The new balanced diet includes space fruits. The Independent reports: NASA has announced plans to grow plants on the moon by 2015 in a project designed to further humanity’s chances of successfully colonising…
November 2013
The following is an excerpt from The Bitcoin Primer: Risks, Opportunities, And Possibilities, my new book on global digital currency Bitcoin. I’m an early adopter of the technology, having become interested back in…
More footage from The Purge Black Friday. I can’t vouch for the accuracy of this video – that it is what it says it is – but I can’t vouch for much…
Doorbusters! Stampedestarters! Momtramplers! Punchthrowers! Abby Zimet writes at CommonDreams: Okay, all done. After months of impassively, unthinkingly trashing each morning’s florid email from the black hole of greed and profiteering that is…
Aaron Dames writes for Divided Core: The death toll from Typhoon Haiyan, which struck the Philippines on November 7th, currently stands at 5,500 people. Haiyan was the fourth strongest tropical cyclone ever…
It’s hard to remember sometimes, sitting in New York, that Jeb Bush is still capable of engaging the media, but apparently CBS Miami still has a soft spot for him, right down…
Abby Martin remarks on the consumerist tradition of ‘Black Friday,’ urging holiday shoppers to buy local. LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet FOLLOW Abby Martin @ http://twitter.com/AbbyMartin
via chycho I wish I wasn’t making this post and I hope I’m wrong. I love the concept of Bitcoin and the prospect of the decentralization of power brought about by the…
This won’t be news to most disinfonauts, but here are some details you can share with your less informed friends and family. Tiffany Hsu writes at the Los Angeles Times: As the…
Every New Yorker’s favorite evangelical preacher, the Reverend Billy Talen (of the Church of Stop Shopping) is facing a year in prison for protesting against JP Morgan’s financing of fossil fuels, reports…
I came into this world as a throwback and a cultural bastard child. I had a deep yearning to connect with the other living things around me, yet no indigenous traditions to…
Veteran journalist Dave Lindorff asks “What if our premature Nobel Laureate President’s having a ’63-style Kennedy moment?” at Counterpunch: I’m going to engage here in a thought experiment which may make some…
If technology did not already make you feel insane enough, Engadget reports that Sony wants you to wear a wig that gives you GPS directions and vibrates when you receive an email:…
One of the wonderful but irritating qualities of the technology culture prevalent in Silicon Valley and various other wannabe Silcon Somethings is the attitude that its engineers can fix everything wrong with…
The Native American delegation who met with the pilgrims found them barely tolerable, but were more than happy to trade the beat-up old furs they used as blankets for useful trade goods….
Thanksgiving wasn’t even about the Pilgrims – or even a holiday – until the 19th century. Via the Washington Post: In 1789, George Washington declared Thursday, Nov. 26, a Thanksgiving holiday, but…
Wonder where that nice, fat gobbler came from? A PETA activist recorded the following footage inside a turkey slaughterhouse. Sensitive viewers may not want to watch this.
The white-washed version of the Thanksgiving holiday you were told in school isn’t anywhere close to the true, blood-spattered story of disease, slavery and genocide.
In the recently published satirical novel by Dave Eggers The Circle, any politician or opponent of the omnipotent social media monolith that is at the center of the plot is derailed with…
Katie Drummond writing at the Verge: The dense clouds of smog that sometimes blanket cities in China have myriad ramifications: they close businesses and schools, force residents indoors for days at a time,…
This holiday season, give thanks that Capitalism is kicking Jesus’ ass. Scott Keyes writes at ThinkProgress: There’s a perpetual yuppie belief that society’s true failing isn’t the fact that half a million…
As stupid as they are sadistic, a bunch of cops and their paramedic buddies taped themselves torturing a mentally ill man witha stun gun. Naturally, they uploaded it to YouTube. Via BoingBoing:…
TomDispatch on the ballooning border-military-industrial complex: CESFRONT is an outgrowth of a U.S. effort to promote “strong borders” abroad as part of its Global War on Terror. An overlooked manifestation of U.S….
Alone for the holidays or maybe just need something to distract yourself from the endless chatter of not-distant-enough relatives? You’re in luck: The 92nd Street Y has uploaded a treasure trove of…