Wikipedia Moving to San Francisco
Silicon Valley gossip blog Valleywag is reporting that the Wikimedia Foundation, parent company of my butt-buddy Wikipedia, is moving...
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Starbucks PWNED by Bejing’s Forbidden City
Reuters reports that The Forbidden City coffee shop has opened in the former Chinese imperial palace in Beijing. It...
First Lawsuit Filed To Enforce Open Source License
It’s called “open source” software for a reason. But it looks like one company might not be paying attention...
On Becoming Shock-Resistant
There’s a bit of blogging going on about Naomi Klein‘s new book, “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster...
And Then They Became Zombies
Okay, or so I wish. Today’s news, here’s the whole piece: Villagers in southern Peru were struck by a...
Google Tells UN Agency ‘We Need Global Web Privacy Laws’
Now, this is interesting. Definitely best to appeal to try and make global privacy standards than American ones, that’s...
Ebola Outbreak in the Congo
Aid teams are rushing to contain an outbreak of Ebola, arguably the deadliest disease on Earth, in the Democratic...
Iraq Troop Blogs: Intense, Real, Unstoppable
Back before I was born there was this war in Vietnam. On TV back then, news outlets showed the...
Pentagon Report Says China Is Preparing Hyooge Hack War
The news item sounds like a bad Hollywood movie, but explains itself, snip: Chinese military hackers have prepared a...
Patent Trolls, I Hate You
The U.S House has approved legislation that would overhaul the patent system and roust a few trolls. I’m particularly...