CRYPTOZOOLOGY ONLINE: Still on the Track: THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS OVER THERE WE THINK

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After reading Jamie Bartlett's 'The Dark Net', I wanbted to check out the TOR network for myself. So I downloaded the app onto my iPad and went blithely on. For those of you not aware of it, over to Wikipedia:

"Tor is free software for enabling anonymous communication. The name is an acronym derived from the original software project name The Onion Router. Tor directs Internet traffic through a free, worldwide, volunteer network consisting of more than six thousand relays to conceal a user's location and usage from anyone conducting network surveillance or traffic analysis. Using Tor makes it more difficult for Internet activity to be traced back to the user: this includes "visits to Web sites, online posts, instant messages, and other communication forms". Tor's use is intended to protect the personal privacy of users, as well as their freedom and ability to conduct confidential communication by keeping their Internet activities from being monitored. An extract of a Top Secret appraisal by the National Security Agency (NSA) characterized Tor as "the King of high-secure, low-latency Internet anonymity" with "no contenders for the throne in waiting", and the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology deemed it, with approximately 2.5 million users daily "by far the most popular anonymous internet communication system."

I found 'The Hidden Wiki', and within less than five minutes I was directed to a UK based website putporting to sell handguns, a whole plethora of drug markets, although the only one I looked at seemed rather expensive, and a category of adult websites called 'Hard Candy', which I suspect are probably illegal pornography, but not being Pete Townshend I did not sully my hard drive by investigating any further.

I suppose that as an anarchist I am supposed to be excited at this new electronic wild frontier, but actually it scared the crap out of me...

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The Gonzo Weekly #137
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Chris Squire, The Fall, Suzanne Vega, Grant Lee Buffalo, Roy Weard, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, Jon Anderson, and Yes fans had better look out!

The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#137) is available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It has the late Chris Squire of Yes on the front cover together with a series of tributes to him inside. There are accounts of Suzanne Vega and Grant Lee Buffalo live, John muses on The Fall, and Jon examines a book about the a bloke who went to see the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival, and spent fifty years cataloguing British Butterflies, there is Hawkwind news and an important Gong Family update, Thom waxes all poetical like, whilst the legendary Roy Weard continues his regular column. And there is a radio show from M Destiny at Friday Night Progressive, and one from those jolly nice chaps at Strange Fruit, and one from the wonderful Canterbury. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and spotted quolls with nothing to lose (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials in a devil may care mood, but I got carried away with things that rhymed with OOOOS) than you can shake a stick at. And the best part is IT's ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!

This issue features:

Chris Squire, Morrissey, The Beatles, Culture Club, Sir Paul McCartney, Barbara Dickson, Nick Holland, Gilli Smyth, Van Morrison, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Canterbury sans Frontieres, Bruce Rowland, Val Doonican, Third Ear Band, Arthur Brown, Inner City Unit, Hugh Hopper, Pete Sears, Captain Beefheart, Brand X, Lee Walker, Grant Lee Phillips, John Brodie-Good, Suzanne Vega, Gerry Leonard, The Fall, John Haylock, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Yes, Steve Howe, U2, Morrissey, Michael Jackson, Sid Vicious, Nick Cave, Neil Nixon, Virginia Astley, Cnoc An Tursa

Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:

All issues from #70 can be downloaded at www.gonzoweekly.com if you prefer. If you have problems downloading, just email me and I will add you to the Gonzo Weekly dropbox. The first 69 issues are archived there as well. Information is power chaps, we have to share it!

You can download the magazine in pdf form HERE:
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* The Gonzo Daily is - as the name implies - a daily online magazine (mostly) about artists connected to the Gonzo Multimedia group of companies. But it also has other stuff as and when the editor feels like it. The same team also do a weekly newsletter called - imaginatively - The Gonzo Weekly. Find out about it at this link: www.gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/…/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit…

* We should probably mention here, that some of our posts are links to things we have found on the internet that we think are of interest. We are not responsible for spelling or factual errors in other people's websites. Honest guv!

* Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures (and several others) is an old hippy of 55 who - together with an infantile orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa, and a small kitten totally coincidentally named after one of the Manson Family, purely because she squeaks, puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon which he shares with various fish, and sometimes a small Indian frog. He is ably assisted by his lovely wife Corinna, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, his elderly mother-in-law, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention the infantile orange cat, and the adventurous kitten?

Wednesday, July 08, 2015

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS OVER THERE WE THINK

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