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Seastead, Ahoy!
The Principality of Sealand Richard LazenbyEconomy got you down? Not sure if this whole "American capitalism" thing is working out for you? Looking for cheap housing? Well, you can always start from...
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How a Pentagon Program and a Hacker Assisted a Revolution
Egyptian Protests When the Arab Spring protests in Egypt (above) and Yemen began last December, Tor's user base skyrocketed Ron Haviv/VII/Corbis When Jacob Appelbaum spoke at a workshop for Arab...
View ArticleThe White House Gloriously Shoots Down Petition To Build A Death Star
There has been a great disturbance in the internet, as if millions of geeky voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. The White House has denied a…
View ArticleA Map Of Where Drones Are Allowed In The U.S.
If you want to fly more than a hobbyist's drone in the United States, you have to get permission from the Federal Aviation Administration. We've know for a while about some…
View ArticleObama Launching Massive Initiative To Map The Human Brain
We've been expecting this announcement since February, and today it looks like it's happening: President Obama has announced an ambitious plan to map the circuitry of the…
View ArticleLet's All Just Believe What This Shifty CIA-Funded Data-Collecting Company Says
Palantir Technologies has denied, sort of, that it is involved in the massive PRISM scandal, in which the National Security Agency was found to have gotten access to…
View ArticleA Concise History Of The NSA's Online Spying Program PRISM
This was a bad week for spies, and a great week to find out how we were spied on. Following revelations Wednesday that Verizon handed over millions of call records to the…
View ArticleDesigners Spruce Up The Government's Crappy PowerPoint
After news broke of PRISM, the government's secret surveillance program, everyone recoiled in horror: first, at the confirmation of our worst fears that our government…
View ArticleFree Software Tool Aims To Fight Government Secrecy
The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), first enacted in 1966 provides a way for citizens, activists, and journalists to coax information out of the government. The Government…
View ArticleJournal Says Congress Is Damaging Science
The federal shutdown sucks. The Panda Cam is off. You can't look at NASA's astronomy picture of the day, much less see hurricane updates from the National Oceanic and…
View ArticleHow The U.S. Government Is Shutting Down Antarctica
As the icebreaker Laurence M. Gould barrels south through the Drake Passage, cutting through the largest ocean current in the world, its portholes look exactly like a row…
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YouTube Launches Face Blurring Tool to Keep Protesters Anonymous
YouTube Face Blurring ToolYouTubeRecent events have shown how social networks can help world unrest get witnessed globally. YouTube was a major player in sending videos of Arab Spring protestors out to...
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