Technology

Last night, I dug up the quote from JPII that I ran for this week's "Something for Sunday Morning" post. This morning, I ran across WaPo's review of The Town that Forgot to Breathe, [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/08/

As a follow-up to my earlier post about Wikipedia [https://thedailyeudemon.com/3236/]: > Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia to which anyone can contribute, is tightening submission rules after a prominent journalist complained that an article falsely implicated him in the Kennedy assassinations. > Wikipedia will now require users to register

I've been interested in the Wikipedia pages for at least two years. The whole idea of "citizen encyclopediasm" intrigued me and I've generally found its content consistent with my knowledge on matters. But I hear about glaring errors, and a recent hub-ub that got

What is an avatar? A Hindu god incarnate, properly speaking. On the Internet, they're cartoon characters that you can accessorize. Think of them as on-screen Barbies. They're child-like, but--shocker, shocker--America's adults are finding them irresistible. Now the "experts" are explaining why they&

Porn, porn everywhere/ In my pocket/ At the fair/ Watch in my car/ Or at the beach/ Just give me a cell/ And it's in my reach. > Pornography is spreading from the computer desktop to the small screen, to pocket-sized devices such as cell phones, digital music

From Secondhand Smoke [http://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2005/11/trouble-in-threapeutic-cloning.html]: > One of the big issues that causes many feminists to oppose therapeutic human cloning is the distinct possibility that women, particularly the most destitute women, will be exploited for their eggs. . . > When S. Korean researcher Woo-Suk

A columnist at WaPo weighs in on the stem cell research question [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/11/AR2005111101634.html] . The writer is upset that scientists are coming up with bizarre ways to obtain embryonic stem cells that dont' run afoul of religious or philosophical

Porn downloads are proving popular for iPods [http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/11/04/D8DLT9T0A.html]: > Purveyors of porn and entrepreneurs who spied a niche when Apple Computer Inc. unveiled its video-playing iPod are proving that sex even sells in tiny packages -- especially when it is portable.