A portrait of South African President Jacob Zuma, like the famous Lenin portrait, but with his genitals exposed, was vandalized by supporters. Zuma and his party were trying to get the picture removed because it’s ‘disrespectful’. Zuma is also suing a political cartoonist because of a cartoon of him about to rape a blindfolded lady justice when he was acquitted of rape, a few years ago.
View Link [bbc.co.uk]
I put a link in Spanish in my previous submission. I’m sorry
View Link [dailymail.co.uk]
A video that shows the over reaction of the Spanish police to students protesting because of education costs, vs. the passivity in dealing with hooligans form the Lazio, an Italian football team with fascistic followers. They even throw people away from a park that is about to be walked by these people, so they can go on without trouble. They brutally hit high school students that dare to defy the govt budget cuts in education.
View Link [youtube.com]
Fantasy author Jim Hines tries to pose like female characters on book covers, discovers a world of literal pain in uncomfortable poses and comments about how are characters rendered versus how they are supposed to be in the books.
View Link [jimchines.com]
Start Up Chile is a program that incubates start ups with potential, gives them office space, connection to new markets and environments, access to the Chilean VCs and 40K in funding.
I am currently in Chile and this is a huge opportunity, since they fund interesting projects that might have troubles getting more traditional funding.
If you have a cool idea that needs help, try, they fund not only IT, but also biotech and other fields.
(Embedded video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=415iM8rr1X8)
View Link [startupchile.org]
My friends Josh and Tito from Open PCR developed a cheaper DNA amplification machine than existing tech. It costs $512 and you can tinker with it. Another big step for DIY Biology!
View Link [ http]
Len Sassaman, a cryptographer, activist and biopunk died yesterday, he lost the battle against depression in Leuven, Belgium. He is survived by his widow, Meredith L. Patterson, also a hacker and biopunk. His work and actions inspired me and shaped the world we live in, as he was active during the Crypto Wars and
designed and wrote anonymizing tools.
He will be missed, but I hope that his
legacy will go on and I am certain he will continue inspiring our efforts.
View Link [cso.com.au]
The Spanish police claimed to have captured ‘core’ Anonymous members, showing a Guy Fawkes mask as exhibit. A few hours later, the website of the Spanish Police was down. There is speculation that police is using the arrested people and their IRC server as distraction form their violent street actions
View Link [bbc.co.uk]
This brutal videos shows the attack on the Jehova’s Witnesses by right wing groups in Bulgaria. I don’t know anything about the context, but this is shocking. I do not like specially JWs, but I admire that they are pacifist and non-nationalistic.
I’d trade their door knocking for the violence and hate rhetoric of other Christian denominations any day.
View Link [youtube.com]
We are having blackouts again in Venezuela, and activists from an opposition political party were protesting, asking the govt. to solve the issue, when they were confronted and beaten by govt. supporters. This is just another sickening example of the kind of situation that every week happens in Venezuela. So, if you go out and protest for better living conditions, thugs supporting a govt. who claims to improve living conditions will beat you.
View Link [tedfellows.posterous.com]
The same govt that a year and a half ago forbid “violent” video games, even for adults, now makes military education and training mandatory for schoolchildren. Completely revolting.
View Link [laht.com]
When he built a synthetic bacteria, Craig Venter quoted James Joyce, writing “To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life” within the bacterial DNA. Now the state of James Joyce has sent Venter a cease and desist letter, Venter argues fair use.
View Link [blogs.discovermagazine.com]
Wisconsin is not the only place where the govt. is against unions and violates worker’s rights. In Venezuela union leader Ruben González was sent to jail for organizing a strike in a state company in charge of mining iron ore. González has been charged with “unlawful assembly, incitement, and violating a government security zone”. González is just the latest of several union leaders and worker’s rights advocates thrown in jail for organizing strikes and protests.
View Link [bbc.co.uk]
But, but….do you mean that Hugo isn’t a real socialist?
No, he would have to be a Nazi Muslim Atheist Kenyan for that.
A funny cover of Spice Girl’s Wannabe featuring a group of Spanish PhD students, talking about lab life, immunology and female power. It has English and Spanish captions and it’s part of Thesis, the Musical, a series of videos about PhD life.
View Link [youtube.com]
Juan Gómez-Jurado, who wrote a great piece against criminalizing of downloads in Spain, was challenged by copyright troll, tax dodger and singer Alejandro Sanz to offer his novel for free. He did, and donated the resulting 4000 euros to the charity Save The Children.
View Link [translate.google.com]
From their website:
Two Amnesty International representatives have been detained by police in Cairo after the Hisham Mubarak Law Centre was taken over by military police this morning.
The Amnesty International staff members were taken, along with Ahmed Seif Al Islam, Khaled Ali, a delegate from Human Rights Watch and others, to an unknown location in Cairo. Amnesty International does not know their current whereabouts.
View Link [amnesty.org]
A beautiful speech by the author of His Dark Materials trilogy, defending public libraries against budget cuts and describing the impact of libraries in his life.
View Link [falseeconomy.org.uk]
Russian artist Oleg Mavromati was denied a passport renewal for avoiding the Russian justice since 2000. His crime? Hurting religious sensibilities.
View Link [ipetitions.com]
A while ago you featured Biocurious, a project for a communal biotech lab. in Bay Area.
We are happy to announce that today, 9 days before the end of the Kickstarter, Biocurious was finally funded completely.
We thank you a lot for your help, and invite you to stay alert for updates and news on the new bioHackerSpace of Bay Area.
View Link [kickstarter.com]
Dear Friend Hitler, a new Bollywood romance tells the story of the fall of Hitler at the same time that explores his love for India and contribution to Independence
View Link [calcuttatube.com]
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