By Mark | September 22, 2010
Tonight, I will be signing a petition and calling the offices of my Senators in order to weigh in on two very important initiatives, and I would like to ask that you do the same. The first is called the DISCLOSE Act, and it’s being championed by Senators Patrick Leahy and Chuck Schumer. The bill, […]
Posted in Corporate Crime, Free Speech, Politics | Also tagged call to action, Chuck Schumer, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, corporate money, disclose act, FCC, Federal Communications Commission, get the money out of Washington, ISPs, Julius Genachowski, net neutrality, Patrick Leahy, Supreme Court, Verizon |
My friend Naia just sent me a link to this new article on privacy by cryptographer and computer security guru Bruce Schneier, and I thought that I should pass it on. Here’s a clip: In January, Facebook Chief Executive, Mark Zuckerberg, declared the age of privacy to be over. A month earlier, Google Chief Eric […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Corporate Crime | Also tagged Bruce Schneier, Bruce Willis, Eric Schmidt, Facebook, Larry Ellison, Mark Zuckerberg, Moscow, national security, permission, privacy, Scott McNealy, security, security threats, social networking, suicide bombings, surveillance, surveillance culture, terrorism |
My friend Eric, the guy who put me in the Hitler downfall meme a week or so ago, has struck again. This time he’s taken an innocent little video that I posted of myself to Youtube, and run it through Google’s new translation tool. The results, as you can see, are interesting. And, no, that’s […]
I spent the day with my parents at the Henry Ford museum, experiencing secondhand the hero worship that the great automotive entrepreneur felt for Thomas Edison. We listened to recordings of Edison speaking, contemplated his dying breath under glass and saw the spot under the stairs of hisMenlo Park laboratory (which had been moved from […]
Posted in energy, Ideas, OCD, Other, Science, Special Projects | Also tagged Ford, free power, Greenfield Village, Henry Ford, innovation, Jesus, Mark Twain, Menlo Park, muckers, Nikola Tesla, people to bring back from the dead, space elevator, Thomas Edison, Thomas Jefferson, Topsy, War of Currents, Wardenclyffe |
