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28 June, 2010 (10:19) | Uncategorized | By: Lancer Kind

The advent of the Internet has increased the rate of information flow. We used to wait a month for a new magazine issue or a week for a favorite TV episode. Nowadays, you need the help of a site like this to even stand a chance of being able to keep up to date, with […]

Interview with my pal, William McIntosh, Hugo and Nebula Award Nominee

25 May, 2010 (08:48) | Uncategorized | By: Lancer Kind

I’ve always said that if you can’t be in high places, it’s good to have friends there who can tell you about the view. Dear reader, unlike my usual ‘speculative posts,’ Will really is my pal, and he really did get nominated for these very cool awards.  Yes! Really!  I’ve got pictures!  William McIntosh and […]

Get the Department of Homland Security to read Little Brother

1 March, 2010 (21:52) | Uncategorized | By: Lancer Kind

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is looking for public feedback as part of the Open Gov Initiative. Vote up my suggestion to make Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother required reading to DHS employees. You can read my review from a previous post. http://openhomelandsecurity.ideascale.com/a/dtd/31748-7043 My dad is a newly retired member of DHS.  Dad, I’ll work […]

Little Brother (or “Big Brother” for 2003 and Homeland Security)

22 February, 2010 (22:38) | Uncategorized | By: Lancer Kind

Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother is a call to those that are keeping quiet and just waiting for things to blow over.  It’s a clarion to those waiting for our freedoms to come back.  And it’s an instruction book  for how to fight back rather than sit at home and complain about warrantless wiretapping. Little Brother […]

New AND Improved: Tell Lancer how wrong he is, now BIGGER and FRONT ROW

21 February, 2010 (13:09) | Uncategorized | By: Lancer Kind

Until today, I never really understood products that were “New AND Improved.”  I mean, doesn’t it have to be one or the other: New something-something, or Improved something something? But now I understand: spinning any improvement as “new” (like a new feature), or anything that is New has to be an Improvement (like Vista over […]