A Peculiar Blog

Anyone considering traveling outside of the US would do well to read this item on the Wired.com blog about a recent federal appeals court decision that border agents can search laptops, phones and other electronics without cause (and presumably without a warrant either).
What it means is that anyone crossing the border needs to be aware [...]

What state is nonexistant? The so-called “Palestinian state”. The very same one that President Bush is voicing optimistic opinions that the peace process will “define” that state before he leaves office.
I guess it must be that time of year or something because this Palestinian state issue keeps coming back around and every time [...]

Given the track record of federal agencies going out of their way to gain power they shouldn’t have, this news isn’t exactly a surprise. The Feds have finally managed to pull off something that I know they’ve been wanting to do for a long time. They’re planning to collect DNA samples from everybody [...]

Energy drinks. You see them around a lot these days. They’re promoted pretty heavily as being essentially the answer to all that ails you. The message is often something along the lines of “Drink this stuff and you’ll be loaded with power”. What they don’t do however, is tell you about [...]

This news isn’t exactly a surprise given the FBI’s known history of misuse of power. Including the power to issue National Security Letters.
A NSL is different that a normal subpoena in two important ways. First, they do not require probable cause and they don’t have to get a judge to sign off on [...]

It occurs to me that I don’t often post much humor here so I thought this would be a perfect time to share this gem from a few years back. It was a Super Bowl commercial of course and like many of them it’s funny as all get out.
Just the same though, I don’t [...]

Recently a couple sued Google because their home appeared on “Google Street View”. Their lawsuit’s basically about an invasion of privacy issue. The property is clearly marked “Private Road”.
Google responds with the tired sounding “anyone can ask to have pictures removed without legal action”. Google apparently doesn’t get the point. Whether [...]

When I started my first blog, I was using thingamablog to do it with. I’ve long since converted to WordPress but I remember it well. It was actually a decent program.
Then on the latest edition of the flog “My Two Cents Worth(freenet link*)” there’s talk of a version that’s been modified so that [...]

At least, that’s what the media is talking about recently. Seems that if he wins the Democratic nomination he will, like McCain, be eligible for 84 million dollars in campaign financing.
Why would he turn down that kind of money? If you look at the track record his campaign has has in raising money [...]

No matter how much time goes by it sees very much like certain things will still be going on in familiar cycles. For example, take the latest bunch of go-rounds between Bush & Putin over a missile defense system. One day people are talking and making nice, the next thing you know it’s [...]