Science & Tech

Google Stalker Reveals Secret Project

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
What happens after a year of undercover development finally ends? By Destiny
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There Won’t Be Blood

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
A sizable percentage of the population is barred from donating blood – gay men. By Steve Robles
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Dead Woman Blogging

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
Did Theresa Duncan issue a final blog post from beyond the grave? By Lou Cabron
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What If Ben Were One of Us?

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
Time magazine's former editor asks: Would Benjamin Franklin by a blogger? By Destiny
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Catching Up With an Aqua Teen Terrorist

Thursday, November 15th, 2007
January 31, 2007: a day that will live in infamy. The great city of Boston was brought to its knees by the appearance of unexpected L.E.D. placards in places where they didn't belong. An interview with one of the evildoers. By RU Sirius
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Is The Net Good For Writers?

Friday, October 5th, 2007
10 professional writers answer the most important question of our time. By RU Sirius
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Rodney Brooks’ Robots are Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control

Friday, September 21st, 2007
He's an MIT Professor of Robotics and the CTO of iRobot Corporation — and this video catches him asking the ultimate question about the coming robotics revolution. By RU Sirius
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The NoSo Project: No Social Networking

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
Learn about a real-world platform for temporary disengagement from your social networking environment. By RU Sirius
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Web Fight: Wikipedia, YouTube vs. Perverted Justice

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
Is the group behind "Dateline: To Catch a Predator" gunning for the internet itself? By Lou Cabron
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Monkey v. Dog v. Wikipedia

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007
Cruel fights between monkeys and dogs are documented in a Wikipedia article, but on the site another fight-to-the-death erupts. By Lou Cabron
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Steve Wozniak v. Stephen Colbert — and Other Pranks

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007
Steve Wozniak talks about his punking the Secret Service, ethical phone phreaking, and programming the Apple II by hand. by RU Sirius

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Expect Trouble Activating Your iPhone

Friday, June 29th, 2007
All those requests at the same time will put a huge strain on Apple's iTunes servers. But, at least then, they don't have to deal with a lynch mob at the retail level. By Jayden Devereux

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Hype Smackdown: iPhone v. Paris Hilton

Thursday, June 28th, 2007
It's a battle of pop culture titans as two empires -- one high-tech, one high-rise -- clash in explosive PR fury. By Jeff Diehl

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Anarchy for the USA: A Conversation with Josh Wolf

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
Anti-globalist activism, anarchism, and his new projects to "Free The Media" and give prisoners a voice in the blogosphere. By RU Sirius

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YouTube, the 20-Year-Old, and Date Unknown

Friday, June 22nd, 2007
The stage is set for a flood of copycat bum-rushers who will no doubt lay siege to the Googleplex armed with nothing but their media and Gen-Y audacity. By Destiny

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YouTube’s 5 Sorriest Questions for the 2008 Presidential Candidates

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007
What if my President was selected by MySpace? By Lou Cabron

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How the Internet Disorganizes Everything

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

The author of Cluetrain Manifesto explains how “everything is miscellaneous” in a web-based society — we dip into the vast pool of uncategorized information and use it to make our own sense of things. By RU Sirius

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The Scientific Laws of Romance

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

In a relationship, there exists a Constant Distance between two people that must be maintained at all times. By Ethan Todras-Whitehill

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A Conversation with Justin Kan of Justin.tv

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

When Justin Kan clipped a mobile camera onto his cap, opening justin.tv, it was just another step along the way to the fully mediated life. By RU Sirius

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Give Me Immortality Or Give Me Death!

Friday, May 18th, 2007

According to transhumanist Michael Anissimov, there’s an even chance that we’re looking at immortality or existential destruction in the next 20-40 years. By RU Sirius

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Keith Henson Back in Jail – Space Elevator Will Have To Wait

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

Just before his epic conflict with the Scientologists, Henson was scheduled to talk at a European Space Agency conference on how Space Elevators could completely solve the carbon and energy problems. By RU Sirius

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Closing Pandora’s Box: The End of Internet Radio?

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

Tim Westergen from SaveNetRadio.org is trying to keep Internet Radio alive and diverse. By RU Sirius

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Create an Alien, Win A-Prize!

Thursday, April 19th, 2007

The A-Prize offers to reward the first person who creates an “artificial lifeform” or reveals that one has been created. By RU Sirius

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New Tool for Bloggers: Technorati Incoming Links Visualizer

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

There’s a new way of seeing a web site’s popularity. Now let’s have some fun with it. By Destiny

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Should YouTube Hear Me?

Monday, April 16th, 2007

Is this the latest craze — storming a corporation’s headquarters and demanding that they listen to you? By Destiny

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Homeland Security Follies

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

Security expert Bruce Schneier says that nearly everything the government is doing about terrorism is wrong. By RU Sirius

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Prescription Ecstasy and Other Pipe Dreams

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

Have you ever walked into a pharmacy with a prescription for Acid and Ecstasy? You will. By RU Sirius

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Google Heard Me, Now What?

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

Why is 25-year-old Aaron Stanton hiring programmers in Boise? After he wheedled a summit with Google, what’s his secret project? By Destiny

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Official Launch: 10ZM.TV

Monday, March 19th, 2007

Have you checked out MondoGlobo’s new video show? You may have, and don’t even know it! By Jeff Diehl

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Twittering the Twitter Revolution

Friday, March 16th, 2007

Is Twitter a revolution — or a doomed new technology for interrupting you? By Lou Cabron

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“Dear Internet, I’m Sorry”

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

Even while delivering a video apology “to all bloggers, webmasters and other individuals” as part of a settlement agreement with 10 Zen Monkeys, he somehow seems determined to be the most hated man on the internet. By Lou Cabron

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Whatever Happened to Virtual Reality?

Friday, March 9th, 2007

In the early nineties, Virtual Reality was all the rage. What happened? VR maven Jaron Lanier tells. By RU Sirius

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Who are Second Life’s “Patriotic Nigras”?

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

In their first interview, online pranksters reveal the secrets of their attack on John Edwards virtual headquarters with flying penis monsters. They explain their philosophy about Second Life, how they operate — and who they’re voting for. By Lou Cabron.

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John Edwards’ Virtual Attackers Unmasked

Monday, March 5th, 2007

The attackers who hit the Democratic candidate’s Second Life headquarters have been identified. And they’re gloating. By Lou Cabron

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SF Writer Rudy Rucker: Everything Is Computation

Thursday, March 1st, 2007

In this interview, Rucker leads us through complex, technology-rich, multi-leveled worlds that teach us about how the world works through the eyes of a mathematician, a scientist, and a humorist. By RU Sirius

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When Lego Goes to War

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

As an educator who’s been using Legos to teach kids for over a decade, I feel an urgent need to express where Lego has gone wrong. By Lego King

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How The iPod Changes Culture

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

When I sat down to interview Steven Levy, author of The Perfect Thing, I realized that most of the questions I’d prepared were about my ambiguities. By RU Sirius

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Is Yahoo/Flickr DMCA Policy Censorship?

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

Photographer and blogger Thomas Hawk tells the story of his Flickr stream vs. Michael Crook. By Jeff Diehl

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