Latest newsletter from the Electronic Frontier Foundation
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- Tuesday 29th June 2010
The latest issue of Effector, the EFF newsletter, just hit my incoming mail. If you have even a hint of interest in the civil rights and privacy aspects of our society’s cute little online existence, you might ought to subscribe.
One of the highlights this issue is a new Firefox plug-in that protects privacy by encrypting…
It’s a spoken word thing #1 (Boris Karloff)
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- Friday 25th June 2010
I’m sitting on a real treasury of spoken word recordings in all manner of formats, and I want to bring some of these to a wider audience than just me, sitting alone in the basement and grinning like a fool. Both my cassette players busted from age, and until I get a replacement for them, and until I get the CD’s sorted out and shelved, I’m culling from vinyl, just picking out some…
The April Tour, or “A Wand’ring Minstrel, I” (Download link to the Moscow set)
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- Wednesday 23rd June 2010
So, I was on tour almost all of April. It was supposed to be three weeks – two of them booked by superagent Linus in Switzerland, and one booked by the gents at ChoiceCuts in Dublin. And if it hadn’t been for the golly gosh darned VOLCANO, it would have been smoove as silk. Oh well. Force majeure and like that.
First night in, I played RapHistory night in Basel, with the theme of 1980. Not…
A rare domestic gig
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- Saturday 22nd May 2010
I’m happy to announce I’ll be playing at the RE/mixed media festival 2010, this coming Sunday, May 30. It’s inside the Galapagos Art Space in the Dumbo neighborhood of Brooklyn.
It’s a most-of-the-day affair, with all kinds of rambunctious communicating going on. I’m playing a 45 minute set beginning at 10:15 PM.
I’m laboring away on a set of funky underpinnings, interwoven with spoken…
Aaaaaargh. San Fran show cancelled.
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- Monday 22nd March 2010
I’ve just been informed that the Copyright Criminals screening/party (referred to in the last post) has been cancelled for the nonce, with a possible rescheduling for later in the year.
Stein hits the road March – April
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- Saturday 20th March 2010
It seems like I’m going everywheres.
And where is everywheres?
Glenn Beck cries in satire video
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- Thursday 11th March 2010
The current King Of The Schmucks on Fox News: skewered cleverly in this Onion-worthy…
Pogo; an appreciation
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- Wednesday 17th February 2010
When I was around 7 or 8, my then-Uncle Irwin slipped me a book of animal cartoons called “Pogo.” I read and enjoyed all of it (and understood some of it), and Uncle Irwin kept giving me more books about Pogo, and I discovered that there was a FULL PAGE of it in the Sunday funnies (in color), and luckily, Pogo (and Walt Kelly’s sense of humor and language) became a permanent part of my life, and…
A political post that doesn’t count as ranting and raving because it ends on a sane note
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- Sunday 7th February 2010
A short explanation: when I began blogging, during the second of George W. Bush’s terms as “president,” I wrote because I needed to vent my considerable anger and frustration. My style (a generous term) evolved since I’d noticed something about the various Republican regimes that had ruled since Reagan – they always had a few (or more than few) raving nutcases that they kept around to make the rest of their lunatics seem sane. In Reagan’s cabinet, for instance, there was James Watt, a Secretary Of The Interior who wanted to sell all of the country’s natural resources, privatize the national parks, and cut down all the trees, because “Jesus might be coming any day,” and what was the use of a few birds and squirrels?
