Given the number of young gay people who committed suicide in the US recently a campaign was started entitled “It gets better”. Started by Dan Savage It includes councilmen. It even includes President Barak Obama And corporations such as Google. And there is a cute bear at the end:
I just started playing Fallout New Vegas and OMG I love it. I had to stop playing Fallout 3 halfway through and take a break because the bleak desolated environment was beginning to affect my mood. This is the same and it hurts, but it hurts so good. Essentially …
Steve Jobs hates freedom. You can see it in Apple’s iOS with it’s obfuscated coding, in the rigid and draconian application management, and now with it’s censorship. Yup, “There’s an app for that too!” PC magazine reported on Apple’s Anti-sexting Patent. Apparently teens send each other lewd messages on their …
Here is one of the most entertaining presenters with stats. (I know an oxymoron or what, eh?)
One thing I just don’t get are privacy policies. I don’t understand how a public can be so naive as to be upset that they are being tracked when they are on the Internet, and how unaware they are that invasive tracking is in our daily lives. Julia Angwin wrote …
Jure Robic died on September 24th at aged 45 when he collided with a truck while training. I first heard of Jure in a podcast on Radiolab called limits. This is where I came in contact with RAAM, the Race Across AMerica. Jure has won the race from San Diego …
Dharun Ravi and Molly Wei are not the only people responsible for the death of Tyler Clementi. There is of course Tyler himself, but also society at large. What kind of society do we live in where the shame of being “outed” is so traumatic that it would drive someone to kill …
Is it the season for crappy logos? Or is it just something with international sporting events. Check out this monstrosity for the Pan-am games being hosted in Toronto in 2015. Yes I get the “T” and the “O” for Toronto Ontario but damn, comic sans anyone? Seriously it just looks …