Tag Archives: Internet

If you have been following along closely, you know that in June we had to switch hosting companies on very short notice and under extreme duress. Our good friend and scripting demi-god TDavid recommended Cyberwurx, which he assured us could handle our very strange configuration, multiple users, and keep us …

Without succumbing to total self-parody as did Leslie Nielsen (who has had an exceptional second career as a buffoon, but I can’t imagine him playing a serious role again), William Shatner has somehow had it both ways, lingering the public imagination as the heroic, gravitas-laden Captain Kirk, winning his first …

mi2g Intelligence Unit, the U.K. digital risk assessment and security company, has some very sobering news regarding hacking trends: The phenomenon of Islamic hacking for political purposes did not exist in any significant measure prior to the 9/11 events in 2001, save India-Pakistan and Israel-Palestine localised cyber skirmishes. International Islamic …

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From time to time I mention the hard core splendiferousness that is Thomas Mulready and friends’ Cool Cleveland, an online and email newsletter dedicated to the real nuts and bolts of arts, politics, and community activism in Northeast Ohio. Its value transcends the geographical area because it is a prime …

I (and a few-thousand of his closest friends) received this email from Lawrence Lessig today regarding p2p-Politics.org: So this is some political spam, which you’ve earned by either (1) being in my address book, or (2) having sent me a question, comment, or criticism in the past. Consider this small …

BlueBeat online radio has a timely, amusing and in some ways revealing program running right now. Users can tune in (after signing up and downloading their player) and choose from two themed playlists: artists favored by, and in favor of John Kerry, and the other with Bush favorites and supporters. …

Using Bush’s own soundbites against him is like shooting barrels, er, fishing for … um, it’s not very sporting. The guy has periodic synaptic misfiring, there’s no way around it. 3D animator Cameron Travelli has taken some choice Bush manglings and made two amusing shorts out of them, “4,000 Hours” …

In my SoCal childhood, the whole family always looked forward to trips down to Mexico, whether just down to Ensenada, or down to San Felipe on the Gulf of California, or wherever (never gross Tijuana), and I was particularly fascinated by the ready availability of gritty products frowned upon in …

A few days ago we mentioned the mysterious and labrynthine case of the seized IndyMedia hard drives. Now they have reappeared: The media group said it had verified that the hard drives returned on 13 October were the ones actually taken in the raid. With the help of the cyber-liberties …