Reports of the English Cockney accent’s death in the UK Times in 2005, must have been greatly exaggerated. Today comes news that Bank Machine, a company that operates 2,500 ATMs in the UK, has added Cockney to the language options of five machines in East London. The ATMs asked users if they wanted, “some moolah [...]
What is it with Brits getting burned by Facebook? First the head of MI-6 has his vacation photos and other private information out for the world to see thanks to his wife. Now a couple of teens in Southern England cause a riot when they posted details about their house party on their Facebook page. [...]
Can somebody please explain to me why every time a new iPhone comes out everyone with an old iPhone bitches about not getting a reduced price? No one bitches when a new Honda Insight comes out or a new Sony Bravia TV. Nowhere else can you or would you consider whining about not getting a [...]
“Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?” Conventional wisdom would say, “The Shadow knows”. But in 2009, its the Department of Geography at Kansas State University, who knows what kinds of evil and precisely where it lives in America. How do they know? Because they made maps of it. The question of [...]
Thank you Farhad Manjoo of Slate.com for asking the burning question of the month and then spelling out the pros and cons– Do I Really Have To Join Twitter? It seems that every Tom, Dick, and Henrietta, is on Twitter. Teenagers do it, U.S. Senators tweet during speeches, athletes do it during halftime. I can’t [...]
Texting is something that I have come to rather late in life. I like the convenience, speed, and brevity of it. I don’t quite understand why teenagers and twentysomethings have to do it constantly along with IM, My Space, and Facebook. I don’t want to be in CONSTANT contact with anybody. What ever happened to [...]
In what might be a coordinated attack or just some kids who were bored, three different states have reported that electronic roadside construction signs have been hacked. Rather than flashing messages about traffic delays: Drivers in Collinsville, Ill., saw a sign along southbound Interstate 255 that read, “DAILY LANE CLOSURES DUE TO ZOMBIES.” A day [...]
I’m not a big fan of censorship and I don’t like people telling me what to do– so I also have a problem with organized religion. So when I saw that some enterprising tech head had tried to breed the usefulness of Google with the uptight attitude of Catholicism, my curiosity was peaked. Don’t worry [...]
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