small steffan update

Ah! Nothing new from me in a long time, I'm sorry. Lots more in a little bit, I promise (perhaps over the weekend.)

I've made two exchanges in this time, a print of an old block, basically a fantasy composition of weeds, and also, a print for this periodic table of elements exchange (The link is to the work in progress blog, the final form of the prints has yet to be determined.)

My print (for Iron, atomic number 26,) is here:



(Yes, I went for the obvious pun.)

I joined thinking that the level of the work would be student quality work, but the artists involved have turned out to be an extremely creative and talented bunch of folks, so the finished product should really be something special.

EDIT, I also have a third exchange, that needs 15 prints by the 15th. I'm not sure I will do that one or not. If I do, it will have to be a small, doodle-esque sunflower block that I made a month or two ago, but haven't printed.

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A whole mess of unsubstatiated fun semi paranoid conspiracy stuff at this link:

http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2007/05/24/justice-department-scandal-greg-palast/

1. They claim the 500 "Rove-deleted" emails requested during the AG investigation were forwarded prior to deletion to georgewbush.org, a domain owned by a staunch detractor of Bush, used to host a parody website. (If true, the staffers were probably aiming for georgewbush.com, a domain that is owned by the GOP. This is consistant with prior revelations that White House staffers are using GOP provided email addresses as "drop boxes" for communications that they want to keep away from public scrutiny.)

2. The story claims that the GOP has authenticated that these emails are the real deal during an interview with the BBC.

3. They go on to claim that the emails explain that the firings of the attorney generals were to "plant" US attorneys sympathetic to a vote rigging scheme to be implemented for election 2008.

4. Monica Goodling admitted in testimony that the GOP "Caged" something like 2000 votes in battleground states during the 2004 election. (Caging involved sending a "do not forward" email to target democratic voters (students out of state in college, soldiers, absentee voters mostly.) and then using the returned mail to challenge and toss out these votes.)

All of this is unsubstantiated and unproven, but it's one of those "Gosh I hope it's true" kinda things that I will keep my eye on.