spam: the other white meat

It’s unfortunate that rape continues to be placed with in a heteronormative and essentialized gender framework. The claim that “only men can stop rape” renders invisible not only victims of rape where that socially identifiable category of woman doesn’t apply to, obvious allies who are concerned about the perpetration of rape, and of course avoids any kind of institutional questions.

Many people are realizing how crucial it is to shift the focus of rape and sexism prevention/awareness from women and onto men.

Why is it a question of gender? Ought the question be about who is politically marginal and who is not? In the quote above, not only is the assumption implicit that rape is a heterosexual act of men raping women, but further, social identified men are the power holders. Can’t the obviously positive sentiment of this claim be framed to “those with power must act in ways which help stop the perpetration of rape” rather than reinforcing a gendered view of rape and power as well as masking other kinds of sexual violence which are not easily categorized within heteronormative frameworks.
Found here: http://www.culturaldissent.com/index.php?/archives/197-guid.html#extended | Originally from:
http://speakoutonmaleviolence.wordpress.com/2006/10/29/only-men-can-stop-rape/#more-37

Stephen Jungels has some great instructions for how to build ffmpeg on the mac. If you’ve be struggling with dealing with video processing on the mac, this is a pretty instructive post for how to get lame and ffmpeg going.

http://stephenjungels.com/jungels.net/articles/ffmpeg-howto.html

I just whipped up a quick module to do deployments of taxonomies based on years and months. It runs off cron, so it will automatically make the terms become available as time progresses. Admins can choose what vocabulary the module will add terms to. By default it will generate something like:

2006
-- October 2006
-- September 2006
-- August 2006

You can download autotaxonomy here

It was only a matter of time until viruses writers and phishers started to exploit social networking sites. Here’s a little gem that just landed in my inbox:

Is it somewhat ironic that it features the plane crash from Lost? Here are some of the headers form the email:

Subject: Video em Destaque
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
From: noreply@youtube.org
Cc: noreply@youtube.org
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: BASE64
Message-Id: <20061016022608.EB1134B934D@h519.serverid.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 04:26:08 +0200 (CEST)

The link that the email sends you is: http://peoplesrepublicofcork.com/newsletter/.htacess/processo=1423AvcFd.php which dumps a file processo1423.exe on your machine

Two videos from Univision were posted on youtube showing the attacks against the anti-minutemen protesters. You can read the statement from Colombia’s president which basically tries to cover the university’s position under the banner of free speech.