Eric Scheske

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Hovering Parents

> Last week, Sprint Nextel Corp. introduced a new service called Family Locator that lets parents track their kids' whereabouts, using the GPS capabilities in each child's cellphone. For $9.99 a month, you can get a fix on your little ones' locations as long as

Wi-Fi the World

I like Wi-Fi, but I can't say I'm enamored with the idea of turning every public place in America into a hot spot. The act of turning every public place in America into a cell phone zone has been annoying enough. Anyway, this article [http://www.

Virtual Lent

The heck if I know what to make of this: > Brighton, UK. Britain will witness its first crucifixion for almost two millennia later this week, when Cynewulf is nailed to a cross as punishment for ganking other players as they first appear. Cynewulf, (in real life a 27 year-old

Web Award Winners

I spend more time surfing the web than I care to admit. Yet I routinely run across things--big things--that I've never even heard of, like the Annual Web Awards [http://2006.sxsw.com/interactive/web_awards/winners/], now in its ninth year. It has an assortment of neat

Video Johns Squirming

Heeee Hawwww! This is funny: > Seventeen million customers of the online payment service iBill have had their personal information released onto the internet, where it's been bought and sold in a black market made up of fraud artists and spammers, security experts say. > The stolen data,

Cutting Down on STDs

> Long distance lovers could soon be able to bond by sharing a wi-fi glass of wine. . . . > The high-tech glasses will glow warmly when raised, no matter how far apart the drinkers are, reports New Scientist. > Jackie Lee and Hyemin Chung, experts in human-computer interaction, say that communal

iPope

I still don't have an i-Pod, even though I've been downloading from iTunes for over a year now. But this does it: if the Pope has one [http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0601282.htm], I'm gettin' one, especially since Apple recently

4 billion

"Analysts predict that the number of global mobile phone customers will double to four billion in five years." That's from the New York Times. That's remarkable (there are only 6.5 billion people in the world). That also sucks (note: employ proper British usage

Yallah

Is Yahoo! banning "allah" as a user name? This guy says it's banned, along with a bunch of obscenities [http://quickwired.com/kallahar/stories/2005-Yahoo/yahoo.php]. To date, Yahoo! hasn't offered an explanation. I'm guessing it could be one ofÂ two

Dumb People Getting Smarter

Maybe that's why they're still playing videogames at age 30 instead of holding down a job: > Before you assume gadgets and video games fry the minds of the future, consider this: Canadian researchers are finding evidence that the high-speed, multitasking of the young and wireless