A Little Bit Literate

The Electronic Frontier Foundation recently had an interesting post about Google's "behavioral targeted ad" program. It's worth a read. Behavioral targeted ads are just about the creepiest kinds of ads, because they look at what you've been looking at online and advertise to you based on that. Sound invasive? You betcha! I take measures to [...]

It was my turn to do the dishes the other night, and I wasn't all that interested. "Let's just get a monster to do our dishes," I told Pete. "A dishwashing monster." Pete is pretty good about humoring me when I say things like this (which is good, because I say things like this a [...]

Reading through the Google articles, I was struck by a few things the youthful Sergey & Larry had to say about their little research project, especially in relation to the search/advertising/web services juggernaut we know today. "Up until now," they say in their paper, "most search engine development has gone on at companies with little publication [...]