Scout Jordan

Hi, I'm Jordan Running. By day I write about software for Tucows.com. By night I blog at swirlee.org (sometimes), do some programming, take some photos, and otherwise keep myself busy.

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Member Since: May 26, 2006

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This story has mostly positive ratings. 37 votes / 1 sink

Gitmo Torture Techniques Inspired by Communist China

News – The military trainers who came to Guantanamo Bay in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart that had been copied verbatim from a 1957 Air Force study of Chinese Communist techniques used during the Korean War to obtain confessions, many of them false, from American prisoners.

View Story Discuss (1) (nytimes.com) 22 days ago by Neophile

Voted for on July 02, 2008 12:50am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 27 votes / No sinks

Time Warner AOL Officially For Sale

Gadgets & Tech – At a meeting with about a dozen senior members of AOL's staff yesterday, Jeff Bewkes left at least one member of management with the impression that the company is for sale, a source close to the company says.

View Story Discuss (0) (alleyinsider.com) 22 days ago by Aidenag

Voted for on July 02, 2008 12:31am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 6 votes / No sinks

The King of Green Investing

Money – Vinod Khosla is pouring his own millions into science experiments to counter global warming -- and to prove he's the smartest guy in the Valley.

View Story Discuss (0) (fastcompany.com) 22 days ago by Jordan

Voted for on July 02, 2008 12:23am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 11 votes / No sinks

Cluster listens to the sounds of Earth

Science – The first thing an alien race is likely to hear from Earth is chirps and whistles, a bit like R2-D2, the robot from Star Wars. In reality, they are the sounds that accompany the aurora. Now ESA's Cluster mission is showing scientists how to understand this emission and, in the future, search for alien worlds by listening for their sounds.

View Story Discuss (0) (esa.int) 24 days ago by GregD

Voted for on July 01, 2008 05:24pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 9 votes / No sinks

Hands-free cellphone use isn't safer: Study

Autos – Scientists say that when mixing cellphones and driving, the number of hands available for the tasks is not the limiting factor. Instead, it's a driver's attention and processing capacity. These are often stretched beyond safe limits when someone juggles the complex tasks of negotiating traffic and conversing with another remotely.

View Story Discuss (0) (latimes.com) 22 days ago by Jordan

Voted for on July 01, 2008 04:43pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 9 votes / No sinks

Spectators see lion kill eagle at Greater Vancouver Zoo

News – A lion pounced on and killed a trained golden eagle in front of spectators at the Greater Vancouver Zoo. A zoo visitor who saw the incident, Pablo Su, said crows were harassing the eagle on Friday as it sat on a log. That attracted the attention of two approaching lions.

View Story Discuss (0) (seattlepi.nwsource.com) 22 days ago by Jordan

Voted for on July 01, 2008 04:42pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 9 votes / No sinks

Truck hauling 12 million bees overturns

News – Beekeepers in New Brunswick had the unenviable task today of recovering 12 million honey bees from a truck that overturned on the Trans-Canada Highway in the northwest corner of the province. One beekeeper described the bees as "nasty" after their ordeal.

View Story Discuss (0) (thestar.com) 22 days ago by Jordan

Voted for on July 01, 2008 04:41pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 9 votes / No sinks

Dry times in venture-land: IPOs drop to zero in Q2

Gadgets & Tech – If you're wondering why we haven't been covering much IPO news recently, it's because there hasn't been any... This is the first quarter since 1978 that has gone by without a single venture-backed IPO, according to a new report from the National Venture Capital Association and Thomson Reuters.

View Story Discuss (0) (venturebeat.com) 22 days ago by Jordan

Voted for on July 01, 2008 04:41pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 9 votes / No sinks

Study Confirms: People Hate Fake Personalized Messages

News – A new study from the University of Illinois confirms what many of us may have suspected privately: "personalized" marketing communication online can often make us actively dislike the message's sender.

View Story Discuss (0) (readwriteweb.com) 22 days ago by Jordan

Voted for on July 01, 2008 04:08pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 11 votes / No sinks

The Weirdest Examples of Mass Hysteria

News – Things supposedly started innocently enough. Kashasha, near Lake Victoria in Tanzania in 1962: One girl in a boarding school there told another girl a joke. But then things went dark, weird, and creepy: one girl laughed, but then so did another, and then another, and then another, and then another...

View Story Discuss (0) (darkroastedblend.com) 22 days ago by Jordan

Voted for on July 01, 2008 03:55pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 31 votes / No sinks

Obama to expand Bush's faith-based programs

Politics – Reaching out to evangelical voters, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is announcing plans that would expand President Bush's program steering federal social service dollars to religious groups and - in a move sure to cause controversy - support their ability to hire and fire based on faith.

View Story Discuss (3) (news.yahoo.com) 22 days ago by MyWayOnNow

Voted for on July 01, 2008 03:36pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 3 votes / No sinks

No-Contract iPhone Sells For Same Price as a Tropical Vaca

News – NEW YORK--AT&T Inc. will sell the new version of the iPhone without a service contract for $400 more than the price with a two-year plan, a break from the rules set when Apple Inc.'s popular touch-screen gadget debuted last year.

View Story Discuss (0) (foxbusiness.com) 22 days ago by newsblogger08

Voted for on July 01, 2008 03:34pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 11 votes / No sinks

It's a Done Deal: Microsoft To Acquire Powerset

Gadgets & Tech – Microsoft will announce today that they have acquired San Francisco based semantic search engine Powerset. The acquisition price is not being disclosed, but our understanding from sources close to the deal is that the previously rumored $100 million is "roughly accurate."

View Story Discuss (0) (techcrunch.com) 22 days ago by Jordan

Voted for on July 01, 2008 03:31pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 6 votes / No sinks

Ten Blogs You Should Be Reading DAILY

Gadgets & Tech – Blogs are a part of our daily lives now, and many -- okay, a few -- are far more than the diaries of people with too much time on their hands. Some blogs are absolute must-reads for everyone who wants to know what's going on, both online and off.

View Story Discuss (1) (pcmag.com) 23 days ago by KeithMcDuffee

Voted for on July 01, 2008 03:15pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 8 votes / No sinks

Jerry Yang And Sue Decker's Days Are Numbered At Yahoo

Gadgets & Tech – The board is considering replacing Jerry Yang and Sue Decker, who have lost the confidence of investors and employees. The "nice" way to do this (more likely) would be to allow Jerry to retire to non-executive Chairman. The harsh way (less likely) would be for the board to can him. Sue, meanwhile, is too linked to Jerry to survive.

View Story Discuss (0) (alleyinsider.com) 23 days ago by Jordan

Voted for on July 01, 2008 01:45am

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