27 days ago
nelson : Olympic fireworks fake - The video of the fireworks over the stadium was a digital fake. Very Orwellian, creepy.
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8 month ago
nelson : The ol' Memory Hole - Bush Administration "loses" millions of emails. Again.
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10 month ago
Andy Baio : Mark Pilgrim's The Future of Reading - the only Kindle link worth pointing to; how can Amazon get MP3s so right but e-books so wrong?
deusx : The Future of Reading (A Play in Six Acts) [dive into mark] - "When someone buys a book, they are also buying the right to resell that book, to loan it out, or to even give it away if they want. Everyone understands this."
nelson : The future of reading - Scalpel-sharp critique of Amazon's e-book implementation
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nelson : "Security theater" - TSA head calls some of their own procedures a sham
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jimray : George Orwell: Politics and the English Language
adamrg : George Orwell: Politics and the English Language
Ethan Marcotte : George Orwell’s Politics and the English Language - Saving this 'cause I've never read it. Which makes me retroactively hate my school's English department even more. ∞
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24 month ago
deusx : 9/11 Toxic Dust Whistleblower Raided By SWAT Team - "Ground zero hero Major Mike McCormack says he was deliberately targeted for helping release documents on EPA government cover-up, says 75% of police, firemen believe 9/11 cover-up"
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31 month ago
deusx : Company requires RFID injection - "In the past, employees accessed the room with an RFID tag which hung from their keychains, however under the new regulations an implantable, glass encapsulated RFID tag from VeriChip must be injected into the bicep to gain access, a release from spychips
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38 month ago
Jason Shellen : New name for 'war on terror' - In my opinion 'Operation Happy Funtime Shoot-em Up' is in poor taste. [via dack.com] #
deusx : BBC NEWS | Americas | New name for 'war on terror' - "The shift in terms comes at a time when the US public is increasingly pessimistic about the war in Iraq - and sceptical about its links to the fight against terrorism."
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