Blackberry mobile device service will be blocked in the United Arab Emirates beginning this October, after device maker Research in Motion effectively refused to comply with government demands that make… Read the rest of the article: UAE to block Blackberry messaging: "If you can't scan 'em, ban 'em"

By François Vautier (via Submitterator, thanks gevertully).

The New York Times reports that Army investigators expanding their inquiry into the Wikileaks document dump to include "friends and associates" who may have aided suspected leaker, Pfc. Bradley Manning.… Read the rest of the article: Army's Wikileaks dragnet widens

"This must be the biggest thing to hit Idaho since 'Napoleon Dynamite.'" —a lawyer in Boise, ID, 1,500 miles from the Gulf of Mexico, where many lawyers have gathered to… Read the rest of the article: In Boise, of all places, lawyers squabble over BP spill claims lawsuits

('shopped by Rob Beschizza). Context, and Rob explains his thoughts in this comment. Commenter "Unmutual," in the previous Boing Boing thread, observed: When you show a naked little girl running… Read the rest of the article: TIME Afghansploitation magazine cover: fixed it for you.

What some are identifying as the Daft Punk score for Disney's Tron Legacy movie has been leaked. I blame Julian Assange.

On the cover of the current issue of TIME: Aisha, an 18 year-old Afghan girl whose nose was cut off for "shaming" her in-laws. Her story blogged previously on Boing… Read the rest of the article: Mutilated Afghan woman on cover of Time: Afghansploitation?

The coach for the North Korean soccer team has been banished to a life of hard labor as a construction worker, because the team failed in their "ideological struggle" to… Read the rest of the article: North Korean soccer team fails at "ideological struggle"

Richard Metzger: "Rather astonishing news from the fashion and film world. Dangerous Minds' fave filmmaker Kenneth Anger has released a two-and-a-half-minute film dealing with the fall/winter collection of the Varese-based… Read the rest of the article: Kenneth Anger for Missoni

Opening Saturday July 31 (tomorrow night): The Sea No Evil art show benefitting the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Above, a piece by Gary Baseman from the show. The donating artist… Read the rest of the article: Sea No Evil: Sea Shepherd benefit art show in CA

A touching reminder of Britain's fast-vanishing rural heritage from the archives of the great and underappreciated documentary filmmaker, Lee Titt.

Team America lives on. Jeff Koyen sends this along and asks, "Anyone remember Evil Bert spotted alongside Osama in Bangladesh?" Indeed. At left, a snapshot of the original Kim Jong… Read the rest of the article: Burmese protesters using "Team America" likeness of Kim Jong-Il on posters

A press alert received by Boing Boing from the U.S. Army Public Affairs Office reports that PFC Bradley Manning— who is believed to have provided Wikileaks with a trove of… Read the rest of the article: Wikileaks source suspect Manning transferred from Kuwait to Quantico, VA

"An Army private suspected of leaking classified information to WikiLeaks was admonished as a trainee in 2008 for uploading YouTube videos discussing classified facilities, according to an Army official with… Read the rest of the article: Report: Army admonished Manning for YouTube uploads referencing classified facilities

Rebecca MacKinnon reports: "Numerous major American and European news outlets are reporting that Google is blocked in China, based on the information appearing on Google's Mainland China service availability page.… Read the rest of the article: Google computer and Western media report China outage, actual humans in China beg to differ

The Obama administration wants to make it easier for the FBI to force ISPs to turn over records of individual Internet activity without a court order if agents believe the… Read the rest of the article: White House wants easier access for FBI to internet activity logs

The initial response to the Wikileaks Afghan document leak from the Pentagon and White House focused largely on the documents' purported irrelevance as "old news," and general condemnation of the… Read the rest of the article: White House shifts criticism of Wikileaks to focus on "naming of individual" Afghans

Noah Shachtman reports at Wired Danger Room blog that the investment arms of the CIA and Google are together backing a firm that monitors the web in real time, and… Read the rest of the article: Report: Google, CIA investing in "Future of Web Monitoring"

Sources at YouTube tell us that online video giant will soon increase the maximum duration of uploaded video clips from 10 minutes to 15 minutes. The move may not mean… Read the rest of the article: YouTube to increase upload limit from 10 to 15 minutes

CJR has a very detailed explanation on how the arrangement around "The Afghan War Diaries" between Wikileaks and three newspapers (Guardian, NYT, Der Spiegel) came to pass. Notably, the article… Read the rest of the article: NYT unhappy at being dependent on Wikileaks for news