KMR - 04.07.11 08:48 New York Magazine has published "Bradley Manning's Army of One," a feature by Steve Fishman profiling the young soldier accused of serving as a leak source to Wikileaks while serving as an…

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KMR - 31.05.11 14:34 Here's a summary of "Designing Incentives for Inexpert Human Raters," a paper presented at the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work by John Horton, Daniel Chen and Aaron Shaw. The authors -- two economists and a sociologist -- designed a bunch of different incentive structures for encouraging high-quality work from Mechanical...

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betaversion - 03.05.11 21:42 White House spokesman Jay Carney, in a briefing to reporters taking place as I type this post, has confirmed that bin Laden was not armed, as initially stated. Carney says bin Laden "resisted," but had no weapon. How did he resist? Carney defers to the Pentagon, does not answer.
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betaversion - 16.04.11 18:27 On Friday, the FBI shut down three of the world's most popular online poker sites, replacing their home pages with the message: "This domain name has been seized by the F.B.I. pursuant to an Arrest Warrant."

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KMR - 27.03.11 21:59 I received some random chemistry-industry PR, and spotted therein this unusually-named chromatography company and its contemplative technical director. What could he be thinking about? Heather suggests: "Hmmmm. Maybe we should change our name."

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lenchen - 24.03.11 16:20 A miner climbs on excavated rocks after a giant drill machine broke through at the final section Sedrun-Faido, at the construction site of the NEAT Gotthard Base Tunnel March 23, 2011. Crossing the Alps, the world's longest train tunnel should become operational at the end of 2016.

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geologe1 - 15.03.11 23:31 Reuters: "Breaking news from NHK, quoting Tokyo Electric Power: Fire breaks out at Fukushima Daiichi No. 4 reactor." Via various folks live-translating on Twitter from NHK broadcast: Fire detected on NE upper corner of the outer structure of No. 4 reactor, they are trying to extinguish now.

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geologe1 - 15.03.11 14:45 Edano before: Edano after. Image by shiba36ms

Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano is the hardest working politician in the disaster business. Since the earthquake and tsunami hit the country on Friday, Edano has been the public face of the government, giving frequent updates, dir

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geologe1 - 15.03.11 06:57 Asahi reports that according to TEPCO, the operator of the troubled nuclear power plants in Japan, U.S. military personnel "helped fight the fire in Reactor Number 4 of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant."
The fire was successfully extinguished.

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geologe1 - 15.03.11 06:26 A third explosion has struck Japan's beleaguered Fukushima nuclear power plant in as many days, after Friday's 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami. Kyodo News:

Radiation is feared to have leaked after the container vessel suffered damage at the No. 2 reactor of the quake-hit Fukushima No.

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