Archive for the ‘Cryptogon’ Category

MIT: A Camera that Peers Around Corners

MIT: A Camera that Peers Around Corners March 21st, 2012 Via: MIT: A new imaging system could use opaque walls, doors or floors as ‘mirrors’ to gather information about scenes outside its line of sight. In December, MIT Media Lab researchers caused a stir by releasing a slow-motion video of a burst of light traveling […]

Afghanistan: U.S. Soldier Involved in Massacre Recalls Little About Incident, Also a Stock Swindler [???]

Afghanistan: U.S. Soldier Involved in Massacre Recalls Little About Incident, Also a Stock Swindler [???] March 20th, 2012 Via: ABC: Robert Bales, the staff sergeant accused of massacring Afghan civilians, enlisted in the U.S. Army at the same time he was trying to avoid answering allegations he defrauded an elderly Ohio couple of their life […]

Call to Examine MI5 Link to Murder of Nuclear Activist

Call to Examine MI5 Link to Murder of Nuclear Activist March 20th, 2012 Via: Guardian: One of Britain’s leading human rights lawyers has demanded a fresh police inquiry to establish what the British intelligence services knew about the murder of a prominent anti-nuclear campaigner. Michael Mansfield QC said new evidence meant that an independent police […]

Flying Like a Bird

Flying Like a Bird March 21st, 2012 Via: Human Bird Wings: <!– AD CAN GO HERE END: AD CAN GO HERE –> Leave a Reply You must be logged in to post a comment. Views: 0

Dutch Roman Catholic Church ‘Castrated at Least 10 Boys’

Dutch Roman Catholic Church ‘Castrated at Least 10 Boys’ March 20th, 2012 Hmm. Maybe they should try it on the child raping priests… Via: Telegraph: At least 10 teenage boys or young men under the age of 21 were surgically castrated “to get rid of homosexuality” while in the care of the Dutch Roman Catholic […]

The One About Jim Rawles and the FBI Cookie Caper

The One About Jim Rawles and the FBI Cookie Caper March 20th, 2012 Several people have submitted this one, and, as usual when non technical people offer technical advice on their blogs, I hold my head in my hands and ask, “When is this going to stop?” Rawles saying that using a VPN, “Will allow […]

TSA Patdown of Toddler in Wheelchair

TSA Patdown of Toddler in Wheelchair March 19th, 2012 Via: YouTube: A toddler in a wheelchair is stopped by the TSA at ORD (O’Hare Airport in Chicago) and forced to into a sequestered area. On his way to a family vacation in Disney, this 3 year old boy is in a body cast for a […]

In Sweden, Cash Is King No More

In Sweden, Cash Is King No More March 19th, 2012 Maybe the Greeks are on to something with the tems, which is quite different from other schemes in that each account may only hold a limited amount of the currency. This is a very interesting idea because it prevents speculation, encourages commerce and eliminates large […]

Latest Attack in France Kills 4 Outside Jewish School

Latest Attack in France Kills 4 Outside Jewish School March 19th, 2012 [???] Via: ABC: A motorcycle gunman opened fire Monday in front of a Jewish school in the French city of Toulouse, killing a rabbi, his two young sons and a schoolgirl, the prosecutor’s office said. It was the third deadly motorcycle shooting in […]

China: 30 Million People Live in Caves

China: 30 Million People Live in Caves March 19th, 2012 One for your Doomstead Ideas file folder. Via: Los Angeles Times: Like many peasants from the outskirts of Yanan, China, Ren Shouhua was born in a cave and lived there until he got a job in the city and moved into a concrete-block house. His […]

Microsoft: Data Mining Your Digital Effluvia

Microsoft: Data Mining Your Digital Effluvia March 18th, 2012 People seem to be cracking up and looking for technological fixes to what amounts to mental illness that was caused by their technology in the first place. Here’s how Becky chronicles milestones and other pleasant moments with our children. She pastes photographs to sheets of paper […]

Google Takes Down Russia Today YouTube Channel

Google Takes Down Russia Today YouTube Channel March 18th, 2012 Update: RT Back Up on YouTube —End Update— Update: RT Tweeting: RT’s YouTube channel taken offline by YT administration, appears to be a mistake so far, follow updates here and on FB http://www.facebook.com/RTnews —End Update— Via: Russia Today YouTube Channel: This account has been suspended […]

Scientists Create New Materials by Manipulating Sub Atomic Particles

Scientists Create New Materials by Manipulating Sub Atomic Particles March 18th, 2012 Via: Stanford University: Researchers from Stanford University and the U.S. Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have created the first-ever system of “designer electrons” – exotic variants of ordinary electrons with tunable properties that may ultimately lead to new types of materials […]

Greece: Euro Free Alternative Currency Takes Off

Greece: Euro Free Alternative Currency Takes Off March 18th, 2012 I just helped out some people here in New Zealand recover from a bad computer virus situation. They paid me with a one year old heifer that we’re going to eat! In terms of the time I spent on the job and the tangible value […]

Open Thread: Kony 2012

Open Thread: Kony 2012 March 18th, 2012 I haven’t watched this thing, and don’t plan to. From previous experience, when I see mainstream news talking about YouTube videos, and how “the blogosphere” has lost it’s mind over them, I just take a pass. (Also, I’m on limited bandwidth, so I wasn’t about to blow it […]

Severe Storm – Northland New Zealand

Severe Storm – Northland New Zealand March 18th, 2012 A very strong storm is about to hit us here in New Zealand. If I’m not updating, it means the electricity has gone out, and/or my Internet connections are down. See ya on the other side! Via: New Zealand Herald: Northlanders are being warned to brace […]

Former Senior U.S. Intelligence Official and Current Booz Allen Hamilton Senior Vice President Joan A. Dempsey: ‘We’re a Few Years Away from Realizing Real Quantum Processing and Quantum Computing’

Former Senior U.S. Intelligence Official and Current Booz Allen Hamilton Senior Vice President Joan A. Dempsey: ‘We’re a Few Years Away from Realizing Real Quantum Processing and Quantum Computing’ March 18th, 2012 Bamford lays out a narrative below about the “enormous breakthrough,â€� but, at the end of the day, it’s conventional computers. There’s no mention […]

Using Mobile Phone User Location Data for ‘Crowd (Soft) Control’

Using Mobile Phone User Location Data for ‘Crowd (Soft) Control’ March 18th, 2012 shewhomeasures.com: Via: PhysOrg: Eighty-eight percent of Americans now own a cell phone, forming a massive network that offers scientists a wealth of information and an infinite number of new applications. With the help of these phone users — and their devices’ cameras, […]

Three in Ten Young Adults Live with Parents, Highest Level Since 1950s

Three in Ten Young Adults Live with Parents, Highest Level Since 1950s March 17th, 2012 Via: Christian Science Monitor: A weak economy and high debt levels are prompting more young adults to return to the family nest, a new survey shows. Perhaps surprisingly, most are happy with their living arrangements. After graduating from Brown University […]

London Undergroun Expansion Is Largest Civil Engineering Project in Europe

London Undergroun Expansion Is Largest Civil Engineering Project in Europe March 16th, 2012 Via: BBC: Tunnelling work is about to begin on a grand scale in London as the £16bn Crossrail project gets set to build 26 miles (42km) of tunnels beneath the capital. The first of eight highly specialised Tunnel Boring Machines (TBM), which […]