Apr
30
First Come Cellphone Towers, Then the Babel
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[From NYT]
Hundreds of communities have been waging fights against cellphone companies and the march of antennas into suburbia.
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Apr
30
Bob Dylan: With God on Our Side
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[From Bob Dylan]
Oh my name it is nothin’
My age it means less
The country I come from
Is called the Midwest
I’s taught and brought up there
The laws to abide
And that land that I live in
Has God on its side.
Oh the history books tell it
They tell it so well
The cavalries charged
The Indians fell
The cavalries charged
The Indians died
Oh the [...]
Apr
30
[From Engadget]
Following some intense pressure from privacy advocates, the U.S. government has admitted that their plan to put RFID chips in people’s passports had some potentially huge security problems. The original design had an RFID chip that would broadcast personal information to speed up the processing of travellers, but in an interview Tuesday Frank [...]
Apr
29
Nicholas Kristof Greenwashes Nuclear Power
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[FromCounterPunch]
Greenwashing Nuclear Power
By LUKE BROTHERS
In George Orwell’s classic novel, 1984, the government uses the slogans war is peace, freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength. Now, Nicholas Kristof (New York Times, April 9, 2005) would have us believe that nuclear energy is green.
Kristof’s argument that “nukes are green” is out of touch with reality. Kristof [...]
Apr
29
Wal-Mart attempts to censor parody website
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For several days in April, this address, www.walmart-foundation.org, hosted a parody of the Wal-Mart Foundation’s website. I created a derivative work by changing all of the text and several of the images from the original site. The goal was to make the site look like it could be a real site from a company like [...]
Apr
29
Vietnam prepares for anniversary
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[From BBC News]
Preparations are underway to mark 30 years since the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War.
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