GREEN ORBIT - WHAT IS IT?
(WHAT ISN'T IT?)

Today, via the internet, specifically GOOGLE I discovered:

1. Green Orbit is a environmental group out of Romania which warns of the use and consuption of "genetically modified organisms" or GMO's.

The chairman of the council "Green Orbit", 'Coordinator of International Company For Biosafety of the International Social-Ecological Union for Volgograd and the Volgograd region" is Sergei Shavlak.

In 2003, his apartment was ransacked, but then he is going up against big companies like Monsanto. That sucks, Sergei, but I think you are paranoid, Monsanto knows you'll never be a threat and you had a nice computer in there.

Anyway, all this was reported via GENET, an organization out of Switzerland that supports activities that aim to avoid the introduction of products of gene technology that are not in the interest of consumers or farmers, harm the environment or animals, and conflict with human rights and ethics. There's a conference in Berlin this Jan, 2006.

I shold point out that nearly every living thing is a "genetically modified organism" and that these folks really ought to start using the term "artificially" to qualify their arguments. Even the term "gene technology" is not strong enough - that's pretty much dog breeding, crop selection or any other directed selection.

2. Green Orbit is a cell-phone "wall paper" from their Naked Motel Series available for sale at jivjiv.com. There sure is a bunch of pointless crap in the world. Get your pointless crap NOW!

3. Green Orbit is toy company, who's
GREEN ORBIT EXTENDING SUPER SPYPERISCOPE was voted one of ten worst Toys in 2003 by W.A.T.C.H. (World Against Toys Causing Harm, Inc.), because it could fucking burn your child's retina, if used to look straight up and pointed at the sun, but your kid would have to be pretty dumb.

Green Orbit also makes a "Junior Scientist Microscope Set", which is apparently safe, unless, of course, you try to eat it (see dumb kid reference above). Further research reveals that Green Orbit may have "gone under" because either they made really bad toys or that only dumb kids received them.

4. Orbit is a chewing gum. There's peppermint flavor, the packaging of which is Green. There is no "Green Orbit" gum, but dammit, there it is.

"""Orbit is available in 5 great flavors including Original Peppermint, Spearmint, Wintermint, and two fabulous new flavors: Bubblemint and Cinnamint. These unique new flavor varieties blend the refreshing taste of mint with great tasting bubble gum and cinnamon flavors to provide a clean mouth feeling that will help you look and feel your best.

Orbit's advertising features "Vanessa", a perky spokesperson. Vanessa always finds herself at "the scene of the grime" in her never-ending quest to prove that Orbit leaves your mouth feeling clean…no matter what, even if you just threw up.

Since its launch in September 2001, Orbit has quickly become a success and is now one of the top five chewing gum brands in the United States. Orbit gum is also enjoyed by millions of people throughout Europe and the Middle East.
But fewer every day now in the Middle East.

"For A Good Clean Feeling, No Matter What"

5. Greenorbit.com was purchased by Mercedes Cuesta Castillo in '03, but she's not really doing anything with it - I am tempted to give her a call...I wonder what she is up to? She probably bought greenorbit.com one night in Amsterdam blasted on something, er, green. It expires in '07, so maybe i'll try to buy it then.

WHOIS information for greenorbit.com:

Domain Name.......... greenorbit.com
Creation Date........ 2003-04-03
Registration Date.... 2003-04-03
Expiry Date.......... 2007-04-03
Organisation Name.... Green Orbit
Organisation Address. Sluisstraat 45 II
Organisation Address. Amsterdam
Organisation Address. 1075tc
Organisation Address. NULL
Organisation Address. NETHERLANDS

Admin Name........... Mercedes Cuesta Castillo
Admin Email.......... shiva@macomdo.com
Admin Phone.......... 31206709335

Greenorbit.org is available, folks.

6. Green Orbit, is an old favourite and a popular harling fly particularly as the light begins to fade.

That's right, in New Zealand, this little bugger will do the trick if you're fly fishing, which you will be...YOU WILL BE!

REMEMBER: The most important part of any fly is the hook!! Hence flies are tied using premium quality hooks made from high carbon steel. The low-profile barbs penetrate and hold fish and apparently, this tree branch, with ease.

As of October 19, 2005 - the day THIS very page was created - what I did not find out is that Green Orbit is a sonic duo out of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Kay Levels and someone not named Ponch, but Carlos Santistevan, use a combination of vintage and state of the art electronics to improvise very wide-band soundscapes and rhythms from sources - flute, basses, live samples, current event singing, piloted feedback, reflexive spoken word and the "Rhythm55", after they "hykydy".

They often collaborate with visualists in improvised feedback systems.

I didn't find that out via the internet, because, well, GOOGLE didn't pull us up. That's because GOOGLE derives search results by using their PigeonRank™ system, NO, wait, that's joke posted by GOOGLE a few years ago.

What really happens is that Google crawls the web, stores a local cache of the pages it finds, and builds a lexicon of common words. For each word, it creates a list of pages that contain that word. A query for a given word returns that list, sorted by pagerank. Pagerank is computed based on the pageranks of the pages linking to a document.

Google uses their proprietary (and secret) PageRank Algorithm to calculate your web page's PR based upon the quantity and quality of the links pointing to your page from other web pages, including your own pages as well as those belonging to other webmasters.

Because Green Orbit (the sonic ensemble) has assembled this page in such a way as to link to other "Green Orbit" references we have helped to increase the page rank of those other Green Orbits. To increase our page ranking we plan to ask others to link to this very page, and hence manipulate the internet (with this game-theory) and thus Google's engine.

So please cut and paste http://www.highmayhem.org/artists/greenorbit
as a hyperlink on your page, if for no other reason to wield POWER!!

Give this a few days, I'll bet that by November 18, when Green Orbit comes to UNM, Southwest Film Center in the Student Union Building, we'll top off a Google Search for Green Orbit.

Hey, it worked for Bildebier.

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