Chomsky: why the U.S. enables Israeli crimes and atrocities

Kath­leen Wells of Race Talk inter­views Noam Chom­sky on Israel.

War, what is it good for?

The arms trade, and you, dear UK tax­payer, are pay­ing to set up the deals:

Brit­ish tax­pay­ers are pay­ing a secret­ive lob­by­ing firm $10,000 (£6,354) a month to push Amer­ican politi­cians to award con­tracts to Brit­ish defence companies.

Punks like fags

Photo of punk holding sign up in response to gay basher

Under­stated, via Mis­sion Mis­sion.

The new science of morality

The sci­ence of mor­al­ity forges ahead:

Some­thing rad­ic­ally new is in the air: new ways of under­stand­ing phys­ical sys­tems, new ways of think­ing about think­ing that call into ques­tion many of our basic assump­tions. A real­istic bio­logy of the mind, advances in evol­u­tion­ary bio­logy, phys­ics, inform­a­tion tech­no­logy, genet­ics, neuro­bi­o­logy, psy­cho­logy, engin­eer­ing, the chem­istry of mater­i­als: all are ques­tions of crit­ical import­ance with respect to what it means to be human. For the first time, we have the tools and the will to under­take the sci­entific study of human nature.

The Big Picture: Severe flooding in Pakistan

Worst flood­ing in over 80 years.

65 years since America’s nuclear terrorist attack on Japan

It’s the 65th anniversary of the worst ter­ror­ist attack in his­tory today.

Let’s hope the U.S. and Israel do not try to trump it as some have been sug­gest­ing they might.

The Ghosts of WWII

The Ghosts of World War II.

Mash up of modern Europe with old WWII photos

New website for iPhone photographers

iPhon­ific. TUAW has the low-down:

The idea is that you shoot, edit and upload your pho­tos entirely with the iPhone.

Hero: Mike Prysner

Click through for the video.

YummySoup 2 recipe management software

HungrySeacow Soft­ware has just released ver­sion 2 of Yummy­Soup, my favour­ite recipe man­age­ment soft­ware for the Mac.

With this ver­sion they’ve intro­duced a weekly meal plan­ner and the abil­ity to eas­ily share recipes (sub­scribe to my favour­ite recipes).

They say they have an iPad and iPhone ver­sion in the works too.