Looking back, there was a part of the trial I "missed" and thus couldn't share with you or comment upon. It happened before the trial itself actually started. I think if I had been as aware of it then as I am now, I would have forecast a much gloomier conclusion.
Lewis Z. Koch /Firedoglake: Reflections On Padilla RELATED:Lindsay Beyerstein / Majikthise:
The menticide of Jose PadillaDiscussion: Liberty Street, At-Largely, Associated Press, Salon, INTEL DUMP, Kiko's House, The Moderate Voice, Outside The Beltway and The ReactionDemocracy Now:Abby Goodnough / New York Times:
EXCLUSIVE: An Inside Look at How U.S. Interrogators Destroyed …Discussion: Associated Press
Jose Padilla Convicted on All Counts in Terror TrialDiscussion: Balloon Juice, Brilliant at Breakfast, Washington Post, The Mahablog, CNN, The Atlantic Online, Truthdig, The Democratic Daily and Hot AirCNN: Coalition death toll in Iraq hits 4,000
The gloomy milestone was reached as a U.S. general said there has been a rise in insurgents booby-trapping houses. Most of the fatalities throughout the Iraq war -- almost 3,704 -- have been U.S. military service members. That number also includes seven civilians working for the Pentagon. The nearly 300 others hail from countries, such as Italy, Poland and Ukraine, that have supported the U.S. effort, which began in March 2003...
3 rescue workers killed at Utah mine
Musician Uncle Kracker jailed in Raleigh on sex chargeMusician Matthew Shafer -- who performs under the name Uncle Kracker -- was in the Wake County Jail this morning on a charge of second-degree sex offense. Shafer was in Raleigh on Thursday night to perform in an outdoor concert at the Depot building on Davie Street downtown. Raleigh police spokesman Jim Sughrue said the charge stemmed from an incident at a downtown nightclub. Shafer was arrested early today at the Embassy Suites in Cary. He was being held in lieu of $5 million secured bond and was scheduled for a first appearance in court at 2 p.m. today.
BuzzMachine (media eye): Vigilante journalism
I love Jimmy Justice, the guy who wanders the streets of New York videotaping traffic cops who are violating the traffic laws they are supposed to enforce and confronting them with their sins. This is the power of the people, armed with their own cameras and the internet, acting as watchdogs on government. Isn’t that journalism? ...
Noam Chomsky: How Propaganda Works in the West [edstrong.blog-city.com]
YouTube - Royksopp - Remind Me
How To Win Friends And Influence People In Social News Networks
Preezo - Presentations for the Web
HotShare - Share your personal videos, photos, movies, music, flash and files.
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Watermarking to Replace DRM?
An anonymous reader writes "News.com has an article on the announcement of Microsoft and Universal to introduce watermarking technology into audio files. The technology could serve several purposes including tracking file sharing statistics and inserting advertisements into audio tracks. The…
Thomas Jefferson once said, "The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first."
Restarting Windows Without Restarting Your PC (Vista or XP)
Sometimes, you need to reboot Windows (e.g. when installing new software), but there is no need to restart BIOS, too. However, the default is to reboot both. (That’s called doing a “cold boot,” rather than a “warm boot.”) There’s a trick that works on both XP and Vista to get it to do a…
Zoomed in Food Art [PICS]
This is pretty creative stuff.
MIT Focuses on Chip Optimization
eldavojohn writes "MIT's Microsystems Technology Laboratories is focusing on the manufacturing of chips as the variables that affect chip quality become more and more influential. From one of the researchers, "The extremely high speeds of these circuits make them very sensitive to both…
Cleverest crows opt for two tools
10 Things You Don't Know About Women
#1. Sorry, but we're actually all not "a little gay." Thanks for dashing all our manly man perverted dreams with that one. I'm still holding onto that one, ladies please can you at least fake a little bit for me? I guess the truth hurts.
How planespotters turned into the scourge of the CIA
How to get fired from Dairy Queen [PIC]
Making something like this will surely get you fired from Dairy Queen
An embarrassed Fox News hits Wikipedia
For example, embarrassing content from Media Matters about FNC personalities was quietly removed. Criticism of Keith Olbermann and Al Franken was accenuated. The network that specializes in on-air propoganda had taken its usual schtick to Wiki pages.With that in mind, it shouldn’t surprise anyone…
How to Haggle, there is no such thing as a firm price.
Haggling for Hot Dogs... (And other real-life adventures in the neglected art of negotiation.) Everything is open to negotiation. Everything. For three months, the author treated the world that way. This is what ensued.
xkcd: Midnight Stories
Pics of Awesomely Bad Action Figures
Hmm I never ever knew they made gay dolls and named them Bob. Lol Gay Bob even comes with a catalog inside.
Forced to Pick a Major in High School
Ninth graders often have trouble selecting what clothes to wear to school each morning or what to have for lunch. But starting this fall, freshmen at Dwight Morrow High School here in Bergen County must declare a major that will determine what electives they take for four years and be noted on their…
5 Reasons Not to Drink Bottled Water
Just look at the labels or the bottled water ads: deep, pristine pools of spring water; majestic alpine peaks; healthy, active people gulping down icy bottled water between biking in the park and a trip to the yoga studio.
"Imprisoning a U.S. citizen, on U.S. soil, with no charges of any kind, and then keeping him for years completely incommunicado, is just one of those lines which many people believed would never be crossed in America"
An embarrassed Fox News strikes out at Wikipedia
A boyfriend's public revenge on cheating girlfriend.
White House may prevent general from testifying publicly
If the White House gets its way, the Bush Administration's Sept. 15 progress report on Iraq may be delivered by the U.S. secretaries of state and defense -- and not by top US Iraq General David Petraeus and US Iraq Ambassador Ryan Crocker in a widely anticipated public congressional briefing.
Diebold vote-hack roundup - Everybody's talking but nobody's doing anything. Can we PLEASE get this HUGE problem fixed before 2008? Or are we going to watch a third election get trashed.
Get some exercise while stuck at your desk
Check out this list of simple exercises you can do while stuck at your computer. Just because you're a slave in the cubicle farm, doesn't mean you have to be out of shape. Get fit, and help save humanity from the forthcoming robot war!
Researchers create gravity in lab experiment - why has this gone quiet?
IGN Xbox 360 Gives Bioshock a 9.7, highest rated game for the 360
But to call this game simply a first-person shooter, a game that successfully fuses gameplay and narrative, is really doing it a disservice. This game is a beacon. It's one of those monumental experiences you'll never forget, and the benchmark against which games for years to come will, and…
Want Yet Another Reason to Have Sex?
Researchers have established a link between regular sexual activity and longevity, confirming what we already suspected: Sex is good for the heart.
The software awards scam
This software product has so far won 16 different awards and recommendations from software download sites. Minor issue is it doesn't even run - it is just a text file with the words “this program does nothing at all” repeated a few times and then renamed as an executable.
BitTorrent Anime Downloaders Identified, $3500 Bill in the Mail
A company that distributes Japanese animated cartoons has tracked down thousands of BitTorrent users it accuses of breaching their copyrights and has successfully forced their ISPs to reveal their identities. Next step - threatening letters: “Pay Us $3,500 or Else”.
The Original Debian Announcement From 1993
"This is just to announce the imminent completion of a brand-new Linux release,which I'm calling the Debian Linux Release. This is a release that I have puttogether basically from scratch; in other words, I didn't simply make somechanges to SLS and call it a new release."
Group that advocated Bush become "President-for-Life" linked to Bush Administration itself
Hottest Beach Volleyball Tournament of the Yearbikini girls and hardbodies are the norm for the Southern California beach culture, but once a year during Surf Fest the Manhattan Beach hotties get suited up in costumes and compete with AVP pros and college stars for Six Man, the hottest vball action you'll see [photos]
Liquid Kiss (PIC)
Very cool!
Government pushing religious video games.
US Government pimping the "Left Behind" video game.
BioShock gets another 10/10 this time from 1up.
We emerge from the deep for our BioShock review.
Group that wants Bush to be "President-for-Life" linked to Bush Administrat
heard about this on, where else, the Thom Hartmann show. He discussed Democratic Underground's look at Family Security Matters. This bunch of sickos (apologies to Michael Moore) advocates that Bush should be our permanent president and that there should be no more democracy. Democracy is bad.…
Iraqi Women Prostituting Themselves to Feed Their Children
The women are too afraid and ashamed to show their faces or have their real names used. They have been driven to sell their bodies to put food on the table for their children -- for as little as $8 a day.
Creationists tout Inca stones of dinos as proof of mans living with dinosaurs - but have you seen the ones with gay sex with giant penises?
McCain Says 'No Similarity' Between Alcohol Prohibition and Drug Prohibition
Undercover police officer's plan to check bar for underage drinkers fails when he forgets to bring his ID, decides instead to arrest bar owner for "impeding a public officer"
Hotel mistakes Nobel laureate for bag lady, throws her out
How UPS Delivers When You're Not Watching (Video)
“You've reached this page because the site you were trying to visit now blocks the FireFox browser.”
TJX Security Breach Described
Bunderfeld notes more details coming out about how bad guys got into the TJX network. Last time we discussed this, the best information indicated that a WEP crack had started the ball rolling. Now we learn that instead, or in addition: "Poorly secured in-store computer kiosks are at least…
Ron Paul: "[T]he drafters of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, both replete with references to God, would be aghast at the federal government’s hostility to religion."
Behind the USPTO's Working With Peer-To-Patent
Down-with-the-patents writes "As this community discussed earlier, the US Patent and Trademark Office is collaborating with the Peer-to-Patent program to stop bad patents from issuing. Brigid Quinn, spokesperson for the USPTO, explains the motivation of the USPTO to open up to the public what…
Smile at the airport... or else: A new level of absurdity for America
A Commonsense Proposal On Net Radio Rates
quark235 tips us to an open letter to the RIAA, proposing a fairer royalty structure for Net radio, written by Paul A. Gathard. Gathard is president of Barnabus Road Media, a company that provides streaming radio services to commercial and non-commercial stations across the US. He contends that his…
3D Sidewalk Art
Water Fuel Car
A CAR THAT RUNS ON WATER!
Big Ears in the Mountains, part 1 of 3
This story looks at the role a secluded base in Sugar Grove, West Virginia, plays in the federal government's surveillance of communications. It first aired in March of 2006 on the program "Outlook," just a few months after the revelation of the Bush Administration's domestic…
Cafe del Mar - Jose Padilla - Adios Ayer
Este video que hoy os muestro lo subo por un motivo sentimental que tengo acerca del Chill Out ... Cafe del Mar y Jose Padilla han estado y seran simbolos del Chill Out actual. Este video les pertenece y por tanto quiero adjuntar sus respectivos enlaces. Cafe del mar WEB…
Series of Tubes
Senator Ted Stevens talking about the Net Neutrality Bill
Webster Tarpley comments on Rudolph W. Giuliani
Webster Tarpley comments on Rudolph W. Giuliani
Park City, Utah Winter - Long Version
Check out Park City, Utah new winter video. Want more information check out the official Park City website at www.parkcityinfo.com
THE play in college footbal
The last minute in the 1982 California vs Stanford football game.
Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln Part II
Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln
Minime and Dr.Evil Funny Moments
the funniest moments of Minime and Dr.Evil in Austin Powers the spy that shagged me PLZ COMMENT!
Bruce Springsteen: NEW YORK CITY SERENADE
Live at the Continental Airlines Arena (formerly "Meadowlands") in East Rutherford, NJ on August 11, 1999. Filmed entirely off the video screen, but the clip is very watchable, and the performance is outstanding!
J-COM Mis-order in Tokyo Stock Exchange.
Mis-order of brokerage firm.
