Archive for the 'Economy' Category
Pinterest: The Next Internet Plague
March 26th, 2012If you thought Facebook was bad, with its plague of widgets and cookies that have polluted the Internet, pinterest.com (which caters mainly to women) is the fastest growing site in history. It’s still in public-beta, which means that it’s not even open to everyone yet. Via: Scientific American: Pinterest is surely a rising star. For […]
Radio New Zealand’s Censorship of Sally Fallon Morell
March 26th, 2012If anyone inside Radio NZ (yeah, I see that you’re reading) wants to tell me why Kim Hill pulled the plug on the Sally Fallon Morell interview, I’d be interested in hearing from you. Thanks. Update: 27 March 2012: Email Response from Mark Cubey, Producer, Saturday Morning with Kim Hill, Radio New Zealand National In […]
Visa’s Secret Data Center
March 26th, 2012Via: USA Today: Prisons are easier to enter than Visa’s top-secret Operations Center East, its biggest, newest and most advanced U.S. data center. The 8-acre facility looks like any other industrial park in a sleepy suburb. But the serene setting masks hundreds of cameras and a crack team of former military personnel. Hydraulic bollards beneath […]
Holy Rollers
March 25th, 2012I backed Holy Rollers on Kickstarter, and I just got to download and watch the film. You guys might be wondering why I would support a film about Christians, but the fact is that I’m just interested in stories about people who attempt to find cracks in The Matrix, whether they believe in a vengeful […]
MF’s Corzine Ordered Funds Moved to JP Morgan
March 24th, 2012Flashback: Comment Posted on U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Website: Hello, I am a current JPMorgan Chase employee. This is an open letter to all commissioners and regulators. I am emailing you today b/c I know of insider information that will be damning at best for JPMorgan Chase. … On a side note, I do […]
Sally Fallon Morell Speaking Tour of New Zealand
March 24th, 2012Update: Kim Hill Cancelled Interview at Last Minute – Sally Fallon Too Controversial Via: Weston A Price Foundation – Wellington: Sally was booked to do an interview on the Kim Hill show this morning at 11:15am. But we hear Kim Hill pulled the pin at the last moment because she said Sally was “too controversial” […]
“‘Are you guys going to do a fill?’ And they just said, ‘No, we’re out.'”
March 22nd, 2012This is a fascinating article about a guy who cleaned out millions of dollars from multiple casinos by playing blackjack WITHOUT counting cards. Even if you’re not interested in how Don Johnson did it, the look on his face in the picture at the top is worth the clickthrough. Via: The Atlantic: So how did […]
Employers Asking for Passwords to Employees’ Facebook Accounts
March 22nd, 2012Update: Facebook Might Sue Employers That Do This Via: TPM: In response to a deluge of news reports that employers, including public sector organizations, are increasingly forcing employees and prospective hires to turn over their Facebook login information (or have people login and allow supervisors to look at profiles), Facebook itself has decided to weigh-in […]
Australia: Greens Attempt to Access Government’s Secret Discussions On Internet Piracy
March 22nd, 2012Via: Delimiter: The Australian Greens have filed a motion in the Senate requesting that the Government release documents regarding its closed door meetings on Internet piracy which the Attorney-General’s Department has blocked from being released under Freedom of Information laws. On 8 February this year, major Australian ISPs sat down with the representatives of the […]
‘Effective World Government Will Be Needed to Stave Off Climate Catastrophe’
March 22nd, 2012Mmm hmm. Via: Scientific American: To be effective, a new set of institutions would have to be imbued with heavy-handed, transnational enforcement powers. There would have to be consideration of some way of embracing head-in-the-cloud answers to social problems that are usually dismissed by policymakers as academic naivete. In principle, species-wide alteration in basic human […]
