In fact everybody’s at it. And, as Randall Munroe points out in today’s XKCD, we all know that it’s more fun when it looks pretty, too.
What’s Your Take on Online Privacy?
Posted in: Today's ChiliWhen it comes to Internet privacy, there’s a whole spectrum of opinions, all of which are valid in their own way. Where do you stand?
Imagine if all the world’s data was still stored on punch cards: we’d be drowning in cardboard. But just how much exactly?
Animated galleries are the blinking text of modern websites: they offend our eyes, but they’re all over the internet. Please, please, please make it stop. Please. [XKCD]
Sometimes it feels like there’s nothing that computers can’t beat us at: chess
Google autocomplete results have always been a font of joy; nowhere else is humanity’s curiosity and stupidity celebrated in such equal measure. But when you really start to comb through what it has to offer—as xkcd does today—it goes from amusing to disturbing and back again way quicker than you’d think.
Choice is a wonderful thing, but when it comes to digital communication, perhaps we’re starting to drown in a sea of instant message apps and chat clients.
For all its promise of being the Next Big Thing in tech, when it comes to Google Glass, haters gotta hate. Still, if you’re gonna object to it, you may as well do it properly.
Next time you leave an online community, spare a thought for your account, which will sit there accumulating messages, news and all other kinds of crap which you’ll never, ever see again.
The Most Suspicious File of All
Posted in: Today's ChiliWe’ve all done it. We’ve all clicked on a link that we probably shouldn’t have, confused a gremlin for a Mogwai. But if you ever click the mother of all suspicious links, you deserve whatever’s coming to you.