Rage

So this looks pretty cool...

http://tentstate.org/rage.htm

Question

I posted about a week ago the new blog formed, which has all of these posts (except the last 3 I think). It is on Wordpress, which is an open-source organization that gives the opportunity to create really beautiful spaces.

I am going to write my thesis this year on Open Source/Wikipedia/Second Life systems which provide users with the ability to be the co-creators of content. In a metaphysical way, many have been saying that we are the co-creators of our reality...It doesn't to me seem a coincidence that we could also be the co-creators of our the way we operate in our culture, which at this point and time, and probably for a nice long stretch of time - is mostly through computers.

If you haven't seen it yet, check it out.

I am not sure the if this is what everyone wants to do, but I am throwing it out there. My vision is to eventually creation a shredsomething.com which hosts blogs using the Wordpress software (because they allow you to do that for free). Then we could all create our own blogs, like the one I have created here, while simultaneously sharing the collected space. We could have feeds from the various blogs we create, along w/ news, and myriad multimedia.

Web 2.0/social networking software is still in its infant stages, but there is no doubt in my mind that this is the future. Watch how Facebook morphs. It is becoming increasingly easier to share information in clear and coherent ways.

I want to up the ante I suppose, keep it better organized, and open for more people out in the world to see. Through Wordpress, people can Tag surf...We can incorporate the widgets of Digg, StumbleUpon etc...and start really putting some good stuff together. This has been a blast for me, I hope it has been for you, and if you would like to know more about Open Source, I will be posting stuff on my blog as I go along to help facilitate my research process.

Thanks for your time!

Nice Beards

Is that karl marx? a bush? billy nershi? lookin foreward to the 18th

Awesome!

Just a quick comparison... Joker most intriguing character since... Tyler Durden?

Peace out CO!

I thought this was Fing hilarious. Anyways, it was sweet to see everyone while I was home for the last week or two. Don't think I won't be in CO every chance I get to fully r@ge faces with all of you, it may just have to be that sector9 weekend mentioned below. I'm thinkin WSP for sure b/c 5 nights in NYC would be quite pricey...unless GPate could hook that condo up. but I'm chillin for the time being and will no doubt continue to stay in touch. Also, let me know if any of you swing thru chicago at any point, would love to kick it. peace kids.

RASTA BUS!!

Yo what up shredders? So me and the bison booked the rasta bus for the first night of sector 9 at red rocks. There are about 7/8 spots left and i was just seeing if anyone else wanted to get down. Its gonna pick us up in denver somewhere, bring us to red rocks, then to the after party at the ogden (shpongle/hallucinogen, pretty lights...) then back to where it picked us up. Its $30/person and includes a keg. I took this bus to phil last fall and it was fucking sick. So if anyone wants to get down, give me a call or just post on here and ill put you on the list. let me know...

ruda

America: Freedom to Fascism by Aaron Russo

America: Freedom to Fascism is a compelling and troubling account of how the wealth of our nation was silently passed from its citizens to a handful of powerful bankers in 1913. That's the year the Federal Reserve Act and the 16th Amendment were introduced, giving a privately held corporation the means to control our finances while ensuring its interest payments through the strong arms of the newly-formed Internal Revenue Service.

Ever since then, Russo suggests, Americans have been gradually conditioned to accept fewer freedoms and a lower standard of living... all the while considering debt and servitude as distinctly American values.

Russo's first and most cogent point is simple: Americans are not required to pay a federal income tax. That's a bold statement to make, as few people believe that such a fraud could be perpetrated for so long. My father, himself an accountant, insists that the income tax is a very real thing. Russo takes that same belief to IRS employees and simply asks them to cite where it says an unapportioned income tax is required of us all. Guess what? They can't. In a telling segment Sheldon Cohen, former commissioner of the IRS, goes so far as to reject Supreme Court rulings and the Constitution as benchmarks over what is legal with regards to taxation. Russo also interviews members of the tax honesty movement as well as disenfranchised IRS agents who agree that no law on the books conjures up a requirement to send the government part of one's hard-earned paycheck.

Russo then showcases court cases where those accused of tax evasion have won precisely because the prosecution cannot provide evidence of a legal federal income tax law. It's shocking to have it hammered into your head over and over that you've thrown your money away for nothing, but repetition is good; it helps knock loose the deeply entrenched belief that we owe a portion of our livelihood to our government.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1656880303867390173