December 2011
1 post
“Gupta has gotten more attention than most searching for organ donors online, and...”
– Photojojo Founder Amit Gupta Uses Social Media to Find a Bone-Marrow Donor - The Daily Beast (via steph)
November 2011
1 post
Spectral Alphabet: Fukushima →
spectralalphabet:
Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, 2011.
Backyard, Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, 2011.
Paulo & Joe, Iwaki, 2011.
Earlier this month, I rode with the Safecast crew out of Tokyo and onto Fukushima Prefecture. It was raining and in the back of the van we each had Geiger counters for…
September 2011
3 posts
Applying computational linguistics to... →
March 2011
11 posts
Main stream media echo chamber sounding false...
This morning at 8:30AM 11:15AM March 16 JST Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano held a press conference to talk about the smoke billowing from Reactor 3 at Fukushima. At this press conference, he explained that the radiation levels spiked and that TEPCO staff would be temporarily moved to a 安全な地域 or “a safe region”. He probably should have said 場所 or “location” as Hiroko...
“Globalization is the modern articulation of the ancient ideology used by past...”
– Chris Hedges
February 2011
19 posts
“The unfolding situation in Libya has been horrible to behold. No matter how many...”
– Mark Lynch (@abuaardvark) at Foreign Policy (via thepoliticalnotebook)
Top 5 most endangered sharks. →
piscesdreams:
5. Basking shark In at number five, the slow-moving and generally harmless basking shark gets its name from basking in shallow temperate waters to feed. Unfortunately its docile nature has been its downfall as it fast became a staple of the fishing industry. Its fins appear…
Tor is playing a key role in helping Egyptians... →
tedr:
mikehudack:
soupsoup:
Fahrah Stockman at Boston Globe
Over the last three days, 120,000 people — most of them Egyptian — have downloaded Tor software, which helps activists protect their identity from surveillance by repressive regimes and get around blocked sites, according to Andrew Lewman, executive director of Tor, which provides the software for free.
“We saw this huge amount...
Girls with the same face in every picture.
leekenyon:
jordanrobert:
Guys do it too…
Fish do it too…
January 2011
16 posts
“Under the new rules, any site that exercises even the smallest amount of...”
– Italy rules YouTube and other video sites are like TV stations, are liable for content — Engadget (via publicknowledge)
My condolences to my Italian friends.
