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EthanZ

  1. Al Jazeera op-ed on Wikileaks and internet freedom - http://is.gd/im4Rh - by @jilliancyork
  2. 15 Megawatt wind project in my backyard completes construction - http://is.gd/im3jJ - yay!
  3. @jilliancyork there's about a cubic yard of snow in my truck, upper deck, Alewife parking lot. Help yourself!
  4. An Xiao traces parallel twitter trends - #thingsimiss and #cuandoyoerachico - beautiful little post: http://is.gd/ilqnc
  5. Half a foot of snow in Lanesboro, nothing on the ground in Cambridge, besides a howling wind.
  6. You know you're hard up when the Swiss banks are cutting you off - Postfinance closes Wikileaks's Swiss account: http://is.gd/iiqmO
  7. @c4cfm I may have gotten that detail wrong. But taking it off Amazon didn't disable cable access - they were on bittorrent.
  8. FBI informant infiltrates Irvine, CA mosque. Congregation so alarmed by his jihadist talk, report him to the authorites: http://is.gd/if3iz
  9. This just keeps getting worse - the two rival presidential candidates in Ivory Coast have had rival swearings in: http://is.gd/id9bt
  10. Jon Karlung of Bahnhof.se with the right answer to how an ISP should handle Wikileaks: http://is.gd/icvfO - respond to law, not pressure
  11. Ah. correction on previous post - can't support Wikileaks with PayPal. Still, can with bank transfer, credit card - http://is.gd/ictz1
  12. Recent note from a good friend: "I don't know if I'm pro-Wikileaks, but I know I'm anti-anti-Wikileaks"...
  13. Wikileaks defense fund putting together bail money for Julian Assange - http://213.251.145.96/support.html - possible to donate via PayPal
  14. Peace Jam project uses videoconferencing to build dialog between Azeri, Armenian youth (incl. youth in Nagorno-Karabakh) http://is.gd/icrsD
  15. @lelolero Ben is just remarking on the challenge of fitting venues into a small space. I have been to Qatar and admire the country, people.
  16. The Noodle Soup Oracle: http://noodlr.net/ - possibly the most useful tool I've found online today.