Communicating in a networked world
The iPad immediately led me to think about how tablet computing is portrayed in science fiction. TV and movies - because that’s the only place you actually saw little beasties like these 10 or 20 years ago.[1] Today they’re (literally today) all … [Continue reading]
Cory Doctorow posted a BoingBoing article about a recent National Security Letter requiring the Internet Archive to reveal user information to the FBI. In case you’re not familiar with this process, certain government agencies can issue these letters … [Continue reading]
Neat idea - although ReclaimPrivacy.org has gone away, you still may want to scan your Facebook privacy settings to see exactly how private you might not be! Comparitech offers to guide you through this. Try it out. Comparitech's page also … [Continue reading]
I was browsing the history of Esperanto and discovered Rose Island, a micronation in the Adriatic Sea that declared itself the Republic of Rose Island in 1968. (And whose official language was Esperanto.) Apparently there have been any number of … [Continue reading]
I’ve never gotten seriously into heavy metal, but on occasion I pig out on grunge music for a few hours, and today I was listening to an NPR Music Fresh Air podcast where Dave Davies interviewed the musicians of a heavy metal group Acrassicauda who … [Continue reading]