From Around the Web
21 Guilty Pleasures for Geeks – Tech Radar counts down the habits that all Geeks share but few like to speak of.
50 Things Every Mac Geek Should Know – If you consider yourself a hardcore Mac user, here are a few things you ought to know.
How to keep the Government from Spying on you – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has launched a “Surveillance Self-Defense” site, designed to provide Americans with practical advice on how to keep their government from snooping on their private communications.
Music That Makes You Stupid – CalTech grad student Virgil Griffith has correlated music preferences with SAT scores using University groupings off Facebook. It makes for intriguing, if unscientific, reading.
Pirate Bay Accused Does Remote Sysadmin From Courtroom – “A server was down and I restarted it,” Fredrik Neij said. He is one of the four founders of The Pirate Bay that stand accused of “complicity to making copyrighted material accessible” (yes, that’s the charge). “We have Internet access [in the court room] so it was no problem.”
Technology is Amazing, and Nobody’s Happy – A clip from one of the last episodes of Late Night to be hosted by Conan O’Brien features a conversation with the comedian Louis C.K. During this conversation, C.K. makes the observation that “Everything is amazing right now and nobody’s happy.” And by “everything,” he means technology.
XMarks – Is a new site that works like a giant reputation engine for the internet. Based on the principal that, if it’s bookmarked, it’s good, the site operates through a Firefox Add-on.
Why computer voices still don’t sound human – Slate.com explains the difficulties preventing the next big break through in text-to-voice technologies.
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