:: NEWS COCKTAIL aka BlahBlahBlog ::

"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough." -Walter Cronkite, RE TV news. The Web has changed that for many, however, and here is an extra dose for your daily news cocktail. This prescription tends to include surveillance and now war-related links, along with the occasional pop culture junk and whatever else seizes my attention as I scan online news sites.

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[::..What's all this then?..::]
"News is the first rough draft of history." -Philip L. Graham

[::..news to me..::]
:: google news [>]
:: wired news [>]
:: it news [>]
:: more it news [>]
:: nerd news [>]
:: media news [>]
:: art news [>]
:: the news [>]
:: other news [>]

[::..other blogs..::]
:: buffy [>]
:: meg [>]
:: places for writers [>]
:: wanna write? [>]
:: collaborative learning [>]
:: web weirdness [>]
:: digitalbutterfly [>]
:: runwithscissors [>]
:: synkronisiteez [>]
:: loopy librarian [>]
:: jen speaks [>]
:: russian beauty [>]
:: dave barry! [>]
:: douglas rushkoff [>]
:: this girl thinks [>]
:: radio free nation [>]
:: privacy digest [>]
:: pudding time [>]
:: dania's dailies [>]
:: straight on til morning [>]
:: a blog by any other name [>]
:: a mad-tea party [>]
:: nietzscheswife [>]
:: bloggy mountain breakdown [>]
:: linkfilter [>]
:: slingshot group [>]
:: a blog apart [>]
:: anti-blog [>]
:: destroy all blogs [>]
:: the world ends @ 9, pictures @ 11 [>]
:: notes from the overground [>]
:: the end of free [>]
:: started the same day as this [>]

[::..other things..::]
:: myelin: blogging ecosystem [>]
:: alternative tentacles [>]
:: are we having fun yet? [>]
:: mail art [>]
:: the mail art interview project [>]
:: the postcard project [>]
:: found magazine [>]
:: chuck palahniuk [>]
:: bill hicks! [>]
:: chomsky archive [>]
:: association of alternative newsweeklies [>]
:: the nation [>]
:: alternet [>]
:: the smirking chimp [>]
:: plastic - recycling the web in real time [>]
:: open secrets [>]
:: william s. burroughs [>]
:: beautify your lunch - eat an artist [>]
:: bartleby [>]
:: disinformation [>]
:: imdb [>]
:: rotten tomatoes [>]
:: aboutcultfilm.com [>]

[::..random..::]
"Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished." - Clifford Stoll

:: 3.22.2004 ::

:: So Weird ::

From Chuck Shepherd's News of the Weird:

The Entrepreneurial Spirit
Among recent U.S. patents (according to a January story in the East Bay Express, Emeryville, Calif.): (1) a penile prosthesis with a magnet, from Deborah Knoll-Ewers, Hercules, Calif. (to overcome erectile dysfunction with new-age magnet therapy); (2) a plastic liner for men to use beneath their underwear, from Wesley Johnson, Burbank, Calif. (to keep the clothing clean while engaged in fully dressed sex, such as lap dances); and (3) an electrically safe device that attaches to the tongue, to make it vibrate, from Eric A. Klein, Mountain View, Calif. (to enhance a partner's sexual pleasure). [East Bay Express, 1-14-04] [Patent No. 6,482,147] [Patent No. 6,406,462] [Patent No. 6,572,569]

Recurring Themes
News of the Weird has remarked several times on the late composer John Cage's "4'33," a 273-second "musical" number containing nothing but utter silence. In February 2004, according to a New York Times report, cuts from "White Album" by the band Sonic Youth were being listed for downloading on Apple's iTunes online store, and included was "Silence," a 63-second cut consisting of no sound at all, for which fans were nonetheless expected to pay the regular iTunes price of 99 cents. (In a subsequent clarification, a Sonic Youth spokesman said "Silence" would only be sold to purchasers who bought all of the album's cuts.) [New York Times, 2-9-04, 2-16-04]

Send your Weird News to Chuck Shepherd, P.O. Box 18737, Tampa FL 33679 or WeirdNews@earthlink.net

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