Watch the whole thing. This gets funnier as it goes along... Fucking magnets...

YouTube - Insane Clown Posse Miracles (1080) HD.avi

For the last few days, the biggest entertainment news story on the internet has been the "Muhammad Situation" that unfolded on South Park on Wednesday.  The long and short of it is, the show mocked Muhammad (or, rather, had him appear in a giant bear suit), a Muslim fundamentalist site threatened to kill the show's creators, and-- finally-- Comedy Central edited the most recent episode of South Park out of concern for Trey Parker and Matt Stone's safety.

More cartoon wars. The website is down as of this writing.

Updated: Fundamentalist Muslims who threatened 'South Park' call Americans 'stupid and pathetic'

Google unveilled a Government Requests Tool that shows the public how often individual governments around the world have asked for user information, and how often they’ve asked Google to remove content from their sites or search index, for reasons other than copyright violation.

Google: U.S. Demanded User Info 3,500 Times in 6 Months | Threat Level | Wired.com

They play oldies music in the San Antonio airport, much to the delight of the mostly baby boomer business traveling class, many of whom were bopping along at the ticket counter to old standards like "Shop Around" by the Miracles when I was last there. I'm not a big fan of pop music, regardless of the era or genera. There is a lot of good music from the 60's, for example, but instead of hearing it we usually hear the same small collection of pop songs played over and over and over again. When the attached song started playing I literally laughed out loud. I'd never heard this before, and something about hearing taunting sarcasm worked into a melody was deviously entertaining...

YouTube - Nag by The Halos

Focusing on the use of cyberattack as an instrument of U.S. national policy, Technology, Policy, Law and Ethics Regarding U.S. Acquisition and Use of Cyberattack Capabilities explores important characteristics of cyberattack. It describes the current international and domestic legal structure as it might apply to cyberattack, and considers analogies to other domains of conflict to develop relevant insights. Of special interest to the military, intelligence, law enforcement, and homeland security communities, this report is also an essential point of departure for nongovernmental researchers interested in this rarely discussed topic.

Previously memed by Noteworthy (of course).

Technology, Policy, Law, and Ethics Regarding U.S. Acquisition and Use of Cyberattack Capabilities

Keith Alexander’s answers to written questions posed by the Senate Armed Services Committee in preparation for his confirmation hearing. Keith Alexander is the incoming head of US Cybercommand. These answers provide the most detailed unclassified insight to date into Adminstration and DOD thinking on the subject of cyberconflict. There are many classified answers, but it is possible to read in between the lines in some cases.

Alexander Keith's Senate Testimony (PDF)

This is undoubtedly apocryphal, like many other quotations attributed to Lincoln or Washington. No one has ever found any evidence that Washington said it.

The Volokh Conspiracy - “Government Is Not Reason, It Is Not Eloquence — It Is Force”

A team of researchers at MIT has just announced that they have successfully modified a virus to split apart molecules of water, paving the way for an efficient and non-energy intensive method of producing hydrogen fuel. The team engineered a common, harmless bacterial virus to assemble the components needed to crack apart a molecule of water, yielding a fourfold boost in efficiency over similar processes.

MIT Researchers Harness Viruses to Turn Water Into Hydrogen Fuel | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World

The time for an update to the ECPA is now. For more than a year, privacy advocates, legal scholars, and major Internet and communications service providers have been engaged in a dialogue to explore how the ECPA applies to new services and technologies. We have developed consensus around the notion of a core set of principles intended to simplify, clarify, and unify the ECPA standards; provide clearer privacy protections for subscribers taking into account changes in technology and usage patterns; and preserve the legal tools necessary for government agencies to enforce the laws and protect the public.

Major corps and rights groups call for overhaul of U.S. Internet privacy laws.

Digital Due Process :: About the Issue

haven't thought of this video in many a year

little pig little pig, let me in