Saturday, 18 June 2011

A New Respect for Addicts?

Stuxnet: Anatomy of a Computer Virus

An infographic dissecting the nature and ramifications of Stuxnet, the first weapon made entirely out of code. This was produced for Australian TV program HungryBeast on Australia's ABC1

Jamie Woon - Night Air (Blue Daisy Mixture)

Friday, 17 June 2011

The Drug War at 40: A Colossal Failure

Elton John in Concert - BBC Performances 1971

01. Your Song
02. Border Song
03. Sixty Years On
04. Take Me To The Pilot
05. The Greatest Discovery
06. I Need You To Turn To
07. Burn Down The Mission

Situationists make the best lovers

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Discographies Discographies

Lou Reed & Metallica: 1 "My shouty-old-man voice conceals your flabby playing!" "And our excessive volume drowns out your ponderous lyrics!"

Ad break # 25 (Planet E: Detroit Nu Wav)

Neil Young and the International Harvesters - A Treasure (Tech Notes)

The Jews of Libya

Ex-Spy Alleges Bush White House Sought to Discredit Critic

A former senior C.I.A. official says that officials in the Bush White House sought damaging personal information on a prominent American critic of the Iraq war in order to discredit him.
Glenn L. Carle, a former Central Intelligence Agency officer who was a top counterterrorism official during the administration of President George W. Bush, said the White House at least twice asked intelligence officials to gather sensitive information on Juan Cole, a University of Michigan professor who writes an influential blog that criticized the war.
In an interview, Mr. Carle said his supervisor at the National Intelligence Council told him in 2005 that White House officials wanted “to get” Professor Cole, and made clear that he wanted Mr. Carle to collect information about him, an effort Mr. Carle rebuffed. Months later, Mr. Carle said, he confronted a C.I.A. official after learning of another attempt to collect information about Professor Cole. Mr. Carle said he contended at the time that such actions would have been unlawful...