'Raymond Wiley and Joe McFall are the former co-hosts of Out There Radio, a 50 episode podcast of interviews and discussions covering topics related to the occult, conspiracy theory and the paranormal. Raymond and Joe have been in podcasting since 2005, having started Out There Radio shortly after they met and realized their shared interest in fringe topics.

This episode features an interview with occult author and former bassist for Blondie, Gary Lachman. The discussion focuses on the history of the Western occult tradition and how it became a major influence on the counterculture of the '60s. Turn off your mind, this week on Disinformation: The Podcast. (Disinformation podcast).

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'Raymond Wiley and Joe McFall are the former co-hosts of Out There Radio, a 50 episode podcast of interviews and discussions covering topics related to the occult, conspiracy theory and the paranormal. Raymond and Joe have been in podcasting since 2005, having started Out There Radio shortly after they met and realized their shared interest in fringe topics.

'Satanic rockers in Iran, Scientology's European woes, and DARPA's psychic soldiers of the future, this week on Disinformation World News.' (Disinformation podcast).

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'The [UK] government was accused of being "in chaos" last night after it all but abandoned its flagship identity card scheme.

'In the latest in a series of U-turns and climbdowns from the cash-strapped government, Home Secretary Alan Johnson said the controversial cards would never be compulsory for UK citizens.

'The admission came as he shelved plans for a pilot scheme to make airport workers carry the cards, triggering accusations of a "fudge".

'The move will also fuel suspicions that the government is purging its least popular policies to go into a general election with a cleaner slate.' (Scotsman article).

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'The Swedish filesharing website has been bought for £4.7 million by Global Gaming, and looks set to become a legitimate, legal download service, in a move that has echoes of the taming of Napster a decade ago.

'It seems that, for all their bluster, money talks for the founders of The Pirate Bay. The infamous Swedish peer-to-peer filesharing site has been acquired by Global Gaming, and the new owners are planning on turning the torrent service “legit”.

'The move is hardly surprising given the legal wrangles The Pirate Bay has been embroiled in recently. The site’s founders are currently appealing against year-long jail sentences and a fine of £2.2 million after they were found guilty in April of providing a “conduit” through which web users could access copyrighted material.

'Although The Pirate Bay was a self-styled digital Robin Hood, enabling web users to access movies and music without filling the coffers of the entertainment industry, its founders have acknowledged that this cannot continue. Global Gaming, The Pirate Bay’s new owners, have said that the website is unsustainable in its current format, and urgently needs a new business model that “satisfies the requirements and needs of all parties, content providers, broadband operators, end users, and the judiciary.”' (Telegraph article).

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'Finally, after 23 years of tortured development, pinging from studio to studio, star to star, and even courtroom to courtroom, the Watchmen adaptation has arrived on screen. It’s not for the faint-hearted - and, despite the preponderance of Spandex outfits, capes and costumes, not for the kids either.

'The movie, a 2¾ hour epic that had its world premiere in Leicester Square, is based on Alan Moore’s and Dave Gibbons's seminal graphic novel about a group of ex-superheroes coming to terms with themselves and an impending nuclear doomsday. For more than two decades a big screen adaptation has been the maddeningly elusive goal of directors such as Terry Gilliam and Darren Aronofsky, and actors such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Joaquin Phoenix.

'Even when this $100 million version, directed by Zack Snyder, became the centre of a court battle between Hollywood studios (one accused the other of copyright violation, and blocked the movie’s release) it only added to the sense that Watchmen would never see the inside of a cinema.

'The film that has emerged, however, is a mesmerising and brutalising experience, and will be, for some at least, more than worth the wait. Set in a mid-Eighties Manhattan of the comic book imagination, where “costumed vigilantes” have changed the course of US history (Nixon is saved, the Vietcong defeated, etc), the dense narrative unfolds as a whodunnit in the head of a psychopathic do-gooder called Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley). In Stygian nightscapes reminiscent of Taxi Driver and Seven, Rorschach visits his four former crime-fighting buddies, including Matthew Goode’s brainiac businessman Ozymandias and Malin Akerman’s killer femme Silk Spectre, in an attempt to expose a secret assassin who’s nurturing apocalyptic plans for the entire Eastern seaboard.' (Times review & Isohunt torrent download).

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Obama's "good cop" routine has masked the reality that his administration has followed the same policy paths in finance and geopolitics as "bad cop" George W. Bush.

'I finally understand the fundamental analogy of American politics, and of course it's drawn from film/television: good cop, bad cop. You know the scenario: Bad Cop enters the room and recalcitrant suspect/perp gazes up in hostile, stony silence.

'Bad Cop "softens up" the suspect/perp with a "we're going to kick derriere and take names later" speech and then moves on to hardnosed "persuasion:" It'll be a lot easier on you if you cooperate, tough guy, but if you want to play tough, then fine, play tough; we'll play tougher.

'After a round or two of this, Bad Cop appears to lose control and is either restrained from assaulting the suspect/perp or goes ballistic in a spittle-flecked tirade a few inches from the suspect/perp's face which communicates this sobering message: "You think you're crazy? Well, I'm crazier."

'Bad Cop then lunges at the suspect/perp, only to be restrained by polite Good Cop, who forcefully pushes Bad Cop out of the room and apologizes to the suspect/perp. Good cop speaks in a reasonable, sonorous tone, the exact opposite of the swaggering, aggressive Bad Cop. Good Cop just wants to reach an understanding with the suspect/perp, and just wants to hear him out.' (Of Two Minds article).

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'Scientology leader David Miscavige is the focus of this special report from the St. Petersburg Times. Former executives of the Church of Scientology, including two of the former top lieutenants to Miscavige, have come forward to describe a culture of intimidation and violence under David Miscavige. These former Scientology leaders served for years with Miscavige.' (Tampa Bay video stream).

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'The Guardian has obtained this police footage of Emily Apple and Val Swain being arrested by surveillance officers after asking for their badge numbers at the Kingsnorth climate camp last year. The two women speak to Paul Lewis about their arrest, imprisonment and official complaint.' (Guardian video stream).

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Former JPL archivist and oral historian Dr. John Bluth talks about the origins of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

The interview discusses the early association of Jack Parsons, Ed Forman and Frank Malina (part 1); the origins of the Jet Assisted Takeoff motors and the formation of the Aerojet Corp (part 2); the end of Jack Parsons' and Ed Forman's association with Aerojet and JPL (part 3); Jack Parsons' involvement with Occultism (part 4); and the events surrounding the death of Parsons (part 5).

Today, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a federally funded research and development center and NASA field center located in the San Gabriel Valley area of Los Angeles County, California, United States. JPL is managed by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The Laboratory's primary function is the construction and operation of robotic planetary spacecraft, though it also conducts Earth-orbit and astronomy missions. It is also responsible for operating NASA's Deep Space Network.

This interview with Dr. John Bluth (now deceased) was conducted in the spring of 1998. (YouTube video stream part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4 & part 5).

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'One of the best things about heading into the wilds is the chance to escape from the petty rules and regulations that seem to govern so much of our lives. Now that last bastion of freedom is under threat as health and safety regulations encroach on the great outdoors.

'Scotland’s network of remote bothies - basic mountain shelters - face being downgraded as health and safety experts close off the upper levels as a fire precaution. The Mountain Bothies Association (MBA) says it has already been forced to shut off or remove the upper floors of several bothies across the Highlands because of fire regulations.

'The Fire (Scotland) Act 2005 states that emergency exits must be provided in places that provide accommodation.

'Cameron McNeish, the acclaimed mountaineer, author and broadcaster, said: “This is a sign of our over-cautious health and safety culture reaching into the wild places of our country where people go to get away from rules. If they take away the upper levels there won’t be the same amount of space for people. All this will do is discourage them from using bothies, which are a very useful resource.”' (Times Online article).

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'You have heard all the complaints. Life is just a sick and twisted game. That guy over there is wired wrong. Or, as even Shakespeare wrote, as flies to wanton boys are we to the gods. They kill us for sport. Number one story in the Countdown tonight, we‘ve got what might be bad news for you. There is a 20 percent chance we‘re living inside a computer simulation.

'Yes, you, me, Lindsay Lohan, everybody. The classic answer from Descartes to the question of existence, I think therefore I am, perhaps more correctly stated as, a guy clicks a mouse, therefore I am. The theory by Nick Bostrom, a philosopher at Oxford University and fleshed out by the New York Times' science writer John Tierney yesterday, that technological advances will some day produce for us a computer so powerful that it could simulate a complex world with billions of creatures of some sort in it.

'Yes, it is sort of like The Matrix, except that the virtual people would have no physical counterpart, just virtual beings in a giant virtual world. Advanced civilizations of real people, the argument goes, would create these simulations to better understand their own evolution or just for S and giggles. Like a super advanced version of the SIMS.

'Ultimately, says Bostrom, there would be far more virtual people in computer simulations than there are real people in a real world. Therefore, there is a decent chance that some entity somewhere has already invented those super computers, that they have already perfected one of those mammoth simulated world games and that we are in it.' (YouTube video stream).

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I'm not really one for promoting anything on this website - and you can rest assured that I ain't getting a cut for mentioning this product - but I bought one of these a few weeks ago (for my time off the grid) and the damned thing works a treat. Here's a review from geek.com:

'With our ever growing need for energy and the increasing price of using it, more devices are appearing to help us utilize greener forms of power. The FreeLoader Portable Solar Energy is one of those devices and boasts the ability to charge most mobile devices including mobile phones, digital cameras, MP3 players, Sat Navs, PDAs, and the PSP and Nintendo DS handheld games units.

'The idea behind this unit from Solar Technology International is to offer you a single solution to charge all your gadgets by utilizing solar energy. That means any time one of your gadgets is running low on juice you just need to find a sunny spot and hook up to the FreeLoader unit. So lets take a look at how it works.' (Geek review).

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'In the universe as we experience it, we can directly affect only objects we can touch; thus, the world seems local.

'Quantum mechanics, however, embraces action at a distance with a property called entanglement, in which two particles behave synchronously with no intermediary; it is nonlocal. This nonlocal effect is not merely counterintuitive: it presents a serious problem to Einstein's special theory of relativity, thus shaking the foundations of physics.

'Our intuition, going back forever, is that to move, say, a rock, one has to touch that rock, or touch a stick that touches the rock, or give an order that travels via vibrations through the air to the ear of a man with a stick that can then push the rock - or some such sequence. This intuition, more generally, is that things can only directly affect other things that are right next to them. If A affects B without being right next to it, then the effect in question must be indirect - the effect in question must be something that gets transmitted by means of a chain of events in which each event brings about the next one directly, in a manner that smoothly spans the distance from A to B. Every time we think we can come up with an exception to this intuition - say, flipping a switch that turns on city street lights (but then we realize that this happens through wires) or listening to a BBC radio broadcast (but then we realize that radio waves propagate through the air) - it turns out that we have not, in fact, thought of an exception. Not, that is, in our everyday experience of the world.' (Scientific American article).

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Back to work and back on the grid after several weeks off the beaten track. A couple of nights were spent wild camping, whilst another two were shacked up in Youth Hostels just to get the occasional much needed shower. The rest of the time was spent crashing in bothies in some amazing and beautiful locations that I have come to refer to as "my back garden".

Culra, Stag Bothy, Dalnain and Dalnashallag spring instantly to mind. Bivying outside the bothy on warm clear nights has also been a pleasure and is fast becoming my preferred means of getting some shuteye whilst out in the wilds of the Scottish Highlands. Thanks go out to good friends who joined me for part of the trip, bringing some much needed camaraderie on this wonderful little adventure.

The definitive guide to bothying has always been Mountain Days & Bothy Nights by Dave Brown and Ian R. Mitchell. Written over twenty years ago, the book is in many ways timeless despite it being a nostalgic recollection of 1960s mountain tales. One feels, however, that it is time for a new bothy book to be written - a project which I have decided to undertake myself and will be commencing soon entitled Bothy Culture (after the late Martyn Bennett's innovative album of the same title).

Before I can write a book worthy of the subject I still need to get a few more legendary bothies under my belt, notably Bob Scott's, The Tarf Hotel and The Secret Howff of Beinn A' Bhuird. Over the next few months I'll be out exploring my back garden again in an effort to bag these places - commencing with the mysterious Secret Howff (the location of which has only ever been disclosed by word of mouth for over 50 years).

Stay tuned for updates on how the book is progressing, and keep an eye out for excerpts as I take the work through its various stages towards publication.

Mortimer.

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Back briefly after 150-odd miles of cycling. It's been one hell of an adventure so far and I'll be back on the road either tomorrow or Thursday after a couple of days of much needed rest. The cycle path infrastructure of Scotland is superb and it's not too difficult to stay off the beaten track when travelling between towns for supplies.

Every day has been different and presented itself with it's own challenges and laughs. Tyre blow-outs, broken chains and other minor issues have at times resulted in some innovative thinking to temporarily get by until the next town. It's amazing what you can achieve with some zip ties, gaffer tape and an axe.

Scotland doesn't have trespass laws like in other backward countries, and it can often be amusing coming across a land owner who isn't aware of Public Rights of Way when passing through property to get to some of the more remoter areas of the Highlands.

Here's a little video I put together of what happened to a pretentious little shit who tried to restrict our access to Duinish Bothy.

Mortimer.

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Alright you twisted freaks! I'm getting off the grid for a while.

This is a journey I've been planning since the end of last year and, for me, the adventure of a lifetime. Basically I have a three week holiday (that's vacation to you Americans) and I plan to use it cycling across Scotland - living rough, camping out in the middle of nowhere, and dossing in mountain bothies (if you don't know what a bothy is then google it). Maybe I'll find myself or get lost completely, who can tell?

I set off today at around 10 am, will do part of the journey with my crazy friend Dasbo, and then hopefully continue on up the Highlands myself if the weather permits - and if I can stick it out.

So there may not be any posts on this site for a while, but when I get back refreshed - or burnt out - normal service here at the media underground nerve centre will resume.

My apologies for the recent lack of updates to the site, getting prepared for this trip is all I've been focusing on for the past few weeks.

Speak soon... and to hell with finding the others.

Mortimer.

Postscript. I've been playing around with Sound Forge recently and have created some humorous mash-ups. Click on the radio link to hear them. They should keep you all amused for about 20 minutes.

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'A national network of cameras and computers automatically logging car number plates will be in place within months, the BBC has learned.

'Thousands of Automatic Number Plate Recognition cameras are already operating on Britain's roads. Police forces across England, Wales and Scotland will soon be able to share the information on one central computer.

'Officers say it is a useful tool in fighting crime, but critics say the network is secretive and unregulated. Kent's Chief Constable, Michael Fuller, commented: "We've seen an increase of some 40% of arrests since we've been using this technology.' (BBC News article & video stream).

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'A church, a state and a nation have been shamed by the horrors exposed by an exhaustive official report on the abuse of tens of thousands of Irish children over many decades. A nine-year inquiry by the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse had produced "the map of an Irish hell", The Irish Times editorialised. "The sheer scale and longevity of the torment inflicted on defenceless children - over 800 known abusers in over 200 institutions during a period of 35 years - should alone make it clear that it was not accidental or opportunistic but systematic."

'Justice Sean Ryan's 2600-page report exposes in devastating detail the truth of state complicity; the Catholic Church, which not only failed to protect the victims but protected the perpetrators, is not alone in its utter moral failure. The twin pillars of church and state share responsibility for the abuse by "successive generations of brothers, priests and nuns". Offenders, some known by church and state to be pedophiles, were transferred to other institutions, free to abuse again. The Education Department is singled out for "toothless" inspections - it later refused to release crucial documents to the inquiry. The report makes it clear, though, that state and society as a whole preferred to look the other way rather than confront the depths of the problem.' (The Age article).

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'Following 2007's lacklustre Eat Me, Drink Me, the uncommon introspection of which was prompted by his failed marriage to burlesque performer Dita Von Teese, Marilyn Manson seemed a spent force. While High End Of Low isn't nearly the equal of career highlights Mechanical Animals and Holy Wood, it nevertheless proves there's still a fair dose of blood and bile to pour from his carcass yet. More impressively, at its best it provides a pointed satirical commentary on noughties America.

'This return to form of sorts is partly down to the return of bassist and co-songwriter Twiggy Ramirez, who parted company with Manson in 2002. It's his lolloping bassline that powers what would be High End Of Low's most clear-cut hit (if it wasn’t more full of swears than Gordon Ramsay's kitchen on a bad day). Even its title - "Arma-Goddamn-F***ng-Geddon" - doesn't escape. Redolent of "Beautiful People"; while this isn't going to win Manson new admirers, existing fans will be relieved to hear he can still kick out the jams.' (BBC Music review and Full Album Delux Edition torrent download).

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'In February, 1971, Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell experienced the little understood phenomenon sometimes called the “Overview Effect”. He describes being completely engulfed by a profound sense of universal connectedness. Without warning, he says, a feeing of bliss, timelessness, and connectedness began to overwhelm him. He describes becoming instantly and profoundly aware that each of his constituent atoms were connected to the fragile planet he saw in the window and to every other atom in the Universe. He described experiencing an intense awareness that Earth, with its humans, other animal species, and systems were all one synergistic whole. He says the feeling that rushed over him was a sense of interconnected euphoria. He was not the first - nor the last - to experience this strange “cosmic connection”.

'Rusty Schweikart experienced it on March 6th 1969 during a spacewalk outside his Apollo 9 vehicle: “When you go around the Earth in an hour and a half, you begin to recognize that your identity is with that whole thing. That makes a change... it comes through to you so powerfully that you’re the sensing element for Man.” Schweikart, similar to what Mitchell experienced, describes intuitively sensing that everything is profoundly connected.

'Their experiences, along with dozens of other similar experiences described by other astronauts, intrigue scientists who study the brain. This “Overview Effect”, or acute awareness of all matter as synergistically connected, sounds somewhat similar to certain religious experiences described by Buddhist monks, for example. Where does it come from and why?' (Daily Galaxy article).

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'A few hundred years ago, the world was a vastly different place by just about any measure. In fact, it was 220 years ago this year that the Bill of Rights was first introduced in order to explicitly lay out the rights of the people in the brand-new democracy of the United States of America. We're all well versed in the Bill of Rights (or at least we should be), and it forms much of the basis of modern law. The impetus for the creation of the Bill of Rights was the tyranny of the rulers in Britain and its effect on the colonies. As with much of human history, it takes a significant problem to cause the creation of a significant change to society. We may be nearing that point right now, and the time may soon be right for another Bill of Rights - one centered around technology.' (InfoWorld article).

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'Raymond Wiley and Joe McFall are the former co-hosts of Out There Radio, a 50 episode podcast of interviews and discussions covering topics related to the occult, conspiracy theory and the paranormal. Raymond and Joe have been in podcasting since 2005, having started Out There Radio shortly after they met and realized their shared interest in fringe topics.

'Swine flu conspiracy theories, disinformation World Tour updates, and an interview with former Weather Underground member Bill Ayers, this week on Disinformation World News.' (Disinformation podcast).

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'A Northumberland millionaire is selling his £16m country estate and giving every penny of the proceeds to charity.

'Brian Burnie is open to offers for the Doxford Hall Hotel and its 10 acre estate near Alnwick.

'He hopes to use the profits from the sale to establish and pay for a Macmillan cancer nurse for north Northumberland.

'The 64-year-old also hopes to pay for a set of custom-made vehicles to take cancer patients to and from hospitals.

'Mr Burnie said: "We live in a me, me, me society and it has always been important to me to think of others."' (BBC News article).

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'Somebody in London is stopped and searched every three minutes, according to new figures obtained by BBC London.

'The Metropolitan Police used section 44 of the Terrorism Act more than 170,000 times in 2008 to stop people in London. That compares to almost 72,000 anti-terror stop and searches carried out in the previous year.

'Of all the stops last year, only 65 led to arrests for terror offences, a success rate of just 0.035%.' (BBC News article).

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'A terrible thing, a recession. Inexorably, unemployment has climbed from 1.2 million to 3 million. Counting methods have altered, but some say joblessness is heading towards 3.4 million, others to 3.8 million. Across the country, it's carnage, misery and there is no end in sight.

'If you believe the Opposition, the government of the day has a lot to answer for. In under a year, GDP has collapsed by 3%, industrial production by 9%. The well-off have had their essential tax cuts, but still the national burden is increasing. An expansion in the tax take of fully 4.5% of the country's income is inevitable. And somehow, despite all the bold words from the politicians, public spending continues to climb.

'Grim, isn't it? Grim enough, certainly, if you still entertain hopes that there is such a thing as progress in British political life. After all, each of the statistics in the preceding flurry is drawn not from newspapers excoriating Gordon Brown, but from the history books. They are part of the record of the first Thatcher government, the one that saved Britain - it says here - from stagnation, humiliation and permanent decline.

'30 years ago, when she got to Downing Street she uttered some "awful humbug", in the words of one of her new ministers, purporting to be a prayer by St Francis of Assisi, but in fact a nineteenth-century invention. "Where there is discord, may we bring harmony," she said. Margaret Hilda Thatcher did not specify why discord might arise.' (Herald article).

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'Raymond Wiley and Joe McFall are the former hosts of the greatly missed Out There Radio, a 50 episode podcast of interviews and discussions covering topics related to the occult, conspiracy theory and the paranormal.

This week Raymond and Joe interview filmmaker Rob Spence who decided to modify his prosthetic eye into a video camera.

Rob is in development of a documentary about how video and humanity intersect, especially with regards to surveillance. Currently he is retro-fitting his prosthetic eye to become a wireless video camera. (Disinformation podcast).

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In the second episode of Dangerous Minds, Richard Metzger interviews lecturer, writer and media theorist Douglas Rushkoff.

Rushkoff is an advocate for new technologies, especially open source uses of technology. Known for being an active member of the cyberpunk movement, his views on cyberculture and the media made him a sought after advisor and consultant with many organizations and companies, including the United Nations Commission on World Culture and the Sony corporation.

Right click and select "Save Target As" to download, then drag and drop to your iPod, Walkman or other portable device. (Dangerous Minds mp3 audio or mp4 video).

I've also created a higher quality avi file that one can acquire using BitTorrent, however, you'll need an account with our tracker to download it. If you haven't got one then you can sign up for free here. (Torrent Underground download).

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Further to yesterday's post about Dangerous Minds. Richard has now given me the go-ahead to edit and splice the segments of each episode together in order to make it available for putting on portable media devices.

The first episode features an interview with philosopher, novelist and commentator Charles Hugh Smith.

Smith has been described as the new Henry David Thoreau. As Richard put it: "He takes some of the most difficult to understand problems vexing the world today and makes sense of these issues... He writes with a calm and steady voice that takes readers by the hand and carefully explains the most pressing issues of our time. We, all of us, need to comprehend our problems, that's the first step, before we can change anything and master our fates."

Right click and select "Save Target As" to download, then drag and drop to your iPod, Walkman or other portable device. (Dangerous Minds mp3 audio or mp4 video).

I've also created a higher quality avi file that one can acquire using BitTorrent, however, you'll need an account with our tracker to download it. If you haven't got one then you can sign up for free here. (Torrent Underground download).

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When Richard Metzger resigned his position as creative director of the Disinformation Company a couple of years back, many of us were left wondering what his next project would be as we watched the once great disinfo.com undergo changes that took it on a downward spiral of trite inanity and bland mediocracy.

Slowly but surely, however, Richard's presence has re-emerged in subcultural cyberspace, bringing us periodic podcast appearances and becoming an occasional guest blogger for the wonderful boingboing.net.

Now he brings us Dangerous Minds - an online interview show that has elements reminiscent of the old Infinity Factory shows of over a decade ago - a show which clearly paved the way for the more multimedia netscape that we have online today.

One thing that I'd personally like to see done with these shows is a facility for downloading them in mp4 format so that one can watch them on a portable media device (such as an iPod, Walkman or Pocket PC). Perhaps an alternative mp3 file could also be supplied for those just wanting to listen to it as a podcast.

In the meantime, we'll just have to put up with watching each episode over several YouTube segments, however, if the makers of this show permit it, I would personally be willing to splice the segments of each episode together myself and host both mp3 and mp4 downloadables here at media undergound for anyone who wants them.

The first episode is an interview with Charles Hugh Smith whilst the second features media theorist Douglas Rushkoff. (Dangerous Minds YouTube channel).

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'Danny MacAskill, 23, has produced a set of moves including a backflip off a tree, riding across spiked railings and leaping across three-storey buildings.

'His mini film, Inspired Bicycles, has had more than a million hits on the video website and has earned him enough live shows and sponsorship for him to give up his day job in a bike shop.

'Mr MacAskill, from Edinburgh, has mastered an incredibly dangerous form of Bike Parkour (the art of movement). In Bike Parkour people use every available urban or rural platform to choreograph a set of stunts. The aim is to move from one point to another as smoothly, skilfully and quickly as possible.

'It's a performance on the street - and no step, roof, railing, tree or bollard goes unnoticed.' (Telegraph article & YouTube video stream).

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