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If you got all your Turkish news from actual Turkish news outlets, you might not have any idea that thousand of protesters had turned the street of Istanbul and other cities into riotous battlegrounds for the last week. To say nothing of the government's ignorant anti-social media campaign, the country's three main television networks (including CNN Turkey) have almost completely ignored the demonstrations, mentioning them only in passing on the evening news, and going on with their regular programming without interruption. That's because government censors are allowed to restrict news media when "public health and morals, national security, public order, public safety, and the unity of the land are at stake."

But that didn't stop one wily show from finding its way around the media blackout. On Monday, a Scrabble-esque game show called "The Word Game," slyly crafted all of its puzzles so that each answer referenced the protests without specifically bringing them up. Host Ali Ihsan Varol asked contestants to guess words based on clues like, "A journey undertaken to see, to have fun." The answer, in Turkish, is "Gezi" the name of the park where the protests first started. Other words that had to be guessed during the show included "Freedom," "Solidarity," "Ballot Box," "Dictator," and "Twitter." 

All 70 of Monday's night answers refereced the demonstrations in some way, including the last two: "Resign" and "Apologize." 

While Varol and his staff don't appear to havebeen  punished for their civil disobedience, their performance was clearly not unnoticed by the powers that be. The next night, the show, which is normally broadcasts live, was forced to air a pre-recorded episode. "The Word Game" airs on Bloomberg TV.

Probably my favorite of the CNN-penguin mainstream media silence in Turkey memes so far! #occupygezi #occupygezinyc twitter.com/ILoveArctic/st…

— Zafer Avindik (@ILoveArctic) June 5, 2013

Those annoyed by the media blackout have other ways to thumb their nose at the media outlets that have downplayed the protests. Penguins have became a popular meme in Turkey after CNN Turkey chose to ignore the riots last weekend in order to air a primetime documentary about penguins. A famous actor showed up for an interview on CNN wearing a penguin shirt, with the popoulr Hurriyet stuck them into a front page political cartoon. People have also been photoshopping peguins into photos of the protests, replacing the beseiged demonstrators in just the latest sign of just how clever these protestors can be. 

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In an explosive investigative piece published in the Guardian, Glenn Greenwald details a top-secret US court order that gave the NSA the ability to gather call records for every phone call completed on Verizon's network, even calls that originated and terminated in the USA (the NSA is legally prohibited from spying on Americans). This kind of dragnet surveillance has long been rumored; Senators Ron Wyden and Mark Udall published an open letter to US Attorney General Holden saying that "most Americans would be stunned to learn the details of how these secret court opinions have interpreted...the Patriot Act." Here, at last, are the details:

The order, signed by Judge Roger Vinson, compels Verizon to produce to the NSA electronic copies of "all call detail records or 'telephony metadata' created by Verizon for communications between the United States and abroad" or "wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls".

The order directs Verizon to "continue production on an ongoing daily basis thereafter for the duration of this order". It specifies that the records to be produced include "session identifying information", such as "originating and terminating number", the duration of each call, telephone calling card numbers, trunk identifiers, International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) number, and "comprehensive communication routing information".

The information is classed as "metadata", or transactional information, rather than communications, and so does not require individual warrants to access. The document also specifies that such "metadata" is not limited to the aforementioned items. A 2005 court ruling judged that cell site location data – the nearest cell tower a phone was connected to – was also transactional data, and so could potentially fall under the scope of the order.

Revealed: NSA collecting phone records of millions of Americans daily

As the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Cindy Cohn and Mark Rumold point out, this kind of surveillance is at the heart of several of its ongoing cases, and the Obama administration has done everything in its power to stop the American people from finding out how it interprets the Constitution:

This type of untargeted, wholly domestic surveillance is exactly what EFF, and others have been suing about for years. In 2006, USA Today published a story disclosing that the NSA had compiled a massive database of call records from American telecommunications companies. Our case, Jewel v. NSA, challenging the legality of the NSA’s domestic spying program, has been pending since 2008, but it's predecessor, Hepting v. AT&T filed in 2006, alleged the same surveillance. In 2011, on the 10th Anniversary of the Patriot Act, we filed a FOIA lawsuit against the Department of Justice for records about the government’s use of Section 215 – the legal authority the government was relying on to perform this type of untargeted surveillance.

But at each step of the way, the government has tried to hide the truth from the American public: in Jewel, behind the state secrets privilege; in the FOIA case, by claiming the information is classified top secret.

'I can see every little pixel if I just close my eyes,' he said. Bryant is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder after his five years as a drone operator. He said he sought help for the emotions he was experiencing on his job but 'one of the weird things about the whole drone community is you don't talk about anything that you've done. You just don't,' he told NPR. He said he  began feeling paranoid that he was killing innocent people, not Taliban insurgents. And he felt that it wasn't his place to question the people giving him orders to launch the missile attacks.

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Korean version of Western folk stories — Alice in Wonderland, Beauty and the Beast, Swan Lake, Little Red Riding Hood.

I adore these.

BEAST IS TOO ADORABLE AS A TIGER!!!!

This comes around every now and then and I never tire of it.

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A man in a crowd gathered at Rockefeller Plaza to watch 'The Today Show' tried to kill himself by cutting his wrists Wednesday morning, police said.

Kohenkatz writes "Chinese PC maker Lenovo had a ceremony [Wednesday] to mark the official grand opening of their new manufacturing facility in Whitsett, North Carolina. The 240,000-square-foot facility, located approximately 10 miles east of Greensboro, NC, was already being used as a Logistics Center, Customer Solutions Center, and National Returns Center, and is now also being used for Production. While actual line operations began in January 2013, the facility is on track to reach full operation by the end of June. The facility is equipped to build several types of Think-branded products, including desktops, tablets, and ultrabooks. Note that due to the extensive use of automation, the factory only adds 115 manufacturing jobs at the facility."

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“The male Thai Bangkaew dog named Pui took the white plastic bag from a dump site in tambon Sala Loi in Tha Rua district to his master Gumnerd Thongmak’s house and barked loudly to get attention. Mr Gumnerd’s niece, Sudarat, 12, said she went downstairs after hearing Pui barking and found the bag on the patio. She opened it and was shocked to find a newborn baby inside. Sudarat ran to get her mother and they took the baby to Tha Rua Hospital. She weighs 2.2kg, hospital officials said. They believed she was born prematurely, at around seven and a half months. She was later transferred to Phranakhon Sri Ayutthaya Hospital. Tha Rua district chief Withit Pinnikorn said Pui regularly wanders around the community. The district has asked village and tambon chiefs to look for the baby’s mother. Pui yesterday received a leather collar and a medal from Tha Rua district Red Cross Chapter as a token of appreciation for his clever rescue. The Miracle of Life Foundation chief volunteer also gave Mr Gumnerd 10,000 baht as a reward for Pui’s action”

- Dog saves newborn baby girl | Bangkok Post: news

DC Comics will resurrect its well-regarded anthology Batman: Black and White beginning in September with six double-sized issues.

Originally published in 1996 as a four-issue miniseries, the anthology was the brainchild DC’s Vice President of Art Direction & Design Mark Chiarello, then a Batman Group editor, who sought out such top creators as Bruce Timm, Joe Kubert, Bill Sienkiewicz, Neil Gaiman, Ted McKeever and Katsuhiro Otomo to offer their own interpretations of the Dark Knight — in black and white.

The concept was revived in 2000 as a series of backup features in Batman: Gotham Knights, featuring contributions by the likes of Alex Ross, Paul Dini, Warren Ellis, Jim Lee, Chris Claremont, Paul Pope, Steve Rude, Harlan Ellison, Paul Grist, Darwyn Cooke, Jill Thompson and Mike Mignola. That title ended in 2006, but several Batman: Black and White have since been adapted as motion comics by Warner Premiere and DC Entertainment, and inspired numerous statues released by DC Direct.

According to the solicitation text provided to MTV Geek, September’s Batman: Black and White #1 will feature stories by Chip Kidd and Michael Cho, Neal Adams, Joe Quinones and Maris Wicks, John Arcudi and Sean Murphy, and Howard Mackie and Chris Samnee. Priced at $4.99, the 48-page first issue is scheduled to arrive Sept. 4.

BATMAN BLACK AND WHITE #1
Written by CHIP KIDD, NEAL ADAMS, JOE QUINONES, MARIS WICKS, JOHN ARCUDI and HOWARD MACKIE
Art by MICHAEL CHO, NEAL ADAMS, JOE QUINONES, SEAN MURPHY and CHRIS SAMNEE
Cover by MARC SILVESTRI
1:25 Variant cover by TBD
1:200 B&W Variant cover by MARC SILVESTRI
“We Can Be Heroes” Blank variant cover also available.
On sale SEPTEMBER 4 • 48 pg, 1 of 6, B&W, $4.99 US • RATED T
The legendary, Eisner Award-winning series BATMAN BLACK AND WHITE returns in a brand-new six-issue miniseries featuring tales of The Dark Knight by some of comics’ greatest writers and artists! This first issue kicks off with stories by Chip Kidd and Michael Cho, Neal Adams, Joe Quinones and Maris Wicks, John Arcudi and Sean Murphy, and Howard Mackie and Chris Samnee!

Wicked Tuna is a reality television series about commercial bluefin tuna fishermen based in Gloucester, Massachusetts. They have one or more deck-hands and it’s depressing when they lose a fish. Tuna.Com is a fishing boat. 

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We knew the Bush administration played fast and loose with Americans’ privacy but it’s now been confirmed that President Obama is no less keen on spying on his citizens. According to a court order obtained by the Guardian and published overnight, Verizon Business, a subsidiary of the giant telecoms operator Verizon, has been ordered to supply the National Security Agency with call records of all its customers for three months ending on July 19. It’s a good bet that this isn’t the first such order, and that other telcos are supplying the same information.

In a broad sense, this is fairly standard stuff: government bodies—and not just intelligence agencies—routinely request access to these records for matters ranging from tax fraud to day-to-day law enforcement. But what’s alarming to civil-liberties advocates is that the NSA’s hoovering up of information is focused not on suspicious individuals but on every user of Verizon’s network: It’s pre-emptive data collection, on the off-chance that it might one day be needed.

This is less surprising that it should be. The world’s biggest internet companies got rich doing exactly the same thing. Like the security apparatus, they too are eager to gather every last speck of information about you. One group does it to target better ads and build more omniscient products. The other does it in the interests of national security.  

Take Google, for example. A year ago, it “streamlined” privacy policies across its dozens of services into a single document. The point was for Google to consolidate disparate chunks of information about each of its user to get a unified picture of who they were and what were doing online. Signing into Google while browsing—by keeping a Gmail window open, for instance—allows the service to keep track of its users’ activities on other sites. Facebook also tracks its users with the little “Like” button scattered across the web. With every new service these firms roll out, they gather more and more information, all of which gives them a richer and more nuanced picture of their users. And there there are the various companies that do nothing except collect and sell personal information. In the era of “big data,” government agencies would be an anomaly if they didn’t collect everything they could.

For Google and Facebook, the purpose is to “organize the world’s information” and “to make the world more open and connected.” A little synthesis and you could describe the NSA’s mission: “to make the world’s information more open (for the NSA) and connected (to properly understand it).”

Google understood that having its users’ information sprinkled meant it was missing vital connections. The NSA similarly understands the power of consolidating data. Focus on a few “persons of interest” and you risk missing an obscure connection here or an obvious one there. But match phone records with credit-card information, travel details, emails and more, and you can paint a startlingly accurate portrait of any individual.

Equally important, it is possible to draw broad trends about groups. It’s what the the hackers down at Menlo Park like to call your mining your “social graph,” except that the NSA has better tools. In its own words, its “systems environment is a haven for computer scientists,” with “access to acres of hardware, software years ahead of current commercial technology” and “vast networks able to manipulate and analyze huge volumes of data at mind-boggling speeds.” Think Facebook’s graph search and multiply that by a googol.

Internet activists are rightly concerned by the consolidation of power in the world’s largest internet companies. But they seem lilliputian compared to gigantic volumes of data quietly being accumulated by governments. To call it Orwellian would be a cliche; it is just plain terrifying.

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Exciting news! The Little Prince is about to be rediscovered all over again, thanks to an insane, all-star cast. James Franco, Jeff Bridges, Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard, Benicio Del Toro, and Paul Giamatti have all signed on to bring The Little Prince back to life.

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David Richoux sent me to this intriguing post about Kei-camping Cars. These are extremely tiny and as far as I can tell may only be available in Japan. However, I think we can check out the use of space and apply to our own tiny living arrangements or plans.

Here is what they say about the little camper…

Kei car is Japan’s unique vehicle standard, which is 3.4m in length, 1.48 in width, and 2m in height with 660cc engine.

Based on this Kei car, Kei-camper is developed by creating a space like a studio apartment, installing a bed and a table inside the vehicle. You might be surprised to see such a small camping car, but you will be even more amazed after hopping into the car. The equipments inside are full of Japanese unique mechanism and mastery techniques.

Apart from being a tool for hobbies and travel, owners ranging from 20s to 60s use the car for business, travel, or even as a mobile office.

With a major conversion of the luggage space, those camping-car style cars can be more expensive, but you will enjoy the luxury of being fully equipped, including high ceiling, sink with water tank, and cooking facilities. Curtains are also attached onto the aluminum window, and the car is spacious enough to be called a moving studio apartment which accommodates up to four adults. Many of these types have a pop-up roof structure, and are registered as standard-sized car as the size becomes bigger than other kei-campers. This type of kei-campers continue to be popular and are in short supply due to its reasonable price of two to three million yen [approximately $20,000 - $30,000]. These days, the delivery of the car takes six months after placing the order.

According to the distributor a fully-fledged kei-campers hasgood insulation, warm enough to survive in winter with only a the heater. The distributor also recommends 4WD type for those who intend to drive in snow to go skiing.

Link to original Tokyo Tomo Travel Guide Post.

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I love this new trend of actresses calling reporters out on their bullshit.

Can I just, Renner’s face is the second and third frames. He’s so disappointe in the male race at that moment. And so proud of Scarlett.

Scarlett Johansen, you are badass.

Bless her.

Four for you, Scarlett! You go, Scarlett! 

Forever reblog this damn woman.

augh actresses must get SO TIRED of this shit, I would not have been as polite as she was

get it TOGETHER reporters!!

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A 3D Printing system that can create forms without the hindrance of gravity - video embedded below:

A brand new method of additive manufacturing. This patent-pending method allows for creating 3D objects on any given working surface independently of its inclination and smoothness, and without a need of additional support structures. Conventional methods of additive manufacturing have been affected both by gravity and printing environment: creation of 3D objects on irregular, or non-horizontal surfaces has so far been treated as impossible . By using innovative extrusion technology we are now able to neutralize the effect of gravity during the course of the printing process. This method gives us a flexibility to create truly natural objects by making 3D curves instead of 2D layers. Unlike 2D layers that are ignorant to the structure of the object, the 3D curves can follow exact stress lines of a custom shape. Finally, our new out of the box printing method can help manufacture structures of almost any size and shape.

More at the project’s website here

No, it's not a lost Escher print, it's a photo of Saarinen's long-lost TWA lounge at Idlewild, and you can buy it as a print:

Circa 1964. "Trans World Airlines Terminal. Idlewild Airport, Queens, New York." Acetate negative by Balthazar Korab (1926-2013), Hungarian-born architectural photographer who documented the work of Eero Saarinen.

TWA: 1964 (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)

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A levada is an irrigation channel or aqueduct specific to the Portugese island of Madeira. They were created from the sixteenth century to carry water across the island from the mountainous west and northwest of the island to the drier southeast, which is more conducive to habitation and agriculture
The total levadas network extends over 2150 km in this island 57 km long, 23km wide in the widest point.

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The creation of a fractal Brownian tree.  Particles move around on random walks, but can become stuck starting at a seed in the centre.  This creates intricate patterns similar to those created in certain chemical reactions and electric discharges. [more] [code]

"Made in Brazil", inscrição nas bombas de gás utilizadas pela Polícia de Istambul para reprimir os protestos na Turquia.