Conservation biologist Catherine Craig shot this video interview with a Louisiana boat captain named Mike Ellis, who claims that BP is blocking access to rescuing sea turtles, and incinerating turtles… Read the rest of the article: BP disaster: Louisiana boat captain says BP is burning sea turtles alive

From stickerobot.com.

It was inevitable. Bridgemary Kiss covers "Enter the Ninja" by Die Antwoord (thanks, Adam Stanhope).

Directly lifted from BP's blog, and first mocked on the Rachel Maddow Show: • Planet BP reporter Tom Seslar flies with an oil-spotting crew over the Gulf of Mexico and… Read the rest of the article: BP "reporter" flies over oil spill, "filled with wonderment"

The sound of vuvuzela en masse reminded me of something, but I couldn't quite place it. Until now. I got it. The dulcet tones of SRL's V1, Hovercraft, and Pulse… Read the rest of the article: American Vuvuzela (now with added vuvuzela)

USA Today: [Obama pledges further economic cooperation with Russia, and says he supports Medvedev's bid to join the World Trade Organization. Also cites Medvedev's visit this week to "Twitters" —… Read the rest of the article: Obama on Twitter and diplomatic relations with Russia

"Ð' офисе Apple." This happened today. How'd I learn about it? Why, from the Kremlin's new official Twitter account. Medvedev also visited Twitter, Cisco, and other Silicon Valley companies. Medvedev… Read the rest of the article: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev meets Apple CEO Steve Jobs

I took the new iPhone 4 out for a Venice Beach bike ride, to test the smartphone's new high-res video recording capabilities. All footage in this video shot with iPhone 4.

(Complete hands-on review here, and click here to watch video shot with iPhone 4) As a camera, the iPhone 4 is really sweet. I hopped on my bike and took… Read the rest of the article: iPhone 4 photography: how does it perform as a camera?

Photo: Dean Putney, shot on a Canon SLR The fourth incarnation of Apple's iPhone is an incrementally improved, familiar device—not a new kind of device, as was the case with… Read the rest of the article: Apple iPhone 4: Hands-on review

Amazon just announced a big price drop on the Kindle e-reader: now $189, reduced from $259.

Yesterday, I published a what purported to be more detailed versions of IM logs between alleged whistleblower US Army PFC Bradley Manning and hacker Adrian Lamo, revealing specific countries and… Read the rest of the article: Was alleged Wikileaks leaker Bradley Manning's crisis also one of personal identity?

Photo: Film Noir by Jasohill under CC. Illo: Rob Beschizza. We just received this from a source requesting anonymity. It purports to be a more complete transcript of a portion… Read the rest of the article: Wikileaks: a somewhat less redacted version of the Lamo/Manning logs

Video link. Creepy trivial fact: the spill started on Hitler's 121st birthday. A quick YouTube search for "Hitler BP oil spill" yields quite a few of these. (via Current TV,… Read the rest of the article: Hitler finds out about the BP Oil Spill

There's a whole series of 'em at EL BLOG DE CHIBIBOTO. I'll (crudely) translate the first paragraph of the accompanying blog post, which is in Spanish: As we watch the… Read the rest of the article: Disney, Pixar, and BP present "Finding Nemo 2: Escape from Oilglobs"

Above, new imagery from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE): the red-colored thingie in the middle might be visually interpreted as a blood-red jellyfish or a pair of lips, but… Read the rest of the article: Jesus in a galactic tortilla? Cloud of material shed by massive star in new WISE image from NASA

Must be something in the water in Brazil. What is it with all the weird baby videos we see from that part of the world? Here's another, spotted by Tara… Read the rest of the article: Gratuitous Dancing Baby Video

Comedian Emo Phillips shares word of international outrage over allegations of systematic, decades-long joke thievery by Italian comedian Daniele Luttazzi, shown above making a frowny face. Mr. Philips says, Today,… Read the rest of the article: Dastardly Italian joke thief nabbed by long arm of the LOL

Jake Appelbaum says, The IMMI (Icelandic Modern Media Initiative) passed last night unanimously (tweet 1, tweet 2). Read more about the IMMI here. Here's the WikiLeaks talk about IMMI from… Read the rest of the article: Icelandic Modern Media Initiative passes: a new safe haven for journalists?

The art of Moses Nornberg. In this piece, the BP logo is re-created in bullets. From a series of similar treatments of oil company logos (Shell, Exxon, and others, all… Read the rest of the article: BP in bullets: the art of Moses Nornberg