Not getting enough G-time on Nunc Scio? I’m also writing for blogTO now, on Toronto media and some sundry topics. You can read my first post here.
BlogTO is a great source for Toronto arts, entertainment and city news by some really great contributors. Check it out when you get a chance. I should be making several appearances there every week.
Gather ’round kids. This is a Nunc Scio first, and will never, ever happen again.
I am going to thank Ronald Reagan (or ‘Raygun’, in Dead Kennedys parlance) for something.
Gasp.
While reading Wired‘s excellent coverage of the new Transformers movie, I learned something surprising. Without Ronnie’s 1983 deregulation of television advertising aimed at children, the original Transformers cartoon- essentially a half-hour toy commerical- would never have been possible.
So, thanks to Reagan, the Transformers were born, and an extended toy ad inexplicably became my moral centre. I will grudingly cede that this is possibly the only example of a conservative policy, in all of human history, to deliver a net benefit for human society.
Until all are one.
Google, almighty lord of the Internet, has yielded to privacy concerns and rolled out new cookies that erase themselves after 2 years, rather than 30. Thirty years? Who has a computer that lasts that long?
Cookies are little programs that remember things like your password, preferences and online behaviours.
Google made the move to diffuse criticism that they are evil. And trying to colonize our brains. Said Peter Fleischer, Google’s global privacy counsel:
“After listening to feedback from our users and from privacy advocates, we’ve concluded that it would be a good thing for privacy to significantly shorten the lifetime of our cookies. These steps are part of our ongoing plan to continue innovating in the area of privacy to protect our users.”
I remain unconvinced. In fact, I’m launching a global anit-Google campaign. Vive la revolution! If you’d like more info email me at my Gmail account. Or, if you’d like to meet in person, I’ll send you a Google map.
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