Who can you trust?

An ACM Classic from Ken Thompson:
Reflections on Trusting Trust

The moral of this story:
"The moral is obvious. You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself. (Especially code from companies that employ people like me.) No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code."

Reprinted from Communication of the ACM, Vol. 27, No. 8, August 1984, pp. 761-763. Copyright © 1984, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. Also appears in ACM Turing Award Lectures: The First Twenty Years 1965-1985 Copyright © 1987 by the ACM press and Computers Under Attack: Intruders, Worms, and Viruses Copyright © 1990 by the ACM press.

Anonymous: The new face of cyber war

Wael Ghonim: Inside the Egyptian revolution | Video on TED.com

Wadah Khanfar: A historic moment in the Arab world | Video on TED.com

The end is near?

Interpol issues alert on Gaddafi & Co.

The individuals listed in this Notice have been identified as being involved in
or complicit in planning attacks,including aerial bombardments, on civilian populations. As events unfold, these individuals may attempt to travel or to move assets, which would constitute a threat to both the civilian population in Libya and in other countries. They are subject to one or more of the following UN sanctions: Travel Ban and Assets Freeze.

Save Kermit!

The Amphibian Avenger

"Like the plot of a bad B movie, the world’s amphibians are under attack from a deadly fungus, which threatens to wipe out a third of all species. It’s the worst extinction crisis since the dinosaurs were wiped off the planet so I’m on a mission to find out how we can save them."

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Meet the Sloths

If you haven't had your daily dose of cute today, this video is a must see:

Filmed at the Aviaros del Caribe sloth sanctuary in Costa Rica by: @amphib_avenger

Meet the sloths from Amphibian Avenger on Vimeo.

From: meetthesloths.pen.io

Net Prophet

"World War III will be a global information war with no division between civilian & military participation" ~ Marshall McLuhan

Nature by Numbers

This is exquisite!

Why are dolphins dying in the gulf?

The obvious answer, of course would be this is part of the aftermath of the BP oil spill. Unfortunately, gathering the evidence to support the conclusion is complicated.

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Everybody look what's goin' down

There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware

I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind

I think it's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

What a field-day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, hooray for our side

It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away

We better stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

The capstone on the new pyramid

Summit at Sea

By invitation only.

If you are looking for the "change" behind Revolution 2.0 - the installation of the new world order - you are likely to find a large chunk of it here.

To get a flavor, follow the twitter hashtag #sasea and take a look at this video of last years conference.

Summit Series - DC10 Recap Reel from Summit Series on Vimeo.

Nothing new here - just a changing of the guard - a passing of the torch from the elite to the 1337.

Somebody please explain to me how this is open source?

While we're on the subject of viral cuteness