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Wow, I had never heard of Chris Crocker before. Until today that is.

Do yourself a favour and have a laugh at this young fellow, visit youtube and search for his name. Watch some of his ranting. The Britney vids are my favourite and the most scary of the lot.

In the video below he goes on about gay people not having to fight in the war. It’s an interesting thought but hard to take seriously coming from him/her:

After seeing The Bourne Ultimatum (TBU) today and visiting the next generation website, Spock, I am officially concerned.

TBU was a good movie about espionage and the US of A. How one man brought down a black-ops department that was killing off US citizens amongst others. Nice concept, realistic implementation of core spy concepts surrounding the CIA, NSA, ASAP, RSVP and any other acronym you can think of. Cool stuff.

But then I stumble upon (yet again) Spock. I have visited Spock before but had a bad feeling about the core idea behind this website.

From the site:

Spock is the online leader in personal search, helping users find and discover people. With over one hundred million people already indexed and millions added every day, Spock is building the broadest and deepest people specific search engine.

Over a hundred-flipping-million people categorised already? That is frightening stuff if it is true. I am not naive, I am well aware of the fact that my information is online and anyone who wants to find me can, it’s not particularly difficult.

Today I revisited my Spock experience and I am terribly frightened. In essence my experience of Spock is one of personal indexing. What I mean by this is that they subtly ask you to add information about yourself by answering some questions. Questions such as what colour hair you have, where you were born and what colour eyes you have are standard. I don’t like giving out this information. I am not being forced to at all, but the concept makes me uncomfortable.

I am now searchable among 100 000 000 other people. That’s a lot of people.

Now let’s get paranoid for a second. Lets assume that the Spock website is funded by a company, Clearstone Venture Partners who’s CEO could possibly be (in some far off parallel reality) related to the director of a special operation within the CIA. Now this gent in the CIA has direct access to over 100 000 000 people on the spock website. That scares me. It scares me when I think about passport restrictions being whispered around the world. It scares me when I think about Arabs in the UK and US and the types of lives they are being forced to lead thanks to the colour of their skin and place of their birth. It scares me to think that the only people who are safe are those who have never touched the internet or anything to do with a network of any sorts. It saddens me to think of the possible impact that this sort of website could have on all online pundits and enthusiasts alike.

I am interested to see where Spock goes. Lastly, what’s with that name, Spock?

The following three adverts were apparently banned by the US government after a single screening. I am not sure how true this is but these ads are brilliant and effective nonetheless:

Text next to the towers: “2.863 people died”
Text next to the guy: “40 milllion of HIV infected in the world.”
“The world united against terrorism. It should also be united against AIDS”.



Next to the towers: “2.863 people died”
Next to the kid:: “824 million people starving in the world”.
“The world united against terrorism. It should also be united against HUNGER.”

Next to the towers: “2.863 people died”
Next to the old man: “630 million of homeless people in the world”.
“The world united against terrorism. It should also be united against POVERTY”.

Saddam Hussein has been handed the death penalty. He has been handed the knot. And I guess it’s no big surprise really to anyone who knows almost anything about politics and the U.S of A.

He was found guilty of murder, forced deportation and torture. The interesting and strange thing I find, it is fairly obvious, is that he is being put to death for crimes that took place more than 20 years ago. Rather late than never I always say. Hey?

Look at him in all his great glory. This picture is courtesy of Sky News as well as the info above.

But (yes there’s always a but) Jen sent me another article, something a bit more interesting, another take on things, if you will. I’m gonna give you the abridged version here. Read the full story if you like. And it goes a little something like this:

1. It’ll make the security situation worse.
2. It’ll make Saddam a martyr.
3. The court has also awarded a death sentence to itself.
4. The trial’s fairness is dubious.
5. The new regime is squandering a chance to prove it’s better than the old one.
6. The death penalty is just wrong.

In short, if Saddam gets it (and he will) then groups rallying for Saddam will lose it, worse than Saddam loses it. They will go absolutely mental all up in there and shit will hit the fan-eth. Civil unrest is certainly on the cards. Saddam looks shit hot, albeit dead, for dying for his cause. His supporters grow stronger and braver and others become more cautious and confused. The involved prosecutors, judges and families are sure to pay for their insolence. Some have already died (murdered if you choose) and others surely will. Death penalties are morally questionable. Aren’t they? And finally, the trial wasn’t all that legit now was it?

I think this can be seen as a small victory on the battle field but a great loss for the war.

*Certain inserts have been lifted from Dominic Knight. Follow the link above for the full story.