Tag: PARANOIA

Last week, the person operating the Twitter account @BPGlobalPR unveiled him or herself to the world under the pseudonym 'Leroy Stick,' and went on to eloquently explain the motivation behind the satirical feed. Apparently, though, that wasn't enough to satisfy the parody-paranoid officials at British Petroleum, who have forced Leroy to officially declare that the page isn't linked to their ...

We've heard some reasonable arguments (such as the recent kerfufel over Facebook's Terms of Service) that suggest that Mark Zuckerberg ought to bring his time as the head of Facebook to an end. After today's news, we're more confident than ever that Zuckerberg should quietly make the move into early retirement. On March 31st, Zuckerberg sent out an internal memo announcing that Facebook's CFO ...

Last month, we reported on a story about some computer users' fears of Internet access making us increasingly stupid. We're not sure that we necessarily agree with that idea, and we certainly aren't feeling the latest Luddite-tastic claim that GPS-enabled devices are going to make us forget how to get home. The idea is that people are becoming increasingly reliant on gadgets that tell us how to ...