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Three days in Iran - The Big Picture - Boston.com
upporters of the opposition to Iran's current ruling regime continue to gather, speak out, and protest - despite the risks of imprisonment, injury or death, and the continued official restrictions on foreign media coverage. On December 21st, 2009, thousands of Iranians attended a funeral ceremony for Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, the spiritual father of Iran's reform movement, who had passed away at the age of 87. In the days following the funeral, mourners and protesters took to the streets defying an official ban on such memorial services. On the Muslim holy day of Ashoura, December 27th, protesters and riot police clashed in multiple locations in Tehran, leaving many injured and between 8 and 37 protesters killed, including the nephew of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi. Days later, on December 30th, the Iranian government organized its own protest - against the opposition - giving all civil servants the day off to attend, providing dozens of buses and free chocolate milk for demonstrators. Collected here are photos from the three days, most taken by anonymous photographers, acquired outside the country by press agencies who are restricted by the government ban. (33 photos total)
photography  news  revolution  iran 
january 2010 by jtth
Security Fix - ZeusTracker and the Nuclear Option
But try telling that to Roman Hüssy, a 21-year-old Swiss information technology expert, who last month witnessed a collection of more than 100,000 hacked Microsoft Windows systems tearing themselves apart at the command of their cyber criminal overlords.
article  security  News  it  zeus  botnet 
may 2009 by jtth
Exclusive: 'Aqua Teen Hunger Force' live-action episode, starring T-Pain as the Fryman | PopWatch Blog | EW.com
But even if the show is starting to show its age, you gotta hand it to these stoners for continuing to come up with weird-ass stuff, like the upcoming live-action episode on May 31, which stars T-Pain as Frylock (pictured). Apparently, Pain is a huge fan of the show (he often wears an Ignignokt pendant around his neck and actually did the voice for the "Die" ventriloquist dummy for the "Dummy Love" ep) so he was more than happy to wear his signature stovepipe hat in french-fry yellow for the part.
article  tv  News  athf  show  adultswim 
may 2009 by jtth
IU Bloomington and IUPUI to host free electronic waste recycling days: IU News Room: Indiana University
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Electronic Waste Collection Days, a free electronic waste recycling drive hosted by Indiana University Bloomington and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, will take place in both Bloomington and Indianapolis on April 30 through May 2.
article  News  waste  iu  ewaste  iub 
april 2009 by jtth
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Obama vows investment in science
President Barack Obama has set the goal of devoting 3% of gross domestic product (GDP) to US science research.
science  politics  economy  News  obama  investing  budget 
april 2009 by jtth
Apple found guilty of willful patent infringement - Ars Technica
It is insane to me that things of this nature can be patented.
politics  apple  patents  News  patent  texas 
april 2009 by jtth
Darkside of the Looking Glass (full)
Scary presentation about why the markets are failing, and how far they will fail.
trading  technology  stocks  stock  markets  investing  inspiration  nakedshorting  news  ideas 
october 2008 by jtth
Opposed to Wiretap Amnesty? Run a TV Ad for Six Bucks | Threat Level from Wired.com
If you're one of the thousands of voters angry over the Democrats' cave on domestic spying and telecom amnesty, a new online grassroots movement is now making it easy to buy a local ad on MSNBC, CNN and several other networks, for less money.
advertising  article  america  government  media  news  fisa  politics  wired 
july 2008 by jtth
NIST envisions 'thinking machine'
Paradoxes like these also must also be addressed in the technology world: Data classes must be created and relationships among data understood. Resolving such issues is the province of ontologists.
ontology  ontologists  news  article  computing  computerscience  ai  artificialintelligence 
june 2008 by jtth
The Mike Wallace Interview
There are 65 interviews in the Ransom Center's collection. Five are on audio tape, and the others are kinescopes, 16mm recordings of the television programs made by filming the picture from a video monitor. These 16mm films were transferred to video and,
History  Video  Interview  journalism  mikewallace  tv  news  people  politics  profile  smoking  teaching  television  videos  vintage  wallace  lessons  av  awesome 
april 2008 by jtth
Study Ties Genetic Variations to Schizophrenia - New York Times
A new study has found that rare and previously undetectable genetic variations may significantly increase the risk that a person will develop schizophrenia.
schizophrenia  news  genetics  psychology 
march 2008 by jtth
Vaccine for Ebola virus
One of the world’s deadliest diseases, caused by the Ebola virus, may finally be preventable thanks to US and Canadian researchers, who have successfully tested several Ebola vaccines in primates and are now looking to adapt them for human use.
vaccine  ebola  virus  news  health  safety 
march 2008 by jtth
Son's tooth helps save dad's sight - Latest News, Health - Independent.ie
But he can now see again after doctors, using groundbreaking surgery, inserted his son's tooth in his eye. (linked via http://www.google.com/reader/view/)
surgery  medicine  article  news  neurology  neuroscience  vision 
march 2008 by jtth
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Pet camel kills Australian woman
A woman in Australia has been killed by her pet camel after the animal may have tried to have sex with her.
camel  sex  news  pet  australian  woman  australia  article  rape  death 
december 2007 by jtth
IU Underground
Info on the tunnels beneath IU.
iu  indiana  university  tunnel  tunnels  news  article 
december 2007 by jtth
100-year-old celebrates her birthday by smoking 170,000th cigarette | the Daily Mail
Winnie Langley started smoking only days after the First World War broke out in June 1914 when she was just seven-years-old - and has got through five a day ever since.
Health  smoking  cigarettes  news  crazy  senior  funny  interesting  life  tobacco  weird  woman  cigarette  100 
september 2007 by jtth
Planet Scheme - The Community Scheme Blog
Planet Scheme is a meta blog. Blog posts on Scheme are collected here.
blog  development  functional  lisp  News  planet  programming  scheme  plt 
september 2007 by jtth
Orion Multisystems DS-96 Efficeon Cluster Workstation - PCSTATS.com
The Orion DS-96 deskside Cluster Workstation will include 96 nodes with 300 Gflops peak performance, up to 192GB of memory and up to 9.6TB of storage space when it is released in October 2004.
cluster  node  workstation  hpc  supercomputer  supercomputing  news  article  insane  computer  processor 
september 2007 by jtth
Can't sue the pope
You can't sue the pope for conspiring to cover up the molestation incidences.
news  current  events  pope  rome  holy  catholic  molestation 
august 2007 by jtth
Indians predated Newton 'discovery' by 250 years
He added: "For some unfathomable reasons, the standard of evidence required to claim transmission of knowledge from East to West is greater than the standard of evidence required to knowledge from West to East.
knowledge  india  newton  discovery  math  science  article  news  history 
august 2007 by jtth
The Hindu News Update Service
The most dangerous idea is ‘the idea that ideas can be dangerous’.
edge  list  the  hindu  news  article  business  ideas  idea  danger  dangerous  thought  essay 
august 2007 by jtth
Squirrel goes on rampage, injures 3 - Yahoo! News
An aggressive squirrel attacked and injured three people in a German town before a 72-year-old pensioner dispatched the rampaging animal with his crutch.
rampage  news  article  squirrel 
june 2007 by jtth
Project Censored Media Democracy in Action
The top 25 censored news items of the year. You need to be familiar with these.
top  25  censor  new  news  2007  stories  hidden  media 
may 2007 by jtth
Happiness 101 - New York Times
The New York Times has an interesting article on the psychology of happiness.
introduction  nytimes  article  news  happiness  psychology  cogsci  cognitive  science 
february 2007 by jtth
Researchers surprised to find no link between marijuana, lung cancer / Study's findings apply even to heavy pot smokers
The largest study of its kind has unexpectedly concluded that smoking marijuana, even regularly and heavily, does not lead to lung cancer.
marijuana  study  news  article  cancer 
february 2007 by jtth
Intel Builds the Fastest Chip Ever
Intel has created an 80-core teraflop processor the size of a fingernail.
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february 2007 by jtth
Independent Online Edition > Health Medical
People who took high dose supplements of folic acid did significantly better in tests of memory and cognitive performance than those given a placebo, researchers report.
folic  acid  neuroscience  article  news  layman  vegetables  beans  liver  uk 
january 2007 by jtth
Article - Opinion - Religion in school
Students do not give up their constitutional rights at the door to the schoolhouse.
student  rights  right  constitution  law  government  religion  article  news  editorial  fact 
january 2007 by jtth
TV programme reveals the REAL Frankensteins | the Daily Mail
A very interesting article about head transplantation, giving air to a new National Geographic documentary on the subject.
story  news  national  geographic  article 
january 2007 by jtth
ABC News: Dog Saves Owner, Dies Trying to Save Cat
A dog rescued a woman from a fire in her house, then died trying to save the cause of the fire, her cat. The saddest story ever.
dog  cat  sad  news  article 
october 2006 by jtth
Baby Bang experiment could open door to new dimension - 11 Sep 2006 - Space
Scientists at the Hadron Collider are planning on recreating a miniature version of the big bang. This cannot end well.
science  space  article  news  experiment 
september 2006 by jtth
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Reborn
Across three continents, severely brain-damaged patients are awake and talking after taking ... a sleeping pill. And no one is more baffled than the GP who made the breakthrough. Steve Boggan witnesses these 'strange and wonderful' rebirths
neuroscience  science  medicine  drugs  sleep  coma  news  article 
september 2006 by jtth
Magic City Morning Star: Patent Law Ruling Threatens Free and Open Source Software
In a recent decision, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed its own "suggestion test" as the main method for determining when a patent should be found obvious over knowledge in the public domain. Under this test, even the most obvious incremental
law  linux  news  opensource 
august 2006 by jtth
Fortwo EV: Smart car goes electric | Leftlane News - Car News For Enthusiasts
It seems the Smart car has gone completely electric. You just plug it in at home.
environment  cars  news 
july 2006 by jtth
Masked crusader
A masked man patrols our capital city!
articles  comic  cool  culture  funny  interesting  news  Psychology  weird  superhero 
july 2006 by jtth
» 'Touching' the brain | Emerging Technology Trends | ZDNet.com
And I quote, "This system "guides the precise delivery of targeted transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) pulses to discrete brain areas." It is today the only device available for accurate prediction of the TMS stimulus location and dose within the huma
brain  science  neuroscience  psychology  news 
july 2006 by jtth
Guardian Unlimited Technology | Technology | Big Brother takes a controlling interest in chips
Looks like an interesting piece about unchecked growth and social integration of technology.
book  review  books  news  scifi  society  tech 
june 2006 by jtth
BBC NEWS | Health | Pill 'reverses' vegetative state
A sleeping pill seems to temporarily revive people in a vegetative state.
brain  drugs  health  medicine  neuroscience  news  science  technology  medical 
may 2006 by jtth
Urban Legends Reference Pages: Critters (Saved the Whale)
A true story about a wale that thanked its rescuers after being tied up in rope.
animals  awesome  cool  cute  environment  news  whale 
april 2006 by jtth
Wired 14.03: PLAY
WIRED interviews Seth Lloyd about his idea that the universe literally IS a quantum computer. I buy it, as it fits with other models at least to my knowledge, which is slim on quantum mechanics.
article  wired  books  world  computer  cool  environment  intelligence  news  life  philosophy  physics  programming  read  research  science 
april 2006 by jtth
Washington Square News - Potheads here to stay
Taking the elevator in this particular Union Square residence hall is nothing less than a journey for the nasal passages. The second floor greets you with the smell of freshly baked cookies, the fifth floor with the savory scent of curry, and the seventh
pot  news  smoking 
march 2006 by jtth
onegoodmove: Olbermann Skewers O'Reilly, Again
Olbermann has some choice words for Bill. God damn, once again Keith has proven to the world he's awesome.
politics  news 
february 2006 by jtth
Inside Mac Games
Reviews and reports on the latest gaming news on the Macintosh platform.
apple  video  computer  computers  fun  game  games  Geek  mac  ipod  macosx  misc  magazine  news  osx  review  software  shopping  gaming 
january 2006 by jtth
Free Energy - The N-Machine
The U.S. energy monopoly, which pushes for the development of oil, gas, coal, and nuclear power--while defunding solar energy and other non polluting alternatives--apparently does not want to see free energy emerge as a viable option.
cool  energy  math  news  physics  science  Article  space 
january 2006 by jtth
Planet Scheme
Aggregated feeds from various scheme-centric blogs.
blog  blogs  cool  daily  computer  feeds  functional  language  lisp  news  programming  rss  scheme  lambda  planet 
january 2006 by jtth
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