March 31, 2012

* Muslim Brotherhood fields Khayrat el-Shater for president of Egypt
* Romney praised owner of "pink slime" corporation in autobiography
* Milwaukee mayor Tom Barrett to run for governor in Walker recall
* Current TV fires Keith Olbermann; replaces him with Eliot Spitzer
* Thousands of volunteers politely call back anti-abortion harassers

  March 30, 2012

* European parliament would bury Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
* Judge allows suit by Bradley Manning supporter over border search
* Canadian government to stop minting pennies; saving $11M annually
* Jeff Bezos finds Apollo 11 rocket engine at depth of 14,000 feet
* 1973 Vonnegut letter to head of school board after book burning

* More evidence links family of insecticides to bee colony collapse
* "Bendable" plastic electronic paper display [EPD] ships in April
* Rachel Maddow's book "Drift" dedicated to vice president Cheney
* FDA rejects petition to ban Bisphenol-A [BPA] in food packaging
* Link between eating fast food and risk of depression confirmed

  March 27, 2012

* List of Occupy general assemblies committed to strike on May 1st
* City of Boston pays $170,000 to man arrested for recording cops
* Cops use Micro Systemation software to crack iphone in minutes
* After four year hiatus community link website memepool is back
* Oscar-winning producer Harvey Weinstein releases unrated film

  March 26, 2012

* Ontario's high court legalizes brothels to protect prostitutes

  March 25, 2012

* Megafauna extinction coincided with human arrival in Australia
* French president proposes jail for terrorist website visitors
* Britain bans ad for tourism in Israel that blurs 1967 borders
* Monks left complaints in the margins of medieval manuscripts
* Arlen Specter memoir notes Sarah Palin "radiated sensuality"

* Research on Dictionary of American Regional English began 1965
* Miss Universe Canada pageant disqualifies transexual finalist
* Xerox canceled 1975 sponsorship after letter from E. B. White
* US pays to watch more net-sourced films than DVD's & Blu-ray
* Big pictures of Bagram and Kabul, Afghanistan, February 2012

* Waterlife is Rambharos Jha's oversize book of Mithila painting
* Radical new subterranean extension at Frankfurt Stadel Museum
* Stephen Gough repeatedly returns to prison for leaving naked
* Occupy Wall Street's march against police brutality [photos]
* Francois Hollande running against president Nicolas Sarkozy

  March 21, 2012

* Occupy Wall Street spring resurgence; 300 Union Square arrests
* NYPD monitored Occupiers off season; looked for links to Islam
* Million hoodie march for Trayvon Martin today in New York City
* First woman to run Boston Marathon chased by organizers [1967]
* NFL suspends coach for paying players to "take out" opponents

* Google debuts Amazon Basin "streetview" on "World Forest Day"

  March 20, 2012

* In 1975 Rep. Church warned of "no place to hide" [transcript]
* FBI to investigate George Zimmerman killing of Trayvon Martin
* Pirate Bay developing GPS controlled Low Orbit Servers [LOSS]
* Bernanke: Gold Standard increased depth of "Great Depression"
* Some scenes in The Shining [1980] filmed at Timberline Lodge

  March 18, 2012

* Correlation of insecticide use with "colony collapse disorder"
* Santorum assails Romney character over treatment of family dog
* Facebook's self-surveillance network for teens on Spring Break
* Newly released info on 1950's LSD experiments in San Francisco
* Felix Baumgartner to jump from 120,000 feet after recent tests

  March 17, 2012

* James Bamford on NSA Decryption Multipurpose Research Facility
* Bradley Manning motion hearing March 15 at Fort Meade [photos]
* Canadian police propose phone bill tax to pay for surveillance
* Springsteen SXSW keynote address: "it's the same fucking riff"
* Japanese whaling fleet ends season with 25% of planned catch

  March 16, 2012

* Rep. Peter King "Manhunter" video sparks probe by US Marshals
* Wisconsin GOP lose control of Senate as recall target resigns
* Underwear Bomber sentenced to life in prison in federal court
* George Clooney arrest thoroughly befuddles CNN anchor [video]
* Red Deer Cave People fossil could represent new human species

* Pay Transportation Security Agency to bypass airport security
* Internet providers to launch copyright spying scheme July 12
* Content industry's appeal to quantitative reasoning skewered
* Santorum: improving enonomy could damage chances in November
* Defense files motion to dismiss charges vs. Bradley Manning

  March 11, 2012

* Cato Institute: system engineered to inhibit use of jury trials
* Police chief sent armed sergeant to reporter's home at midnight
* Iowa law criminalizes joining farm with intent to expose cruelty
* Upcoming SCOTUS ruling could affect drone surveillance in the US
* Pictures of Osama bin Laden compound in Pakistan being demolished

  March 10, 2012

* New York policeman detained at Psych Ward after corruption report
* Hackers cause cartoon character to be elected to DC school board
* Wisconsin assembly passes bill to set limits on recall elections
* Threat to democracy not from bribery, but lobbyists writing laws
* 1938 J R R Tolkien answer to request for proof of Aryan ancestry

  March 9, 2012

* NYPD officer recorded superiors urging arrest of innocent people
* US authorities sieze .com domain registered at foreign registrar
* All but 2 of Japan's 54 nuke reactors gone offline since disaster
* The Exegesis of Philip K Dick in the Los Angeles Review of Books
* First ever audio recording in 1857 wasn't played back until 2008

  March 8, 2012

* Supreme Court instructs FBI to turn off 3,000 GPS tracking devices
* Kucinich: "defeat never had power over me. It has never changed me"
* Team hacks Google Chrome browser in 5 minutes at Pwn2Own competition
* TSA body scanners proven inneffective in detecting metallic objects
* Murderers get food stamps in Missouri, but not convicted drug users

  March 6, 2012

* US can kill citizens without trial; USAG Holder cites "due process"
* Scary protesters chase G8 Summit from Chicago to Camp David retreat
* Story behind England's iconic WWII "Keep Calm and Carry On" posters
* NASCAR's Danica Patrick would be called "pretty" rather than "sexy"
* LulzSec leader working for FBI; supposedly to protect his children

  March 2, 2012

* Three companies pull ads from program after slur by Rush Limbaugh
* Emergency Committee for Israel runs full page ad in New York Times
* Canadian government tightens media protocol for federal scientists
* Anonymous affiliates target Monsanto for "crimes against humanity"
* Federal judge apologizes for bestiality email about the President

  March 1, 2012

* Why psychiatrists diagnose anti-authoritarians with mental illness
* Rebel withdrawal from Baba Amr neighborhood ends Homs, Syria siege
* RIAA CEO hopes SOPA protests were "one time thing"; blames internet
* Speech-jamming device capable of stopping speakers in mid-sentence
* Andrew Breitbart, conservative activist & video editor, dead at 43