I read Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears (edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling) when it first came out in 1995. I bought and read…no, devoured all of the collections of “modern fairy tales” when I was an undergrad those early 90s–Snow White, Blood Red, Black Thorn, White Rose, etc. Now, the series is being re-released [...]
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Last week I wrote an article where I briefly discussed some options regarding security and privacy software: On the issue of privacy and protecting civil liberties. In it I mentioned Steganos software and some of their free online options. I’ve been given the opportunity to review their flagship home security package: Steganos Privacy Suite 2008*–here’s [...]
READ MORE »Ever read the Declaration of Independence? I read the first couple of paragraphs at least twice a year. I’ve read the grievances against King George only a couple of times, and then not lately. In honor of the coming Independence Day I reread the usual again and then went on to read the rest. I [...]
READ MORE »More justification as to why foreign travel agents are advertising as a feature trips that don’t touch U.S. soil: Welcome back to the United States. Now let’s see what’s on your laptop U.S. Courts have ruled, as recently as this spring in a case stemming from a search at LAX, that there’s no need for [...]
READ MORE »As an update to my recent post, On the issue of privacy and protecting civil liberties, I added a story about Local councils in the UK use CCTVs to spy on dog owners’ cute butts; here’s another couple of examples of how reasonable and proper the idea of giving our privacy and liberty over to [...]
READ MORE »I’m mixing the two subjects, Sylvia Browne (and psychics) with Bible criticism…mainly because I have these open links in my browser I want to close. In a way they’re related topics as both deal with credulous thinking. First, Browne. Robert Lancaster who runs the site stopsylviabrowne.com (I think he started this after the boy was [...]
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