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SOPA Fighters Fund Billboard Outside Bill Sponsor’s Office. Crowd-Funding ++
Check out this wunderkind. A crowd-funded billboard denouncing SOPA was placed right outside the office of one of the bill’s sponsors. Fantastic.
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An Entire Town In Wales Is Covered In QR Codes; Augment EVERYTHING.
Ain’t this an interesting eye sore all over the teats of a town in Wales. Riffing off of a TED talk that talked about doing an entire down in QR codes, they’ve plastered more than 1,000 codes onto their structures and such.
New Proposed US Law Would Make Domestic Propaganda Legal. Why Bother?
There’s a new US law being proposed that would make domestic propaganda legal. My question is — why? Any sort of propaganda the Media/Government Hype Machine wanted to ricochet off the Echo Chamber can be done just through the bedding of these two entities without a law. Why wake up the hoi polloi (temporarily) by even suggesting this?
White House Hires New Head of CYBERSECURITY; My Bet Is On Zero Cool.
If I was going to hire a head of cybersecurity, it would totally be Zero Cool. You know, Hackers reference? Am I getting too old? Too lame? My back hurts. The lights are dimming.
Japan Successfully Broadcasts 8K Signal; Our TVs Hate Themselves
Like your TV? It’s a piece of shit! A carp sandwich. Over in Japan they’re pushing the pace, daring our TVs to not think of themselves are relics. Detritus.
Apple Pledges To Power Data Center ENTIRELY With Renewable Energy; Futuro Swag.
I can only imagine the amount of power it dates to keep something like Apple’s date center in Maiden, North Carolina. What I imagine are a lot of hamsters, tethered to fuel-tanks by skull-conduits, generating kinect-telepathic energy to feed the Hive Mind. That’s like, a lot of power. The truth isn’t nearly as exciting, though it is sort of neat.
‘PIRATE BAY’ RETURNS, Anti-Anonymous Hacker Takes Cred.
Good news! Your probably source for the newest Miley Cyrus jam or copy of Adobe Photoshop is back up and running. The Pirate Bay has returned, set to sail the seas of free.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Says Citizens Have Right To Record Police On Duty.
I’m not sure why I’m covering this, since I’m not a lawatician or anything, save for the fact that I find it really interesting. The US Department of Justice sent a reprimand to the Baltimore Police Deparment this past Monday being all like, “citizens can video tape you on duty”, high-fiving civil rights for once.
WATCH: Paralyzed Woman controls Robot Arm With Her Mind. Yeah, Science!
This right here is the berries. Harnessing powerful brain heft and science wizardy, the thinking minds of Brown University have created BrainGate. This batch of science magical (cause c’mon it’s pretty surreal) has allowed a woman named Cathy to control a robot arm. With her fucking mind.
Comcast Xbox 360 App PRIVILEGES Bandwidth For Itself Over Netflix and Hulu?
And I was wondering why HBO GO was running like raw-ass melted over ill performance last weekend. There are allegations that Comcast is privileging bandwidth for its own Xfinity app over others on the Xbox 360.
