This is a fairly extreme example, but Atlanta has really taken to "new urbanism." The idea is that in typical suburban "zoning" you work, live, shop, and go to school in different places, and the result is that you interact with different people in each place. Therefore you tend not to care about them. By doing all of these things in the same place you form stronger bonds with the other people in your community.

INFOTO : Mega City Pyramid TRY 2004

] For years, people will be debating what made this country
] go from conservative to liberal, from gerontocracy to
] youth culture and from staunchly pro-American to a deeply
] ambivalent ally all seemingly overnight.
]
] For most here, the change is symbolized by the election
] in December of Roh Moo Hyun, a reformist lawyer with a
] disarmingly unfussy style who at 56 is youthful by South
] Korean political standards. But for many observers, the
] most important agent of change has been the Internet.

Online Newspaper Shakes Up Korean Politics

Thus every step toward war fills Bush pockets quite literally with gold. That's the way they operate, these liars and thieves in thousand-dollar suits, these secretive fronts who profit from war, fear, blood and greasy palms. They arm the "monsters," they disarm the monsters, making money both ways. Then they drape themselves with Bible and flag, like smug pimps promenading to church, singing "Glory Hallelujah" while the whole world burns.

War is Golden for the Bush Administration

Nanochick wrote:
] hehehehe

THAT'S pretty fucking funny.

RE: pilots_01

Feb. 6, 2003, 2230 hrs, PST, (FTW) - A story is sweeping the world tonight and it says a great deal about those who are forcing the world into a war it does not want. The famed dossier presented by British Prime Minister Tony Blair to his Parliament was plagiarized from two articles and a September 2002 research paper submitted by a graduate student. Worse, the Iraq described by the graduate student is not the Iraq of 2003 but the Iraq of 1991. So glaring was the theft of intellectual property that the official British document even cut and pasted whole verbatim segments of the research paper, including grammatical errors, and presented the findings as the result of intense work by British intelligence services.

U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell both praised and quoted that same British report in his presentation at the United Nations yesterday.

Britain's Intelligence Dossier on Iraq was Plagiarized from a Grad Student

] The richest 10% of the population - about 10 million
] households - owned 84% of the stock and 90% of the bonds
] held by individuals (including that held indirectly
] through mutual funds). The democratization of ownership
] supposedly brought about by mutual funds has a long way
] to go.

Great little graph wost the way down showing change in the the comparative wealth of American society.

Distributing the booty

Daily headline propaganda from a British perspective. Delight in these whimsy:

"BUSH ADMINISTRATION: DEFINITELY NOT LIKE
NAZIS
(POSTED 26 09 02) Whitehouse spokesman Ari Fleischer (no
relation) has said the Bush Administration "are nothing
like the Nazis in 1930s Germany." He explained "the Nazis
were militaristic bullies convinced they were the master
race. They wanted to invade other countries to boost
their own economy. They wanted to weed out imperfect
human specimens using genetic science. They used the
cinema as propaganda for the masses. And they subsidised
major corporations to pioneer weapons of mass
destruction. Hope that cleared everything up. Now
- can we please stop all this nastiness and start
invading Poland. I mean Iraq.""

Spin On This - proper news is just propaganda

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] Mencal is a simple variation of the well-known unix
] command cal. The main difference is that you can have
] some periodically repeating days highlighted in color.
] This can be used to track menstruation (or other) cycles
] conveniently.

OK, this is just too off the wall not to recommend!

Masturbation calendar

] "In childhood, a modern person travels an enormous
] distance between stone-age primitive creature and
] responsible contemporary citizen. When confronted with
] the awesome power of civilization whose first
] representatives are parents, teachers, priests (and,
] later on, police officers, legislators and bosses) the
] child faces, psychologically, the same situation as its
] tribal ancestors, namely, conform to the dictates of
] civilization or die. "

The Machine in our Heads--Glenn Parton