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There are thousands of scam artists who have tried to use the Internet to garner quick money from unsuspecting users. African money scams and Ebay accounts where there was no product for sale and savvy con artists took the money and bolted are common tales of woe on the ‘Net. There are stories around the […]

There are places in this world where governments and time forgot. The Bluefields in Nicaragua sits at a geographical point which, until recently, was a forgotten world that has very little electricity and a self-polices the residents of fishing villages where boats create the largest commerce. Until the cocaine starting washing up onto the beaches […]

Popular Fidelity reported last week about Internet cables causing certain markets globally creating a financial dilemma. Well, it’s in the news again. And Engadget has the scoop. If you’re reading Engadget today because your favorite Iranian gadget blog is offline, here’s why: a fifth undersea cable has now been reported as cut (or at least […]

There was this guy when I was in school back when dinosaurs smoked and people watched the same channel on television because they didn’t have a remote and didn’t want to get up to change the channel. Yeah, that long ago. Seriously. Anyway, there this kid got sick and they rushed him to the doctor […]

Commuters taking the NY subway system are going to be seeing a sight that might not be familiar with. The NYPD are starting a counterterrorism unit that will patrol the rails with large teams of officers, high-powered rifles and dogs. The measure, known as Operation Torch, is a $30 million dollar project will be visible […]

High-technology services across large tracts of Asia, the Middle East and North Africa were crippled Thursday following a widespread Internet failure which brought many businesses to a standstill and left others struggling to cope. That’s the lead graph from a story on CNN that is mostly being overlooked this morning on cable news networks but […]

Barack Obama usually gets a reaction. Critics say he’s inexperienced (although he spent years in state government in Illinois.) Supporters liken his campaign as ultimately positive in a world where the last eight years have been mired in toxicity and corporate greed. And, long before the events of this past weekend, he was compared to […]

Why travel is a box, which I’m sure the kids call something crazy. Like, you know, a car, when you can ride in an a big giant animal made of steel and gears. Gigantic Mech Animals to be exact. An elephant that is reminiscent of the large Elephant creatures from Fellowship of the Ring is […]

The sands have taken over a town in Kolmanskop in southern Namibia. 100 hundred years ago, people found hope of quick fortune in the Namib desert but within two years, nothing was left. The town had a school, a hospital and even a casino. But the diamonds that fortune seekers sought helped build a community […]

When Hamas militants tore down part of a wall that was built on Tuesday that separated Egypt from the Palestinians several years ago, it had a huge impact on the global community who is watching the situation with some trepidation. The idea of putting up a wall to keep a border problem under control is […]

The Washington Post is reporting this morning sobering news regarding the loss of life in Congo ten years after war erupted in the African country and six years after a peace agreement was signed. The numbers exceed 5.4 million deaths in Congo which is eight percent of the entire country’s population of 66 million. According […]

For years, the blogosphere that leaned toward the left kept a match at President George Bush’s feet, repeatedly claiming that he was not being with the American public about what was going on in Iraq. He basically was given a pass. We lived in a post 9/11 world and mainstream media didn’t press him as […]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation, or what is lovingly known as J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI, is being accused of stealing nuclear secrets and selling them to other countries. Sibel Edmonds, a 37-year-old former Turkish language translator, listened into hundreds of sensitive intercepted conversations. Her accusations are rather serious, as she claims that the secrets were […]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as the old saying goes. Is it the long stem of a rose filled with thorns, exquisite yet dangerous to a degree? Is is the sleek lines of an expensive automobile or the smile on a child’s face laughing at Christmas? For some of us geeks, it’s […]