Blog

The European Union is using the September 11th events as a cover toestablish a definition of terrorismso wide it would include trade union activity and anti-globalization protests.

Continue reading…

A school where you can learn to hack has recently opened in Paris, it’s calledZi Hackademy(that ‘Zi’ stems from the horrible French craze for phonetically spelling English terms), BBC News is runningan articleabout the school too.

Continue reading…

Remember that story about Osama Bin Laden’s MTV-style recruitment video Iposted previously? That video is nowviewable online. After seeing parts of it, the MTV comparison seems somewhat exaggerated though.

Continue reading…

Yes, it gets stranger. Previous IRCAM director and world-renown conductor Pierre Boulez wasdetained by Swiss policeon suspicion of terrorist links.(thanks, John)

Continue reading…

Here’s one for the X-Files: A 28-year-old Japanese woman flew from Tokyo to Minneapolis, then attempted tofind money buried by a character from the movie Fargo. Police officers were unable to explain to her that Fargo was fiction because of the language barrier. One week later, she was found dead.(via theobscure store)

Continue reading…

The most valuable paintings from Kabul’snational art gallerywere hidden in a sealed chamber when everything turned to chaos about 10 years ago. Other works of art had people and animals painted over in order to satisfy the taliban’s ministry for the protection of virtue and the prevention of Vice. Many were also stolen or destroyed.

Continue reading…