Location awareness: From your desktop, find friends on the square
Hooked on Foursquare, the locative, social networking tool for mobile devices? Now, you can now track your friends from the relative comfort of your Mac desktop or laptop. Folks use Foursquare...
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Second Life: It's not just for sex, anymore
Nothing to see, here. Photo: Akasuki Redstar/Flickr CC At least that’s the Linden Lab line. Linden CEO, Mark Kingdon, says you shouldn”t trust your lying eyes, when it appears that the highest number...
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Privacy alert: Will dummies buy the fed's "smart meter" line?
Gotcha! Through smart metering, utilities and the feds will widen their nets. (Photo: McKay Savage/Flickr CC) The word “privacy” appears not once, in a 1,500-word request for public comment on the...
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Latin America to UN drug warriors: Put this in your pipe, and smoke it
Photo: Esparta Palma/Flickr CC Mexico, Argentina and Brazil are winding-down their roles in the no-win-scenario, war on drugs being waged (purportedly on Latin America’s behalf) by the United States....
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Comic teaches you an esoteric thing, or two
Find your way to the whole comic, by Andy Carolan, at Binnall of America. (Click on the image to get to the BoA site. You will find a link to the column at the lower right-hand side of the page.) The...
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Attention unimaginative bloggers: IBM app spits out topics to write about
Every writer could use a muse, sometimes. Photo: Ygor Oliveira/Flickr CC You might think a roomful of monkeys could generate most of the blog posts you read. But IBM Research has got it all down to a...
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Copycat killers use knives, where guns are scarce
Consumerism doesn't work for everyone. Photo: Ernie/Flickr CC The latest attacks suggest that middle-aged men are struggling to cope in capitalist China. — MB Loren Coleman suspects the wave of school...
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Dio spent a career warding off the evil eye
My wife, Lisa, an Italian, knew what the ubiquitous heavy metal hand signal meant. Dio’s “devil horns” were meant to ward-off the malocchio: “But Dio, says Young, explained that he was taught the...
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Smart appliances will tell Google when you rise, and hit the shower
Now that we know Google — the search engine giant and revolving door operation for CIA analysts — has been spying on Wi-Fi laptop users, we can expect corporations and governments to next target...
View ArticleLazy press watch: Just what are "global communications," anyway?
Orwell advises against using the vague language found in the Independent’s story about the dead MI6 guy, saying Gareth Williams worked for an MI6 division that “eavesdrops on global communications.”...
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