February 2010
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The Lower Merion School District Webcam Fiasco
If you haven’t read about it, very quickly: a high school in Lower Merion School District just outside Philadelphia is being charged in a class action lawsuit for spying on students with laptop webcams. The Apple MacBooks given to students have software installed that allows administrators to activate the webcams at any time.
How did the parents of LMSD children become aware of the spying?...
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Super Bowl Ads Face Off In BrandBowl 2010 →
My post on the LaunchSquad What’s New blog about Radian6 tracking tweets during the Super Bowl.
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“I’d like to set the record straight regarding Boxee’s access to Hulu. Boxee uses...”
– Avner Ronen - Boxee responds to NBC’s Jeff Zucker
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Great Quote from Lost Head Writer Damon Lindelof
Spoiler alert. Hit the jump to check out the quote.
“Right out of the gate, in the first five minutes of the premiere, you get hit over the head with two things that you’re not expecting. The first is that Desmond is on the plane. The second thing that we do is we drop out of the plane and we go below the water and we see that the Island is submerged. What we’re trying to do there is...
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What's with the CG in Lost?
There have been several sequences, few and far between in Lost that involve entire CG renderings that look horrible. Two that stick out in my mind the most are the submarine dive sequence from Season 5, where the vessel literally looked like it was pulled out of a late 90’s computer game. Last night’s underwater sequence took the cake though, the camera panning, cheesy music, and...
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