A Lockheed Martin engineer working on a multi-billion dollar contract job for the US Government has turned to YouTube to bring serious security flaws to light after his complaints to managers, congressmen, and government investigators were ignored.
Posted three weeks ago, the video describes what De Kort says are blind spots in the ship’s security cameras, […]

The biggest names in electronics have just sat their first global exam on their green credentials. Ranked on their use of toxic chemicals and electronic waste (e-waste) policies only Dell and Nokia scraped a barely respectable score while Apple, Motorola and Lenovo flunked the test to finish bottom of the class.
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Looks like the folks at Gawker have been casting their sarcasm-devoid eye at our one and only alt-weekly, The Missoula Independent:
Somewhere, in a land far, far away from The Island, there is a place called Missoula, Montana, where the Independent serves as the community’s alt-weekly. A ranch-handling reader alerts us to an item from the […]

I am in the process of developing a website for a friend to archive his extensive, draw-dropping collection of kitschy, old-timey, and frankly, odd records. I mean, seriously wacky shit - The kind of audio I live for. Recently, we have been discussing the pros and cons of offering, in part or in whole, those […]

Free Software Magazine explores anti-OSS proprietary FUD from the perspective of the free-market loving among us.
Some prominent people have called free software “communist” in an attempt to bring Cold War bugaboos to bear against the movement—a kind of “nuclear option” of FUD. I remember the paranoia of the Cold War personally, and I thought then […]

Thanks to a recent discovery by lock-picking enthusiasts in Denmark, it turns out that about 99% of locks on the market today can be opened without any special tools or training AND without leaving a trace - In under one second; This is exactly why security through obscurity will never work:

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Wikipedia Showdown!, a Grupthink poll that I am particularly proud of curating, just hit Digg’s front page - Digg ‘em if ya got ‘em!

FSM HateMail is a “best of” collection of the hate mail “Gospel Of The Flying Spaghetti Monster” creator Bobby Henderson receives on a daily basis. It must be pure bottled brilliance these naysayers are chugging:
HI My name is Toni And I am 14 years old i would just like to let you know that I […]

Jackie Gleason + Groucho Marx + Mickey Rooney x LSD = 23 Skidoo
The best part? The trailer for the Otto Preminger film is available online, complete with testimonials by Dr. Timothy Leary, Sammy Davis Jr., and other icons of 60s mainstream counter-culture:

Can you dig?