February 2012
Anoynomous To Launch Their Own Megaupload
After the MegaUpload shut down and every other file sharing service backing down, surely nobody would be trying to start up a new file hosting service, right? Anonymous couldn’t care less and threw caution to the wind by announcing Anonyupload today. The site is billed as being, “100% Free - No Advertising - 100% Anonymous.” They are asking for help from users, however, to help them buy server and...
White supremacists revive dream of a homeland in... →
latimes:
A decade after the dissolution of the Aryan Nations compound in northern Idaho and the arrest of the Montana Freemen, white supremacists, far-right militias and radical patriots have revived their dream of a homeland in the Northwest.
Republicans Behaving Badly
Ron Paul Knew All About His Beloved Racist Newsletters
Why Mitt Romney Is Everybody’s Second Choice
Yes, the Romneys Converted Mitt’s Dead Atheist Father-in-Law to Mormonism
Santorum’s Hypocrisy Highlighted by Daughter’s Illness
GOP insiders ‘terrified’ of a Gingrich nomination
‘Bush lied to FBI to spy on Americans’
Police arrest Murdoch tabloid...
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“The fruit of her husband is sweet to her taste and she delights to be beneath...”
– In which an evangelical pastor makes the point that blowjobs are biblical, saying in a sermon, “God’s men said, Amen. Ladies, your husbands appreciate oral sex. They do. So, serve them, love them well. It’s biblical.” Our review of his new “sex manual.” (via newsweek)
“Until consumers demand better conditions in overseas factories — as they did for...”
– Well, there you have it tumblr. Until you—yes, YOU—demand better conditions for the people toiling away building your MacBooks, iPhones, and iPads, nothing will drastically change. You can start by signing this petition. Or this one. And if you haven’t read the Times piece on the factory conditions...
January 2012
“As of the end of 2011, there are 762 billion (762,000,000,000) objects in Amazon...”
– Amazon S3 Reports Staggering Growth in 2011 - ReadWriteCloud (via interestingsnippets)
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How to Keep Google from Finding Out Everything About You
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Apple Ignores Poor Working Conditions
Apple is completely ignoring the poor working conditions at many of its fabrication facilities, according to former employees and several anonymous Apple executives. Over the past couple of years there have been calls for the technology manufacturer to address the working facilities in its production plants, after several workers committed suicide and industrial accidents killed and injured...
“If You’re An Average Worker, You’re Going Straight To The Bottom”
– According to Seth Godin, the founder of Squidoo.com and author of 13 books, the current “recession is a forever recession” because it’s the end of the industrial age, which also means the end of the average worker. (via businessinsider,com)
“In the past, workers with average skills, doing an average job, could earn an...”
– Thomas Friedman writing in his NY Times article “Average Is Over”
