MetaFilter posts tagged with shell

Wiwa vs. Shell

allkindsoftime — Sat, 30 May 2009 01:24:15 -0800

Wiwa vs. Shell. 14 years ago, Ken Saro-Wiwa (prev) was hung with his counterparts for speaking out against Shell and the atrocities they were committing upon the Ogoni people of the Nigerian River Delta. The trial was postponed on May 26th, the day before it was scheduled to begin. The trial is expected to excite huge interest on the part of multinational companies and human rights bodies. Its estimated that Shell has extracted $30 billion in oil from Ogoni lands since they first struck there. Remember Saro-Wiwa The Case Against Shell

The Unofficial Google Shell

sdodd — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:52:24 -0800

Hey, command-line nerds! You shell geeks over there! Switch over to your browser and go to goosh.org right now. A couple things to try first (type everything after the ">"): > place 6266 W Highway 290, Austin, TX 78735 > news mcclellan > o 1 > web mcclellan > images firefox fox That's right, it's a command-line interface to Google in your browser. You're welcome.

MTV for emotaku

anthill — Mon, 28 May 2007 00:32:28 -0800

Anime Music Videos. Yet another remixing web subculture, they're usually a source of amateurishly produced angst. From the competitive perfectionists, though, come well lipsynched, action packed, meta-mashuped, and occasionally just filthy stuff for cartoon nerds. Besides the usual metal, ballads, and pop rock, there's some Daft Punk, club, and downtempo accompaniment. Or you can just go to hell. Wear headphones and no-one will know.

Does it matter anyway?

Unregistered User — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 15:28:37 -0800

Worst Ever Security Flaw in Diebold Voting Machine A single switch is all that is required to cause the machine to boot an unverified external flash instead of the built-in, verified EEPROM."

Blood Flows With Oil in Poor Nigerian Villages

Mr Bluesky — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 17:17:53 -0800

Blood Flows With Oil in Poor Nigerian Villages An insightful NYT article on "the desperate struggle of impoverished communities to reap crumbs from the lavish banquet the oil boom has laid in this oil-rich yet grindingly poor corner of the globe" Ok, so the quotes a little heavy handed but the pic on the 2nd page speaks volumes.

Oil companies kill.

toma — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 04:18:32 -0800

10 years. Though I already went on and on about this on another thread, I can't shake it: Ken Saro-Wiwa was hanged ten years ago. All he did was point out that Shell so scarred, pitted and slimed his tribal Ogoni lands that it was spontaneously catching fire. Oil company cronies showed up with guns, cleared villages. And then Nigerian government officials got pissed, and nine Ogoni were hanged. Wiki. Testimony of his brother. His foundation.