Politics

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Feb 07

Watch Yourself (Part I)

In capturing and documenting our lives online we’re providing a potential surveillance feed of ourselves – and of those around us. When you chuck in geo-tagging using cell towers, and the time and date saved with your files, it’s possible that you are providing whoever wants to see it with a complete record of where you’ve been, when you were there, who you were with and what you were doing. And as network speeds and devices improve, the ability to stream video from webcams in your house or in your hand means that this record will be available real-time…


07
Jan 07

A Good Year for Atheism

2006 was a good year for atheism. Every good ideological argument needs a proxy war, and last year saw a few key battles won by atheists in the 100-year fight with theism over science education in US public schools.