I don't about using my computer outside, especially in the summer when it's very hot and in the winter when it's very cold. I might be able to manage spring & fall but not on windy days as my papers would fly about.

Now, if we could get the folks who market jeans and other clothing to teens to stop using sexually suggestive images of people under 18 . . .

All your Internets are belong to us.

It is not true that Michael Vick ordered eight of these to be shipped to a kennel in West Virginia.

It doesn't help that, outside of Boston, Shilling is a very unlikable guy. I wouldn't expect him to throw a rope to a drowning person in a river if it would make him 15 seconds late for lunch.

I am single dad with a single income but I have two teenage sons who like to play games. When something hot comes out like Gears of whatever, I buy a new copy. But for other games they wait until it's available used. I can't afford a new version of everything. I think that what they are doing is, at the least, mean-spirited.

The Android community will eventually get a Siri equivalent though I doubt Evi is it. But, the more iterations the better and we will eventually get there. I'm glad that there is active development.

There were members of the media participating as well. And while I am pretty much in agreement with a lot of the core stuff that the occupy movement opposes, I do not think that a member of the media should report on something that they are participating in. I don't see how they can remain objective. That objectivity, a crucial component of critical thinking, needs to be there so that they can ferret out anything that might go against some of their own beliefs. I teach, among other psych classes, social psychology. In that course we discuss how our biases get in our way and how we can get blind-sighted by them. We tend to see our own group as diverse and heterogeneous while we view the "outgroup" as a monolithic block on unthinking lemmings. We know we do that so we have to correct for that bias.

These protests are short-lived and I wonder if they end up doing any good. I am against ACTA and I have called my congressman as has my son to ask him to not support it. Interestingly, he knew little about it and wanted information. We had a fairly long call. At the end of the call he said that he would not vote for it. How many others in congress are not aware of what's in this bill? Protesting is well and good but I think making phone calls, emails, etc. are also very, very important. We can get to folks in congress one phone call at a time and put ACTA out of our misery.