Cute Animals on an Adult Site?

Cute Animals on an Adult Site?

Adult media can be described in all sorts of ways, but quirky and adorable are two adjectives generally not attributed to it. The e-tail site GameLink, however, is changing that particular perception just in time for the Internet to be flooded with heavy discourse. So […]

Europol and the Internet of Everything

Do you remember that Treehouse of Horror sketch in The Simpsons where Homer, in one of his characteristic blunders, is responsible for unleashing the Y2K Bug on an unsuspecting world? We saw shavers coming to life, pacemakers going haywire and traffic signals shooting lasers. Seemed […]

Is the Internet Making Us Less Smart

Is the Internet Making Us Less Smart

Technology, or better yet, convenience, is something extremely easy to get used to. It’s going back to the less convenient stuff that seems like an absolute bummer. As I’m sure you’re aware, actually having an interest in something, working hard for it and overcoming any […]

A Facebook Life Isn’t That Awesome

A Facebook Life Isn’t That Awesome

Above image: Pan Xunbin / Shutterstock.com Have you done your obligatory mindless Facebook scrolling today? Let’s not pretend it doesn’t happen. You see all the updates from everyone else and you feel bad about your own life. Even if your life is awesome, you still compare […]

Vladimir Putin Censors Russia’s Internet

Vladimir Putin Censors Russia’s Internet

What was once a freewheeling Internet is now struggling for survival in Russia. As President Vladimir Putin slowly tightens his stranglehold on democracy, his latest act was has been the quiet signing into power of a new law requiring popular online voices to register with […]

Folks Are Still Trying to 'Cleanse' the Internet

Folk Want to ‘Cleanse’ the Internet

Job Opportunity: No Experience Required, Healthy Disrespect for Free Expression a Plus Some folks – cynical, defeatist types mostly – say that there’s no way to control the content of the Internet, no effective means to police the literally billions of files and mountains of […]