Well.. yes I guess you can hear us now.

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According to this document obtained by The Guardian, the federal government, through a court order granted to the National Security Agency, is using the Patriot Act to collect the phone records of millions of Verizon users over a three-month period. Awesome. Read the full document here. It’s like the AP thing, except extended to everyone else.

The court order doesn’t allow the NSA to collect any information whatsoever on the contents of phone calls, or even to obtain any names or addresses of customers. What’s covered instead is known as “metadata”: the phone number of every caller and recipient; the unique serial number of the phones involved; the time and duration of each phone call; and potentially the location of each of the participants when the call happened. All of this information is being collected on millions of calls every day – every conversation taking place within the US, or between the US and a foreign country is collected.

Telephone metadata and what it can tell the authorities about you | James Ball (via rubenfeld)

Big data, federal-style.

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Verizon order: NSA collecting phone records of millions of Americans daily

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Exclusive: Top secret court order requiring Verizon to hand over all call data shows scale of domestic surveillance under Obama administration

The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America’s largest telecoms providers, under a top secret court order issued in April.

Verizon order: NSA collecting phone records of millions of Americans daily

In the shadow of daddy.

Seriously today is perfect

Despite a job rejection, today couldn’t be better!

Yahoo users informed that company has right to scan and read all of their emails.. So Tumblr users,  are we scared yet?

Micheal Douglas reveals why he believes his got throat cancer: Performing cunnilingus..

"No. Because without wanting to get too specific, this particular cancer is caused by HPV [human papillomavirus], which actually comes about from cunnilingus"

For weeks (actually months) .. wait. .. actually years, my wife has been screaming at me to wash the layers of dead insects off of my car, or at least just take a hose to it. Apparently, last night, Ayden got so convinced that his mommy was right that he decided to wash the car himself. First time in years.. and maybe the last time unless he keeps trying.

Oh, and yes, that is a ‘miracle hose’ and it does in fact work as it does on TV..

Pretty sure this won’t happen again.. I threw some money down on a desk in front of co-workers and a nickel landed on its side, as you can see. Those who saw it are witnesses and can attest to the fact that the photo wasn’t a set up.

For a moment I felt like Dick York from the TWILIGHT ZONE episode where something similar occurs. As for my fate, though, I wasn’t able to hear voices from people walking by me on streets and I could not read anyone’s mind. Which may be fine, since York’s circumstances ended badly in the show—as did most people’s.. 

So the one day a cookout is planned is also the day when violent thunderstorms are set to strike after 11am

Looks like food will have to be cooked early and preserved in aluminum foil.. 

Fire bad

I walked into my local convenience store this morning and caught the aftermath of two workers trying to dry out their lottery ticket by microwaving it. They thought the microwave would thoroughly dry the paper, but did not realize that it would set it on fire as well..

Yep, we are the world and this is our future..

Dying girl, 10, spurs fight over lung transplant fairness

The parents of a 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl who has waited 18 months for a lung transplant are waging a fierce fight to change an organ allocation regulation that they say is keeping their desperately ill daughter from the life-saving treatment she needs. But organ transplant &

A must read..

Dying girl, 10, spurs fight over lung transplant fairness

The wired future.. I will make my prediction for the record.

Not to be outdone by Google, APPLE is now hinting that you will soon be able to wear their technology.. which propels me to re-re-re-state my prediction from ten years back concerning wearable devices. At some point in our near future we will have technology implanted. Your phone will be your hand. Your brain will be wired to the Net. 
Unless that big solar flares gets us all..

So yes, that means if the world doesn’t end, you’ll be on Tumblr will be literally in your fingertips. But do you really want Yahoo to be that close to you?

Preliminary tests indicate ricin was found in letters sent to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the director of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, New York Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Browne said.

CNN news alert

Newsweek for Sale: IAC Seeks Buyers

How bout we all get together and just buy it!?

Newsweek for Sale: IAC Seeks Buyers

Yea, he tapped that. Literally.

Don’t touch the rear: Beyonce was slapped on her butt during a show. And yes, there is video. Wait.. 

By now you may have heard of those persistent rumors of a ‘tsunami’ in the Atlantic resulting from solar activity. Here is the video of Dr. Simon Atkins that started it all..

For the record, here is his bio

(Source: http://www.glgresearch.com/)

How to NOT be a parent..

Parenting 101: Don’t do this. Ever.. Two parents are facing chargesfor a choice to put their 10-year-old daughter in a dog cage—and then driving through the Pennsylvania turnpike. They are now facing charges for endangering a minor..