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  Hackers and Football

  05.02.12 | Permalink | Comment?

  + George Hotz and the Hacker Wars The New Yorker did a lengthy profile on George Hotz - the young man responsible for the first iphone jailbreak and the first Playstation 3 hack – and how a lawsuit brought against him by Sony was the catalyst for the hacker wars. After Hotz uploaded a video of his [...]

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  Fringe Science

  02.15.12 | Permalink | Comment?

  + Ian Stevenson spent the majority of his working life researching the validity of reincarnation. Stevenson traveled extensively to conduct field research into reincarnation and investigated cases in Africa, Alaska, Europe, India and both North and South America, logging around 55,000 miles a year between 1966 and 1971.[3] He reported that the children he studied usually started to [...]

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  R. Budd Dwyer’s Public Suicide

  01.24.12 | Permalink | Comment?

  Robert Budd Dwyer (November 21, 1939 – January 22, 1987) was an American politician in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He served from 1971 to 1981 as a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate representing the state’s 50th district. He served as the 30th Treasurer of Pennsylvania from 1981 to 1987. In the early 1980s, Pennsylvania [...]

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  Punk Reunions/Comedian Interview/Tours

  01.12.12 | Permalink | Comment?

  + Refused/At the Drive-in Reunion Two of my favorite bands, At the Drive-in and Refused, are reuniting to play Coachella.  Hopefully both of them will tour because I don’t want to fly to California – or pay for Coachella tickets – to see them.  I go back and forth on how I feel about these [...]

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  In the Studio

  08.07.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  Hey!  We just repressed our split with the Saddest Landscape.  We’re recording a new record right now, as in I’m sitting in the studio listening to Zac record bass parts, which will be called The Lack Long After.  We plan on touring a bunch behind it so if you read this blog come up to [...]

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  Two Articles

  12.15.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  Two articles of interest today from The New Yorker: + No Secrets: Julian Assange’s mission for total transparency Raffi Khatchadourian’s article focuses on Julian Assange and the wikileaks team in the days leading up to the release of Collateral Murder – “a thirty-eight-minute video taken from the cockpit of an Apache military helicopter in Iraq [...]

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  Heathers, Skrilla & Grunge-pop

  11.26.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  Ate an ungodly amount of food last night.  Got off work early this afternoon.  Today is pay day.  Went to the store to restock my apartment with food and also buy ingredients for a buffalo wing lunch.  double shot of espresso.  Arrive home and find my Have Heart final show vinyl waiting on my doorstep. [...]

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  Two Years in Prison – A First Person Account

  09.07.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  A guy who served two years in prison for armed robbery revisits his old message board stomping grounds and answers random questions.  His answers are fascinating Ugh, Digging a hole: I saw 12 deaths inside. Three of them were at the hands of screws. One of those was a gunshot to the head while a guy was [...]

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  Mass hysteria vs. Candy Corp

  08.25.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  Although the Glico Morinaga Case involves a kidnapping, some extortion, a bit of (humorous/not intended to hurt people) poisoning and lots of mass hysteria – which are all less-than-morally-righteous things to do – the case stands as an example of the influence that a single person (or a small group) can have on a large [...]

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  Hugh Glass

  08.22.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  This is my favorite wikipedia entry ever :::  Hugh Glass Cliffs:  An american fur trapper stumbles upon a mother grizzly bear and her two cubs, is attacked but manages to kill the grizzly with a knife.  His companions leave him for dead.  When he regains consciousness he’s badly injured, alone in the middle of enemy Indian territory [...]