AltWeeklies Wire
Two Web-Heads Think You Should Unplug This Saturdaynew
On March 24, if Michael Taylor and Dennis Bystrov have their way, computers all around the world will go dark and the Internet will look a little emptier -- welcome to World Shutdown Day.
New York Press |
Charlie Anders |
03-22-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
Testing the Limits of Vulnerabilitynew
Unlike real-world exploitation, nearly all computer exploitation can be turned to good in the end.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Annalee Newitz |
03-21-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
Website of the Weeknew
Prisonblogs.net aims to give incarcerated people a chance to communicate with the outside world and shed some light on what life is like behind bars.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Staff |
03-21-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
Web Trenz!new
With SXSW Interactive and O'Reilly's Emerging Technology shindig, it's the time of year when we celebrate new ideas and fresh memes on the Interwebs -- here are some hot new trenz.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Annalee Newitz |
03-14-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
The Inevitable Data Crash of 2027new
When we store all our personal, financial, and social information on other people's computers, we risk losing everything for reasons even stupider than the war on terror.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Annalee Newitz |
03-07-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
Quackle: Brute Force Scrabblenew
The world's best Scrabble player lives at MIT, but he's not human.
Dig Boston |
Julia Reischel |
03-07-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
Porn and Punishmentnew
Julie Amero faces 40 years in jail for porn -- a tech expert blames spyware.
New Haven Advocate |
Kent Garber |
03-06-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
Giving Black Inventors Creditnew
Black contributions to technology are still pretty marginalized, but Francis Jeffers wants to change that with the International African Inventors Museum.
NOW Magazine |
Joseph Wilson |
03-05-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
FON: Turning Rebellion into Moneynew
The Madrid-based Wi-Fi "community" will pay you $1 for each customer you help steal from Starbucks and give you a free wireless router if you live next to a branch of the coffee chain -- but what's behind the revolutionary rhetoric?
Philadelphia Weekly |
Jean Luc Renault |
03-05-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
MySpace or Yours? Newbies Check out the Phenomenonnew
Three Port Folio Weekly staffers entered America's hottest "place for friends" and never came out.
Port Folio Weekly |
Staff |
03-01-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
Hit This Site: Americancity.orgnew
Dubbed "a subtle plan to change the world" by The New York Times, the Next American City looks at the state of the American metropolis and asks, "Where do we go from here?"
C-Ville Weekly |
Nell Boeschenstein |
02-28-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
Hit This Site: Fark.comnew
A conglomeration of headlines from all over, submitted by people from all over, even more so than Drudge or CNN.com, Fark has the most random, useless and obscure collection of headlines and news stories on the Internet -- and that is a good thing.
C-Ville Weekly |
Nell Boeschenstein |
02-21-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
Peeing by Designnew
As somebody who often has to pee while going for walks, I can't recommend Safe2Pee.org enough -- I can plot my course around the city based on where I can get to nice public bathrooms.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Annalee Newitz |
02-15-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
Painting Like a Godnew
The MIT Media Lab's I/O Brush is essentially a nice chunky paintbrush with an eye inside.
Dig Boston |
Lissa Harris |
02-14-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
Writing With My Mouthnew
A generation raised on computers battles carpal tunnel at an early age.
New Haven Advocate |
Nikki Greenwood |
02-13-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
