Web Inventor: Stop the British Snooping Bill
Apr 19, 2012 The British government’s plan to turn the Internet into a national intelligence cache that stores data on every U.K. Web surfer was frustrated Tuesday when Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, condemned such a move as a “destruction of human rights.”
Goody ‘Toe Shoes’ Banned by Army
Jul 5, 2011 The U.S. military bans FiveFingers shoes because they "detract from a professional military image"; Rupert Murdoch sells MySpace for a measly $35 million; and Google teams with the Getty Museum to create a smartphone application for art lovers. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Violent Video Game Ban Blown to Smithereens
Jun 28, 2011 The Supreme Court overturned California's ban on violent video games; social networking sites may be effectively enhancing our social lives; and a case of public urination in Oregon forces a city to flush its reservoir. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Google Working on Gmail’s Social Skills
Feb 9, 2010 Google has been pretty successful at just about everything its engineers have attempted, with the glaring exception of social media. Still getting trounced by Facebook and losing buzzshare to upstarts like Twitter and Foursquare, the company plans to get aggressive, starting with new social features in Gmail. (continued)
Larry’s List: Rainy Day Edition
Dec 8, 2009 It's pouring in Larry HQ, which makes it a better time than ever to read about guns and gals, China and America's inferiority complex, military anthropologists and more. Soak it up after the jump. Many, many updates
Tupac Makes the Vatican’s Cut
Dec 8, 2009 It's kind of sweetly dorky, like your grandpa finally figuring out how to use his iPod or something, but the Vatican has apparently discovered the late hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur and has gone so far as to include one of his songs, "Changes," among a lineup of eight tunes on "The Vatican's Playlist" (which has its own MySpace page!).
Want to Reach Moviegoers? Go Online
Sep 30, 2009 It's official: Movie marketers can no longer afford to ignore social networking sites. This may strike some as a foregone conclusion (i.e., duh), but those in the industry who are still resisting the all-consuming pull of online vortexes like Facebook and Twitter are doing so at their own peril, according to the new "Moviegoers 2010" report.
White House All Atwitter
May 2, 2009 It's not entirely clear how the White House joining the cyber-ranks of MySpace, Facebook and Twitter will serve to make the American government more "transparent" and "efficient," but perhaps micro-blogging will save our democracy or maybe we'll get to hear about what Joe Biden had for lunch.
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MySpace Spammers Fined $230 Million
May 14, 2008 A Los Angeles judge on Tuesday ordered two Internet spammers to pay a record-breaking $230 million in fines after they sent more than 700,000 unsolicited advertisements to MySpace users. The amount is almost half what Rupert Murdoch spent to buy the social networking site in 2005.
