Thus was the beginning of Thomas’ turn to the other side. For 18 months beginning in April 2003, Thomas worked as a “paid asset” for the FBI running a website for identity and credit card thieves from a government-supplied apartment in the tony Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle.From bedrise to bedrest, seven days a week, [...]
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Unless you’ve recently emerged from a coma, you know the consumer versions of Microsoft’s new Vista operating system ship Tuesday. Over the next few weeks, NBA star LeBron James will try to convince you to move to Windows Vista as part of Microsoft’s massive ad campaign.This column is not a review of Windows Vista. I’m [...]
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The one gift that I’ve found the most post worthy was a book. It’s a book that I had seen but figured was “a bit” out of my price range. Also I wasn’t sure how I’d like it. This book was U2 by U2.
The quotes are awesome. Put together by a interviewer [...]
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Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which will celebrate its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. The film is an exploration of urban spaces in major cities and [...]
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Engadget has posted the proposed price of $1200 on the Optimus 103. And it’s for a keyboard with one of it’s bigger sellers gone. The color keys. They announced a switch to black and white a while ago, but I still hoped that the “extra” keys would still be color. [...]
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I had written about some bad Video Game Ads before. And today I got a heads up that Scott Sharkey “just published a third installment of this feature, and the ads Scott Sharkey found, (and scanned, and humiliated) are every bit as awful as they were in installments past.” So I came I saw… and [...]
Bad games are released all the time, and some are worse than others. This is nothing new. However, it really takes a special kind of awful to be considered one of the worst games ever made. So when this special kind of awful makes an appearance, it’s truly something to behold. Big Rigs: Over the [...]
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Engadget has written an article about a very nice offering from Linksys that has really captured my interest. Besides being based on the extremely fast (but not ratified) new n format, it has the ability to jump frequencies automatically for best perfoamce… even jumping bands. Plus the real coup de grais… a USB [...]
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For decades, the debate among 007 fans has been who is the best Bond — Sean Connery or Roger Moore.
Now a new contender has arrived, in the shape of Daniel Craig — the blond 38-year-old, who despite being a cold-blooded killer, manages to fall in love with his Bond girl and show emotional vulnerability.
The critics [...]
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Crave TV: 20-inch Laptop on the London Underground
How practical is owning a 20-inch laptop? Crave TV lugs Dell’s massive XPS M2010 from one side of London to the other using the tube and bus. Their PC editor braves the stares of strangers, and the constant risk of mugging. Some of his fellow Tube travellers seem [...]
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