Category: Culture
NBC Dallas-Fort Worth – TSA Source: Armed Agent Slips Past DFW Body Scanner
Another nail in the proverbial coffin of these scanners being worth anything.
NYTimes.com – South Korea Seeks Internet Speed of 1 Gigabit a Second
Hey US, you want to develop new technologies and companies, let’s do this.
ReadWriteWeb – Libya Shuts Down Internet
Looks like Libyan domains such as bit.ly are still up however.
NYTimes.com – China, Twitter and 20-Year-Olds vs. the Pyramids
Do you really need a better explanation for why the revolts happened?
Al Jazeera English – North Korea’s cinema of dreams
This was an incredibly interesting 25 minutes.
NYTimes.com – From Sputnik to SunShot
60% drop in about 15 years, another 75% percent drop over next decade with more emphasis on renewable energy sources seems totally doable.
Quora – What will happen to http://bit.ly links when Gaddafi shuts down the Internet in Libya due to protests?
I use their bit.ly pro service to for my short links through http://jty.me/.
NYTimes.com – Public Workers in Wisconsin Protest Plan to Cut Benefits
The second part doesn’t make a lot of sense as far as a partial solution to solving the deficit, the collective bargaining wouldn’t reduce any current state payments to employees.
Electronic Frontier Foundation – Trial of Independent Media Pioneer Chiranuch Premchaiporn Begins in Thailand
Blame the owner/operator for anonymous comments, sounds like fun.