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senator kaplan

There is a place where giving is painless and receiving is selfless. Find that place in your own lif

About Me

procrastinating... you might find me on cam here

My Interests

academia, acronyms, activism, alternative energy, archaelogy, Arjun Makhijani, anti-capitalism, APEEP, archive.org, astrology, astronomy, being bipedal, biofuels, coctail parties, conspiring, cooperative decision making, creative commons, dailymotion.com, dancing, doiop.com/64arts, doodling, egghead agitators, electronica, epistemology, ESLP, extended peace-walks, falafels, freeganism, freestyling, FOI Act and unclassified CIA documents, fucking, GIIP, globalism, Guerrilla Music Project, hip hop, history, (X)HTML, idealist.org, jukeboxes, liberation, Middle East politics, NAPF, nymphomaniacs, optimism, people, Peter Lamborn Wilson, polity, progressive movement, quasars, Robert Anton Wilson, RNAi, Satish Kumar, Socialedge.org, Socratic Irony, sustainability, tent pirates, TUSC, United Nations, vaginas, Wikimedia, World Social Forum, X, Yes, Znet

I'd like to meet:

i want to take a really long walk- like 45,000 miles, south from Seattle, and North from Argentina... with a big multinational entourage of beach bums. we'll meet some day

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Music:



Movies:

.. *almost famous* amelie* american beauty* anchorman* animal house* annie hall* apocalypse now* austin powers* back to the future* batman* being john malkovich* being there* big* the big lebowski* bill and ted's excellent adventure/bogus journey* blazing saddles* catch me if you can* city of god* city slickers* a clockwork orange* coffee and cigarettes* coming to america* contact* the corporation* crouching tiger, hidden dragon* dodgeball* dogtown and z boys* donny darko* dr. strangelove* dumb and dumber* et* eternal sunshine of the spotless mind* everything you've always wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask* fantasia* fantastic planet* farenheit 9/11* fear and loathing in las vegas* fight club* forrest gump* garden state* groundhog day* half baked* harry potter* home alone* james bond (all of them)* kill bill I,II* lock, stock and two smoking barrels* lord of the rings* manhattan* the matrix* men in black* monty python and the holy grail* ocean's eleven* old school* pcu* playing by heart* porky's* the princess bride* pulp fiction* requiem for a dream* reservoir dogs* rocky horror* the royal tenenbaums* saving private ryan* snatch* star wars* the survivors* teenage mutant ninja turtles* this is spinal tap* traffic* transformers* trainspotting* the usual suspects* vanilla sky* waking life* wayne's world I,II* what dreams may come* the wizard of oz* x men* zoolander*

Television:

Ren and Stimpy, X Files, Mr. Show, Adult Swim, Chappelle's Show, Insomniac, South Park, Dr. Katz, IFC, Discovery, History channel, The 4400

Books:

War and Anti-War, Global Inc.

Heroes:

Zach de la Rocha, Alfred Kinsey, Ram Dass, Noam Chomsky, Satish Kumar, Captain Al Hubbard, Watson and Crick, Hunter S. Thompson, Dennis Kucinich, Tenzin Gyatso (Dalai Lama), Jon Stewart, Che Guevara, Marquis de Sade, Woodrow Wilson, Dr. Ruth, Mahatma Ghandi, Douglas Adams, MLK, Malcolm X, Kofi Annan, Desmond Mpilo Tutu, Nelson Mandela, Rigoberta Menchu, Wangari Maathai, Eleanor Roosevelt

My Blog

International Nano-Hazard Symbol Design Contest

** smartMeme Strategy-Culture Listserv post # 36 ** IN THIS POST: Accelerating technological change and the convergence of incredibly powerful technologies such as biotechnology, information techn...
Posted by senator kaplan on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 08:31:00 PST

Dirty Silicon for Clean Energy

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/08/15_solar .shtmlResearchers develop technique to use dirty silicon, could pave way for cheaper solar energyBy Sarah Yang, Media Relations BERKELEY .. ...
Posted by senator kaplan on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:03:00 PST

NSA on Myspace...

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19025556.200?DCMP=NLCP entagon sets its sights on social networking websites"I AM continually shocked and appalled at the details people voluntarily post online ab...
Posted by senator kaplan on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 08:40:00 PST

chirac! ahahhaha!!!

ChiracVideo sent by systaime...
Posted by senator kaplan on Sun, 30 Apr 2006 01:19:00 PST

Stop the next war NOW

Every paper and magazine of national stature has pieces with increasingly anxious quotes from past and present US officials, increasingly frank about their fears for the future. Step back, and thin...
Posted by senator kaplan on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 02:38:00 PST

"world peace" video

this is a project from my digital video class. soup 127 + PZK at Cabrillo last month- super montage status. i hope you have the right extension in your browser to view it!World peaceVideo sent by velv...
Posted by senator kaplan on Tue, 07 Mar 2006 02:39:00 PST

trampled in walmart

So today was Buy Nothing day, my favorite holiday. But I didn't celebrate this year. Instead my sister's housemate's friend woke me up with his phone call at 4AM. He was in the hallway dialing a cab. ...
Posted by senator kaplan on Sat, 26 Nov 2005 01:11:00 PST

Just in case you were feeling warm, bloated and happy...

As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I became civilized. -- Chief Luther Standing Bear, Oglala Sioux I always experience mixed feelings about Thanksgiving. I ...
Posted by senator kaplan on Sat, 26 Nov 2005 11:15:00 PST

rum bum

i awoke this morning in an impeccably clean house (quite obviously not my own) on a comfy leather couch somewhere off bay street. i don't quite recall how in the hell i got there, but upon inquiring w...
Posted by senator kaplan on Wed, 02 Nov 2005 05:36:00 PST

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.................Leah had detoxed from methadone and diazepam before she left the hospital. it took six weeks, which is the average time it takes for a newborn baby to learn to smile. imagine knowing ...
Posted by senator kaplan on Tue, 11 Oct 2005 11:16:00 PST