August 2004
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This weekend i went to Northern Arizona and helped survey the main passage of a cave, build a cave gate, and an outhouse. Here are some pictures from the [cave-a-thon](http://23b.org/gallery/mosque_pit_2_eecue).=]
from [[boing-boing](http://www.boingboing.net/)] ----- **Xeni Jardin**: Snipped from MSNBC.com. Correspondent Ron Reagan was interviewing Joshua Kinberg when he was arrested yesterday ([Link to previous BB post](http://www.boingboing.net/2004/08/29/rnc_protests_bikes_a.html) for story background): > >  > > > Released from the "Tombs" after police arrested me (Joshua Kinberg of Bikes Against Bush) I'm now sitting in the MSNBC trailer at Herald Sq., NYC, with Ron Reagan and Joe Trippi after spending 24 hours in the "Tombs" with several hundred [Critical Mass cyclists](http://www.times-up.org/cm.php), who were arrested the night before. Joshua Kinberg: I was arrested while Ron was interviewing me about my invention-- a bicycle that prints text messages on the street in water-soluble chalk. While we were conducting the interview, the police stopped me and asked for my ID. After I produced identification, the police waited for their sergeant to arrive before placing me under arrest without stating the charge. I was doing nothing more than describing my invention to the media and explaining my disagreements with the Bush administration. When I arrived in the Tombs, I was placed in a cell with around 30 other cyclists. They had spent the previous night in a location they were affectionately calling "Lil' Gitmo," a makeshift detention center on the West Side piers converted from a former bus depot. Lil' Gitmo had cells sectioned off with chain link fence and razor wire, and a floor covered in motor oil, transmission fluid, and other toxic chemicals. The cyclists detained there were forced to sleep on this hazardous floor wearing nothing more than bicycling shorts and t-shirts. Consequently, several developed serious skin rashes the following day. After 36 hours most of the cyclists had been released with a pending court date. Several had been arrested when specifically following police directions to exit the peaceful bike ride. Others had not been part of Critical Mass, but had simply been on the streets with a bicycle at the wrong time. I was released after 24 hours in detention with a court date set for Friday. Unfortunately, all my equipment-- bicycle, laptop, cell phone, and custom designed electronics-- has been confiscated. Thus, the [Bikes Against Bush](http://www.bikesagainstbush.com/) performance, where I would accept and print messages sent from web users, is likely to be cancelled. A volunteer lawyer from the National Lawyers Guild is confident that my case will be dismissed on grounds of the First Amendment, but we will have to wait until Friday to see. A video of the arrest recorded and edited by Yury Gitman has been posted online ([BitTorrent](http://dv.open4all.info/bblog/torrent_files/20040828_kinberg.mov.torrent)), and the story of my arrest has already been blogged on [SlashDot](http://slashdot.org/articles/04/08/29/174220.shtml?tid=219&tid=1), [BoingBoing](http://www.boingboing.net/2004/08/29/rnc_protests_bikes_a.html), [Kottke](http://www.kottke.org/), and [JuliaSet](http://a.parsons.edu/~juliaset/). [Link](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5850151/?#040829e) to MSNBC item, with link to video of Reagan's interview with Kinberg (in which he describes "what happened, and what *The Tombs* was like.")
"[Don't let the GOP delegates appropriate the Man in Black.](http://www.thenation.com/actnow/index.mhtml?pid=1705)" [[via / from the nation](http://www.thenation.com/)]
Ok i'm not sure how i feel about this yet... \*From: <http://www.wgms.com/index.php?nid=65&sid=130788> --- A film to hit German theaters Sept. 16 breaks taboos by showing Hitler as a shaking dreamer rather than a ranting tyrant. ---\* [via [topix world](http://www.topix.net/world)]
A shipment of Uranium and Thorium ore (not highly radioactive) was [seized in Brazil](http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6059920&src=rss/worldNews§ion=news). The ore is not dangerous and would require processing and enriching to be used in a nuclear device. [[reuters](http://www.reuters.com)]
A study of an Amazon tribe [reveals](http://www.nature.com/news/2004/040816/full/040816-10.html) that the lack of language to describe numbers makes counting hard to impossible. [[nature](http://www.nature.com/news/)]
As it turns out, those pictures of "jewish" girls in the jdate banners [aren't actually jews](http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasen/spages/467930.html), but porn stars. [[haaretz](http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasen/pages/LiArt.jhtml?contrassID=2&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0)]
read this [interesting interview](http://grep.law.harvard.edu/article.pl?sid=04/08/18/112237) with dot-com boom millionaire / activist John Gilmore.
these new [phones](http://www.sonyericsson.co.jp/product/docomo/so506ic/index.html) are pretty [cool](http://www.sonyericsson.co.jp/product/docomo/premini/top.html)... check the [commercial](http://www.sonyericsson.co.jp/semcfun/fun/cmgallery/premini/index.html)
When i heard about the security problems at LANL and about how some newly appointed Bush cabinet members were going to strip The Regents of the University of California control of the Lab i [hypothesized that Haliburton would get the contract](http://eecue.com/news/archives/67_University_of_California_will_no_longer_manage_Los_Alamos_National_Laboratory.html)... i was wrong, but big surprise that one of the main bidders was the [University of Texas](http://www.abqtrib.com/archives/news04/081304_news_lanl.shtml)... several other bidders are also from Texas, including Texas A&M... i really hope it goes back to UC.
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