Month: <span>October 2010</span>

It gets better

Given the number of young gay people who committed suicide in the US recently a campaign was started entitled “It gets better”. Started by Dan Savage It includes councilmen. It even includes President Barak Obama And corporations such as Google. And there is a cute bear at the end:

New Vegas is awesome

I just started playing Fallout New Vegas and OMG I love it.   I had to stop playing Fallout 3 halfway through and take a break because the bleak desolated environment was beginning to affect my mood.  This is the same and it hurts, but it hurts so good. Essentially …

Steve Jobs hates freedom

Steve Jobs hates freedom. You can see it in Apple’s iOS with it’s obfuscated coding, in the rigid and draconian application management, and now with it’s censorship.  Yup, “There’s an app for that too!” PC magazine reported on Apple’s Anti-sexting Patent. Apparently teens send each other lewd messages on their …

I am not evil

One thing I just don’t get are privacy policies.  I don’t understand how a public can be so naive as to be upset that they are being tracked when they are on the Internet, and how unaware they are that invasive tracking is in our daily lives. Julia Angwin wrote …