• defiance, ohio (punk with acoustic guitar, upright bass, drums, violin, banjo, and cello)
• borfyou (seditionary public spectacle)
• disaster (2-piece multimedia hardcore aspiring to social consciousness from bloomington)
• do this all day (is a website for the audio documentary "I Want To Do This All Day: Redefining Learning and Reinventing Education." The site provides information sound clips, photos and ordering info for the documentary as well
• as details about an upcoming May 2008 performance tour based on the documentary. It also provides extensive resources and links for radical alternative learning and un/de-schooling.)
• gal & lad (wisconsin pop music)
• geoff (blogitty blog blog)
• hellomermaid (erin tobey's home page with lots of nice comics and information about her zine and musical projects)
• let's go!! (fun things to do every month in bloomington)
• the max levine ensemble (socially conscious pop-punk from wdc)
• miff muffered moof (musings of a radical catholic anarchist, new father, programmer.)
• mother hubbard's cupboard (amazing, empowering bloomington food pantry/community garden project)
• pink houses (a grunge/punk band from bloomington)
• pretty hot (haute pop punk)
• ryan woods the artist (paintings)
• chiara galimberti (paintings)

why "terrorware" dot com. even before 9-11, even before "terror" became the favorite buzzword of right wing political comentators, politicians, and country-western musicians, people were throwing the word around all willy-nilly. the phrase "terrorware" comes from a 2001 wired news article that discusses a motion picture industry attorney likening open source dvd decoding software to "software programs that shut down navigational programs in airplanes or smoke detectors in hotels."

obviously, the stakes are a lot higher these days with more and more acts of free speech being ridiculously categorized as "terror". still, "terrorware" is a good reference to remember that there will always be efforts to make people fearful of each other and divided from each other over really stupid things, be it religion, race, political views, or technology. it also reminds me that at the point that technology can be seen as a threat by some people, it holds a certain potential to change people's perspectives, to share new ideas with others, and to challenge the way that we look at and live in our world. i'd like to think that the digital representations of some real-world things that mean a great deal to me can, in some small way, be that potential.