- A Handy Glossary for the Hacker Family Tree – Technology – The Atlantic Wire
- Have you been getting confused by all of the hacker groups and hacker group spinoff groups and side projects of hacker groups and their spinoffs? Are you a little tangled up in the web of connections between Anonymous, LulzSec, AntiSec and others? Don’t feel bad. It’s really confusing.
Thankfully, a talented intern at Geekosystem created an infographic. …
- STANFORD Magazine: July/August 2011 > Features > Stanford Prison Experiment
- “During the study, when we decided to move prisoners to different parts of the prison, we realized that they were going to see where they were and be reminded they’re not in a prison—they’re just in the psych building at Stanford. We didn’t want that to happen.
“So we put paper bags over their heads. The first time I saw that, it was shocking. By the next day we’re putting bags on their heads and not thinking about it. That happens all the time in real correctional facilities.”
- DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #78: The Obliterated Place – The Rumpus.net
- You don’t need me to tell you how to be human again. You are there, in all of your humanity, shining unimpeachably before every person reading these words right now.
- Kids With Guns: Notes And Photographs From Palestine – The Rumpus.net
- No matter where I traveled, where our car drove, where I woke up in the morning: every day I saw the Wall. Get close enough and you can feel eyes watching you from rifle towers.
…there are a whole lot of terrible things people like you and me and everyone we know — who have jobs and families and who hate being stuck in traffic and who have a favorite kind of sandwich and who have “liked” a sports team on Facebook and who would think 2Fast 2Furious is a dumb name for a movie — are doing to other people who are also like you and me and everyone we know. It breaks my heart, and I don’t know what to do about it, and sometimes I stand in my bedroom and shout and throw books at my pillows…
- What Colorist Tweet Memes Miss: It’s #TeamStructuralRacism – COLORLINES
- [Watch this video]
- Texas Executes Mexican Man Despite White House Appeal
- …the U.S. Supreme Court refused to block Texas from executing a Mexican citizen, despite a White House-backed appeal that claimed the case could affect other foreigners arrested in the U.S. and Americans in legal trouble abroad.
- Bachmann: Black People Were Better Off During Slavery?
- …while Bachmann and others who sign this pledge will score points with racists who like the dig at black people as well as conservatives who like the underlying political ideology of “The Marriage Vow,” the rest of us should focus not so much on what they believe about the state of the African-American family but on what they’re willing to say about it to serve their own political ambitions.
- Astronaut Dreams, Rocket Science Reality
- For My Brother, It Was Rocket ScienceHis childhood dream of becoming an astronaut led him to launch rockets into space.
[My bookmarks live at delicious.com/camryl. In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. Also, signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
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