Friday, 30 December 2011

South Pole Records Warmest Temperature on Record

Read the Out-of-Print 'Blade Runner Sketchbook' by Syd Mead and Ridley Scott

(Thanx Matt!)

Arab spring leads surge in events captured on cameraphones

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Russia submerges nuclear submarine to douse blaze

Linguagroover Richard Dixon
Kim Jong Un rounds off period of official mourning in North Korea and underlines change of direction with release of Morrissey covers album

HA!

Egypt police raid offices of human rights groups in Cairo

2011 in review

28c3: How governments have tried to block Tor

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Description: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2011/Fahrplan/events/4800.en.html
Jacob Appelbaum, Roger Dingledine: How governments have tried to block Tor
Iran blocked Tor handshakes using Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) in January 2011 and September 2011. Bluecoat tested out a Tor handshake filter in Syria in June 2011. China has been harvesting and blocking IP addresses for both public Tor relays and private Tor bridges for years.

State of the arms race between repressive governments and anti - censorship/surveillance Tor technology (and why American companies are on the repressive governments' side)

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Up And Down Year For Cable News

Mikhail Gorbachev: Is the World Really Safer Without the Soviet Union?

HA!

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ggreenwald Glenn Greenwald
Congrats to the telecoms in having courts recognize the full-scale lawbreaking amnesty they bought from both parties http://t.co/lrp1JNs8