NaN votes for Obama!
The US citizens have their voting machines, us here in Switzerland have our big media. Since they’re so much more professional than us bloggers (yep, they are, I have the links to prove it, in German), I’m sure they can tell us the current standings when it comes to the US election? Of course they [...]
Movie Plot Terrorist Threat #6666: Twitter!
The terrorists were all over World of Warcraft, now they’re all over Twitter, according to this Wired article: Scenario 1: Terrorist operative “A” uses Twitter with… a cell phone camera/video function to send back messages, and to receive messages, from the rest of his [group]… Other members of his [group] receive near real time updates [...]
Sarah Palin, the Accessorizer
Apart from her being rather incompetent (“cramming a lot of information”, as if, she just doesn’t find her way around the notes others have prepared for her), Sarah Palin apparently really likes fashion. And hairdressers. And makeup. According to financial disclosure records, the accessorizing began in early September and included bills from Saks Fifth Avenue [...]
Help! Terrorists in World of Warcraft!
Avast, me hearties! I played me fair share o’ World o’ Warcraft, enough t’ know ‘t’s incredibly addictive, an’ enough t’ know ‘t’s nay good fer me when I do. Which, I guess, won’t avast me from tryin’ ou’ Wrath o’ th’ Lich King an’ th’ new Davy Jones’ locker Knight class anyway when ‘t [...]
Stop RFID in Swiss Passports!
The Swiss government has decided that our passports, like a few before ours, should store data on RFID chips. Meaning, the following data would be stored in that chip: fingerprints a digital photograph all the data that’s also available in printed form (name, gender, date of birth, eye color, and so on) All this data [...]
Misunderstanding Liberalism
The not entirely uninsightful, but certainly biased post Best Future Dystopias Where The Liberals Have Won writes about the upcoming election via works in science fiction: The Republican Party is gathering in St. Paul, to put forth its vision of the future. [...] Which makes us wonder: what does science fiction, the literature of the [...]
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