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The advent of web radio was and still is a fantastic thing. Many a day have I lost myself in the wide variety and eclectic selection of web radio stations while plugging away at the computer.

Rant Radio, now one of the older web radio stations, has been around since 1999/2000 and, though it’s base of operations has moved around, it has always been local to Vancouver and the Lower Mainland. I’ve been a fan of Rant Radio for many years now, since early 2000 to be precise, and it was in the IRC channel associated with the radio station that I first started talking to, my now wife, Chrys. Had it not been for Rant Radio and it’s fantastic selection and rotation of music, I may never have met my wife. Thanks Guys!

Rant Radio has evolved in numerous ways over the past few years and now encompasses an Industrial music station, a Talk station, a Punk station, and even a streaming web tv station known as Rant TV.

What initially drew me to Rant Radio was not only it’s great selection of Industrial music, but a weekly “talk show” that aired every Monday (I think?) night, entitled the “What The Hell Show“, featuring the loud-mouthed, out spoken and entertaining Sean Kennedy, “The Fuckin’ Man”, as he refered to himself.

Rant Radio has developed a very strong fan base and appeals a great deal to the subversive and anti-media enthused people drowning in todays society. A very strong community of people has developed around and because of Rant Radio, and it’s really quite inspiring.

By far one of the best features of Rant Radio, that is an unfortunately rare occurence in todays world, is the fact that it is 100% ad free and relies on fan support. Whatever donations and fan support can cover the cost of, which is not a lot, Rant Radio creator and producer James O’Brien, better known as Cimmerian, pays for out of pocket.

Though having received numerous advertising offers, and even the odd full sponsorship offer since it’s inception, creator and producer James O’Brien refuses to let his station become just like any other and will not allow it to become saturated with advertising and sponsorship, the likes of which has made traditional radio almost unbearable. Rant Radio was started as an ad and sponsorship free station and will remain one as long as it exists.

Check out and support the ad free Vancouver based web radio station, Rant Radio.

Related Sites:
Listen to Rant Radio Talk
Listen to Rant Radio Industrial
Listen to Rant Radio Punk
Watch Rant TV!
Watch Patrolling with Sean Kennedy
Rant Media

It’s hard to believe that things like this can still happen in this day in age, but it looks like Survivor: Cook Islands isn’t the only recent bought of segregation to make the news.

The Shreveport Times reports that a white school bus driver directed 9 black students to move to the back of the bus as the front seats were designated for the white students. Let’s all collectively take a step back about 60 years.

Rightly so the event has outraged the parents of the black students as well as the NAACP, which is NOT a group of people you want to piss off. Parents of the students have filed formal complaints with the school and the NAACP is considering filing formal charges with the U.S. Department of Justice. The NAACP district president of Shreveport, James Panell, is also considering investigating not only the bus incident, but pupil-to-teacher ratio as it relates to number of black and white students, as well as a break down of the number of black and white teachers employed.

This bus driver doesn’t know what kind of shit storm he/she just created for herself, her job and the school she works for. I really do hope the NAACP investigates this and pushes it as hard as possible, this kind of racism is unacceptable and cannot be tolerated.

Read More @ The Shreveport Times

Related Sites:
Shreveport Times Article
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Roughly 2,500 scientists and astronomers met in Prauge yesterday to make a decision that would quite literally change the face of the universe as we know it.

The majority of scientists voted in favor of stripping Pluto of it’s planetary title, demoting it to a secondary category. Now the universe we have come to know and love has a mere 8 major planetary bodies. Does anyone else feel a little robbed? They better hurry up and find a replacement, slackers. It’s been how long since they found a planet? sheesh. Get to it guys!

One thing that really sucks about this change is that all text books now have to be updated to reflect the universal change of 9 to 8 planetary objects. Anyone thats been through the school system in the last 10 years can tell you just how out-of-date the textbooks are already and I highly doubt this change is going to make it into most textbooks for a good 5 – 10 years, at least if you go by the usual textbook replacement time line.

Along with this change that stripped Pluto of its planetary title, the new definition could see the solar system topping out at nearly 50 planets, as numerous planetary objects now fall into the “planet” definition.

In order for a celestial object to be classified as a planet now, it must comply with the following points:

• It must orbit the sun.
• It must be large enough to take a nearly roun shape.
• It must have cleared it’s orbit of other objects.

Pluto does not fit these guidelines as it’s orbit crosses over the orbit of Neptune. Pluto will now be grouped into a new category defined as Dwarf Planets.

Read More @ BBC News

Though this is the first I have ever heard of it, apparently the Bats Day in the Fun Park event is an annual occurrence, this year being the 8th occurrence of the event. Crowds of black clad goths and wannabe’s alike took over Disney Land California for a day of fun, food and rides over the weekend.

The Bats Day in the Fun Park event consists of 4 separate events:

Bats Day Black Market:
An event similar to the Vancouver and Richmond Night Market, only much smaller in scale, featuring roughly 50 vendors geared completely towards the goth, industrial and death rock communities.

Bats Day Creepy Cocktail Party:
A catered cocktail party which features live entertainment such as DJ’s, dancing and a number of other surprises.

Nightmare Before Bats Day – Dinner Meet and Greet:
Unlike the Creepy Cocktail Party, this is the real deal, an entire sit down meet and greet style dinner with live entertainment, DJ’s, dancing, the official Bats Day Raffle and the passing out of a limited edition “Nightmare before bats day” keepsake.

Bats Day Fun in the Park:
The main event, the coup de grace, as it were, where the gaggle of goths assemble and take Disney Land California by storm.

It is really quite awesome to see a city and group of people as dedicated to their goth, industrial and death rock cultures, communities and lifestyles as these people are. I can only wish that the Vancouver Goth scene will someday be as well organized and productive.

My hat is off to the Bats Day group of California, you guys to fantastic work.

Cheers

Related Sites:
Bats Day Information
Bats Day Pictures
2006 Bats Day in the Fun Park Pictures
Boing Boing on Bats Day

I’ve decided to add an Articles section to the site where I will be posting News and Press Release style articles, as well as some interviews, hopefully.

This section of the site will mainly be dedicated to expanding and honeing my writing skills in the hopes of trying to obtain some freelance or contributing writer work for a blog, news site or local media source.

The first addition to my new articles section is:

2006 Vancouver Flugtag Takes to the Skies

A basic article on the events and occurences of the 2006 Red Bull Flugtag held in False Creek, Vancouver. Read More…

Please feel free to give it a read over and let me know what you think. The more feedback I can get on my writing the better.

Cheers

I am now the proud owner of dingoRUE.com. I bought the domain this morning through 1and1.com for $5.99 USD.

I’ve been looking into sites to buy my domain name from for a few days now and this is the best one I have been able to find. My PR bossman from SalesAllstars.com recommended it as he’s used it for a bunch of his domains.

The price was great, the added features were really good and everything went pretty quickly. I’ve got the domain now, just waiting for it to be fully processed and then I can start setting it up. By this time tomorrow dingoRUE.com should be ONLINE, hopefully.

Cheers

The International Aids Conference in Toronto had quite the interesting fashion show yesterday to promote AIDs awareness and the use and de-stigmatizing of condoms. The fashion show featured women and men of all all ages donning dresses and various other garments made almost exclusively of condoms.

Almost 400,000 condoms have been turned into items such as brooches and pins in numerous countries, including India, Thailand and Senegal, all in the name of spreading awareness of AIDs and safe sex. Over 30,000 pins have been decorated at the conference in Toronto alone.

Read More about the International Aids Conference in Toronto @ Reuters.

I have never been a particular fan of Conservatives for obvious reasons, at least obvious to anyone that knows me, but what I just read only reenforces my stance on Conservatives.

I will, however, admit, that there are points of the Conservative platform that I do agree, however; all of these points are strictly concerning conservative views and opinions in a financial respect. When it comes to conservative views on morals and ethics, they are so far off the chart it’s bares comprehension.

Yesterday on Fox News (surprise), conservative radio host Mike Gallagher was debating with Fox panelist Michael Gross about whether or not racial, religious or ethnic profiling is the answer to the ever expanding “war on terror.”

Full Transcript:

GROSS: Don’t discriminate based upon race, creed, color, country of national origin.

GALLAGHER: Let’s have a Muslim-only line.

GROSS: What uniform you are wearing. What we want to do is look at behavior. We want to stop people who behave wrongly.

JERRICK: Michael, I think you missed a Mike Gallagher line there. What did you just say about different lines?

GALLAGHER: It’s time to have a Muslims check-point line in American airports and have Muslims be scrutinized. You better believe it. It’s time.

GROSS: Of course, your prejudice, which means to prejudge when you say Muslims or any people of any faith should be treated unequally because of their faith. You are absolutely wrong. Most Arabs are not Muslims. Most Muslims are not Arabs. You don’t have your facts straight. And Mr. Gallagher, how would you feel if we had a line for the Irish which English people were doing during the I.R.A. problems.

I just can’t believe that people are even able to think this way. The complete and utter lack of respect for another race simply based on ethnicity or religion is absurd! Just when I think some psychotic right wing conservative has said something so completely and utterly lacking any form of intelligence that it cannot possibly be topped, some senseless prick goes and tops it.

Somedays I just don’t want to be a part of this world when people like this can openly and freely exist, and even be praised for their thoughts.

Read the Full Story @ Think Progress