Sexy Jihad

This posting has a nice listing of North Korean anti US propaganda posters. Nice style, very kitsch.

Photo-reports has a great gallery of current african kings. Included are Kings from Benin, Congo, Nigeria, Cameroun, South Africa & Ghana. From what I hear these guys really live it up.

In a comical yet absurd article, yahoo sheds some information on the latest the bright minds at the dutch goverment have to offer to curb immigration and get new applicants to fit in:
The camera focuses on two gay men kissing in a park. Later, a topless woman emerges from the sea and walks onto a […]

I as a blogger and citizen of the European Union am disgusted and ashamed to have to report that today, the EU has passed legislation requiring all participating countries to log all internet traffic for a period of up to 24 months:
EU justice and interior ministers have sealed a landmark data-retention law, forcing telephone […]

A very disturbing story pops up on the Guardian about executed chinese prisoners being used for beauty products:
A Chinese cosmetics company is using skin harvested from the corpses of executed convicts to develop beauty products for sale in Europe, an investigation by the Guardian has discovered.
Agents for the firm have told would-be customers it […]

The BBC World Service has an interesting interview with Gary McKinnon, who hacked into Military computers to find out the truth about UFOs and now faces 75 years in an American jail:
This week ‘The Interview’ talks to the man described by US prosecutors as “the biggest military computer hack of all time”. Briton Gary McKinnon […]

The Guardian has an interesting piece on some dude getting fired after appearing on TV and giving his (pro) p2p views on a BBC program called Newsnight:
A software engineer and champion of peer-to-peer file sharing is planning legal action after being sacked for expressing his views on BBC’s Newsnight.
Alex Hanff, 31, was just a week […]

An article on the BBC makes a good example of how FUD have taken over US politics and life. It also shows how stupid people can be:
The Arabic TV channel al-Jazeera will not film a report about the US-Mexico border after a civilian border patrol group condemned the idea.
The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, an anti-immigration […]

Bruce Scheier reports on some intersting comments regarding the recent Minnesota court hearing that just having PGP on your computer can be used as evidence against you:
The opinion is not explicit that the PGP evidence was used to show criminal intent or consciousness of guilt, but I think that is fairly implied, especially since the […]

In a scary turn of events an appeals court in Minnesota has ruled that having PGP installed on your computer can be used as evidence against you:
A Minnesota appeals court has ruled that the presence of encryption software on a computer may be viewed as evidence of criminal intent.
Ari David Levie, who was convicted […]