Earlier this month, the Obama administration created a stir amongst the IT community with its announcement that it would be following the same draconian policies of the Bush administration with respect to a secretive anti-counterfeiting trade agreement known as ACTA.
PC World reported that The Office of U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), part of President Barack Obama’s [...]
I think I completely burned myself out with all the “how to” articles of late because they took many, many hours to write. So today, I’m taking a break and posting something useless but fun.
Gigapan has an awesome view of the Obama inauguration. You can zoom in on the crowds and see people’s [...]
Here’s a recap of the major news stories from the year 2008, as sung by Uncle Jay. This is very funny!
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Remember this Year’s Giveaway: The New Year’s Giveaway is the largest giveaway event that opened its doors on the 1st of the year. [...]
Learn more...Will the Internet be censored by thought police? Perhaps not yet, but some recent trends indicate that some regulations may involve “content police,” for lack of a better word.
Censorship of Wikipedia.
The latest uproar involved a page in Wikipedia that was blocked from U.K. Internet users. The blocked page included an image of a 1976 music [...]
Thanksgiving has come and gone and we have just a few short days left before 2008 is over. To get everything done that we need to do before 2009, there’s a surefire way for success: Turn off the TV!
As someone who does not watch television unless traveling, I’m usually shocked by what I see on [...]
Now that a little over a week has gone by since the November 4 election, the “shouts” that I have been receiving from my friends at Digg have slowed down considerably. In fact, I’m willing to bet that the “shouting” rate has dropped by a good 75%.
Some of the shouts are still somewhat political, particularly [...]
It’s finally over. The “robo calls” from politicians, the sea of political signs, and in some cases with respect to ballot initiatives, name calling and shouting.
The Halo Effect was 100% Accurate
It was such an amazing thing to watch history unfold, and although I am in that tiny little group of people who voted Libertarian because [...]
Do you think you’re an adult, and one who is capable of making your own decisions about what you do and do not want to read? Do you think you are capable of clicking a back button? Or shutting off your password-protected computers when the kids will be home alone?
In Australia, the government thinks not.
The [...]
If you’ve listened to all three presidential debates and still don’t know who to vote for, it’s perfectly understandable. The debates are limited to the Democrat and Republican parties and seem to be nothing more than a collage of rhetoric that we’ve heard over and over again.
A site called Glass Booth goes beyond the scripted [...]
Anyone who reads this blog knows that I am very much against the two-party duopoly on the presidential debates. Some of the third parties and independents have spent a tremendous amount of time and money to get their candidates on the ballots and they should have a voice in the debates. For background on this [...]
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