• Loose lips sink dictatorships. John, Blagnet.net (2010-12-04). Seen on the internet, from someone who originally saw it in Barcelona, presumably inspired by Obama's opposition to WikiLeaks: (Linked Saturday 2010-12-04.)

• Please Read: A Personal Appeal From the Outlaw Josey Wales. John Gruber, Daring Fireball (2010-12-01). I would pay to put this on Wikipedia. Update: Safari extension from Troy Gaul.  â˜…  (Linked Sunday 2010-12-05.)

• !!!@@e2;20ac;2dc;A Waste of Money and Time' John Gruber, Daring Fireball (2010-11-29). Bruce Schneier makes the case against the TSA: Exactly two things have made airplane travel safer since 9/11: reinforcing the cockpit door, and convincing passengers they need to fight back. Everything else has been a waste of money. Add screening of checked bags and airport workers and we're done. Take… (Linked Sunday 2010-12-05.)

• Leaker Calls on Leaker to Leak the WikiLeaks Story. Jesse Walker, Jesse Walker: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2010-12-03). With Amazon denying that pressure from Sen. Joe Lieberman was the deciding factor in its decision to expel WikiLeaks from its server, Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg has put out a call for an Amazon leaker to come forward and tell the inside story: This would be a good time… (Linked Sunday 2010-12-05.)

• "The 'TSA radius' is the distance below which you'd rather drive than fly." — http://hackerne.ws/item?id=1899811. Mark Pilgrim, Mark's Firehose (2010-11-12). (Linked Sunday 2010-12-05.)

• C4SS Launches Wikileaks Mirror. Roderick, Austro-Athenian Empire (2010-12-05). For Immediate Release 12/05/10 POC Thomas L. Knapp Media Contact: media@c4ss.org 530-618-C4SS Technical Contact: admin@c4ss.org ANARCHISTS LAUNCH WIKILEAKS MIRROR, ASSISTANCE PROGRAM December 5th — "Censorship has always been wrong and irresponsible," says Brad Spangler. "Now it's another thing: Impossible." Spangler, director of the Center for a Stateless Society, announced on… (Linked Sunday 2010-12-05.)

• I Remember When the RIAA Thought This Would Work. Jesse Walker, Jesse Walker: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2010-12-02). Fresh from successfully pressuring Amazon into booting WikiLeaks from its servers, Sen. Joe Lieberman (CFL-Conn.) has now persuaded Tableau, a Seattle software company, to take down some WikiLeaks-related material created by the journalist James Bell. Glenn Greenwald, who interviewed Bell today, reports that the material consisted of charts summarizing the… (Linked Thursday 2010-12-02.)

• Mississippi Supreme Court Grants Cory Maye a New Trial. Radley Balko, Radley Balko: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2010-12-02). The Mississippi Supreme Court granted Cory Maye a new trial today (PDF), though on different grounds than the Mississippi Court of Appeals, which granted the trial based on a change of venue issue. The state's supreme court instead ruled that Maye's trial judge should have let the jury consider a… (Linked Thursday 2010-12-02.)

• Update in Northern Virginia: Police Agencies Still Secretive, Newspaper Editor Still Okay With That, Plus a Disturbing Police Visit to the Former Residence of a “Reason Institute” Writer. Radley Balko, Radley Balko: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2010-12-02). Over the last six months, I've written several articles about the extraordinary secrecy of Northern Virginia's police agencies (see here, here, and here). A few updates on the story: First, Michael Lee Pope, the reporter for the Connection Newspaper chain and the NPR affiliate WAMU who deserves all the credit… (Linked Thursday 2010-12-02.)

• Support Irene Bedard. bfp, flip flopping joy (2010-11-29). I just found out that Irene Bedard–the actress who played Mary Crow Dog in the movie Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee and was the voice for Pocohontas in the Disney movie by the same name, needs help and support. After 17 years of abuse and violence, Irene left her… (Linked Thursday 2010-12-02.)

• The Center Needs Your Help! James Tuttle, On ALLiance (2010-11-30). Dear Fans of the Center (Centerians?), So this is how the story goes, retold for the recently Centered: C4SS asks the internet for donations and support.  Out of the gate, there is a sudden influx of funds followed by a long period of nothing.  This is when the writers and… (Linked Tuesday 2010-11-30.)

• WikiLeaks: Bradley Manning isn't a criminal. He's a hero. – CSMonitor.com. www.csmonitor.com (2010-11-30). Many are condemning Bradley Manning for allegedly providing WikiLeaks with sensitive reports about US foreign policy. But a government that can make war while keeping essential information about its justification and conduct secret is neither open nor fit for free people. (Linked Tuesday 2010-11-30.)

• brooksie: Yet it might be useful to consider one more filter. Captain Capitulation, eye of the storm (2010-11-30). brooksie: Yet it might be useful to consider one more filter. Consider it the World Order filter. The fact that we live our lives amid order and not chaos is the great achievement of civilization. This order should not be taken for granted. This order is tenuously maintained by brave… (Linked Wednesday 2010-12-01.)

The Nation Posts a Narrow Apology. And Publishes Another Error. – Hit & Run : Reason Magazine. reason.com (2010-11-30):

Over the weekend, The Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel posted something that sort of resembled an apology for the whiff at investigative journalism

Balko: “Over the weekend, The Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel posted something that sort of resembled an apology for the whiff at investigative journalism Mark Ames and Yasha Levine attempted at the magazine’s website last week. Ames and Levine, remember, wrote a meandering, conspiracy-mongering, wholly unsubstantiated article trying to link the anti-TSA backlash to the Koch family.* All the piece was missing was Glenn Beck’s blackboard.”

• Lane's Forgotten Writings on Race. Roderick, Austro-Athenian Empire (2010-11-25). Among libertarians, Rose Wilder Lane is best known as the author of the libertarian classics The Discovery of Freedom and Give Me Liberty. Outside of the libertarian movement, she is known – if at all – as the at least partial ghostwriter of her mother Laura Ingalls Wilder's popular Little… (Linked Friday 2010-11-26.)

• Some people, when confronted with a problem, think, "I know, I'll give up Freedom 0." Now they have two problems. Mark Pilgrim, Mark's Firehose (2010-11-24). (Linked Friday 2010-11-26.)

• Protecting Your Home From Afar With a Robot. By PETER WAYNER, NYT > Personal Tech (2010-11-10). Wi-Fi-equipped robots can be operated remotely to protect a home. Some can even be modified to detect fire and carry an extinguisher. (Linked Sunday 2010-11-28.)

• The Illegitimacy of the "Psychiatric Bible" Thomas S. Szasz M.D., The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty (2010-11-24). "Mental health experts ask: Will anyone be normal?" So read the title of a July 27 Reuters report. The "experts" warned that the fifth version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), scheduled for publication in 2013, "could mean that soon no-one will be classed as normal…. (Linked Sunday 2010-11-28.)

• Get The TSA By The Balls. DarianW, DarianWorden.com (2010-11-25). I participated in a WeWontFly pamphlet distribution event at Newark Airport last night. It was organized by NJ Libertarian Party activists. Although everything went smoothly the terminal we were at was not very busy at the time of the event. TSA is engaged in a massive propaganda campaign to discredit… (Linked Sunday 2010-11-28.)

• Jay Stuart Snelson in OC at KHCTF. PermaKent, PermaKent Permaculture Ideas of J. Kent Hastings (2010-11-24). A NEW Orange County, CA Supperclub! THE Karl Hess Community Technology Forum A PROJECT OF THE RESILIENT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION The Resilient Community Foundation ("Rescomm.org") is pleased to present Jay Stuart Snelson at the inaugural meeting of the Karl Hess Community Technology Forum. Mr. Snelson is a California native, UCLA graduate… (Linked Monday 2010-11-29.)