How to hack a diebold voting machine

This is very, very, very scary. A quick an easy way to change the vote in any State without a paper trail. Diebold voting machines should be outlawed. Marty Kaplan from Huffington Post takes you through the 3 easy steps to change the vote on one of them fancy eletronic voting machines. Democracy has been sold and this should alert maybe the 1% of voters who might care.

So if you need a break from your loss of voting power this trick biking video should entertain you for at least five minutes until reality sinks in and that we don't stand a chance unless we take back control from the Bush Administration. Any questions? It's all about the info war and W is loosing slowly but money talks and oil profits rise for exxon and BP. Who is stupid now America? Why are we paying more at the pump?

Solo Mt bike ride today: Chimney Rock

It was hot as hell and we had a few drinks last night and a cuban cigarillo(small thin cigar) in the town of "W", somehow I got myself up, and hit trails in the 90 degree weather by 10AM. I've actually been able to keep to the program of "once" a week. Since all of the severe rain has made most of the first curly steep section really rocky and more than average trees have fallen. Some of the regular riders have wasted no time in ramping the large stumps so that is great. The hardest part is getting there, then after you get over that first 25 minute incline/hump. The adrenalin is pumping and your reflexes are on point. Total ride was almost 75 minutes and I plan on getting it up to two full hour run.

The lot was 1/3 full today which is strange I actually had a chance this past week to go on a Weds and was surprised to find the lot jammed at 6pm. I work in the city so unless I work from home and quit early there is now way in hell I would make a weekday ride. So my question is today... What in the hell do these guys do for work that they are on the trails by 5pm? Must be nice to work in Jersey. I can't imagine any of them work in the City. oh,well. I am going to have to seriously take advantage this next month of my Summer flex hrs. I have 24 left. Which is one of those nice to have perks working at an Interactive Agency that runs you into the ground; as there is no time to enjoy them. Much less plan anything ahead of time. I am going to do it.

I have a new podcast up on the djpspork site called "Jersey Boogie nights in Asbury" and working on next few shows for the summer. ~Enjoy

Loose Change 9-11 documentary or conspiracy?

There are several loose facts that make this documentary on 9/11 chilling; If you havenÂ’t seen the 2nd Edition of Loose Change 9/11. You will be doing your sanity a favor. The first 10 minutes are what drag you into to see the rest and make you wonder why the U.S. Media sucks so bad. Hunter S. Thompson might of been sacked in my opinion for speaking out, i don't buy the self inflicted shot-gun story at all. He was easy to bring down because he had guns everywhere, but I digress on that conspiracy. You can see loose change here The film has been in Google's top 10 viral movies for awhile. The movie basically outlines all of the assets and little bit of real news that could fake real reporting. Large mass media are afraid to dig unless the people are behind it and well known Government disinformation outlets like Popular Mechanics have been sure to preach theoppositee straight out of the government play-book, as they are heavily linked to the industrial complex(aka government), which really runs things. However, Loose Change really sifts the best evidence; and well i see a long night of googling in your future.
The question then becomes how much do you want to believe? How simple is the answer that has been sold minutes after the incident happened? If you believe there were a few religious zealots run by some "mad-man" then you've been sold the $1.00 version and you should be pissed as you've been ripped off, Not just at the pump, but deep in your 'Merican sub-conscious. Your yellow ribbon wearing neigbors are dead and you still think it is right for some poor bastard to fight some old white guys power war. We've started some serious "shit" and the fall-out has only just begun. Some of the questions for thought from the film:
How come there is no picture of a plane hitting the Pentagon?
How come on the weeks before 911 where all bomb sniffing dogs removed from the world trade center?
How come tons of gold was found in trucks away from the WTC?

How to stop a war and survive to live better

There are several parallel world and local wars going on that center around several man made concepts. There is no easy answer to stop war, greed and desire. It is human nature or literary condition to go to war because: there is a need to "survive", to destroy, to need things you don't really need, buy now and lament later no matter the consequence, to create something you don't really want to stop. There is the obvious OIL war, the war to subvert electric cars, CLASS WARS, war on ecosystems, war on peace, border wars etc, etc and they are fueled by fear and subverting the masses through media. Most fat Americans are dumb as they come. We live in a bubble protected by some body of water, Mexico and Canada. Our way of life is "protected" while other human rights discarded to drive that car, build that house and furnish it with oversized furniture, forks and knifes. We are sold on what they want us to believe. We are what we consume. Billions are never enough. Sharing is out of the question. Few politicians or groups of people take a stand for the people who don't have any power-money for change and you have to wonder that those who have nothing, if put in the same position, would care about the have nots? It's the human condition to ignore the obvious. The truth is we can't save everybody and we have to choose our battles
Wifey and I give to a few charities every year, dog shelters, breast cancer and wfmu. We have to draw the line some where as we need to survive. There is always a hand-out looking for something. These are the choices have to make. Our next car is going to be some hybrid. We leased one of our cars this year with this in mind because we didn't like the choices yet. Sure it's not active but we like what we like and the technology is only going to get better, if everything goes right, is it going to get better? We can only hope. There will always be wars as long as there is a disparity amongst the masses and something known as class. It's what creates the difference. We can stop the war and save a little bit of the world:
If we become efficient consumers
Observe efficient energy consumption
Purchase energy efficiently<
Select a charity(this is your own choice)
Participate in organization likes moveon.org and truemajority.org
support products that are politically savory
Support politicians like Corzine that take action.

It's complicated and people who don't have your best interest in mind will and have taken advantage no matter the cost. Some wars are local. So ignore that NJ Parks are going to be closed for few days, dmv, lottery, gambling & track is closed! Smart move on Corzine's part-- a little pressure goes along way(now if the rest of the us could learn to do this to mr bush somehow) Today maybe baby will get that milk when daddy goes to corner. There is no easy way out folks.
Just remember to "do the right thing" it's not hard and it's not easy lets just be a little bit conscious and call people out when the time is right, embarrass them a little. We all got pride.

Jersey Derelic vs. Diablo mt bike riders

I am so out of shape, legs cramp up for the stupidest reasons these days that even this north jersey dude makes me jealous riding diablo free ride park. Thanks hcor. Gotta get some exercise in soon.

The patio is finally finished

The Suburban Simple life can be achieved... If you can't get to the cafe - make the cafe come to you. In my case it has a bar-b-q, dog and comfort of having to drive no where! The meat, beer & wine fridge is in the garage just a quick hop away. The patio furniture we found was very affordable from lowes and all just in time to enjoy with friends and family this summer. I got through my busy week thinking of just sitting here drinking a cold one and then perhaps something even just as simple as breakfast and the ny times on Sunday. Granted I'm a little bit of a indoor internet junkie but thinking of calling up the geek squad to deal with setting up comcast wireless up and then the possibilities are endless. Life is good and now it's time to go deal with the freakin yard work. See previous post on the I turned the dead space around.

Are dark Ads really signs of the apocalypse?

You know I love blonde(Thanks Neil) jokes but not necessarily when mixed with my lowest common denominator television programming and super models opening doors and falling into traffic from the sky. Reality T.V. and real life are mixing like "This is your brain on Drugs" commercials. For instances take the latest OJ pay per-view show "Juiced", where he tries to sell the white bronco. As attack Ads and tragic advertising get darker and darker {insert egg in frying pan sound} it's just going to get worse and worse. Take for instance the "Safe Happens" VW Ad. What is next? Keep guns away from children? Use your imagination. The famous SNL skit "I hate it when that happens" pretty much made you giggle, ewww and gross out all at the same time. Are dark Ad trend really signs of the apocalypse? I think it's time for an Ad that shows a green planet turning brown and becoming a giant hot body of water and then it gets dried up by the sun and turns into dust. How is that for a dark spin?

Air America protecting you from the Oil Depression

My friend joseph sent me the latest from Air America.

If you have any bags of money lying around, gold would be a very safe sure bet as the dollar will be crashing again shortly, there is a 30% possibility of a morbid systematic depression (given the spotty outsider information I have). Asian Investment banks have been ordered to move their investments from dollars to euros and gold. In the short term it really couldn't hurt as gold could rise from 667 to somewhere estimated around the high teens 1,800 -2,000 very very quickly. so get an ounce or two if possible.

The down side is interest rates may double shortly on mortgages and credit cards, prices on items made of oil may double, imported parts and goods. people are really going to be hurting for a long time after the republicans are gone

It is time to impeach Bush because the Republican policies are directly leading to an economic collapse in this country (again). It is probably a good idea to poke your head over to money.com and the Financial times to read between the lines.
Warren Buffet moving his money out of American dollar investments like coca-cola.
It is a matter of time before Bush goes to War in Iran, while picking your wallets and doubling credit and rising mortgage rates. People are already giving blood literally to purchase gas and the best part is 'they' don't want you the people to vote them out so they can continue pilaging uninterupted since the major media outlets are doing barely nothing about the oil problem. We know who wins and loses when gas prices go-up. no shit cnn.

How to turn a dead space into a nice Barb-que patio area

Not alot of magic in this spring project I undertook. Just a lot of large steps. Digging ditches is a lot of freakin work so if you are afraid of this manual labor hire somebody. I converted a useless 22 x 9 space on the side of house into a soon to be usable patio. The grass really wouldn't grow, the shade is nice and dog seems to like it so far and there is also less mud for me to pick-up after her since she likes the cool bricks.

If you can get your brother in law to help out this will really move the project along. Thanks Scott!

I designed the layout after I selected some options from Libery Construction in Cranford,NJ. They delivered the rocks, sand and pavers in sequence as I went.
The hardest part now is going to be getting rid of all the excess materials. The dirt from the whole I dug and the pieces of side-walk. Back of drive-way looks like disaster I think I am going to find a home for all the excess in the back of the garage. I'll post pictures when complete and I do all the work up to the side door and expand the flower bed out a little.
The Tasks:
1) Dig ditch about 6-9 inches down slanteda away from house, there particular shuffle for digging and other for schelping materials get them both.
2) Pour down rock bedding 1-2 inches for patios
3) Put down lots more sand and Tamper down so it even "flat",it's the weird looking tool with flat metal piece on it
4) Make sure your pavers fit and if you get fancy like me you can repeat some sort of design
5) Use a tamper and long level to watch your slope and evenness (very important)
6) I used a string to try and keep a straight line and to make sure depth matched up
7) Using a rubber mallet pound the pavers into place so they fit snug watching how they are angled
8) Don't worry about perfection(at least I didn't) because once everything is down you are going to fill the cracks with sand and wet it down, this cleans it up real nice
9) The sand will eventually help harden and it will set thing into place
10)The smaller the paver the more work, I paid a little extra for my pavers to be beat-up and different sizes. Everybody asks how much it all cost so, delivered Materials came to about $1,250, plus all the extra tools I didn't have. Borrow what you can. I did end up getting a discount at once place because I went in all dirty and they gave me contractor discount(very nice)
11) Have Bar-b-q and invite me over I'll bring the beer.

Last Aviso'hara show! come be in the video

After a year of treading water, playing very few and select shows, we're putting in the towel. We were able to demo a few new songs. None of which you will here sat april 15 at the Court Tavern. Only way you could have gotten an earfull is if you went to last few shows or were a fly on the wall at rehearsal. We'll probably post some music on the myspace site but then again the tunes just might appear under the Fireside Chats(walt's band) or The Mega Oks(My new band) in development. Regardless. You've all been awesome. So here are some live mp3 Aviso'hara tid-bits from a year ago! Download: Born to Drive | Heaven Hangs the lonely |Drop the mids | Ready.

PLASTIC Hoax CANCER NEWS FROM JOHNS HOPKINS

The email that starts:
No plastic containers in microwave

No water bottles in freezer

No plastic wrap in microwave



Is a hoax.


Nuke it.

Fast and furious morning: interactive SXSW on video blogs

I am thankful for technology somedays when especially when it makes my precious Saturday morning efficient. I went to the car dealer for a tune-up, called early, got there early out in under 35 minutes. Now, this was then topped off by going to the NJ DMV and getting a license renewal in under 15 minutes! The ex-governor Mcgreevy fixed a couple things for sure before he left. Now, how does this innovative progress and streamlined processes happen? Obviously, you have to have all your proper docs and data back-up prepared, so you can give it to them when they validate your persona. They enter info into a tablet move you along to the next station. These type of innovations come from somewhere. Thankfully, supergeeks like all the folks who showed up at the SXSW interactive festival going on in Austin are moving things along in real-time too. They even have freakin' audio podcasts and video clips up already with Craig Newmark of craiglist fame! SXSW is not just about rock n'roll anymore. Luke's blog has been posting as he digests the festivities. His summary of the interactive panel is short and sweet; and in a matter of 7 minutes I got the take-away. So no need to attend. Other than of course to check out some rocknroll. Although, I would argue that "Three minutes is the perfect length for media content online", as most user these days are willing to wait for quality content especially if the take-away is excellent and I think that 50% of US homes have high-bandwidth now. I would though agree that the first large Agency that brings the big players advertising and marketing dollars to the field and glues great editorial and video podcast technology is going to be king.

So folks, I can safely say that yesterday's video podcast launch of IBMer Andy Stanford-Clark "A Master Inventor at work" is bringing in a new era of corporate embrace where innovation, quality editorial and business processes are actualized. --It's on.

WFMU.ORG pledge your love to the radio

I can't believe you haven't whipped out your wallet? You must love repeator radio stations. It is time for all independent folks to put your money where your pieholes are. Get off the soap box and reach deep to save facism & capitalism from itslef by supporting wfmu's marathon pledge drive. Yo La Tengo is playing for free on Tuesday nite with their reliable audio stream and taking requests for cover songs for your hard earned mula. Do it now.

Roller Derby metal chicks

Call me a pig but this is just perfect. World renowned label Relapse records who has put out records by Neurosis, Today is the Day and [insert weird band name here] with Dave Witte on drums is sponsoring The Heavy Metal Hookers roller derby team as reported by CMJ. Visit their myspace page. How could you not support their team with names like Foxy Cotin(#37), Holly Caust(#71)and Mandawar(#333) among some of skating stars in Philly Roller Girls roller derby league. Snuka fans forget pro-wrestling and get into the flat track all girl action.