When Physical Security Threatens Constitutional Security

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The following letter was published in the New York Times. Marc Andreessen adds that it is a newly declassified 1950 proposal — 12 days after the start of the Korean War — from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to [...]

Stop Spocking Me

I am starting to get emails from people I know asking me to join them on Spock.com. Spock is a spooky site that seems to want to harvest all kinds of information about people and aggregate it into one place.
The thing is I don’t believe that these people actually meant to invite me to [...]

OMG Mortgage Resets Ahead Are Really Scary

I read about the mortgage reset schedule in the Wall Street Journal and managed to find these two graphics on the web. This is very scary. There is a huge mountain of sub-prime mortgage rate resets ahead and the peak is just before the next general election. It will make this [...]

Black Hat Approach to Viral Video

In a guest post over at TechCrunch, Dan Ackerman Greenberg outlines his approach to taking just about any video viral. The approach manipulates the system to drive the results people want and there is some complaining that this kind of thing would be tolerated. While it may work, it certainly demonstrates questionable ethics [...]

Giant Global Graph - Duh, it’s the people that matter

Techmeme is tracking a discussion about the Social Graph that got started with this post by World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee at his blog. Sir Tim asks the question is the Social Graph the next big thing. He says we had the Net, which was a descriptor of the Internet and the [...]

Tiltviewer is very cool

TiltViewer allows you to browse Flickr’s most interesting images in a 3D space.Technorati Tags: tiltviewer, flickr

Amazon Fresh May Succeed Where Webvan Did Not

TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington has a post about Amazon Fresh, which is Amazon’s entry into delivering fresh groceries to the home. It’s clear from the comments in the post and the comments from readers that people are skeptical.
Check out Amazon Fresh - a new invite only service from Amazon that looks eerily similar to the [...]

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