Homeland Security Admits That It's The Private Police Force Of The Entertainment Industry | Techdirt

Seeded on Sat Dec 4, 2010 4:50 AM EST (Techdirt)

We've been quite concerned about the legality of Homeland Security's domain name seizures -- especially in cases where they took down sites that had a ton of legitimate content, such as various hip hop blogs, with no due process and no adversarial hearings.

homeland-security, us-news, capitalism, due-process, entertainment-industry, government-agency, domain-name-seizure

Charlie Crist Eyes Clemency for Jim Morrison: A History of Politicians' Strangest Pardons - The Daily Beast

Seeded on Thu Nov 11, 2010 3:44 AM EST (The Daily Beast)

As Charlie Crist ponders a pardon of Jim Morrison, The Daily Beast reviews some of the stranger pardons issued by governors and presidents on their way out the door.

politics, governors, presidents, pardons, politicians, law-and-order

Laptops might be damaging sperm: studies

Seeded on Fri Oct 29, 2010 7:12 AM EDT (National Post)

They are a fixture of modern human existence, but laptop computers may actually be limiting propagation of the species, suggest two new studies, one of them Canadian.

health, computers, dna, wifi, laptops, sperm, propagation, male-fertility, motility

LetterBomb: Who Hacked Sarah Palin's Facebook Page? - The Daily Beast

Seeded on Fri Oct 29, 2010 6:50 AM EDT (The Daily Beast)

Keep The Fear Alive! The inside story of a group of rogue ad execs who hijacked Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck's Facebook pages—and how you can, too.

politics, hacking, facebook, glenn-beck, sarah-palin, justin-bieber

Mars: Would you volunteer for a one-way mission? - Point of View

Seeded on Fri Oct 29, 2010 6:28 AM EDT (CBC)

NASA officials have confirmed that studies are being conducted to assess whether astronauts could be sent to colonize Mars.

science, exploration, space-travel, astronauts, mission-to-mars, colonization

Fast train, big dam show China's engineering might - Yahoo! Canada News

Seeded on Thu Oct 28, 2010 1:05 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

China rolled out its fastest train yet and announced that the Three Gorges Dam, the world's biggest hydroelectric project, is now generating electricity at maximum capacity — engineering triumphs that signal the nation's growing ambitions as its economy booms.

china, railway-ministry, engineering, world-news, bullet-train, three-gorges-dam

LCROSS mission may have struck silver on the moon - space - 21 October 2010 - New Scientist

Seeded on Tue Oct 26, 2010 11:44 PM EDT (New Scientist)

Last October, NASA crash-landed a rocket near the lunar south pole, lofting water in the resulting debris.

water, nasa, science, moon, discovery, silver, space-exploration, scientific-probe, planetary-institute

Women Warriors Take the Offensive in War Zones - IPS ipsnews.net

Seeded on Tue Oct 26, 2010 11:25 PM EDT ( IPS Inter Press Service)

The world's traditional peacemakers - a title long conferred on women - may be undergoing a gradual transformation.

security-council, world-news, gender-roles, peace-keeping, female-soldiers, female-combatants

Invasion of the Democracy Crushers: Oil Industry Monsters Work to Destroy the Planet | Environment | AlterNet

Seeded on Tue Oct 26, 2010 10:54 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)

Oil industry monsters from Texas are preying on California, pumping money into a campaign that would kill the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006.

global-warming, politics, climate-change, oil-industry, global-warming-solutions-act, corporate-jihad

Without Investment in Agriculture, Africans Stay Hungry - IPS ipsnews.net

Seeded on Tue Oct 26, 2010 8:46 PM EDT ( IPS Inter Press Service)

Inadequate access to water, recurring floods and droughts as well as a lack of political will to invest in small-scale agriculture perpetuate hunger across Africa, the continent's food security experts say.

flood, hunger, drought, poverty, united-nations, world-news, starvation, rural-development, food-security, agriculture-organisation

Dog Returned to Owners Who Kept Him Locked in Basement | Animals | Change.org

Seeded on Tue Oct 26, 2010 8:28 PM EDT (Change.org)

As Kelly Page, of Dogs Deserve Better Washington, feared, the dog who spent nearly half of his life locked in the basement has been returned to his owners.

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Mac App Store Provokes Developer Interest, Concern | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

Seeded on Tue Oct 26, 2010 8:06 PM EDT (Wired News)

Apple is on a mission to cram the iPad's and iPhone's successes into the Mac, beginning with a brand-new software store serving Mac apps. That may be both good and bad.

technology, gadgets, os-x, steve-jobs, macbook-pro, iphone, ipad, app-store, mac-aps

Bees' tiny brains able to beat computers at complex mathematical problems | Mail Online

Seeded on Tue Oct 26, 2010 8:00 PM EDT (the Mail online)

Bees can solve complex mathematical problems which keep computers busy for days, research has shown. The tiny insects learn to fly the shortest possible route between flowers discovered in random order.

science, computers, insects, bees, mathematics, computation, complex-equations

Immigration Impact: Blog Archive | Georgia Board of Regents Attempts to Ban Undocumented Immigrants from University System

Seeded on Tue Oct 26, 2010 2:32 PM EDT (Immigration Impact)

Last week, the Georgia Board of Regents decided to effectively ban undocumented students from attending 5 of the 61 Universities and Technical College Systems of Georgia starting in the fall of 2011 through a series of admissions provisions.

immigration, universities, education, students, technical-college-systems

ThinkProgress: REPORT: 49 GOP Congressional Candidates Join Ginni Thomas-Led Assault On Education

Seeded on Tue Oct 26, 2010 2:15 PM EDT (Think Progress)

Senate candidates Ken Buck (R-CO) and Sharron Angle (R-NV) have both received significant attention for their absurd claim the federal Department of Education is unconstitutional, but because House races generally receive much less media attention than the higher-profile Senate c …

politics, gop, thinkprogress, department-of-education, american-constitution, education-policy, senate-nominees

Education Week: Student-Tracking Devices in School Badges Spark Controversy

Seeded on Tue Oct 26, 2010 1:56 PM EDT (Education Week)

Radio frequency identification—the same technology used to monitor cattle—is tracking students in the Spring and Santa Fe school districts.

politics, american-civil-liberties-union, surveillance, big-brother, george-orwell, texas-education-agency

CodeWeavers Releases CrossOver and CrossOver Games 9.2

Seeded on Sat Oct 23, 2010 4:02 AM EDT (Wine-Reviews)

Less than a month after Firaxis released its highly anticipated and acclaimed Civilization 5, CodeWeavers, Inc. today announced the release of CrossOver Games 9.2, enabling gamers to play the game on Linux and Mac operating systems.

technology, games, mac, civilization, linux, cross-platform, codeweavers, crossover-games

Intel To Pour Up to $8 Billion into U.S. Manufacturing Plants

Seeded on Sat Oct 23, 2010 3:32 AM EDT (ITChannel Planet)

Intel Corp. said that it will spend up to $8 billion to construct a new development fabrication plant (fab) in Oregon and upgrade four existing facilities in Arizona and Oregon.

technology, jobs, construction, intel-corp, careers, moores-law, job-creation, tech-indusrty

David Kelly postmortem reveals injuries were self-inflicted | Politics | guardian.co.uk

Seeded on Fri Oct 22, 2010 10:02 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

The death of weapons inspector David Kelly was "typical of self-inflicted injury", according to previously secret medical documents released today.

iraq, politics, inquiry, conspiracy, weapons-of-mass-destruction, weapons-inspector, david-kelly, medical-opinion

Christopher Wren - encyclopedia article about Christopher Wren.

Seeded on Wed Oct 20, 2010 8:10 AM EDT (This Day in History)

Sir Christopher Wren (20 October 1632 – 25 February 1723) was one of the most highly acclaimed English architects in history, responsible for rebuilding 51 churches in the City of London after the Great Fire in 1666, including his masterpiece, St.

history, architect, royal-society, st-pauls-cathedral, archtecture, great-fire

The Myth and Legends Surrounding Halloween

Seeded on Wed Oct 20, 2010 7:46 AM EDT (How To Get Your Blog Noticed Quickly With This Little Known Keyword Trick)

As Halloween quickly approaches, one must wonder how, exactly, we arrived at the modern version of this holiday, which sees children wandering the streets in droves, dressed up as goblins, ghouls or the latest pop culture icons and seeking free candy from anyone with a door to kn …

history, halloween, all-saints-day, christianity, occult, paganism, samhain, all-hallows-eve, christian-missionaries, celtic-new-year

Johnny Bright Incident - encyclopedia article about Johnny Bright Incident.

Seeded on Wed Oct 20, 2010 7:07 AM EDT (The Free Dictionary)

The "Johnny Bright Incident" was a violent on-field assault against African-American player Johnny Bright by White American player Wilbanks Smith during an American college football game held on October 20, 1951 in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

college-football, history, race, racism, racial-tensions, racial-violence, african-american, drake-university, oklahoma-a-m, johnny-bright-incident

CBC News - Money - Balsillie fires back at Apple's Jobs

Seeded on Wed Oct 20, 2010 5:59 AM EDT (CBC)

Waterloo, Ont.-based BlackBerry maker Research in Motion fired back Tuesday in a war of words with Apple Inc. Co-CEO Jim Balsillie sliced apart Apple's criticisms of his company, issuing a lengthy statement aimed at Apple CEO Steve Jobs.

technology, apple, blackberry, steve-jobs, war-of-words, jim-balsillie, iphones

CBC News - Technology & Science - Google breached Canada's privacy laws

Seeded on Wed Oct 20, 2010 5:35 AM EDT (CBC)

Google Street View cars breached Canadian privacy laws by inappropriately collecting personal information through a "careless error," the federal privacy commissioner has found.

google, technology, canada, google-earth, private-information, google-street-view, privacy-commissioner

UN calls for immediate action to save life on Earth (AFP) | Yahoo! Green

Seeded on Wed Oct 20, 2010 12:35 AM EDT (Yahoo!)

The world must act immediately to stop the rapid loss of animal and plant species that allow humans to exist, the United Nations warned on Monday at the start of a major summit on biodiversity.

entertainment, animal, water, summit, plants, species, united-nations, biodiversity, mass-extinction, convention-on-biological-diversity

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