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