techno-culture

Declan McCullagh has an interesting post about Obama VP-pick Joe Biden’s record on the tech front. Not great — he came in near the bottom of C/Net’s ‘technology voter’s guide’. Seems the anti-privacy legislation he pushed was directly responsible for PGP, for which thanks, kind of… Biden’s bill — and the threat of encryption being [...]

I heard Dr Harrington on the radio the other day — his newly discovered, ancient species of aphid preserved in amber was bought for £20 on eBay, so he had wanted to give it a scientific name reflecting that: Mindarus ebayii. Sadly, a more sober scientific tone prevailed and the powers that be named the [...]