A Peculiar Blog

In response to the recent problems with search queries being made public by AOL and the potential for not only more such “accidental” releases of search histories, somebody has developed a tool that can [...]

Ok, this is a news story that gets a little personal with me and hits the “That just ain’t right” button … with a sledgehammer.
First, I saw this on GMA this morning. I didn’t see the story, but read this in the crawl at the bottom of the screen. A headline and brief teaser [...]

After years of seeing all manner of user complaints, ridicule and derision of AOL in various internet forums and most notably usenet, This story comes as no real surprize. Even if AOL moves to [...]

Remember “Dolphin Safe” Tuna? Well, if this is to be believed, it looks like Science is close to a sort-of “Embryo Safe” Stem Cell. After all of the Pro Vs Con arguments that have [...]

What can be said here other than how much of a bad idea this would be?
The thought that people could actually vote someone into such a low bandwidth that they would be effectively cut off from mainstream [...]

… Y’know, it seems to me that folks in Boulder could hve saved themselves a load of money if they had done the DNA testing before going to all the trouble to extradite this [...]

PRIVACY HAS BECOME AN ANACHRONISMI’ve been talking about sub dermal biochip implants for a decade and writing about it for 8 years. Now the mainstream media is [...]

Who does this person think he’s kidding?
Hezbollah Head Says He Didn’t Expect War
Aug 27, 9:40 PM (ET)
By ZEINA KARAM BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah said in a TV interview aired Sunday that he would not have ordered the capture of two Israeli soldiers if he had known it [...]

As of tonight, Mixminion Message Sender is now available within freenet. It’s url Is:
SSK@XKgPxdSUjAcZrV0oTUGeXmoAGfIPAgM,ZOJm89bQCLLZw7DJ23i4gw/mmsdev/1//
Note: in order for the freenet link to work you must be running freenet 0.5, which you can get at http://freenetproject.org/download-old.html. [...]

I have a problem with this survey. It’s not all that important I guess, as surveys go, but when I saw it for the first time, the Agree and Disagree totals were in the [...]