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This is for you my lovely metal fiends! Rock the bells!
PS As the holidays approach I will be off-line for a bit as I go to hang with the fam. Be good, ya’ll! Keep your eyes peeled for the new year!

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The folks at Save the Internet have released this nicely produced video into the googlesphere that explains the issues of “net neutrality.” Granted , this is not an objective presentation of the materials, but I still like how the CEOs of communications companies are portrayed as aliens. If you are convinced that you should take [...]

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This is the Black Angels‘ “Black Grease” from their 2005 self-titled release. This year’s Passover is equally impressive. Thinking of a way to support Blogdisease.com this X-mas? Both are available on iTunes and eMusic (hint, hint).

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Santa prepares his devilish army…
Back in ‘92 I was working on a documentary for the Discovery Channel about the 500-year anniversary of the Native Americans discovering Columbus. At one point we were on location at a sacred site in New Mexico with a local shaman, situated in a small mountainous enclave surrounded by pine [...]

This idea was surely stolen from me. I distinctly remember looking at an airline safety card and thinking that it would be great to see it animated. But alas, like most great projects I’ve envisioned, it dissolved into the gestaltosphere.  Regardless, this is one of the greatest videos ever made:

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Will this be the death of blogdisease?
PS Before we all die, click on this little ditty for some cosmic fun and perspective.
Severe space storm headed for Earth - Space.com - MSNBC.com:
“It’s got all the right stuff,” Kunches said.
However, one crucial component to the storm is unknown: its magnetic orientation. If it lines up a certain [...]

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It’s always interesting when reality cataches up with reality TV. Apparently it might be difficult to tell who is shooting who in Fiji these days. While the CBS reality TV series Survivor points cameras at castaways, rogue soldiers are pointing their guns at the rulers of this remote region of the South Pacific.
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Later I’ll be blogging on David Lynch’s new, mesmerizing film, Inland Empire, but I wanted to jump in and share something I discovered today about the director. He has written a book about creativity and meditation called Catching the Big Fish. I didn’t realize that he was such a big meditator, but it turns out [...]

In high school one of my best friends and I had a psychic connection about music. Though we lived in separate states, we always seemed to have parallel trajectories in our musical tastes: from punk to industrial to ambient to jazz to Latin and so on. We agreed pretty much on everything but one point: [...]

Geeks and freaks fear not, you may not get laid tonight, but your manifesto has arrived:
Science Addiction » 95 Theses of Geek Activism:
1. Reclaim the term ‘hacker’. If you tinker with electronics, you are a hacker. If you use things in more ways than intended by the manufacturer, you are a hacker. If you build [...]

This is a very thoughtful article on how your personal attitidudes and lifestyle impact climate change. I love proactive stuff like this. I HIGHLY recommend reading it.
AlterNet: EnviroHealth: Six Ways That Changing Your Life Can Prevent Global Warming:
All of the reasons for our failure to address global warming are known. But they are not known [...]

newsobserver.com | His sister in danger, 4-year-old plays hero.
A few weeks ago this story caught my attention. It’s about a four-year-old boy named Stevie Long who foiled a robbery by dressing as a Power Ranger and scarring off the attackers in his home with a plastic sword. It got me thinking about some of the [...]

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Dharma punk Noah Levine has some competition. But if punk can go Buddhist, why not go Christine? You could say that Jesus was a punk rocker, too, sans tattoos and brightly colored hair. The litmus test, though, is whether or not the particular strain of punk rock Christianity promoted by the Revolution Church is DIY [...]

Yo dudes, like it’s been around for, like so many years, like it’s called going “robo” (as in Robitussin). Geesh. Took ‘em long enough to catch on!
Teen cough medicine abuse on rise - Children’s Health - MSNBC.com:
CHICAGO - Young people are increasingly abusing a drug found in nonprescription cough medicines that can produce hallucinogenic effects, [...]

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Do media start wars? Many critics believe that if the MSM (AKA US corporate mainstream media) had been critical of Bush and Co.’s arguments for war leading up to the invasion of Iraq, the campaign would never have been supported by the public. I’m a little dubious of this argument, only because people’s opinions are [...]