As Google bans some weapons-related youtube videos in the UK (i.e. Google, the owner of Youtube is not allowing them on Youtube, not that google is altering its search results)

The most disturbing part to me is the statement by Home Secretary (I believe this is some sort of government position in the UK, I am not positive)
"This is a real step ( Read more... )

I just got piece of spam with the first line
"An in cannibalism piracy oatmeal"

I hope they don't think they're going after my interests

I make no personal claims to its veracity, as it is from an individual Alaskan citizen, but this letter paints a very clear picture of Palin

Apparently California is claiming copyright to its laws. How can it expect a citizenry to abide by laws they can't have unfettered access to?

I find this recent hullabaloo about Palin's 17 year old daughter being pregnant deliciously ironic. Republican leaders say this is a private matter for Palin's family. Surely they think private matters like marital fidelity shouldn't be dragged in politics. Oh wait ( Read more... )

It seems there's more warrantless (i.e. illegal) wiretapping coming our way

I meant to post this a couple days ago when it was slightly more topical, but I was lazy (and/or attempting not to burn my eyes out any more). Here goes anyway.

According to this blog(and much speculated about by major newspapers, including the NYTimes(Time login needed for that link, you can get some from bugmenot)), He Kexin, a Chinese gold- ( Read more... )

Two annoying "features" of a couple pieces of software that I finally figured out how to turn off. I post them here in the hope that google may deliver them to other poor sods like me. They may not be of interest to most of you

• Firefox recently started cancelling installation of extensions which don't offer secure updates ( Read more... )

Does anyone know how to make livejournal default to HTML? It always defaulted to HTML for me before, but today it just started defaulting to Rich Text for no good reason. A quick look at the settings page didn't show anything useful

CenceMe, the iphone social networking application, developed in the Dartmouth Sensor Lab, that I'm part of the team for this summer, has its first version available on AppStore now. If you have an iPhone and it's your sort of thing (though this may very well be none of you), check it out.