Brick O'Lore

" For the Internet of Things to provide any value, what we need is a world that looks like the automotive industry, where you can go to...

As a follow-up to my yellow multimeter post , Fluke is donating $30K worth of their multimeters to Sparkfun to replace the ones stopped in ...

Customs says yellow multimeters infringe on Fluke's trademark, so they won't be allowed in the US . So does this mean we can only ha...

The SCOTUS decision on Obamacare has everyone's attention, so we've forgotten for the moment what is going on in Europe . It remin...

The answer is funny and sad.

Scary stuff. Cory Doctorow: Lockdown - The coming war on general-purpose computing.   He makes the argument that SOPA and the like ...

I like being late to the game... it saves me the effort of writing an opinion and I can link to someone who said it better than I could have...

I knew that Reddit and Wikipedia among others were going to protest SOPA by doing a blackout, but I just read that APRS.FI will be off-line ...

Continuing on today's theme of watching, I found this scary infograph about the data a phone company collected about a customer in Germa...

The Dwindling Power of a College Degree  - it was never a guarantee. The last line strikes me as something we should always do: prepare for ...

Video: The competing worldviews of the Tea Party and OWS : " When it comes to The Tea Party and OWS, though, the more the surface dif...

Venality : a vice associated with being bribeable or of selling one's services or power, especially when one should act justly instead...