memoirs on a rainy day

Kottke mentioned something cool in his latest post: Intellipedia, a wikipedia-like tool for people working in intelligence.

WP responds to recent news that WP.com is blocked in Brazil.

Bill Geerhart writes letters to serial killers and powerful politicians posing as a ten year old, asking for advice on whether he should drop out of school. They all responded. I liked Clarence Thomas’ response the best. Dick Cheney’s wasn’t bad either. Arnold Schwarznegger’s was a bit of a let down. (via cf)

In the late ’90s, pop-culture historian Bill Geerhart had a little too much time on his hands and a surfeit of stamps. So, for his own entertainment, the then-unemployed thirtysomething launched a letter-writing campaign to some of the most powerful and infamous figures in the country, posing as a curious 10-year-old named Billy.

I learned of Jason P. Howe after reading this article on the Independent. His conflict pictures are amazing. His book Colombia: Between the Lines is coming out this spring. It’s mentioned that his book will be turned into a Hollywood movie.

Banksy strikes again with his biggest London mural right underneath a CCTV camera! (via TomHawk)

What else is new? Canada’s immigration laws have also become stricter in the last couple of years.

Some more differences between Easterners and Westerners.

All of the Mike Wallace interviews from 60 minutes can now be found online here. Among others, he’s interviewed Frank Lloyd Wright, Salvator Dali & Eldon Edwards, Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. (via cpluv)

ThePirateBay has moved their torrent indexing servers to Egypt, Saudi-Arabia and Israel due to impeding EU legislation that came into effect today. (smells like an April Fools’ Day to me)

Fitna, the short movie nobody wants you to see. (Google Video)