Archive for September, 2011
Update: Remember the Weird One About Brian Alexik?
September 25th, 2011Drugs, weapons, counterfeiting, fake identification documents… He was just sentenced to… How many years in prison would you guess? Wrong. He got probation.
Fox News Deletes ‘Who Won the Debate?’ Poll Page After Ron Paul Wins
September 25th, 2011Update: You Can Actually Embed the Poll On Your Own Site—If You Want HAHAHA. Fox News. What a bunch of idiots. Code Someone will eventually sober up and take it down, but for now, it works. —End Update— Hilariously, the poll, originally located here, is still accessible via Google cache. It’s actually a polldaddy.com poll, […]
U.S. Has Been Supplying Israel with Bunker-Busting Bombs Since 2009
September 25th, 2011Via: New York Times: The Obama administration has quietly supplied Israel with bombs capable of destroying buried targets, like terrorists’ arms caches or perhaps sites in Iran suspected of being part of that nation’s nuclear weapons program, American officials said Friday. The administration’s transfer of bunker-busting bombs, first reported in an online article by Newsweek, […]
Los Angeles: Large AT&T Mobile Network Outage
September 25th, 2011Via: AP / Washington Post: It’s been a day of missed, dropped and failed calls for AT&T wireless customers in Southern California, and the night may be the same. A recorded message for AT&T cell phone customers and the company’s official Twitter account Saturday said Los Angeles-area customers are having difficulty making or receiving calls […]
Cryptogon Readers Send Contributions
September 25th, 2011Thank you. DS $25 Eileen $100 DR NZ$100 JS $20 MW $20 ID €25
Cryptogon Readers Sign Up for Hosting with BlueHost
September 25th, 2011Thanks to the owners of the following domains for signing up for hosting with BlueHost: aspirationalhomes.com bitethebubble.com (Not up yet) sharp-controls.com (Not up yet) Cryptogon received $270.
Fear of Repression Spurs Scholars and Activists to Build Alternate Internets
September 25th, 2011This is great, but don’t forget the context: U.S. Has Secret Tools to Force Internet on Dictators U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors The Sock Puppet Industrial Complex: U.S. Trains ‘Activists’ to Evade Security Forces Think outside the box, by all means. Just don’t be surprised when you find another box. Via: Chronicle of Higher […]
Google Shuts Down ActivistPost.com
September 24th, 2011Via: Before It’s News: At mid-day on Friday, September 23, 2011, the popular alternative news blog, ActivistPost.com, was taken offline. Activist Post receives over one million views per month and has been hosted by Google’s Blogger since its founding in June 2010. “We remain puzzled as to why Activist Post was erased completely by Google,” […]
Japan: 500 Becquerels Per Kg Found in Nihonmatsu City Rice Sample
September 24th, 2011Via: Reuters: Japan found the first case of rice with radioactive materials far exceeding a government-set level for a preliminary test of pre-harvested crop, requiring thorough inspection of the rice to be harvested from the region, the farm ministry said late on Friday. The ministry said radioactive caesium of 500 becquerels per kg was found […]
Researchers Develop fMRI-Based Model to Reconstruct Moving Images that People Are Seeing
September 23rd, 2011Many articles that I’ve read about this don’t mention the little detail that this is based on data obtained through the use of fMRI. This MIT Technology Review piece deals with that right up front. In case you don’t know, fMRI is not a technology that we’re going to be walking around with anytime soon. […]
