via things magazine. who knew he had a collection of 60s era penguin paperback covers?

More dirt on Naypidaw, the new Burmese capital. Organized "like the Yellow Pages ... Ave for hotels, area for restaurants... color coded apts." 1 mil. residents, 2700 sq mi. Yeah right. I look forward to picking over the ruin someday soon.

FBI looking for informants to attend "vegan pot-lucks" and report on plans for RNC protests.

<<“A shopping mall is a public forum in which persons may reasonably exercise their right to free speech,” Justice Carlos R. Moreno wrote in the majority opinion.>> Victor Gruen is smiling.

"For example, Cimicchi is hoping to install electronically controlled access gates in Orvieto, which would grant entrance exclusively to city residents."

news from inside one of the worst regimes out there. ("In Burma there is a joke that Orwell wrote not just one novel about the country, but three: a trilogy comprised of Burmese Days, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.")

"69 minutes of video taken by 2 cameramen in Andijan on 5/13/05 ... the complete version of the film." "Uzbek govt lost control of the city...protestors took the main govt building & held a large rally in front. Govt broke the demo, deaths in 100s"

"Tthe most dangerous place was Custer Cty. A total of 13 persons were tried for sedition in Miles City, the county seat" (my grandfather was born there). [via slavin_fpo]

"A 'bolo' is the basic agreement (between individuals), a direct personal context for living, producing and dying." // plan for collectivist communism in groups of ~500.

"The officers' union is suing the city, charging that the police procedures at their demonstrations — many of them routinely used at war protests, antipoverty marches & mass bike rides — were so heavy-handed & intimidating that their 1st Amendment

prison & military towns

7 dirty words supreme court decision

bananarama

hugs not drugs

Burnham suggested the way to deal with the impoverished neighborhoods would be to cut "'broad thoroughfares through the unwholesome district.'"

Time for a Kurdish version of A Void that avoids W & Q

short photoset of the arrest, incarceration, ... of a few law-abiding Critical Mass riders, plus one innocent personal trainer who happened to be passing by!

A group of believers wants to establish Scriptures-based government one city and county at a time

watch out america - ecuadorians are coming to your neighborhood - TO PLAY VOLLEYBALL! Protect your children!