Archive for November, 2008
Sunday, November 30th, 2008
Future Warfare - Crazy Tank Armor, Guided Bullets, Hovering Beer Keg Drones
Today I learned a new word: misoneism. It means hating change. Sometimes I hate the future. Today I can’t decide if the future is neat or horrendous, or most likely, both. Anyhow, there’s been some interesting stuff over at Danger Room:
Tank armor, and how to get past it. In the old days, tanks just had [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Tech by Magpie
Thursday, November 27th, 2008
The Red & Black Ball - Neo-Victorian, Surrealist Masquerade in Baltimore
You’d think that I’d put this on, but I didn’t. It just turns out that the people at Red Emma’s in Baltimore really are just that cool. They are putting on a Winter dance, complete with live orchestral music, masks, dark magic, and of course alcohol, that ponderous potion. I’m pretty excited. It’s being held [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Events by Magpie
Thursday, November 27th, 2008
Day X - The Videogame
Ah, Day X. On March 20th, 2003, the city of Portland came together in a pretty amazing protest that shut down a good portion of downtown for many an hour. The idea was “no business as usual”, a general consensus of the anti-war movement at the time: if we made the system cease to work [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Anarchism, Art by Magpie
Thursday, November 27th, 2008
Thousands of Greek Prisoners Hunger Strike, Get Their Demands
This falls under the “holy fucking shit” category. Over half of Greece’s prison population (the numbers vary depending on source, but at the beginning of the strike it was more than half of the of 12,315 people imprisoned in Greece and at the end it was still more than 3-4 thousand participants) participated in an [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Activism by Magpie
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
VIVACE - less destructive hydro energy?
You know me, I’m really skeptical of energy generation. In general, if you ask me, the “solution” to global electrical generation is to cut it back substantially and radically decentralize what remains. But I’m willing to look at developing technologies, because, well, I like the internet and I don’t want everyone heating their homes [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Environment, Tech by Magpie
Friday, November 14th, 2008
Playing Tonight In Baltimore! 7pm, Charm City Art Space
I know, I know, I give like no warning for these things. But I only just now got finalized details on the thing. I’m playing a show tonight in baltimore, 7pm at Charm City Art Space, 1729 Maryland Ave. (Their website is woefully out of date, by the way.) It’s a benefit for Baltimore’s branch [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Events by Magpie
Friday, November 14th, 2008
Last Night’s Art Auction In Baltimore
So eventually I’m going to start posting about events before they happen, even reasonably far before they happen. But last night was Red Emma’s first ever art auction, and it was a grand good time. Basically, they collected donations of art from tons of local baltimore artists and then auctioned them off, most of them [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Anarchism, Events by Magpie
Thursday, November 13th, 2008
Harold Thompson (1942-2008)
I’m sad I only learned about Harold Thompson because of his death. He was an anarchist prisoner, but one I never heard much, if anything about. He was convicted of killing a man who had killed the mother of his son and was threatening to kill his son.
He became interested in anarchism early, but his [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Anarchism by Magpie
Saturday, November 8th, 2008
Todd Diamond on Retirement
This guy is really strange. And funny. And talks about seniors in the post-apoc stabbing one another.
No Comments » - Posted in LOL by Magpie
Saturday, November 8th, 2008
Video of Parking Lot Jam At Eccentrik Festival
While searching for Nicki Jaine videos on youtube this morning, I ran across this. At Eccentrik Festival, there were a few moments when I dragged a bunch of people out into the parking lot to play impromptu songs. Personally, these were the highlight of the event for me and really opened my eyes to collaborative [...]
