COMPARATIVE
BIOGRAPHY
Things
Other People Accomplished When They Were Your Age
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an age and see a list of accomplishments performed at that age.
SHORT
STORIES
New: "A Dollar for Your Soul" and "The Vision Vine" have just been released as an audio book, available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/EarlVickers and soon available on iTunes.
"A
Dollar for Your Soul"
A good introduction to Ponzi™ schemes and the madness of crowds. Based
on a true story about a high-school soul-selling pyramid scheme,
this story originally appeared in Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy
Magazine. A Russian
translation was done by Andrei
Novikov and published in December
1993 in Yesly ("If") magazine, which has been voted Europe's best
science fiction magazine. Since its circulation in 1993 eclipsed
that of MZBFM,
it appears that far more people have read this story in a Russian
translation
I
knew nothing
about.
"The
Vision Vine" 
A short story about virtual
reality and entheogens, originally published in Whole Earth
Review.
It's also about tribal cultures in conflict with modern civilization. The magazine Transdimension
Vista published a Japanese
translation without my knowledge
or permission, so
I'm using this graphic without their permission. (Also see Google's translation of
the Japanese version back to English.) The story
was then translated
into Russian (from the English version, of course) and published
in the May 2002 issue of Yesly magazine.
"The
Talking Cat"
A very short, allegedly true, story.
Boring Bedtime
Stories: An Anthology for Insomniacs
A collection of stories
designed to be as uninteresting as possible — your contributions
are requested.
"The
Girl Scout Cookie Project"
What
happens when your local scout troop goes on strike and refuses
to sell
cookies containing trans fatty acids (TFAs)?
"DreamNet"
An unpublished story about dreaming and networks. No one has bothered
translating this.
INSPIRATIONAL
Paul Hawken's Commencement Address to the Class of 2009
Direct, naked, taut, honest, passionate, lean, shivering, startling, and graceful.
POLITICS
You didn't get mad when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and appointed a President.
You didn't get mad when Cheney allowed energy company officials to dictate energy policy.
You didn't get mad when a covert CIA operative got outed.
You didn't get mad when the Patriot Act got passed.
You didn't get mad when we illegally invaded a country that posed no threat to us.
You didn't get mad when we spent over 600 billion(and counting) on said illegal war.
You didn't get mad when over 10 billion dollars just disappeared in Iraq.
You didn't get mad when you found out we were torturing people.
You didn't get mad when the government was illegally wiretapping Americans.
You didn't get mad when we didn't catch Bin Laden.
You didn't get mad when you saw the horrible conditions at Walter Reed.
You didn't get mad when we let a major US city, New Orleans, drown.
You didn't get mad when we gave a 900 billion tax break to the rich.
You didn't get mad when the deficit hit the trillion dollar mark.
You finally got mad when the government decided that people in America deserved the right to see a doctor if they are sick.
Yes, illegal wars, lies, corruption, torture, stealing your tax dollars to make the rich richer, are all okay with you, but helping other Americans...oh hell no.
— from Nica24
Military Spending by Country
And yet our military budget has to be off-limits!
The Richest 1% Have Looted America's Wealth
What's it going to take to get it back?
AngryTownHall.com
I'm mad as hell about America's socialist fire departments!
Goldman Sachs in Talks to Acquire Treasury Department
Election
Watch
A study
of the Diebold touch-screen voting system by Princeton University shows
that a computer virus can be introduced into one machine and spread
to others,
undetectably stealing a few votes here, a few votes there.
Read
the Princeton study and see the demonstration video
Read
the story on Salon.com.
Education Watch
Letter to the Superintendent of Schools
Educating America's future prison inmates
No
Child Left Unbored
Destroying the
love of learning, one kid at a time
CONCEPTUAL
ART PROJECTS
The "I
Hate My Life" Project
Smiling/Frowning
Mona Lisa
This is a hybrid image in which Mona Lisa is smiling when you're up close
and frowning when you're far away (or looking at a thumbnail).
The
Clockworks Project
An
online diary of what I was doing and thinking
each time a random timer beeped
Incorporating
Dogs into Art
The
Dollar Project
I
distributed dozens of dollar bills rubber-stamped with messages asking
for return of the dollar or information as to its whereabouts
MISCELLANEOUS
Photos of recently
discovered Crap Circles,
strange circular feces formations.
Photos of Fort
Ord and the Impossible City
Message
Found in a Rat
Belch Beer
So good, you'll want to taste it twice.
