The Oppressive Parental Force has done it again – only this time, they’ve employed the type of villainy you probably read about in high school, taking a page out of George Orwell’s 1984 in order to keep closer tabs on their rambunctious progeny: meet Life 360, the always watching Eye geared to monitor the whereabouts [...]
The last few weeks you couldn’t randomly toss a homing device in the air without it latching onto a story about the use of GPS tracking in the law enforcement arena. Okay, you could have, but none of those other stories ever seemed to go anywhere. Back on August 28th, the U.S. Court of Appeals [...]
In the vast canon of techie terms, the word “dongle” ranks somewhere between “thingamajig” and “whoseamawhatsit” as an official-sounding device. It may be fun to say, but it doesn’t exactly instill much technical confidence in the person or entity that is pushing the newfangled “hoobajoob” on you. In Nike’s case, the sneaker stalwart was charging [...]
Sometimes when former college athletes are out of the spotlight for some time, the media will see fit to look back upon their glory days by tracking them down to answer the question, “Where are they now?” The Hamilton County, Indiana police had raised that very same inquiry about former Indiana University basketball hero Todd [...]
Jack Sparrow is a legendary pirate captain (kind of). He is daring (sometimes) and romantic (with enough rum), an excellent swordsman (Best Performance Involving A Poker) and an inspirational leader (no). But what sets him apart from Barbossa and Blackbeard? Is it his rugged good looks, his dreadlocks and multiple piercings? His bizarre charisma and [...]
For many parents the summer is a carefree time when keeping tabs on your kids is as easy as sending them to summer camp, or having them accompany you on a family vacation to a Old West desert mining town where the only danger is boarded up, abandoned mine shafts. But as the toasty weather [...]
