January 26, 2012

* Protesters in Egypt marched on anniversary of January 25 revolution
* Occupy makes demands ahead of G8 and NATO meeting May 19 in Chicago
* JPMorgan Chase CEO: anti-bank sentiment is a form of discrimination
* Freshwater gyre in Arctic Ocean could break ice and accelerate melt
* New album by Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood available March 13

* Stephen Colbert interview with author & illustrator Maurice Sendak
* Crackdown on Tibetan protest escalates; self-immolations continue
* 1972 law requires sterilization for transgender people in Sweden
* New Righthaven to offer webhosting "with a spine" in Switzerland
* 200 photographs of the streets & subways of 1980's New York City

* Fed Reserve vows zero percent federal funds rate until late 2014

  January 23, 2012

* US Supreme Court rules police GPS installation constitutes "search"
* Israel: Iran has no nuclear bomb program; "existential threat" gone
* Dog skull dated to 33,000 years; domestication in several locations
* International organization to assess our defense from space dangers
* Indonesian man faces five years prison for atheist post on Facebook

  January 22, 2012

* Egyptian parliament 47% Muslim Brotherhood, 25% ultraconservative
* Letter to the Internet from Sen. Wyden who put hold on PIPA bill
* Rep. Gabrielle Giffords to resign from Congress this coming week
* Microsoft supports gay marriage legalization in Washington state
* Teenage sailor Laura Dekker completes solo world circumnavigation

  January 19, 2012

* Father of the web Sir Tim Berners-Lee comments on SOPA and PIPA
* Ron Paul proposes bill to repeal indefinite detention provision
* Developer of first hand-held camera, Kodak files for bankruptcy
* Roger Waters spent an hour talking with Howard Stern January 18
* Disneyland Monorail operating procedures and story guide [1966]

* US State Department's reasons for rejecting Keystone XL pipeline
* Conservative creed "some are fit, and thus ought, to rule others"
* Mexican American Studies program suspended at Tucson high schools
* Hollywood studios built on circumvention of intellectual property
* Letter from Douglas Adams to film producer at Walt Disney [1999]

  January 18, 2012

* Screenshots of SOPA/PIPA Blackout Day at Google, Wikipedia, Wired
* Root cause of SOPA/PIPA is corrupting influence of $$ in Congress
* MPAA/RIAA vs. Google, Wikipedia, Firefox, Flickr, Wordpress & EFF
* Clay Shirky defends our freedom to share [why SOPA is a bad idea]
* US Supreme Court upholds removal of works from the public domain

  January 17, 2012

* SOPA sponsor Lamar Smith intends to continue markup in February
* Journalist Chris Hedges sues Obama & Secretary Panetta over NDAA
* 500 protesters travel to Washingtom DC for Occupy Congress event
* 1,000,000 signatures submitted to put recall on Wisconsin ballot
* Sponsor of Georgia welfare drug test bill arrested drunk driving

  January 16, 2012

* DHS using military contractor to monitor social media for dissent
* North Carolina Tea Party: SOPA & PIPA to destroy Internet freedom
* Wikipedia, Boing Boing, Reddit go dark January 18 to protest SOPA
* False flag operations by Israel lead to terrorist attacks in Iran
* OK to waterboard live Taliban fighter, not OK to piss on dead one

* Man released from Guantanamo after seven years without accusation
* Brass Liberation Orchestra's Lauren Montana is in jail [via MeFi]
* Elizabeth Warren & Scott Brown would agree to ban SuperPAC TV ads
* Best of 2,400 amateur videos that portray high speed animal flight
* Berkeley bio-diesel users notified to expect freezing temperatures

* Tanya Rosenblit refuses to move to back of the bus bound for Zion

  January 13, 2012

* Canadian justice minister declares all same-sex marriages legal
* The Pirate Bay to replace torrent files with "magnets" in 30 days
* SOPA bill sponsor to remove Domain Name System blocking provision
* Co-sponsor of Protect Intellectual Property Act: bill needs study
* Author of V for Vendetta & Watchmen, Alan Moore visits Occupy LSX

* New rules for people in Zuccotti Park after removal of barricades
* Occupy Wall Street pictures after January 10 removal of barricades
* Oakland police officer Hargraves suspended for covering name badge
* Justice Dept asks federal court to protect right to record police
* Girl Scout launches cookie boycott after transgender kid admitted

  January 12, 2012

* Reddit founder to address US Congress at SOPA hearing January 18
* Arizona sold Capitol, would buy it back before 100th anniversary
* Republican Congressmen angry about debt ceiling they agreed upon
* Associates of voter fraud investigator may face criminal charges
* Alone among developed nations Iceland didn't socialize bank debt

  January 10, 2012

* Australia reminds Japanese whalers to avoid territorial waters
* How the US pressured Spain to adopt unpopular web blocking law
* Citizens United allows casino to give $5M to Gingrich campaign
* Schneier on Transportation Security Administration 2011 report
* Solo explorer riding to South Pole on specially designed bike

  January 7, 2012

* Chile backs off plan to remove "dictatorship" from school textbooks
* Sponsor of SOPA Rep. Lamar Smith responds to bi-partisan opposition
* Judge Rakoff ruling leads SEC to drop no-fault settlement language
* The psychology of "ruin porn"; photography of abandoned buildings
* Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-Bop-Bop arrested in Madison, Wisconsin

  January 5, 2012

* Mitt Romney's top donor Goldman Sachs, Ron Paul's top donor US Army
* William Cohan: psychopaths took over Wall Street late last century
* Emails show Bush-era "gun walking" was not coordinated with Mexico
* Oil industry's top lobbyist warns Obama over Keystome XL pipeline
* List of websites monitored by US Department of Homeland Security

* Debbie Cook's New Year polemic emailed to 12,000 Scientologists
* Sweden recognizes file-sharing Church of Kopimism as a religion
* New York City Council resolution opposing corporate personhood
* US founding fathers tried growing hemp on their Virginia farms
* PayPal requires buyer to destroy violin before getting refund

* No December snow in Reno, Nevada for first time in 128 years

  January 2, 2012

* US earns more from assets abroad than it pays to foreign investors
* Associated Press: Occupy Wall Street protesters follow Rose Parade
* Elsevier, publisher of fake scientific journals supports SOPA bill
* Wisconsin prosecutor would re-open lawsuit against anti-union law
* Fracking linked to earthquakes; Ohio Gov. John Kasich shuts wells

* What seemed like Richard Stallman's paranoid what-ifs now reality
* Cheap tricks to reduce and monitor the data stream on smartphones
* Multiverse theory doesn't require fundamental causes & principles
* RIP George Whitman of Paris Shakespeare and Co. bookstore commune
* Fishing beneath ice that covers Finland's Lake Saarijarvi [video]

  December 31, 2011

* Proposed law to prohibit TSA employees from dressing like cops
* Obama signs Defense bill that eviscerates right of due process
* Chicago Cardinal Francis George compares gay community to KKK
* Samoa crosses international dateline, skipping December 30th
* Fuels are top US export; domestic demand falling since 2007

* Tornadoes and hailstorms are more common during the workweek
* Hackers propose distributed satellite ground station network
* Satyr Taxis and hallucinogenic excesses of mannerist ornament
* Montana court upholds ban on direct corporate campaign funding
* Middle East conflict had inception in 1917 Balfour Declaration

  December 29, 2011

* In 2005 supreme court ruled police have no duty to protect people
* Charles Bukowski's 1971 letter outlines terms for poetry reading
* Secret subpoena for Twitter user account info allowed to proceed
* CEO's focus on "expectations market" rather than creating value
* Transportation Security Agency budget increases by $7.8 billion

* Arms race between repressive regimes and Tor routing technology

  December 28, 2011

* Mitt Romney claims "you can get a photo ID free" for voting
* Coronal mass ejections may cause disruption of radio signals
* European Central Bank follows US Fed, lending to banks at 1%
* Highest demand for US treasuries since 1995; interest rate 0%
* HPTN 052 reduces risk of heterosexual HIV transmission by 96%

* Interview with Alan Moore on science, religion & imagination

  December 26, 2011

* Affinity of dinosaurs & birds discovered by Huxley in 1867
* CIA cites executive order that authorizes spying for police
* President and NY Times team up to combat "Twitter Terrorism"
* Arizona racial profiling lawsuit granted class action status
* Anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd using drones to locate ships

  December 25, 2011

* DMV shows evidence many registered voters have no eligible ID
* Shell Oil's Nigerian Floating Production & Storage Offloading
* Resource abundance vs. scarcity, egalitarianism vs. hierarchy
* Louis CK's self-produced comedy album makes $250k for charity
* Former Soviet president Gorbachev calls on Putin to step down

* 1955 amateur color film of San Francisco by Tullio Pellegrini

  December 23, 2011

* Corporate endorsers dropping support of Stop Online Piracy Act
* Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales moves domains away from Go Daddy
* House Republicans abandon fight to raise workers payroll taxes
* State Senator opposed to gay marriage resigns after infidelity
* Bruce Schneier visits airport with easily forged boarding pass

* Astronaut captures images of comet Lovejoy from space station

  December 21, 2011

* C-SPAN claims House Speaker's office interrupted video feed

  December 20, 2011

* Egyptian military expresses deep regret during women's march
* Stanford law professors explain what is wrong with SOPA bill
* Gov. Rick Perry collecting both salary & retirement benefits
* House and Senate GOP on opposite ends of Payroll Tax debate
* Pictures from Pvt. Bradley Manning's first court appearance

* San Francisco patron and luminary Warren Hellman passed away
* Leader of Czech "Velvet Revolution" Vaclav Havel passed away
* Louis CK successfully self-distributes comedy special: shame
* Lawsuit: recall effort violates rights of Gov. Scott Walker
* Feds replace immigration agents in Maricopa County, Arizona

  December 16, 2011

* Alleged whistleblower Bradley Manning's first day in court today
* Iran will regard drone flights from Afghanistan as "hostile act"
* DoD training refers to domestic protest as "low-level terrorism"

  December 13, 2011

* Occupy protesters shut down US west coast shipping terminals
* FBI says Carrier IQ files used for "law enforcement purposes"
* FBI rejects FOIA request for information regarding Carrier IQ
* UK tests "non-blinding" police lasers for "controlling riots"
* Study: correlation of walking through doorways and forgetting

  December 11, 2011

* US should eliminate private finance from the electoral process
* Mitt Romney offers to bet Rick Perry $10,000 during Iowa debate
* Then Senator Joe Biden crafted precursor to PATRIOT Act in 1995
* Chrome most secured browser; repeated success at hacker contest
* Documentary film on design philosophy of "Planned Obsolescence"

* Gingrich claims Palestinian textbook teaches children to kill
* Senator Ron Wyden wants answers from DHS over domain seizures
* Telegram from Marlon Brando to Martin Luther King Jr. in 1964
* Popular high fat diet in Norway causes black market in butter
* Gypsum deposit on Mars provides definitive evidence of water

  December 10, 2011

* Princeton students protest JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs recruiters
* NYC congressman wants inquiry into police actions at protests
* Egyptian liberals withdraw from council drafting constitution
* Pakistan would deploy air defenses to prevent NATO airstrikes
* Gingrich calls Palestinians "invented people"; like "Israeli"

* Pics of protests over election fraud in Moscow, St. Petersburg
* Thousands of sockpuppet twitter accounts drown out protesters
* Putin blames Secretary of State Clinton for inciting protests
* Congressional staff who wrote SOPA are now industry lobbyists
* EFF: Download.com secretly installs adware with free software

* SpaceX plans February mission to International Space Station
* Stanley Kubrick's photos of New York City life in the 1940's
* Japan diverted tsunami aid to protect whalers from activists
* Alabama governor acknowledges need to change immigration law
* Writer for Family Guy TV show describes arrest at Occupy LA

  December 7, 2011

* High Court may allow new hearing of Assange extradition case
* CIA drone crashes in Iran; signs of war; Brit embassy sacked
* Yesterday's "Occupy Our Homes" protesters escorted by police
* LA city council unanimously opposed to corporate personhood
* Georgia Democrat proposes mandatory drug test for lawmakers

  December 3, 2011

* Security software vendors help governments spy on citizens
* NewsMax GOP debate to be hosted by reality TV personality
* US Secretary of State visits Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar
* Israeli government apologizes to US Jews for ad campaign
* Corellation of decline in CO2 and formation of polar ice

  December 1, 2011

* Evidence Wall Street & Washington run a secret government
* LA police chief praises restraint of officers, protesters
* GOP strategist Frank Luntz comments on Occupy Wall Street
* Interracial couple banned from worship at Kentucky church
* Large turnout in 1st round of parliamentary vote in Egypt

* Chase VP: predatory lending was planned; bailout expected

  November 29, 2011

* Tampering charge against jury nullification advocate explained

  November 27, 2011

* Afghans call in NATO airstike that kills 24 Pakistani soldiers
* Arab League meets in Cairo to avoid NATO intervention in Syria
* Author reacts to use of Guy Fawkes mask from his graphic novel
* Arrestee takes "Disorder Control Unit" guideline from NYPD van
* Microsoft convinces BSA to oppose SOPA Stop Online Piracy Act

* Occupy LA invites mayor and city council to General Assembly
* PDF of "sealed search and seizure warrant" for Gmail account
* A single overdose of acetaminophen can lead to liver failure
* Studies confirm wolves first domesticated near Yangtze River
* Kerouac's "lost" debut novel The Sea Is My Brother published

* Bloomberg News wins lawsuit to learn details of Fed bailout
* Endless war based on maintaining two contradictory premises
* 1968 hand written letter from Jimi Hendrix about album art
* We see our noses and eyebrows but our brains "edit it out"
* Comedy is brain's way of correcting mistaken assumptions

  November 25, 2011

* NY Times on NYPD mistreatment of reporters covering Occupy
* Mayor advises getting press passes that NYPD will not issue
* Mayor: DHS advised 18 cities how to suppress Occupy protest
* Tahrir Square photos Nov 22nd, Nov 23rd, Nov 24th, Nov 25th
* Week of injury and death serves to harden resolve at Tahrir

* I'm using Cyberduck open source software to move my website

  November 24, 2011

* I am moving stryder.com to a new host; some files offline

  November 20, 2011

* Memo from Wall Street lobbyists shows strategies & concerns
* News of Congress legal insider trading inspires legislation
* UC President appalled by UC Davis peppper spraying students
* Students silently watch UC Davis Chancellor walk to her car
* 100,000 voters sign petition to recall Wisconsin Gov. Walker

  November 18, 2011

* Occupy Wall Street pictures Nov 17th, Nov 16th & Nov 15th
* Wall Street buys the tax code that applies to Wall Street
* Senators probe Congressional insider trading as seen on TV
* Energy Secretary Chu after Solyndra Congressional hearings
* Whitehouse.gov shuts down petition to Free Bradley Manning

  November 17, 2011

* Growing Congressional support for SOPA internet blacklist
* Polls show Congress less popular than "US going Communist"
* Robert Reich addresses thousands from steps of Sproul Hall
* SCOTUS judges eat dinner with litigants as court takes case
* Homeland Security Dept coordinates crackdown on non-Muslims

* Projections on Verizon building during Brooklyn Bridge march

  November 15, 2011

* Timeline: judge rules for removal of tents from Zuccotti Park
* Sen. Tom Coburn: government subsidizes lifestyles of the rich
* House Committee refuses to hear concerns about blacklist bill
* Candidate Cain's meandering response to question about Libya
* Airport X-ray body scanners banned in 27 European countries

* Documentary on the internet's hidden physical infrastructure

  November 13, 2011

* Arab League suspends Syria; calls for ambassador withdrawal
* Statements from arrested students in The Daily Cal newspaper
* Several presidential candidates say they are endorsed by God
* Kansas labor groups take credit for Scott Walker cancelation
* Clint Eastwood's profanity laced endorsement of gay marriage

* Panetta: support defense industry or you support terrorists
* Libya interim leader: no place for extremism despite Shariah
* US gets access to twitter account of Icelandic MP Jonsdottir
* First public tour of crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant
* Ai Weiwei accepts loan from 25,000 Chinese to pay government

* Interview with Werner Herzog about new film on death penalty
* Postcard from Jimi Hendrix to his father in Oct 1966 [image]
* NSFW: photos of FEMEN protests in Kiev, Paris & Vatican City
* SlutWalk, body-snarking, cisgender: developments in Feminism
* ISS time-lapse video taken with special low-light 4K-camera

  November 11, 2011

* US Senator Ron Wyden placing hold on internet blacklist bill
* The 1% state of mind: destroy value & corrupt the government
* Atheist Michael Higgins inaugurated 9th president of Ireland
* Blue eyed people have common ancestor 6,000-10,000 years ago
* Jim Gerritsen heads OSGATA trade group challenging Monsanto

* UC Berkeley police beat non-violent protesters with batons