Music on the Interwebz
by AJ Focht The music industry has won the day as file sharing program Limewire has been forced to stop its “searching, downloading, uploading, file trading...
Fear and Loathing in Public
On New Years Day, 2000, NYPD raided an underground bunker and uncovered a human experiment. Was it a cult? Was it art? Was it the future? They found a...
Save Trees, Kill The Future
So long newspapers. You guys were great. I really appreciated all you did. Where would I be without you? Huh? IÂ’d be one stupid asshole. And where would...
Wil Wheaton's Geek in Review: Brave New World
There is a communications revolution happening right now. It crosses generations, and it scares the absolute shit out of a lot of people who benefit from...
Sex, Laws, and Internet: When Second Life and Real Life Collide
(image) The Internet is an fascinating thing: you can, to some degree, live out a whole separate life in here, fully removed from the confines and limitations...
Wil Wheaton's Geek in Review: On the Benefits of Going Off the Grid
This ultra-connected world we live in is really cool, isnÂ’t it? Any information we could possibly want is literally at our fingertips: we get directions...
The Internet is a Series of Tubes, and the Tubes are Full of Holes
(image) When it comes to the world of technology, I am not a natural. To me, the Internet is as vast and wondrous and fascinatingly incomprehensible as...
Google is Watching You
(image) As we sit in front of our computers, adrift in invisible streams of binary code, faced with mountains of information, most of us only rarely give...
Miss Manners 2.0
Last week, the creator of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, and publisher Tim “Web 2.0” O’Reilly proposed a set of guidelines to increase civility and manners...
Roy Orbison in Cling-film Hits the Presses
(image) This story is not about Roy Orbison wrapped in Clingfilm. This story is not even really about stories about Roy Orbison wrapped in Clingfilm. No,...
Newt Gingrich: We Must Destroy Freedom to Save It
At an event ironically to celebrate free speech, former Congressional amphibian Newt Gingrich announced that free speech must be curtailed if we're...
Internet is Only 1% Porn
It's a revelation that is likely to spark opposite reactions in individuals depending on their internet experience. Those who are still trying to...
Using Craigslist for Sex
(image) Can the vastly popular bulletin board site Craigslist.com alleviate your sexual frustrations by treating intercourse like buying a Transformers...
WiFi Routers Get Warning Sticker in California
Wireless routers sold in California will come with a warning, instructing their new owners to secure their WAPs. Dark Reading says: This will be an interesting...
GOP Bets Big on Internet Gambling Ban
At a time of international turmoil, with daily reports of violence from Iraq, nuclear war threatened from North Korea, and reports of the Taliban gaining...