sorry for slow blogging. it's not because stuff ain't happening. this idea that assange is holding the world's governments at bay with a nuclear weapon is, as i'm sure some have remarked by now, unbelievably dr. evil. but dude. dr. evil is an anarchist! and he's so far stunningly, strikingly effective. this whole wikileaks thing was an entirely unpredictable development but looking back it is already fundamental in world politics and power relations. that is astonishing whatever happens from here. what if they remove assange and the site just keeps proliferating in endless mirrors? his strategies so far have been successful in evading removal. but of course that could be just the beginning in this mode: the micro-exposure, the exposure in every detail, of the actual operations of power. that could actually make the world hard to govern. you might think that's a bad thing. or you might...not. at any rate, the response by governments continues in its hysteria, demonstrating assange's effectiveness. holder: "The American people themselves have been put at risk."

 

one thing i will say: they need someone really good at such things to put them together visually. they need a flag, a logo, a color scheme etc that's better than they have now. wallpaper above is worse than lame, e.g.