[From: Newsday.com] BY BRETT KRUTZSCH Brett Krutzsch is an administrator at New York University and a freelance writer. His essays about gay life have appeared in The Advocate, New York Press and The New York Blade. October 23, 2007 Larry Craig’s much-anticipated interview with Matt Lauer last week brought the country’s attention back to the [...]
Archive For October, 2007
Instructable: Confuse and Parody Your Enemies
[From: MAKE: Blog] Steve Lambert posted a great Instructable on creating signs to parody and confuse “enemies” (aka corporations and governments). Steve is my upstairs neighbor so I will have to be on sign lookout from now on. Link. [Read this article] [Comment on this article]
Windbelt, Cheap Generator Alternative, Set to Power Third World
[From: Popular Mechanics] (Click photo for video) By Logan Ward Video by Virtual Beauty Video Produced by Allyson Torrisi Diagram by Dogo Published in the November 2007 issue. Working in Haiti, Shawn Frayne, a 28-year-old inventor based in Mountain View, Calif., saw the need for small-scale wind power to juice LED lamps and radios in [...]
Kevin Kelly — Cool Tools
[From: Kevin Kelly -- Cool Tools] Be(a)ware of how your belongings could track you This book will make you look at every store-bought item you own or debate owning with a curious skepticism that — after reading the book — won’t seem too unwarranted. It was published two years ago (a cheap paperback came out [...]
Atheists on the rise
[From www.kansascity.com] Those who don’t believe in God are finding strength in numbers in public and political arenas By JACQUELINE L. SALMON and MARY JORDAN The Washington Post In England and its offspring, the United States, a legion of the godless is rising up against the forces of religiosity. “People who were ashamed to say [...]
John Lennon Birthday thoughts 2007 – Yoko Ono
[From: Guardian Unlimited] Birthday thoughts 2007 On what would have been John Lennon’s 67th birthday, a poem from Yoko Ono to commemorate the unveiling of her Peace Tower in Reykjavic. Shifting the axis of the world to peace: Yoko Ono and John Lennon. Photograph: Hulton Getty We stand on this beautiful planet enjoying the sunrise, [...]
Mafia accused over nuclear waste
[From: Guardian Unlimited] From cocaine to plutonium: mafia clan accused of trafficking nuclear waste Tom Kington in Rome Blue drums displaying radioactive sign. David Woodfall/David Woodfall Authorities in Italy are investigating a mafia clan accused of trafficking nuclear waste and trying to make plutonium. The ‘Ndrangheta mafia, which gained notoriety in August for its blood [...]
Online Campaign 2008: A Phishing Bonanza? on Threat Level
[From: Wired.com] By Sarah Lai Stirland The 2008 presidential contenders’ online fund-raising tactics could encourage one gigantic phishing attack — or at least a series of little debilitating nibbles that will destroy the campaigns’ momentum online, says a noted online security researcher. The growing volumes of money that the presidential campaigns are soliciting — and [...]
Naomi Campbell’s Turtle Attack
[From: Environmental Graffiti] Ecology — Robert Naomi Campbell is no stranger to controversy. The supermodel is perhaps best known recently for legal issues including a number of assaults on her employees. But her most recent controversy involves not her temper, but a turtle. Campbell and her boyfriend, Renault F1 team head Flavio Briatore, have submitted [...]