Depending where you are in the world, it's OneWebDay today. A few months ago I started making a sculpture or puppet, with the intention of it being performed in a public place on the day, but yesterday, the 22nd here, was so windy I would have got blown away, and today is, too. I've just updated my Flickr set of the making process, and maybe later there will be pictures of it in action. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

The Scenic Route... Permanent link to this item in the archive.

How profoundly depressing that Bush's administration will likely go ahead and legalize torture. Of course we knew it was happening covertly, but to get legal sanction is terrible. Some quotes:

Dan Bartlett: "We proposed a more direct approach to bringing clarification. This one is more of the scenic route, but it gets us there."

Vladimir Bukovsky: "torture is the professional disease of any investigative machinery." ..."