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Spinal Tap Giving Away “Saucy Jack”
I was having lunch with friends on Saturday when someone mentioned that they were at the Spinal Tap ‘Unwigged and Unplugged’ show at the Beacon Theater in New York City last Thursday. When I showed some interest the friend told me a bit about the show. He mentioned that they played a song called ‘Saucy […]
TWiT on Privacy
On this week’s episode of This Week in Tech host Leo Leporte led a discussion about online privacy. The question arose “Is privacy dead?”. I don’t think privacy is dead. I think that people are just now learning how fragile privacy can be in a digital life and how careful one must be. For example, […]
Adam Curry Going Through Divorce
I just finished listening to the 98th episode of the No Agenda podcast and was surprised by the news at the beginning about Adam Curry and his wife, Patricia, going through a divorce. I only follow Curry through No Agenda and only see or hear him outside of that venue incidentally but was shocked at […]
Woman Who Reported Her Own Abduction Found At Disney World
A woman called 911 from Philadelphia on Tuesday claiming she and her daughter were abducted. Later that afternoon she and her daughter were spotted boarding a plane to Orlando, Florida at Philadelphia International Airport. The woman was arrested when she and her daughter were found at Walt Disney World. As if this story was troubling […]
Is Sotomayor A Racist?
“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.” Quick. Who said that? A motivational speaker? A career coach? A civil rights activist? Nope. Those words were uttered by U.S. Supreme Court […]