Commercial Wikis and Failure I have a lot of personal, shamelessly snarky theories about why commercial wikis are typically doomed to fail; on...
Germany: No To Tom Cruise Films I really have a crush on Germany. Great beer, friendly people, yummy food, fun nightlife, lots of great artists...
Real Life “Phantom” Gadget Heists This is one of my favorite crime stories of the year: the burglary ring pulling off huge, mind-boggling jobs...
Mass Murder In The Skies: HOWTO With Liquids The Register often has some pretty wacky articles, and sometimes some news, but this particular piece exploring the feasibility...
Operation Bot Roast OMG, the FBI is so LOL! That’s actually the name of their “botnet hacker sting” operation that is beginning...
Spock Lives! Patient Bleeds Green Blood … and totally freaks out the doctors operating on him. I love the BBC’s need for an explanation of...
A Serial Killer in the Comments? Thomas sends me this gem from Australia’s News.com.au, where in one of their blogs, it seems someone has been...
Citizen Media: G8 Protests Photo by Hugo. By now you’ve probably read about the insanity going on at the G8 summit right now...
Court to FCC: It’s Not Fucking 1950, M’kay? Ah, the sound of MSM struggling to survive. Actually it’s good news: a court just smacked the government for...
“Top Ten” Spammer Snagged No, he’s not on a sexy Maxim list. He’s on this, like, *other* list, snip: Robert Alan Soloway, 27,...