August 2009
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特になし - Fucahire - The Weirdest Tumblr? →
don’t say i didnt warn you. (make sure your audio is on too)
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Bin Laden worked for US till 9/11 →
(via thedaytheytriedtokillme)
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July 2009
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“The cultural embrace of illusion, and the celebrity culture that has risen up...”
– Chris Hedges: The Rise of Gonzo Porn Is the Latest Sign of America’s Cultural Apocalypse
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Evolution's third replicator: Genes, memes, and... →
In all my previous work in memetics I have used the term “meme” to apply to any information that is copied between people, including stories in books, ideas embodied in new technology, websites and so on. The reason was that there seemed no way of distinguishing between “natural” human memes, such as spoken words, habits, fashions, art and religions, and what we might...
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Military planning for possible H1N1 outbreak →
The U.S. military wants to establish regional teams of military personnel to assist civilian authorities in the event of a significant outbreak of the H1N1 virus this fall, according to Defense Department officials.
The proposal is awaiting final approval from Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
The officials would not be identified because the proposal from U.S. Northern Command’s Gen....
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Homeland Security asks Americans to Spy on Each... →
NEW YORK — A top US domestic security chief announced Wednesday a strategy to make ordinary citizens the first line of defense against an increasingly multi-faceted terrorist threat.
“For too long, we’ve treated the public as a liability to be protected rather than an asset in our nation’s collective security,” Janet Napolitano, secretary of the Department of Homeland...
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India says Late-Night TV & Guns will Help Slow... →
Ghulam Nabi Azad, the Health and Family Welfare Minister, has called for the country to redouble its efforts to bring electricity to all of its huge rural population.
The introduction of the electric light and television sets to those vast areas that still did not have them would discourage procreation, he argued.
“If there is electricity in every village, then people will watch TV...
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Jailbreaking iPhone could pose threat to national... →
(via thedaytheytriedtokillme)
Apple stated in its filing that by changing the BBP’s code, “More pernicious forms of activity may also be enabled. For example, a local or international hacker could potentially initiate commands (such as a denial-of-service attack) that could crash the tower software, rendering the tower entirely inoperable to process calls or transmit data. In short,...
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Secrets of CIA 'ghost flights' to be revealed →
Confidential documents showing the flight plans of a CIA “ghost plane” allegedly used to transfer a British resident to secret interrogation sites around the world are to be made public. The move comes after a Sussex-based company accused of involvement in extraordinary rendition dropped its opposition to a case against it being heard in court.
Lawyers bringing the case against...
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Bing vs. Google is going to be the new Pepsi vs....
someone’s gotta say it.
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The Chinese Come Calling →
buffleheadcabin:
tsparks:
The Nation by ROBERT SCHEER July 29, 2009
What a hoot. The Chinese Communists invaded Washington on Monday demanding not that we sacrifice our freedoms but rather that we balance our budget. Creditors get to make that kind of call. And the Marxists of Beijing, who have turned out to be the world’s most prudent bankers, are worried about their assets invested in our...
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Total Recall: Pentagon Looks to ‘Optimize’ Troops’... →
Next up: turning soldier’s memories into finely-tuned hard drives. Darpa, the Pentagon’s far-out research arm, is soliciting ideas for a system that would optimize human memory storage and recall by synchronizing neural brain waves. The agency is hoping the project will keep human soldiers on pace with rapidly advancing computer technology.
With the growing trends in developing information...
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“We’re starting to brush up against real robots, real nanotech, and maybe...”
– Transhumanist Salvation or Judgment Day?
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“In subsequent experiments when they taught four-year-olds “a simple set of...”
– Research Review on delayed gratification: “DON’T: The Secret of Self-control”
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Transparent Aluminum Is ‘New State Of Matter’ →
‘What we have created is a completely new state of matter nobody has seen before,’ said Professor Justin Wark of Oxford University’s Department of Physics, one of the authors of the paper. ‘Transparent aluminium is just the start…
Professor Wark added: ‘What is particularly remarkable about our experiment is that we have turned ordinary aluminium into this exotic new material in a...
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Artificial brain in 10 years, apocalypse soon... →
Understanding why we, as humans, do the things we do is one of the pieces of the puzzle of our existence. Too bad we may have to wait another 10 years for some definitive answers.
This week at the TED Global conference, Henry Markram, director of the Blue Brain Project, revealed that he and his team in Switzerland are aiming to build a functioning, artificial human brain within the next 10...
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Stop Paying Attention: Zoning Out Is a Crucial... →
Researchers say a wandering mind may be important to setting goals, making discoveries, and living a balanced life.
Of course it is! Wait…what?
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Chinese hack film festival site →
Chinese hackers have attacked the Melbourne International Film Festival website in an intensifying campaign against the screening of a documentary about exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer.
The hackers replaced festival information with the Chinese flag and anti-Kadeer slogans and were last night continuing to disrupt the site by spamming.
He said the festival had reported the attacks, which...
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“The risk of a child born today suffering an early death due to nuclear war is at...”
– Stanford engineer: Chance of nuclear war is greater than you think
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Taliban issues Code of Conduct handbook →
The book, with 13 chapters and 67 articles, lays out what one of the most secretive organisations in the world today, can and cannot do.
It talks of limiting suicide attacks, avoiding civilian casualties and winning the battle for the hearts and minds of the local civilian population.
Al Jazeera’s James Bays, reporting from the capital, Kabul, said every fighter is being issued the...
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Bush Weighed Using Military in Arrests -... →
WASHINGTON — Top Bush administration officials in 2002 debated testing the Constitution by sending American troops into the suburbs of Buffalo to arrest a group of men suspected of plotting with Al Qaeda, according to former administration officials.
Some of the advisers to President George W. Bush, including Vice President Dick Cheney, argued that a president had the power to use the...
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Police: Woman accused of killing newborn ate brain →
A woman charged with murdering her 3 1/2-week-old son used a knife and two swords to dismember the child and ate parts of his body, including his brain, before stabbing herself in the torso and slicing her own throat, police said Monday.
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Asemic Texts = Alien Writing? →
Dr. Mario Pazzaglini’s rare book Symbolic Messages may be a fair commentary on both Asemics and aliens. For many years, Pazzaglini worked with people who either claimed physical or mental contact with ufonauts, or had “channneled” messages and scripts from otherwise disembodied sources. Symbolic Messages is composed of about half commentary written by Pazzaglini and page after page of words in...
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Russian Navy UFO records say aliens love oceans →
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The Russian navy has declassified its records of encounters with unidentified objects technologically surpassing anything humanity ever built, reports Svobodnaya Pressa news website.
The records dating back to soviet times were compiled by a special navy group collecting reports of unexplained incidents delivered by submarines and military ships. The group was headed by deputy Navy...
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Scientists mix DNA and dye to create a new form of... →
m1k3y:From Technology Review:
By adding fluorescent dyes to DNA and then spinning the DNA strands into nanofibers, researchers at the University of Connecticut have made a new material that…
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Linked: the new science of networks - Google Books →
Information, disease, knowledge and just about everything else is disseminated through a complex series of networks made up of interconnected hubs, argues University of Notre Dame physics professor Barabasi. These networks are replicated in every facet of human life: “There is a path between any two neurons in our brain, between any two companies in the world, between any two chemicals...
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Space Travel: The Path to Human Immortality? →
This month, the 40th anniversary of Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong’s first footsteps on the moon, you will hear many rationales for sending humans into space, many noble goals that the challenge of space can help humanity to fulfill. However, in cosmological consequence, one, and only one, stands paramount above all others — human immortality. Space is the only place where we can...
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How to Delete your Facebook →
(via poortaste)
subtitle: “and live your life.”
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“As a nation we are crippling the next generation of visionaries by retarding...”
– zenpundit.com » “The Big Picture”- the Nexus between Education and Grand Strategy
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“The Big Picture”- the Nexus between Education and... →
What is ‘big picture’ thinking? Business consultant Andrew Sobel described it as:
1. Having a simple framework 2. Using analogies and metaphors 3. Developing multiple perspectives 4. Looking for patterns and commonalities….
Instead of training for compliance, careful rule-following, and exact memorization or a paragon of crystallized intelligence, we need to make more room for ‘big picture’...
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China boycotts Australia film festival over... →
Three Chinese films have been withdrawn from Australia’s biggest film festival in an apparent boycott after China’s government protested over the inclusion of a documentary about restive ethnic Uighurs.
Chinese consular staff last week contacted organisers of the Melbourne International Film Festival to demand they dump a film about exiled Uighur businesswoman Rebiya Kadeer,...
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