Posts Tagged ‘privacy’

Recently it came to my attention that many people think that as long as they don’t comment, purchase anything, or actively participate on a web page, they leave nothing behind. This couldn’t be farther from the truth. When you pick up a book, you leave fingerprints on the page. When you walk through the woods, [...]

Who said posses were a thing of the past?
The mainstream media is constantly reporting on the negative aspects of the Internet– that it is filled with pedophiles after you children, that it is lurking with identity theives after your social security number, and that it will fry your hard drive with a million Trojan horses. [...]

I just made my first use of Amazon.com’s MP3 sales system to purchase the Hellgate: London Soundtrack. Which, incidentally, makes a fantastic workplace listen. A nice mix of industrial and orchestral, it packs more intensity than the Halo 3 soundtrack, with fun little riffs that hearken back to Blade Runner. Unlike music with lyrics or [...]

Online I found an old paper I wrote in college, many moons ago. The crazy part is that it was on SchoolSucks.com, a website that I glanced at once or twice out of desperation back in the day, but never bothered to plagiarize from because I knew it was supremely stupid to copy material from [...]

I might be a terrible, bad, bad cyborg, but I really enjoy watching videos online of people making fools of themselves, and then having the sheer stupidity to videotape and place it on a website where it is easily found by an eager, all-consuming public. And I am a proud member of that public.
It might [...]