Monthly Archive: 2009 October

U.S. Spies Buy Stake in Firm That Monitors Social Media (via Wired.com’s Danger Room)

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In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media. It’s part of a larger movement within the spy services to get better at using ”open source intelligence” — information that’s publicly available, but often hidden in the [...]

Pakistan Finds Passport of Alleged 9/11 Operative (via WSJ.com)

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A German passport belonging to Said Bahaji, a close associate of Sept. 11 lead hijacker Mohammed Atta in the 2001 attacks, was among documents recovered this week by Pakistani troops from an abandoned militant compound in Shawangai. Pakistan Finds Passport of Alleged 9/11 Operative (via WSJ.com)

Apple spending $4M on North/Clybourn station (via Gizmodo)

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Have you heard that a new Apple Store is being built in the heart of our North/Clybourn traffic/shopping hell? Apple must be so thoroughly disgusted at the state of the CTA Red Line station there that they are kicking in $4M towards the renovation with only a tiny little string attached: [I]n exchange for the [...]

Another Opposition Activist Is Killed in Russia (via NYTimes.com)

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A prominent opposition and rights activist in Russia’s southern province of Ingushetia was shot dead Sunday in at least the third killing of a human rights defender in the volatile North Caucasus region in just over three months. Another Opposition Activist Is Killed in Russia (via NYTimes.com)

CubeDude Lego character creations (via Flickr)

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Angus “CubeDude” MacLane makes cartoon, movie, and comic book characters with Lego bricks. And they rock!!!!!!! Collection: CubeDude

Dirt Poster

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Very cool conceptual typographic design for a literally “hand silk-screened” poster by Roland Reiner Tiangco: A poster the recipient completes by revealing spot-varnished type with hands made dirty by handling the poster. Enjoy!!! Dirt Poster

Time for “A Serious Man”

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It is time for us all to go see A Serious Man…

Year 2010 becoming reality

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The year 2010 (not to be confused with the movie 2010 (1984)) is slowly, but surely becoming a reality. Everyday I hear of something scheduled to happen in 2010, and it adds a tiny bit of mass to the foggy concept in my mind of just what 2010 might be.

Olympic bid prediction

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If Chicago does not win the bid for the 2016 Summer Games, I predict the president will put the IOC on the list of terrorist organizations. The top leaders of the Olympic committee will supplant the top leaders of Al-Qaeda as the most wanted criminals in the world…

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