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Australian Human Rights Commission Attempts To Block Encylopedia Dramatica
Brutal-Koala-Jedi-Action seemed relevant to this post
Ken Eakins writes on Sitting Now:
Here we go again …
The Australian Human Rights Commission has threatened legal action against a widely read but controversial US-based website over an article that encourages racial hatred against Aborigines.
But online rights group Electronic Frontiers Australia said trying to stamp out the deplorable content would only create the “Streisand” effect, whereby an attempt to censor online content only brings more attention to it.
The same page was in the news in January when, in a rare move, Google Australia agreed to remove links to the article from its search engine following legal action from Aboriginal man Steve Hodder-Watt.
Once again ED is attacked, and once again people miss the point of the site.
The Internet really is srs bsns.
(more @ Sydney Herald)
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Sitting Now Podcast Teases New TV Show
So we finally took the plunge — after a year of planning and debate and — and announced our new Sitting Now TV show. The show will initially be available on the site, and via online distros like iTunes, YouTube, and Vimeo, and then later will appear on a channel to be announced later in the year (confusing I know).
Anyway, check out this ‘teaser’ intro, and let us know what you think!
Sitting Now (Podcast) Raises Pan with Brian Butler
Via: sittingnow.co.uk:
This week we venture back into the worlds of the Occult, and film-making. Brian Butler is a filmmaker, magician, and colleague to legendary director Kenneth Anger.
In this weeks episode we discuss: Jack Parsons and his magickal journey, The Night of Pan, Kenneth Anger, and how the occult can influence the filmmaking process.
This weeks guest is Brian Butler
Brian is screening his new film The Night of Pan, as well as performing live music with Death in Vegas’ Richard Fearless in London this week, make sure you don’t miss it — the event is free, and you can get more details here.
Read More: sittingnow.co.uk
4chan Being Blocked Again, This Time It’s Verizon
Ken Eakins writes via Sittingnow.co.uk:
DO WANT … on Verizon!
4chan site owner m00t has posted to the 4chan blog, and Twitter, that Verizon wireless, are blocking both in and outbound web-traffic to 4chan.
Unlike a recent scare involving AT&T last year, m00t believes that this time it’s for realsies, from the 4chan blog:
Over the past 72 hours, we’ve been receiving reports from Verizon Wireless customers having difficulty accessing the image boards. After investigating, we found that Verizon is dropping traffic to/from boards.4chan.org, only on port 80 (HTTP). No other subdomain/IP/port is affected, which leads us to believe this block is intentional. A call was placed to their support staff last night, and we were told that the ticket would not be looked at until Monday at the earliest, and: “You’ll need the…
UFOs and Underground Bases with Dennis Balthaser (Sitting Now Podcast)
Via Right Where You Are Sitting Now:
It’s been a while since we’ve visited the realm of UFO investigation; so we felt when we did return, we would need to bring along a true expert in the field. Luckily for us, we found just that in Dennis Balthaser. Dennis actually lives in Roswell New Mexico, and has been studying the famous ‘Roswell Incident’ for many years. He has appeared on countless television and radio shows, and is often published in UFO Magazine.
This week we discuss: The Roswell Incident, Dulce underground base, Area 51, The state of Ufology today and much more. Please feel free to email ken@sittingnow.co.uk. Enjoy!
Ever Considered An Eyeball Tattoo?…Me Neither
Source sittingnow.co.uk
"Urgh, last night was messy, I drank loads of wine, did a mountain of coke, and tattooed my eyeball."
Ok, so I can get my head around people inking their body, it’s a control thing, you are showing the world that you truly own your body. Although I am tattless, I can appreciate this concept.
What I can’t quite wrap my head around, however, is the need to tattoo your freaking EYEBALL!…yeah…I said EYEBALL!!
Why would you want to spend the rest of your time on earth looking like you had a really heavy night? Also, I don’t think these perps realise that if they rob a bank, mug someone, or basically commit any crime; identifying them will be reeeeallly easy. Dumbasses
Ken Eakins
Sitting Now Podcast: Above Top Secret with Jim Marrs
From SittingNow.co.uk:
Our Guest this episode, Jim Marrs
We take a break from the recent onslaught of occult-related episodes, and delve head-first into the world of conspiracy theory with legendary author Jim Marrs. Jim is the author of the New York Times bestseller Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy, Above Top Secret, The Sisterhood of the Rose and many more.
This week, we discuss: Did the Nazis ever really go away, Who killed JFK, was Lee Harvey Oswald a Patsy or the lone gunman, and much more.
Joining Ken is SittingNow veteran Jacob ‘JW’ Williams, a man plauged with questions about the Kennedy assassination. One such question, “was Kennedy’s door open?”, is now available for your digestion:
Jacob’s eagle-eye spotted this…
Enjoy!
Edwardo Robot Hands
SittingNow.co.uk continue their rebooted ‘CounterTech’ series, with another great article from DisInfo’s Joe McFall:
Almost 'throwing some horns', which would be handy at metal shows
This week, Italian scientists announced that in a month-long experiment conducted last year, an amputee’s nervous system was attached to a mechanical hand disconnected from his body. The man, Pierpaolo Petruzziello, was not only able to move the robotic appendage, but was apparently able to receive feedback and feel sensations from the hand. From the Baltimore Sun:
- The Italy-based team said at a news conference in Rome on Wednesday that in 2008 it implanted electrodes into the nerves located in what remained of Petruzziello’s left arm, which was cut off in a crash some three years ago.
- The prosthetic was not implanted on the patient, only connected through the electrodes.…
Sitting Now Podcast: Modern Magick with Donald Michael Kraig
Right Where You Are Sitting Now presents:
We continue our occult exploration this week with seminal author Donald Michael Kraig. Donald is the author of the best-selling titles: ‘Modern Magick’ and ‘Modern Sex Magick‘, and has recently authored his first novel ‘The Resurection Murders‘. This is our longest interview to date, kept at its almost full original length because we enjoyed Don’s company so much.
This week we discuss: Being a ‘modern magician’, Sex Magick, Tantra, Initatory orders, Occult novels, secret rituals of certain orders, how a magickal order should survive the information age, and much more.
I am joined this week in the palacial SittingNow studio by new co-hosts Cameron Leonard-Schroff, and Paul Powney.
True Hero Revealed in Sweden!
Our one quest, our guiding light in doing Sitting Now is to bring you truth. No scratch that, our true goal is to bring you the TRUE TRUTH. That’s two truths in one, and thus, twice as good!
Now it seems that the Swedish, a nation known for the tracing of true truths, has finally come round to our way of thinking:
— PraBob, Ken Eakins
CounterTech – A(F)I: Artificial (Feline) Intelligence
SittingNow.com have employed the A.I. powers of Disinformation the Podcast host Joe McFall to kick off their new and improved ‘CounterTech’ series.
This week, IBM scientists and their university partners announced a breakthrough in cognitive computing research: the simulation of a brain the size of a cat’s. Using 144 terabytes of RAM and almost 150,000 processors, scientists were able to model a neural cortex with 1 billion simulated neurons and 10 billion synaptic connections. The researchers have subsequently been awarded $16.1 million for completion of phase 0 of DARPA’s SYNAPSE project. The goal of SYNAPSE (Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics), according to DARPA, is “to develop electronic neuromorphic machine technology that scales to biological levels.” In layman’s terms, their goal is to put simulated brains onto microchips…
Occult America with Mitch Horowitz
After a pretty lengthy break from the world of podcasting, Ken Eakins (Sitting Now) and Raymond Wiley (disinformation) return with a real 90 minute treat!
This weeks guest, Mitch Horowitz, is the author of the excellent new book Occult America: How Mysticism Shaped our Nation. Mitch has held a lifelong interest in the Occult and Supernatural, and after pursuing the subject for as long, naturally, became the editor of one of the largest publishers of Occult and Supernatural works Tarcher/Penguin.
In this weeks episodes we discuss: Freemasons, Mesmirism, Theosophy, Astrology and the dark side of American occultism…
Who Says the Internet is No Pun?
It had to happen, and Sean Leahy had to be the person to do it! The Internet has been sorley lacking a source for all things pun-retailated, and Mr Leahy has taken the e-bull by the horns with his fantastic thepunningman.com, some examples:
Will your D.N.A. be the new barcode?
George Orwell couldn’t have dreamed this up; from IT Pro:
IBM scientists are working on ambitious research where nano-sized holes will be drilled into computer chips and DNA passed through to create a ‘genetic code reader’.
IBM said that experts from nanofabrication, microelectronics, physics and biology are working together to master a technique where a long DNA molecule passes through a three nanometer wide hole (a nanopore).
As the molecule passes through the nanopore one unit of DNA at a time, an electrical sensor can ‘read’ the DNA.
The challenge of the silicon-based ‘DNA Transistor’ would be to slow and control the motion of the DNA through the hole so the reader could decode what is inside it.
IBM claimed that if the project was successful it could make personalised genome analysis as cheap as $100 to…
Yarn Storming: Robert Anton Wilson Style!
Ken Eakins of SittingNow.co.uk:
“One of our Australian listeners, Jo (from Cambria), was so inspired by Robert Anton Wilson and Bob Shea’s ‘Illuminatus Trilogy’, that he added a Fnordic twist to his yarn storming’”:
“I’ve attached photos of my most recent knit graffiti. I tag my knit bombs with bright yellow tags — one side has an eye on top of a pyramid with a red line running through it (Anti-Illuminati) and the other side has a quote from Schrodinger’s Cat or Illuminatus!”
Now, I have to admit, this is the first case of ‘Yarn Storming’ I’ve ever encountered, so I rushed to YewTube and unearthed this expanatory morsel:
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Secret History of Silicon Valley
How Stanford the CIA/NSA Built the Valley We Know Today
How much does an average Googler know about the history of the place he works in? Silicon Valley. Come and test your knowledge. I have seen this talk and I assure you — even seasoned Silicon Valley veterans will find this story interesting. Silicon Valley entrepreneur Steve Blank will talk about how World War II set the stage for the creation and explosive growth of Silicon Valley, and the role of Frederick Terman and Stanford in working with government agencies (including the CIA and the National Security Agency) to set up companies in this area that sparked the creation of hundreds of other enterprises.
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Secret History of Silicon Valley
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How much does an average Googler know about the history of the place he works in? Silicon Valley. Come and test your knowledge. I have seen this talk and I assure you -even seasoned Silicon Valley veterans will find this story interesting. Silicon Valley entrepreneur Steve Blank will talk about how World War II set the stage for the creation and explosive growth of Silicon Valley, and the role of Frederick Terman and Stanford in working with government agencies (including the CIA and the National Security Agency) to set up companies in this area that sparked the creation of hundreds of other enterprises.
Alex Jones and Charlie Sheen Hoax the 9/11 Truth Movement to Sell DVDs
Alex Jones publishes fake interview with Charlie Sheen and Obama to generate interest in upcoming film; whilst censoring his fans, and back-tracking on his show.
“What follows is a transcript, written by Sheen, of the discussion with President Obama. Now, regardless of your opinions on the 9/11 truth movement, and conspiracy theory in general, it’s kind of impressive that Sheen managed to get close enough to the most powerful man in the world for more than a handshake. The conversation transcript contains a lot of the usual blow-by-blow evidence we’ve all heard time and time again, but there’s a bigger problem … it’s a total hoax!”
Guy From ‘The Corrs’ Turns Conspiracy Theorist
This is starting to become a trend. You’re a pop-star, you’re bored, you spend an inordinate amount of time online (probably vanity-searching your own name), and you stumble upon … let’s say Above Top Secret…and all of a sudden you know ‘the Truth’. So what do you do next? The only thing you know how to do…publicise your amazing discovery!
Now, we know that this hasn’t always gone so well for other well-known would-be prophets of the New World Order. Former footballer and TV pundit David Icke, for example, suffered a painful humiliation at the hands of the BBC’s Terry Wogan … twice. Infamous MI5-bean-spiller David Shayler decided he’d found the truth, that he was the son of god, was duly hung-drawn and quartered, and did what any self respecting former…
