Disturbing Music Video

This music video though disturbing makes me miss Knight Rider.  If I could only download it to my iPod Video, I would be set.

 

Courtesy of Jeremy Pearce

R2D2 Mr. Potato Head

Watch out, coming to a store near you is a new Mr. Potato Head modeled after R2D2.

 

 

Courtesy of TheForce.Net

Google's Goverment

Less then a week after Google declared it would not provide logs to the US Department of Justice.  The Department of Justice is seeking information a random sampling of search queries during a single week to help defend the 'Child Online Protection Act' which is under attack by the ACLU.  The ACLU claims the law is impossible to enact and violates our freedom of speech under the first amendment.  Unlike Microsoft (though delaying), AOL and Yahoo, Google is standing its ground against the subpoena to provide the sampling of data. 

 

This denial was hailed during the TWIT cast this week.  As Leo Laporte called Google's reluctance a sign of Google's desire to be the 'Public Trust'.  An interesting assertion, but what Public is Google really concerned about?

 

Today's news about Google points out it isn't about freedom or protecting the public from a government run amok unlike what the TWIT cast seemed to hail days prior.  Google decided to honor the requests of China and censor  search results that could have contained thousands of terms, sites, and other services deemed unacceptable to the government. 

 

The "Public Trust" is unclear, but it appears that Google wants to the "People's (Republic) Search" and by default the provider of Adsense.