The Floating City of the Year 2000 (from 1979)
Do you ever wonder what happened to all of those bright-eyed, optimistic visions of a clean, utopian future that technology …
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Inside Iran: What are we heading for, and why?
BBC journalist Matt Frei presents a brief but enlightening layout of the forces at work in US/Iranian relations. It’s more complicated than …
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10 Important Differences Between Brains and Computers
An excellent little article by Chris Chatham that puts a lot of common misconceptions about the future of AI into …
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What those Justice Department emails really reveal.
A Glimpse into Government Radley Balko, March 26, 2007 The one useful thing to come of all of this is …
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REAL ID: Rise of the Resistance
REAL ID, passed in 2005 and due to take effect in 2008-09, turns your driver’s license into a de-facto national …
The man who made Kathie Lee cry
Charles Kernaghan is the director and chief firebrand of the National Labor Committee. Check out the organization and their accomplishments, …
NYPD spied broadly prior to ’04 GOP convention
By Paul McNamara, NetworkWorld Sunday, March 25, 2007 Using the Internet to identify targets, the New York City Police Department conducted …
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How to Improve It? Ask Those Who Use It
By Michael Fitzgerald, NYT Published: March 25, 2007 Citizen product design is still unsung, but it has already become a …
Terror Database Has Quadrupled In Four Years
U.S. Watch Lists Are Drawn From Massive Clearinghouse By Karen DeYoung Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, March 25, 2007 Each …
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The Runes of Eris
This current book has had a number of titles since it was first “finished” in 2004. The title in the …
John W. Backus, 82, Fortran Developer, Dies
By Steve Lohr, New York Times March 19, 2007 John W. Backus, who assembled and led the I.B.M. team that …
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Photocopiers: The newest ID theft threat
Newer models have hard drives that record what has been duplicated from Gregg Keizer March 14, 2007 (Computerworld) — Photocopiers …
