by David | Feb 2, 2011 | Conspiracy Theories
Not to sound like a whiny ex-Apple fanboi here (check out the wrath Cory Doctorow has incurred over a BoingBoing by addressing this issue, if you dare) — but every time I tap to update my iPhone apps, I gotta swallow another amended EULA from Apple. This latest...
by David | Jan 25, 2011 | Conspiracy Theories, Online Video
No. this isn’t about how advertising brainwashes us all into buying the latest overpriced electronic P.O.S. (although The Onion News Network has one of the most hilarious stream-of-consciousness obscene NSFW videos about this very subject). This is an intro to a...
by David | Jan 7, 2011 | Blogging, Conspiracy Theories
This is only an educated guess, but something has changed in the past month in those voluminous End User Licensing Agreements (aka EULAs aka “That dense small-font document that nobody bothers to read”), and it seems to be coming from Homeland Security. It...
by David | Nov 5, 2009 | Blogging, Conspiracy Theories, Online Video, Politics & New Media
Under the guise of “protecting citizens from terrorists and porn,†the government in Kazakhstan is eliminating freedom of speech and of the press via a particularly toxic cocktail of Old Stalinist School beatings, jailings and intimidation – and cutting-edge...
by David | Jan 5, 2009 | Conspiracy Theories, new media
So the Tweetverse is predictably, uh … twittering? tittering? snickertwitting? someone hack together a “TomKat”-like neologism to describe this … over the hacking of several prominent Twitter accounts. The updates say that the account hacking...
