In six days, the Bush Administration will take its leave of the White House. But before departing, it must surrender any device or media that might contain those infamous five million missing email messages from between March 2003 and October 2005–messages that covered a period including the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the federal response to Hurricane Katrina.
What a remarkable display of political expediency. In a 69 to 28 vote, the U.S. Senate approved The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), a sweeping new surveillance law that will effectively grant immunity to telecom companies for cooperating with the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program in the years after Sept. 11, 2001.
John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper.
Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.
Best video mashup ever.
A Facebook Memorial
Wow.
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
Excellent.
Flughumor!
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
Spectacular in the bellowing Russian sailor sense of the word …
“If you spell something wrong on your insurance claim, do you really deserve surgery? I don’t think so …”
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