got camo shorts. hmmm. And her gogo dancers seem draped in some camo covering on over their shirts too. So THAT's where the expression camisole comes from, it's camo sole. I vote her most likely to do USO tour after USO tour after USO tour. Are they yelling "Lou," or are they booing Lou Reed? Hard to tell. So Dustin's hosting? Or did he just come on early? Either way, how cool is that? Faith Hill, umm. Now, tell me how your band tonite can get construed as "country?" You're like Pat Benatar meets Ozzie Osbourne. Or Kiss maybe, with all the make-up you got on. You're starting to get that Tammy Faye Baker look. Maybe you've been hanging around with the McGraw-Hill Hills too much, or something. Yeah, you can always count on James Taylor not putting on too much makeup. Just the modest amount. Yeah. No offense to YoYoMa, but get bach to the Johann Sebastian Back playing, dude. [sic.] I really enjoy and appreciate your sonatas and allemandes, valses and courantes but that background CallAndResponse stuff's gotta go. First of all, I only heard you about 3 times and that was only for a vibrato'd note or three each time. BB King you're not. And was I asleep, or what? Congrats to Johnny Cash for his 11th career NYammy. I'm not sure what song it's for though, I haven't heard a peep from him all year really. So Jesse Harris wrote Nora Jones' hit eh? I think she's my favorite recipient this year -- the talented AND beautiful Norah Jones. She's proof that good things CAN come from nepotism every once in a blue moon, eh? And one other redeeming thing I must say about her. She chooses to allow the writers of her songs be known. Too many insist that their "supply closet" remain little more than ghost writers hell. Hmmm. I feel a parody coming on. To McCartney and Lennon's "PaperBack Writer." I wanna be, a Beatles ghostwriter. Beatles ghostwriter. Beatles gho... hey baby, hey baby hey. A Beatles ghostwriter. Wait, this just in. Norah Jones won rekkid of the year AND album of the year. I know, lets top this for next year, by adding CD of the year, Compact Disc of the year, recording of the year, AND TimeInTheStudio of the year. "small signs against the impending war," wrote Newsday, "against Iraq throughout the ceremony. Flaming Lips singer Wayne Coyne wore a bandage on his face as a silent protest to the war. 'We're not supposed to talk about it, so I thought I would wear it to get people to think about peace -- no black eyes,' said Coyne, whose band won best rock instrumental performance for a track from its 'Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots' album." "Forget about building a mystery," said Bonnie Raitt, "let's start building some peace." Overall there wasn't very much talk about the war. In fact it all seemed overly subdued and compressed. Limited, enveloped or wahwah peddled maybe. Something tells me if you planned on saying something political you were required to run it through a team of special truth analysts or something. Everyone in the "hip and withit" albeit corporate media is mentioning a thing or two about the Neptunes getting slighted by NARAS this year so I'll leave it at that. Nothing else from me here. So is everyone going to thank Donnie Iner at Columbia or what? First time around I thought it was Don Imus they were thanking. Then it became more clear. But how DO you spell his name? Dixie Chicks got to thank Sony AND Columbia. Kewl. And their dad. So is he Sony or Columbia? Maybe the Oscars and the NYammys can have a corporate merger soon. We could call them the annual GrouchPotatoAwardCeremony. Lemme see if I've got this straight. Survivor is "frikkin genius," and Justin Timberlake would like to grab Kylie's ass. "Cop a feel," and "Girls Gone Wild," goes wrestling. Where are we going with all this besides war, decadence and mass oblivion? NYammys sponsored by dnL. Hahaha. Turn it around and that's 7up. How clever. Now you're thinking. They've turned the cola world on its ear. So did the inside of Avril's sportcoat say "No War?" or what? They refused to let us see it when she opened it up. That was made demonstratively clear by the camera who stopped moving. Not an inch. Filming behind her he was, the whole time. We're censoring truth, can we be more obvious? Mary Youngblood won the Native American category for "Beneath the Raven Moon." The one single solitary NDN music award. So who did she have to compete with, one artist from each different style of music? Or perhaps. Carlos Nakai, Carlos Nakai, Carlos Nakai, Carlos Nakai, and Carlos Nakai... "I hope we're all in agreeance," said Fred Durst, "this war should go away." P Diddy. What was your name again? I think I'll change my name each year, to Marc Diddy, then Muff Eddy, then M. Fuddy. Looks like Target's gonna try and trademark (tm) red (tm). What the hey. Pepsi's already got blue (tm) who wants white? Oh yeah, that's Cheney and Ashcroft already. I think I'll write an ad with a fireman in it. That'll get me an Emmy for sure! Like a knife in warm butter. Can you say pander? Can you say jingoistic? Star Search is back. Run To The Hills!!! Number of the beast! So which mafia don will host these ones? Robin Williams intros Bruce Stringbean and the D Fleet Canned. Hmm, do you think Robin stopped snorting coke about the same time George W Bush did? Though it's nice to see Little Steven in EStreet again. He's been sorely missed out there thinking he's TVLandia all that. Am I imagining it or the older Bruce gets the more he looks like Mojo Nixon? Well, I should tell ya, someone needs to get ol' "Stevie V" a mic of his own. He keeps trying to borrow everyone elses'. Ah cool. Erika Badu came out in a Dead Prez t-shirt and whoa girl. your fro makes me think of Link in the Mod Squad. Who the heck is Alan Cumming? He looks like Pee Wee Herman. OK, from a songwriter's point of view I must complain with no disrespect intended. Ashanti's tune about dreaming is very empty. Devoid of... well, devoid of everything. She got the operatic pronunciation of "dweems" almost as good as a Stevie Nicks or a Bob Dylan, but come on. Everything else about the song really sucks. It was just so bland. Inspirational my ass. That inspires me to go watch paint dry. Drink some geritol or cod liver oil. Or watch the NYammys. "Their sold out one night only TOUR." --Ed Bradley about the Bee Gee(s) - a one-nite tour - is that like a 4th book in a trilogy? NSinc actually made some real melodies into a real medley though, neat. Good work. Makes me think they're getting less hate-able with age. Woah, triple woah. There are at least 4 (count 'em four) grrls in the first two rows who look exactly like Chelsea Clinton. That's downright frightening. "All ahead, as the 45th annual..." [cut off by something much more urgent, right? A frikkin Mastercard "priceless" ad.] I coulda waited, ya know... --marco ps: nope. turns out, Avril's jacket flaps said "rock on." Maybe the censors were just afraid it was going to say "raw on" or nowar backwards. That stiff frozen camera was oh so obvious, wasn't it? Send letters to: ati@etext.org Go to our never-official website at: http://flag.blackened.net/ati/infomaniack.html or http://flag.blackened.net/ati/zine/infomaniack.html Get back issues at: http://www.angelfire.com/wi/kokopeli/cygnus.html And sign up for the once a week publication at our listserver. We'll let YOU FIND THAT ONE on your own. BUCK THE CORPORATE MEDIA!