The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops.

When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

The future's here, we are it, we are on our own

I'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior.

One may as well be optimistic. The road to catastrophe will be rougher if it's paved with dread.

Art is a service, not a product. Created beauty is a relationship, and a relationship with the Holy at that. Reducing such work to 'content' is like praying in swear words. End of Sermon. Back to business.

If someone like Karl Rove had wanted to neutralize the most creative, intelligent, and passionate members of his opposition, he'd have a hard time coming up with a better tool than Burning Man. Exile them to the wilderness, give them a culture in which alpha status requires months of focus and resource-consumptive preparation, provide them with metric tons of psychotropic confusicants, and then... ignore them. It's a pretty safe bet that they won't be out registering voters, or doing anything that might actually threaten electoral change, when they have an art car to build.