Geekgeek says, "mr brown" [Ed.: aka Lee Kin Mun], Singapore's most famous blogger, has been writing a weekly column for a local Singaporean newspaper called "Today". Recently, one of his… Read the rest of the article: Singapore gov condemns blogger for expressing opinions

"Five of the seven nominees for the so-called emerging media Emmy are reports done by websites of the New York Times or the Washington Post," says Romenesko. Here's the related… Read the rest of the article: Old media companies dominate "New Media Emmy" noms

Scanned from a 1985 issue of the Italian computer magazine Microcomputer: a coffeemaker timing device for the Commodore 64. Link (thanks, Señor Tonto)

Blogger PRU in Barcelona posts an interesting collection of images in this post — old watches and other handheld timepieces that feature sexually explicit tableaus.

BoingBoing reader Rodney Hoffman says, In the early 1950s, several above-ground atom bomb tests at the Nevada Proving Ground were visible in Los Angeles. This photo and five similar ones… Read the rest of the article: Blast from the past: '50s Nevada A-bombs light LA's night sky

A billboard promoting the new white PlayStation Portable. You stay classy, Sony! Link to Joystiq post with more images from the ad campaign recently launched in Holland.

CNN reports that North Korea test-fired at least three five six missiles earlier today, but the device was not the intercontinental missile being monitored by the United States (update) including… Read the rest of the article: Report: North Korea test fires 6 missiles, including long-range

Back in February, I posted an item on BoingBoing about the abundance of pirated tunes one can find by way of Chinese-language search engines Yahoo China and Baidu. Not news… Read the rest of the article: Record industry to sue Yahoo China over pirated tunes

Link to NYT coverage by John Schwartz and Warren Leary. You can track the positions of Discovery and ISS here: Human Space Flight – Orbital Tracking. (Thanks, Uldis Bojars)

Snip from a NYT profile by Tom Zeller: By the time of Shiva Brent Sharma's third arrest for identity theft, at the age of 20, he had taken in well… Read the rest of the article: Portrait of an identify thief

Snip from an LA Times op-ed piece by Bill Xia: MY CYBER WAR with the Chinese Communist censors began in 2002. We had another battle last month when Beijing launched… Read the rest of the article: Bill Xia: Foiling Beijing's cyber cops

Snip from a Chicago Tribune article on a retrospective of work from filmmaker Frank Tashlin: [Tashlin], a fantasist who came out of animation without ever leaving it behind entirely, once… Read the rest of the article: The unsettling films of Frank Tashlin (1913-1972)

Previously on BB, Cory posted an item about "investigative blogger" Kathryn Cramer's efforts to uncover damning facts about a US-expat-owned mercenary army operating in Haiti (…) [She] published an account… Read the rest of the article: Investigative blogger vindicated by UN inquiry over Haiti mercenaries

The Los Angeles city attorney's office has charged famed yoga entrepreneur Bikram "I have balls like atom bombs" Choudhury with 10 criminal safety violations. Penalties for each could be up… Read the rest of the article: LA: "Atom Bomb Balls" Choudhury's yoga studio violates safety laws

Award-winning photojournalist Martin Adler was killed in Mogadishu this week while filming a political demonstration. He was shot at close range by a single, hooded gunman. Mr. Adler often covered… Read the rest of the article: Photojournalist Martin Adler murdered in Somalia

Just as NBC embraces YouTube after having initially attacked the video-sharing service for copyright infringement, broadcasters in Japan are reportedly having a collective panic attack. What makes the news more… Read the rest of the article: Japanese TV nets slam YouTube over parody of kids' show

Excerpt from a blog post by Jasmina Tesanovic on a screening of The War Tapes, a documentary by Deborah Scranton about US soldiers returning from Iraq : My emotions as… Read the rest of the article: Jasmina Tesanovic: War Tapes

I hauled around multiple sets of five different adaptors on a recent trip to Asia — there were five different flavors of outlets along my travel route, and I had… Read the rest of the article: Kevin Kelly's "Cool Tools" review: APC Universal Plug Adapter

kit houses quik house retreat homes modular dwellings glide house modular house some assembly required Web Zen Home, Store (Thanks Frank!) Reader comments: Lisa says, don't forget the beautiful flatpak… Read the rest of the article: Web zen: prefab zen

Snip from a Department of Defense news release: The Air Force Office of Scientific Research recently began funding a new research area that includes a study of blogs. Blog research… Read the rest of the article: Air Force to spend $450K datamining blogs for war on terror