Director’s Statement on the Release of the 9/11 IG Report Executive Summary

Earlier this month, Congress passed a bill implementing some of the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission. The legislation, lengthy and complex, includes a provision dealing with the report that CIA’s Office of Inspector General prepared on the performance of our agency prior to September 11th. The act gave me 30 days to make available to [...]

The Zoom H4 digital Audio Recorder

Whether you’re recording a live performance, a podcast, a class or workshop, a rehearsal, a songwriting session or even a sizzling performance of your band, the H4 has more recording tools available than any device ever made. Weighing a mere 6.7 ounces (190g), the H4 puts a remarkable amount of recording power in the palm [...]

Carnegie Mellon Researchers Use Web Images To Add Realism to Edited Photos

System Takes Advantage of Millions of Images on the Internet
Computer graphics researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed systems for editing or altering photographs using segments of the millions of images available on the Web.
Whether adding people or objects to a photo, or filling holes in an edited photo, the systems automatically find images that [...]

Comics Britannia season launches on BBC Four

BBC Four is set to explore the wonderful world of comic books in a new three-part series celebrating one the of most powerful achievements of British popular culture – the classic comic strips generations of us have grown up with over the past 70 years.

From the Beano to Bunty, Commando to Viz, The [...]

Doctor Who: Filming begins on series 4

Doctor Who series four filming is underway with Catherine Tate joining the BAFTA award-winning BBC One drama series as The Doctor’s brand new companion, Donna Noble.
Award-winning actress Tate is reprising her role as Donna, the runaway bride who featured in last year’s Doctor Who Christmas special.
The start of the new series will see Donna tracking [...]

Secret Bases website shutdown by Virgin Media

Posted via Cryptome
(Alan Turnbull has run the very important site, Secret Bases, which is “the end-result of countless hours of research by Alan Turnbull, a man for whom the words “out of bounds” don’t really mean too much.
Dotted all over the UK are hundreds of secret Government and military installations. Some of them are [...]

IPCC concludes Stockwell Two investigation

The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has concluded its investigation into complaints made by the family of Jean Charles de Menezes after he was shot dead by Metropolitan Police Service officers on 22 July 2005.  
The family complained that the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, alone or with others,  released inaccurate public statements concerning the [...]

Tube Map Of The Web

The 200 most successful websites on the web, ordered by category, proximity, success, popularity and perspective.
Get the file here, and put it on your desktop.
 
There is also a very good clickable version of the map to be found on the Information Architects website.

Doctors Blast Guantanamo Treatment as Unethical

Associated Press 
Military doctors violate medical ethics when they approve the force-feeding of hunger strikers at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, according to a commentary in a prestigious medical journal. [...]