"the President of the United States is
not bound by laws banning the use of
torture and anyone he orders to torture
another could not be prosecuted"

Thieves Fall Out in the Bush
Administration Over American Torture in
Saddam's Torture Chambers, But It
Happened at Gitmo and in Afghanistan
Too. Don't Kid Yourself. 5/6

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5733-2004May5.html
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More Appalling Iraqi Torture Photos
Emerge. Impeachment Now! It Won't Happen
But It Should. America is Disgraced and
an Islamic Backlash for the Bush Cartel
Corporate Culture of Torture and
Humiliation Threatens Our National
Security. 5/6

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5623-2004May5.html
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Torture and Truth and The Logic of
Torture

German Buys Rights to Communist East
German Emblem (Reuters)

Fully Featured German Webspace and
Customizable .de Domain Registration
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Users by German - Ukrainian Co-operation
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Badass Mashup

If you love Queen, John Hughes movies, and classic 80's hip hop music, drop everything you're doing and download The Kleptones' "hip-hopera" mix. Download the giant zip file and there's a single 90 minute long mp3 file.

There's no way to describe it other than totally badass [via].

The "Enron's Got The Power" mashup

Enron/I Got the Power mashup

Mashup: Movable Type and WordML

Word docs from Movable Type: I have to say that Microsoft is doing some great things with the new underlying XML format in Office 2003 and up. Using that functionality, the guys at Movable Type's Pronet published a simple template that outputs Word ML, and thus creates what's essentially a Word document directly from Movable Type.

Bloggers who are used to updating their status by posting to their Movable Type blogs can use a template like this to easily reformat their posts into a weekly report in Word that can be emailed around or simply posted to a web server for easy access.

I plugged the template in, and generated this Word document (60KB PDF; opens in a new window — it's actually a PDF generated from Word 2003, since you have to have at least that version to view it). I would have had to screw a bit with the template tags to get it to come out exactly like the Web version (we use a special plugin for line breaks, for instance), but even at the defaults, there you have a Word document of the last five posts to this blog.

The implications of WordML in general are fantastic. In the business I support, we were always trying to come up with a modular way to create large documents — piecing them together from smaller documents. After trying a million different things in Word, we finally defaulted to two dozen Word files and just doing "Insert > File" until we had amassed the file we wanted.

With Word ML, we could maintain the pieces in in an actual content management system (this is screaming out for eZ publish), then output them in whatever order we needed, to be opened and printed from Word. I can't wait to start playing with this.

(Also, wouldn't this obviate the need for a PDF rendering library, assuming you were using a Windows server? If you need a PDF version of content, output what you need in WordML, then instantiate Word and print to PDF via VBA. And how long before someone just comes up with a WordML-to-PDF executable that lets you skip instantiating Word altogether? Extra points if they make it for *nix...)

Free Audi for best Bowie mashup

Mashup Artists Face the Music

TV show mashup photoshopping contest

Video mashup of Half Life 2 + Oakenfold

Reservoir Dogs/Star Wars mashup

Star Wars/Office Space mashup

Update: Erin, who was hosting this file, has been shut down by her lame-ass ISP (the ironically named tera-byte.com). If you have a link to a more stable version of this movie (the filename is OfficeSpaceWars.wmv) mail it to me and I'll update the post

Video: Mashup of "Paperback Writer" and
"I'm a Believer"

gohomeproductions.co.uk/video/ghp_paperback_believer.mov
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MTV's new mashup bootleg TV show "MTV
Mash"

We've been doing bootlegs / mash-ups for a few years now. For the last several months, we've been working with MTV on exclusive bootlegs for a new show called ""MTV MASH" which is broadcast all around Europe 3 times a week. We already made12 tracks for the show so far. If you want to listen to our bootlegs, check out our website, it's still under construction, but there's already a lot of tracks to listen to.

Incredible Beatles mashup mixes 40+
different tracks

PS: I am reasonably certain that this server will be shortly overwhelmed. If you've got a mirror, email me and I'll post a link to it. However, I have no such mirror, so if you find yourself unable to get a copy, don't look at me!

Update 1: Ian Clarke, the co-author of the awesome P2P tool Freenet, has graciously offered to distribute this file through Dijjer, his new (still pre-beta) P2P content distribution tool; here's the Dijjer Link

Update 2: Brian Arnold offers this more conventional mirror

Update 3: David Chin was good enough to make and seed this Torrent for the file (though I have my doubts about BitTorrent's efficacy with a file of a paltry five megabytes)

New Kleptones mashup album is so damned
fine

Che/Michael Moore mashup schwag MoveOn
fundraiser

"We're excited about this - we're a company of roughly three people so this feels like a way that we can actually help. I don't know what kind of response we're going to get to it yet, but who can predict? We're preparing for anything!" Link (Thanks, Kevin!)

DoubleTrust Offers Yahoo / Google Result
Mashup

Wired News: Mashup Artists Face the
Music

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Gizmodo Mashup: Media Player, Mini PC,
and a Robot Crab

Gizmodo Mashup: Media Player, Mini PC,
and a Robot Crab 06/03/2004 12:22 PM

Some good things from the always interesting SorobanGeeks' Akihabara News, including these Computex showing of a portable media player from MSI, the 'Mega View 512' (top right) and the Piston Socket 775 mini PC from FIC (bottom right) which looks an awful lot like those tube subwoofers, but may just be cylindrical for coolness's sake. And finally, just because I have a hard time resisting robots of any sort, but especially cheap (~$50) robot kits for kids, check out the latest in Gakken's 'Mechanical Animal' series of Mechamo robots: teh crab!
Read [Gakken.jpg via Akiba.SorobanGeeks]

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?

"how-to record on your ipod (for free) -
ipod hacks - ipod.hackaday.com"

"how-to record on your ipod (for free) -
ipod hacks - ipod.hackaday.com" 12/31/2004 04:38 PM

Boing Boing: Star Wars/Office Space
mashup

Boing Boing: Star Wars/Office Space
mashup 06/26/2004 01:35 AM
Boing Boing: Star Wars/Office Space mashup .. points us to

boingboing.net/2004/06/25/star_warsoffice_spac.html
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More Than a Newspaper

More Than a Newspaper 04/15/2004 10:17 AM
The Washington Post Co. offers a lot to investors.

BB-Shopping Is One of the Best Resources
for Mobile Phone Accessories, Ipod
Accessories (Ipod, Ipod Arm Band)and
Many More

BB-Shopping Is One of the Best Resources
for Mobile Phone Accessories, Ipod
Accessories (Ipod, Ipod Arm Band)and
Many More 02/01/2005 08:46 PM
One Place Resource for Ipod Accessories and other Consumer Electronic Gadgets [PRWEB Jan 26, 2005]

Love thy newspaper

Love thy newspaper 09/22/2004 02:02 AM
'[T]hese partisans also will seize the exception and call it the rule' .. Righties will use Rather flap as excuse to boycott big media .. writes

sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/09/21/EDGN58R2L51. DTL
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Distributing MP3 Via Newspaper

Distributing MP3 Via Newspaper 04/15/2004 09:05 AM

Storing on paper: This seems pretty useless, but very cool nonetheless. So a lot like Ashton Kutcher, really.

Tokyo's Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan’s leading newspaper, has been printing on the corner of a page a series of black dots, which are not Japenese characters. These black dots are in a tight, uneven pattern. From a distance it looks like a woven fabric, and closely it looks like a snowy TV screen. When this page is fed through a scanner, the true nature of the image is revealed: it’s software — a computer data. In this way, the newspaper is sending music files, video games software, etc., to its 10 million customers.

Here's the Web site of the company that makes the technology. Some interesting reading there.

I found this via a neat new blog called hypulp which I found via Metafilter.

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