Barnhard Blog

Either aussi crocs learn a new diet or evolve to poison bunkers. Just like the Toads. Why?

Mike Letnic of the University of Sydney and his team say a massive 77% of some populations of freshwater crocodiles – or “freshies” – have died since 2005…

Update:
Lets GET Killer aNTS!

We have written much about the loss of civil rights recently.

It is almost holiday for most Politicians..But these last few days the EU just seems to increase their attemps to terminate EU citizens rights. Like the right of communication, without a legal proces? Hidious privacy agreements (hello transparancy!) or renewed attempts by local politicians for compulsory DNA databases.

Wondered if civil privacy is getting better in the US? Guess not.

I’m afraid, that political integrity now has reached such levels that we do need an European civil rights movement too. Simply because the EU is not really that democratic, as they pretend. Anyone still surprised why Ireland voted NO against an European constitution?

Update:
Apparently some of the proposed laws turn out to be a hoax. However, one should wonder why so many considered these actions even possible realistic.

In June the Swedish parliament passed a controversial surveillance law that gives authorities a mandate to read all email and listen in on all phone calls without warrant or court order.

In response to the law, The Pirate Party organized rallies, bloggers and journalists turned into activists, and even Google decided to relocate their servers.

Read full story @ http://torrentfreak.com [via]

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President George W Bush has told the Israeli government that he may be prepared to approve a future military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities if negotiations with Tehran break down, according to a senior Pentagon official.

Read more: www.timesonline.co.uk

The true open phone (as opposed to the iphone), open moko is out now. Googles open phone is coming too. Real public phone development is around the corner now.

It is nice when someone in politics stands up to demand transparency.

Finally there is a new search engine that can compete with Google while it protects your privacy! It’s Cuil, sounds like cool.

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Each pitch of 30 seconds.. bit more than a half hour for all speakers. Get a tiny insight of this open source convention.. (via)