Today is my birthday and while it’s not as cool as past ones, there is a ton of stuff going on today. the US government decided to celebrate my birthday by shutting down Florida’s texting-while-driving ban goes into effect the 2013-2014 hockey season starts (Go Bolts!) But the best gift is post-season baseball, and this …
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While attending the Burning Man festival, Marcus receives a USB drive from a hacker, Masha, with more than 800,000 incriminating government documents, and she advises Marcus to publish the material if anything happens to her. Meanwhile, a contact at the festival recommends Marcus to California Senate Independent candidate Joe Noss as a webmaster, and he …
Trent McCauley is sixteen, brilliant, and obsessed with one thing: making movies on his computer by reassembling footage from popular films he downloads from the net. In the dystopian near-future Britain where Trent is growing up, this is more illegal than ever; the punishment for being caught three times is that your entire household’s access …
When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum’s classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious Witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the true nature of evil? Back in January, I …
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It’s not often you get the chance to see a sitting President of the United States in person, so when we found out this past Wednesday that President Barack Obama was going to be speaking at a rally at St. Petersburg College, less than a mile from where we live well, we just had to …
Does Barack Obama have a TiVo on Air Force One? This article seems to imply that, when talking about the president’s TV viewing habits: For less R-rated fare, he tunes into “Hannah Montana” or “SpongeBob SquarePants” in the White House with his daughters. Aides said he would have watched Monday night’s NCAA championship on TiVo …
Check out this incredible panoramic photo of President Barack Obama’s inauguration on Tuesday (found via Gizmodo). You can zoom in and see faces, not only of the important people behind the podium (Al Gore, the Clintons, President Bush, etc.) but of folks in the crowd. If you were there on the National Mall, you might …