While very few are for internet piracy of movies & TV shows, the new SOPA bill + the Senate version (Protect IP) is so vague … How would SOPA work? It allows the U.S. attorney general to seek a court order against the targeted offshore Web site that would, in turn, be served on Internet […]

Here’s an interesting look at the communication bonds between parts of the US … Or trade patterns of TakeFivers. 🙂 You can read more at FastCompanyDesign.

When Google drives around on the street taking photos for Google StreetView, they also collect your Computer Router name and location – why? Google says, “Location services play an important part in enabling many of today’s most popular location-aware applications, in particular on smart phones, laptops and other devices that are WiFi enabled. The inclusion […]

Every year, in the Swedish town of Gavle, since 1966, they build a giant Christmas goat and take bets whether it gets light up like a well, giant, giant pile of twigs (which it is) … If you bet December 11, you win! 45 years, 28 years burnt to a smoldering shell …  IT BURNS! […]

Church and 30th St. San Francisco MUNI Light Rail Track Construction Via Vimeo/Ken Murphy

October marked 150th anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental telegraph line. Pretty amazing that once it was completed, a person on the East Coast could actually communicate with someone on the West Coast 3,500 miles in minutes … “The transcontinental telegraph put the Pony Express out of business in the literal click of a […]

It looks like when others caught wind of the generousity of an anonymous donor paying off dozens of layaways at Kmart … it has ignited a parade of like-minded secret Santa’s. Here is a CNN story from a few days back (thanks John of MO for heads up) … Now, it has spread like a […]

Sometimes the true meaning of Christmas gets lost in the run up to Christmas … and it is like a run up – a full speed process with regular life going on … never mind the crazy grinches who steals presents or attack their fellow man to score a waffle maker … but how about […]

Oh the humanity.