Saturday, January 28, 2012

So......I just used ping.fm to post a story about twitter censorship to several different sites, Twitter being one of them, and big surprise it was censored by twitter. (not by the others) It split the URL into two chunks. The first leads to this bullshit; https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23TwitterBlackout (Relax: Twitter's New Censorship Policy Is Actually Good for Activists?) Then the second chunk leads to this; http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2012/0127/TwitterB
TwitterBlackout: Protests brew as complaints over censorship come to a boil
http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2012/0127/TwitterBlackout-Protests-brew-as-complaints-over-censorship-come-to-a-boil

Friday, January 27, 2012

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

More than 700 detainees in prisons around Kyrgyzstan have gone on hunger strike and sewed their lips together
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2012/01/201212420950643539.html
Russia has signed a contract to sell combat jets to Syria in a show of support for President Bashar Assad’s regime.
http://arabnews.com/middleeast/article567056.ece
Four NK government officials murdered in what is an unprecedented crime for North Korea
http://www.dailynk.com.nyud.net/english/read.php?cataId=nk01500&num=8714
Marine gets three months in jail for massacring two dozen civilians
http://rt.com/usa/news/wuterich-haditha-civilians-iraq-513/
The Pirate Bay declares 3D printed “physibles” as the next frontier of piracy
http://www.extremetech.com/electronics/115185-the-pirate-bay-declares-3d-printed-physibles-as-the-next-frontier-of-piracy
Obama asks for bill to end insider trading in Congress, and some criminal fuckwad actually booed this on the floor. WTF?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=YTAKktjpxmY#t=74s
Man takes viagra, wears sweatpants for tsa pat down.
http://thewashingtonfancy.com/2011/09/18/man-takes-viagra-wears-sweatpants-for-tsa-pat-down/1500