The Friday hacks appeared to compromise emails and other sensitive documents:

A web page that included Anonymous' signature tag line stated the hacking was in response to Alabama's "recent racist legislation in an attempt to punish immigrants as criminals" -- referring to legislation, signed last June, aimed at cracking down on illegal immigration in the state.

The Anonymous-related Twitter page also provided links to documents, messages and other files that it said it had taken off a website tied to Mexico's mining ministry.

"Hello Mexican Chamber of Mines," a related Twitter post read. "Want to see your emails exposed?"

Interpol's website, Interpol.int, was hit Saturday afternoon:

Yep, seems INTERPOL (interpol.int ) is still Tango Down from here - downforeveryoneorjustme.com/http://www.int… (via @BlackTuesday) #Anonymous

— Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) February 11, 2012

A message found on Pastebin.com appeared to imply credit for DDoSing Interpol and was tagged "With love from @blackTuesday." (Ed: The Twitter handle for the group is apparently @BlackTuesdayHG.)

Thousands protested A.C.T.A. (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) across Europe on Saturday. While anti-piracy A.C.T.A. is a favorite target for Anonymous's wrath and plenty of Guy Fawkes masks were in evidence in photos of protesters, it wasn't clear that the Interpol wipe and A.C.T.A. protests were connected.

[CNN.com]

Johnny Guillen Pimentel (Fairfax County Police)

Butt owners along the East Coast can breathe a little easier today. Interpol Peru is reporting that alleged "butt cutter" Johnny D. Guillen Pimentel, age 40, was arrested Friday in Lima.

US authorities have been seeking Guillen for a series of attacks between February and July of last year in Fairfax County, Virginia. Police there say Guillen would distract a victim--often while shopping--then slash their buttocks. In one attack at a Forever 21 in late July, police took a report from a woman with an inch and a half long wound on her butt.

The butt slasher may have assaulted as many as 13 women before leaving the country, prompting local police to create an internal task force to track him down and place extra uniformed personnel in malls and stores throughout the county.

Peru.com reports that Guillen was able to leave the U.S. last year even though his passport was expired.

[CNN]

Though the event's futuristic installations — celebrating those who push "creative boundaries through technology," according to a press release — provided an amusing distraction, most patrons were there for the event's bands, who seemed to be have been selected more for their popularity than their technophilia. The roster included M.I.A., the Rapture, Die Antwoord, Interpol and the aggressively lo-fi Sleigh Bells.

"My experience with technology is really about my lack of resources, not having any technology. Those early demos are really kind of blown out because the equipment I was using wasn't very good," Derek Miller, one half of Sleigh Bells, told the Transom. "Pushing the limits was the only way I could get really cheap drum machines to sound even mildly exciting."

"But I think that's good. We're not the first band to take advantage of our limitations," he added. "Boundaries seem to help create."

Asked why his band attended, Interpol drummer Sam Fogarino smiled and referenced a popular feature from the magazine: "We just didn't want to be a Vice 'Don't.'"

None of this is to say that the installations weren't popular. The musical performances tended to fall on the short-and-sweet side, giving visitors plenty of time to peruse the electronic playground. 

One popular project, "The Digital Flesh," featured a dim room containing a teepee-sized glass cone attended by two male models. These acolytes guided curious patrons inside the cone to have their heads scanned and projected as a computer rendering on a disc above the structure.

Radical Friend, the music video–directing duo behind the project, said it will follow the Creator's Project to its next five venues, finishing with the Project in Beijing, where they'll project a holographic amalgamation of every participant's face.

"Imagine if everybody in this room got squished into this one giant ball. It's like cells growing," said Julia Grigorian of RF. "I think it's going to be a little horrific, but so is life."

Other standouts included newly created games for the original Nintendo console, and a short film from Spike Jonze about tragic lovers that happen to be androids. "I'll walk around here and literally not know what I'm looking at," said Vice co-founder Shane Smith enthusiastically. "I'm like, 'I want to start taking acid again.'"

Complexity was a detriment to at least one installation, though. We overheard a PR girl, either from Vice or Intel, complaining about a light projection near the entrance that users had failed to manipulate.

"People are supposed to be moving that block off to the side, but they don't know," she said, frustrated. "I saw someone sitting on it earlier!"

After the sun set, Interpol took to the stage. Earlier, lead singer Paul Banks told the Transom that New York audiences are harder to impress ("There's more head nodding and less clapping in the air") but it didn't seem to be a problem as hands clapped and fists pumped for their greatest hits, accompanied by a pulsating light show. The performance took place in the building's loading dock, separated from the street by a barrier, and as the band played, a graffiti artist named Words tagged a building across the way using a high-tech laser pointer. A nearby projector traced his writ-large strokes, transforming them into dripping, green simulated spray paint over the High Line for some 30 seconds. Then the building was clean, ready for a new display of virtual vandalism.

"Love Williamsburg so much now," Luna Lounge co-owner Rob Sacher said of the long-shuttered indie rock/comedy club's new nabe.

On Friday night, the former Ludlow Street venue that first brought you Interpol and The Strokes is reopening in 5,000-plus square feet at 361 Metropolitan Avenue at Havemeyer Street. (The lounge lost its previous lease in 2005.)

And the first band to commemorate the club's reawakening after its year-and-a-half-long hibernation? The Comas.

Doors open at 8 p.m.

More on Mr. Sacher's new "world class music venue" after the jump.

- Chris Shott

Press Release: January 15, 2007

Luna Lounge To Open In Williamsburg

Friends and fans of the old Luna Lounge will be lining up Friday night in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn eagerly awaiting admission to the re-located indie rock nightclub. Luna Lounge was the original scene of the first shows from NYC rockers Interpol, Longwave, Stellastarr* and The Strokes, bands heralded for returning New York to the forefront of a new generation of rock music.

The original Luna Lounge was the center of the music scene on Ludlow Street on the Lower East Side for a decade ending in June of 2005. It was also a highly touted room for off center comedy and hosted shows regularly with Janeane Garofalo, Sarah Silverman, Marc Maron, and Wanda Sykes.

"We are very excited to be able to recreate ourselves here in Williamsburg and to be completely embraced by this community of musicians and artists," says Luna Lounge co-owner and booking agent Rob Sacher. 'We have been working quietly on this building for over a year and have taken our time to build a world class music venue for the people of New York City."

Luna Lounge is where aspiring young musicians create new styles of music influenced by locals who play in bands with off beat names like TV On The Radio, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, and Nada Surf.

Luna Lounge is located at 361 Metropolitan Avenue at Havemeyer Street.

The nightclub will be open weekends in January and early February with a full schedule starting in the spring.