One million Buddhist beers on the wall, one million Buddhist beers…. | greenopolis recycling rewards: “Came across a very cool story on Ecoscraps today. Turns out that in the 1960’s (remember the 1960’s? If you can, you weren’t really there), the head of Heineken Brewery, Alfred Heineken was vacationing in the Caribbean. He saw beaches littered with beer bottles (including some of his) and a lack of affordable housing. His solution? Make beer bottles in the shape of interlocking bricks.”
V Chairs (by @baekdal) #design: “Verikon Furniture has created 2 somewhat unique chairs – the Shelley and the Lobster. In some way it draws it inspiration from the Famous ‘?gget by Arne Jacobsen’, but it is still so different that they are unique in their own rights.
The designers are currently making a footstool and a sidetable to go with the chairs. And, they will be available in selected stores by mid-march”
Shair single or multiple chair by Jie-Jyun Lyu » Yanko Design: “There is more! But there is also one. It is like a spore. A good spore! As the designer Jie-Jyun Lyu says, those who live in a small apartment like to have few pieces of furniture. But when too many people come over, you’ve gotta have more! So you need an amazing chair device such as this, one that’s both a single chair, but a bunch of shoot-off chairs that work just as nicely as the original. But with less bumps.
Each cushion chair combines to become Voltron, which is really big awesome and comfortably powerful. But as you know, when Voltron is apart, it’s five lions instead of just one big dude. That’s what this design is!
It’s the ‘Shair.’ And as an added bonus: when the chairs are down off the frame, the frame becomes a rack for all your guests coats, hats, and whatever else they’ve decided to take off.”
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange ‘will release damaging secrets if killed or arrested’ | Mail Online: “The founder of WikiLeaks has warned that his supporters are primed to publish a ‘deluge’ of leaked government documents should his activities be curtailed by any country.
Julian Assange has distributed to fellow hackers an encrypted ‘poison pill’ of damaging secrets, thought to include details on BP and Guantanamo Bay.
He believes the file is his ‘insurance’ in case he is killed, arrested or the whistleblowing website is removed permanently from the internet.
Mr Assange – understood to be lying low in Britain – could be arrested by Scotland Yard officers as early as tomorrow.
A warrant for his arrest was issued last Thursday by Swedish prosecutors who want to quiz him over rape allegations.”
Acrylic on Flesh – today and tomorrow: “Alexa Meade paints with acrylic on flesh (and clothing). So yeah, you could call them bodypaintings but they’re like nothing I’ve seen before. Stunning work!”
Supporters dismissed rape accusations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange… but the two women involved tell a different story | Mail Online: “It is a story as intriguing and confusing as a Stieg Larsson blockbuster: celebrated internet whistleblower becomes embroiled in a complex sex scandal involving two women, not long after he had masterminded one of the biggest intelligence leaks of all time – against the U.S.
That the action takes place in Sweden, Larsson’s home country, and that the protagonist is the flag-waver for freedom of information Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, provides added piquancy.
Assange, 39, was attending a seminar in Stockholm earlier this month when he found himself facing charges of rape and sexual molestation – charges that were then, amid much confusion, withdrawn and which he strenuously denies. “
Online, the censors are scoring big wins – WikiLeaks – Salon.com: “Online, the censors are scoring big wins Attacks on WikiLeaks are part of an attack on free speech, aided by the companies that make up the Web’s backbone”
Wikileaks: Little to stop leaks turning into a flood – Technology – NZ Herald News: “Even if the United States or Sweden succeeds in arresting and imprisoning Julian Assange, there is little his enemies can do to halt the world of online whistle-blowing that he has created.
Assange has spawned an idea, one which will now be copied by volunteers all over the world.
As a web entity, WikiLeaks is virtually impossible to destroy. It is staffed by volunteers who know as much about the methods used to take down a website as those who might be plotting to do just that.
The two ‘distributed denial of service’ attacks on WikiLeaks this week have given us an indication of how they prepare for pre-emptive strikes. As soon as the assaults began, administrators played a game of virtual cat and mouse, moving WikiLeaks on to previously secret backup servers.”
Has Wikileaks benefited from the Amazon controversy? Yes and this was intentional.
Since 2007 we have been deliberately placing some of our servers in jurisdictions that we suspected suffered a free speech deficit in order to separate rhetoric from reality. Amazon was one of these cases.
New diplomatic cables contain UFO details, says Wikileaks founder: “New diplomatic cables contain UFO details, says Wikileaks founder
2010-12-04 12:00:00 Sharp Solar CellsAds by GoogleLeading the world with an energy conversion efficiency of 35.8% sharp-solar.com Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has said that the new leaked diplomatic cables set to be published by the whistleblowing website will contain fresh details on UFOs.
The 39 year-old Australian, who is wanted by Interpol over a charge of rape and sexual assault in Sweden, said there were some references to extraterrestrial life in yet-to-be-published confidential files obtained from the American government.
He did not revealed what information was contained in the diplomatic memos obtained by the website.
It also remains unclear when they will be published.
Assange said his website, under considerable strain in recent days over its ‘Cablegate’ series of leaks, received emails from ‘weirdos’ claiming to have seen UFOs.
‘Many weirdos email us about UFOs or how they discovered that they were the anti-christ whilst talking with their ex-wife at a garden party over a pot-plant,’ the Telegraph quoted him as saying, when asked if any of the documents he had received referred to extraterrestrial life.
‘However, as yet they have not satisfied two of our publishing rules. 1) that the documents not be self-authored; 2) that they be original.
‘It is worth noting that in yet-to-be-published parts of the cablegate archive there are indeed references to UFOs,’ he added.
Assange’s comments were made during a webchat with The Guardian. (ANI)”
