Systems Whizzard

Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print

Really interesting blog and site.

Some articles:

• Report to Defense Agency Abuse by Prison Interrogation Teams due in July (Washington Post article)


• How do you converse with this?: (an accusation that Reuters doctored a Bush publicity photo


• Lord of the Blog: "United We Stand, My Precious: Gollum Votes Republican

Preface to the site -

It is a time of freedom and fear, of Gaia and of borders, of many paths and the widening of a universal toll road, emptying country and swelling cities, of the public bought into privacy and the privacy of the public sold into invisible data banks and knowing algorithms. It is the time of the warrior's peace and the miser's charity, when the planting of a seed is an act of conscientious objection.

These are the times when maps fade and direction is lost. Forwards is backwards now, so we glance sideways at the strange lands through which we are all passing, knowing for certain only that our destination has disappeared. We are unready to meet these times, but we proceed nonetheless, adapting as we wander, reshaping the Earth with every tread.

Behind us we have left the old times, the standard times, the high times. Welcome to the irregular times.

posted by Charlie @ 8:16 AM