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I like to indulge in conspiracy theories political conspiracies and I find  John Perkin’s undercover explanation on certain aspects of America’s background fascinating.

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The Manchurian microchip or how China might be preparing to bring the western world to its knees…Chinese government gives “no comment”

Ok, so the Manchurian microchip thing got some leverage in the press (as expected) and the news is spreading like wildfire in California (sorry, bad example – my heart goes out to the forest vegetation and the animals!). So anyways, here’s a BBC article (I didn’t Diigo because I pretty much already mentioned everything useful from the article) .

The epilogue of this mess awaits…

(via: BBC)

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The Manchurian microchip or how China might be preparing to bring the western world to its knees

The most interesting thing I’ve read this week so far…I don’t know what to make of it yet, but if it turns out to be just a product of imagination it would still be eerie enough to make an excellent summer blockbuster thriller.  An excerpt:

The myth: Chinese intelligence services have concealed a microchip in every computer everywhere, programmed to “call home” if and when activated.

The reality: It may actually be true.

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“It is there, deep inside your computer, if they decide to call it up,” the security chief of a multinational corporation told The Investigator. “It is capable of providing Chinese intelligence with everything stored on your system — on everyone’s system — from e- mail to documents. I call it Call Home Technology. It doesn’t mean to say they’re sucking data from everyone’s computer today, it means the Chinese think ahead — and they now have the potential to do it when it suits their purposes.

I’ll leave you with that, go here to read the full article and for the Diigoed version go here.

(via: Ignacio)

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Random stuff I found this week (cos I’m too lazy to post everything in separate posts)

USEFUL STUFF

• [IT] 3D Display Offers Glimpse of Future Media (other ideas on where the future is headed here)
• [IT] BeatMyPrice Finds Deals, Integrates RetailMeNot
• [Future] Top 10 forecasts for 2009 and beyond
• [Politics] Barack Obama Can’t Save The World Alone (I think it needs to be said, the hype is still growing)
• [Man-made] Six Real Gadgets Minority Report Predicted Correctly
• [Man-made] AirGlass: Today’s little bit of wow

ENTERTAINMENT

• Scenes from Antarctica
• The Incredible Shrinking Peanut Butter Jar
• US Air Force Abandoned Nuclear Bomb in Greenland
• “Star Wars” – an a cappella tribute to John Williams
• Big Buck Bunny
• On S’Embrasse?

WEEKLY TRIBUTE

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Random stuff I found this week (cos I’m too lazy to post everything in separate posts)

USEFUL STUFF

• [Eco] A green New Deal can tackle depression
• [Health] Scientists uncover new gene link to male pattern baldness
• [Health] TED Talks – Dr. Dean Ornish: Healing and other natural wonders
  
• [Economy] The End of Suburbia (worth a view, especially the last 5 minutes or so!)
• [Economy] ‘We need slaves to build monuments’ (Dubai is under a lot of fire lately, more here, here and here)
• [Man-made] Long Overdue GPS Upgrade Could Save Airlines $10 Billion a Year

ENTERTAINMENT

• The Indonesian Mimic Octopus
• The Sun (mesmerizing photography)
• Flesh Eating Mutant Fish Invades Nepal
• What Is The Sport Of Kiiking? (dedicated to my beloved Estonians)
• The Aquaduct Bicycle (brilliant idea!)
• Chinese deaf girls mystical dance (how the **** do you train deaf people anyways?)

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
A small tribute to autumn.

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Random stuff I found this week (cos I’m too lazy to post everything in separate posts)

USEFUL STUFF

• [IT] Revealed: The Internet’s Biggest Security Hole (old but effing relevant nonetheless!!!)
• [IT] Why is almost half of Google in beta? & Google Patent Could Kill Off Cellphone Contracts
• [Nano] Carbon Nanotube Manufacturing Breakthrough Could Mean Bye-Bye Steel
• [Health] TED Talks - James Nachtwey: Use my photographs to stop the worldwide XDR-TB epidemic (this year’s TED prize winner)
• [Astronomy] Where Do Satellites Go When They Die? (crazy stuff!)
• [Psychology] Musicians use both sides of their brains more frequently than average people

ENTERTAINMENT

• Show Me Your Genitals 2: E=MC Vagina (the sequel to that retarded yet somehow much needed song about female genitals:P)
• Man Uses Remote Desktop to Catch Laptop Thief, Watch Porn Remotely
• The Coolest Fruit On Earth (gollum wants the precious!)
• Stressed Plants Produce Aspirin-Like Substance
• Riding the Caspian Sea Monster (great stuff about ekranoplans…Exactly!)
• An Engineer’s Guide to Cats

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
A small tribute to recession.Thank FSM it’s only hitting the U.S. Oh wait…
Personally lovin’ it, cos:

• people thought they knew what was going wrong, but luckily nobody gave a fuck because they knew better. And boy were they right!
• everybody (except idiots) knows that 700,000,000,000 is a nice, strong, round number (…doh!) and the U.S. government knows why they had to pass the bill to get the cash. (from 6:40 on)
• 7 is also the number of years the U.S. has been out of the spotlight since their last great global contribution started, so it was about time they got back into the news. This time they really outdid themselves, put their heads together and brought something even more positive to the table. God bless America.
• recession is the easiest and cheapest dieting regime there is…by far!!!
• women are clueless when it comes to economics, so nobody ever cares what they have to say
• we finally get to have our very own modern up-to-date economic bedtime story of the 21st century. Nighty night, sleep tight, don’t let the recession bugs bite.

TO BE CONTINUED…? Naaah, this’ll be over before McCain becomes prez and Palin proves dinosaurs were put on Earth to test our faith to FSM. Santa’s gonna bring mighty nice gifts this Christmas, so I’d start spending bigtime if I were you!

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Politics | Vladimir V. Putin: Neo Con

An excerpt from Vladimir V. Putin: Neo Con:

…His strategy was cold, it was clear, it was thoughtful and purposeful, and it was very definitely his own. Reagan knew intuitively that the Soviet Union was tottering. But he did not want to fight the Soviets, he wanted to bring them to the negotiating table. To that end, he used little, if any, overt force against the Soviet Union. Instead, he developed what in Pentagonese was known as “competitive strategies.” In plain English, this meant, “Spend ‘em to death.” Reagan’s aim was to force the Soviet Union to spend money, allocate resources, and occupy technical talent that they either had better use for elsewhere or didn’t have. (The best Soviet scientists and engineers were world-class, but they had no real depth, no bench strength.) Supporting the mujahedin in Afghanistan was one way to deplete them. The Strategic Defense Initiative, popularly known as Star Wars-perhaps the most successful weapons system never built or intended to be built-was another…

Apart from a khm, ’slightly’ overly pro-Russian attitude, the article is incredibly insightful and well written! It’s not the shortest thing you’ll ever read, but it’s truly worth your time and effort!:)

(via: seattlepi.com)

Random stuff I found this week (cos I’m too lazy to post everything in separate posts)

USEFUL STUFF

• [IT] Gmail slows and then won’t send (…or how I clumsily picked the wrong email address for an email, realized my mistake and corrected it to the right one – or so I thought – before clicking “send” (!), but still wound up sending the email to the first email (sorry again @junkies) because during all this time Gmail was “Still working…”…AAAArrrggghhh !*%@!)
• [Future] China’s usage of cement
• [Nature] Scientists Find Smallest Form of Life, if It Lives
• [Economy] 10 Shocking Facts About Global Slavery in 2008
• [Man-made] Meet the real bionic woman – the mother who has had almost all her joints replaced
• [Man-made] [Nature] Why Americans Are No Longer the Tallest People in the World

ENTERTAINMENT

• The Five Best Ways To Steal Gas…And One Really Bad Way
• 42 Awesome Business Card Designs…and another 42 more
• I’m Voting Republican
• Bankrupt! 65 Famous People Who Lost It All
• Most expensive homes in USA
• How to use YouTube annotations (it’s not so much the video as the new function it’s about)

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
A small tribute to the most obvious thing I could think of…now there’s inspiration for ya;)

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Random stuff I found this week (cos I’m too lazy to post everything in separate mails)

USEFUL STUFF

• [IT] 50 Best Firefox Extensions for Power Surfing (a shitload of the best Firefox extensions all on one page)
• [IT] 5 Best Online File Sharing Services
• [Future] Imagining the tech world in 2050
• [Nature] The 75 Skills Every Man Should Master (period.)
• [Economy] All of Inflation’s Little Parts (an in-depth look into the spending habbits of americans)
• [Sociology] [Psychology] Pangea Day TODAY! (I’ve already mentioned this a while ago, but I just have a hunch it might be more than just a “one-hit wonder”…today from 18:00-22:00 GMT)

ENTERTAINMENT

• Women Who Love Porn: An Asylum Investigation (a rare, but appreciated breed)
• Create perfect ice spheres for perfect cocktails (I wanna have one sooo badly)
• The largest insects on planet Earth
• Guys backflip into jeans
• Amazing geological oddities
• Dolphin gets prosthetic tail (so there’s still hope for Michael Jackson’s nose)

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
A small tribute to those warm rays of sunlight that already feel like the summer is here:)

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Random stuff I found this week (cos I’m too lazy to post everything in separate posts)

USEFUL STUFF

• [IT] Sick of IKEA? Design Your Own Stuff, And Get Rich While You’re At It
• [IT] America’s Dilemma: Close Security Holes, or Exploit Them Ourselves
• [Eco] Earth is losing dirt at an alarming rate
• [Eco] [Economy] Deconstruction Grows in Popularity, Spawns New Businesses
• [Economy] Agflation: The real costs of rising food prices
• [Psychology] Larry Page on how to change the world

ENTERTAINMENT

• Men and their mothers. What’s it all about?
• A Collection Of Some Of The Most Shocking PSA’s Of All Time
• 7 (More!) Underground Wonders of the World: From Seed Vaults to Amazing Military Strongholds
• Study Finds No Cancer-Marijuana Connection
• Supersize sea monsters
• Gadget-Filled $2 Billion Home Makes Bill Gates’ House Look Like a Shack

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
A small tribute to Albert Hoffman (1906 – 2008), the guy who accidentally discovered the halucinogen drug that is LSD.

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