Hi. I'm a Free Software hacker and activist (born on the 5th of Nisan 5742); proselytizing for the adoption of the GNU system and the anthropological human moral philosophy of the Free Software movement.
I identify w/a form of Libertarian Socialism within the framework of a market-free non-commodity producing subsistence society, enjoy reading imaginative literature, lisp hacking, maths hacking (boethian number theory/zygomorphic forms/geometric harmony :), and listening to bitpop (viz; Welle:Erdball).
I know truth in veganism, non-violence, and Bhakti Yoga.
My primary operating system and the one I recommend to people is the modified GNU system; GNU/Linux. Please click here for a list of freedom respecting distributions of GNU/Linux.
Robert Stefan Jensen Patrik Lembke Joakim Olsson Alfred M. Szmidt Ed
Richard Stallman Thomas Martinsen (RIP) SamBach Roscoe Marcel Wysocki
Vegan recipes submitted to me by friends; click here.
Please see lirhost for a web page and space (: like this one).
PETA needs to rethink some of its actions; PETA-Kills.
I stand with you Leonard, in solidarity; this man ought to be immediately released.
Consider one non-technical way to help the Free Software movement by donating money to the Free Software Foundation; The FSF funds Free Software development and remains the leading sponsor of the GNU project.
Kaddish by Allen Ginsberg
"Don't be afraid to expose your own flaws and examine yourself, because what can defile a man can deliver a man." --Paraphrased
"Before I was your little son, before I was your baby, your dependent, I was a free spirit in the next stage of life. I walked in the cosmos not imprisoned by a body of flesh, but free in a body of light, I knew all things, there were no questions only answers, no weaknesses only strength, I was light, I was truth, I was a spiritual being, I was a g-d... but you had to fock! and bring my arse down here!" --Sam Kinison
"Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoast, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable." --Terence McKenna
"I had a lot of friends who were sent to mental hospitals instead of universities. Most people would think that's too bad but I think they came out with more cylinders than many who went to university." --Dr.Richard Alpert; Stanford graduate, Harvard professor, researcher in human consciousness
"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal." --Albert Pine
"For example, unlike humans, all natural meat-eaters manufacture their own vitamin C, whereas we need to consume vitamin C in fruits and vegetables. True carnivores perspire through their tongues rather than through their skin. Natural meat-eaters have sharp, pointy front teeth, sharp and jagged molars, and a tooth- bone density that's many times greater than that of humans, which enables them to crunch through the bones of their prey. Carnivores have no digestive enzymes in their saliva at all, and their digestive acids are many times more acidic than those of humans, so the bacteria from rotting flesh won't kill them. Natural meat-eaters have jaws that move only vertically, instead of in a grinding motion as ours do, and they don't chew food their they just rip and swallow. Carnivores have claws to rip their prey apart instead of sensitive fingers for plucking. They have intestinal tracts that are only three times their body length, which enables them to eject rotting flesh quickly. No matter how much saturated fat and cholesterol they consume, natural meat-eaters never develop atherosclerosis, the heart disease that consistently kills more human beings in the industrialized world than any other cause of death." --Bruce Friedrich
"In desperate hope I go and search for her in all the corners of my room; I find her not. My house is small and what once has gone from it can never be regained. But infinite is thy mansion, my Lord, and seeking her I have come to thy door. I stand under the golden canopy of thine evening sky and I lift my eager eyes to thy face. I have come to the brink of eternity from which nothing can vanish--no hope, no happiness, no vision of a face seen through tears. Oh, dip my emptied life into the ocean, plunge it into the deepest fullness. Let me for once feel that lost sweet touch in the allness of the universe." --Tagore, from Gitanjali, LXXXVII.
"People (state-government) that want to control [...] anything that gives the power to change reality to the individual, to every inclusive individual, well you (statists) can't have that happening." --Timothy Leary
"The world that we have made as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far creates problems that we cannot solve at the same level as the level we created them at." --Albert Einstein
"I don't want anything. I exist only to serve others." --Neem Karoli Baba.
"O journeyer, deaf in the mould, insane with violent travel & death: consider me in my cast, your first son. Would you were I by now another one, witted, legged? I see you before me plain (I am skilled: I hear, I see)" --John Berryman
"Being a man or being a woman has nothing to do with your genitalia; it has to do with what's right here in your heart, and what's in your mind." --Robert Eads
"In other words, a peaceful man is the first criterion if you want to have a peaceful universe. You start with the universe you've got, which is your own being; and if you're angry, you can't be angry about peace because all you're creating is more anger in the world, rather than more peace. So whatever you're going doing to do, you've got to do it peacefully... you've got to do it with peace in your heart if it has anything to do with peace." --Ram Dass
"The dust of the universities is draped like a death veil over the truth" --Edgar Froese
"But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence." --MLK
"The natural impulse of the primitive man to strike back, to avenge a wrong, is out of date." --Red Emma
"It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them." --Alfred Adler
"The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause." --Henri Bergson
"Everyone has their point of view and everyones' point of view is absolutely valid, you know, for them, a monarch; don't get caught in your point of view or you will impale yourself on your point of view. --Timothy Leary
"Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!" --Karl Marx
"There are many causes for which I am prepared to die for, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill." --Gandhi
"The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer -- they think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer." --Ken Kesey
"Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves." --Bill Hicks
"In other words, all of us are more the same than we are different. That we give overwhelming attention to our perceived differences gives rise to much of the human drama." --Ingo Swann
Revolution-Books: a great source of printed material.
GNU IceCat: a free software web browser; the binaries released by the Mozilla project are non-free and they recommend non-free software.
GTK-Gnutella: a free software p2p client; share and exchange digital information!
Privoxy: free software to help improve security and privacy.
CookieSafe: free software to help manage web browser cookie permissions.
NoReferer: free software to help control the http referer your web browser sends; this improves privacy.
AdblockPlus: free software to help against web browser spam.
NoScript: free software to help improve web browser security.
Copwatch: a database of citizen complaints against police.
Tor: free software to help circumvent network surveillance and censorship.
Scroogle: never google; you are entitled to privacy and anonymity.
IMC: great news resource; the media systems are oligopolies and corporate so choose real news like indymedia.
thepiratebay: a bittorrent tracker. please read this for why you ought to reject the terms "pirate" and "piracy" when it's applied to software and digital information; in fact, just avoid it altogether unless you are talking about pillaging and murdering on the high-seas.
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I typed this page in GNU Emacs; viva la Free Software! Also I would like to thank Joakim for helping me with it.
Contact me: jwvozud@hushmail.com
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