Monday, February 8th, 2010
The FBI is pressing Internet service providers to record which Web sites customers visit and retain those logs for two years, a requirement that law enforcement believes could help it in investigations of child pornography and other serious crimes.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10448060-38.html?tag=smallCarouselArea.1
On the one hand, all the conspiracy nuts use this to line their nests. And on the other hand, ISPs already hold quite a bit of your personal information and day to day surfing. The interesting thing is the privacy dynamic, those that want more open source are the same that don’t want a shred of their info out there. Transparency is the key to letting go of the ego trips, but you really have to know what you’re doing first.
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Sunday, February 7th, 2010
The New Orleans Saints won the Super Bowl in 2010, because I always forget my mid year.
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Friday, January 29th, 2010
Month-to-month fluctuations in rates of collision claims in jurisdictions with bans didn’t change from before to after the laws were enacted. Nor did the patterns change in comparison with trends in jurisdictions that didn’t have such laws.
http://gizmodo.com/5459813/handheld-cellphone-bans-dont-reduce-car-crashes-after-all
Wow, imagine that, a useless law. Regardless of the situation people will do stupid stuff, a cell phone is just another excuse.
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Thursday, January 28th, 2010
(CNN) — J.D. Salinger, author of “The Catcher in the Rye” and other books, has died, according to his literary agent, Phyllis Westberg.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/books/01/28/salinger.obit/index.html?hpt=T1
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Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Zelda Rubinstein, the US actress best known for her role as the diminutive psychic in 1982 film Poltergeist, has died in Los Angeles at the age of 76.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&oi=news_result…
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/23/movies/23polanski.html?scp=2&sq=Roman%20Polanski&st=cse
Of all the places to get caught it, Switzerland has to be a decent place. The people might be a bit crazy, but the place in general seems ok. Polanski will have to make cheese for a few years as punishment.
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
When a site like twitter goes down, backup plans aren’t available. Being out of the loop in the IT world means you become a dinosaur that much quicker. And when it’s used as an only means of communication for real data, it’s validity comes into question.
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Thursday, January 14th, 2010
‘In a provocative look at the impact of sedentary behavior on health, a new study links time watching television to an increased risk of death.’
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405…
This is another useless attack on TV. I should really go out and talk about how this is false, but 30 Rock is on tonight so I’ll do it later.
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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2010/01/13/2172962.aspx
Pat Robertson is a douche bag. Actually that’s an insult to douche bags.
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
Why Twitter Will Endure
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/weekinreview/03carr.html
It’s a fad, like myspace and facebook. If anything, it might work because it’s two syllables like goo-gle or ap-ple.
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