Tech at Night: Google, National Security Agency

On July 9, 2010, in General, by Neil Stevens
Tech at Night

Good evening. We’re now off to a good start with this new Monday-Wednesday-Friday column, because this time I’m getting it published before midnight on both coasts.

So let’s get right to it. The two big stories I’m seeing are that Google’s Street View spying troubles are coming home to the US, and the NSA is apparently expanding its mission to protect US communications from foreign agents in a new and potentially troublesome direction.

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Katamari Forever

On July 9, 2010, in General, by Neil Stevens

Blah blah, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, Katamari Forever.

Yeah, I’m told that earlier games in this series are not like this game, and in fact not like the Playstation 3 version of this game in particular, but this is the game I have, and the one game of this series I’ve played, so this is all I can assess. And my assessment is not good.

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Nima Jooyandeh facts.