Archive for November, 2011
Mossad Linked to Iranian Military Blast
November 15th, 2011Via: Guardian: A series of news reports linking Israel’s intelligence agency the Mossad to a blast at a military facility in Iran, in which 17 people were killed and a further 15 wounded, has gained widespread coverage in the Israeli media on Monday. While Iranian officials insist the explosion at the Bid Ganeh base was […]
Kickstarter: Low Cost, Open Source, 1KW Stirling Engine
November 15th, 2011For several years, I’ve wondered why there aren’t any affordable Stirling engines available that are capable of producing meaningful amounts of electricity. I have no idea if Volo Designs will manage to pull it off, but I’m happy to help them try. Via: Kickstarter: More: Volo Designs
Occupy Wall Street: Cops Have Cleared Protesters from Zuccotti Park
November 15th, 2011LRAD on scene, pic1, pic2. Live video streams: Livestream, Ustream. NYPD Manhattan Precincts 1-23 and Citywide 1-3 Live Audio Feed. Via: AP: Occupy Wall Street protesters have been ordered to leave Zuccotti Park, their longtime encampment in Lower Manhattan, but they’ve been told they can return once it has been cleaned. At about 1 a.m. […]
Diaspora Co-Founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy Dead; Possible Suicide
November 15th, 2011Via: Z6Mag: The 22 year old co-founder of social network Diaspora died over the weekend in San Francisco. It’s been reported that Ilya Zhitomirskiy may have committed suicide, but it will take a couple of weeks to confirm the cause of death according to the medical examiner’s office.
In-Vitro Meat
November 14th, 2011Via: Reuters: Scientists are cooking up new ways of satisfying the world’s ever-growing hunger for meat. “Cultured meat” — burgers or sausages grown in laboratory Petri dishes rather than made from slaughtered livestock — could be the answer that feeds the world, saves the environment and spares the lives of millions of animals, they say. […]
Bundled, Buried & Behind Closed Doors
November 14th, 2011Via: Vimeo: Bundled, Buried & Behind Closed Doors from Ben Mendelsohn on Vimeo. Lower Manhattan’s 60 Hudson Street is one of the world’s most concentrated hubs of Internet connectivity. This short documentary peeks inside, offering a glimpse of the massive material infrastructure that makes the Internet possible.
Why Is China Building These Gigantic Structures In the Middle of the Desert?
November 14th, 2011Via: Gizmodo: New photos have appeared in Google Maps showing unidentified titanic structures in the middle of the Chinese desert. The first one is an intricate network of what appears to be huge metallic stripes. Is this a military experiment? More: Wired: More Mammoth (and Mysterious) Structures Found in China’s Desert
Ustream Mobile Package
November 14th, 2011The cops are about to swarm Occupy Oakland. I was just watching the Occupy Oakland live stream and it’s a really clear stream. As I was wondering how the person was pulling it off, he started to talk about it. He’s using a system called the Ustream Mobile Package. It load balances the stream over […]
Congress: Trading Stock on Inside Information
November 14th, 2011Via: CBS: Washington, D.C. is a town that runs on inside information – but should our elected officials be able to use that information to pad their own pockets? As Steve Kroft reports, members of Congress and their aides have regular access to powerful political intelligence, and many have made well-timed stock market trades in […]
Chairman of the European Branch of the Trilateral Commission and Bilderberg Member Becomes Leader of Italy
November 14th, 2011Via: Reuters: Mario Monti, the economist who will head an emergency Italian government following the departure of Silvio Berlusconi, brings credentials earned in a decade of battles as a European Commissioner from the 1990s. … He is chairman of the European branch of the Trilateral Commission, a body that brings together the power elites of […]
