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About Lelia

Lelia Katherine Thomas is a 21-year-old American living in Melbourne, Australia. She journals, writes stories, creates visual artwork, takes photos and works with web design. She is a Libertarian politically, has a morbid sense of humor and really likes salty foods. More?

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Media Education Foundation

Political and media-related videos for education.

Delicious/leliathomas, on October 7, 2008, 8:57 pm

Colonial clue to the rise of HIV

"The study, published in the journal Nature, suggests the virus may have crossed from apes to humans between 1884 and 1924...Scientists believe that these 'founder events' may have involved eating monkeys infected with a similar virus."

Delicious/leliathomas, on October 6, 2008, 5:58 am

Chinese Skype Client Hands Confidential Communications to Eavesdroppers

"...TOM-Skype, the version of the voice and chat program distributed in China not only blocks keywords from chat conversations, but also spies on and remotely reports the contents of Skype users' private text conversations....extensive logs on user activity, including archives of more than 166,000 censored messages from 44,000 users."

Delicious/leliathomas, on October 4, 2008, 3:19 pm

House limits constituent e-mails to prevent crash

"The House is limiting e-mails from the public to prevent its websites from crashing due to the enormous amount of mail being submitted on the financial bailout bill."

Delicious/leliathomas, on October 4, 2008, 3:16 pm

When Not In Control, People Imagine Order

"New research shows that when people perceive they have no control over a given situation, they are more likely to see illusions, patterns where none exist and even believe in conspiracy theories. The study suggests that people impose imaginary order when no real order can be perceived."

Delicious/leliathomas, on October 4, 2008, 1:56 pm