December 2010
38 posts
IS IT A BIRD...IS IT A PLANE!?: Alan Moore's... →
“I’m a wimpy, indecisive, burned-out wooley-minded liberal old hippy who eats quiche, saves whales, is friendly to the Earth and subscribes to Spare Rib, The Black One-Parent Gay Catholic Gazette, and Animal Welfare Against Nuking the Nazis Quarterly and if anybody wants to make anything of it, then I’ll quite cheerfully butt them in the face until their nose is flat enough to...
“The simple view is that medicine exists to fight death and disease, and that is,...”
– Hospice medical care for dying patients : The New Yorker
“In short, we are living in the aftermath of an alien invasion.”
– Invaders from Mars - Charlie’s Diary
“Corporations have a mean life expectancy of around 30 years, but are potentially...”
– Invaders from Mars - Charlie’s Diary
“As Tim blithely remarked to his fellow encryption enthusiasts, “The State will...”
– The Blast Shack (via kouky)
“WTF is more commonly associated with the Facebook and Twitter profiles of...”
– WTF? OMG, LOL! CIA gives WikiLeaks taskforce naughty name | World news | The Guardian
“This is the kind of guy who once wrote an encryption program called...”
– The Blast Shack
“Everybody wants everybody else’s national government to leak. Every state wants...”
– The Blast Shack
“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
“where the question between professionals is more often “What are you...”
– The Future of Des Moines: Sparking a tech boom | desmoinesregister.com | The Des Moines Register
“And living or dying is important. Games offer fail conditions as well as win...”
– Can’t play, won’t play | Hide&Seek - Inventing new kinds of play (via brianoberkirch)
WatchCrank your afternoon up a notch or 18.
(via The Movement - Jump! (Official Music Video) - Video)
“For about two hundred years after it arrived in the language in the thirteenth...”
– World Wide Words: Girl and youth
“As with any password dump, one of the most interesting outcomes is the most...”
– I think my personal favourite is ‘trustno1’. Or maybe it’s ‘cheese’.
Brief Analysis of the Gawker Password Dump » Duo Security
“Did you know that less than one in 10 Afghans were aware of the 9/11 attacks and...”
– And so this is Christmas - Unleashed (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Robert Gates
ROBERT GATES, US DEFENCE SECRETARY: Um ... the fact is governments deal with the United States because it's in their interest; not because they like us, not because they trust us and not because they believe we can keep secrets.
“Nothing but good can come from revelations about these companies, and in this...”
– Henry Porter - WikiLeaks may make the powerful howl, but we are learning the truth
“What is astonishing is the number of journalists out there who argue that it is...”
– Henry Porter - WikiLeaks may make the powerful howl, but we are learning the truth
“The primary design principle underlying the Web’s usefulness and growth is...”
– Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality: Scientific American
“My wife is also a writer − movies, radio and television − so we both work from...”
– Writing habits: Philip Palmer - Adam Christopher
“U.S. diplomatic dispatched that are leaked and now posted on Wikileaks.org...”
– Wikileaks dispatch exposes Meles Zenawi as a mercenary | Ethiopia
“the idea that it’s a bad thing to know more about the how the governments that...”
– “Two-handed engine”: Wikileaks, the Defense of Diplomatic Secrecy, and East Timor « zunguzungu
“It is impossible to read Robinson’s book — or pretty much everything else I’ve...”
– “Two-handed engine”: Wikileaks, the Defense of Diplomatic Secrecy, and East Timor « zunguzungu
“In this sense, while Khatchadourian’s New Yorker piece is more or less fair as...”
– “Two-handed engine”: Wikileaks, the Defense of Diplomatic Secrecy, and East Timor « zunguzungu
“The company’s top executive in Nigeria told US diplomats that Shell had...”
– WikiLeaks cables: Shell’s grip on Nigerian state revealed | Business | The Guardian
“Here’s what we know. There is a long history of the CIA viciously smearing...”
– Johann Hari: This case must not obscure what WikiLeaks has told us - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent
“Some say attacking WikiLeaks would be fruitless. Really? In the past year, the...”
– I have no words. Only laughter.
Marc A. Thiessen - You’re either with us, or you’re with WikiLeaks
“Every time WikiLeaks publishes the truth about abuses committed by US agencies,...”
– Don’t shoot messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths | The Australian
“People have said I am anti-war: for the record, I am not. Sometimes nations need...”
– Don’t shoot messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths | The Australian
November 2010
70 posts
“To radically shift regime behavior we must think clearly and boldly for if we...”
– Julian Assange - State and Terrorist Conspiracies essay, November 10, 2006
http://cryptome.org/0002/ja-conspiracies.pdf
“Today, massive amounts of data can be collected, stored, and mined. We still...”
– News Desk: Cable Traffic: WikiLeaks, Facebook, and You : The New Yorker
“David Carr, The New York Times media columnist, offers another view. Boing Boing...”
– Inside the Wild, Wacky, Profitable World of Boing Boing | Page 5 | Fast Company 