Day: August 29, 2008

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Bowl Of Noses

Robo Fish: How Stuff Works Videos

As cool as they are just being there, robots teach us a lot of things.  And they are still sooo cool; imagine that!

These robofish certainly deserved to be in the last robot roundup, but hey, there’s only so much space, time, and candy (wait, what’s candy got to do with anything?).
How Stuff Works is one of the great websites out there with tons of stuff on all kinds of stuff.  When you get tired of silly videos on YouTube, or your parents say it’s time to watch something educational, go to their video channel.  Bookmark it today.
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The Next Good Idea

We Need A Privacy Czar

The EU has a whole team of privacy guys.  Where’s someone like that in the US?  We do have someone there to monitor privacy breaches that occur as a result of the Homeland Protection Act, but that is just the tip of the iceberg, and well, if he’s appointed by this administration, how are we supposed to trust him?

With congress finally asking all the Internet companies what they do with the all the info they gather secretly from the consumer, now’s the time to take this further. Ars has a good write-up about it here.
As consumers, we should have to “opt-in” and not “opt-out” regarding what data of ourselves gets automatically collected.  We could this trend of info-grab earlier here.