Serkadis

The right v. the ACLU

davidkirkpatrick — Fri, 28 May 2010 20:27:50 +0000

Conor Friedersdorf has a great post at True/Slant on one example of how the right (wrongly) vilifies the ACLU. That’s one thing I’ve always found very, very strange. The ACLU and the Cato Institute walk in virtual lockstep on practically every civil liberties issue. Since civil liberties are the sole focus of the ACLU and [...]

Turkle talks technology, intimacy

Harvard Gazette Online — Fri, 28 May 2010 20:26:11 +0000

“Technology proposes itself an architect of our intimacies,” explained Massachusetts of Technology Professor Sherry Turkle to an engrossed audience at the Harvard University Extension School. The event, “The Tethered Life: Technology Reshapes Intimacy and Solitude,” was the concluding public event of the School’s yearlong centennial celebration.

“As we instant message, e-mail, text, and Twitter, technology redraws [...]

Mom Who Used Son’s Facebook Account Found Guilty Of Online Harassment

Serkadis — Fri, 28 May 2010 20:24:37 +0000

We’re somewhat skeptical of the various “cyberharassment” laws out there, as they leave themselves wide open to interpretation (often in dangerous ways). In April, we wrote about one case involving a son who sued his mother for harassment after she used his Facebook account (she went to the computer and he had not logged [...]

Who’s the greenest roommate in the land?

BKessler — Fri, 28 May 2010 20:24:03 +0000

Green Right Now Reports

Got a rabidly green roommate who times your showers, follows you around turning off lights and has lined all the window sills with edible plants?

Apartments.com is looking for the Roommate of the Year

Turn this difficult experience into a winning proposition: Nominate him or her for Environmental Roommate of the Year. They [...]

Augmented Reality Space Invaders: Expensive. Impossible. Awesome. [Video]

MG Siegler — Fri, 28 May 2010 20:23:20 +0000

Augmented Reality may not be super practical yet. But it sure is cool, and a lot of fun. And a new Android game looks to make it even more fun.

Space InvadAR is a new Android game by Zenitum. It’s the world’s first “vision-based” AR game, according to the team. And it looks awesome — watch the [...]

Unemployment Benefits Are Stimulus

Annie Lowrey — Fri, 28 May 2010 20:19:22 +0000

Robert Reich has a good column on”why deficit hawks are killing the recovery.”

Consumer spending is 70 percent of the American economy, so if consumers can’t or won’t spend we’re back in the soup. Yet the government just reported that consumer spending stalled in April – the first month consumers didn’t up their [...]

Skype App Coming to Android Marketplace Soon? [Android Apps]

Rosa Golijan — Fri, 28 May 2010 20:06:21 +0000

Despite talk of an exclusive agreement with Verizon, the folks at Skype are now saying that a Skype app will hit the Android Marketplace later this year and be available to everyone regardless of carrier. [SkatterTech via Android Central] More » Android – AndroidMarket – Handhelds – Verizon – AndroidMarketplace

Navistar Will Sell Electric 2-Ton Commercial Truck in Oregon First

Nick Chambers — Fri, 28 May 2010 20:05:53 +0000

Earlier this month Navistar announced it had begun production of the first Class 2c-3, 2-ton, medium-duty commercial electric truck in the U.S. — the eStar. It’s also the same vehicle that FedEx has announced it will be testing for fleet use in LA this year.

Now Navistar says that the first market the eStar [...]

Talkin’ Palm – Edition 42

Annie Latham — Fri, 28 May 2010 20:05:33 +0000

The arrival of the Palm Pre Plus in the UK (Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus Available Soon for O2 Customers in the UK ), buzz about HP’s first webOS tablet and the possibility of a HP webOS printer, and more reviews of the Palm Pre Plus were the main topics talked about this week. [...]

Harry Potter Stars Saddened as the Series End

Serkadis — Fri, 28 May 2010 20:02:34 +0000

Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson feel nostalgic as they are down to the last two weeks of shooting the final Harry Potter film. Radcliffe, 20, said at the National Movie Awards in London, “I will be devastated (when it’s over). There is nothing I watch without it triggering a series of memories. Everything (about the [...]