| Sunday, February 23, 2003 |  |
| Ebay Gives PayPal Client Info. To Police | 1 comment |
 23 Feb 2003 @ 12:41One of my music collaborators, Greg Hurley, sent this to me. Given the numerous occassions that I use PayPal, I guess my anonymity is shot. Aaarrgghh... another seemingly "ease of use" programming where ideology has shadowed integrity. Originally I saw this article here. "When someone uses our site and clicks on the 'I Agree' button, it is as if he agrees to let us submit all of his data to the legal authorities. Which means that if you are a law-enforcement officer, all you have to do is send us a fax with a request for information, and ask about the person behind the seller's identity number, and we will provide you with his name, address, sales history and other details - all without having to produce a court order. We want law enforcement people to spend time on our site." The quote comes, apparently, from Joseph Sullivan, director of law enforcement and compliance at eBay, the largest retailer in the world. It's in a February 21 online Ha'aretz story. More > |
| The Invisible Audience | 2 comments |
 23 Feb 2003 @ 11:50My friend Ken Symington,ethnobotanical preservationist,elder mentor, Nature Friends retreat center steward and one of the founders of the Invisible Theater Made Visible men's pereformance troop, for which I am privileged to be the music director of for the last four, years sent me this wonderful email. ---- I recently read this comment by Julie Taymor, producer/designer of recent theatrical events (Lion King, Frida, etc) that relates to our Invisible Theater project. I thought you might enjoy reading it. "I went to Bali to a remote village by a volcanic mountain on the lake. They were having a ceremony that only happens every 10 years for the young men. I was listening to this music, and all of a sudden out of the darkness, I could see glints of mirrors and 30 or 40 men in full warrior costume. They came out with these spears and they started to dance. With these voices coming out of them. They didn't care if somebody was paying for tickets, writing reviews. They didn't care if an audience was watching. They were performing for God. And that profoundly moved me then." The pic looks like Ming the Mechanic when his server goes down or his email "in" box exceeds 1000 per day. More > |
| A Twisted Solar Eruptive Prominence | 1 comment |
 23 Feb 2003 @ 10:00How could this not have some influence on our behavior? It would be interesting to see global / human history graphed to the eleven year solar activity cycle. A Twisted Solar Eruptive Prominence Credit: SOHO Consortium/, EIT, ESA, NASA Explanation: A huge eruptive prominence is seen moving out from our Sun in this condensed half-hour time-lapse sequence. Ten Earths could easily fit in the "claw" of this seemingly solar monster. This large prominence, though, is significant not only for its size, but its shape. The twisted figure eight shape indicates that a complex magnetic field threads through the emerging solar particles. Recent evidence of differential rotation inside the Sun might help account for the surface explosion. The sequence was taken early in the year 2000 by the Sun-orbiting SOHO satellite. Although large prominences and energetic Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are relatively rare, they occur more frequently near Solar Maximum, the time of peak sunspot and solar activity in the eleven-year solar cycle. More > |