Operation PaperStorm
Anonymous brings the War home.
Sleazy, in Darkness and in Light
I awoke this morning in London, Thanksgiving in the US today, to the sad news that Sleazy (Peter Christopherson) had passed away last night in his home in Bangkok. Peter’s influence on my life is in no way small. As a teen I discovered Coil and Throbbing Gristle in the late 80s. As much as [...]
We hear what we want to hear.
Sometime a long time ago, if I had to guess when I would say in my childhood in the mid 1970s, journalism ceased to be impartial. In fact, what would be called journalism in the pre war era had been effectively killed off by the end of the Vietnam War. In it place a sort [...]
Some times
I am adrift in a sea of vagueness blind to the sunrise, deaf to the bird’s song. I am lost like a toy in the ocean cast away by an angry brother jealous over his siblings coveted possessions. What more does time unfold for fathers without children, for lovers separated by the wind? What words [...]
The Future is Now
SciFi as Prophecy: When I was young I did a lot of reading. For a stretch between age 15 and 18 I was averaging 5 full books a week. I was a teen trapped in the middle of America who didn’t like TV. What else did I have to do? The current state of the [...]
Self-fulfilling prophecy
I am sitting in an apartment in Wroclaw Poland on the day the Polish president is being buried in the “crypt of kings” Wawel, in Krakow. The president, his wife and 90+ other members of state were killed in a botched airplane landing on the way to commemorate the death of thousands of polish intellectuals [...]
Exile’s Return
For the course of the past two months I have been playing a game of bureaucratic tag with the UK Home Office and the Chicago UK Consulate. It has been an awful thing to have one’s life be pushed and pulled by a bully of a government. So much more so for the lack of [...]
A conspiracy of truth.
In my daily existence I try not to be a conspiracy theorist. I find my political and religious outlook as skeptical but open. I don’t particularly need math to prove the validity of an event, especially if that event is a self experienced one. But the older I get the more I realize there is [...]
When ‘tweet’ was the sound that a bird made…
So I managed to figure out Twitter. It turns out what it is most useful for is the random single line koans that I usually spray on buildings. Less than ideas, more about instances. twitter.com/raymondharmon
Hacking Realities
Hacking Today I have been reading on various sites about the DNS attack on Twitter last night. A group calling themselves the “Iranian Cyber Army” managed to change the DNS entry for the Twitter front page in order to redirect the domain to another site. On this other site they put up a badly photoshoped [...]