] Too many damn dogs,%u201D Lucky Chuckie
] says. %u201CMore dogs than we ever had.%u201D A lifetime
] resident of East Atlanta, Chuckie is describing one of
] the changes he has observed as his neighborhood has
] become Atlanta%u2019s trendiest. %u201CWe,%u201D in his
] mind, are the old-timers%u2014mostly African-American
] homeowners who lived through East Atlanta%u2019s
] startling transformation over the past four decades.
] %u201CThey%u201D are the newcomer dog-owners%u2014yuppies
] and families who are changing the neighborhood they now
] share with the old-timers. The %u201Cus%u201D and
] %u201Cthem%u201D language he uses is a sure and subtle
] indicator of the state of East Atlanta: the first stages
] of gentrification.

The Next American City: East Atlanta

] I take a right down North Avenue, and as it is a steep
] hill, I am going about 30mph as I approach the
] intersection of Courtland and North. A car pulls out in
] front of me without seeing me. It is scary. I slam on the
] brakes, and then continue to coast through the
] intersection. The car behind that one decides that he can
] make it, because he does not see me, because he is not
] looking for a bike, and comes within three feet of
] T-boning me before he slams on the brakes.
]
] Two lights up, a winnebago is tailgaiting me about 10
] feet behind me, and honks. I dutifully give him the
] finger over my right shoulder. An Atlanta PD car
] immediately pulls up beside me, and yells not to do that.
] I yell sorry back. I decide that he does not notice the
] "**** the Republican Party" sticker across the front of
] my green army helmet.

Atlanta is the WORST city to bicycle in, in America. All those angry hour long commuters rushing to escape the city to their racially pure suburbs really don't "have time" for a bicycle to share the road with them. Most suburbanites aren't even aware that you have all the legal rights in the street that they do.

I swear to god, after today I'd almost like to pack heat when I go out on my bike... if this wouldn't garuantee that I'd flip out and pop some caps in the tires of offending cars.

If you drive regularly in the city of Atlanta when you do not have to, I just want to extend a warm FUCK YOU. Jello had a bad day.

I'm not gonna ride for distance in the daytime anymore. Its only safe after 8-9pm.

Please nuke my city and every dirty car driving SOB in it.

Joss Stone, George Clinton, and many others are among the acts set to appear at the 11th annual Music Midtown festival. The event will be held April 30 and May 1-2 on a 42-acre site in Atlanta; tickets go on-sale Saturday (March 13) via Ticketmaster.

Oh fuck yeah. Let the P-Funk reign.

Music Midtown

] The Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC)
] Distinguished Lecture Series will host Dr. Martin Hellman
] of Stanford University on Thursday, October 9, 2003 at
] 3:00PM, with a reception at 2:30PM prior to the lecture.

Georgia Institute of Technology :: Event

]The Atlanta FreeNet is improving life in Metro Atlanta via Wi-Fi
]and beyond.

Cool 802.11b community network. Not enough nodes as of yet, but I will definitely be adding one at the corner of Ralph McGill and Courtland when I go back to Atlanta ;)

Atlanta FreeNet - Improving life in Metro Atlanta via Wi-Fi and Beyond

"After the collapse of communism, the KGB was broken up into five separate agencies, but it was not fully disbanded nor was the successor organizations' mode of operation seriously reformed. Now President Vladimir Putin, a former KGB operative, is reassembling the dreaded Soviet secret police.

The president announced that two former KGB agencies, the Federal Border Service and Federal Agency for Government Communications and Information, will be reintegrated with the main KGB successor agency, the FSB."

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Now the FSB regulates elections as well... I think Putin will be president of the RF for life (or close to it), whether he gets an amendment passed to grant him a third term, or not. I actually know some monarchists that prey this happens.

KGB: Big, Bad and Back?

]It’s staggering to think that five years ago there was virtually
]no smack in Tynda. The first local tested HIV+ in 1999. Now there
]are 17-year-old junkies and AIDS is on the horizon. And the
]weirdest thing is that nobody seems to care.

]Take Misha. If he had died on us, we would have stuffed him in a
]trunk and ditched him in the Taiga a la Goodfellas. Only we
]wouldn’t have to worry if anyone found him a couple months from
]now. Nobody even counts the dead and missing junkies out here.
]I’m not trying to be callous and hardened-it’s just what we would
]have had to do.

Interesting article on heroin addiction in Tynda, Russia. A dying city, like many here.

eXile #161 - Feature Story - JunkYard - by Jake Rudnitsky