December 2010
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"Fox News Announces Winner of the Holocaust"
Siskita found this on the Daily Show blog:
December 22 at 11:53AM by Dennis DiClaudio
Fox News Announces Winner of the Holocaust
Hey, it’s been a little more than 60 years, but they finally finished tallying up all the points from that war that they had over there in the whole world, and Fox News is proud to announce the grand champion of the Holocaust…
Congratulations, Elie Wiesel!...
“Wow. No God. If mum had lied to me about God, had she also lied to me about...”
– A Holiday Message from Ricky Gervais: Why I’m An Atheist - Speakeasy - WSJ (via rainbowhill)
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Big (Corporate) Brother: Wireless carriers openly... →
thetechpete:
Imagine paying extra to visit Facebook. Imagine not being able to check your tweets with your smartphone while on the go. Imagine wireless carriers charging us to do even more stuff that costs them little extra to do (like they already do with texting). This is horrible and they’re thinking about considering it.
I remember back in the AOL days when AOL used to charge X amount of...
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666cast episode 37 for 12/12/10: This week I...
Anonymous asked: <p>I’m agnostic and I don’t really know why I’m not an atheist. I see all the ecidence backing it up, but I’m having a hard time saying, i am an atheist. I’m a bit lost seeing as my family is mostly Catholic as are my friends. Any advice on the subject?</p>
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EFFYOU.ORG: EFFYOU to alleged terrorism fighters... →
effyouorg:
All of the folks out there that are going after Al Qaeda or other extremist-types with the actual means to cause physical harm, GOOD ON YOU! Keep up the good work!! All the other folks out there who go after pissed off kids and other losers who have precisely zero means to commit the acts they say they want to commit: EFF YOU.
Among the principles the United States was founded...
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Even GlennBeckToday.com isn't safe from Anonymous!
stfuglennbeck:
Anonymous takes down Glenn Beck Today.com
it’s even got the latest anonymous video embedded in it.
FUCK YEAH!
Here’s a screencap I took at about 4:07pm ET today:
Of course, now Beck will whine and moan about how he was hacked and use that to his advantage and his troops will rally.
As much as I enjoy seeing hacks like this happen, ultimately, sadly,...
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Nazis Were Given ‘Safe Haven’ in U.S., Report Says →
Meant to blog about this a while back:
Nazis Were Given ‘Safe Haven’ in U.S., Report Says A secret history of the United States government’s Nazi-hunting operation concludes that American intelligence officials created a “safe haven” in the United States for Nazis and their collaborators after World War II, and it details decades of clashes, often hidden, with other nations over war criminals...
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Understanding COICA, America's horrific proposed... →
It’s official! I can’t keep up with the forces of evil.
Anyone wanna help out with website666.com? >_<
If it’s not the government, it’s corporations. If it’s not the corporations, it’s the government! ARG!
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The USG trumps up threat then tells us how they're...
This is something I’ve noticed the USG and the FBI doing for a while. See if you can notice what’s wrong with the following cutting from a November 28, 2010 article at LATimes.com reporting on a 19 year-old naturalized American (originally from Somalia) who wanted to blow up a bunch of Americans (I’ll add italics to make it obvious):
“The threat was very real,”...
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Apple Inc.: A prominent new reason we need a...
I noticed this over the past few weeks as I read various coverage of iPhone apps that Apple was and was not letting get through. Check out these headlines:
Radio Station Apps: No Longer Welcome in the App Store
Apple Bans Android Magazine From The App Store
Why Does Apple Make Donation Apps So Hard?
In short, Apple seems to be using it’s position to stop certain information from getting...
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“The WikiLeaks affair has twofold value. On the one hand, it turns out to be a...”
– Umberto Eco (via thedaytheytriedtokillme)
Yep, that Umberto Eco.
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BBC News - Wikileaks: Swiss bank shuts Julian... →
Yes, that’s right, Assange’s SWISS bank account has been closed—there’s buckets of irony there. How many international criminals have used Swiss bank accounts for hiding their money?? And here comes Assange who, apparently, lied on his application regarding a Geneva residence. I’m sure this lie coming to light now has nothing to do with international pressure.
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From last Friday: WikiLeaks Fronter and Devil of... →
My favorite is how he admits that a goodly chunk of the remaining docs to be published refer to UFOs. :) And no, it doesn’t sound like there’s anything really “good” in there like admissions of cover-ups or the like. :(
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“My own sense is that we should err on the side of telling the truth, even when...”
– NationalJournal.com - To Tell the Truth - Thursday, December 2, 2010
This is a great little piece on our priorities during a time when a website is made to seem like the greatest threat to democracy.
Seriously—WikiLeaks a terrorist organization??
W.T.F.
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Scientists De-age Mice--could mean huge...
This is kind of insanely amazing—yet I bet it got buried under news of WikiLeaks. Check out this cutting from CTV.ca:
Mon Nov 29, 10:00 PM
Scientists find way to reverse aging in mice
CTV.ca News Staff
Scientists in Boston have made an astounding discovery, taking aging mice and turning them young again, like tiny little Benjamin Buttons. (AP / Bebeto Matthews)
Scientists in Boston...
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How Ma Bell Shelved the Future for 60 Years →
Gizmodo’s Tim Wu blogs about how innovation was stopped in its tracks, effectively, due to capitalist interests. Funny how we’re all told capitalism is great for innovation. Too bad that’s only true until innovation might damage the current business model. Take the example of the answering machine that existed in the office of a Bell Labs engineer… in 1934.
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More Reasons Why Free Speech Trumps Government...
If this week’s post on EFFYOU.org didn’t give you enough reasons to support WikiLeaks (or at least understand why they are important) here are a few more reasons I’ve snipped from another great post from underpaidgenius:
Jeremy Geelan contacted me about the Wikileaks mess, and wanted my two cents. His piece is an interesting juxtapositioning of cloud computing and political...
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EFFYOU.org: EFFYOU to anyone who thinks WikiLeaks...
From effyou.org:
The whole problem with absolute power is that there can’t possibly be a check or balance placed on it. In case you haven’t noticed, America has no check or balance on it currently and hasn’t had one in quite a while. No military is stronger than America’s and only a few economic powers could ever hope to compete with the US economy (despite it’s recent and huge collapse).
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