An Introduction To Scientology from a critical perspective: "Designed to present a critical but open-minded viewpoint, this page is for the curious and the uninformed: those who have heard about Scientology [TM] and who wish to seek additional information about Dianetics [TM], its founder L. Ron Hubbard, and the organization that was his brain child... Perhaps you've read about Scientology in one of the many fancy publications of the Church of Scientology, or perhaps you've learned about the war between Scientology and the Internet in a magazine, newspaper, or Webzine. You may be curious about Scientology because some of its members are famous celebrities, including John Travolta, Tom Cruise, Jenna Elfman, Isaac Hayes, and others. Perhaps you read Usenet, and you heard about Scientology from your favorite newsgroup. Whatever your reasons for coming here, rest assured that you have found what you are looking for. The links provided on this Web page will provide you with all the information you ever wanted to know about Scientology and its war against the Internet." Includes information on the war between Scientology and its critics on the Internet.

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When I turned 28 I cried for an hour in Sonja's arms. It was quite liberating, actually. I remember thinking that I hoped the misery would lead me to an acceptance of my own mortality. Drinking coolers helped, too.

The problem, I think, was that I had left the station and didn't really want to work in community radio anymore. It was an odd feeling to be very dedicated to something for several years, and then find that the dedication and energy was completely gone. At the NCRA conference I spoke with some of the other station managers about what they were going to do when they left their station. There is something about community radio which makes things that you do afterward seem disappointing. It's an odd thing.

I worked in community radio for so long, and wanted to manage a station for so long, that when I'd done it I couldn't imagine new challenges. I felt a little lost sometimes; I would look around and find myself discouraged.

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Computer code is not free speech. From 2600.com: "In the end, all of our concerns about the First Amendment and freedom of speech went right out the window. Because DeCSS exists to bypass CSS, its very existence violates the Digitial Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA). It doesn't matter that DeCSS wasn't created as a pirating tool whose purpose is to copy DVDs. It doesn't matter that DeCSS was created so that people could view their own DVDs on their own computer systems including those (such as Linux) for which no "legal" player had been developed. The DMCA says that anything that bypasses access control is in violation, regardless of how unfair that access control may be."

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A weblog I'm hoping to read more of: eatonweb.

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I like these email postcards from Heather Champ of harrumph!

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"Wpoison is a free tool that can be used to help reduce the problem of bulk junk e-mail on the Internet in general, and at sites using Wpoison in particular... In the case of the Wpoison CGI program, the dynamic content that is generated each time the program is 'visited' (by a web browser, or by a web-scanning robot program) is just a list of randomized bogus e-mail addresses, together with a list of randomized web hyper-links."

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NSA UFO Documents: "The documents listed on this page were located in response to the numerous requests received by NSA on the subject of Unidentified Flying Objects."

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Payphone Project: "The payphone project went on-line during the summer of 1995... The focus of this part of sorabji.com has gone through several incarnations. In 1995 the project was a list of a few dozen manhattan payphone numbers which i was calling, and i posted the list as a supplement to stories i was writing at the time. despite the confessional nature of many of my stories i hold back a lot of things about my days, and one of the things i never talked about are the days i went through such crazy depression and worthlessness that i slept by the water and almost jumped into the east river... The list of phone numbers existed so that i would be able to call and talk to someone in the event that i became depressed enough that i forgot there are other ways to find people to talk to."

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