I’m a fan of TorrentFreak, it’s one of those rare blogs that streams interesting news on a very specific subject and openly acknowledges its biases while providing the reader with a ton of information to fend for themselves. In fact, I have come to think of TorrentFreak as one of the outposts in a war [...]
Tag Archive for 'power'
P4P: Universities as techno-corporate thinktanks?
Published by August 25th, 2008 in bitTorrent, edupunk, piracy and politics. 1 CommentThe Glass Bees
Published by May 25th, 2008 in Uncategorized, books and insructional technology. 70 CommentsWith my no-internet, hippie-like vacation to [[Montauk, New York|Montauk]] behind me now, I can return to the bava and continue the excruciating futility that is my life online. I enjoyed the time away because I was able to do something I hadn’t done in too long, i.e., read a few books that have nothing to [...]
The blog Torrent Freak is a relatively recent favorite of mine. I have read it sporadically for a while, but it seems like things have been heating up as of late in bitTorrent land as the [[MPAA]] and other interest groups start to ratchet up their war against bitTorrent (even the porn industry has [...]
The “effa bee eye” may be coming to a campus near you
Published by June 24th, 2007 Uncategorizedin . 5 CommentsAccording to the Press Esc blog the FBI is offering to brief universities on how to identify an international spy on campus, here are some of the indicators listed:
Unexplained affluence, failing to report overseas travel, showing unusual interest in information outside the job scope, keeping unusual work hours, unreported contacts with foreign nationals, unreported contact [...]
What do you think? Does this sound like a great new b-movie coming to a theater near you? Read this crazy bit about the Pentagon, MySpace, and conservative talk show hosts via BoingBoing here. Man, the 50s cold war tactics of fear, terror and misinformation are all too close to us these days.
[...]
If you haven’t yet, but I know you have, read Brian Lamb’s fantastic treatise on the nature of power RIGHT NOW! This may very well be the funniest thing that I have read in a long time. Link.
Loading ...
Recent comments