From the U.S. budget to Israel, from morality to Facebook, here's why you should be following the amazing events in Cairo.

We're all smart people on Memestreams, so many of these items are obvious. However, the importance of encapsulating such a far-reaching event for mass consumption cannot be overstated. Also, some items were surprising and refreshing in their idealism (e.g. #9).

-janelane

10 Reasons Americans Should Care About the Egyptian Revolution

According to the report, the intruders used widely available attack methods known as SQL injection and spear phishing to compromise their targets.

Wait, there's a version of phishing called spear phishing? And NYT knew about it? Crazy.

-janelane

Hackers Breach Systems of 5 Multinational Oil Companies - NYTimes.com

Things You'll Need:

* A flatulent dog

I'm getting a dog! I hope he/she doesn't have a gas problem, but just in case...

-janelane

How to Stop Dog Farts | eHow.com

I'd call it the worst cell phone I've ever used, but to do so would woefully undersell the sadists who've unleashed this little gadget of horrors upon an unsuspecting public.

Awesome! I get so tired of glowing tech reviews. :-)

-janelane

4G, Samsung Craft, MetroPCS: The worst cell phone on earth. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine

182019 iPhone 4 Liberation Kit @ $9.95

I'm sure all you l33t h@x0r$ already know about iFixit, but I just found it and it is awesome! Reclaim your devices and abolish obsolescence!

-janelane

iPhone 4 Liberation Kit - iFixit

AT&T can no longer feel his hands and feet.

AT&T is people! AT&T is people!

-janelane, post-apocalyptic fan

FCC v. AT&T reveals the limits of corporate personhood at the Supreme Court. - By Dahlia Lithwick - Slate Magazine

License Type: Professional Engineer

I passed the Professional Engineers exam! I'm an officially licensed engineer and (with any luck!) that will be the last test I take. Bring on the career ladder!

-janelane a.k.a. Jill Hoffman

I'm a PE!

New York, NY /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ - Exposure to fluoride may lower children's intelligence says a study pre-published in Environmental Health Perspectives, a publication of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (online December 17, 2010).

This is huge. Fluoridation has been a staple of public water treatment for decades. While it's always had its detractors, this study appears to be a definite game-changer.

-janelane

Fluoride In Water Linked To Lower IQ In Children

Sudnay highlights
12/20/2010 5:00 AM

Spelling is hard. Spellcheck is even harder.

-janelane

Norcross - Georgia Weather Forecasts | Maps | News - Yahoo! Weather

I've changed by profile picture to support EFF's anti-censorship campaign, and I have donated $100 to their cause. This is a protest and I urge you to participate. We are protesting the use of political pressure by American politicians to shut down a website.

If you believe in due process of law and the right to freedom of expression you should join us in taking a stand. It is important that we take a stand right now.

It doesn't matter whether or not you support what Wikileaks is doing. If I were handed such a rich trove of private information I might have moral qualms about dumping the whole thing on the Internet. That is totally irrelevant.

In the United States of America we are a country of laws. If Wikileaks has violated a law than the appropriate way to respond to that is through the use of the legal system. In fact, like it or not, it is most likely the case that Wikileaks has not violated the law. Therefore, senior politicians in this country have taken it upon themselves to use their personal influence to shut the website down, and a number of corporations, large and small, have obliged them.

In a free country with a strong legal system and a tradition of upholding the right to freedom of speech, this sort of thing is not acceptable. Life, liberty, and property should only be taken away through due process of law and not simply because some powerful people desire it and present thin arguments in favor of it.

As The Internet Society recently stated in their newsletter:

[Wikileaks] must be subject to the same laws and policies of availability as all Internet sites. Free expression should not be restricted by governmental or private controls over computer hardware or software, telecommunications infrastructure, or other essential components of the Internet.

Unless and until appropriate laws are brought to bear to take the wikileaks.org domain down legally, technical solutions should be sought to reestablish its proper presence...

Anger about these events runs deep. Right now, many of the companies who assisted in cutting off Wikileaks have been subjected to distributed denial of service attacks. While I share the anger of those who are launching these attacks, I cannot condon... [ Read More (0.1k in body) ]

Taking a principled stand on Wikileaks