"I, having been subjected to the rite of Christian baptism in infancy… hereby publicly revoke any implications of that rite. I reject all its creeds and other such superstitions in particular the perfidious belief that any baby needs to be cleansed of original sin and the evil power of supposed demons…"

From Zoetica Ebb:

"A man dressed as Batman villain the Joker has been shot dead by police in America after pointing a loaded shotgun at them."

Received in email:

Media Squat is now a radio show on WFMU.

Our inaugural broadcast will be Monday, March 16, at 7pm New York time on WFMU – the internet’s most listened to radio stream, and every Monday at 7pm after that.

Stream will be available through iTunes (go to RADIO, where you should be able to find it under ECLECTIC) or at http://www.wfmu.org You can always download podcasts after the broadcast via http://www.rushkoff.com

This is live radio, dedicated to taking advantage of the current economic paralysis in order to rebuild a better society. Listen, call in, participate. Let’s have some fun.

http://godzillabukkake.com/

Todd Diamond’s FINANSENSE:

Seen at the offices of the newspaper that writer Adam Gallardo’s wife works at. I am speechless.

• BBC NEWS | Health | Nano-treatment to torpedo cancer
  "Nanotechnology has been used for the first time to destroy cancer cells with a highly targeted package of "tumour busting" genes."
  (tags:med nano sci )
• BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Ten die in Alabama shooting spree
  "At least 10 people have been killed in a series of shootings across two towns in the southern US state of Alabama. Officials say there had been at least four separate shooting incidents, before the gunman killed himself."
  (tags:crime )
• BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Zoo chimp ‘planned’ stone attacks
  "Keepers at Furuvik Zoo found that the chimp collected and stored stones that he would later use as missiles."
  (tags:weird )
• BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Russia now ‘top heroin consumer’
  "Russia says it has become the world's biggest consumer of heroin."
  (tags:crime pol drugs )

I really need to clear out the "radio" section of my del.icio.us archive.

SUB FM

REAL INDUSTRIAL RADIO

DIGITALGUNFIRE

RELOAD RADIO

BLITZ RADIO

(A modifier that I seem to have to use a lot these days: obviously, these are not all the internet radio stations in the world, and equally obviously, I hadn’t heard of them for the first time five minutes ago.)

SUPER RADICAL GAG FAMILY had some of the worst fansubs of modern times.

Also, I have no brain today.

• Autarky – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  "An autarky is an economy that is self-sufficient and does not take part in international trade, or severely limits trade with the outside world."
  (tags:pol what+a+good+word )
• Obsessed with the production design of The President’s Analyst
  Jones Design Fugue ftw
  (tags:design )
• Genetically Modified Utensils – Jan Chipchase – Future Perfect
  "Given our ability to (genetically) modify foods what would make the ultimate fruit/vegetable for resource efficient growing + nutrition + quality assurance + shipping + display + carrying + consumption + disposal?"
  (tags:future )

Thank you.

(and thanks to whoever it was who sent me the link over twitter)

Well, I was going to load up a new 4am podcast, but two of the tracks have chipmunked and I’m out of time to fix them. So, apologies to the people I told to expect a new one today, and I’ll give it another shot at the end of the week…

• Planetary Skin
  "NASA Ames and Cisco Systems Inc. are developing "Planetary Skin" — a marriage of satellites, land sensors and the Internet — to capture, analyze and interpret global environmental data, using a comprehensive sensor network in rainforests around the world."
  (tags:sci tech space localise spimeworld eco )

• Eating Bark: eglin fps-85 radar building
  "Imagining the universe as seen by a building used to track orbital debris"
  (tags:art sci architecture )
• totalitarianism today: The Russian government rewrites history. Again.

  (tags:crime pol )

• Teacher sells marijuana to his students @ www.dosenation.com
  "He was growing cannabis at his dacha and then was selling it to his students. At first he persuaded two of his students to try marijuana for free. Teenagers liked it. When some time later the teenagers asked him to give them some more the teacher demanded payment."
  (tags:crime drugs stupid )
• Utah tries to outlaw bars, being drunk @ www.dosenation.com
  "A Utah Senate committee has approved a bill that would hide the preparation of alcoholic drinks behind 10-foot-high walls in restaurants and make it illegal to appear drunk."
  (tags:crime stupid )

Rudy Rucker’s webmag of weird fiction and stuff, FLURB, has reached its seventh iteration, with an excellent line-up including Kek-W, Richard Kadrey and Simon Logan.  FLURB is rarely less than fascinating.  Go and read, all for free.

Am clearing out Bloglines while I have an hour of relative peace and my left eye has stopped twitching from HATESTRESSKILL week. Here’s a nice Annie Wu sketch:

• Instapaper (analogue edition) (blog.thoughtwax.com)
  Guy built up a hefty backlog of unread online articles, couldn't face reading them all on laptop or phone screen – so he dumped the lot to PDF and uploaded the PDF to Lulu and bought it as a book to read at his leisure.
  (tags:papernet )

A skeleton key for comics:

So, every week or two, I set all the artists at my message board a challenge called REMAKE/REMODEL. I pick a character — usually some ancient pulp character from the claggy depths of the public domain — and tell the artists to reinterpret said character from a modern perspective.

This week, I set them the character Ivan Brodsky, about whom the sainted Jess Nevins writes:

Brodsky, Ivan. Ivan Brodsky was created by “Victor Rousseau,” the pseudonym of Victor Rousseau Emmanuel (Jim Anthony, Clifford, Ronald Gowan, Professor MacBeard, Dr. Martinus, Pennell, Shawm, Thorne), and appeared in eleven stories in Weird Tales in 1926 and 1927, beginning with “The Case of the Jailer’s Daughter” (Weird Tales, Sept. 1926).

Ivan Brodsky is a Big-Headed Dwarf Genius Occult Detective. Ivan Brodsky, the “Surgeon of Souls,” works as a “professor of nervous diseases” at a London hospital. He is a “dark, sinewy, undersized man, with a great head absurdly disproportionate to his body, and flashing eyes that seemed to pierce through you and read your thoughts.” He is “a cross between two races whose blend of shrewdness and mysticism was probably accountable for the production of so remarkable a personality as his own.” He is unassuming and doesn’t socialize, but is “all-dominating” in his hospital, where he performs experiments for treating “obscure brain lesions.” He is an expert hypnotist who receives cases from around the country. His particular cases involve psychic matters of reincarnation and possession, and he believes in an “oversoul” to which individual souls return, so that the execution of a brutal murderer will “be the release of just so much additional force of evil” to the oversoul.

Yeah.

Here’s a selection of what the Ivan Brodsky challenge gave birth to. Please do look up the individual artists in the thread itself:

The end of Book Two.