That’s not technically correct, but it might as well be.
From CNET:
The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a bill saying that anyone offering an open Wi-Fi connection to the public must report illegal images including “obscene” cartoons and drawings–or face fines of up to $300,000.
That broad definition would cover individuals, coffee shops, libraries, [...]

Well, not exactly, but it might help.
This according to a very interesting article in the Wash Post today that details how divorce is hurting the environment…
The analysis found that cohabiting couples and families around the globe use resources more efficiently than households that have split up. The researchers calculated that in 2005, divorced American households [...]

Hey kids, do you like to track suspicious activities and potential terrorist acts?
Then look no further than the Global Incident Map, a Google Maps mashup that shows you where the bad stuff could be going down. Stress “could be.” It also updates ever 420 seconds, and all in all it’s not such a bad [...]

The war drums just started getting a little quieter.
From US News:
In a report sure to further complicate the U.S.-led drive for additional sanctions against Iran, the atomic watchdog agency of the United Nations has given Iran relatively good marks for its recent cooperation in clearing up suspicions over past nuclear work. [...]
The IAEA said it [...]

David Brooks has an awesome editorial on the growing reliance on technology to remember for us, and after the quote below, I’ll have some thoughts about what that means to us as citizens and voters.
From NY Times:
Memory? I’ve externalized it. I am one of those baby boomers who are making this the “It’s on the [...]

You can click here to see what it looked like. Just text and links, but it’s interesting to see where it all came from.
So what was the first sentence?
The WorldWideWeb (W3) is a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents.
And so it did…

Interesting numbers because this is where Obama begins to show his grassroot chops against Hillary. He had 41,007 readers, compared with Hillary (the nearest Dem) at 18,555. That’s a massive gap.
What’s more interesting though, is Ron Paul would dominate the field with 30,960 readers but Fred Thompson is nipping at his heels with 24,160. Sure, [...]

You know the iPhone was supposed to only work on AT&T’s network, right?
Well…that just changed today.

Video courtesy of TheNewsRoom.

Apparently a highly usable, remarkably light solid that’s made up of approximately 99.8% air.
From TimesOnline:
Aerogel, one of the world’s lightest solids, can withstand a direct blast of 1kg of dynamite and protect against heat from a blowtorch at more than 1,300C.
Scientists are working to discover new applications for the substance, ranging from the next generation [...]

As some of you know, I’m a text blogger for 80108.com. Here’s a sample of what our subscribers have been receiving for free in recent weeks.

Gingrich Predicts Clinton/Obama Ticket
Newt Gingrich predicts that Dems will nominate Hillary and she’ll pick Barack to be her VP. What? No love for Edwards, Newt? On the Repub side, Newt [...]

Good call, but it’s going to be a while before we actually get to see it. Last part of November now.
From Wash Post:
This just in: The Republican CNN/YouTube debate, in limbo for the past few weeks, is on again.
But Mitt Romney, who won Saturday’s Iowa straw poll and has criticized the debate format, has yet [...]

If you think this is just targeting overseas calls and emails, you’re kidding yourself.
Goodbye privacy…
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 — President Bush signed into law on Sunday legislation that broadly expanded the government’s authority to eavesdrop on the international telephone calls and e-mail messages of American citizens without warrants.
Congressional aides and others familiar with the details of [...]

First I wrote about California’s electoral college woes yesterday and now this.
From CNET:
“The security mechanisms provided for all systems analyzed were inadequate to ensure accuracy and integrity of the election results and of the systems that provide those results,” wrote principal investigator Matt Bishop, a computer science professor at the University of California, Davis.
In each [...]

And you can bet that unless the format changes dramatically, it’s not going to happen. Apparently it’s not dignified enough for them and they think it’ll have a heavy liberal bias.
Hmmm…
At issue are questions like the one asked by the snowman. That one in particular is being held up as a prime example of how [...]

Political texter? What does that mean? Well…
I accpeted a freelance gig as the political reporter for a mobile news service that sends bite size news blurbs to your phone. It’s called 80108.com and I’ll be covering the Top Stories on the Campaign08 trail.
In fact, if you go over there right now, you can sign [...]

So how’d the Internet-created candidate do on his swing through one of California’s richest, most tech savvy ‘hoods?
Here’s video of him at the Google campus.

And here are four videos of him at a rally near Google.
PART ONE

PART TWO

PART THREE

PART FOUR

But wait…there’s more!
You can also listen to some audio of him at the San Francisco Chronicle’s [...]

Hey everybody, Donklephant needs some help.
We need to move over to a new hosting service and update our blogging software. The kicker? It has to be done within the next couple weeks. I’ll pay to have this done, so please drop me a line at justinpgardner at yahoo dot com if you’re interested.
Thanks!
UPDATE:
Our very own, [...]

Just FYI, some people have died after marathon sessions playing games like Everquest and World of Warcraft.
Sad but true.

It’s good to see the psychiatric community is addressing this before it gets even more out of hand.
Now if we could only have a more open discussion about mental illness in this country…

As anybody in marketing will tell you, the targeting trend is going toward more and more personalized messages, or “microtargeting.” And at some point in the future, marketers want to be able to target each individual with a perfectly crafted message. By that time they think they’ll be able to have enough information about you, [...]

Well, this sounds frightening.
Congress is about to pass an election “reform” bill, HR811 (the Holt Bill). The bill will enshrine secret computerized vote counting, controlled by the White House.
The Holt bill would tempt the likes of the late Mayor Daley of Chicago and vote villain Boss Tweed of New York City’s Tammany Hall.
How will our [...]