Web curation for December 30th 2009 through December 31st 2009
Filtering the web so you don’t have to for December 30th 2009 through December 31st 2009:
- Blogger Threatened by DHS for Posting New TSA Screening Directive | Threat Level | Wired.com -
Two bloggers received home visits from Department of Homeland Security agents on Tuesday after they published a new TSA directive that revises screening procedures and puts new restrictions on passengers in the wake of a recent bombing attempt by the so-called “underwear bomber.”
Special agents from the DHS’s Office of Inspection interrogated two U.S. bloggers, one of them an established travel columnist, and served them each with a civil subpoena demanding information on the anonymous source.. show all textDowntownRob: Exclusive! Photos of the blogger threated by TSA over new screening directive: http://bit.ly/6NTesD /via @wired - Ten gadgets that defined the decade — Engadget -
As 2009 winds down and we try to come up with new and clever ways of referring to the early years of this century, there’s really only one thing left to do: declare our ten favorite gadgets of the aughts and show them off in chronological order. It’s arguable that if this wasn’t the decade of gadgets, it was certainly a decade shaped by gadgets — one which saw the birth of a new kind of connectedness. In just ten years time, gadgets have touched almost every aspect of our daily lives, and p.. show all textjohnmerritt: a decades defining gadgets http://bit.ly/6AmX6z
- Texas oilmen believe Paris Basin contains billions of barrels of crude oil – A company from Texas believes that the rocks beneath the Paris Basin in central France contain billions of barrels of crude oil and it is gearing up for a drilling campaign early next year.
- State to spy on every phone call, email and web search – UK: Every phone call, text message, email and website visit made by private citizens is to be stored for a year and will be available for monitoring by government bodies. via @nateritteron Twitter.
