eHarmony Enters 20th Century
After years of blatantly discriminatory practices, same-sex relationships are on the table at eHarmony, one of the biggest online matching services:
Online US dating service eHarmony.com has agreed to set up a website for gays and lesbians seeking partners after being accused of discrimination by a gay man in New Jersey state.
Under the terms of a [...]
Sarah Palin Interview Generator!
Heh-heh. I love the Internet.
All You Need to Know
So the governorship of Alaska, as with that of most states, is largely ceremonial in many ways. It’s no secret, but don’t you dare suggest that a Republican running mate wasn’t a hands-on Commander-in-Chief of the state’s National Guard. Not unless you’re willing immediately to contradict yourself for a promotion:
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has promoted [...]
Party Unity, My Ass
[For immediate release] I’ve had it with partisan politics, as have so many Americans these days. After much consideration and consultation with my cats and wife, I’ve decided to run. We had wanted to break the news here, but the sheer size of my organization probably guaranteed leaks, and once the media got hold of [...]
Virus in Spaaaaaaaaace!
Laptop computers taken to the International Space Station had been compromised by a well-known virus:
Space news website SpaceRef broke the story about the virus on the laptops that astronauts took to the ISS.
NASA told SpaceRef that no command or control systems of the ISS were at risk from the malicious program.
The laptops infected with the [...]
Pwnability
A security flaw that threatens the Internet’s DNS structure can be fixed, but bureaucracy stands in the way:
If the complicated politics of internet governance continue to get in the way of upgrading the security of the net’s core technology, the internet could turn into a carnival house of mirrors, where no URL or e-mail address [...]
Writers Strike Ending?
A tentative agreement has been approved by the WGA membership.
The action followed Sunday’s unanimous decision by the board and negotiating committee of the Writers Guild of America to bless a tentative contract reached with studios over the weekend. The guild’s 10,500 movie and TV writers are expected to ratify the new three-year agreement within 12 [...]
Mediterranean/Mid-East Cable Repairs
The undersea cable cuts that have severely curtailed Internet access to Asia since last week may be getting fixed soon:
A repair ship began work Tuesday at the site where an Internet cable was cut last week in the Persian Gulf, and a second vessel was to arrive later that day at the spot north of [...]
