Some good ideas on how to generally best deal with your personal technology.

After reading about these Republican Porn Scanners, it just galls me to think of how stupid our fellow countrymen are. These frightened fools think that technology can trump common sense. I have quite a few links about how to intelligently deal with security and those who think they have a justification to violate our rights to prevent the last (often failed) terrorist attack from happening.

Face it, no one is going to hijack a plane the passengers will passively sit in ever again. No shoe bomb can’t be found by a good dog. Or even a bomb in some women’s underpants on some guy. A pack of underpaid, bored TSA goons isn’t a patch on ACTUAL security screening.

Here is the first effort to promote saner security that works. Too bad no one will listen.

The “creator” of cyberspace sets us straight on the whole Google-is-stealing-our-privacy meme.

I have heard variations on how the Google Doodles are made but here is another quick look. Also, a gallery.

Lanier is normally a really weird boy but he is dead on in this critique over how we are developing robotics.

Robots, droids, whatever are tools. They may evolve past that someday but we may not be responsible for that. They aren’t toys, nor should they be dumbed down so people think they are cute. That should be a marketing decision, not a design one.