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 could then be read [...]
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 future, [...]
I’m Green!
I had pondered the thought for quite some time, now it happened: I am now a proud member of the Green Party of Switzerland – today the welcome letter of the national party arrived, the cantonal party’s information material should arrive within the next couple of days.
We’ll see how this turns out and how far [...]
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