Archive for March, 2007

‘Yahoo Betrayed My Husband’

Posted by 3wire on March 28th, 2007

From: Wired FAIRFAX, Virginia — Early one Sunday morning in 2002, a phone rings in Yu Ling’s Beijing duplex. She’s cleaning upstairs; her son is asleep, while downstairs, her husband, Wang Xiaoning, is on the computer. Wang writes about politics, anonymously e-mailing his online e-journals to a group of Yahoo users. He’s been having problems [...]

Government Mandated Art

Posted by 3wire on March 22nd, 2007

From: Neal Boortz … A task force appointed by the Mayor has determined that Atlanta needs a cultural investment fund in the amount of at least $10 million that will provide money to artists, arts organizations and what it refers to as “cultural organizations.” The suggestion is that there should be a tax on businesses [...]

Who Needs Apple TV? Here Comes Orb’s MyCasting

Posted by Maverick on March 21st, 2007

With the new Orb MyCasting software, media geeks can stream music, video, pictures or even youtube.com from their computer to their TV using any network-connected next-gen console.

On The Issues

Posted by 3wire on March 20th, 2007

Every political leader on every issue. http://www.ontheissues.org

Be More Than You Can Be

Posted by Maverick on March 13th, 2007

Soldiers that can stay alive with over half of their blood gone? The future of small unit soldiers is being developed by Darpa today. Wired 15.03: Be More Than You Can Be

Czech Pres: Environmentalism is a Religion

Posted by 3wire on March 10th, 2007

From UPI “Environmentalism should belong in the social sciences,” much like the idea of communism or other “-isms” such as feminism, Klaus said, adding that “environmentalism is a religion” that seeks to reorganize the world order as well as social behavior and value systems worldwide.

FBI Misused Patriot Act – Report Says

Posted by 3wire on March 9th, 2007

I told you so. What a surprise. From: Wired “The report indicates abuse of the authority” Congress gave the FBI, said Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. “You cannot have people act as free agents on something where they’re going to be delving into your privacy.” The committee’s top Republican, Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, [...]

Dead? Or Alive? [warning BSG spoilers]

Posted by 3wire on March 8th, 2007

BSG spoilers, as in Battlestar Galactica. Some nugget on another blog whined that he didnt know that BSG meant Battlestar Galactica. What a frak’n dweeb. I feel the same way Crystal does about this “Dead? Or Alive?” question and I think TomCat agrees. From:Crystal What do you hear TomCat?

BitTorrent To The Rescue

Posted by Q Ball on March 3rd, 2007

According to TorrentFreak, many Britons will be without TV service that they have already paid for because of ongoing disputes between the two major networks. This means they will not be able to watch shows that are currently in the middle of their runs in the UK. Enter the P2P protocol BitTorrent. With BitTorrent and [...]

Blogger Jailed In Egypt

Posted by Q Ball on March 2nd, 2007

From the Technology Liberation Front: An Egyptian blogger has been sent to jail for four years for criticizing Islam! Video of him being taken away.

Gore rejects Balance as “Bias”

Posted by 3wire on March 1st, 2007

It must be very “inconvenient” for Al Gore that people insist on debating the merits of his claims. Isn’t this the guy that also claimed to have invented the Internet? From Best of the Web Here we have a major American politician who is calling for policies that would impose huge costs on society but [...]