Usually dolphins were controlled via signals transmitted through a neck harness. 'The question is, were these dolphins made secure before Katrina struck?' said Sheridan.

This is really interesting, but one suspects wildly inaccurate. Dolphins that are trained to shoot people? Really? Even if its true I find it hard to believe that the Navy would have left them armed as the storm approached. They tend to have fairly careful security proceedures.

The Observer | International | Armed and dangerous - Flipper the firing dolphin let loose by Katrina

This started as a response to someone who told me that Atlanta was cool as long as you stay north. Well thats fascist bullshit. Cause all the good bars are south of ponce (sopo). Here's the Jollarian Bar Guide for Lefties in Atlanta:

I highly endorse this bar list. There are a few I'd add, and a few on here I haven't been to. I'd also drop the leftie designation having gotten drunk at the Yacht Club a few weeks ago with a decidedly Republican and his collection of birthday revelers.

Jollarian Bar Guide for Lefties in Atlanta

] Increasingly, though, Russia and the West seem to be
] talking past each other. "I think there could be a new
] cold war," Mr. Markov said, "not a result of competition
] of interests, but because of miscommunication."

We have a President that respects and likes a fascist dictator, and a press that has the balls to refer to the differences between foriegn policies of American and Russian "democracy" as being the result of "miscommunication." Talking past each other!?

A Tug of War Over Ukraine

] If you don't try to hold your breath, exposure to space
] for half a minute or so is unlikely to produce permanent
] injury. Holding your breath is likely to damage your
] lungs, something scuba divers have to watch out for when
] ascending, and you'll have eardrum trouble if your
] Eustachian tubes are badly plugged up, but theory
] predicts -- and animal experiments confirm -- that
] otherwise, exposure to vacuum causes no immediate injury.
] You do not explode. Your blood does not boil. You do not
] freeze. You do not instantly lose consciousness.
]
] Various minor problems (sunburn, possibly "the bends",
] certainly some [mild, reversible, painless] swelling of
] skin and underlying tissue) start after ten seconds or
] so. At some point you lose consciousness from lack of
] oxygen. Injuries accumulate. After perhaps one or two
] minutes, you're dying. The limits are not really known.

Something interesting you'll never need to know.

Human Body in a Vacuum

] As a squad from India Company passes by a way with a
] spray painted rocket propelled grenade launcher -- a real
] RPG round explodes against it. One Marines' face is
] burned by the powder and hot gas -- another has caught
] shrapnel in the leg, a third has been shot in the finger
] by the small arms fire that followed. The Marines are
] outraged. They turn their M-16's on the building to the
] west where they believe the shooter is hiding. But that's
] just an appetizer.

Kevin Sites Blog: Fallujah Street by Street

] Unfortunately, our leaders do not understand the Fourth
] Generation, so it appears we are about to throw this
] opportunity away. We continue to bomb and shell Fallujah,
] which pushes our enemies toward each other. We seem to be
] readying an all-out assault on the city, which will have
] the usual result when Goliath defeats David: a moral
] defeat for Goliath. Many Iraqis will die, the city will
] be wrecked (as always, we will promise to rebuild it but
] not do so), and any losses the insurgents suffer will be
] made up many times over by a flood of new recruits. Never
] was it more truly said that, "We have met the enemy,
] and he is us."

The man who wrote the Marines combat manuals drops the knowledge bomb. Linked from Gibson's blog...

William S. Lind On War Archive

] A global map of nitrogen dioxide in the atmosphere has
] revealed the most precise view yet of pollution hotspots
] around the world.
]
] The map, based on 18 months%u2019 worth of satellite
] data, shows very high levels of NO2 above major European
] and North American cities and across much of north-east
] China. South-east Asia and Africa also have raised
] concentrations of the gas due to their burning of
] vegetation.

Article: World's pollution hotspots revealed from space�| New Scientist

Kimbo Slice is the guy in the white shorts. He is an underground boxer, that will fight anyone, anytime, anyplace, for between $5,000 and $10,000. Backed by a Miami porn site mogul, he has these fights for a living until he goes pro. Which he is looking to do, in UFC or something. So, if you wanna throw down with Kimbo then you'd better hurry up. Otherwise you'll have to assault him or go pro to get a piece.

It has been argued that he was on PCP, or a short acting anabolic agent popular with Mike Tyson, that stimulates extreme aggression. But the guy went to prison for 10 years, and was probably raped before he got that big, so I think he just has an enormous amount of aggression and experience in fighting.

You decide. For me: Kimbo is my hero either way. He is way tough.

kimboslice@hotmail.com if you want to throw down.

Meet Kimbo Slice. Do not anger Kimbo. Kimbo is teh tough.

] This uncontrollable unraveling of reversibility is the
] true victory of terrorism. It is a victory visible in the
] underground and extensive ramifications of the event -
] not only in direct, economic, political, market and
] financial recessions for the whole system, and in the
] moral and psychological regression that follows; but also
] in the regression of the value system, of all the
] ideology of freedom and free movement etc... that the
] Western world is so proud of, and that legitimates in its
] eyes its power over the rest of the world.
]
] Already, the idea of freedom, a new and recent (sic)
] idea, is being erased from everyday lives and
] consciousness, and liberal globalization is being
] realized as its exact reverse: a 'Law and Order'
] globalization, a total control, a policing terror.
] Deregulation ends in maximal constraints and
] restrictions, equal to those in a fundamentalist society.

Baudrillard is perhaps living proof that the opposite of art is politics. I don't find myself standing with him in his world, but I find an honesty in his observations that perhaps those who stand with me are afraid to exhibit. There is an artistic purity to this essay. Like that feeling you get staring at a Rothko, or reading Hakim Bey. He makes a stark observation upon the radicalization that terrorism births, and the inevitable hypocrisy of attempting to secure the world while claiming to stand for freedom.

He also offers a unique cultural answer that I haven't seen yet, but which he feels is impossible in this case. Consumption. Assimilation. As one who strove for years to surf the edge of culture, and one who feels exasperatingly suffocated in recent years as I've found myself sliding back from it, I know the process well, as do many others on this system. Culture consumes; from Sex Pistols to Blink 182... from Nine Inch Nails to Janet Jackson... from the Computer Underground to Hackers: The Movie... There used to be a revolution on Haight street. Now there is a Gap and a Ben and Jerry's. Culture consumes everything... Nothing can escape it... The reason liberal culture is so successful is because it is like the borg. Died haired spiky metal leather jacket fuck you is boiled down and put in church with the rest of the sheep. Only the symbols remain... The style shucked from it's meaning. Again and again and again...

Baudrillard is wrong. We'll do it to fundamentalist Islam too... Those left wing kids that keep flying over there to act as human shields are actually our little cultural ambassadors, much to their chagrin. They are the first wave.

The Spirit of Terrorism -- Jean Baudrillard

] Nokia will make an internal version of the Perl scripting
] language for Series 60 smartphones available to its
] developer community, Lee Epting, Nokia's VP of Developer
] Relations, tells us. Nokia acknowledges a demand for more
] developer options as Nokia's Symbian-based Series 60
] platform reaches mass market volumes.

This qualifies as "rad".

The Register | Nokia to release Perl for smartphones