Governments Increasingly Censoring the Web
BBC News is reporting that state-sponsored censorship of online content is skyrocketing, going from "a couple" of nations in 2002 to a disheartening 25 out of 41 studied this year. Not surprisingly, the worst offenders include culturally restricted nations such as Iran and Burma, where governments seem to fear their citizens having unrestricted access to communicate with others and the option ...
Here's an amazing fact: Some wide-eyed dreamer designing sneakers for Pony didn't invent Velcro in the '80s -- it was actually invented by some Swiss guy in 1941. Here's another amazing fact: Someone has bothered to reinvent it. Eight years ago, Vermont-native Leonard Duffy set out to reinvent the zipper. Forty thousand dollars later, the 66-year-old is now showing off his Slidingly Engaging ...








