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Scientology foe not so Anonymous after all

Somewhere out there in L. Ron Hubbardville Tom Cruise and John Travolta are high fiving, Kirstie Allie is treating herself to a bucket of the Colonel's finest and a gallon of Chunky Monkey, and Beck is doing whatever Beck does to...

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Congress to RIAA: Merry Christmas

Congress and the Bush administration just gave the recording and film industries an early Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa gift, wrapped up with a neat little bow. While everyone else was watching the world's financial markets redefine the...

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And the winner by a landslide is.... YouTube

This election year is full of firsts. It's the first time we've had an African American nominee from a major party. It's the first time we've ever had a septuagenarian running as a non-incumbent. It's probably the first time a vice...

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Spies, lies, and private eyes

Robert Mitchell posted a terrific interview with private investigator Steven Rambam on The Grill last week, during which Rambam said (and I quote):Privacy is dead. Get over it. You can't put the genie back in the bottle.I'd like to...

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McCain, Obama and the politics of sleaze

This overheated presidential race is getting uglier by the minute. But I don't have to watch the debates, read the New York Times, tune in MSNBC or CNN, dial up my favorite political Web sites, or Twitter endlessly with my peeps to...

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Greetings and salutations

Hi. My name's Dan Tynan, and I'm a geek. ("Hi Dan.") More accurately, I write about geeks. As a tech journalist for PC World, Infoworld, and virtually every other publication with "world" in the title, as well as Wired News and...