- Twitter users are changing their locations to Tehran to confuse the Iranian censors on Tue Jun 16, 2009 2:29 PM PDT
Twitter users across the world are attempting to turn that dynamic on its head. The best way that the Iranian government could discover which tweets were from Iranians is to look and see whose accounts are registered to people who identify themselves as being from that country.
- Iran arrests human rights activists on Tue Jun 16, 2009 1:19 PM PDT
Security officials posing as clients entered the Tehran offices of one of Iran's leading human rights lawyers today and arrested him, Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi just told NPR's Davar Iran Ardalan.
- Arizona bishop sentenced because church bells break city noise ordinance on Sat Jun 6, 2009 12:02 AM PDT
The bells at the Cathedral of Christ the King in northwest Phoenix normally chime at the top of every hour from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Neighbors said the bells are too loud and ring too often.
- Documentary: We could be the generation that runs out of fish on Fri Jun 5, 2009 6:46 PM PDT
An extraordinary documentary released next week, The End of the Line, forces us to stop, and see. Its story is stark. In my parents' lifetime, we have killed 90 per cent of the world's fish. In my lifetime, we will finish off the rest – unless we change our ways, fast.
- GM sells Saturn to Penske on Fri Jun 5, 2009 6:38 PM PDT
The deal gives Penske the rights to the 19-year old brand including its five different models. GM would continue production of only the three highest-selling models: the Aura sedan, and the Vue and Outlook cross-over SUVs, for the next two years.
- Stephen Colbert to Guest-edit Newsweek on Thu Jun 4, 2009 7:24 PM PDT
Newsweek will have more truthiness — for one week only.
...
And in true satirist fashion, Colbert will spice up the issue with the "conventional wisdom" of his ultra-right-winged alter ego.
- Decreasing cow emissions to fight global climate change? Why not? on Thu Jun 4, 2009 7:02 PM PDT
Libby, age 6, and the 74 other dairy cows on Guy Choiniere's farm here are at the heart of an experiment to determine whether a change in diet will help them belch less methane, a potent heat-trapping gas that has been linked to climate change.
