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window to the world
i just saw someone break into a car in the lot outside my window. i had heard a loud crash but had ignored it. i thought someone was throwing out some garbage. then i was mindlessly staring down at someone at the back of a bmw mini-suv as i was closing the window. just looked like a guy was putting something in the back of the vehicle. then he rollerbladed off with a couple of bags and only then did i notice that the back window had been smashed. about three minutes later he returned and snagged another bag from the back. i felt like screaming at him but im not sure what good that would have done. just pop that one into the "people suck" file.
fish tales
"An obscure Jewish sect in New York has been gripped in awe by what it believes to be a mystical visitation by a 20lb carp that was heard shouting in Hebrew, in what many Jews worldwide are hailing as a modern miracle."
somebodys watching you
"“Almost all of the pieces for a surveillance society are already here,” says Gene Spafford, director of Purdue University’s Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security. “It’s just a matter of assembling them.” Unfortunately, he says, ubiquitous surveillance faces intractable social and technological problems that could well reduce its usefulness or even make it dangerous. As a result, each type of monitoring may be beneficial in itself, at least for the people who put it in place, but the collective result could be calamitous." (reg req)
bacteriophage
"Subviral marketing is a topsy-turvy trend that's said to be being pioneered by brands including Budweiser, Ford, Levi's and Mastercard. While traditional viral attachments feature short, slapstick video clips stamped with the brand's logo and web address, subviral campaigns are carefully shot to seem like they were produced by an internet prankster."
bull in the heather
"An American woman peace protester was killed Sunday by an IDF bulldozer, which ran her over during the demolition of a house at the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip. Another activist was wounded in the incident."