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this is my favorite new blog - wonderful writing and great comments: Rigorous Intuition (v. 2.0)

also, a stunning article by Greg Palast on Hurricane Katrina.

Here's what happened. Right after Katrina swamped the city, I called Washington to get a copy of the evacuation plan.  

Funny thing about the murderously failed plan for the evacuation of New Orleans: no one can find it. That's right. It's missing. Maybe it got wet and sank in the flood. Whatever: no one can find it. 

That's real bad.  Here's the key thing about a successful emergency evacuation plan: you have to have copies of it. Lots of copies -- in fire houses and in hospitals and in the hands of every first responder. Secret evacuation plans don't work.

you can also watch Palasts' report on Democracy Now

 

and while you're at it . . . Spike Lee's "When The Levees Broke" must be seen as widely as possible.  watch it on HBO if you have it, buy it on-line if you have the $$, or download it here (parts 1 & 2) (parts 3 & 4) via bittorrent.  i have never seen such a powerful documentary . . .

CREATIVE PROJECTS:  i have to make myself an Audio Peacock . . . omg . . . a walking speaker - if you make four you can produce quadraphonic sound!!  also discovered, a human-powered bike/car, only cooler than the Flintstones.

Anxiety leads to a narrowing of the field of attention, the so-called tunnel vision, and when people are anxious, they are unable to attend to the total situation as is necessary to enable them to act rationally, but impulsively do the first thing that comes into their heads which is usually determined by what others are doing at the same time.
--J. A. C. Brown, Techniques of Persuasion

Psychology and the "War on Terror"

Declassified Psychological Warfare Plans: Earthquake, Japan

8 Components of Propaganda

audio of bush talking about "catapulting the propaganda"

We Can Implant Memories . . .

mmmm Pickle Juice Sport!!