Category: The Interwebs

Meet the new year, same as the old one

Meet the new year, same as the old one

| January 2, 2010 | Reply

Dana Loesch over at Big Government has a great roundup of the most underreported stories of 2009. Anyone reading this blog is probably familiar with most of the ten (10) stories she lists. Those who rely upon traditional network news (i.e., anything other than Fox) or newspapers are unlikely to be aware of any of […]

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Countdown to 9/12 — Tuesday links

Countdown to 9/12 — Tuesday links

| September 8, 2009 | Reply

ITEM: My co-blogger, Bruce Henderson, has a post over at the New Ledger about the proposed legislation to give the President “emergency control of the Internet”: S773 makes no attempt to outline and describe what form of emergency would trigger the use of these broad new powers to limit communication, nor any means by which […]

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Monday yawns

Monday yawns

| April 6, 2009 | 1 Reply

MORNING LINKS — get ’em while they’re fresh ITEM:  “Should war be a game?“ is the fatuous subhead of the day, from an article talking about a new videogame recreating the battle for Fallujah (Iraq). The reporter shows no awareness that wargames have been around for centuries and that most of them do indeed “use […]

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Fast web browsing

Fast web browsing

| June 9, 2008 | Reply

If, like me, you spend more time than you should browsing the web, check out alltop.com. Alltop aggregates all the top aggregators; so, for example, here are the sites and stories for programming while here are the sites and stories for movies.  I find it’s useful for tracking the top web stories on a particular […]

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