Thursday, December 16, 2010

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Humble Indie Bundle 2: pay what you like for 5 great indie games, support EFF and Child's Play!

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 05:04 AM PST


The Humble Indie Bundle is back -- for the second year, a group of indie game developers are making a bundle of really top-notch games available on a pay-what-you-like basis. A portion of proceeds raised go to charity, divided among the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Child's Play. Last year's Humble Indie Bundle was an astonishing success, raising over $1 million in less than ten days, and the developers did a public service by offering detailed breakdowns of how people gave, broken down by operating system, region, etc.

Pay what you want. If you bought these five games separately, it would cost around $85 but we're letting you set the price!

All of the games work great on Mac, Windows, and Linux.

We don't use DRM. When you buy these games, they are yours. Feel free to play them without an internet connection, back them up, and install them on all of your Macs and PCs freely. There is no time-limit on your downloads.

You can support charity. Choose exactly how your purchase money is divided: Between the game developers, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, or the Child's Play Charity. Also, if you like this deal, a tip to the Humble Bundle itself would be much appreciated!

Humble Indie Bundle

New Humble Indie Bundle: Pay-What-You-Want for Games and Help EFF, Again!

 


Dataviz: 200 years' worth of economic and health data from 200 countries

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 04:41 AM PST

From an episode of BBC Four's The Joy of Stats, watch as charming and animated Swedish statistician Hans Rosling runs through 200 years' worth of augmented-reality data-visualization telling the story of economic development and health in 200 countries over 200 years in a mere four minutes.

Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC Four (Thanks, Alan!)

 


Harry Belafonte's lost, post-apocalyptic screen debut: "The World, the Flesh and the Devil"

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 04:36 AM PST

Dwiff sez, "Harry Belafonte's screen debut may be of interest to the boingboingeratti - a precursor to The Quiet Earth in many ways - in which Harry Belafonte walks through haunting vistas of a depopulated New York searching for some signs that he is not the last man on Earth following a nuclear disaster. And like The Quiet Earth, he first discovers a woman, and then a man... Anyway, the film is finally out on DVD in a very nice remastered edition - has not looked this good in years."

The World, the Flesh and the Devil (Thanks, Dwiff)

 


Greenpeace v Big Oil, the CC-released environmental game

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 04:31 AM PST


Just in time for the holidays, Greenpeace has released a Creative Commons-licensed, free, print-and-play game that satirizes and dramatizes the Greenpeace fight brewing against big oil in the Arctic.
If you're the oil company you'll need to head straight for deep water. Sure it's risky, but that's where the money is. Set aside those moral scruples and go for the money. Do try and avoid the endangered species though, if any species becomes extinct, the PR backlash could shut you down and it's game over for both sides. If you're playing as Greenpeace you need to protect the ocean by setting up marine reserves. You can slow the oil companies down with direct actions (like occupying their rigs) but it's the creation of marine reserves that will finally end their deep sea drilling ambitions.

Of course this isn't just a game. The world's oil companies really are trying to drill in some of the riskiest and most environmentally sensitive areas in the world. Marine reserves - think national parks at sea - really are the answer. World Park Antarctica is closed to industry because you helped us win the campaign to protect it. There's no reason we can't do the same in the Arctic, where oil companies are licking their lips as, without a trace of irony, they welcome the shrinking of the ice caps due to climate change. See, retreating ice frees up more places they can drill for oil. Unfortunately that will lead to more climate change. You see the problem here. We like to call this humanity's "Stupid Test."

Free "print & play" game: Big Oil Vs Greenpeace to save the Arctic

(Thanks, Brianfit, via Submitterator)

 


Human rights organizations around the world condemn Wikileaks censorship

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 04:25 AM PST

The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Katitza Rodriguez has rounded up the responses of many human rights organizations around the world to the commercial and governmental attacks on Wikileaks. It coincides with EFF's new Say No to Online Censorship campaign.
• On December 10, International Human Rights Day, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights addressed this issue in her statement: "While it is unclear whether these individual measures taken by private actors directly infringe on states' human rights obligations to ensure respect of the right to freedom of expression, taken as a whole they could be interpreted as an attempt to censure the publication of information thus potentially violating Wikileaks' right to freedom of expression."

• Amnesty International ~ "Freedom of expression is an internationally recognized human right that limits the power of the state to prohibit the receipt and publication of information. The burden is on the state to demonstrate that any restriction is both necessary and proportionate, and does not jeopardize the right to freedom of expression itself."

• Human Rights First ~ "This issue transcends the particulars of the Wikileaks case. No matter what you think of Julian Assange, anyone who cares about Internet freedom should be concerned that in its zeal to cripple Wikileaks, governments and companies are taking steps in this case that pose a threat to fundamental rights."

• Reporter without Borders ~ "We stress that any restriction on the freedom to disseminate this body of documents will affect the entire press, which has given detailed coverage to the information made available by Wikileaks, with five leading international newspapers actively cooperating in preparing it for publication."

Human Rights Organizations Worldwide Decry Attacks on Freedom of Expression
 


3D printed icosidodecahedron

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 04:22 AM PST

DanKam: mobile app to correct color blindness

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 04:13 AM PST


Legendary DNS hacker Dan Kaminsky has a new, out-of-left-field project to mitigate color blindness with augmented reality software for mobile phones. DanKam is a mobile app that you calibrate so it knows the specifics of your color blindness (I can't see a lot of greens), and then it automatically color-corrects the world as seen through the phone's lens to compensate for your deficit.
In terms of use cases -- matching clothes, correctly parsing status lights on gadgets, and managing parking structures are all possibilities. In the long run, helping pilots and truckers and even SCADA engineers might be nice. There's a lot of systems with warning lights, and they aren't always obvious to the color blind.

Really though, not being color blind I really can't imagine how this technology will be used. I'm pretty sure it won't be used to break the Internet though, and for once, that's fine by me.

Ultimately, why do I think DanKam is working? The basic theory runs as so:

1. The visual system is trying to assign one of a small number of hues to every surface
2. Color blindness, as a shift from the green receptor towards red, is confusing this assignment
3. It is possible to emit a "cleaner signal", such that even colorblind viewers can see colors, and the differences between colors, accurately.
4. It has nothing to do with DNS (I kid! I kid! But no really. Nothing.)

DanKam: Augmented Reality For Color Blindness (Thanks, Dan!)
 


UBS's 43-page dress code requires tie-knots that match your facial morphology

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 04:06 AM PST

The Union Bank of Switzerland has released a new, 43-page dress-code for employees in four test branches that specifies things like what color underwear you're allowed to wear (underwear that matches your flesh-tones); what kind of tie-knot you're allowed to have (one suited to the "morphology" of your face); prohibitions on new shoes, millimetre-specific fingernail length requirements; and the dictum that any scent must be applied as soon as you leave the shower and no later. The code is meant to help restore confidence in UBS, which was a central player in the reckless, planet-destroying subprime gambling spree. If the code is "successful," all employees will be subjected to it.
"Light makeup consisting of foundation, mascara and discreet lipstick ... will enhance your personality," the code says, while advising women not to wear black nail polish and nail art.

The hair-care section notes studies have shown that properly cared-for hair and a stylish haircut "increase an individual's popularity."

On the other hand, designer stubble is out of the question for men, as is excessive facial hair.UBS's advice for men even extends to underwear, which should be of good quality and easily washable, but still remain undetectable. Black knee-high socks are preferable as they prevent showing bare skin when crossing legs, it says.

Dress to Impress, UBS Tells Staff (via Lowering the Bar)
 


UK demonstrator challenges legality of "kettling" protestors

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 03:51 AM PST


Bethany Shiner, a student who was "kettled" in London's Trafalgar Square during last week's demonstrations over education cuts in the UK, has launched a legal challenge to the police practice of detaining demonstrators by blockading them in public roads and squares for hours, exposed to the elements, denied food, toilets and shelter. Ms Shiner's father is a prominent British human rights lawyer, Phil Shiner, of Public Interest Lawyers .
He said: "The police are required to have a range of lawful responses to different scenarios and not just resort to the most coercive tactics at the first sign of trouble. The policy on kettling needs to be stuck down."

Ms Shiner said: "I was with a group of young people who behaved at all times perfectly properly and lawfully. We then found ourselves kettled in sub-zero temperatures. I managed to get out only because I went to the rescue of a young man who had a head wound after being hit with a police baton. It is outrageous that the police should resort to such tactics against all protesters, most of whom were acting peacefully."

PIL has written to the Commissioner warning they will argue in court that the police are using kettling in a way that involves multiple breaches of the European Convention on Human Rights. These include a breach of Article 5 - the right not to be unlawfully detained; Article 10 - the right to freedom of expression; and Article 11 - the right to freedom of assembly.

It's clear to me that kettling is punitive, not preventative. It isn't intended to cool out a dangerous situation (if that were the case, police would release demonstrators in a small, steady dribble, defusing whatever chaos they're trying to prevent). It's intended to punish protestors for democratically assembling in public, and to frighten off potential supporters who would like to express their displeasure with government, but not at the risk of prolonged arbitrary detention in subzero temperatures. And it has the added benefit (from the police perspective) of gradually increasing the disorder in the kettled, desperate crowd, leading to mediagenic images of chaos that can be used, post facto, to justify this indiscriminate attack on public participation.

The Tories came to office on a platform of "Big Society" -- as in, "we'll dismantle the big government, and civic engagement from the public will take up the slack." But when confronted with real public participation -- real "Big Society" -- the Tories showed that they didn't want the next generation to engage with politics and society, only to meekly take whatever the state hands to them without a whimper of dissent.

Legal challenge to police 'kettling' (via Reddit)

(Image: The 'Kettled' Crowd - Student protests - Parliament Square, London 2010, a Creative Commons Attribution (2.0) image from bobaliciouslondon's photostream)

 


Backyard M*A*S*H set replica

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 03:36 AM PST


I know nothing about this, beyond the obvious: someone has built an elaborate, near-perfect (?) replica of the camp sets from M*A*S*H in what appears to be a back-yard. Anyone got the details? Because this person is clearly someone after my own heart!

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OK Go! and Universal Subtitles launch Translation Party!

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 03:29 AM PST


OK Go! have teamed up with the Universal Subtitles project for a translation party -- use the free, open, flexible Universal Subtitles tool to subtitle the band's videos in as many languages as possible, as a way of raising interest in adding subtitles to all the Web's video. Universal Subtitles uses cool HTML5 and Javascript stuff to overlay captions on practically any online video, regardless of where it's hosted; it's a boon to translators who want to share culture beyond one language, and also great for assistive captioning and, of course, Downfall-style parody videos. It's a project of the nonprofit Participatory Culture Foundation, who are also behind the Miro open video player.

Translation Party: OK Go! « Universal Subtitles (Thanks, Nicholas!)

(Disclosure: I'm proud to serve as a volunteer board member for the Participatory Culture Foundation)

 


New sticker from Garbage Pail Kids illustrator John Pound

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 04:51 AM PST


CrazeOne has teamed up with John Pound, the iconic illustrator whose contributions to Garbage Pail Kids, Wacky Packages and MAD Magazine shaped my childhood. They've released a new sticker packs featuring Pound art printed on UV overcoated, die-cut weatherproof stickers. Each one is signed, and the $4 price includes US shipping.

CRAZE ONE. CLOTHING teams up with JOHN POUND (Thanks, Adam!)

 


Bottle-opener shaped like a prohibitionist

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 03:16 AM PST

Booze fanciers struck a satirical blow in 1930 with this bottle opener shaped like a grumpy prohibitionist with a corkscrew up his ass: "THE inventor of the combination bottle opener and cork screw, 'Old Snifty,' shown in the photo at the left, must have had a strong sense of humor, for he puts the image of the advocates of prohibition to work at setting the much-hated joy-water to flowing. The nutcracker chin and nose form the bottle opener, while the cork puller projects from the rear. The whole device is made of metal."

Booze Foe Image Opens Bottles (Sep, 1930)

 


House Judiciary panel convenes Thursday to explore legal attack on Wikileaks

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 09:32 PM PST

The Hill has published a preview of tomorrow's House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wikileaks.
The Department of Justice and Attorney General Eric Holder are faced with difficult legal questions as they decide the best course of action to pursue against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange even as the Capitol Hill drumbeat to charge the WikiLeaks founder under the Espionage Act grows louder.

The Judiciary Committee will be looking at the World War I-era Espionage Act and the "legal and constitutional issues raised by WikiLeaks," as directed by Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.).

It will be the first congressional hearing on WikiLeaks since the Nov. 28 publication of thousands of classified diplomatic cables, some of which have proven embarrassing to the U.S. government because of their frank tone. The witness list was not yet available.

(via EFF)

WikiLeaks inspires feminine hygiene billboards in Pakistan

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 09:22 PM PST

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Kabobfest blog published the photograph of a billboard in Pakistan, above, and explains:

Pakistan's been a major player in the whole Cablegate fiasco. From the U.S being terrified of nuclear weapons falling into the hands of extremists to false leaks, heavily anti-Indian and conspiratorial, being spread throughout the country vis a vis some of the most respected newspapers in the region. Thus, it's only natural and appropriate that Pakistanis would try to have some fun with this.
What Wikileaks Failed to Absorb (thanks, Bassam Tariq)

New WikiLeaks cables detail BP blowout in Azerbaijan 1.5 years before Gulf disaster

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 08:53 PM PST

Wikileaks made good on their promise to continue disseminating leaked US diplomatic cables, even as founder Julian Assange remains in a London jail tonight.

The Guardian reports that a new set of leaked US documents show "striking resemblances between BP's Gulf of Mexico disaster and a little-reported giant gas leak in Azerbaijan experienced by the UK firm 18 months beforehand."

250px-Europe_location_AZE.pngThe cables reveal that some of BP's partners in the gas field were upset that the company was so secretive about the incident that it even allegedly withheld information from them. They also say that BP was lucky that it was able to evacuate its 212 workers safely after the incident, which resulted in two fields being shut and output being cut by at least 500,000 barrels a day with production disrupted for months. Other cables leaked tonight claim that the president of Azerbaijan accused BP of stealing $10bn of oil from his country and using "mild blackmail" to secure the rights to develop vast gas reserves in the Caspian Sea region.

WikiLeaks cables: BP suffered blowout on Azerbaijan gas platform (guardian.co.uk)

US builds case against Assange

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 09:06 PM PST

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The next court hearing for Julian Assange in London is scheduled to begin around 930am ET on Thursday. Assange is currently being held in London's Wandsworth prison (that's him in the van, above); Sweden wants him extradited over alleged sex crimes.

The US wants him for something else. In the New York Times this evening, Charlie Savage reports on the case federal prosecutors are trying to build against Assange, over the publication of classified government documents. Key to their efforts would be any evidence that Assange worked to encourage or assist Bradley Manning, the Army intelligence analyst suspected of leaking the data (he's in the Marine brig in Quantico, VA). Snip from the NYT story:

Justice Department officials are trying to find out whether Mr. Assange encouraged or even helped the analyst, Pfc. Bradley Manning, to extract classified military and State Department files from a government computer system. If he did so, they believe they could charge him as a conspirator in the leak, not just as a passive recipient of the documents who then published them.

Among materials prosecutors are studying is an online chat log in which Private Manning is said to claim that he had been directly communicating with Mr. Assange using an encrypted Internet conferencing service as the soldier was downloading government files. Private Manning is also said to have claimed that Mr. Assange gave him access to a dedicated server for uploading some of them to WikiLeaks.

Read the rest.

Wired's Kevin Poulsen, who has been covering this story longer than anyone, pointed out on Twitter that "The Times missed it, but we did publish that section of the chats. Beginning [with] 'preferably openssl the file with aes-256." And as Poulsen noted, if Assange was not in communication with Manning during the period in which Manning had access to SIPRnet (the military network on which these documents were made available) the government has no case. "If Assange is indicted," Poulsen wrote, "I predict it won't be the Espionage Act. It'll be conspiracy to violate 18 USC 1030(a)(1)."

Related: Human Rights Watch today became the latest human rights group to condemn the US government's plans to attempt to prosecute Assange and Wikileaks.

Prosecuting WikiLeaks for publishing leaked documents would set a terrible precedent that will be eagerly grasped by other governments, particularly those with a record of trying to muzzle legitimate political reporting.

A statement on the Wikileaks situation by journalists' advocacy group PEN is here.


(Photo: A van carrying WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange enters Wandsworth prison in south west London December 14, 2010. A British judge granted bail of 200,000 pounds, about $317,400, on Tuesday for his release. Prosecutors, representing Swedish authorities, quickly said they would appeal against the bail decision and Judge Howard Riddle said Assange must remain in custody until a new hearing is held within 48 hours. REUTERS/Andrew Winning.)

Hint Mints James Jean gift pack set

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 04:47 PM PST

In praise of (luridly) pink animals

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 04:36 PM PST

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This insect was photographed near Cancun by Rhett A. Butler. Its mesmerizing, hot pink polka dots have successfully taken over my brain. I'm not sure whether it wants me to eat it, or leave it alone. But I am happy to serve.

While I await instructions from my new pink overlord, I'm trying to list off all the other ridiculously pink creatures I've run across in the news lately. There are bubble-gum colored dolphins—some of them actually albinos, while others are simply adolescents on their way to becoming white dolphins.

Then there's the worms that live on icy, underwater deposits of methane crystals. They're neat.

More obviously, you've got your flamingos, who get their color from the beta carotene in their prawn-heavy diets.

Pigs, I guess, count. Sort of. But I'm not going to get excited about every hairless, peach-skinned beastie that comes along. What am I leaving out? Any other great, luridly pink creatures out there?

Quick! Book your vacation now!

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 04:00 PM PST

I'm not sure I can really improve upon this wonderful headline from Charles Choi at LiveScience: "Chernobyl Woos Tourists With Promise of 'Negligible' Risk". The weird part: I kind of want to go. The weirder part: You kind of do, too. Admit it.

Jingle Bells was the first song played in space

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 03:54 PM PST

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This harmonica, and these bells, are sitting in the Smithsonian Museum today. In 1965, however, they were in space, with astronauts Walter M. "Wally" Schirra Jr. and Thomas P. Stafford, who were doing a pre-Christmas mission aboard Gemini 6.

Just before Stafford and Schirra were scheduled to reenter Earth's atmosphere December 16, the pair reported they had sighted some sort of UFO. Schirra recounted the moment when Stafford contacted Mission Control in Schirra's Space, a memoir he wrote with Richard Billings:

"We have an object, looks like a satellite going from north to south, probably in polar orbit.... Looks like he might be going to re-enter soon.... You just might let me pick up that thing.... I see a command module and eight smaller modules in front. The pilot of the command module is wearing a red suit."

Then ground controllers heard the strains, both familiar and otherworldly, of "Jingle Bells." The Santa Claus plot had been hatched weeks before the Gemini 6 mission. "Wally came up with the idea," recalls Stafford, now a retired Air Force general, who chairs an International Space Station advisory group. "He could play the harmonica, and we practiced two or three times before we took off, but of course we didn't tell the guys on the ground."

"I could hear the voices at Mission Control getting tense," Stafford adds, "when I talked about sighting something else up there with us. Then, after we finished the song, [Mission Control's] Elliot See relaxed and just said, 'You're too much.'"

Thanks to leharrist for Submitterating!

Judge doubles bail for band members who blocked freeway as a stunt

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 04:04 PM PST


I'm obsessed with news about the The Imperial Stars, the self-described "hard core hip hop band" from Orange County who jammed the 101 freeway in Hollywood for hours to play a set of their songs atop a truck parked across three lanes. Their stunt wasted millions of dollars of people's time and money. (For a taste of these gentlemen's music, watch the video above. The fake adoring audience is a great touch!).

Today, the trio appeared in court to plead innocent to charges of conspiracy, resisting, obstructing or delaying police, creating a public nuisance, and false imprisonment. Their attorney, Roger Rosen, asked that their bail be kept at $10,000, but Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Henry J. Hall instead doubled it to $20,000.

The judge -- who said he thought "what happened was not particularly funny" -- told Rosen to warn his clients that there would be "absolutely hideous results of any similar behavior."
3 band members charged in massive freeway traffic jam


The art of disease

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 06:08 PM PST

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For every issue, the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases prints a different work of art on the cover. That may seem a bit non-sequiturish, but the pieces are actually carefully chosen to illustrate the theme of the issue. Better yet, the editors of Emerging Infectious Diseases take a page to explain the connections, which usually include some interesting segues into the history of art and medical science.

For instance, the issue above is on respiratory disease, and features a print of Thomas Hart Benton's Interior of a Farmhouse. Emerging Infectious Diseases waxes poetic:

Interior of a Farmhouse on this month's cover offers a glimpse of the brilliant color, energy, and movement that characterize Benton's art and the complexity and richness of his murals. The title understates this intricate composition. The farmhouse at center stage anchors a community of scenes connected by a fence here, a doorway there, an angle, a partial wall, and contains his favorite people: workers doing what they do in the kitchen, the barn, the fields, at rest. On the periphery, steamboat navigation and the wheels of industry are rolling, their ubiquitous smokestacks belching above the Missouri River. Court is in progress; a worker reads the daily news; another washes up; animals wander in and outdoors. The painter reviews American industry in the 1930s, which pulsates, as if it were a live, breathing organism itself.

The values of honest living and hard labor, at the heart of Benton's work, went hand in hand with the belief that harmony between humans and nature resided on the farm, the interior of which in this painting is not altogether filled with agrarian bliss. Despite the energy emanating from the vibrant community, there are tensions, political and ecologic undertones, part and parcel of industrialization. Benton the social historian sensed the dark side of factories and increased transportation, which he noted in palpable terms, a cloud so menacing against the pristine horizon it unfolded half way across the painting.

"The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes/...Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys/," Benton's fellow Missourian T.S. Eliot wrote prophetically in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." As they settle, the dark plumes from smokestacks, a fixture in the artist's work signaling the machine's intrusion, cause havoc in the farmhouse. "The harmony man had with his environment has broken down," he wrote. "Now men build and operate machines they don't understand and whose inner workings they can't even see."

Choked by industrial and other pollution, we have come to resemble Benton's farmhouse, an organism under stress, because "man doesn't escape his environment."

You can see—and read about—covers dating back to 1997 on the journal's website.

Every zombie kill on The Walking Dead in 70 seconds

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 04:28 PM PST


What I learned from watching this: they didn't kill enough zombies.

UPDATE: Coop kindly Benny Hillified it.

What happens when an alligator bites an electric eel?

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 03:32 PM PST


If you enjoy getting angry, here's a video for you.

A YouTube commenter explains what's going on:

I speak a little portugese which is what he is speaking. He said that he was fishing and he caught an eel, he forgot his knife so he called out to his friend to get a knife, but an alligator arrives. He even says at the end of a video "I have never seen anything like this, I didn't mean for this to happen."
What happens when an alligator bites an electric eel?

If you read Wikileaks you are a felon

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 02:47 PM PST

Darlene Storm of Computerworld writes: "Dear Americans: If you are not 'authorized' personnel, but you have read, written about, commented upon, tweeted, spread links by 'liking' on Facebook, shared by email, or otherwise discussed 'classified' information disclosed from WikiLeaks, you could be implicated for crimes under the U.S. Espionage Act -- or so warns a legal expert who said the U.S. Espionage Act could make 'felons of us all.'"

WaPo: America hates leaks

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 02:21 PM PST

According to a Washington Post poll, Americans are overwhelmingly against the disclosure of government secrets, even if they reveal misconduct. Hey, it's a step up from editorials calling for Julian Assange's assassination!

TSA WTF OTD

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 06:07 PM PST

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What the I don't even... Found here. Thanks Erica!

UPDATE: This photo was taken by Trent Nelson, who is a friend of a friend (small world!). Of course I didn't know that when I posted it, as you can see from the link above where I found it there was no credit it. The photo is great, and the other photos by Trent are great too and he posted some back story on it and I'm psyched that the internets make finding connections and sources so easy, if a little after the fact. ;)

Wikileaks: Julian Assange re-enters Wandsworth Prison (photo)

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 12:44 PM PST

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gestures as he is driven into Wandsworth Prison in a police van, in south west London December 14, 2010. A British judge granted bail of 200,000 pounds ($317,400) on Tuesday for his release, but he remains in prison today, with another court hearing scheduled for Thursday. He is wanted in Sweden over allegations of sex crimes. He is also the target of U.S. goverment fury over the release of secret diplomatic cables. (REUTERS/Andrew)

Coin-op videogame stop motion animation made of coins

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 12:27 PM PST

The folks at DreamHack Kreativ are featuring "Insert Coin," a fun piece by flyingpickles^NinjaMoped. It's a very cool homage to the golden age of coin-operated video games with stop-motion animation consisting entirely of coins. The 3-D effect is pretty immersive in a few places. Includes a great behind-the-scenes HOWTO for those interested in dabbling in stop-motion. Video link. (via Geekologie)
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