I stumbled across a post on BoingBoing.net today which pointed to a page containing a lifelike rendering of a women who follows your cursor around the screen. According to Cory Doctorow who posted this it was designed by a Brazilian design firm. The technology appears to be Flash based, though it could just [...]

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I cam across one of the most interesting stories I’ve read in a long time.  A story on wired that is a must read.  It’s an engaging story about a teenage phone phreak and the FBI.

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felonspy.com is an interesting Google maps mashup which allows you to specify an address and receive a map containing pin pointed locations of any one individual with a criminal record. The site tracks sex offenders, ex cons and even people with traffic infractions (depending on the severity of the infraction).
felonspy gets their mapping information [...]

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With the latest news of a third cable being severed I’m skeptical of this being an accident… I can understand a cable being severed once, or maybe twice, but 3 times in only 4 days. If these cables are getting snagged by boat anchors I find it hard to believe this hasn’t happened before [...]

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This post at boingboing.net is pretty disturbing to say the least. If two girls are treated this way and just happen to have the opportunity to express it, how are the other children of this “orphanage” treated?
The post sums up by saying the mother received a letter from the orphanage explaining that she is [...]

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