LINKS (GET ‘EM WHILE THEY’RE HOT)
MICK ON PIMPING
Great riff of pimpery in LA CityBeat by your humble scribe...
http://lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=2410&IssueNum=112

THE OSAKA CYBERGIRL
HCB sent the story of the Osaka girl android this morning, but since the TV news got its hands on it,I'm struck that the section of the population who should be most threatened by the realistic female android is TV news persons.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4714135.stm

THE MOST MINDLESSLY ASININE STORY OF THE WEEK
On Tuesday, the NY Post ran a screaming cover story recounting how Osama bin Laden tried to buy a massive amount of cocaine, cut it with poison and sell it in the United States, hoping to kill thousands of Americans, but was thwarted when the Cali Cartel decided it would be bad for business. A subsequent Doc40 investigation revealed that this was maybe a desperate ploy by the a terror-eclipsed DEA for funds and attention that was ignored by the rest of the media as too bizarre to consider. Not the Post though. See...
http://www.nypost.com/seven/07262005/news/worldnews/50787.htm
For more rational takes on the stroy try...
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8729331/
Or...
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2005/270705cokecaper.htm

AND FINALLY
If hear Donald Rumsfeld correctly, the War on Terror has been renamed the Global Struggle Against Extremists. A fuck up by any other name would smell as...

CRYPTIQUE – Extremism in defense of the extreme.

The secret word is Kevlar