http://www.birdsbeforethestorm.net Airships, Anarchism, Etc. Sat, 03 Jan 2009 23:59:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I would apologize for the ranting I'm about to do, but fuck it, it's my blog anyhow. Ever since I started SteamPunk Magazine two years ago, the internet has been full of sharks, hungry to tear apart every single word we wrote. Before we went to print, when steampunk magazine was ... http://www.birdsbeforethestorm.net/2009/01/the-internet-full-of-snark-and-hate/ http://www.birdsbeforethestorm.net/2009/01/xkcd-knows-what-its-like/ I didn't realize that it's obligatory to do a year-in-review post when you have a blog. My apologies. As you might have noticed, I don't really talk about my personal life online, so that will more or less be left out of it. I did a mini-tour as a drummer for ... http://www.birdsbeforethestorm.net/2009/01/2008/ As soon as the mainstream media picked up on the recent bombings of Gaza, they announced that the attacks were retaliation against small rocket attacks by Hamas militants. But no, the attacks were planned months in advance. What a surprise. Also in the "lol, I told you so" category, Obama gave ... http://www.birdsbeforethestorm.net/2008/12/gaza-offensive-was-planned-months-in-advance/ The Gaza Strip, home to more than a million Palestinians, has been under lockdown (siege) for the past 18 months. During that time, the necessities of life have been smuggled in from Egypt by way of tunnels. The Israeli army took care of that just now, by bombing the hell ... http://www.birdsbeforethestorm.net/2008/12/the-worlds-largest-prison-gaza-bombed-again/ So this is vaguely random, but today as I sat at Red Emma's, the worker-owned coffeeshop/bookstore in Baltimore, I was thinking about anarchist projects. We're used to the idea of the "infoshop", which is more or less to say anarchist bookstore (although it has implications of meeting space as well). ... http://www.birdsbeforethestorm.net/2008/12/anarchist-craft-stores/ Watch Robo Dog in Game Videos  |  View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com Earlier on Birds Before The Storm, I posted about Big Dog, a military-friendly quadruped robot that is kind of frightening. But fortunately, our attention has been brought to Lrry-1, the video of which appears above, by the boulevardier: (from ... http://www.birdsbeforethestorm.net/2008/12/big-dog-is-going-down/ Thanks to the magic of Google Alerts (yes, yes, I'm one of those people), I heard about Power Forge Radio: a podcast of folk metal and industrial, for the most part, which is pretty sweet. I wonder if they know those are two of my favorite genres of music? Anyhow, ... http://www.birdsbeforethestorm.net/2008/12/douchetour-will-be-headlined-by-man-o-war-power-forge-radio/ When I lived in Amsterdam, I got a glimpse of some the european activist design aesthetic, which was beautiful. A little hip for my tastes, to be sure (not everything can look like it came from the 19th century, I suppose), but my friends there sure knew that aesthetics can ... http://www.birdsbeforethestorm.net/2008/12/radical-activism-visual-archive/ As I'm certain much of the world is aware, Greece has been alive with riots these past two weeks since the police killed a teenage anarchist. It's hard to keep up with it all, being over here in the USA, of course, but Crimethinc has come out with an excellent ... http://www.birdsbeforethestorm.net/2008/12/greece-interesting-place-especially-right-now/