Archive for December, 2010
Japan: ‘One Day We Found a Mouse That Was Singing Like a Bird’
December 22nd, 2010Innovation. Via: AFP: Japanese scientists said Tuesday they had produced a mouse that tweets like a bird in a genetically engineered “evolution” which they hope will shed light on the origins of human language. A team of researchers at the University of Osaka created the animal in their “Evolved Mouse Project”, in which they use […]
27 Year Old Citigroup Banker Allegedly Jumped to Her Death from Trump Palace in New York City
December 22nd, 2010From Donald Trump Counting Sheep: As a reader wrote to me recently, “It’s the little things…” Via: The Hoya: Jessica Fashano (MSB ’05) shocked much of the New York financial world Saturday when she allegedly threw herself off of the Trump Palace in New York City. According to the New York Police Department, there is […]
Weak Update; More Later; Telecom Hell Continues
December 21st, 2010Update: After Being Down for Three Days… It came back up a few hours after I posted this. Thanks, Telecom. Love ya. Really. *wink* —End Update— I’ve been driving around the wopwops, documenting another Telecom XT outage in this area. This time, I borrowed another XT user’s sim card to try, in addition to my […]
The New, NEW! Terrorists
December 21st, 2010Via: ABC News: “The threat has changed from simply worrying about foreigners coming here, to worrying about people in the United States, American citizens — raised here, born here, and who for whatever reason, have decided that they are going to become radicalized and take up arms against the nation in which they were born,” […]
Ted Kaczynski and the CIA?
December 21st, 2010This is pretty flimsy so far, but it’s Part 1. Maybe the story will get more interesting. Via: Times Union: Was my brother, Ted Kaczynski (AKA “the Unabomber”), a sort of “Manchurian candidate” – programmed to kill by our government in a CIA-funded thought-control experiment gone awry? … The Harvard study my brother participated in […]
State Budgets: The Day of Reckoning
December 20th, 2010Via: CBS News / 60 Minutes: By now, just about everyone in the country is aware of the federal deficit problem, but you should know that there is another financial crisis looming involving state and local governments. It has gotten much less attention because each state has a slightly different story. But in the two […]
U.S. Government Storing Information on Americans in Vast Surveillance Database
December 20th, 2010Via: Washington Post: Nine years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, the United States is assembling a vast domestic intelligence apparatus to collect information about Americans, using the FBI, local police, state homeland security offices and military criminal investigators. The system, by far the largest and most technologically sophisticated in the nation’s history, collects, stores […]
Probable Carcinogen Hexavalent Chromium Found in Drinking Water of 31 U.S. Cities
December 20th, 2010Add it to the list: Can You Do This With Your Tap Water? Hundreds of Millions of Pounds of Pharmaceuticals LEGALLY Released Into Waterways That Provide Drinking Water Illegal Concentrations of Arsenic, Radioactive Substances like Uranium, Dangerous Bacteria Often Found in Sewage Via: Washington Post: An environmental group that analyzed the drinking water in 35 […]
Britain May Require ISPs to Block Internet Pornography by Default
December 20th, 2010I wonder how long it will take for other categories of sites to be added to this blacklist? Via: IT Pro Portal: The government has urged UK Internet service providers to block pornographic websites in order to help protect children. UK communications minister Ed Vaizey is expected to meet representatives from UK ISPs BT, TalkTalk […]
Cable Search: Full Text Search of Released Wikileaks State Department Documents
December 20th, 2010Cable Search is automatically adding documents as WikiLeaks makes them available. Via: cablesearch.org: CABLESEARCH is an attempt for an user friendly search engine of already published documents from Wikileaks. Research Credit: RB
