Scientists are railing on a BBC program which claims a Wi-Fi laptop puts out “three times” the radiation as a cell phone tower. Sound scary? Naa, it’s just based on a shoddy experiment:
Paddy Regan, a physicist at the University of Surrey, criticised the experiment at the heart of Panorama’s claims because the measurements of signal […]
I’ve toyed with Linux for a few years, running it off of live CDs and installing it on really old machines. Lately I’ve become very tempted to wipe Windows from my notebook and run Ubuntu (or Kubuntu) Linux full time. This might provide the final push in the open-source direction:
In light of that, Microsoft now […]
It’s hard to feel sympathy for a wealthy socialite who frequently flouts the law, shows little respect for the judicial system, and then receives just punishment. That’s why I couldn’t help but enjoy the schadenfreude when I learned the “Free Paris Hilton” online petition (that Paris herself is encouraging fans to go sign) is being […]
Over the last few years, I’ve really enjoyed reading blogs of soldiers serving overseas- The information comes straight from the source without being filtered through the mainstream media, and as a result I’ve been able to read a number of extremely compelling stories. I empathize with these guys. I see how hard they’re working, and […]
Digg is perhaps the most prominent “social news” site, where stories reach the front page based on their popularity. It’s supposed to be a democratic system, but democracies are dependent on the masses to keep them functioning properly. And when the masses are angry, they protest:
The power of Web 2.0 is in full effect over […]
Poor Stacy Snyder. As a Millersville University student, she was nearly within reach of receiving her teaching certificate before it was denied by the school’s administration. The problem is a common one: They were offended by her MySpace profile. MySpace users, for some reason, are notorious for posting photos of themselves engaged in quasi-legal/ethical behavior […]
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