Link: New ‘semi-solid’ battery could be new oil, revolutionize energy storage

Link: UN report: “three strikes” Internet laws violate human rights

An official appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council has released a new report on the state of online free speech around the world. In addition to calling attention to long-standing censorship problems in China, Iran, and other oppressive regimes, the report devotes a surprising amount of attention to speech restrictions in the developed world—and it singles out recently enacted “three strikes” laws in France and the United Kingdom that boot users off the Internet for repeated copyright infringement.

Link: Police vultures

German police is training three feathered detectives, appropriately named Sherlock, Miss Marple and Columbo. They will be used to find dead bodies. The article doesn’t say if they can grab a bite on the job.

Link: U.S. used ‘unmitigated gall’ and B.C. court to jail exec

The giant computer company Cisco and U.S. prosecutors deceived Canadian authorities and courts in a massive abuse of process to have a former executive thrown in jail, says a B.C. Supreme Court judge.

The point, said Justice Ronald McKinnon in a stinging decision delivered orally on Tuesday, was to derail a lawsuit launched by the former employee, and involved a series of machinations that would make a normal person “blanch at the audacity of it all.”

Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/used+unmitigated+gall+court+jail+exec/4885299/story.html#ixzz1OGkpfU32

Link: Japan pensioners volunteer to cleanup Fukushima.

A group of more than 200 Japanese pensioners are volunteering to tackle the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima power station.

They say they should be facing the dangers of radiation, not the young.

Link: The Revolutionary New Birth Control Method for Men

The procedure is known by the clunky acronym RISUG (for reversible inhibition of sperm under guidance), but it is in fact quite elegant: The substance that Das injected was a nontoxic polymer that forms a coating on the inside of the vas. As sperm flow past, they are chemically incapacitated, rendering them unable to fertilize an egg.

Link: New Statesman – No limits to the law in NoLa

the police force in New Orleans is “a significant threat to the safety of the public”, as the DoJ says, is obvious. But the same problems can be seen all over the South, from Miami to Mississippi to Alabama; and the same nationwide, according to Paul Craig Roberts, a former editor of the Wall Street Journal and former assistant secretary to the treasury under Ronald Reagan, who wrote recently: “Police in the US now rival criminals, and exceed terrorists as the greatest threat to the American public.”

Link: Dropbox Lack of Security

So they lied all along about their crypto policy and thought we wouldn’t mind?

Well, screw’em.

Link: Shit Harper Did

Shit Harper Did is a website that sums up the greatest misses of Canada’s corporatist lickspittle PM Stephen Harper, who is up for re-election. Harper’s tenure has been marked by scandal after scandal, and this site is a good aide-memoir for anyone who can’t remember exactly why the man has been a disaster for Canada.

Airbus A380 Jumbo Jet Clips Tail Of Another Plane While Taxiing At JFK Airport (by sopranopaul61)

Link: Saul Bass title sequences 1954 – 1956

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Awesome stuff.