Poster idea

Remember those old mad and cracked magazine covers that were painted movie parodies? We need to make one that shows Bill and Ted's time traveling phonebooth going back in time in the middle of a bunch of first nationers in 1491, all surprised and everything, with a california 80's style ward churchill and noam chomsky (who would be bill and who would be ted?) popping out being like "Dude, Don't Feed the Pilgrims!"


Meanwhile, in mainstream news, the Tom delay flap is yet another situation like Limbaugh's. Long story short: Republican scumbag Delay is getting a major rule change made for him because he might be indicted. Back in the early nineties, when a democrat was getting indicted, the republicans got this rule passed that said if you were being indicted on a charge that could bring more than a two year bid, you'd have to relinquish your position. Now they want to switch it. The problem is that this rule should be removed, not to protect him, but because of the long history of political prisonersand activists who also happened to be elected officials (see Bobby Sands, Gramsci, and Julian Bond and the Georgia State Leg.). That said, dump Delay. Like Limbaugh, it makes little sense to encourage sympathy for him in an utter vacuum of justice. Why should we feel any sympathy for an unrepentant racist who's called for barbarian responses to the very serious issue of drug addiction? Decriminalize drugs, turn it into a healthcare issue, but until then, why not roast the pig?

Speaking of farm animals:
Today in history, the chickens came home to roost.



And lastly, the panopticon is in your printer:

"According to experts, several printer companies quietly encode the serial number and the manufacturing code of their color laser printers and color copiers on every document those machines produce.
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Peter Crean, a senior research fellow at Xerox, says his company's laser printers, copiers and multifunction workstations, such as its WorkCentre Pro series, put the "serial number of each machine coded in little yellow dots" in every printout. The millimeter-sized dots appear about every inch on a page, nestled within the printed words and margins.
"It's a trail back to you, like a license plate," Crean says.
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[T]hey could also be employed to track a document back to any person or business that printed it. Although the technology has existed for a long time, printer companies have not been required to notify customers of the feature." (Yahoo, Government Uses Color Laser Printer Technology to Track Documents by Jason Tuohey, Medill News Service)