Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 5:58:19 pm
News from Russia -- that bastion of human rights, privacy, internet freedom, and home of Edward Snowden... The Russian government is offering almost 4 million rubles (about USD $100,000) to anyone who can devise a reliable way to decrypt data sent over the Tor anonymity network. A mounting campaign by ...

Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 6:06:09 am
Apparently the latest thing over Jim Hoft's The Gateway Pundit blog is to pinpoint and attack any NGO that receives federal grants to care for undocumented immigrant children. A week ago. Hoft's "guest blogger" Kristinn Taylor torpedoed a shelter proposed by BCFS, a charitable organization based in San Antonio. Taylor declared, ...

Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 8:20:20 am
An open letter to Jim Hoft (aka The Gateway Pundit) and his loyal sidekick Kristinn Taylor, Dear Messrs Hoft and Taylor, I have read Mr Taylor's demand for apologies and retractions from those writers who found fault with your reporting abilities regarding the now canceled Weslaco project. I am referring to this ...

Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 1:47:16 pm
DERPFollowing up on the ridiculously awful post at Gateway Pundit highlighted by Alouette, let's take a closer look at the claim made by Jim Hoft's guest poster Kristinn Taylor in this screaming headline: FEDS TO OPEN $50 MILLION RESORT for ILLEGAL CHILDREN - Complete With Tennis Courts, Sauna & Pools ...

Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 10:57:30 am
I can't help noticing that the most important and troubling aspect of Barton Gellman's new NSA story for the Washington Post is not even mentioned in the text: In NSA-Intercepted Data, Those Not Targeted Far Outnumber the Foreigners Who Are. But first, here's what is in the text: Among the most ...

Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 4:40:21 pm
Vimeo As we're being drawn yet again into the mess created by the Bush administration's disastrous war of choice in Iraq, here are some interesting and very pertinent comments from Bill Moyers and Andrew Bacevich on the immoral nature of "preventive" war. BILL MOYERS: What is it about how we go ...

Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 6:07:04 pm
Here's PJ Media in January encouraging people to sign a petition for the White House to secure the release of Bergdahl by ANY means necessary. Including mentioning the possible trade of 5 Taliban GITMO detainees. Related: Supporters launch White House petition to rescue the only American POW in Afghanistan. http://t.co/nRgTh4Z2El — PJ ...

Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 3:33:23 pm
YouTube You may be familiar with Brian Eno's ambient music, but that is most definitely not what's going on here. His project with Underworld singer Karl Hyde is much more pop-oriented; in a way it's a return to "classic Eno," but still slightly bent, in a good way. Also somewhat reminiscent ...

Wed, May 21, 2014 at 5:20:52 pm
Vimeo This video was created from one hour of source footage shot from a bluff in San Diego the morning of Jan 21, 2014. I was interested in exploring the manipulation of water and to see how the movements and patterns from surfing interact. Watching surfing typically happens in one ...

Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:10:51 am
This isn't the first time I've been inside the WTC since the 9/11 attacks, particularly since I've been taking PATH since shortly after service was restored in November 2003. But it is the first time I've seen the completed 9/11 Memorial in person. The fencing surrounding the memorial was taken down ...

Thu, May 15, 2014 at 10:07:31 am
The GOP is bashing the President after his appearance yesterday at the TZ Bridge calling for $300+ billion in new infrastructure investments. "We're cutting bureaucratic red tape that stalls good projects from breaking ground," Obama said, to cheers from the crowd. The changes will help speed up mega-projects at Boston's South ...

Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:09:24 pm
Meanwhile, in Edward Snowden's home away from home, President Vladimir Putin is continuing to tighten his autocratic control over the Internet with a new "bloggers law" that requires Internet site owners and bloggers to register with the government, and requires any organizations and companies that host these sites to keep ...

Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 5:21:24 pm
Vimeo The generic electronic music gets a bit overbearing and needlessly grandiose in this one (I just turned it down), but the time-lapse photography is some of the most gorgeous I've ever seen. 'COSMOS ODYSSEY' is a time-lapse project for 5 years. My journeys for AstroPhotography from Equator to Polar Regions. See my ...

Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 8:55:22 am
This isn't a new story, but since I commented on it extensively in one of the main threads, I figured I might as well turn it into a Page in case it ever comes up. The "Investigation" Back in mid-February right-wing activists had their fainting couches out over a Clarion Project article ...

Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 8:54:47 pm
Getty Image As if the Bundy Ranch right wing cause célèbre weren't already stupid and hateful enough: He said he would continue holding a daily news conference; on Saturday, it drew one reporter and one photographer, so Mr. Bundy used the time to officiate at what was in effect a town ...

Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 5:57:03 pm
YouTube THE BOTH (Aimee Mann and Ted Leo) Aimee Mann and Ted Leo have joined forces for a collaborative project they call The Both. The duo's self-titled debut is out now on SuperEgo Records. ' "Walking along Milwaukee's riverfront between sound check and show time last year, Aimee and I were ...

Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 10:13:50 am
Vimeo Meet Sunny and Steve, the charming characters brought to life by MPC NY in a light-hearted short film written and directed under one roof by in-house talent Bill Dorais and Ty Coyle - just in time for Easter. Born out of MPC's love for storytelling, what started as a ...

Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 11:53:30 am
Let's face it -- if Edward Snowden's appearance at Vladimir Putin's propaganda puppet show yesterday was supposed to improve his image in the US by showing him "questioning" Putin about mass surveillance, it was a miserable failure. Even many of Snowden's stongest defenders were appalled at that display. So it should ...

Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 1:11:39 pm
Nearly 100 people in the last five years have been murdered by active users of the leading racist website, Stormfront, according to a report released today by the SPLC's Intelligence Project. Registered Stormfront users have been disproportionately responsible for some of the most lethal hate crimes and mass killings since ...

Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 2:04:27 pm
Image via Shutterstock The Sydney Morning Herald has a piece on the man who made a lot of Internet system administrators' lives miserable this week, the German programmer who introduced the Heartbleed bug into the OpenSSL code. There's been way too much embarrassing noobish speculation from some quarters of the journalistic arena ...

Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 8:40:42 pm
Vimeo The Common Room Animation Project is a collaboration between 13 animators, based on Talia Randall's spoken-word poem 'Common Room'. Each of the animators chose a segment of the poem that inspired them the most, and brought their own unique style, technique and interpretation to the poem.

Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 9:45:09 pm
Vimeo It started as an idea about a lonely robot who sells ice cream. In order to survive in a severe reality he recreates an imaginary world where he lives every day, like he did during the best time of his life. After several years of production and a one-year festival ...

Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 6:17:50 pm
YouTube Hateful and even violent speech is familiar online; what's unusual are data-driven efforts to diminish them. Experiments so far have produced intriguing results including: some 'trolls' recant or apologize in response to counterspeech, and small changes in platform architecture can improve online discourse norms. In this talk Susan Benesch ...

Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 6:06:23 pm
Video I'll just let Jamie Kirchick tell the story: Defending Putin's Propagandists. Over the past week, I have been the recipient of a deluge of attacks on Twitter from RT fans alleging that I was somehow behind Wahl's resignation. This afternoon, a gentleman identifying himself as Kevin Gosztola, who writes for ...

Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 8:52:57 pm
Vimeo This is my final project from Vancouver Film School's 3D animation program. With Malaise I wanted to do a project that was both visually exciting and a demonstration of my abilities as an animator. The look of the piece was influenced by an array of old sci-fi classics ranging ...