Archive for January, 2010
Three-Year-Olds with Iphones?
January 19th, 2010Via: TheAppleBlog: My three year old daughter now has her own iPhone, though without service so it is effectively an iPod touch. And how did I create a monster, you might ask? Easy. Her first words upon waking from sleep are “Where’s my iPhone?” Her reaction to her parents call to come to the dinner […]
U.S. Military Weapon Sights Inscribed With Bible References
January 18th, 2010Via: ABC News: Coded references to New Testament Bible passages about Jesus Christ are inscribed on high-powered rifle sights provided to the United States military by a Michigan company, an ABC News investigation has found. The sights are used by U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and in the training of Iraqi and Afghan soldiers. […]
Bush as President Occasionally Phoned Clinton
January 18th, 2010But first… From: Bush, the Little Voice in Hillary’s Head: What is thy bidding, my Master? And this set from: Change We Can Believe In: Obama Honors George H.W. Bush for Public Service: And now back to our regularly scheduled programming. Via: AP / New York Times: George W. Bush had a special phone friend […]
Former Morgan Stanley Infrastructure and Energy Specialist, Who Was Also Director of Private-Equity Firm EQT Partners, Found Dead in Back of Delivery Van in Munich
January 18th, 2010Via: Bloomberg / Business Week: A director of private-equity firm EQT Partners AB who previously worked for Morgan Stanley may have been murdered as he was trying to sell his Audi A8 luxury sedan, Munich police said. Dirk von Poschinger-Camphausen, 36, was killed by 10 to 13 gunshots, detective Markus Kraus said at a press […]
Italy to Require Anyone Who Uploads Video to the Internet to Obtain Government Authorization
January 17th, 2010Via: The Industry Standard: New rules to be introduced by government decree will require people who upload videos onto the Internet to obtain authorization from the Communications Ministry similar to that required by television broadcasters, drastically reducing freedom to communicate over the Web, opposition lawmakers have warned. The decree is ostensibly an enactment of a […]
Companies Building Credit Profiles Based on Twitbook Traffic?
January 17th, 2010Not The Onion. Via: creditcard.com: You probably don’t analyze the chatter or quality of your social media connections, but creditors may be doing just that. In their quest to identify creditworthy customers, some are tapping into the information you and your friends reveal in the virtual stratosphere. Before calling the privacy police, though, understand how […]
George W. Obama
January 17th, 2010Via: Village Voice: Before President Obama, it was grimly accurate to write, as I often did in the Voice, that George W. Bush came into the presidency with no discernible background in constitutional civil liberties or any acquaintance with the Constitution itself. Accordingly, he turned the “war on terror” over to Dick Cheney and Donald […]
What Happened to the Institute for the Study of Globalization and Covert Politics (isgp.eu)
January 17th, 2010Update: Apparently, the Site Was Taken Down Because of a Address Chance isgp.eu: January 18, 2010, To those who were concerned, As many of you noticed, ISGP has been down for a week. Eurid, located in Brussels, had withdrawn the domain because they somehow found out I wasn’t living at the registered address anymore. Don’t […]
German Government Warns Against Using Microsoft Internet Explorer
January 17th, 2010Via: BBC: The German government has warned web users to find an alternative browser to Internet Explorer to protect security. The warning from the Federal Office for Information Security comes after Microsoft admitted IE was the weak link in recent attacks on Google’s systems. Microsoft rejected the warning, saying that the risk to users was […]
Pantex Nuclear Weapons Plant on Lockdown
January 15th, 2010UPDATE: Hunters Via: Connect Amarillo: Two Pantex employees seen hunting near the plant Friday morning caused the nuclear weapons facility to be placed on lockdown. Carson County Sheriff Tam Terry told Pronews 7 that someone called just after 7:30am Friday morning to report seeing two individuals with guns close to the plant. Pantex activated its […]
