“On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.” — The words of a well-known adage dating back to a New Yorker cartoon from 1993 have been interpreted and re-interpreted, acting over the years as a starting point for debates on privacy and online anonymity. In Japan, a country wit...

...is the indivisibility of secular law and religious practice: The idea of a separate Indian Muslim state, once it had been formulated couldn't have been resisted. The idea was put forward in 1930 by a revered poet, Sir Mohammed Iqbal (1987-1938), in a speech to the All-Indian Muslim League, th...

Okay, you might remember the World's Most Expensive CS5 from previous posts. It is actually nearing completion. It has wooden end-pieces and MIDI input now, and the ridiculous sliding pot that acts as a pitchbend has been replaced with a DSI self-centering wheel which will, of course, be back-lit. (...

I'm down in Florida at Kennedy Space Center to see a space shuttle launch.  In all the years of following space activities, I've never actually seen a launch.  We tried back in December 2007, but that trip was foiled by problems that it eventually took them 6 weeks to fix. So, it...

I have been thinking for awhile now that the traditional sense of fashion is dying before our very eyes. Mostly it's the fault of the Internet, that Great Leveler of Culture and Identity. Control of journalism and the entertainment industry is now becoming a thing in the hands of the average person....

For 10 years—including the boom times banks enjoyed in the first half of this decade—the FDIC was prevented from collecting fees from 95% of financial institutions, which it would have used to further build up its safety net in the event it would someday have to bail out a bunch of stupi...

I have been dissed in a nerdcore rap song about SWSX, at which I am speaking. ….. Fuck the panels, there ain't one girl ta talk to I didn't fly here to see some Wired dude You want The Long......

Leslie weighs in on the Chris Brown/Rihanna debacle, in response to the fans who wonder why the police are making such a big deal of this since RiRi has already forgiven the little dickens.No, seriously, they're wondering that.Leslie's answer is,......

I am on AIM/MSN/ICQ/YIM a lot. Before, I used multi protocol IM clients that allowed me to connect all that once but one of my quirks was that I wanted chat logs saved. Problem is, my hard drives tend to crash and I always forget to backup that folder. Enter Meebo. Meebo is a web based multi protoco...

Carriers and Palm have been absolutely silent on the matter, but let's be honest: there's very likely been one of the most heated, no-holds-barred wars over the past few months to score European exclusivity on the Pre since the Storm and the iPhone -- and with launches broadly expected by mid-year, ...