Everyone is a potential torturer

Fab labs

"His success suggests that manufacturing - like publishing, coding, music and film distribution, and communications before it - is about to bust out of its industrial confines."

Nintendo DS Review

This thing is pretty cool...

Call of India lures European workers

"although the employees are paid local salaries, they receive other compensation in the form of free housing, a furnishing allowance and subsidised meals."

Wired News: Shhh ... Do You Hear Gunfire?

Wired News: So Far, Recount Shows No Problem

Dilbert on camera phones

Shape-shifting robot shows off its moves (New Scientist)

The Faith-Based Encyclopedia

An interesting piece on the Wikipedia from a former editor of the Encyclopædia Britannica.

Weird

An intriguing story in Wired on mysterious radio transmitters.

Wal-Mart Data Warehouse

The New York Times has a story on Walmart's insanely big (and a little scary) sales database.

US Election Results

• A really cool set of The maps showing the US election results distorted by voting population (i.e. a cartogram). More typical maps.
• Some more on the conspiracy theories from jwz and Wired.
• An even worse election result?

Conspiracy Theories?

Evidence Mounts That The Vote May Have Been Hacked with more stuff on www.blackboxvoting.org.

Delicious Library

ArsTechnica has quite an interesting software review for Delicious Library, a piece of Mac software, that talks quite a bit about what drives Mac culture and software:

"There is simply a "climate of excellence" on the Mac platform. Any developer that does not live up to community standards is looked down upon, or even shunned. Commercial, open source, freeware, shareware, it doesn't matter: pay attention to detail, or else."

(I think the application itself is pretty cool too, and it looks delicious!)

The Infinite Cat Project

The New York Times > Warplane Strafes a School in New Jersey

"...custodians arriving at the school found 13 cannon slugs - 5 in a parking lot and 8 inside the school in various classrooms and offices..."

China vs The West

From cells to bells, 10 things the Chinese do far better than we do A comparative list compiled by JAN WONG @ workopolis.com

format c:? sure...

It seems amazing that this bit of computer lore hasn't been tested before (well, not to my knowledge at least):

"So there you have it. Stop telling people they should run 'format c:' because it won't get you or them anywhere. Same goes for 'rm -Rf /'"

Star Wars: The Changes

An interesting (well, pedantic and nerdy) series of articles on DVDAnswers.com:

"this is perhaps the single most objectionable change in the entire trilogy. Putting aside the fact that it transforms Han Solo from the aforementioned ice-cold space pirate to a lucky son of a bitch, the effects used to bring the new scene to life are simply atrocious."

"One of the little-known edits to the film included the trimming of a few frames to remove the flashes when the bolts hit the human officers ... What makes matters worse is that this censorship isn’t even consistent..."