Some Sunday morning reading to share.
Susan Boyle was the story this week. No question about that. She’s a feel good story for many. But some seem to think there’s a smell of sham around the story. Ah, show biz.
The Torture Memos. Oh, how we can twist and turn.
Obama taps Virginia’s Secretary of Technology, Aneesh Chopra to be the US CTO. In this Wall St. Journal article I discovered that the state contracts and uses Google quite extensively. Didn’t know that before.
Three folks set out to ride horseback from Beijing to London. They hope to complete the trip by 2012 and the Olympics.
Ana Marie Cox argues we should get ready of the White House Press Corps. I would agree.
Wired examines some reasons why Apple should share the iPhone wealth and let Verizon come on board. One simple reason. AT&T needs to have their hats handed to them.
Newsweek reports that the military is using the iPod Touch and the iPhone because of their versatility and cost.
If you want to opt out of a database from one of the big market companies that follow you life more closely than any wiretap or other surveillance, you most likely have to do so by filling out a form designed to trip you up and then send it in via snail mail. Once they got you, they don’t want to let you go. Via the Red Tape Chronicles.
A picture of Al Capone’s jail cell makes the diggs look pretty tolerable. Via Neatorama
