December 2010
You too can hunt for exoplanets →
“Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings, who don’t have all the...”
– Bill Maher (via jamminllama)
40 Year Old Atheist →
Another interesting atheist blog.
Planet Mabel: The twelve leaks of Christmas →
mabelmoments:
On the first day of Christmas, WikiLeaks gave to me; The love-notes of Berlusconi.
On the second day of Christmas, WikiLeaks gave to me; One Saudi King, wanting bombs ‘cross the Caspian Sea.
On the third day of Christmas, WikiLeaks gave to me; Russian crooks, Cooking the books; And mobsters…
Tumblr decided that it would truncate the posting so you just get 2.5 of the 12...
Is it something I said?
Is it just the fact that I’ve been a way from Tumblr a bit or is it something I said? But when I try to reblog posts, half the time it doesn’t include the name and a link to the person I’m reblogging, and the other half of the time it just truncates the re-blog.
“Imagine if God was our only source or morals, like christians believe. Woman...”
– the wise man. (via duger)
My interest in Sport
Inspired by danielholte’s post
NFL: yawn
CFL: yawn
NBA: yawn
NHL: are the Leafs playing?
NRL: yawn
AFL: does anybody know the rules? Are there any rules?
Soccer/Football: I’ll watch it if I have too.
Cricket: somebody just shoot me.
Curling: see cricket.
Netball/Women’s Basketball/Women’s Field Hockey: let’s see do I want to watch tall, athletic, sweaty...
New TV
Finally got a wide screen TV today. First thing that was on was an NFL game on one of the sports channels. The last time I saw so many men, do so little, over so much time, was when I saw a bunch of council workers digging a whole in a street.
The hole digging was more interesting than the game.
“75 percent of all survivors know their attackers; 80 percent of all rapes occur...”
– Information Statistics › Boston Area Rape Crisis Center (BARCC)
via mandalay
“I may not make it through [US] immigration should I attempt to visit the home of...”
– An email from my mate Rick.
You too can sign the GetUp Wikileaks petition.
Wikileaks only exists because the mainstream media... →
vruz:
by Alan Patrick, Broadstuff
Readers of this blog will know we have been following the whole Wikileaks saga this week, and my intial annoyance with Wikileaks for (in my view) being too “gung ho” (see here) has been counterbalanced with an annoyance at the “chattering classes” - the Media and Politicians - in their attempts to misinform, misreport, and muzzle by veiled threat rather...
The US embassy cables: guardian.co.uk →
Best coverage of the leaked cables I’ve found so far.
Update:
El Pais also comes highly rated from a few followers (and got a tip of the hat from the Guardian) . Not being a Spanish speaker myself, I have to fall back on translation sites.
“There is an information war, and it’s about control. The choice is to...”
– Jeff Jarvis, director of the interactive journalism program at the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism, gives his summary on the Wikileaks saga.
Visa, Mastercard and PayPal support the Ku Klux...
You can if you’re so inclined go the Ku Klux Klan website and if you are of “pure stock” purchase yourself a membership via Visa, Mastercard or PayPal. After all their just good Old American boys.
However, these three financial institutions refuse to deal with Wikileaks an organisation that attempts to keep governments, and companies honest, by releasing documentation that is...
Nikki J's Scrapheap: A brief history of Wikileaks →
nhac:
Al-Qaeda:
- revealed how Iran devised suicide weaponry for Al-Qaeda use in Iraq
- detailed Al-Qaeda’s use of chemical weapons in Iraq
- revealed Al-Qaeda’s deadly exploitation of children in Iraq
- shown how US-funded Iraqi militias switched their allegiance to Al-Qaeda
CIA &…
“I think the current laws, which criminalize the leaking of secrets but not the...”
– Clay Shirky on Wikileaks — I’m creeped out by how much I agree with everything Shirky says. (via jedsundwall)
“The United States is pleased to announce that it will host UNESCO’s World...”
– From the press release put out by the U.S. Department of State, who says the Americans can’t do irony?!?
Australians of the world unite against the Evil...
The Americans are out to get one of our own, Julian Assange of Wikileaks fame.
Wikileaks and Assange have broken no US or international law, but the US is already in talks with Swedish Authorities to have Assange extradited to the US; obviously for some USA waterboaring justice. Some American polies obviously want to avoid the fuss and cost of a trail and just want Assange assassinated.
Under...