Japan, India and Korea YouTube creators build a huge Rube Goldberg machine in YouTube Space Tokyo.

Three cable news networks, CNN, Fox News and MSNBC, outed the underage victim in the Steubenville rape trial by name during reports about the case. The identification of the 16… Read the rest of the article: CNN, Fox News, MSNBC air name of 16yo Steubenville rape victim

In an op-ed for CNN.com, Hans Blix writes: "I headed the U.N. inspections in Iraq at the time of the war 10 years ago. Today, I look again at the… Read the rest of the article: Hans Blix on why invading Iraq was "a terrible mistake"

A CIA counterterrorism analyst, in an essay for Wired's Danger Room: "Ten years ago this week, the U.S. invaded Iraq, citing intelligence that turned out to be bogus. I had… Read the rest of the article: "I tried to make the intel behind Iraq War less bogus"

Seven tiny cute little baby komodo dragons have been born in a zoo in Indonesia's East Java Province. You'll want to watch the BBC News video.

Tim Pool is webcasting the sentencing hearing this morning for Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer, whom a court has convicted of illegally gaining access to AT&T's servers and accessing more than 100,000… Read the rest of the article: Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer to be sentenced in ATT/iPad case

"A cub in a Cub," says Miles.

An experimental film made in 2011 for LVMH, by Ugo Rondinone and Robin Kob.

Shannon Larratt, creator of body modification zine and early online community BMEzine, has died. The statement he left behind indicates that he committed suicide, after several years of a rare… Read the rest of the article: BMEzine founder Shannon Larratt dead in apparent suicide

At Freedom of the Press Foundation, Trevor Timm factchecks an absurd column by Gordon Crovitz which praised the 'aiding the enemy' charge against Bradley Manning and insisted WikiLeaks be prosecuted… Read the rest of the article: Correcting error-ridden WSJ column praising "aiding the enemy" charge for Manning, Wikileaks

"Ultra-secret national security letters that come with a gag order on the recipient are an unconstitutional impingement on free speech, a federal judge ruled Friday." Kim Zetter at Wired News… Read the rest of the article: National Security Letters Unconstitutional, finds federal judge, who bans them

Just look at it. By Domenic Bahmann. Shared in the BB Flickr Pool.

Earlier this week, 26 year old Reuters deputy social media editor Matthew Keys was indicted on charges he handed Tribune Co. network passwords to Anonymous, which were then used to… Read the rest of the article: Reuters suspends employee accused of aiding Anonymous

Uh-oh. The NYT reports that the United States "will deploy additional ballistic missile interceptors along the Pacific Coast to increase the Pentagon's ability to blunt a potential attack from North… Read the rest of the article: US to beef up missile defense along West Coast, to defend against possible North Korea attack

A federal appeals court today ruled the CIA cannot continue to "neither confirm nor deny" the existence of the drone war, in a court case prompted by a Freedom of… Read the rest of the article: CIA drone secrecy rejected by federal appeals court

From the Washington Post: "China uses 20 million trees each year to feed the country's disposable chopstick habit… 4,000 chopsticks per tree, that's roughly 80 billion chopsticks per year." All… Read the rest of the article: Eco headline of the week: Disposable chopstick addiction destroying China's forests

NY state Republican Assemblyman Steve Katz has been charged with marijuana possession after a Thursday morning traffic stop. "Katz currently sits on the Assembly's Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Committee as… Read the rest of the article: Anti-pot GOP Assemblyman accused of pot possession

Holy moly, Brian Krebs: It's not often that one has the opportunity to be the target of a cyber and kinetic attack at the same time. But that is exactly… Read the rest of the article: Internet security writer DDOS'd, visited by armed police SWAT team who'd been hoaxed

Joshua Kopstein has a wonderful feature over at The Verge today about how archivists revived a bulletin board that was a central networking hub in NYC's art scene during the… Read the rest of the article: Resurrecting The Thing: "How a BBS changed the art world and came back from the dead"

Makers of the film Hart Island: An American Cemetery, about a small potter's field island in New York City where prison laborers bury the region's unclaimed mass dead in mass graves,… Read the rest of the article: Documentary filmmaker suing AP for ripping off footage of "prohibited" site