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happy new years everyone!

my new year will consist of: making the Ideal more Ideal, making a great city even greater, travel the world in body and mind, strengthening my spirit and overcoming my limits, and giving to the tribe all my joy and espirit.

http://video.google.com/

and just because it hasnt been announced yet, i'll forward you off to the occult working of google video here

this is the wyrdist thing ive ever seen

phoneswarm

definitely the coolest site ive seen in a long time.  this site lists pay phone numbers at random places.  today i called the muir woods and someone picked up and i was able to find how the weather and trails were. 

http://phoneswarm.com/swarm.htm

rune logix: q and a: shogunx

summing up 2005 im pleased to announce a special guest on rune logix, well known internet Archon, shogunx.  cto of gnuveau networks, shogunx is a guru of all things linux and clustered computing.  the shogun is knowledgeable for many good things engineering into the future, one line of code at a time.  he has gracefully provided feedback on many enlightening subjects this year has brought us, and foretells what the future year may bring.  naturally if you're under 18 years old, voted republican in the last 40 years, and just dont like hearing other people point of view, you are prohibited from reading this post.  all others, enjoy.  --RL

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> biggest event of 2005?

ecological karma kicks the developed world in the nuts with hurricanes,
elevated temperatures, siberian and alaskan permafrost meltdown leading to
massive frozen peat bog methane eruptions, disrupting of north pacific
food chains, and general atmospheric havok.  these events hailed my
ecologists as "the tipping point," setting a chain reaction in motion that
we are currently  powerless to stop, unlike the wanton waste of western
culture that brought us to that point. so get out of your fucking SUV's
out there, and put your fat, lazy a** on a bicycle.

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> biggest technology impact in 2005?

GNUveau Networks ports linux to the IBM Shark, on a machine formerly
property of the pentagon:)  Seriously though...

Blue Gene.  I love the heavy metal.

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> prophecys for 2006?

Bush gets impeached, then arrested for trying to steal White House
furniture while vacating office.  It is later discovered that the table in
question had been modified to house his personal stash of cocaine.
Nancy Reagan is quoted as saying "I told you so, Georgie."  In his final
act before the impeachment proceeding culminate, Bush demands a refund
from the French for New Orleans, claiming the United States was sold a
lemon in the Louisiana Purchase.  Oh, and George, if you are reading this,
eat a d***, traitor.

As a Category 5 hurricane nears the coast of North Carolina, eco-activists
sabotage HAARP, causing the hurricane to dissipate.

Mars Rovers discover evidence of ancient civilization on the red planet,
proving if you want something done right, use Linux, the only OS available
one planet next door.

Democrats and Greens retake the House and Senate, led by a group of
technologists who are fed up with the bullshit, by leveraging superior IT
resources to outflank America's mass media hydra for American voter
mindshare, in congressional elections using only paper ballots, the
authenticity of which is assured by live webcasts of polling places and
vote counts, ensuring public oversight of this critical vector of attack
against the American Democracy.

Google sends Gates running for cover in Mountain View, as they roll out
Linux based thin clients providing X11 desktops connected to massive
clusters over their free wifi network because a random Google engineer
"thought that would be pretty cool."

Schwarzenegger is killed in a drive-by as he visits south central LA for
a speech.  Ice Cube quoted as saying "Gubernate that, mother f*****."

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> best shroom pizza in daytona?

I've got to go with hometown independent Shroomers Pizza.  They make a
damn good calzone.

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> biggest political upset of 2005?

Tiny independent blackboxvoting.org KO's Diebold voting machines in rural
Leon County Florida, inching closer to proving (with real evidence, not
just plain common sense) that the last 2 US presidential elections were
rigged.

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> what your new years revolutions?

Complete my prototype solar/electromagnetic high gain generator.  Heres to
you, Nikola Tesla.  They burned your lab several times, drove you to
die in poverty, stole your greatest inventions in their corporate greed,
and still, in the long run, you won, because they ran out of gas.

Re-capture root on my DEC Alphaserver 4100, currently held by my 20 month
old daughter ;)


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> whats the Nth reason to not start blogging?

There is a reason diaries (you remember, the little blank books like
Winston Smith had in 1984) were sold with locks on the covers.  Some guy
in Bangalore does not care about your your cats recent hairballectomy
surgery.  But mainly, people in congress are using the inane term
blogosphere, proving that "Blogs Are Just Not That Cool."TM  Write a
fucking poem or something instead.

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> whats your pick for being better developed in 2005, netbsd or openbsd? why?

NetBSD.  Native support for Xen hypervisor, making it, along with Linux,
a viable mainframe  class operating system.

cachet nouveau

ca·chet     ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (k-sh)
n. A mark or quality, as of distinction, individuality, or authenticity

nou·veau     ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (nv, n-v)
adj. New and different, often fashionably so

the point in time that recognizes new ways of living are based on the interplay of these two words.  the most individual person alive today is noticeably excessive in a couple of qualities: they aren't cheap to themselves or others, they're good looking physically or otherwise, they live far apart from each other, they remain connected through magick gates and technical forms of communication, they're actions reverb in the greater web of cultural manifestations around them, and they are at once recognized for their genius, often in direct relation to their isolation with their fellows, in negative proportion to their participation with them.  this is what i call cachet nouveau.  these kinds of people are not easily found, and not easily kept: they have too much to do, too many places to explore, and too much love to unfurl.  it's impossible to find cachet in any advertised medium, just as the truly nouveau can never be lifted from the veil of isis.  as the cachet nouveau has nothing to fear from the former, as what makes them different is not something one can buy, place they go, or clothing they wear- its something that exudes as an impeccable presence and immortalizing effigy of excitement.  i call these spirits: LVX, light in extension.  autonomous. their society has an open door policy.  ideally.  you cannot join them.  wonderfully.  you can only dare abundently into the serendipity of LVX.

for the love of music: or, why i love broken ipods

per a conversation with a friend of mine, i feel the need to extend my criticism of music makers on a public forum. no one i know should take this as a personal affront: these views are general and aimed at raising the standards by which you perfect your art.   first, a definition of where im coming from: 1. i cant stand the music industry. like dinosaurs, their time is way over with.  2. aspiring musicians, with painters in a near second place-- are a dime a dozen for all the bad music they produce and continue to make on an ongoing basis.  people often think that  because one can listen to great music that means you should try to make great music.  hipsters and hop hoppers are noticeable for their lack in anything creative, original, or innovative in the omni channel market place. is that insulting or is that a challenge?  if its insulting you're probably making bad music in the first place.  if its inspiring-- that you will not make bad music, that you will excel at the impossible and creative forces of destiny to propel yourself into new creative adventures that  fall into your ears: you are who im writing this for.  we have been living in dismal times for music as the cost of entry lowers and automation of sound increases.  music is the most important tool for a group of people to express themselves with and we have been doing so badly for way to long (at least since the death of kurt cobain).  i admit to having high standards for music makers and the music they make, one has to: the impact it has on the mental and creative states to generations of listeners is too important to f*** with.  my first piece of evidence supporting this theory is hip hop.  no other kind of music in history (except possibly country music) can boast of degrading and criminalizing the potential of so many people in the world.  (again, is that insulting, or challenging??) my suggestion for those who would make music:  live alone on a mountain for a dozen years with your instrument of choice. then after that dozen years, i think you should have to prove your worth by another dozen years of peer review before being aloud to play to a general audience. think of it as the ultimate yogis music school.  but hell, im getting ahead of myself, with garageband (the music making software), why bother!  a few clicks of a button and your not just jimi hendrix, you're mozart, cnn que up music, a dj and so hip-your-a-popotamus!  by and large- as can be expected of any art, the music sucks, the worst generic productions sell to the most teenager girls and starve to death the artist that has honed their sitar for decades.  most musicians should stop, never pick up an instrument again, and start enjoying music again.  same goes for music majors in college, i pity your poor souls!  the desire to get laid and make mucho money = 99% of anyones interest in music these days which is 110% the wrong reasons to get involved with an art.  i love hipsters emphatically denying this, however suave they lie to the truth.  im genuinely encouraged by the high number of new bands that are actually doing something slightly different if barely stepping out of bounds of the brit pop/church choir formula.  but i digress.  please, for all you dedicated aspirants out there trying to please the crowd, rather than clicking the idiot button on garageband which these instant musicians and instant one hit wonder bands who are so "musically adept" of boring me to tears: master your craft.  and for the love of jove, im listening to my music, i dont need to hear yours blaring on myspace!!

thee watergate of the 21st century

NYT: NSA Spying Broader Than Bush Admitted

link

quoth the holy shogunx, "na na na, na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye."

if you think the bush regime would use the information gleaned from this massive spying operation to plan their 04 election strategy i say that would seem true to part.

the sexy bin laden

this is too good to pass up.  osama bin ladens niece in erotic poses in gq magazine.  i can see ole osama shaking in orgasmic agony at this one! admittedly, this is one fine example of western civilization corrupting muslim women. rune logix will be accepting suitable applicants ;-)  link

holiday cheer

"Neither Humor, nor Poetry, nor Imagination means anything unless, by an anarchic destruction generating a fantastic flight of forms which will constitute the whole spectacle, they succeed in organically calling into question man, his ideas about reality, and his poetic place in reality."

Antonin Artaud, The Theater and Its Double

rune logix voipod #2

this one in from some more strange and surreal anonymous poster:

Download runelogix-voipod122105.wav

[note fellow voippers, if you want recognition for your voipod, include your name in the voip at somepoint. ]