Wired.com reports that today is the anniversary of the 1840 patent for Morse Code: Morse code has now been in use for more than 160 years. It still has practical applications in the modern world because almost anything can be used, from telegraph key to flashlight to pencil to fingertip, to tap out or flash […]
Good Morning Silicon Valley reports that a judge ordered several Florida teens to post an apology video to YouTube after they “threw soda at a Taco Bell worker through a drive-through window and proudly posted their actions on YouTube.” This sorry conduct is called “fire in the hole.” According to The Today Show: The “fire […]
In an op-ed in the New York Times, UCLA film professor Jonathan Kuntz writes about the recent fire at Universal Studios. After describing the destruction of the courthouse square from To Kill a Mockingbird and Back to the Future, Kuntz notes: More serious may be the loss of the circulating 35-millimeter theatrical prints. While not […]
Yesterday’s posting on unconsented cell phone surveillance reminded me of an excellent column that Peter Shane wrote a while back in Jurist where he pointed out that any technical legality of the NSA surveillance program is besides the point. Shane asked, what if the Post Office created a database with the addresses contained on every […]
