Presidential Limos are armored, yes, but Gregg Merksamer reveals that George W. Bush’s limos sport five-inch thick glass, more than twice as thick as in Clinton’s limo. Merksamer should know, he wrote the book on so-called “professional cars”. He says half an inch is enough to stop a .44 magnum at point blank range, and [...]

Posted November 4, 2008 by Casey
Categories: Dispatches, Planes, Trains, & Automobiles, Politics & Controversy. Tags: armor, armored car, bulletproof glass, fear, limo, limousine, politics, presidential limo, security, vehicles. 2 Comments.

Who knew an ad that targeted our fear of the dark could work so well or playfully? Then again, what would this ad feature if it played here in the US?

Posted September 19, 2008 by Casey
Categories: Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: advertising, afraid of the dark, dark, fear, folklore, lighbulbs, scared, video. Be the first one.

Our CIO is asking whether or not Plymouth should get involved with blogs. Not to be overly academic, but I think we should define our terms.

Despite all the talk, “blogs” are a content agnostic technology being used to support all manner of online activities.

What you’re really asking is instead: what kind of content do we want to put online, and who do we want to let do it?

Posted September 27, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: academia, academic blogs, blogging, blogs, class blogs, examples, faculty blogs, fear, plymouth state university, policy, psu, student blogs. 6 Comments.

Troy expressed both great amusement and trepidation in his message alerting me to Riya, a new photo sharing site:

I don’t know whether to say cool, or zool.

The tour explains that you upload photos, Riya identifies faces in your photos, then asks you to name them (or correct its guesses!). Then you get all your friends to join up and we can all search for everybody by people, location, and time. So say “hi” to Andrejs and Nora.

Posted March 22, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Photoblog, Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: anonymity, brave new world, face, face recognition, facial recognition, fear, identity, identity is reputation, idm, photo sharing, privacy, recognition, reputation, riya, six degrees, social software, spy, spying, Spytech, surveillance, tracking, zool. 4 Comments.

Arguments about Wikipedia’s value and authority will rage for quite a while, but it’s interesting to see where the lines are being drawn.
On the one had we’ve got a 12 year-old pointing out errors in Encyclopaedia Britannica (via Many2Many) and now on the other side we’ve got John Seigenthaler, a former editorial page editor at [...]

Posted December 5, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: blog, bloggers, blogs, communities, community, editor, editorial, editorial control, fear, findability, forbes, google economy, John Seigenthaler, libel, moderation, opinion, Seigenthaler, slander, social, social software, usa today, wiki, wikipedia. 7 Comments.

Boing Boing has an exclusive profile of neutron bomb inventor Samuel T. Cohen by Charles Platt. All the reports so far are that it’s a 10,000 word “must read.”
The article, Profits of Fear, is available in PDF, plain text, and Palm doc versions at Boing Boing.
Thanks to David Rothman for the heads up. Extra: [...]

Posted August 17, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Blink, Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: boing boing, boingboing, bomb, charles platt, fear, inventor, moral weapon, neutron, neutron bomb, nuclear weapon, nuclear weapons, nuke, sam cohen, samuel cohen, samuel t cohen, weapon, weapon designer. One Comment.