Guestblogger Arthur Goldwag is the author of "Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies: The Straight Scoop on Freemasons, The Illuminati, Skull and Bones, Black Helicopters, The New World Order, and many, many more" and other books.
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Forty-five years ... More.
Monsters and Rockets sez, "Sesame Street is 40 years old today! In this early clip, Grover and a little boy named Jesse define marriage. It's a cute bit, but the remarkable thing is that given recent headlines this actually plays a lot like a PSA about gay marriage. At no point do Grover and Jesse... More.
Stanford primatologist and anthropologist Robert Sapolsky scores big with this grad lecture on "The Uniqueness of Humans," a humbling, inspiring and sweet 30 minutes on what it is about humans that makes us unique from our animal cousins, and how many of the seemingly unique features of humanity... More.
Glenn Fleishman of WiFi Net News says, "T-Mobile is going full throttle on building out faster mobile broadband networks: 21 Mbps starting next year. Hallelujah, said the netbook. (For comparison, 3G speeds = up to 14 down, 5.8 up.)... More.
We've posted before about the Pope's chief astronomer Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes and his statements on possible extraterrestrial life. (ETs "don't contradict our faith," he has said.) The Vatican recently hosted a conference on the topic of astrobiology -- the study of life in the universe -- wher... More.
How can you monitor a person's email, browsing etc etc, if they've been cut off?
Seem to me, if the UK Govt. wants to watch everything we do, then they need to let us keep our internets
Unfortunately I can't afford to send him to Corfu so it's unlikely he'll listen to my opinion.
I'm not in the UK, but I tried to send to send him a picture of how i feel, problem is my camera just does not seem to get my middle finger in focus... guess I have to get a new mobile phone with a better camera!
I'm not in the UK, but I tried to send to send him a picture of how i feel, problem is my camera just does not seem to get my middle finger in focus... guess I have to get a new mobile phone with a better camera!
Hrm. The third panel has "these proposals will work against the aim of copyright - which is to help creatives earn a living from their work"
No, the purpose is to create an incentive for the creation of new works. It may seem like a quibble but the distinction is important. Once you start thinking of it as welfare for artists you end up with copyrights that last a century, and successful artists that never need lift a finger again. /derail
in the great scheme of things, I would think this was good news too:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ministers-cancel-big-brother-database-1817708.html