Jim Choate wrote:
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> http://www.ntk.net/
Just to clarify that for those of you who aren't followers of the
post-modern end of lefty British activism & therefore don't read NTK
already (hey, maybe I could spam the list with loads of 1-line URLs
pointing to websites on the British general election tomorrow & my
beloved Labour party which is about to show the conservatives where to
get off for the second time in a row...) the piece that Jim was
pointing you to is on-topic for the list and goes something like:
"If anyone's lived the wacky geek activist life to the full,
it's H KEITH HENSON. He co-founded the L5 society in 1975,
to promote space colonisation (it merged to become the more
stately National Space Society). He was somehow a friend to
both Tim "LSD" Leary and Tim "Cypherpunks" May, the carved
wooden bookends at the far edges of any gonzo futurist's
bookshelf. He shares two patents with Eric Drexler, the
godfather of nanotechnology. He's been involved in
cryogenics. He was married to Carolyn Meinel, "Happy Hacking"
hate figure for the haxx0r underground. He's the toastmaster
for the extropian Far Edge Party, where the cloned copies of
every uploaded human meet up at a prearranged point on the
other end of the Galaxy in 10 million years, and show each
other holiday slide shows of where they've explored. And, as
of this week, he's 63 years old, bankrupt, and stuck in a
maximum security jail, after being arrested by six Canadian
Emergency Task Force officers in full battle gear. They'd
been tipped off that he was a dangerous pipe-bomb wielding
fugitive. He's certainly a fugitive; he's currently pleading
asylum in Canada after being convicted of interfering with
the Scientologists. He could well be someone you secretly
hoped existed: his defence fund has a PayPal account.
http://freehenson.da.ru/
- what *is* it with Russia hosting all these free speech sites?
http://www.aeiveos.com/~bradbury/Authors/Engineering/Henson-HK/
- academic interests
http://addall.com/New/compare.cgi?dispCurr=GBP&isbn=0201567512&location=20100
- see also "The Great Mambo Chicken & The Transhuman Condition""
