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hey, do you know much about DOPA? it’s the “deleting online predators act” - federal legislation from pennsylvania congressman michael fitzpatrick that would “require schools and libraries that receive federal aid ‘to protect minors from commercial social networking websites and chat rooms.” this is obviously all about targeting myspace, but in reality this proposition presents [...]

in select copies of the new chili peppers album is a small sticker that warns, “please note, this sounds like a lotta shit that we’ve already done, sorry“…does it matter? a zillion people are still gonna buy it because they’re fans, and this is exactly what’s going on with elgoog…when i saw all the crap [...]

so what the shit? all i keep reading about day in and day out is people pissing and moaning about how elgoog somehow wronged them…makes me wanna just read scoble all day…first it’s a bunch of folks whining about how gmail is all screwed up, how it even erases accounts sometimes…and if it’s not that, [...]

okay, so elGoog won’t give the government data on internet porn seekers to support COPA related initiatives, but they let their researchers do this kind of information gathering independently and share the results? i’m soooo confused…according to a bit from new scientist, elGoog scientists maryan kamvar and shumeet baluja analyzed mobile phone search queries to [...]

so my best friend is living in laguna, looking at real estate (make that ‘ridiculously overpriced’ houses) and calls me to tell me about this remarkably accurate real estate data site called zillow …naturally, i was like, “shit, yeah, another one of those find-anything claims followed by slow searches and no results for whatever i [...]