Tag: AMERICA

Today's the day when the United States celebrates the birth of George Washington with Presidents Day. Google's set to help you do just that with its U.S. Presidents Showcase, which maps the birth places of the last 44 US Presidents with a little help from Google Earth. Virtual tourers can find out information on each of the 44 Commander-in-Chiefs, view which states contributed to the vote of ...

Now here's something to sink your teeth into: take a look at the graph above. It comes from a long series of demographic and growth reports by Inside Facebook. It illustrates that, in June 2010, only 320,000 Americans joined Facebook -- but more importantly, it shows that 250,000 of the primary 18-to-44-year-old demographic actually left Facebook. Inside Facebook says the figures could be the ...

This is an "online culture" type of post. I'm just giving you a heads up here, so you don't say I'm being political. It also contains some cuss words. You've been warned. Unamerican.com is one of the first websites that I ever thought of as "cool." I think that was back in 1999, or perhaps it was even earlier than that. It's now over a decade later, and Unamerican still seems to be going strong. ...

Yes, details so super-secret that the White House has decided to declassify and disclose them! The WSJ is reporting on the White House's new Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI), a program intended to shore up the U.S. Internet defenses. The main reason for declassification seems to be due to privacy concerns -- and as always with improved security, you're going to lose a ...