As a bit of election-year skullduggery, some clown registered what you might expect to be website names for DFL candidate for MN Attorney General Lori Swanson, “loriswanson.com” and “loriswanson.org,” and redirected them to http://www.johnsonforag.org/, the website of her Republican opponent.
An obvious dirty trick, said the Swanson campaign, demanding that the Johnson campaign immediately “block” those [...]

About four months ago, we started getting telemarketing calls from a “Terrell,” who didn’t seem to understand that we were on the Do Not Call list, and wouldn’t take “no” for an answer.
At first he told us he was calling for my son Tim, alleging he had entered a contest online. Terrell was pleased to [...]

Spy Agency Removes Illegal Tracking Files
The National Security Agency’s Internet site has been placing files on visitors’ computers that can track their Web surfing activity despite strict federal rules banning most files of that type. — Associated Press
Those naughty scamps over at the NSA! What crazy hackery are they up to now? Spyware? [...]

You sure do get a different perspective when you read foreign magazines!

Oh, you don’t read Japanese? Here, maybe this will be better.

That’s… uh… wow. Just… wow.
Note: the second graphic is just the first one, photoshopped, with my translation of various interesting parts. Oh, and yes, the “scare quotes” really are in the [...]

Yokohama Kadaishi Kikou
Quiet, atmospheric, philosophical story of Earth’s twilight days, and the humans and robots that remain. The end will come, not with a bang or a whimper, but with solemn, graceful dancing, as the lights of the abandoned cities flicker under the surface of the rising ocean.

How do you write a series about [...]