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POPSBig Brother Monitoring Your Clipmarks, Blogs, Tweets "Visible", a very extensive and sophisticated CIA-based monitoring program is in effect watching online forums, blogs, twitters, and likely Clipmarks (where influential clips are easily tabulated). After all, it's all in the public domain, where whatever you post you must own. In-Q-Tel says it wants Visible to keep track of foreign social media, and give spooks “early-warning detection on how issues are playing internationally ,” spokesperson Donald Tighe tells Danger Room.
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POPSGiants and Jets Fans Join Uproar Over Stadium's Nazi Ties The company insured the Auschwitz death camp and had a chief executive serving in Hitler's cabinet. The company is on the short list of those vying to slap their name on the Meadowlands stadium in New Jersey via a lucrative sponsorship deal. The "NMSC has undertaken a rigorous due diligence effort," said spokeswoman Alice McGillion. "NMSC management and the teams' owners became sensitive to Allianz's history." After weeks of vetting the company, ownership is convinced that Allianz has done enough to correct its past, said a source close to the negotiations. Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum, secretary general of the North American Board of Rabbis, agreed that although survivors' sensibilities are understandable, a naming deal is legit. "I have found Allianz to be receptive, to be sensitive and a friend of the Jewish people today," he said. "We need not live in the past."
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POPSThe Alternate Secret History Of The World It first appeared as an illustration to this story we wrote for Pajamas Media, and then a shorter version of it on the Cube a few days later: The Alternative Secret History of the World. At first the image had no attribution because we never expected it to be anything more than an illustration. In that form it wound up in Rush Limbaugh's inbox, emailed to him without crediting the source. Rush liked it so much that he described it on his show. Here's a transcript from his site:
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POPSBOINC: Distributed Computing I felt a sudden urge to clip this. Donate your idle computerpower to a scientific cause. You can help the study of climate change, diseases and/or search for aliens or help expand our knowledge of the universe.
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POPSMagnatune: No-DRM-Music Store If you're looking for high-quality (FLAC!) music, give Magnatunes a try. They offer music for all tastes at really fair prices and you can even use the music for Podcasts.
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