Wikimedia's Liam Wyatt sez, This Friday and Saturday at the British Museum the community behind Wikipedia are hosting an event for the UK cultural sector to demonstrate the value of… Read the rest of the article: GLAMWiki at the British Museum this Friday and Saturday

The new version of the Electronic Frontier Foundation's excellent HTTPS Everywhere browser tool specifically protects against having your credentials to many popular sites lifted with Firesheep (as well as by… Read the rest of the article: EFF's latest HTTPS Everywhere plugin helps protect against Firesheep-style attacks

Steampunk Workshop features automaton-maker Thomas Kuntz's latest piece, a haunted illusion that seems to have stepped out of a Verne-era French nightmare: "particularly love the way that Thomas includes the… Read the rest of the article: Haunted automaton

Flyingfish knows he's allowed to photograph TSA checkpoints from public areas in the airport. He knows this because it is the TSA's publicly stated position. But a refused-to-identify-himself TSA agent… Read the rest of the article: Call the TSA's Office of Strategic Comms when you're threatened with arrest for airport photography

Intel's Chief Futurist, Brian David Johnson, is a big advocate of using science fiction narratives as a jumping off point for a discussion between management and engineering about the future… Read the rest of the article: Intel commissions futuristic stories for internal planning, gives away ebooks and podcasts

An anonymous reader reimagines the TSA's logo.

In my latest Guardian column, "What do we want copyright to do?" I try to get out of the "you're a thief/you're a greedhead" copyright debate by asking what a… Read the rest of the article: How do you know if copyright is working?

2600 Magazine's Emmanuel Goldstein writes, We thought long and hard over the best way to jump into the whole digital publishing realm after releasing our first issue on the Kindle… Read the rest of the article: 2600 Magazine as DRM-free Kindle, PDF ebooks

MamaCass sez, "Portland, Oregon's In Other Words Feminist Bookstore is the last remaining volunteer-run non-profit feminist bookstore in the nation. It's also making a transition to a community center which… Read the rest of the article: America's last non-profit feminist bookstore in Portland, OR fundraiser

Matt returned from Paris to Cincinnati, where he was given the choice of a pornoscanner or a bit of the old nutsack-fondling from the TSA. Instead, Matt insisted that it… Read the rest of the article: Traveller re-enters USA without passing through a pornoscanner or having his genitals touched

Dice collector Justin Michell has painstakingly cataloged his impressive collection of polyhedral probabilistic oddities, from a two-sided improbability to a nigh-spherical 120-sided number. Some of the best specimens are more… Read the rest of the article: Enormous dice collection full of irregular and improbable polyhedra

Redditor McTroma's Uncle Bob, a "badass biker," was brought to his final resting place in this wicked chopper hearse. What a way to go. Uncle Bob's Hearse   Haunted Mansion… Read the rest of the article: Chopper hearse for a "badass biker"

Here's a quick video showing the overnight Imagineering crew doing the rehab on the Walt Disney World Pooh ride queue area, an all-nighter that accomplishes quite a lot of magic.… Read the rest of the article: Imagineering graveyard shift remakes Winnie the Pooh queue

Steve from Openmedia.ca sez, "As result of a recent decision by Canada's telcom regulator, the CRTC, Bell Canada and other big telecom companies can now freely force Internet usage-based billing… Read the rest of the article: Canadians: sign petition against mandatory per-byte billing for ISPs!

In this video, YouTube user SpinRemover adds subtitles to TSA boss John Pistole's now-infamous Anderson Cooper interview, translating bureaucratese into plain English. John Pistole gets honest about Porno Scanners and… Read the rest of the article: What John Pistole means when he talks about "enhanced" TSA checkpoints

At $34.99, this "Federast" t-shirt may be one of the more expensive means of getting singled out for punitive treatment at an airport checkpoint. Federast (Thanks, Janee!)   Stop Groping… Read the rest of the article: Federast: t-shirt for the age of TSA pornoscanners and grope-a-thons

Art Donovan sez, "Created entirely of raw brass, the Dutch artist Jos DeVink creates masterpieces of kinetic sculptures in his Stirling Engines. Turn on the sound, too!" I disagree about… Read the rest of the article: Brass Stirling Engine kinetic sculpture

Always wanted to play Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock but couldn't keep the rules straight? No fear: young Dylan will hep you to the jive. Dylan explains Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock   Monkey-Pirate-Robot-Ninja-Zombie: Rock Paper Scissors 9.0… Read the rest of the article: Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock explained in 32 seconds

"This Age of Power and Wonder" was a 1930s series of cigarette cards issued by Max Cigarettes, depicting the wonders of the years to come (including, of course, a cure… Read the rest of the article: This Age of Power and Wonder: predictive cigarette cards, 1935-9

Jo Teeuwisse combined found WWII-era photos of Amsterdam with contemporary shots of the same places to create a series called "The Ghosts of Amsterdam": "In the picture above, you can… Read the rest of the article: Ghosts of Amsterdam: combining WWII photos with contemporary images