August 6, 2011: Weekend
- After ferocious assault, Syria claims to have put down revolt in Hama, hundreds of civilians feared dead.
- Standard and Poor's math mistake miscalculated debt projection by $2 trillion.
- Timely Kickstarter project: "Is Capitalism Working for You," interactive public art strapped to a truck.
- Five-star hotel opens in Gaza amid poverty, influx of expected tourists unlikely.
- This Norse saga of the gods destroying themselves is the perfect allegory for 21st-century environmental catastrophe.
- NASA rocket to Jupiter will carry aluminium Lego mini-figs of Galileo and Roman gods Jupiter and Juno.
- Related: "A Common Nomenclature for Lego Families."
- Washington police use cyber-stalking law to identify animator mocking them on YouTube.
- Politicians and corporations teaming up to wage war on online anonymity.
- Photo essay from Athens details rocketing violent crime rate amid economic protests.