Russ Kick's "Disinformation Book of Lists"

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Guestbl0gger Russ Kick's MemoryHole --
banned in Iraq?

Guestbl0gger Russ Kick's MemoryHole --
banned in Iraq? 06/02/2004 12:10 PM
Posted by a member of Declan McCullagh's politech mailing list:

I've received email from a person with an [army.mil] address. This person is stationed in Iraq, and he/she tells me that The Memory Hole is blocked on military computers. Trying to get to the site results in the following message:

Access Denied (content_filter_denied)
Your request was denied because of its content categorization: "Extreme;Politics/Religion". For assistance, contact your network support team.

How interesting. I post raw documents created by the government, military, and corporations. These days, that apparently amounts to "political extremism." Naturally, I've filed a FOIA request about this blocking.

Link

Update: BoingBoing reader Priapo says, "I read your post in boingboing talking about this subject and I have gathered a few ways to bypass the filter using a proxy. It's explained here."

New guestbl0gger -- Russ Kick of The
Memory Hole and Disinformation

New guestbl0gger -- Russ Kick of The
Memory Hole and Disinformation 04/30/2004 12:17 PM
First, gratitude to our outgoing guestblogger Alan Graham, for holding down the right hand column this past month. Thank you!

Next: A warm welcome to our new guestblogger, Russ Kick, the author of several books, including The Disinformation Book of Lists: Subversive Facts and Hidden Information in Rapid-Fire Format and 50 Things You're Not Supposed to Know.

Mr. Kick is also the editor of many anthologies, such as Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies; You Are Being Lied To: The Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes and Cultural Myths; and Abuse Your Illusions: The Disinformation Guide to Media Mirages and Establishment Lies. He has also written articles and a column for the Village Voice.

The Memory Hole, a website devoted to rescuing knowledge and freeing information, is his labor of love. Russ first made the front page of the New York Times when he digitally uncensored a heavily-redacted Justice Department report. In April 2004, he posted 288 previously unseen photos of military coffins coming back from Iraq, which he had pried loose from the Air Force. This set off a worldwide media frenzy leading to the front pages of most major newspapers, heavy rotation on CNN, the lead story on network newscasts, and interviews on Good Morning America and CBS Evening News. You can browse through some of that extensive media coverage here , via Google News search.

I have no doubt that Russ will indeed Kick it on the BoingBoing guestblog. Welcome! Link

Boing Boing: Guestbl0gger Russ Kick's
MemoryHole -- banned in Iraq?

Boing Boing: Guestbl0gger Russ Kick's
MemoryHole -- banned in Iraq? 06/03/2004 09:03 AM
Guestblogger Russ Kick's MemoryHole -- banned in Iraq? .. banned by the military

boingboing.net/2004/06/02/guestblogger_russ_ki.html
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Book of Lists now available online

Book of Lists now available online 07/19/2004 06:24 AM
Thestate.com - Mon Jul 19, 07:13 am GMT

CSS cribsheets, cheatsheets, shortcut
lists, syntax lists and tips

CSS cribsheets, cheatsheets, shortcut
lists, syntax lists and tips 09/15/2004 12:35 AM
The best collection of CSS tips we've ever seen, gathered from our members and all together in one spot. This reference thread will supercharge your stylesheets and simplify your workload.

Could be a Bombshell, Could be a Plant,
Could be Disinformation, Could be True.
Who Knows With This Gang of Liars:Claim:
U.S. Government Spurned Peace Talks
Before the War With Iraq 11/6

Could be a Bombshell, Could be a Plant,
Could be Disinformation, Could be True.
Who Knows With This Gang of Liars:Claim:
U.S. Government Spurned Peace Talks
Before the War With Iraq 11/6 11/07/2003 06:33 AM
ABCNEWS has learned .. reported .. more

abcnews.go.com/sections/WNT/World/hage031105-1.html
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What does Russ think?

What does Russ think? 08/04/2004 03:07 PM

Doc reports from the Garage.....

A reader just pointed me to Appcraft.org, an "international application developing platform for handheld and smartphone." Yesterday Trolltech's Qtopia Phone Edition won a Product Excellence Award at LinuxWorld (disclaimer: I was a judge on that one). Qtopia is a development environment for phones and PDAs. It's clear that the phone is becoming a new and rich environment for mobile applications. In fact, it's clearly eating the PDA (look at the Treo 600).

It's not clear, however, which phone OS platform will win the hearts and minds of developers. Symbian is the platform offered by some of the big phone makers, and it seems to be ahead right now; but Palm, Microsoft and Linux are also in the mix.
I'm interested in seeing how DIY-IT plays here. One can easily imagine a raft of business apps that tie employee phones into company data environments, for example.

Thoughts?

[Doc's IT Garage]

Marc quips in.....

Whenever I hear about some open mobile/PDA platform - I think of Russell Beattie.

"So Russ! Wassup wit dis Qtopia stuff? Is it the bomb or bust? Or somewhere in the middle? Java, php, python - what?"

Go Russ!

Go Russ! 06/21/2004 07:08 PM

RIP Russ Meyer

RIP Russ Meyer 09/22/2004 12:04 PM
Xeni Jardin: Russ Meyer, the filmmaking legend responsible for such sexploitation atrocities masterpieces as " The Immoral Mr. Teas", "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!", and "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls", has passed away at age 82. He lived a long life, full of glamour and boobies. All of us should be so lucky. Fleshbot, naturally, has more: Link. Rest in peace, Mr. Meyer. (thanks also to Caines, Jean-Luc, and others who suggested).

Can't wait to run into Russ

Can't wait to run into Russ 03/14/2005 05:09 PM

I sure hope to see Russell Beattie somewhere in my travels.

I gotta get him to help me find his new MyYahoo RSS reader for mobile phones.

I got a coolio 6630 from Charlie Shick at Nokia - and I'm roaming around using it and it's fancy features. Sure hope loading data off ofit works - as it's my only camera I'll have with me.

I wonder where the plug-in for Lifeblog for MT is?

It's kind of fun watching Russ turn into a Yahoopster.

Really Useful Simple Syndication (RUSS)

Really Useful Simple Syndication (RUSS) 05/11/2004 12:41 AM

missing kids rss

"Since I can't seem to find any way to contact the organization behind missingkids.com, I'll post my comment to them here. Please have someone in your web department create an RSS feed of missing children. I am confident all aggregator developers will add it to their default list of feeds, increasing the chance of finding more kids quicker." [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]

Not only would it be great to have this kind of feed as a default in news aggregators, but the pictures could easily be syndicated on any web site.

Guestbl0gger Russ Kick interviewed on
NPR

Guestbl0gger Russ Kick interviewed on
NPR 05/31/2004 12:33 PM
BoingBoing guestblogger Russ Kick (yep, that's him over in the right-hand column!) was recently interviewed for the NPR media analysis show 'On the Media" about freedom of information -- and your power to use it. Link to archived show in Real Audio. Transcript should be available on Tuesday. (Thanks, Jeremy)

Russ Long's Guide to Nashville Recording

Russ Long's Guide to Nashville Recording 04/04/2005 12:09 AM

Audioinstruction, LLC announces the first in a series of recording instructional videos:

Russ Long's Guide to Nashville Recording follows veteran engineer, Russ Long, as he records and mixes two complete songs from start to finish that include drums, guitar, bass, keyboards and vocals. The sessions were recorded on a Mac running Digidesign's Protools®

Russ records "Marianna" using some of the finest recording gear available including Chandler Limited®, Daking™, Royer®, Langevin® and Pendulum Audio™.

Cult film-maker Russ Meyer dies

Cult film-maker Russ Meyer dies 09/22/2004 12:12 PM
Legendary cult director Russ Meyer, the man behind 1960s hit Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, dies in Los Angeles.

Russ Kick on Afghan food drop fiasco

Russ Kick on Afghan food drop fiasco 05/26/2004 07:46 PM
Our current guestblogger Russ Kick wrote a great piece for Loompanics about the US food drop to Afghanistan.

You know those little packets in vitamin bottles and clothes that are supposed to keep them fresh? Well, many of the little meal packs dropped on Afghanistan contained one of those packets (called a desiccant) to keep the food fresh. Unfortunately, the Afghans aren't familiar with desiccants so they tore them open and ate the powder. Some thought it was medicine, so they noshed it straight. Others figured it was a funky American spice, so they sprinkled it on their beans, rice, or pasta. Lots of Afghans got sick, though we don't know if any deaths occurred. In fact, it's hard to say whether people got sick from chowing down on desiccant or because the food in the packets was usually spoiled.

Link (Via Reality Carnival)

Video mashup of Russ Meyer + Hoodoo
Gurus / Persian Rugs

Video mashup of Russ Meyer + Hoodoo
Gurus / Persian Rugs 09/24/2004 11:08 AM
Xeni Jardin: Following up to this week's sad news that sexploitation auteur Russ Meyers has passed away (Link), BoingBoing reader Richard Crepeau says, "Thought I'd spread the word about a Hoodoo Gurus side project called the Persian Rugs. One of their videos uses Russ Meyer clips from Mondo Topless. A nice hybrid between garage rock and camp."

On their website, the band says:

"Music and sex go very well together. For proof, just take a look at the video for the Persian Rugs' new single 'Be A Woman'. The band and director Todd Sheldrick have created the perfect setting for the band's 60's Punk-inspired Primal Rock: strippers and cavemen collide in a 21st Century psychedelic garden of eden. (...) The Rugs got in touch with famed 60's director Russ Meyer, the maker of such films as 'Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!'and Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls' (the latter a direct influence on the Austin Powers movies) and asked for permission to incorporate footage from one of his cult classics, 'Mondo Topless', into their new filmclip. Russ asked to hear the song first, [and] loved it (...)

Link to "Be a Woman" *.asx video in low and hi-res, contains megadoses of kitsch nudity (and shots of vintage '60s electronic equipment). How did those ladies make their humongous breasts do that stuff on rhythm? Weighed down by all that eyeliner, no less?

Attn: Buyers of MAILING LISTs - MORTGAGE
LEADs - BUSINESS LISTs & DIRECT
MARKETING SERVICEs : TOTAL Marketing One
- TMONE launches Direct Mail List and
Sales lead business unit and becomes one
of the most competitive list marketing
agencies.

Attn: Buyers of MAILING LISTs - MORTGAGE
LEADs - BUSINESS LISTs & DIRECT
MARKETING SERVICEs : TOTAL Marketing One
- TMONE launches Direct Mail List and
Sales lead business unit and becomes one
of the most competitive list marketing
agencies. 07/13/2004 03:44 AM
TOTAL Marketing One, an industry leader in the contact center services world announced the creation of a new business unit catering to the needs of all companies in all industries with respect to their marketing list and sales lead needs. [PRWEB Jul 13, 2004]

Amazon book sales rise 9% faster through
search inside the book feature

Amazon book sales rise 9% faster through
search inside the book feature 10/31/2003 06:21 PM
InternetRetailer.com Oct 31 2003 4:44PM ET

Book Review: Windows Admin Scripting
Little Black Book, Second Edition

Book Review: Windows Admin Scripting
Little Black Book, Second Edition 06/12/2004 12:32 PM

Book Release: Mad Cow and Cattle
Mutilations Meet the War on Terror in
Brad Steel's New Book Mute

Book Release: Mad Cow and Cattle
Mutilations Meet the War on Terror in
Brad Steel's New Book Mute 03/19/2005 02:43 AM
In MUTE, author Brad Steel has created a gripping and eerily believable scenario in which the leaders of Western nations band together to do the unthinkable—convinced it is necessary, however radical. [PRWEB Mar 17, 2005]

Book Publishers Selling Direct - Pissing
Off Book Retailers

Book Publishers Selling Direct - Pissing
Off Book Retailers 02/13/2004 05:52 AM
One of the struggles that companies have as distribution and sales mechanisms change is handling legacy channel conflict issues. Dell became huge by selling direct to customers, but when rival Compaq started to move in that direction, their retail partners freaked out - and Compaq had to scale back their plans. It appears that book publishers are now going through the same process. They've realized that if someone is looking for info about certain books on their site, it makes sense to also offer them a chance to buy it. However, it's pissing off retailers, who don't want to hear that their suppliers are competing with them. Retailers say a reasonable compromise would be having the publishers point to the retailers, which was my first response as well. However, then it becomes a political situation of who do you link to and why? There's also the fact that this makes for a less enjoyable consumer experience. I know that, more than once, I've been annoyed at online sites where I go for info on buying a product, but when I try to buy am given a big list of retailers instead of a way to buy right away.

Book review - Book lowers fear of
threats

Book review - Book lowers fear of
threats 12/15/2003 08:15 AM
vnunet.com Dec 15 2003 7:11AM ET

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Film | Cult
film-maker Russ Meyer dies

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Film | Cult
film-maker Russ Meyer dies 09/23/2004 03:14 PM
Cult film-maker Russ Meyer dies .. dead! .. RIP

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/3680976.stm
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Ta Da lists

Ta Da lists 02/05/2005 09:12 PM

Needless to say Lists are another kind of micro-content.

It's great to see Jason Fried et al - taking what they got - and hussling it. Now they've isolated their To Do lists from Basecamp and called it Ta Da...

Watch for Lists to make a big play in 2005. Whether it's wish lists, top 5 lists or just good old fashioned link lists - otherwise known as blogrolls.

One thing I can't wait for - is interchanging and subscribing to lists. Certainly anyone with an on-line outliner - will have soemnthign to load up and edit.

Do these lists tell a tale?

Do these lists tell a tale? 01/07/2004 02:02 PM
In "How to Kill a Country" there's a list of steps:
(1) Destroy the engine of productivity (2) Bury the truth (3) Crush dissent (4) Legislate the impossible (5) Teach hate (6) Scare off foreigners (7) Invade a neighbor (8) Ignore a deadly enemy (9) Commit genocide (10) Blame the imperialists
In "Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara" the lessons list as:
(1) Empathize with your enemy. (2) Rationality will not save us. (3) There's something beyond one's self. (4) Maximize efficiency. (5) Proportionality should be a guideline in war. (6) Get the data. (7) Belief and seeing are both often wrong. (8) Be prepared to re-examine your reasoning. (9) In order to do good you may have to engage in evil. (10) Never say never. (11) You can't change human nature.

Two sides of the same coin?

Source Lists

Source Lists 06/05/2005 11:39 PM
Sven-S. Porst: Source Lists: “It’s astonishing to see how differently source lists can behave. Basically they are just lists of items which usually have icons. But apart from the icons all other aspects of the lists can differ.”

(Via Michael Tsai.)

Merlin's lists of five

Merlin's lists of five 12/21/2003 01:26 AM
From my pal Merlin Mann, a stunningly funny collection of lists of fives:

Five terrible names for local retail stores

1. Pricey McMarkup's House of Suspicious Deals
2. Hot Fence Electronics Village
3. Kostly Kornerz
4. Chez Ripoffski: A Retailerié
5. Misleadington's Big Box

Link (via EvHead)

"The "Best of 2003" lists"

"The "Best of 2003" lists" 12/18/2003 08:39 PM

NLM eMail Lists

NLM eMail Lists 11/10/2003 10:50 PM
NLM eMail Lists
http://www.nlm. nih.gov/listserv/emaillists.html

NLM Email Lists is a service which allows users to subscribe to announcement and discussion lists hosted by the National Library of Medicine. Through this service, users can receive list postings, access list archives, and post messages to a list. The NLM Email List service is administered by the Center for Information Technology (CIT) at the National Institutes of Health using LISTSERV®, an email list management software package.

CSS Lists Galore

CSS Lists Galore 12/02/2003 12:26 AM
With the new possibilites offered by CSS based web design, the boring html list widget has taken on a new...

Lists and Margins

Lists and Margins 10/28/2003 11:08 PM

In the trackback for my previous entry, Anton complains about Safari's misrendering of the list items at this URL.

As far as I can tell, Safari's rendering is correct. Mozilla seems to be ignoring the negative margin placed on the divs with class="title". If you change the display of the list items to block, Mozilla stops ignoring the negative margin and behaves like Safari.

This appears to be a bug in Mozilla to me, and I believe Safari's rendering is correct.

Lists and Margins II

Lists and Margins II 10/28/2003 11:08 PM

First read the previous blog entry, and then read this response.

Responding to that trackback, the horizontal overlap when using list-style-position: inside with ordered lists has been fixed in Safari on Panther, and so I wasn't really concerned with that problem.

The real rendering problem I was referring to was the negative vertical margin being treated differently by Safari. To make a long story short (too late) I'm wrong. I totally missed the list-style-position: inside style in the test case.

The inside style causes the marker box to generate an inline box, a box that then has to be wrapped in an anonymous block. Safari generates the marker box within the first nested line box it can find, a behavior that - although incorrect according to CSS2.1 and the CSS3 draft - actually makes more sense to me. Nevertheless, to match the specification, it looks like I'll need to fix Safari's behavior. :)

In other words, Safari is "smart enough" (ha ha) to keep your bullet properly aligned vertically even when you place block elements as children of the list item. It will drill down as far as it needs to in order to find the correct first line, and it will generate the marker box there. Note that this is essentially how outside list bullets are positioned vertically, so IMO it's actually more consistent (albeit wrong according to the spec) to do this for inside bullets as well.

Ignoring the spec for a second, which behavior is better? Having to put an artificial negative margin on blocks in a list item in order to compensate for a line generated by the list bullet (other browsers) or having the marker just place itself correctly automatically (Safari)? You can tell by now which behavior I favor. ;)

Maybe it's not too late to change the spec. :)

the perl.org lists are up again!

the perl.org lists are up again! 08/13/2004 03:57 AM
You might have seen some mail trickle in over the last few hours. We've been testing and slowly letting some get through while watching the logs and I just "flipped the switch" to make it go full throttle. Yay! The nntp service isn't up yet, but will be soon....

"Microsoft, lists, RSS and me"

"Microsoft, lists, RSS and me" 06/24/2005 09:47 PM

Lists of five things.

Lists of five things. 01/09/2004 09:57 PM
A lot more than five lists of Five Things.

perl.org lists almost back...

perl.org lists almost back... 08/12/2004 11:51 PM
Robert got all the data out of onion earlier today, yay. I have another box sending out the old mail queue from onion now and I'm working on setting up the lists again on one of the boxes we got from BizRate some time ago. Unless I hit some evil show stopper mail should be flowing again some time later tonight. Oh, if anyone have some spare 18 or 36GB scsi drives then we could use a few to get...

List All People Not On Lists

List All People Not On Lists 05/21/2004 05:41 AM
List All People Not On Lists
http:// www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994961

KnowItAll, a search engine under development at the University of Washington and partially funded by DARPA and Google, trawls the Web for data and then collates it in the form of a list providing information that probably doesn't exist on any single Web page. The ultimate aim is to have KnowItAll answer questions such as "list all British scientists born before 1900." For any input noun (such as "scientists," "guitarists," etc.) the engine tries to find sentences on Web sites that contain that noun and looks for words that often appear after it. In this way it might find the phrases "scientists such as" and "scientists including," which it then feeds to 12 search engines and extracts the words that tend to follow (which are often scientists' names). KnowItAll then returns a long list of scientists' names, each one accompanied by its percentage probability of being correct, as measured by frequency of occurrence of the names on Web sites. Users will be able to choose the level of confidence they want in the data.

Slacker ToDo Lists 2.1.6

Slacker ToDo Lists 2.1.6 12/26/2003 11:22 AM
A to-do list, outliner, calendar, and notepad.

NIST makes lists

NIST makes lists 08/20/2004 09:59 AM

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