August 30, 2012

* Russ Feingold, TPM, WaPo fact check Ryan's GOP convention speech
* NYT reporter asked CIA to fact check column prior to publication
* Surviving miners charged with murder of colleagues killed by cops
* Misunderstanding of "Prior Art" lead to $1B Apple-Samsung verdict
* Apple granted patent for location based disabling of camera phones

  August 27, 2012

* Twitter appeals court ruling against Occupy Wall Street protester
* Hewlett-Packard posts record quarterly loss under CEO Meg Whitman
* Buzzfeed photo essay from National Hobo Convention in Britt, Iowa
* Percentage of newborn males circumcised in the US declines to 56%
* German court rules circumcision constitutes grievous bodily harm

  August 26, 2012

* Alejandro De La Cruz wins right to grow food in his front yard
* Britain withdraws threat to revoke embassy's diplomatic status
* Ron Paul declines to speak at convention due to GOP conditions
* Gawker posts leaked documents from Romney investment vehicles
* Tim Storms holds world record for lowest note sung by a human

* Pics from A Photographic Supplement to the Diary of Anais Nin

  August 24, 2012

* Lewis Whyld photographs policeman's clipboard near Ecuadorian embassy
* Assange is required in Sweden for interview because of "circumstances"
* Power problems force Seattle to take city websites offline for 5 days
* South Africa approves labeling goods of "Israeli Occupied Territories"
* Study: circumcision does not mitigate sexually transmitted illnesses

  August 20, 2012

* Canada's largest Protestant church boycotts Israeli settlement exports
* Barclay's chairman: Libor scandal a consequence of free bank accounts
* Economy of Iceland strong after refusing to socialize its bank losses
* Court: Alabamans not required to check each others immigration status
* Senate candidate's remark on rape reveals beliefs of pro-life groups

  August 19, 2012

* Assange speaks from Ecuadorian embassy window after grant of asylum
* Ecuador doesn't want to interfere with the Swedish judicial process
* RIAA budget shrinks 50% over two years as recording labels cut back
* Paul Ryan backed 2002 Bush stimulus when unemployment rate was 5.6%
* Ryan admits requesting 2009 stimulus funds after indignant denials

* Libertarians sue to have Romney kicked off Washington state ballot
* Voting Rights Act used to stop Florida restriction on early voting
* State Dept: US does not recognize the concept of political asylum
* American Freedom Defense League ads appear on San Francisco buses
* Former Michigan Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell fined

  August 15, 2012

* Brief introduction to Trapwire and Abraxas relationship with Stratfor
* In new interview Weiwei says Beijing doesn't reflect people's history
* Fasting guru Baba Ramdev arrested as he approaches Indian parliament
* VP pick Paul Ryan is an effective spokesman for Mitt Romney's vision
* Obama administration advised police to not arrest Occupy protesters

* Britain warns Ecuador it could enter embassy to arrest Julian Assange
* Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn visits striking workers at Caterpillar plant
* Progressive Insurance lawyer defends policy holder's killer in court
* Beck's album Song Reader released only as sheet music at Mcsweeney's
* Pull My Daisy [1959] features Allen Ginsburg & Gregory Corso [watch]

* Developers of "invisible" bicycle helmet get $10M in startup funding

  August 11, 2012

* Anaheim city council rejects voting districts backed by Disney Resort
* Minneapolis cops compile location data for millions of license plates
* Hours for early voting limited in Ohio's heavily Democratic counties
* Libyan assembly elects former opposition leader as interim president
* Yekaterina Samutsevich closing statement at Moscow Pussy Riot trial

  August 10, 2012

* Wikileaks and all its mirror sites knocked offline for a week so far
* Elizabeth Warren's daughter heads Massachusetts voting-rights group
* JP Morgan Chase subpoenaaed by regulators in Europe, UK, Canada, US
* Federal court to review marijuana's classification as "Schedule 1"
* Google self-driving cars pass 300,000 miles without any accidents

  August 9, 2012

* California Legislature responds to BART's shutdown of cell service
* History of the exclamation point; believed to originate from Latin
* Candidate's image among the public largely defined by his opponent
* Romney spokewoman responds to campaign ad by defending Romneycare
* Documentary about the making of Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here"

  August 8, 2012

* 9th Circuit Court: gov't can't be sued for warrantless wiretapping
* Koch brothers respond to portrayal onscreen in The Campaign [2012]
* Top German court demands equal tax benefits for same-sex couples
* Human body cuts off oxygen to digestive system above 26,000 feet
* Recording of William Burroughs reading his first published novel

  August 6, 2012

* Images of Curiosity rover descent taken by HIRISE Mars Orbiter
* Prison Guard Union backed 1994 "three strikes" Proposition 184
* African diplomats in Israel are afraid to walk down the street
* Romney won't prove Senator wrong by releasing his tax returns
* Images of Chevrolet speedometer design between 1941 and 2011

* Unnamed MIT "hippie" came up with idea used to save Apollo 13
* Berkeley resolution to use eminent domain to stop foreclosures
* Panama Canal widening to double capacity during centennial year
* Only know footage of Mark Twain smoking & drinking tea in 1909
* International headquarters of Scientology known as "Gold Base"

  August 4, 2012

* Sen. Rand Paul says Constitution protects right to contraception
* 2001: A Space Odyssey documentary; the monolith as "burglar alarm"
* Buffalo "hunting by rail" for sport lead to end of the Indian Wars
* Interview with Tony Dekker of indie-folk band Great Lake Swimmers
* "Weightless [Radox]" written by scientists to cause sleep [video]

  August 3, 2012

* US will reject proposals to surrender control of internet to UN
* Stanford and Hewlett Packard scientists took LSD for 1966 study
* World Net Daily writer: First Amendment shields us from mockery
* Stockton stiffs Bermuda bond insurer to cover employee pensions
* 16-year-old Shaherkani first Saudi woman to compete in Olympics

  August 2, 2012

* Entirely new landing method for August 5th touchdown on Mars
* Rebekah Brooks to appear on phone hacking charges in Britain
* "Cyber-security" bill killed by conservatives & progressives
* More IPv6 users in US than anywhere in the world [3,000,000]
* Anaheim protests show deep divide after shootings by police

  August 1, 2012

* NY Times visits Oakland mayor, police chief, and top activist
* NSA booth at DefCon; address by Director Gen. Keith Alexander
* Pepper spraying UC Davis campus policeman Lt John Pike fired
* Pictures of long queues during Chick-Fil-A "Appreciation Day"
* 600,000 people in India affected by collapse of power grids