Tomorrow’s the big day! Just remember…
Posted on Monday, November 5th 2012
Reblogged from Alexis Reiko
Absolutely fascinating and the best part? Real. The Official (Declassified) C.I.A. Manual of Trickery and Deception
“At the height of the Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency paid $3,000 to renowned magician John Mulholland to write a manual on misdirection, concealment, and stagecraft. All known copies of the document — and a related paper, on conveying hidden signals — were believed to be destroyed in 1973. But recently, the manuals resurfaced, and have now been published as “The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception.” Topics include working a clandestine partner, slipping a pill into the drink of the unsuspecting, and ‘surreptitious removal of objects by women.’”
Posted on Wednesday, May 16th 2012
Did you remember to spring forward?
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Posted on Sunday, March 11th 2012
“I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume, is to do at any time what I think right. It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience; but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.”
Posted on Saturday, November 12th 2011
Source brainpickings.org
“Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.”
Posted on Monday, October 31st 2011
Source brainpickings.org
Next up: #OccupyCongress
Posted on Thursday, October 27th 2011
Source fastcodesign.com
“The state has turned class into caste and the market has converted owners into serfs.”
Posted on Tuesday, July 12th 2011
“Each and every one of us has a vital part to play in building a world in which government and technology serve the world’s people and not the other way around.”
Posted on Tuesday, July 12th 2011
“What people can and cannot do with information has more effect than ever on the exercise of power in the physical world.”
Posted on Tuesday, July 12th 2011
USDA announce a new “food icon” to replace the food pyramid. No announcement of hiring design talent.
Posted on Tuesday, May 31st 2011
Source The Atlantic
China vs. America – the catch-up game, in an infographic
Posted on Friday, April 29th 2011
Source 
Google's Public Data Explorer
Google launches Public Data Explorer, a major win for the open data movement. (And, admittedly, a ripoff of Hans Rosling’s brilliant GapMinder.)
Posted on Tuesday, March 9th 2010
Source google.com
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