February 2010
Bush Lawyers Get A Free Pass For Torture Memos
Bush administration lawyers who paved the way for sleep deprivation and waterboarding of terrorism suspects exercised poor judgment but will not be referred to authorities for possible sanctions, according to a forthcoming ethics report, a legal source confirmed. The work of John C. Yoo and Jay S. Bybee, officials in the Bush Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, provided the basis...
Book: Starting Over: Why the last decade was so... →
Bookended by 9/11 at the beginning and an epic financial meltdown at the end, the first decade of this century will surely go down as one of the most difficult in American history. We were plagued by a series of catastrophes and major missteps, from the convoluted presidential election in 2000, to the invasion of Iraq, to the devastation of Katrina as well as all manner of financial shenanigans...
Can Google Search Challenge Facebook?
Google said it is taking its Google Social Search project to its core search engine with new features, a move to challenge Facebook in the battle for more users. Google Social Search drops content from searchers’ contacts directly into search results. In the next few days, users of the English language version of Google.com who are signed into their Google account will automatically begin...
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Amazon Turns Kindle Into a Platform
Amazon, displaying a sense of urgency that is perhaps driven by the pending launch of Apple’s tablet-style computer, is turning its Kindle device into a platform. The Seattle-based company has announced that it will allow software developers to “build and upload active content” and distribute it through the Kindle Store “later this year.” Amazon will be giving out a Kindle Development Kit that...
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January 2010
One Firm's Predictions For The Next Year: China...
What will the next decade bring for the world? STRATFOR has the answers. In a Decade Forecast released yesterday, the global intelligence company predicts Chinese economic collapse, game-changing global labor shortages, and continued American dominance because of a gradual retreat from international engagement. Welcome to 2010. Business Insider.com spoke with Peter Zeihan, Vice President of...
How To Hide From Google
Google offers Web users a simple trade-off: Let the search giant track a substantial portion of your comings and goings around the Web, and it will offer you a free, superior online experience. Now an independent security researcher who goes by the name Moxie Marlinspike is making Web users a counter-offer: Take Google’s giveaways and keep your privacy too. On Tuesday, Marlinspike launched a...
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#61: Bros
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Taking their name from “brothers”, bros are a diverse group of desperate males currently populating American college parties and fraternities. They can be found attempting to increase their Facebook friend total by attending pretty much every gathering in existence. But don’t be fooled by the Axe spray and limited vocabulary, these mongrels have been known to be aggressive...
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CIA Agent Admits He Lied About Torture
Well, it’s official now: John Kiriakou, the former CIA operative who affirmed claims that waterboarding quickly unloosed the tongues of hard-core terrorists, says he didn’t know what he was talking about. Kiriakou, a 15-year veteran of the agency’s intelligence analysis and operations directorates, electrified the hand-wringing national debate over torture in December 2007 when...
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Rags and riches: Thrift-store clothing fuels... →
Globalization isn’t just about outsourcing. It’s also about rags, as used clothes are known in industry lingo. Lots of rags. Last year in this country, we spent a collective $282 billion on new duds, and to clear space for fresh fashion, the average American got rid of 68 pounds of clothing and textiles — billions of bags donated to thrift stores.
Report: How Exercise Makes You Smart
Older women who did an hour or two of strength training exercises each week had improved cognitive function a year later, scoring higher on tests of the brain processes responsible for planning and executing tasks, a new study has found. Researchers in British Columbia randomly assigned 155 women ages 65 to 75 either to strength training with dumbbells and weight machines once or twice a week, or...
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Why are some people easily outsourced, downsized, or freelanced into obscurity, while others have their pick of opportunities? In his most powerful book yet, Seth Godin argues that it’s more essential than ever to become indispensable - to become a linchpin. Linchpins are the essential building blocks of great organizations: they invent, lead (regardless of title), connect others, make...
“You’ve got to decide: Do you want to obey the laws of the countries...”
– Microsoft Corp Chairman Bill Gates on Monday said the Internet needs to thrive in China as an engine of free speech and described official online censorship by Beijing as “very limited.”
The President Makes It Public
The Obama administration on Friday is posting to the Internet a wealth of government data from all Cabinet-level departments, on topics ranging from child car seats to Medicare services. The mountain of newly available information comes a year and a day after President Barack Obama promised on his first full day on the job an open, transparent government. Under a Dec. 8 White House directive, each...