Thursday, January 14, 2021

Impeach Or Breach! Spare Oath-Breakers No Quarter

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TITLE: "Impeach Or Breach! Spare Oath-Breakers No Quarter."  AUTHOR/COPYRIGHT: Lisa Tolliver (1/13/2021)  To All U.S. Representati...
Thursday, February 16, 2017

DIGITAL USERS BEWARE: "Samsung Warns Customers Not to Discuss Personal Information In Front of Smart TVs" | TheWeek | Feb. 29, 2015

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Continuing the saga of apps/software/devices snooping on users. This info is no longer breaking news, but it's worth remembering: ...
Friday, December 30, 2016

Who's reading/listening to/watching whom? Chronicles, #4 - "A Secret Catalogue of Government Gear For Spying On Your Cellphone"

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Who's reading/listening to/watching whom? Chronicles, #4 - Remember when Tony Soprano said he never uses GPS, and he always used burn...

Who's reading/listening to/watching whom? Chronicles, #3: "The walls have ears: Warrant granted for Amazon Echo recordings", "Goodbye privacy, hello 'Alexa': Amazon Echo, the home robot who hears it all", "Virtual standoff: Amazon Echo vs. Google Home"", and "Amazon Alexa vs. Google Home and how they’re always listening"

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Who's reading/listening to/watching whom? Chronicles, #3 - Here's the article that inspired me to write this post: ...
Sunday, April 03, 2016

ON TV: Showdown - "Hell on Wheels"' Lily Bell v. Thomas Heywood's "The Fair Maid of the West"

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I've been binge-watching Hell on Wheels and am glad I came aboard. In fact, I just finished watching season 3 , episode 2 ("Emine...
Tuesday, August 04, 2015

DIGITAL READERS: BEWARE!: Jellybooks' code candy.js "is code embedded inside an ebook to track how users actually read" - and such data's being collected not only by Jellybooks but by "a growing list of others"

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[Image Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/Snow_White%2C_c1919_%285686351086%29.jpg] In October 2014, I poste...
Tuesday, March 03, 2015

Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!

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<br /> Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss , happy birthday to you! (March 2, 1904-September 21) “The more that you read, The more things...

LIBRARY STORIES: "The Library Policeman"

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I can't think of Stephen King's novella, " The Library Policeman " (the third story in the 1990 collection Four Past Mi...

LIBRARY STORIES: Gus Hasford's Library Book Theft Charges

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Are you, too, a fan of Gus Ha s ford 's novels? The Short-Timers (1979) ISBN 0-553-23945-7 The Phantom Blooper (1990) ISBN 0-553-...
Wednesday, November 26, 2014

30 Funniest Cartoons About eBooks and Digital Reading

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From EbookFriendly