Australia wants mandatory Internet censorship

The Great Firewall of… Australia?
Yep, following in the footsteps of that beacon of worldwide freedom, China. And no opt-out procedure.
I had not realized that the entire population of Australia was actually composed of delicate elementary-school kids who depend on the government to “protect” them from offensive web sites. But I guess it must be true. [...]

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AP: Hacking Victims Deserve It

The moron who hacked into Governor Palin’s personal email account (discovering such horrible abuses of office as photos of her children) has apparently been identified and, not surprisingly, there’s a tie to the Democratic Party.
All no thanks to the Associated Press, who notoriously refused to cooperate with the Secret Service in this investigation. The AP [...]

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Gallery of Sawn-In-Half Cameras

Ever wonder what the interior of a camera lens looks like? Here you go.
Gallery of Sawn-In-Half Cameras | Gadget Lab from Wired.com
Kids! Don’t try this at home! Especially not at my home.

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Firefox 3 is out today

So go get it!
I’ve been running the final release candidates on my machine at work for a couple weeks.

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Data recovered from Columbia’s hard drives

“When we got it, it was two hunks of metal stuck together. We couldn’t even tell it was a hard drive. It was burned and the edges were melted,” said Edwards, an engineer at Kroll Ontrack Inc., outside Minneapolis. “It looked pretty bad at first glance, but we always give it a shot.”
Data from Columbia [...]

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Portable Apple IIGS

Another cool project from master modder Ben Heckdorn

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Park like Spock

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Will our AI’s like us when they grow up?

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Is Google banning conseravative blogs?

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Network Neutrality

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