I saw searching for something completely different when I found this... Its an archive of nice photos including a large number of pictures of HongKong. Good desktop background fodder.

great pics

Kleptography - Don Ellis Photography

Interview With Cryptographer Elonka Dunin

from the old-school-geeks dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Whitedust is running a very interesting article with the DEF CON speaker and cryptographer Elonka Dunin. The article covers her career and specifically her involvement with the CIA and other US Military agencies."

Awsome! Elonka looks like Meryl Streep in that photo.

that is an amazing picture of you Elonka!

Slashdot | Interview With Cryptographer Elonka Dunin

SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- California's oldest death row inmate -- a 75-year-old who is legally blind and nearly deaf -- is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to do something it has never done before: block an execution because of the condemned man's advanced age and infirmity.

Clarence Ray Allen's attorneys contend that executing a feeble old man amounts to cruel and unusual punishment banned by the U.S. Constitution.

Allen is set to die by injection Tuesday for ordering three slayings while behind bars for another murder. He has been on death row for more than 23 years.

"Don't do it! I'm too *OLD* to die!"

Wow you have to give them points for uniqueness and perserverance

CNN.com - Inmate, 75,�says he's too old to execute - Jan 13, 2006

About 25 years ago, Ron Stallworth was asked to lead the Ku Klux Klan chapter in Colorado Springs.
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Brian Nicholson, Deseret Morning News
Ron Stallworth carries his KKK membership card as a memento.
Problem was, the outgoing Klan leader didn't know that Stallworth is black.

This came across the mailing list and I thought others would find it interesting

Black sergeant was 'loyal Klansman'

Happy New Year, everyone!

Want some advice for 2006? Well, look no further. Illegal Art placed suggestion boxes in California and New York and invited passers-by to offer a word (or two) of guidance.

A selection:

NEVER give a gun to a duck

Fish closer to the shore

Listen to some old school PUNK ROCK

This is awesome

Your Suggestion Here

I graduate in a few hours and it still hasn't sunk in.

Pentagon expands domestic surveillance.

And Bruce Schneier weighs in as well.

Oh, this is baaaad, bad, bad, people... wake up... wake up....

Pentagon Expands Domestic Surveillance

A 15-year-old girl in Quebec's Saguenay region is believed to have died as a result of an allergic reaction to her boyfriend's kiss.

Officials said she did not consume the nuts, but they believe she had a reaction to kissing her boyfriend, who had eaten peanut butter.

Kiss may have been fatal for teen with nut allergy

Hoosier Public Radio is largely the enterprise of one man, Martin Hensley, a former radio engineer who now describes his occupation as "serving God." And the effort by Mr. Hensley to take the F.C.C. license from WRFT, or at least force it to share broadcast time with him, offers but one example of a series of similar conflicts involving student radio stations. At least 20 high school stations, and a handful of college ones, have been fending off challenges to their licenses by Christian broadcasters in the last year.

This flurry of action, which seemed so inexplicable to Mr. George, actually has a fierce logic to it. A loophole in commission regulations makes educational stations unusually vulnerable to takeover attempts. Moreover, their frequencies are a lucrative commodity, a bargain-basement way to get onto the air.

MR. HENSLEY, for one, sounds unlikely to go away quietly. He presents himself as the victim of an "emotional hate issue" all because "someone finally stood up and said these stations haven't served the public all these years." He specifically faults the high school stations for playing too much music and doing too little "community-oriented" programming, which he says should include Christian shows. Asked why he simply does not buy a station - one of the commercial Christian stations in the Indianapolis area was up for sale last summer - he points out that it ultimately brought $3 million.

School Radio Stations Face Competition Over Licenses

For decades, tourists have paid thousands of dollars for the chance to surf, snorkel and splash in the crystalline waters here. Now they're paying $5.50 a bottle to drink it.

In perhaps the most bizarre consequence of a failed municipal electricity experiment, a small Japanese company, the Koyo USA Corporation, has begun bottling desalinated water pumped from 2,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean and marketing it to Japanese consumers as the purest, most nutritious beverage on earth.

Those companies claim deeper seawater contains more nutrients and fewer pollutants than surface water. Kona's water, according to Koyo's chief operating officer, Kozo Kayama, is better because its source is deeper and older.

"The water you're drinking is older than Jesus," Mr. Kayama said of Koyo's Mahalo water.

Hawaii Finds New Exportable Resource: Ocean Water