The people's reaction to the Pope protecting child abusers

This is great. I've heard that there is a movement in the UK to arrest the pope if he goes there...

Well anyway. A very funny video.. very rude, potentially offensive language..

Something from nothing

This is a fabulous talk by cosmologist Lawrence Krauss. Get some lunch, sit back and enjoy..

Back from vacation and the word is being taken over

What are you going to do when we are run by the soulless corporation? These ideas are for science fiction, but with the appearance of the leaked ACTA documents, we see how seriously changes are being pushed through far reaching international treaties; a good summary has been posted by Michael Geist in his ACTA Guide. Here is the agenda for round 7 which started yesterday here in Mexico.

Well the best thing is to keep communication open and flowing. That is where Tor comes in. It is a way to open proxy servers for use by anonymous people. A good overview was given and wildbee.org.

Get Tor

To become a volunteer, download this software.

To use Tor to protect your own privacy, download this software

The freedom of information and the public domain wars has taken on a new face with the proclamation of "The Public Domain Manifesto". To read about it you can go to their site and sign to show your support (done by Communia), or

Then with your information stream unhindered, you can fabricate your own tech. As I've mentioned before about the fab labs and home 3D printers, wired had a great article on the next revolution being 3D printers writing with atoms; Wired, Atoms are the new bits (very similar to the Diamond age by Neil Stevenson.)



And finally for today, a great journal, the Journal of Serendipitous andUnexpected Results. I love the idea of a journal of discoveries that happened when we weren't looking for them.

Steven Pinker; the world is less violent

This is a great video for anyone who thinks that the world is going to shit (saw it about a year back, but it was brought to my attention by onegoodmove.org.) I've heard many times how violet the world is becoming, but here is his talk Mr. Pinter gives a very good argument how the world has become much better. When we think about this, it makes sense. The current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan draw a great deal of attention when 4 or 5 soldiers are killed, when it was 10 thousand lives ended in a battle in the major world wars. Any death caused by a person is regrettable, and it seems that we are finally getting that. The fact that people are caring for homeless dogs and cats is a sign that we are even looking outside of our species. Sound very Buddhist to me; several aspects of the eight-fold-path can be seen.