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Top 13 worst fictional corporations from sci-fi movies. - Topless Robot blog

Slumurbia - the newest trend in California real estate. - NY Times
"Come see: this is what happens when money and market, alone, guide the way we live." Live blogging the Great Recession.
Illinois senator to D.C. residents: It was a snow storm not "a nuclear attack." - The Hill
Black & Decker MSW100 Ready Wrench - Amazon.com/
"...This all-in-one wrench puts 16 of the most popular standard and metric socket sizes at your fingertips--just spin either of the tool's two rotating heads to find the right size. With no socket set to store or organize.." Maybe.
Olympic boondoggles -iSteve blog
"You would think it would be easy to make money on a sporting event where you don't pay the athletes in anything except glory, but after the 1984 LA Olympics, which made a fortune by using old stadia, it hasn't worked out like that."
Google's Buzz a big fat privacy invader - LA Times
Malcolm X's daughters talk about him. - New Yorker
Andy Warhol actually had signed it, dedicated it, and dated it, but it's still a fake. - NY Review of Books
A sci-fi podcast on how the world could end - Escape Pod
EP229: Little Blossom Makes A Deal With The Devil

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The Traceability of an Anonymous Online Comment - Freedom to Tinker blog
Botnets increasingly wielded for ideological uses - Ars Technica
This was bound to happen.
How to use a touch screen with gloves on: use a sausage - BoingBoing
"Algebra for All" Working as Should Have Been Expected - iSteve blog
The faces of meth: before & after photos from mugshots - LA Times
What is the best pocket tool? - Outside
Whatever one you pick you still need to carry a sturdy fixed blade sheath knife too though.
New Armored Wall System Assembles Like Legos, Could Replace Sandbags in Afghanistan-Popular Science
Pro/con: Shields-Expensive and have to be trucked or choppered in. Sand bags and rocks- Free, universally available and are time-tested protection. But the mil-ind complex doesn't make any money from local sand and rocks though. Heh.
Why are political elites so condescending? - Washington Post
OpenOffice Ships Version 3.2 - TechCrunch
Yeah!
4000 year-old human hair from museum basement allows genome to be sequenced. - Technology Review
The Bone Conduction Music Show- Thayrone X
The best rhythm & blues show on the net.
Anthrax, science is on to you! - Scientific American
"... anthrax manages to persist in soil for hundreds of years despite environmental extremes, including wind and rain, and even go undetected during outbreaks in humans and livestock has puzzled scientists." But how?
Apocalyptic Future Civil War Myths Catch Fire - Wired
Blame it on DMZ comics. I like that the disassociation and secession tropes are getting out there though. Heh.



Eco-defense: A field guide to monkey-wrenching - Anarchist Library (Edward Abbey)
"If a stranger batters your door down with an axe, threatens your family and yourself with deadly weapons, and proceeds to loot your home of whatever he wants, he is committing what is universally recognized — by law and morality — as a crime. In such a situation the householder has both the right and the obligation to defend himself, his family, and his property by whatever means are necessary. This right and this obligation is universally recognized, justified and even praised by all civilized human communities. Self-defense against attack is one of the basic laws not only of human society but of life itself, not only of human life but of all life."