By Sterling “Chip” Camden Contributing Writer, [GAS] When Tim Berners-Lee first proposed the “Mesh” (later renamed to the World Wide Web) to CERN back in 1989, the concept was much simpler than it has become today. The problem Berners-Lee sought to solve was how to establish links between the massive number of related documents generated world-wide by […]
by Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] As it has been out for a month and sitting near the top of the NY Times Bestseller List during that time, you may have already heard of Brad Meltzer’s The Book of Lies by now. However, what you might not know is what this book has to do […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] For some reason, I have managed to avoid jury duty up to now. Maybe it’s the fact that I have moved around so much in my life and lived in so many countries. But if I ever decide to settle back in the United Kingdom permanently, I’ll be sure […]
By Jimmy Rogers Contributing Writer, [GAS] If you love podcasts as much as I do, you’re probably already familiar with Ask A Ninja. The Ninja’s helpful tips on how to survive everything from college life to meeting women always work really well for me. Or rather they would if those tips didn’t result in one […]
So, you’ve always wanted to learn everything about the history of computing, but never had the time to do so? Fear not my friends, the “SuperBrothers” have cooked up a cool little music video explaning the whole thing in under 4 minutes. Following an early morning status check of their vintage electronic equipment, two computer […]
Google Street View debuted almost four months ago, and has already landed in legal trouble. Though really, there shouldn’t be much surprise that taking pictures of people without their permission has raised some major privacy concerns. Google has already dealt with some of them by implementing a a system so that images can get flagged […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] An Italian judge has used a 1948 law to convict a local historian and author of the crime of “stampa clandestina”. This is basically the crime of running a newspaper without first officially registering with the local authorities. But by convicting him, the judge has also opened the door […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] MSN has a rather amusing feature about 12 photos that managed to find their way online and subsequently get the subjects into hot water. They range from the Apple Macs on the Microsoft campus which led to the Microsoft employee getting fired to the guy who pled a family […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] I’m sure that most of you, like me, live and breathe Mozilla Firefox. However, there will be times when you may have to use another browser, such as when you’re coding a webpage and need to see how it looks in all available browsers. Or you may come across […]