If you're familiar with brilliant innovations like Shaved Bieber, Facebook ID cards, Google Alarm, the Free Universal Construction Kit, or QR_HOBO_CODES, then you're familiar with the work of the hacker provocateur collective F.A.T. Lab.
Frustrated with the failure of Congress to enact a universal background check requirement, and alarmed by the spiking opioid epidemic, elected officials and police chiefs across New England began holding a series of regional gun-violence summits organized by Boston Mayor Marty Walsh in 2014.
The US Preventive Services Task Force is evaluating a final recommendation to clinicians that there is not enough science to promote universal screening for children under three, prompting alarm from many researchers and clinicians in the field.
"They would be alarmed by an increasing turn away from universal values and toward old ties of blood, and race, and sectarianism.
Take Britain, for instance, where the move towards universal credit in the benefits system should set off loud alarm bells for contemporary feminists.
The biggest alarm bell for Warner and Wright should have been that Universal's well reviewed and textually faithful $130m version of Peter Pan only made $127m in 2003.
It's also bringing Facebook one step closer to becoming the universal standard for social content across the web – an idea that may alarm advocates for open standards like OpenID.
But the universal message of affordability represents a race to the bottom that should alarm all of us.
Seeking to soothe investors who have become increasingly alarmed by the company's dwindling levels of cash, Vivendi Universal said today that it was close to reaching an agreement with its banks to secure fresh loans.
The first came from a 26-year-old, O-type (hurray our children, or rather our child, will be a universal donor!), triangle-faced man named "Poisonsc…" But as I browsed through his profile, alarm bells quickly went off.
