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This Week In Getting Screwed By Companies
It’s bad enough that, two decades after the Internet started making inroads into the consumers’ wallets, I pay more for top-speed internet than I ever did before. Turns out that “top-speed” doesn’t...
View ArticleThrow in a laser microphone…
Bruce Schneier, the Roman god of freaking you out for things you’d normally laugh at, points us to a very scary paper, here’s the gist: When you type in a password/PIN number on your phone, the phone...
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IFTTT – My favorite new tool
A long time ago, Yahoo created Pipes, a cool tool that let you scrape info from certain sources (as “pipes”), parse it in a variety of ways, and generate useful output (which is, itself, a “pipe”). It...
View ArticleHow We Use Internets
Things are changing: Streaming video content now takes up the majority of online bandwidth, with Netflix accounting for almost one-third of peak downstream traffic, according to the latest study from...
View ArticleCybersecurity and you
Troubling news about more cyber-vulnerabilities: Hackers gained remote access into the control system of the city water utility in Springfield, Illinois, and destroyed a pump last week, according to a...
View ArticleWe’re Number Two!
At emitting waste: For the first time, China’s consumers are responsible for more carbon dioxide emissions than their US counterparts are – and consumption in developing countries now generates more...
View ArticleWhy SOPA Matters
No serious people care much about the Stop Online Piracy Act, because it’s nerdy and the detractors are all hiding in their moms’ basements watching stolen movies and so forth. Except when they’re not:...
View ArticleChoosing One’s Own Memory Above That Of The Cameras
nickgb is bummed about all the Giants-Patriots stuff going up on the blog, so it’s obviously time to talk about Carlton Fisk’s home run in Game 6 of the 1975 World Series, and how he’s preserved his...
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Somewhere Between Bargaining And Acceptance
I guess we have a blog, so we have to post this stuff. Via James Fallows, here’s a picture of a dead cat turned into a helicopter by its mourning owner: Here’s a video:
View ArticleRumors of iGoogle’s demise are not greatly exaggerated
I’ve been getting daily warnings from Google that their customizable dashboard, iGoogle, is about to be taken out to the backyard to have a bullet put in its head. I believe the end of iGoogle (and...
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