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It looks like the lastest image from a NASA spacecraft, approaching the surface of a satellite on the outskirts of the Solar System. Or maybe one from the deepest underwater exploration voyage ever.......

Forrester just released a report titled " Add Sponsored Conversations To Your Toolbox," authored by Sean Corcoran. Kmart gave some bloggers a free shopping spree in exchange for a blog post about the experience — a practice we call sponsored conversation. With appropriate protections for...

(1) First came Bushworld attempts to suppress public scrutiny of questionable decisions taken in the name of national security, most of which involved violence to the constitution and/or other laws of the land. Then came multiple instances of the Obama administration’s full-throated support of...

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling this week affirmed the Casper, Wyoming City counsels decision not to allow anti-gay pastor Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas to place an anti-gay... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]...

It’s getting so that this kind of thing hardly qualifies as news any more: The Justice Department is defending a provision in a 2008 surveillance law that provides legal immunity to telecommunications companies that cooperated with the Bush administration’s warrantless surveillance progr...

There are a ton of fun toys in the motorcycle world - heck, some folks even call bikes themselves toys, though I’ve never quite liked that description for a purpose built machine myself - however over the weekend I got a chance to try out what quite possibly might be the coolest motorcycle toy...

In the not so far off future, computing for most of us will be reduced to remotely delivered subscriber services, running on cheap, commodity high-definition display units. What is The Screen? I don’t think it has been well defined what the interface or the experience really is going to look like,...

Filed under: The Simpsons, HDTV, Reality-Free One of television's most beloved and historic television shows is undergoing a major change tonight. Oh and it's also going to be in high definition too. Tonight's episode of The Simpsons will update their iconic opening sequence for the second time in i...

The title of this week’s episode has multiple layers of meaning to it. On one level, it’s about how the warring factions of humans and Cylons are finding they have fewer and fewer options left to them for survival, as they draw closer to an inevitable final battle. On a second level, it&...