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When your dream of perfect beauty comes true

grounded — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:43:36 -0800

Nelsonica ’08 is sold out. But for those who won’t be at the Official Bill Nelson Fan Convention in Yorkshire this weekend, comfort yourselves with these blazing live performances by the guitar god and his band Be Bop Deluxe: Maid in Heaven, Dangerous Stranger, Adventures in a Yorkshire Landscape. After semi-success with the evolving Be Bop Deluxe, Nelson briefly convened the new-wavey Red Noise, then forayed into electropop, working with members of Japan and Yellow Magic Orchestra on songs like Acceleration, Flaming Desire and Do You Dream in Colour? He fell out with Gary Numan over the production of Numan’s Warriors album, eventually taking his name off the credits. He made ambient music for the freeform UK arts program Map of Dreams Pt 2 Pt 3 Pt 4. At Bill’s official website, Dreamsville, you can listen to his solo recordings, like the recent Mazda Kaleidescope or read Bill’s blog post detailing his preparations for Nelsonica ’08. Still pining for Nelsonica? Then time travel to last year’s gathering and watch Bill’s interview sessions.

Court martial begins for Guantanamo JAG who leaked detainee list

planetkyoto — Tue, 15 May 2007 07:50:22 -0800

It began with an innocent-looking Valentine's Day card in 2005. Inside the card were several slips of paper, a hastily cut-up printout of names of 550 secret detainees at Guantanamo Bay. The human rights lawyer who received "this weird valentine" handed it over to authorities, and this week the court martial begins for JAG LtCmdr Matthew Diaz, facing 36 years for divulging state secrets.
Whither goest thou, American Jurisprudence?

The Ultimate Meet-Up

empath — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 13:59:32 -0800

Yearly Kos. Over a year and a half after PastorDan, a diarist at DailyKos, suggested a national convention, it's actually happening. Organized, at least at first, with very little encouragement or assistance from Kos himself, they've managed to pull together quite an impressive slate of speakers and panelists. Cspan will be covering it live all weekend. Is this a landmark for blogging?

Time Traveler Convention

Ricky_gr10 — Mon, 02 May 2005 15:11:33 -0800

We are hosting the first and only Time Traveler Convention at MIT in one week, and WE NEED YOUR HELP! Anyone plan to attend?

New York's Finest Sweep Up Streets

fenriq — Thu, 02 Sep 2004 10:37:27 -0800

Protests at RNC test appropriate response
An eyewitness account by I Can't Believe Its A Democracy - "I just have to pause here for a moment to make an observation. How many times have I seen an interview with an arrested protester who claimed he or she had done nothing to provoke the police. Almost always my reaction has been, "Yeah, sure." Only now I was seeing this very situation unfold in front of my eyes. These protesters, while certainly noisy, had obeyed police instructions down the entire length of the street. Now they were being treated as if they had gotten wildly out of control, but they hadn't. I know, because I was there."

Another account from Captain Normal (also an eyewitness and even got arrested and held for 24 hours without being charged or being able to contact a lawyer) discusses a family of French tourists caught up in the sweep as well as some of the other residents of "Gitmo on the Hudson".

rschram — Fri, 27 Jul 2001 15:01:42 -0800

San Diego Opensource Convention Ends With "Positive Feelings"
The conference included a debate (documented in real time!) between Microsoft open source---what's the opposite of evangelist?---Craig Mundie and the CTO of RedHat Michael Tiemann entitled "shared source versus open source." Tiemann was feisty and "baited" Mundie, who remained cool as a cucumber. I thought we could all benefit from some postgame analysis here... (1, 2, 3)

moz — Thu, 17 May 2001 19:50:18 -0800

A fans' view chronicles the strange spectacles that are anime conventions. I used to watch a lot of anime when I was younger, and I'm still a fan of some series, but I can't really get into anything new anymore. Besides watching shows, probably the strangest aspect of my old hobby is cosplay, where everyone dresses up as their favorite anime characters. Of course, this can understandably bring some unwanted attention...