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<title>Polyhelix.org</title>
<link>http://www.polyhelix.org</link>
<description>A Minute in the Mind</description>
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<dc:creator>hyperqube@moose-mail.com</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2008-07-06T13:28:11-07:00</dc:date>

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<title>Eliminating Web Annoyances with Firefox</title>
<link>http://www.polyhelix.org/modules.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=22</link>
<description><![CDATA[Here's my WWW security profile. I've split it up into 5 sections, from &#34;light&#34; security, to &#34;ultra paranoid&#34; (my personal setting).  
Even if you aren't interested in security at all, it's still worth checking out #1 and #3, for reasons I'll go into in those sections. ]]></description>
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<dc:subject>misc</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2008-04-19T17:59:17-07:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by cepheid</dc:creator>
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<title>MV Inc - IOU Babe</title>
<link>http://www.polyhelix.org/modules.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=20</link>
<description><![CDATA[A long time ago (1994) there was a magazine about the emergent cyberculture called Mondo 2000. Chief weirdo R.U. Sirius was the media guru here, marshalling a cadre of iconoclasts writing articles about 90s topics like smart drugs and virtual reality. (Recommended media: the Mondo 2000 book, which serves as an encyclopedia of 90s cyberculture. Know your roots!) 
Another of Sirius's media forays was much more short-lived than Mondo 2000: his industrial-pop band Mondo Vanilli (later renamed to MV]]></description>
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<dc:subject>kulture</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2008-03-30T14:42:23-07:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by cepheid</dc:creator>
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<title>An Open Letter to the King County Charter Review Board</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Dear Member of the Charter Committee:

	I am writing you regarding Ranked Choice Voting (RCV), also known as Instant Runoff Voting (IRV). I consider this system of voting to be superior to the one currently implemented. I'm requesting the committee's recommendation of RCV to the King County Council.
	
	RCV is more democratic than our current system. Instead of only getting to pick one candidate, voters rank each candidate: #1, #2, #3, and so on. Candidates ranked #1 are tallied, and if none ]]></description>
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<dc:subject>misc</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2008-03-30T14:03:37-07:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by cepheid</dc:creator>
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<title>Brick</title>
<link>http://www.polyhelix.org/modules.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=18</link>
<description><![CDATA[I had a friend who claimed that at one time he'd taught English in a school. Sometimes he'd get students with seemingly insurmountable writer's blocks. For them, he had a method to hone their focus: write about something minute and apparently insignificant. He'd tell them to write about a brick.


Those students would write pages and pages about that brick. Every crack and pit on its surface, where the clay it had been made from was quarried, when and how it had been placed in the wall it now]]></description>
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<dc:subject>misc</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2008-01-31T01:05:58-07:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by cepheid</dc:creator>
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<title>Everyone's Grudge</title>
<link>http://www.polyhelix.org/modules.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=17</link>
<description><![CDATA[Once there was a band named Everyone's Grudge. They were some white, white, white gangstas, who did songs about killing, murdalizing, robbing, destroying people who stole their seats, and playing golf. If you looking up HAWD in the dictionary, these guys would be in there somewhere. 
(The following files were provided by the band for free to their fans, on the late, lamented mp3.com.)]]></description>
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<dc:subject>kulture</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2008-01-13T01:33:00-07:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by cepheid</dc:creator>
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<title>Singles Sites Spam Craigslist</title>
<link>http://www.polyhelix.org/modules.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=13</link>
<description><![CDATA[Dateless and desperate on Craigslist? Watch out for www-true.org (a front site for www.true.com) one of a handful of singles (or porn) sites who have been posting fake ads in the dating classifieds. Here's how the scam works---the bait will be an ad, typically (but not always!) spiked with photos of a cute young lady. When the mark responds, the &#34;lady&#34; replies with instructions to &#34;get to know her better&#34; by signing up to the dating or porn site, where she has a profile with ]]></description>
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<dc:subject>misc</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2008-01-11T22:45:28-07:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by cepheid</dc:creator>
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<title>Crux Arts Mural</title>
<link>http://www.polyhelix.org/modules.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=12</link>
<description><![CDATA[Crux Artist Collective (now located on 1421 Park Avenue) did this impressive mural on the side of the old 818 Art Gallery building. No sooner had it gotten done then 818 closed up, the building had new tenants, and the mural was painted over! (No kidding.) I'm not pointing any fingers, but that building is now occupied by the &#34;Orchard Chapel&#34;, or some other kind of happy-crappy hoo-ha.

Anyway, all that's left are these photos I took, and the in-progress photos on the Crux site. (Art]]></description>
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<dc:subject>kulture</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2007-01-14T16:35:02-07:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by cepheid</dc:creator>
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<title>An Open Letter to AT&#38;T</title>
<link>http://www.polyhelix.org/modules.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=11</link>
<description><![CDATA[I sent this letter to AT&#38;T in 2006. 

Dear Sir or Madam, 	
I recently cancelled my DSL account with AT&#38;T due to your corporation's opposition to net neutrality in congress. 	
I have received excellent service in the past, but have become more and more disillusioned with AT&#38;T's politics. This began with your cooperation with the Bush administration's requests for phone records. 	
I am well aware of the arguments on both sides of these issues. Having used the Internet since 1997 (]]></description>
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<dc:subject>misc</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2007-01-20T15:44:36-07:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by cepheid</dc:creator>
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<title>Progressive Baloney Detection Kit</title>
<link>http://www.polyhelix.org/modules.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=10</link>
<description><![CDATA[Here's a paper I wrote back in 2002, when the first 9/11 conspiracies (now known as LIHOP, or &#34;Let It Happen On Purpose&#34;) first began appearing. It probably needs a little work, but the essential idea is vital, especially when dealing with the vast field of &#34;alternative media&#34; that is available now, thanks to the Internet. A working BDK is necessary for the truly progressive: open-minded, yet critical. ]]></description>
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<dc:subject>skepticism</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2007-01-19T15:38:49-07:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by cepheid</dc:creator>
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<title>9-11 Denial</title>
<link>http://www.polyhelix.org/modules.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=9</link>
<description><![CDATA[In the months after the 2004 electoral debacle, there was much talk in our local Green Party about &#34;infiltration by Democrats&#34;. The party had decided to throw its weight---not behind Ralph Nader, our perennial candidate with the star power, but a virtual unknown...Texas lawyer David Cobb. Allegations of a &#34;rigged convention&#34; flew. I had to laugh at the idea of &#34;infiltration&#34;. Not that I would put it past the Democrats, mind you. The fear and paranoia of Nader was ev]]></description>
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<dc:subject>misc</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2007-01-04T15:22:35-07:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by cepheid</dc:creator>
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<title>Gravy is Amazing</title>
<link>http://www.polyhelix.org/modules.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=8</link>
<description><![CDATA[Not biscuits and gravy, but Mark Roberts, a frequent poster on the JREF fora who challenges 9-11 deniers, has gone on the Hardfire show to debate two of the people behind the repulsive Loose Change video. This is a movie that tries to convince you that it was not Arab terrorists who destroyed the WTC, but the Bush administration! For real. Because, apparently, W is some kind of James Bond mastermind, who can mind-control thousands of people. 
See part one and then part two. ]]></description>
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<dc:subject>skepticism</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2007-01-01T15:03:08-07:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by cepheid</dc:creator>
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<title>Letters as Art</title>
<link>http://www.polyhelix.org/modules.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=7</link>
<description><![CDATA[Long ago, if you wanted a realistic picture of something, you had to rely on a painter. These artisans used their skill to capture scenic vistas and flattering portraits of dignitaries. 
However, once photography was invented, it became more practical to use a camera to create realistic images. Painting was no longer a necessity, so it became simply an art. Surrealism, cubism, pointillism, and many other fantastic styles developed within the field of painting. Since the utility of painting had ]]></description>
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<dc:subject>kulture</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2008-01-06T00:31:21-07:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by cepheid</dc:creator>
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<title>Scientology vs. Myspace</title>
<link>http://www.polyhelix.org/modules.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=6</link>
<description><![CDATA[The latest salvo in Scientology's war on the Internet comes on (no big surprise here) MySpace.com. Apparently, the following letter has been circulating among culties:	 

Subject DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT 	
Body: For Those Who Believe in Religious Freedom, 	
I would like to recruit your help with a planned project that is working quite well. A great many of my friends are doing this in an effort to kick out and blow entheta from myspace. I sent this email to myspace admin. This has worked in the]]></description>
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<dc:subject>skepticism</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2007-01-24T23:55:05-07:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by cepheid</dc:creator>
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<title>Darth Brooks</title>
<link>http://www.polyhelix.org/modules.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=5</link>
<description><![CDATA[I remember reading, back in the good ol' 90s, that Ministry's Al Jourgensen was going to revamp his band's sound into some kind of badass melding of industrial and the most raw, badass macho country you can imagine. Whether I imagined the whole thing or not, Ministry has only gone more and more metal. 
The closest thing I've ever seen to this concept is the &#34;industrial country&#34; band Darth Brooks, which appeared very briefly, vanishing again without a trace. Maybe their name was too si]]></description>
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<dc:subject>kulture</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2006-12-26T23:43:16-07:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by cepheid</dc:creator>
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<title>Mystery Medicine</title>
<link>http://www.polyhelix.org/modules.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=4</link>
<description><![CDATA[I was in the store the other day, where I saw a box of Airborne cold medication for sale next to some other drugs. This stuff seems to be pretty popular, especially around this time of year. 
It's basically a concoction of vitamins, minerals, and a couple handfuls of herbs. Since none of this stuff has any solid scientific evidence that it affects a cold at all, it's apparently purchased in the hope that if you dump enough stuff in your body, something will work. 
The really hilarious thing is]]></description>
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<dc:subject>skepticism</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2007-12-16T22:58:01-07:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by cepheid</dc:creator>
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<title>The Truth About the 9-11 Truth Movement</title>
<link>http://www.polyhelix.org/modules.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=3</link>
<description><![CDATA[So much work to do on this site still! It's not even a matter of producing content, really, because I have a lot of material just lying around that I just need to upload. (As well as databases from previous incarnations that I need to do text dumps of.) 
Anyway, one project is now DONE! (Or 99% done.) This is the conversion of a well-known document about 9/11 deniers, from Mark &#34;Gravy&#34; Roberts, who has made a name for himself on the Internet as a debunker. The file was previously avai]]></description>
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<dc:subject>skepticism</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2007-02-06T19:45:10-07:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by cepheid</dc:creator>
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<title>Denoument</title>
<link>http://www.polyhelix.org/modules.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=2</link>
<description><![CDATA[Denoument is an industrial/dance band, yet again from the vaults of the late, lamented MP3.com. This guy released a couple of albums and vanished, too. 	  
This was me, in the late 90s, crankin' it on an old Sony Discman. I had bought their album, Retribution, from MP3.com. They had a system where you could buy the tacks on a special CD, containing both audio and MP3, for 10 bucks. Unfortunately, the one I got was very poor quality: my computer couldn't read it, and one of the tracks was screwe]]></description>
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<dc:subject>kulture</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2007-01-06T07:15:13-07:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by cepheid</dc:creator>
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<title>Abstract Reality</title>
<link>http://www.polyhelix.org/modules.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=1</link>
<description><![CDATA[ 
Before MP3.com was purchased by some huge conglomerate and made into one big ad for the RIAA, I used to spend a lot of time on there finding great music. One of these mysterious bands was Abstract Reality, a rebellious, poppy industrial band. (The female voice of AR was Miss Fun K, aka Polopop, whose albums have become one of my many musical guilty pleasures.) 
Over the years, I listened as AR's subject matter went from angst-ridden surrealism to political rants, and lead singer MC Love rema]]></description>
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<dc:subject>kulture</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2006-12-24T01:07:52-07:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by cepheid</dc:creator>
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