According to the latest research from Websense Security Labs, the vast majority of the Web consists of malware and spam. Worse yet, even legitimate, well-known sites are being used to pump malware, SEO poisoning, or phishing attacks.

Toronto Transit Commission workers, stung by rising public ire and being told by their boss that he is tired of "unacceptable behaviour" and a "culture of complacency" over recent customer-service gaffes, appear poised to push back with a work-to-rule campaign starting Monday.

A Polish newspaper mistakenly identified "Pedobear", a notorious internet meme, as one of the mascots of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Pedobear was originally devised by members of the anarchic 4chan message board as a way of mocking users...

Peter-Paul Koch, a "mobile platform strategist, consultant and trainer" says (with plenty of swearing to boot, if you're in filter territory) that the iPhone is the Internet Explorer 6 de nos jours. Yes. That's right. He's saying: don't develop for it. Or rather, don't develop exclusively for it to the exclusion of other mobile browsers, and certainly don't give it special status.

This sentence contains a provocative statement that attracts the readers' attention, but really only has very little to do with the topic of the blog post. This sentence claims to follow logically from the first sentence, though the connection is actually rather tenuous. This sentence claims that very few people are willing to admit the obvious inference of the last two sentences, with an implication that the reader is not one of...

Ogori cafe looks innocuous enough, but holds a surprise in store for its patrons. In a nutshell, you get what the person before you ordered, and the next person gets what you ordered. Thus, if you're in on the game, you can choose to be either a generous benefactor, and treat those that come after you--or try your luck at being cheap. Either way, it's an interesting experiment that explores surprise, kindness and...

There are some books that will bore you to tears. Books that are a waste of time just sitting there on the shelf. But you have to read them, because they are relevant, or because they help you understand things, or because just because. This series of articles looks at some of these books. This instalment: Anne Frank's diary.

I began to complain lately that I hadn't done any writing. It's true, I haven't. But the problem was not just a matter of having writer's block or that I couldn't figure what to write. After a long day, sitting in front of a computer and trying to write something was the last thing on my mind. And so no writing got done because it was far easier to just complain about it. It's kind of like complaining that you never win the lottery when you never actually go out and buy a ticket. Here's what I'm doing about it to change that.

I play Dungeons & Dragons. I admit it. I love it. Besides; it was my love of games and my interaction with the game's inventor (Gary Gygax, RIP old bear), whom I was proud to call a friend for a while, that made me go into multi-media. This week (and the week before, and the week before...) my group couldn't get together. So, instead I played with Photoshop. The result is rather D&D-ish... but I like it.

First and foremost, Basil Baxter (who Loves You) wishes to address some personal grievances. Basil Baxter (who Loves You) has noted with mounting displeasure that, despite claims to the contrary by your extensive PR department, you apparently do not, in fact, read all letters sent to you.

Why can't I analyze people? Because it's not my field? What the fuck? Seriously. I can analyze an electric circuit, I can analyze a computer program. Why not a person?

Economics, like many faith based beliefs, actually depends on wilful ignorance in order to exist. Bankers are the front line of this faith. They claim natural disaster when human failings are inevitably the cause. They create double-speak and misdirection in order to maintain control of a system of value that has nothing to do with the real world.

There are certain things in life you learn only through experience. Sticking your fingers over fire. Putting a fork into the electrical outlet. Waving your genitals covered in steak sauce in front of a rottweiler. But while these things we will all do once and carry them over for a lifetime, there are others, like crossing the USA by car, that scar us unconsciously in ways we can never imagine.