Hive Five: Best Application Launchers
(tags: opensource lifehacks)
Microsoft Live Search Cashback: desperate and brilliant
(tags: google business tech)
Schneier: we need a privacy bill of rights
(tags: security surveillance littlebrothervsbigbrother tech internet law liberty policestate)
R. Kelly trial - how to get out of jury duty
“R. Kelly may have led the Taliban in attacking us on 9-11, but you can’t […]
As a promotion for the new Cory Doctorow book Little Brother, Instructables is running a series of related “how to” articles, including:
How to blend in with crowds
How to lie to authority figures
Encrypt your Gmail Email!
How to locate pinhole cameras
Spice Mister
Avoiding Camera Noise Signatures
How to Start A Flash Mob
How to block/kill RFID chips
Photo-emulsion Screen Printing
What to […]
Above: seen in Athens
Below: a piece by Vinchen
(via Wooster Collective)
Negroponte Unveils 2nd Generation OLPC Laptop: It’s an E-Book
(tags: tech global mobile mobiletech)
Slashdot | New ‘Phlashing’ Attack Sabotages Hardware
(tags: tech security)
Manufacturing A Food Crisis
(tags: food politics economics)
Cisco Leak: ‘Great Firewall’ of China Was a Chance to Sell More Routers | Threat Level from Wired.com
(tags: business internet politics tech security global policestate)
Michael Sheehan is on a one-man mission to put terrorist threats into perspective, which is a place they’ve rarely or ever been before. Already you can see it’s going to be a hard slog. Fighting the inflated menace of Osama bin Laden has become big business, generating hundreds of billions of dollars for government agencies […]
Buying fuel effecient used car more “green” than buying hybrid
(tags: environment)
Inconvenient Truths: Get Ready to Rethink What It Means to Be Green
Including “10 GREEN HERESIES”
(tags: environment)
High end designers targeting nomadic yuppies
“the birth of the nuppie”
(tags: nomad culture business design)
Is the government compiling a secret list of citizens to detain under martial law?
(tags: fascism policestate security […]
All of that fits into this:
More info: Tree Hugger
See also: Birth of the Nuppie
This is apparently only a prototype, they are not available commercially yet. And I expect them to be rather expensive when they do become available. So how might we be able to build our own compact living solutions?
Update: Here’s a video of […]
27 percent of the food available for consumption is thrown away in the US
(tags: food economics)
Lifelock sued
(tags: security)
The Associated Press: ‘$100 laptop’ nonprofit now teamed with Microsoft
(tags: education tech mobiletech opensource global)
Reason Magazines on where Burma went wrong
(tags: global politics economics)
Target’s crime lab does more than stop theft. It helps solve murders, rapes and armed robberies
(tags: security business)
Charges filed in cyberbully/suicide case
(tags: socialnetworks tech law liberty)
Ask.com parent buys dictionary.com and other reference sites
(tags: tech business)
How to profit from a ‘police state’
(tags: policestate police)
Ecoterrorists entrapped by FBI?
(tags: environment politics police policestate surveillance)
Android vs. LiMo: What’s the difference?
(tags: mobile linux opensource mobiletech)
Natural No-Bake Peanut Butter Energy Bars
(tags: recipes)
New wi-fi devices warn doctors of heart attacks
(tags: health tech surveillance biopunk)
Carbon Accounting in New Zealand
(tags: global environment economics)
The U.S. government has injected hundreds of foreigners it has deported with dangerous psychotropic drugs
(tags: immigration policestate)
Einstein letter shows disdain for religion
Albert Einstein regarded religions as “childish” and “primitive legends”, a private letter he wrote a year before his death has revealed.
(tags: religion)
The Third Book of Onan
(tags: subgenius occult magick religion)
A Book Review of David Black’s Acid: A New Secret History of LSD
(tags: drugwar politics history)
Police rip out man’s catheter, then leave him alone without medical care
Balko: “Even if this was the right guy, that seems more than a little unnecessary to make an arrest. Turns out, it was the wrong guy.”
(tags: police policestate sexcrime)
China outsourcing to the US
(tags: China economics work global business)