I tend to agree with this assessment. The irony is clear. One must master technology without becoming dependent on it!

] "We are on the cusp of perfection of extreme evil -- an
] evil whose possibility spreads well beyond weapons of
] mass destruction," Joy warned recently in Wired magazine.

Bill Joy makes the Weekly World News!

Yahoo! Top Stories - Super-Robots Will Wipe Out Mankind!

] Mobile phone maker Motorola Inc. plans to introduce a
] device that would seamlessly switch calls from cellular
] networks to cheaper Wi-Fi networks wherever they're
] available. Discount carrier IDT Corp. is testing consumer
] Wi-Fi phone service in Newark, N.J.

Salon.com Technology | Wi-Fi phones could be next trend in thrift

"The Visual Thesaurus takes a unique, and remarkably beautiful, approach to presenting the results of a word lookup."

A visualized networking of words.

This I like!

Limited trial usage.

Visual Thesaurus

Wired article discussing a security breach at Diebold that could impact the 2004 presidential election.

Old But Relevant - Diebold

MAY 4--In the wake of an Oprah Winfrey show that included explicit talk about teen sexuality (and addressed topics such as rainbows and getting one's salad tossed), the Federal Communications Commission received more than 1600 letters complaining about the racy March 18 broadcast and demanding that the talk show host be cited for indecency.

Some of these complaints are hilarious.

FCC Swamped With Oprah Indecency Complaints - May 4, 2004

This site is great. This guy is a true geeks geek. Hardware hackers unite!!!

The Mad Russian

Check out the Interz0ne III presentations. Pretty good quality for a con video.

Interz0ne Presentation Video