Category: Culture

BBC News – Gun habit takes hold in neighbourhood of unlocked doors
Wonderful point BBC.
February 13, 2011
Miller-McCune – Book Banners Finding Power in Numbers
Banning a book or in reality knowledge has to be one of the worst decisions any person could make.
February 13, 2011
NYTimes.com – Failure to Launch
Ouch.
February 13, 2011
NYTimes.com – Missing Executive From Google Egypt Released
Good to see Egypt released him, what about all the other people who don’t have Google and the world’s attention behind them however?
February 7, 2011
The San Francisco Chronicle – Google Exec Who Went Missing In Egypt Now A Spokesman For Opposition Group
Scary times kids.
February 6, 2011
Schneier on Security – UK Immigration Officer Puts Wife on the No-Fly List
Imagine being the wife here, go visit your family, try to return, on a list that you can’t even find out why you are on and no way of being able to appeal your inclusion on the list.
February 5, 2011
Union of Concerned Scientists – FoxNews.com Article Uncritically Passes on Climate Misinformation
Nice take down UCS.
February 4, 2011
NYTimes.com – Gangs Hunt Journalists and Rights Workers
Bad news for any country when journalists aren’t able to freely report.
February 3, 2011
The Big Picture – A harrowing, historic week in Egypt
Some incredibly powerful images here of the Egyptian protests.
February 2, 2011
TechCrunch – Egypt Shuts Down Noor, Its Last ISP
This is so weird and disturbing the idea of a political entity being able to just disconnect itself from the internet.
January 31, 2011