Thursday, July 10, 2008

Iran re-imaging


image via boingboing

Iran re-imaging. Come on...We all do it!

Found the following on The Huffington Post:

LA Times: Did The US Photoshop Syrian Nuke Photos?
LA Times, Borzou Daragahi, April 28, 2008 07:26 PM



Professor William Beeman at the University of Minnesota passed along a note today from "a colleague with a U.S. security clearance" about the mysterious Syrian site targeted in a Sept. 6 Israeli airstrike.

The note raises more questions about the evidence shown last week by U.S. intelligence officials to lawmakers in the House and Senate.

Read it here.

Objectifying Relaxation

We are developing a relaxation apparatus/pod for our Little Pharma exhibit at Fringe. We have been kicking around ideas to no avail. We then turned to Google Images to shake things up a bit. Here are a few of the images yielded from the search:































Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Senate approves warrantless wiretapping and telcom immunity, throws out the Fourth Amendment


Another loss for privacy. This just keeps getting scarier. The "War on Terror" is becoming a war on the possessors democracy and freedom.

Cory Doctorow on BoingBoing sez that Stephen sez :

"NY Times has reported that the Senate just approved a bill extending the warrantless wiretapping program AND giving the telcos immunity from prosecution for violating the law and the rights of their customers for compliance in earlier illegal warrantless wiretapping.

And Barack Obama voted for it!

Listen to your phone calls? Record your conversations?

Yes we can, yes we can...

That sound you hear? It's the Bill of Rights being torn in half. Talk about losing the war on terror. Who needs external forces threatening your way of life when your elected lawmakers are doing such a good job of it?"

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