Now there are media tags so you can tag your bookmarks as, for example, video or mp3 content. Or video plus a tag, so you can get all the wmv’s tagged as “lemon party reenaction” or all the mp3’s tagged as “geek blather”. Or other things that might actually be fun and useful as opposed to the horrible examples above.

I like my earthquake
—–Original Message—–
From: wcatwc list1
To: conrad@tmail.com
Subject: TsunamiWatcherMessage
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 04:23:28 +0000

WEPA41 PAAQ 150409
TSUWCA

TO – TSUNAMI WARNING SYSTEM PARTICIPANTS IN
ALASKA/BRITISH COLUMBIA/WASHINGTON/OREGON/CALIFORNIA
FROM – WEST COAST AND ALASKA TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER/NOAA/NWS
SUBJECT – TSUNAMI WARNING BULLETIN – FINAL
BULLETIN NUMBER 2
ISSUED 06/15/2005 AT 0409 UTC

…THE TSUNAMI WARNING AND WATCH STATUS IS CANCELED FOR
CALIFORNIA – OREGON – WASHINGTON – BRITISH COLUMBIA – AND
ALASKA…

EARTHQUAKE DATA
PRELIMINARY MAGNITUDE – 7.4
LOCATION – 41.4N 125.6W – 85 MILES NW OF EUREKA-CA.
300 MILES NW OF SAN FRANCISCO-CA.
TIME – 1851 ADT 06/14/2005
1951 PDT 06/14/2005
0251 UTC 06/15/2005

A SMALL TSUNAMI WAS OBSERVED AT THE FOLLOWING SITES
WATER LEVELS REMAIN NORMAL AT ALL COASTAL SITES. NO WAVE
BEEN DETECTED.

EVALUATION
NO TSUNAMI DANGER EXISTS FOR ALASKA – BRITISH COLUMBIA –
WASHINGTON – OREGON OR CALIFORNIA. HOWEVER SOME AREAS MAY
EXPERIENCE SMALL SEA LEVEL CHANGES. AS LOCAL CONDITIONS
CAN CAUSE A WIDE VARIATION IN TSUNAMI WAVE ACTION THE ALL
CLEAR DETERMINATIONS MUST BE MADE BY LOCAL AUTHORITIES.

$$
PKZ032-031-042-034-033-035-041-036-PZZ130-131-133-134-132-
135-150-153-156-110-250-210-255-350-353-356-450-455-550-
530-535-555-670-673-650-655-750-AKZ023-024-025-026-028-029-
027-WAZ001-002-005-006-007-008-009-010-011-013-014-015-016-
021-ORZ001-002-021-022-CAZ001-002-005-007-006-075-074-009-
034-035-039-040-046-041-042-043-150508-
COASTAL AREAS OF CALIFORNIA – OREGON – WASHINGTON – BRITISH
COLUMBIA – AND ALASKA.

…THE TSUNAMI WARNING AND WATCH STATUS IS CANCELED FOR
CALIFORNIA – OREGON – WASHINGTON – BRITISH COLUMBIA – AND
ALASKA…

$$

THE PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER WILL ISSUE A FINAL BULLETIN.

THIS WILL BE THE LAST WEST COAST AND ALASKA TSUNAMI WARNING
CENTER WATCH/WARNING BULLETIN ISSUED FOR THIS EVENT.
THIS INFORMATION IS ALSO POSTED AT WCATWC.ARH.NOAA.GOV.
$$

With tsunami warning.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/Quakes/usziae.htm

What they think our lives are like

( New York Nightlife in the 1970s )

What our lives are really like:

We do have a good time, guys, but it’s really not as crazy as you think it is. Hate to burst the bubble.

They put more live tracks up on their myspace page via the annoying myspace flash player. Audio Hijack Pro + LAME mp3 encoder = problem solved.

That’s How I Escaped My Certain Fate (2.4M)

This Is Not A Photograph (2.1M)

Honesty’s an actor’s worst mistake.

From the L.A. Times, via L.A. Observed. Oddly, although he mailed real or threatened biological weapons together with politically threatening messages to public officials, there’s no mention of the Patriot Act or special circumstances of terrorism. He just got arrested by cops. Maybe it’s the last name.

L.A. Man Held in String of Threatening Letters

A Los Angeles man was arrested Monday on charges of mailing 56 threatening letters denouncing Jews, blacks, Latinos, Asians and homosexuals to a spectrum of private citizens and public officials.

Most of the letters that Stanley C. Jaroszenski is accused of sending also contained hypodermic syringes with needles, authorities said.

Jaroszenski, 64, was taken into custody without incident at his downtown residence after being named in a 117-count federal grand jury indictment accusing him of mailing threatening letters and injurious devices.

Last June, federal officials said, the field office of Rep. Linda T. Sanchez (D-Lakewood) was evacuated after one such letter arrived, warning, “CIA to kill Sanchez.”

In February, they said, one floor of Childrens Hospital Los Angeles was evacuated after a letter arrived declaring “Kill Chinese murderers” and “Chinese Poison + Cancer in Your Body N-O-W.”

Thirty-two letters threatened Jews and typically contained the message: “A good Jew is a dead Jew.”

The most recent letter, mailed April 2, was sent to Los Angeles Police Chief William J. Bratton and accused him of being a child molester.

FIVE POUND CHILI BRICK

Just add water, serve, eat, and collapse, clutching your abdomen. Soon you will be free. Oh sweet Death, come quickly!

Full Spectrum Disorder, by Stanley Goff.

Goff served as an NCO in the U.S. army from Vietnam to Haiti. He is an experienced killer, a thirty-year veteran of our splendid little wars, a very pissed-off veteran, and a hardcore leftist. He’s set himself the task of demolishing our current military fantasies, which isn’t too hard. The usual military anecdotes of incompetence, brutality, pants-shitting terror, etc. are told with style. He’s clearly been in the thick of most of the Imperial mistakes of my lifetime. At his best, he combines the rip-roaring stories with serious criticism of U.S. military strategy. Technology-obsessed generals, neo-con idiots in suits, pathetically dishonest politicians, and military failures cycle through the stories he tells. Bitter old soldiers tell good angry stories, and their targets are deserving.

He loses his thread when he tries to connect military incompetence and foolishness with the essential evil of Empire, though. His disgust with the Army’s decline and his loathing of capitalism imperialism are both genuine but there isn’t much of a connection here, and each chapter has an awkward bit where he tries to glue these two things together. There are two books here, and they don’t sit well with each other.

He’s also way further left than I. I’m one of the coffeehouse liberals he despises. In a memory passage he describes the difference between the Zapatista rebels in Chiapas, Mexico and the FARC revolutionaries in Colombia. The Chiapas movement was crushed, he says, because they never had the balls to make war. When it came down to whether to blow stuff up and machete people, they refused, and the government didn’t, and they’ve been a spent force since. The FARC, on the other hand, is an army. They are just as brutal as any other army, and they still control large portions of the country. He quotes Mao: “Political power grows out the barrel of a gun” and he isn’t messing around. Way more hardcore than I’ll ever be; I’m anti-violence.

I’m of two minds about this book. His stories and his detail are wonderful. The criticism of the U.S. Military sounds accurate, and I’m not one to argue here. But the ideology feels tacked-on as though some Soviet censor had ordered it. And I’m not ready to burn any villages with Stan, yet. B+

…Sleestaks?

Movie Guy D and Crazy Counselor C have a few things in common. They’re both around 40. They both spend way too much time at the coffee house with their very old laptops. They’re both floridly neurotic. They both have a lot of trouble with social interactions. And they both at least very slightly know every attractive woman between the ages of 16 and 50 that shows up there. When the target shows up, one or both of them will greet her effusively, and then later leave his seat to go converse, sometimes lingering until she leaves. We joke sometimes about their crawlspaces full of dead indie girls, but they’re harmless.

They’re both pretty smart guys, and D for one can tell a good story, and has done interesting things over the years. C doesn’t talk to me, but others say he’s a nice enough guy. D drives me nuts with his mannerisms but he’s a nice guy too.

The other thing they have in common is that they’re a lot like me. We’re all three socially adrift, out of our element, alienated from the people around us, and lonely. We all have attachment issues and social anxiety that have kept us from getting close to others. We’re all smart, and neurotic, and we squick the girls.

My laptop is a lot newer.

And we’re all too old for this shit. You know, a fish can flop around in the bottom of a boat for a hell of a long time before it finally goes limp. Hard to watch, ain’t it?