Baby, Set Down the Controller – Understanding Olivia Munn’s Cult (via Nonstop Karate)
Nonstop Karate really, actually, truly gets it. (Warning for some friends, includes a tiny bit of strong language here and there.)
via Nonstop Karate
My Four-Year-Old Son Plays Grand Theft Auto
My Four-Year-Old Son Plays Grand Theft Auto.
The article surprised me pleasantly.
“I was playing the demo for the new(ish) game, Sherlock Holmes Nemesis, when I noticed that you never see or hear Dr. Watson move. He’s creepy.”
Creepy Watson
Civil liberties | Programme for Government
“We will be strong in defence of freedom. The Government believes that the British state has become too authoritarian, and that over the past decade it has abused and eroded fundamental human freedoms and historic civil liberties. We need to restore the rights of individuals in the face of encroaching state power, in keeping with Britain’s tradition of freedom and fairness.”
via Civil liberties | Programme for Government.
Is this for real?
Android App Aims to Allow Wiretap-Proof Cell Phone Calls « The Firewall – Forbes.com
On Tuesday, an independent hacker and security researcher who goes by the handle Moxie Marlinspike and his Pittsburgh-based startup Whisper Systems launched free public betas for two new privacy-focused programs on Googles Android mobile platform: RedPhone, a voice over Internet protocol VoIP program that encrypts phone calls, and TextSecure, an app for sending and receiving encrypted text messages and scrambling the messages stored in their inbox.
via Android App Aims to Allow Wiretap-Proof Cell Phone Calls « The Firewall – Forbes.com.
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