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This story has mostly positive ratings. 101 votes / 3 sinks

Orwell's London neighborhood covered in spy-cameras

Gadgets & Tech – Dozens of private and public spy-cameras surveil the streets, walls and windows of the area around George Orwell's apartment. Britain, the nation that "sleepwalked into a surveillance society," has created the landscape that Orwell envisioned, a world where your every step is recorded from every angle.

View Story Discuss (17) (boingboing.net) 479 days ago by Wil

Submitted and Voted for on April 01, 2007 06:24pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 49 votes / No sinks

Wil Wheaton's Geek in Review: Five Ways to Make iTunes (more) Awesome

Gadgets & Tech – I like iTunes and believe it's a great bit of software, especially for users like my parents: it 's easy to use, hard to break and it looks pretty. I think iTunes can be better, though, and since I'm not a programmer I puzzled out some idealistic ways that I think iTunes could be dialed up a little bit closer to Awesome.

View Story Discuss (0) (suicidegirls.com) 483 days ago by Wil

Submitted and Voted for on March 28, 2007 04:55pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 41 votes / 3 sinks

Hundreds Of Gmail, Yahoo, MSN Passwords Exposed By Entertainment Web Site

Gadgets & Tech – A publisher of online lifestyle and entertainment magazines has inadvertently exposed the personal e-mail addresses and passwords for hundreds of its subscribers. The victims are all members of sites operated by Splash Magazines Worldwide, which publishes local versions of its magazines under URLs like NYCSplash.com and LASplash.com.

View Story Discuss (1) (informationweek.com) 484 days ago by Wil

Submitted and Voted for on March 27, 2007 01:24pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 40 votes / 5 sinks

The man behind "Battlestar Galactica"

Television – Ronald D. Moore, creator of TV's smartest sci-fi show, talks about the creative freedom of serialized drama and how to comment on the Iraq war in a story set in outer space.

View Story Discuss (3) (salon.com) 487 days ago by Wil

Submitted and Voted for on March 24, 2007 12:51pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 33 votes / 1 sink

Sci-Fi, from Page to Screen

Movies – Why is Sci-Fi associated with cheesy Space-Operas and children's movies, and cerebral Sci-Fi films don't make it unless they are adulterated into 'Action' flicks? [via /.]

View Story Discuss (9) (movies.msn.com) 488 days ago by Wil

Submitted and Voted for on March 23, 2007 02:44pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 64 votes / 3 sinks

Massive Meteorite Found In California

Science – An amazing discovery was made by scientists who think they found a meteorite the size of a small town!They were looking for oil but instead found space dust and a possible mammoth meteorite. The possible meteorite is buried deep in the ground about ten miles west of Stockton, Calif. in an area called Victoria Island.

View Story Discuss (10) (cbs2.com) 491 days ago by Wil

Submitted and Voted for on March 20, 2007 03:49pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 24 votes / 1 sink

Fortinet: Beware of Google's Blogger

Gadgets & Tech – Surfing Google's Blogger Web site is dangerous, warns Fortinet. Several of the blogs on the site have been taken over by miscreants and redirect to phishing Web sites or try to load malicious software onto PCs, the security firm said in an alert Wednesday.

View Story Discuss (2) (news.com.com) 495 days ago by Wil

Submitted and Voted for on March 16, 2007 03:54pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 39 votes / 1 sink

Web censorship spreading globally

Gadgets & Tech – Internet censorship is spreading rapidly, being practiced by about two dozen countries and applied to a far wider range of online information and applications, according to research by a transatlantic group of academics. [via reddit]

View Story Discuss (0) (ft.com) 496 days ago by Wil

Submitted and Voted for on March 15, 2007 11:41am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 113 votes / 6 sinks

Wil Wheaton's Geek in Review: WILLIAM F- SHATNER, Part II

Celebrities – In Part I of this turgid tale, WILLIAM F- SHATNER told your humble narrator, "I'd never let a kid onto my bridge," and humiliated, embarrassed, and crushed his fragile teenage ego. Enjoy the conclusion of WILLIAM F- SHATNER. I hope it was worth the wait. (site possibly NSFW)

View Story Discuss (17) (suicidegirls.com) 497 days ago by Wil

Submitted and Voted for on March 14, 2007 06:16pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 72 votes / 6 sinks

Republican Sununu calls for Gonzales' dismissal

Politics – Sen. John Sununu (R- NH) on Wednesday became the first Republican in Congress to call for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' dismissal, hours after President Bush expressed confidence in his embattled Cabinet officer. [via tpm]

View Story Discuss (49) (news.yahoo.com) 497 days ago by Wil

Submitted and Voted for on March 14, 2007 05:24pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 53 votes / 4 sinks

Curveball, the defector whose lies lead to war

Do No Evil – The Iraqi defector known as Curveball, whose fabricated stories of "mobile biological weapons labs" helped lead the U.S. to war four years ago, is still being protected by the German intelligence service. Curveball's false tales became the centerpiece of Secretary of State Colin Powell's speech before the United Nations in February 2003.

View Story Discuss (11) (blogs.abcnews.com) 498 days ago by Wil

Submitted and Voted for on March 13, 2007 04:21pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 19 votes / No sinks

White House Said to Prompt Firing of Prosecutors

Politics – The White House was deeply involved in the decision late last year to dismiss federal prosecutors, including some who had been criticized by Republican lawmakers, administration officials said Monday. [via tpm]

View Story Discuss (5) (nytimes.com) 498 days ago by Wil

Submitted and Voted for on March 13, 2007 11:45am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 42 votes / 4 sinks

Dad Makes "Cakehenge" Birthday Cake for His Son

Food – Two years ago, the same dad made a "Myst" birthday cake for his son. This year, he made him a cake inspired by Stonehenge. [via boingboing]

View Story Discuss (12) (tabblo.com) 499 days ago by Wil

Submitted and Voted for on March 12, 2007 12:25pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 259 votes / 35 sinks

Bush Administration Takes Six Blows in a Row

Politics – Any 1 of these stories would have been bad news for the Bush White House. As a group they represent a devastating political "perfect storm" because they paint a vivid picture of corruption, neglect and incompetence even while things continue to go badly in a war that a significant majority of Americans no longer supports and wants to end.

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Submitted and Voted for on March 11, 2007 08:52pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 63 votes / 3 sinks

Former Nigerian Scammer Tells All

Do No Evil – The U.S. operative for a Nigerian Internet scam ring has turned on his one-time colleagues, providing new details of who they are and how they work. Eric Amoako, a native of Ghana, made the decision to "come clean" and end his days of crime after being caught on 20/20 undercover cameras attempting to scam a California heart surgeon.

View Story Discuss (12) (blogs.abcnews.com) 503 days ago by Wil

Submitted and Voted for on March 08, 2007 07:01pm

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