Warren Buffet, who used to be the world's second richest man until this past weekend, donated $30.7 Billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, the largest charitable donation in history (the previous holder of such record was The Bill of Gates when he started the charity). Buffet is an outspoken opponent against dynastic wealth, believing ( Read more... )

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With such brilliant and educated folk in the Department of Homeland security our country is sure to be safe from any attack.

~El Chupageek

This blog entry links to some pretty disturbing articles where our beloved (hated and despised) U.S. Attorney General proposes restrictions on what the press may publish, specifically in the context of if the government considers it sensitive information (any information that points out the administrations incompetence, disregard for constitutional ( Read more... )

This is some pretty freaking scary applications of the data the NSA has been collecting. Yeah, turns out that the NSA may not know they content of a phone call, but they can still use the information that they collect to figure out who reporters are in contact with, and if they don't like the news reported they can track down the sources and ( Read more... )

This is a must read article on the extend of the NSA's wiretapping and information gathering. Its heinious. The officials in charge of this neeed to go away to jail for a very long time, including the president. At the very bottom of the article is a link of Defense Tech that goes even more in depth, but also explains why it won't effectively ( Read more... )

So what is America's biggest advisary? Is it drugs we should have a war on? War on Terrorism maybe? Of course not. What we really need is a war on copyright infringement (NOTE: That isn't actually piracy despite how much they like the term). Of course we don't really care about the big offenders, the people manufacturering and selling DVDs ( Read more... )

So Time's 100 list detailing 100 notable people of the year. Mostly I find it interesting to read the "Scientists & Thinkers" section, though some of the other sections can be interesting as well. Mostly I don't even bother looking at the artists and entertainers section, as that isn't my cup of tea per se. It is the first one listed though, and ( Read more... )