Sure, lots of organizations filter the web, but when the US Dept. of Homeland Security begins to restrict where its employees can roam on the Internet, people take notice.

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Despite the popularity of the iPad, and the Kindle before it, your brain enjoys reading a book and does so faster. Yes, the old fashioned book. Yeah!

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Once again, an ugly-ass, ego-driven, upper-management prick at Microsoft ruins what could have been a worthy product. Sell your stock already!

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Microsoft’s social-oriented cell phone project, the KIN, is being pulled. If so, why do I still see those stupid commercials on TV? Huh?

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Google Voice is open and free to everyone now, but explaining what it does isn’t the simplest of things. Lifehacker takes a crack at it:

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A bill that would give the US President the power to turn off the Internet for up to four months has cleared a panel in the Senate and is ready for a vote.

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Yeah, Apple and Gizmodo have had at it since the folks at Giz found (paid for) a rogue iPhone 4. Even so, their article tearing apart the new device is top-notch:

When asked [about the degrading signal problem], Apple offered a very simple solution: Hold it in a different way…

No, that’s not the solution. Those are lame excuses for bad industrial design and engineering decision.

Good reading.

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After a long beta, you can now sign up for Google Voice. It’s really difficult to describe what Google Voice does, other than it’s an über communications system that can be used as your voicemail service, to place free phone calls, and to manage phone calls.

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Apparently it’s against Google’s corporate culture to be an employee over the age of 40. The California Supreme court will be hearing an age-discrimination suit soonly.

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So much for the claim that Apple’s are “virus-free.” How well do you think that marketing slogan will play into social engineering for Mac owners?

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