After the old CafePress system for delivering occasional newsletters broke down recently, we started looking for a way to introduce a new newsletter system to bring you the information you want from Irregular Times (and nothing else) to your e-mail inbox.
For a while, we tried to set up a system under PhpList, which has the advantage of being open source but the disadvantage of being almost completely inscrutable:
# you really cant set the value of this too high
# so be sure to get it right
# write in hexadecimal form plz
# for more detail also see default template config file kergiz.pb in data->corner->square->bin->bin->kermit->bin->lang->serbocroatian->empty->template->bin
# default is set two high for your protection W00T
#
$nuclear_water_level = 29A;
Fortunately, we found another piece of newsletter software, Dada Mail, which is both open source in origin and simple to use. As of today, we’re happy to offer a new set of newsletters which we’ve broken into particular topical areas so that you can get information of just the sort you’re looking for:
Irregular Times Activism Updates
Subscribe to this newsletter to get regular news about upcoming political protests and counter-protests as well as occasional reviews of past political protest actions.
This Week in Congress Newsletter
This weekly newsletter contains links to podcast conversations, coverage of recent and upcoming hearings, discussion of newly introduced bills and analysis of patterns in cosponsorship and voting, bringing it all together with an independent voice that transcends the Donkey-Elephant divide.
Bulletin of the Department of Credulity Studies
The Bulletin of the Department of Credulity Studies takes on faith of all sorts, from faith in a magical being in the sky, to faith in the miracles of Ionized Water, to faith in the Kenyan birth of a certain president. Written by the Alien Greys in the basement of the Illuminatus Templar complex underneath the UN towers.
Irregular Times Election Newsletter
Just about what it sounds like: our own independent take on political campaigns and elections.
Tech Dispatch
We’re interested in the use of technology to serve a meaningful end, not simply in the presence of buttons, the idea of style or the rush to find something ever-newer. This newsletter offers reviews of useful (and critiques of useless) hardware and software with their substantive use in mind.
New Political Stickers, Buttons and Shirts
Subscribe to this newsletter to receive updates with the latest in our line of political bumper stickers, buttons and sweatshop-free t-shirts. A great way to keep in touch with the political zeitgeist.
All of our new newsletters operate under the simplest of privacy policies:
- we won’t sell or rent or give your e-mail to anybody else
- we’ll only send you e-mails containing the newsletters you specifically ask for, and nothing else
- you can unsubscribe any ol’ time you like
- and that’s it
Please feel free to subscribe if you’re so inclined. Our first newsletters should be heading your way soon.
