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• “I am not a monster and I am not unreasonable:” Student attacks professor with axe after grant is cut

  By raincoaster on September 2, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Originally posted on Retraction Watch:
  A physics graduate student at the University of Coimbra in Portugal attacked a professor with an axe earlier this month after losing a grant. The student, Colin Paul Gloster, attacked physics lecturer Maria Filomena Santos,…

• Who Gets Shot in America?

  By raincoaster on September 2, 2014 • ( 0 )

  Originally posted on LibertasIntel:
  Embry Howell, Sam Bieler, and Nathaniel Anderson of the Urban Institute have an interesting new paper (PDF) based on hospital data from six states. The number capturing headlines is their estimate that, nationwide, treating gun injuries…

• Why Oil Companies Are Rogue Actors

  By raincoaster on September 2, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Originally posted on The Dish:
  by Bill McKibben A reader writes to complain that fossil fuel divestment is a pointless waste of time: What divestment does do is make people feel good. That they’re “doing something”, without having to do…

• Where You Are Is Who You Are Even If It Is China

  By raincoaster on September 2, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  As someone living outside the US whose servers are hosted IN the US, I’m keenly aware of how true this is. For all the scare-mongering about China here, the US is just as worrisome. The UK is worse.

• Interwebbed: Post-Labour Day Cyber and Crypto News

  By raincoaster on September 2, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Well, I suspect I don’t have to tell you there’s one and only one top story today and it begins with P.O.R.N. and ends with Jennifer Lawrence’s lawyer buying a yacht. Let’s get to our lazy post-Labour Day pr0n-infused link… Read More ›

• CFP: Deletion—Deviation: The Perversions of Science Fiction symposium, Feb 19&20 2015, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia

  By raincoaster on August 29, 2014 • ( 0 )

  Originally posted on The Fan Studies Network:
  Deletion—Deviation: The Perversions of Science Fiction Call for Papers Science Fiction exists in a state of tension between the pleasurable and the perverse — of the pleasure gained from its fictive forms, and…

• Did the BC government fail in its duty to release important information-without an FOI-that contained any evidence of : “…a risk of significant harm to the environment or to the health or safety of the public or a group of people”.

  By raincoaster on August 29, 2014 • ( 0 )

  Canada gets in on that “we’ll release it when we get around to it” FOI response action.

• Someone 3D Printed A Castle In His Backyard And It’s Awesome

  By raincoaster on August 29, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  I just…well, let’s say the studio apartment I was looking at had better step up its game. I can get a printer, and I can be patient. PAGING JOHN BIEHLER!

• Film Friday: the Internet’s Own Boy

  By raincoaster on August 29, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  Aaron Swartz was indeed the Internet’s Own Boy. A Harvard Fellow and wunderkind, he was also co-creator of Reddit, RSS feeds (which underpin email newsletters and blog subscriptions), and Creative Commons licensing. He lived and breathed the concept that information… Read More ›

• Guest Post: NSA Quits Spying on Americans Out of Disgust

  By raincoaster on August 29, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  We’re pleased as POG to present our latest guest post; this one is a satirical essay very much in the tradition of Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal. Our featured writer is Peter Van Buren, author of Ghosts of Tom Joad:… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: TGIF Cyber and Crypto Headlines for August 29

  By raincoaster on August 29, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Happy Friday! If you are sure you didn’t get hacked this week, two things: Congratulations You sure about that? Read our link roundup and double check! Then you can relax for the weekend. Should take you about four hours, so… Read More ›

• #Anonymous calls #OpGCHQ tonight in UK

  By raincoaster on August 28, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

    Attention, UK Spooks, Feds, and other governmental-type security professionals! Anonymous would like to let you know: it’s ON! The UK is one of the most survielled countries in the world in significant part because of GCHQ, an organization so… Read More ›

• Black Holes in the Predecisional Universe: Agencies Gain a New Justification for Secrecy

  By raincoaster on August 28, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Originally posted on UNREDACTED: The National Security Archive Blog:
  “No information may remain classified indefinitely.” –President Obama, in Executive Order 13526. A version of this article originally appeared in Perspectives on History, an American Historical Association publication, with an introduction by Allen Mikaelian…

• Russia’s Biggest Bank Offering Loaner Cats To Entice Mortgage Borrowers

  By raincoaster on August 28, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Hey, don’t laugh. This WORKS. Cats are magic IRL as well as online, it appears.

• Guy Saves Hundreds By Displaying Homemade “Ginger Discount” Card At Local Businesses

  By raincoaster on August 28, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  The “Ginger Discount” should be a real thing. Aw heck, I’d give him the discount just for the sheer audacity of this scheme. Social engineering at its finest.

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