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Tuesday, March 30
BZAP!! The Electro-Glove!! What you need - A glove - Some wire - A battery holder - A one-time-use camera, in our case, the Fujifilm QuickSnap camera Make that zapper - Open the packaging. - Remove the cardboard casing. - Pry open the camera to reveal the circuit board inside. - Your camera should now look something like the picture below. 
- Note which direction the battery is oriented in the case. - Remove the battery to avoid accidentally shocking yourself. - Push in the tab highlighted in section B to remove the circuit board from the casing. - You can throw away the plastic casing along with that flash that's still attached to the board. - Open the battery case and use pliers to remove those plastic dividers. You're making room for the circuit board you just removed from the camera casing. - Connect the switch inside the battery case to the two surface contacts in section C. When this switch is turned on, it will activate the charging mechanism. - Take about 6 inches of wire, strip it, and solder it onto the two contacts in section A. These will be the shocking electrodes; anything they touch will receive about 600 volts of pain. - Throw all of this into the battery case along with a single AA battery, tape the shocking electrodes to the outside of the glove, flip the switch, and let the fireworks (or a lawsuit) begin. Thanks to Tech TV’s Unscrewed for making high tech vigilantism accessible to the public! Friday, March 19
Because I don't know when I'm coming back Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all convictions, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? The Second Coming -- W.B. Yeats Adventures of Regime #43 Can they really be this stupid? Bush campaign gear made in Burma *His campaign store sells a pullover from nation whose products he has banned from being sold in the U.S. The official merchandise Web site for President George W. Bush's re-election campaign has sold clothing made in Burma, whose goods were banned by Bush from the U.S. last year to punish its military dictatorship. The merchandise sold on www.georgewbushstore.com includes a $49.95 fleece pullover, embroidered with the Bush-Cheney '04 logo and bearing a label stating it was made in Burma, now Myanmar. The jacket was sent to Newsday as part of an order that included a shirt made in Mexico and a hat not bearing a country-of-origin label. Way to strengthen the National Economy, 43! Thursday, March 18
I lied Been becoming more and more interested in the actions of society in relation to TV, Movies, and Advertising. I've posted stuff on the Quiet War before, but everytime I re-read it I'm amazed at how easily modern society fits the mold. The Quiet War: "It shoots situations, instead of bullets; propelled by data processing, instead of grains of gunpowder; from a computer, instead of a gun; operated by a computer programmer, instead of a marksman; under the orders of a banking magnate, instead of a military general. It makes no obvious noises, causes no obvious physical injuries, and does not obviously interfere with anyone's daily social life. "Yet it makes an unmistakable 'noise', causes unmistakable physical and mental damage, and unmistakably interferes with daily social life, i.e., unmistakable to a trained observer, one who knows what to look for. The public cannot comprehend the weapon, and therefor cannot believe they are being attacked and subdued by a weapon. "The public might instinctively feel that something is wrong, but because of the technical nature of the silent weapon, they cannot express their feeling in a rational way, or handle the problem with intelligence. Therefore, they do not know how to cry for help, and do not know how to associate with others to defend themselves against it. "When a silent weapon is applied gradually, the public adjusts/adapts to its presence and learns to tolerate its encroachment on their lives until the pressure (psychological via economic) becomes too great and they crack up. Therefore the silent weapon is a type of biological warfare. It attacks the vitality, options, and mobility of the individuals of a society by knowing, understanding, manipulating, and attacking their sources of natural and social energy, and their physical, mental, and emotional strengths and weaknesses." The last portion rings scary for me. Think in terms of advertising. Watch commercials carefully. Look at the images they're peddling to us. All of the men in commercials are overweight, stupid, lazy and care only about cars, steak and/or beer, sexy young women, or the fidelity of their wives. All of the women are thin, pretty, wearing the lastest clothing styles, and sporting the latest hair-do trend. They appear to be career women, but are always engaged in some domestic activity and are looking at the male figure with pity. The ruling class in America wants us to be docile and easily controlled. Women are still held to an impossibly high and unhealthy beauty standard, and both sexes are encouraged to spend, spend, spend. After all, that's what credit cards are for. Men are allowed to believe that it is okay to be a lazy slob because your wife/mother will always be there to help you out. TV shows like Queer Eye For The Straight Guy, and terms like 'Metrosexual' are employed so that now if a man chooses to actually take care of himself, he must be gay. After all, the Mother/Wife figure will always be there to take care of the Slovenly Male. Unless she's nagging him, of course. Conversely, TV shows like Extreme Make-Over actually deign to quantify "ugliness", and then presume to "fix" it. Pay attention because you are being used. This just in... NY Times WASHINGTON, March 14 — Federal investigators are scrutinizing television segments in which the Bush administration paid people to pose as journalists praising the benefits of the new Medicare law, which would be offered to help elderly Americans with the costs of their prescription medicines. The materials were produced by the Department of Health and Human Services, which called them video news releases, but the source is not identified. Two videos end with the voice of a woman who says, "In Washington, I'm Karen Ryan reporting." But the production company, Home Front Communications, said it had hired her to read a script prepared by the government. Another video, intended for Hispanic audiences, shows a Bush administration official being interviewed in Spanish by a man who identifies himself as a reporter named Alberto Garcia. Italics added to show emphasis. We're being lied to over and over again. #43 and his regime must be running scared to use 'soft weaponry' and disinformation to sell their hurtful administration. Tuesday, March 9
A man was shot and killed during a Masonic initiation ceremony that went "tragically wrong" when a member used a gun with real bullets instead of blanks, police said Tuesday. William James, 47, of Medford, N.Y., suffered a gunshot wound to the head and was pronounced dead at the scene Monday night. James was participating in an induction around 8:40 p.m. Monday at the Southside Masonic Lodge when another member pulled out a gun with real bullets instead of blanks and shot him... "The ceremony was designed to create a state of anxiety," Tuesday, March 2
Mars moist as a snack-cake once, Scientists say Water once covered or infused the small crater in which the rover sits, then it gradually evaporated away, leaving high concentrations of salt behind. A lake or ocean at the site might have once been the size of one of North America's Great Lakes. Or the area might have been loaded with groundwater that rarely if ever reached the surface. And while no signs of biological activity are likely to be uncovered by the current mission, scientists are ecstatic that they now know exactly where to look for past life on Mars. Monday, March 1
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