The Possibilist

"The Possibilist is a tribute to the both the dissolution of private experience and the anthropocentric point of view explored in Musil and recognized everywhere else as a symptom of the postmodern condition. It is also a tribute to Ulrich, “the possibilist” who believed that “God Himself probably preferred to speak of His world in the subjunctive of possibility.” We will dwell in a world of incoherent ideas “spreading outward without a center,” because we advocate no specific possibilities—but rather any and all of them. As a cultural institution, The Possibilist, like the impractical man, “will always be unreliable and unpredictable in his relations with others. He will engage in actions that mean more to himself than to others, but is at peace with himself about everything as long as he can make it all come together in a fine idea.”

Whose searching for wikileaks?

Huffpo gungrabbers have a cool infographic showing the country-wide break down of person's searching wikileaks related documents. It is interesting to note that the concentration of interests also happens to correspond to the geographich concentration of US intelligence community assets.

Behold!

Some pics from Escondido "bomb factory"

Laser Tripwire circuit / photoresistor tutorial

This type of basic electronics has a lot of interesting applications. This video is rare in that it also contains a complete electronic wiring schematic, and a short discussion of the calculations in case one wants to scale.

AK Toy Soldiers..

It's good to see so many AK style weapons for a change...

George Djura Jakubec

http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/sdcounty/article_79416636-ad8d-53b2-a259-e0493f8541cb.html

"George Djura Jakubec, whose Escondido rental home allegedly contained the largest cache of certain explosives ever discovered in the U.S., became a federal prisoner on Friday."

Chemists said the explosive materials found in the home have few commercial uses and are among those most commonly used by terrorists worldwide to build bombs.

Among the materials found was hexamethylene triperoxide diamine, or HMTD, an unstable powder explosive that can detonate with even slight friction.

Authorities also found pentaerythritol tetranitrate, PETN, a powerful explosive used in some recent terrorist bombing cases, and erythritol tetranitrate, which is similar to PETN.
When he was arraigned in county court last month, prosecutor Perez said Jakubec had more of the explosive material than ever found on United States soil.

Jakubec is also charged with the armed robbery of a San Diego-area Bank of America on Nov. 13, 2009, a heist that netted the thief $43,012. He has admitted he tried and failed to rob the same bank two weeks later.

Federal prosecutors said Jakubec robbed $1,480 from a Bank of America on Scranton Road in San Diego on June 25 of this year. He allegedly then hit a Bank of America on Carmel Mountain Road on July 17, stealing $10,400.

a group calling itself the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire.

"The police force published on its Web site the names and photographs of all the suspects arrested over the weekend, including Alexandros Mitrousias, 21, and Georgios Karagiannidis, 30, believed to be members of a group calling itself the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire. They joined another six suspected members of the group already in custody.

The group has claimed responsibility for a wave of letter bombs early last month that caused one minor injury and led to international alarm after one package reached the Berlin office of the German chancellor, Angela Merkel. The group also has claimed several attacks on political and business targets over the past two years.


Raids on apartments over the weekend in Athens and other Greek cities turned up three Scorpion submachine guns, three Kalashnikov assault rifles and seven handguns, a police statement said. Other items seized included 110 pounds of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil, which are bomb ingredients, as well as seven ounces of TNT, ammunition and four hand grenades."