Not long ago someone noticed Deutsche Telekom AG, parent company of T-Mobile, claimed it owned the patent on the color magenta in the trademark statement on its website. Other, more heavily trafficked sites picked up on the story, and Engadget (one of my daily reads) went so far as to speak to a copyright attorney [...]

… Really, it can. I’m serious!
In college, it took me awhile to realize that I enjoyed anthropology and sociology. Once I figured it out, I was about to graduate, so I never really pursued either. Like many things, these two disciplines have in a way changed the way I look at the world around me. [...]

As a simple search of this site will tell you, I hate the RIAA with a passion. I am not alone, either. Recently, Gizmodo published its Anti-RIAA Manifesto to kick off their efforts to boycott the RIAA in March. Admirable plans, guys. I couldn’t agree more with your position.
One commenter on that last link offers [...]

On Friday, July 23, call the RIAA and tell them you’re not gonna take it anymore. Before you do that, head over to Defective By Design and sign up so they can email you a phone number to call. The idea is to swamp RIAA executives with calls protesting digital rights management, or DRM. The [...]

… why the NSA’s domestic spying program is a bad idea, check this out: 

Opinion: Why NSA spying puts the U.S. in danger

It’s an article by a former NSA analyst outlining how the program is bad for the U.S. both in terms of constitutional rights and federal law enforcement. I’m not going to get into [...]