The most interesting news story of the day concerns the actual mechanism used by the Chinese authorities to censor the internet. It’s not what you’d expect — rather than a direct filter on content, it’s a 21st-century variant of the “Panopticon”. Thanks to Andy Bostom, C. Cantoni, El Ing...

I need not remind anyone here about FCC Chairman Kevin Martin’s ongoing “war on cable.” Even if you hate the cable industry or capitalism in general, there’s just no way I can see how anyone who believes in the rule of law and good government can support Martin’s incess...

Lots of pirate news tonight. The pirates are living high on the hog with their ill-gotten gains, but the Indian navy just blew one of their ships out of the water. Also, the Saudis appear to be negotiating with the freebooters to try to get their supertanker back… Thanks to C. Cantoni, Fjordman, H...

Posted by timothy (56% noise) View Skip Stellian writes “The Federal Communications Commission adopted a Second Report and Order that establishes rules to allow new, sophisticated wireless devices to operate in broadcast television spectrum on a secondary basis at locations where that spectrum...

We already kinda suspected that British television was superior to American television: the American "Office" never really held a candle to its British predecessor, American sketchy comedy has never been able to compare to Monty Python, and now that we've seen their reality TV stars, well—if w...

Doesn't stop the UN from piling on Israel or the MSM from lapping up Hamas' shit..... Palestinian Authority officials in Ramallah accused Hamas on Tuesday of staging the latest blackouts in the Gaza Strip in a bid to win sympathy and incite the Palestinian public against Israel and the...

The most striking thing about general relativity is time dilation. It's immensely counter-intuitive, to the point that no science fiction on TV has ever attempted to work the science into the plot, preferring to keep an impossible 'universal time' by using wormholes or some unexplained FTL technolog...

GQ Magazine has revealed it's 2008 Men of the Year recipients, 4 of whom are lucky enough to get their own cover and in-depth interviews. Those four men include future Prez Barack Obama, Olympian Michael Phelps, Mr. Earth Leonardo DiCaprio, and Mad Men star Jon Hamm. Let's take a look at those cover...

I’m not the greatest fan of black tie dinners but I did have a real hoot at the e-learning awards, where our table (Caspian Learning) won the award for best game/simulation. These guys are smart and really do understand the role of games in learning. This is probably the most exciting field in e-l...

I was sworn to secrecy. I couldn't talk about it to family or friends. They might try to influence my outlook. I couldn't use the Web to do my own personal research. Reporter or blogger bias might bend my views one way or the other. I couldn't even talk to my fellow jurors. We might start thinking t...