The military has killed military blogs and is doing a full information clampdown:
The U.S. Army has ordered soldiers to stop posting to blogs or sending personal e-mail messages, without first clearing the content with a superior officer, Wired News has learned. The directive, issued April 19, is the sharpest restriction on troops’ online activities since [...]
From a review of Brazil:
In Brazil, Terry Gilliam asks the audience to imagine a world where the government wages a never-ending war with shadowy terrorists, a world where civil liberties are being destroyed in the name of security, a world where torture becomes official state policy in order to conduct more efficient interrogations of suspected [...]
Amongst the many companies with offices in Manhattan is a multibillion-dollar French conglomerate that handles "diversified commodities, energy, shipping, real estate, manufacturing, and communications." The owner, Gerard, is one of the richest men in the world, and, at 75, his children and grandchildren stand to inheirit a tidy sum of perhaps half a billion [...]
Cory Doctorow caves to censorship, after repeatedly ranting on BoingBoing about people who’ve done the exact same thing.
(tags: dumbfuck corysucks copyleft hysterical hypocritical)
Neil tells of how he rescued a big ol’ dog in his teeny tiny Mini Cooper. Kinda heartwarming.
(tags: cool)
“From the May 2007 Saveur comes this great tidbit: the full name of Cap’n [...]