Monthly Archives: January 2014

No ‘Plausible Deniability’ Anymore

Posted on January 30, 2014 by Muller

Immediate comments debunking litany-like claims by President Barack Obama about aim and scope of overall inoffensive NSA’s mass surveillance, made in carefully staged public speeches such as yesterday’s State of the Union Address, by those who have access to Edward … Continue reading →

Posted in Germany, UN, USA | Tagged 2009 UN Climate Summit, Angela Merkel, Barack Obama, Edward Snowden, mass surveillance, plausible deniability, SOTU | Leave a comment

Journalism is About Telling Stories That Make a Difference?

Posted on January 28, 2014 by Muller

E-bay founder, billionaire and philantropist Pierre Omidyar’s new enterprise First Look Media has been described in a short video clip and one wonders what is so new that dedicated investigative individuals like Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, Laura Poitras or New … Continue reading →

Posted in Journalism | Tagged First Look Media, Glenn Greenwald, Jay Rosen, Jeremy Scahill, Laura Poitras, pierre Omidyar | Leave a comment

German Television Interview With Snowden

Posted on January 28, 2014 by Muller

Update below. http://vimeo.com/85155619 Whether German television channel ARD intentionally hid its interview with NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden Sunday night is not clear. That it was immediately taken off its media center so that interested viewers who had missed the broadcast … Continue reading →

Posted in Germany, surveillance, USA | Tagged ARD, Edward Snowden | Leave a comment

By Compass and Straightedge

Posted on January 22, 2014 by Muller

Update below. Readers may have noticed that I have attributed considerable recreational time on this blog to conceive and convey quasi-periodic patterns on ancient Islamic buildings. Following a first visit of Esfahan’s Darb-i Imam shrine in the old city in … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Iran, Islam | Tagged compass and straightedge, Darb-i Imam, Emil Mackovicky, Esfahan's Friday mosque, girih tiles, Gunbad-i Kabud, Penrose tiling, Peter Lu, Peter Steinhardt, quasi-periodic tiling, Rima A. al-Ajlouni | Leave a comment

The Moon Illusion

Posted on January 19, 2014 by Muller

Not only when having lived in the Middle East a couple of years ago, then interested in how beginning and end of Ramadan was actually determined, I have always been a moonwatcher. I remember vividly my first lunar eclipse when … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alhazen, Ibn al-Haytham, moon illusion | Leave a comment

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