A story at boingbong caught my attention recently. The USA’s Department of Homeland Security are testing using radio-tags to track foreign visitors. Full story at The Kingston Whig-Standard.

This is very scary. It may be a “trial”, but a fuller implementation of this could lead to the Dept. of Homeland Security tracking all legal visitors to [...]

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NASA’s latest budget which is a mere $16,500,000,000, will not have enough funding to keep the orbiting Hubble telescope in orbit. Instead they plan to spend $75 million to knock it out of orbit and crash land it in the Pacific. Not only is this environmentally damaging, it is a tragic waste of resources and [...]

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