When people realized that they could use Facebook as an electronic smoke screen to obscure the reality of their pathetic lives.

What about the ridiculous 20 year old technology tracking device the FBI installed on a students car? Search Wired if you don't know what I'm talking about. It was a huge black box with a gigantic whip antenna secured to the underside of his car using zip-ties and magnets glued to a stick. I'm sorry but I don't buy the idea that the US Gov is full of tech wizards and the latest and greatest equipment.

Instructing your foreign diplomats to collect biometric data and credit card information on politicians in their host country isn't really what I would call petty. It's what I would call spying. And when it happens in countries like Sweden (which it did, read the section called "Diplomats Helping American Spies" in NYTimes) then it seems particularly odd.

Isn't it amazing that with all of the pressing challenges our world currently faces, THIS is what institutions like Oxford are choosing to study? Kind of makes you wonder......

I would take "crazy bad" air quality for a decent job at this point.

Isn't the cat out of the bag? Facebook is one giant data mining scheme for advertisers. Why would anyone opt-in for that, especially when it comes to email?