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Just Say NO to SOPA

Rebecca — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:05:36 +0000

In case, you haven’t heard, SOPA is the acronym for the “Stop Online Piracy Act.” It’s the government’s way of “fixing things.” In this case, it’s “online piracy.” But this bill is so tyrannical, so huge that it stretches it’s black tentacles into the utter regions of the Internet. It’s the lobby baby of the [...]

SETI To Stop Scanning Skies for Aliens

Rebecca — Wed, 18 May 2011 15:26:10 +0000

A little rejoicing in our house today…. we read in the news that the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute (SETI Institute) will stop scanning the skies for alien life forms. Apparently, their funding has been hit. The Mountain View, California, Allen Telescope Array has been switched off and placed into hibernation, as of April 22, [...]

WFW: This Is Getting Really Weird

Rebecca — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:59:33 +0000

And he causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except the one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Revelation 13:16-17 [...]

NASA to Hit Moon with Missile

Rebecca — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:54:22 +0000

You have GOT to be kidding me!!! Dear Government Bureaucrats: “Shoot for the moon” is an IDIOM. A figure of speech! Leave it them to DO something so stupid! OK OK maybe I’m jumping the gun a little here. But I have visions of Chicken Little right about now. What if NASA shoots their missile [...]

So I Hate the FTC Bill. So I’m in the National News

Rebecca — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:40:24 +0000

The Associated Press story has been released. I was interviewed by Deborah Yao of the Philadelphia branch a few weeks ago, concerning the new FTC ruling set for this summer (their proposed guidelines are here, it opens as a pdf file). In a nutshell, the FTC intends on hunting down bloggers who write paid posts: [...]