A Peculiar Blog

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I was reading through some accutane reviews (my “helpful” neighbor just won’t shut up until I look over all 347 sites he’s found in his “research”) when I ran across an article on Boston.com that caught my eye.
Police fight cellphone [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads Remember all that was going on a while back over the issue of telecoms being granted immunity from prosecution over their part in the illegal wiretaps and the nsa’s illegal domestic spying scandal? Well, now it’s looking like maybe that bright light in their future isn’t the shining hope they’d [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads I’ve always thought that GPS systems in vehicles was a very two sided thing. On the one hand you have the convenience of having reliable navigational aids available on demand. There’s no need for futzing around with often difficult to manage paper maps, they can locate your position to [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads You may recall that back in 2007 the Bush administration had plans to use spy satellites to look in on Americans from above using ultra high resolution cameras. And just to prove that the Obama administration is at least a few diet pills short of a weight loss plan, this [...]

On Jan 14, Eric Holder, the new attorney general, testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Holder said the Obama administration is going to defend the 2008 amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that immunizes telecommunications companies from lawsuits over their involvement in the Bush administration’s illegal surveillance of the telephone and Internet communications of ordinary Americans.